I presume that "management" has to do with running the law department, which comprises 30 lawyers and professionals in four countries. Maybe not, however. Most general counsel might describe a similar breakout, with some having less on intellectual property and others having a category for "participation as a member of executive management" and "board and senior executive advice" (See my post of Aug. 28, 2005 on the role and term "consiglieri."). Possibly Fawcett includes this facet of a general counsel's role in "management," but then when does he lead and manage the law department?


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Manufacturing Marketing Dilemma at Signode Tracko Components Ltd: PCB Division
Amit Thomas was exuberant. Ever since he joined as Chief Marketing Officer, STC's PCB division is showing exponential growth. From a sales of just over Rs24 million in 2000, during his first year of service itself, he could raise it to over Rs 40 million. Now browsing through the figures, he found that in the last nine months (Jan-Sep[2])the sales have reached over Rs 68 million[3]. He knew his strategy worked…Accepting both small and big orders had made this dramatic growth possible. He is looking forward to the next review meeting. He couldn't wait to laugh at those ...view middle of the document...
By positioning as a small-customized manufacturer, STCL thought it could carve a niche in the market
Printed Circuit Boards consisted of a thin sheet of insulating material with narrow metal strips- generally copper called conductors- bonded to its surface. The insulating sheet acted as a structural member and supported electronic components connected by the conducting strips. In the customer's plant assemblers positioned electronic components (like transistors, capacitors, LED etc..) in the drilled holes in the board, soldered them into place, and installed the board in the final electronic product. The manufacturing process for making the PCBs involves various stages. Exhibit 2 gives the process followed in the STCLs PCB division. The PCB manufacture starts with the customer order (customer gives the design also) and is generally carried out on a batch mode. Once a customer order is finalized a batch number is printed on the first board on the batch, and the batch is delivered within three weeks for orders less than 1000 boards and five weeks for larger orders. As the batches (designs) vary drastically from one another almost all the machines require setup before starting the processing of the batch. Exhibit 2 gives the set up for each of the processes and exhibit 3 gives the standard process flow during September 2002.
Review meeting on October 10,2002
The review meeting on October 10,2002 was attended by Vinod Iype, the President of the division, Satish Teheran, the CFO, Amit Thomas CMO, J Venketarantham Swamy the COO and Gregory Von'Reich from Signode Components Inc Germany. Iype was the President of the company ever since its inception 1999 and Teheran and Swamy also joined him from STCL as Chief Finance Officer and Chief Operating Officer looking after the entire manufacturing operation. Thomas joined as Chief Marketing Officer of the division at the end of 2000. He had over 20 years of experience in Industrial Chemicals marketing and has a strong reputation in B2B marketing circles. Mr. Von' Reich is on his annual tour of the various divisions of the company and choose to attend the review meeting as an observer. Amit Thomas was extremely happy because he was sure that he can easily impress the representative from the parent company, through his achievements.
Meeting Started with Iype on the Chair.
Iype: "Good Morning friends" he said addressing the august audience, " I am very happy that despite the economic slow down, we have done extremely well during the last nine months. Thanks to Amit and his team we have a lot of orders and if this is the way we proceed I am sure we can easily achieve the Rs 200 million target very soon. Right Amit?"
Thomas : "Thanks Vinod" he said with a beaming face, " It was a tough job to realize all these sales. We all worked very well. In fact, our strategy of promising the rework worked very well. And after Swamy had implemented our suggestion of a chaser for small...
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Many mothers, including myself, have been relying to an extent on the validity of the "BPA-free" label on plastics we purchase. I have always thought that somehow it doesn't add up, that removing just one toxic chemical from plastic can't make it safer. Now a new study confirms my hunch, but not in a way I expected. Apparently the so called "BPA-free" claim is something to steer clear of.
"Almost all commercially available plastic products we sampled, independent of the type of resin, product, or retail source, leached chemicals having reliably-detectable EA, including those advertised as BPA-free. In some cases, BPA-free products released chemicals having more EA than BPA-containing products."
That was certainly news to me as I was always opting for the BPA-free alternative if something I'm looking for wasn't available in stainless steel or other safe material. One more reason to avoid plastic altogether! Glad we don't use plastic on a daily basis.
Oh great. *sigh* We use stainless for my daughter's drink cup at school & thermos jar, plus lunchskins bags.
I'm not surprised by this....plastic is scary!
Thank you for this post. I can't say I'm surprised by these findings but it's good to see it in black and white (so I can direct my skeptical family and friends to it).
I, too, avoid eating off plastic for the same reasons - glass and stainless steel are safe - there's no wondering about it. Plastic just seems like a big question mark. Not worth the potential risks if you ask me.


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Jan Theodoor (Thedo) Remmelink (Zelhem, 22 april 1963) is een Nederlands voormalig snowboarder die nadien snowboardcoach werd.

Hij won vijf wereldbekerwedstrijden en werd in het seizoen 1994/95 derde in het eindklassement op reuzenslalom en tweede op de slalom. Een seizoen later werd hij derde in het eindklassement van de algemene wereldbeker. Remmelink nam deel aan de Olympische Winterspelen in 1998 in Nagano waar hij op de reuzenslalom als tiende eindigde. Hierna beëindigde hij zijn loopbaan.

Remmelink emigreerde naar de Verenigde Staten waar hij in Colorado als coach ging werken. Verschillende van zijn pupillen kwamen in het Amerikaanse olympisch team en als coach begeleidde hij Amerikaanse atleten op meerdere Winterspelen. In 2003 werd hij door de Amerikaanse ski- en snowboardbond uitgeroepen tot binnenlands snowboardcoach van het jaar.

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Defra sets out future direction for energy from waste
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A new chapter has been added that sets out the future policy direction based on four principles.
Defra has said that it wants to encourage developers to consider these principles as a key part of the decision making process around future development of new projects and operation of existing plant.
The principles are:
Energy from waste must support the management of waste in line with the waste hierarchy
Energy from waste should seek to reduce or mitigate the environmental impacts of waste management and then seek to maximise the benefits of energy generation
Government support for energy from waste should provide value for money and make a cost effective contribution to UK environmental objectives in the context of overall waste management and energy goals
Government will remain technology neutral except where these is a clear market failure preventing a technology competing on a level playing field.
In the report, Defra wrote: "There are wider societal and environmental benefits associated with energy generation and use that will drive energy policy and impact on energy from waste.
"Energy from waste will be subject to policy developed to address these drivers and therefore so will decisions on how best to maximise the energy use from energy from waste. Examples might include renewable energy targets and how these are used among electricity, heat and transport fuels. Energy from waste in particular has the potential to deliver low carbon energy in a cost effective way and as a non-intermittent source helps provide energy security.
"There is therefore a range of policies which waste management and energy generation companies have to navigate. With the average contract life time of an energy from waste plant being 25 years, potential investors need to be mindful of Government's vision for the future."
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Antispila kunyuensis is a moth of the family Heliozelidae. It is found in China (Shandong Peninsula).

Etymology
The specific name kunyuensis is due to type locality of the new species, Mount Kunyu.

Description
The wingspan is 1.7–2.1 mm. The forewings are dark fuscous with strong reddish reflection. Two pairs of opposite triangular silvery spots found on costa and dorsum. Costal spot of inner pair. cilia unicolorous. The hindwings are dark gray with dark cilia. Dorsal part of abdomen is dark gray, whereas ventral part is yellowish gray. Antennae dark fuscous, legs grey, and thorax dark fuscous.

The larvae feed on Ampelopsis humulifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant.

References

Moths described in 2018
Heliozelidae
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Why Do Some Pool Tables Have No Pockets?
Written by Indoor Game Bunker in Bar Games,Pool and Snooker
Some pool tables do not have pockets because they are used for a different type of cue sport called carom billiards. During a carom billiards game, players maintain three object balls on the table at all times and use different strategies to score points. This category includes games such as straight rail, balkline, one-cushion, three-cushion and artistic billiards.
If you've ever seen a pool table without pockets you've probably wondered about its purpose. It may seem like someone has made a mistake, or overlooked a key feature of the table's design, but in reality pocketless tables are built for a specific purpose.
Keep reading to find out how billiards can be played on a table without pockets, how the rules differ from regular pool and how you can participate.
What Is Carom Billiards?
Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards, originated in France during the 18th century. It's a type of cue sport that is played exclusively on billiard tables without pockets. At the height of its popularity, national tournaments were hosted throughout the world. Today, despite its decline in active players, carom billiards is still a recognized category of cue sports.
The games included in this class of cue sport require use of a cue stick, three billiard balls and a pocketless table. Each billiard ball has a very specific purpose, and has a different meaning depending on the game being played. Carom billiard tables may also feature lines and shapes in order to mark out zones with different point values.
You may only be familiar pool, in which the purpose of the game is to clear the table of object balls. So how is a game of carom billiards won without the option to "sink" balls in pockets?
The goal of carom billiards is not to reduce the number of object balls on the table, but to ricochet the balls against specific objects to gain a set number of points. The first player to reach that predetermined number is the winner.
There are several games housed within this category including straight rail, balkline, one-cushion, three-cushion, and artistic billiards. Continue reading to get more information about these games and how you can play.
Straight Rail
In straight rail, two players compete to earn a number of points that they have agreed upon together. These points are earned by striking your cue ball against your opponent's and the object ball in a single shot. Based on the outcome, you will earn a number of points each time you successfully follow these rules.
This is the most simplified version of carom billiards and is a great place for beginners to start playing on tables without pockets. Once you understand the basics, you can move onto more complicated iterations of carom billiards.
Balkline
This game is considered a variant of straight rail. By creating additional rules and regulations, balkline is a much more complex game and requires more strategy of its players.
Balkline tables are segmented into nine distinct rectangles. Each of these sections have a predetermined point value that players can earn by having an object ball occupy its space. The longer the ball remains within the borders of that space, the more points are awarded.
Interestingly, Balkline games are grouped into different divisions based on the measurements of its table zones. A millimeter difference between line placements can completely change the way the game is structured.
During the early 20th century, Balkline was one of the most popular cue sports played in the United States but was soon overtaken by eight-ball pool – the well-known pocket game played today. It's much rarer to find one of these tables in a local pool hall and may need to be custom ordered.
One-cushion
Named after the game's most important regulation, one-cushion carom is played by hitting two object balls and at least one rail cushion in one cue. This game is primarily based in Europe and doesn't see as much interest in other areas of the world.
Three-cushion
This game is very similar to one-cushion carom but requires players to hit additional cushion rails in order to succeed. A winning move will initially make contact with one object ball, at least three separate cushions and finally hit the second object ball at the end.
If this sounds complicated, that's because it is! This game is very difficult and received criticism from disgruntled pool players throughout the late 19th century.
Despite the complaints, this game is the most popular carom style cue sport played in the United States today. The Union Mondiale de Billard, an organization that oversees three-cushion billiards, continues to host championships after more than 100 years in operation.
Artistic Billiards
In these games, players are tasked to aim cue balls in a way that produces specific ricochet outcomes. Aptly named, artistic billiards takes a lot of ingenuity in order to understand how to make the balls follow a desired path.
There are 76 predetermined shots that players are required to recreate in order to earn points. Some outcomes are much more challenging than others, so three attempts are provided for each turn. The maximum score a player can reach is 500 points, but the highest recorded value remains at 427.
Artistic billiards are a relatively new invention compared to other cue sports. Regulated competitions began in the 1980's and are continuing to see more interest in recent years. A majority of its players are based in western Europe.
Playing Carom Billiards
Now that you've learned about different types of carom billiards games, you might be interested in playing a game yourself. There are a few different ways you can get involved.
If you have a local pool hall in your area, you might be surprised to find that you already have access to a pocketless pool table in your own neighborhood. This is a great place to meet other players and start practicing your technique.
Another option to consider is trying online games that simulate a pool table without pockets and allow you to get familiar with the rules. This is great if you live in an area with less access to billiard tables because you can play from anywhere!
Watch Players Use a Pocketless Pool Table
Before you start playing on a table without pockets, you can also observe experts play live and learn from their experience. Carom Café Billiards is a pool hall based in Flushing, New York that hosts daily livestreams on its website.
This will allow you to see how players position themselves to achieve top scores. If you're a visual learner this is perfect for you!
Although they've seen varying degrees of popularity since their invention, some carom billiards games are still considered a "major world cue sport." This contributes to why you will continue to see pool tables without pockets today.
It may be rarer in the United States, but across Europe, Asia and Latin America carom billiards are a common pastime.
Next time you come across a pool table without pockets, try your hand at a friendly game of carom billiards and practice the knowledge you've learned in this article. Maybe you'll even have some fun!


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This S.F. woman is trying to find a tourist's dog stolen in a car burglary — and 'redeem' the city's reputation
Bay Area // San Francisco
Sam Whiting
Rylee, an 8-month old female, was left in the car in a public parking lot Bay Street at the Embarcadero while her owner, Amanda Chapman visited the Fisherman's Wharf area on the afternoon of May 24.
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A Chihuahua puppy is missing after allegedly being stolen from a tourist's vehicle during a smash-and-grab robbery in San Francisco last week.
Rylee, an 8-month-old female, was left in the car in a public parking lot on Bay Street at the Embarcadero while her owner, Amanda Chapman of Mena, Ark., took a tour of Alcatraz on the afternoon of May 24.
Rylee was left unattended for two hours before Chapman returned to her 2019 Toyota Sienna at 4 p.m. to find the passenger side window smashed and Rylee gone, along with her carrying crate, a duffel bag, a backpack and a beach bag.
"That was our only stop in San Francisco," said Chapman, who had made the trip out with her wife and mother to celebrate her 21st birthday. They were headed that same afternoon to Sequoia National Park.
"Seeing Rylee gone completely stopped all of our plans," she said. "We spent three days driving around the parking lot where she was taken, looking for her. We also drove through the Tenderloin and even to Oakland looking for her."
Chapman has since returned to her home in Arkansas, leaving the search for Rylee in the hands of San Francisco police along with Colette Dunleavy, a UCSF radiology technician who searches for lost dogs in her spare time.
"I'm trying to redeem the reputation of San Francisco among unsuspecting tourists by helping these people," said Dunleavy, who has posted missing dog notices on Craigslist and on various neighborhood and animal-oriented websites.
"Obviously, you should never leave a dog in a car, but you wouldn't suspect that a dog would be stolen along with belongings in a very public place in broad daylight," she said.
When alerted, San Francisco police put out a bulletin to officers and an alert on the San Francisco Citizen app, but its reach is only 1 mile, Dunleavy said.
Dunleavy said the search for Rylee will be hindered by the fact that there is no camera surveillance footage of the lot, which is across from Pier 33 where the Alcatraz ferry departs.
Rylee had not yet been implanted with an identification microchip, said Dunleavy, who described the dog as gray with oversized ears. When last seen she was wearing a rainbow-colored collar with a star-shaped rabies badge and a teal harness.
Dunleavy is a seasoned lost-dog detective and said she was surprised at the crime because Rylee does not represent a breed in demand on the black market.
"Stolen French bulldogs are common," she said, "but it is very unusual for a Chihuahua."
Chapman, who works as a clerk in a doctor's office, said she was unaware that San Francisco was notorious for car break-ins, and had she known, she would have dropped Rylee off at a doggie day care they passed on the way.
She also was unaware that the lot where she paid $40 for parking was commonly hit with break-ins.
Officers responding to the scene told her that, she said. When she asked what she should do about the broken glass, she said she was told by the officer, "Just sweep it out onto the street. We call that San Francisco snow."
She remains hopeful that Rylee will be returned and asks that anyone who spots Rylee contact either the police or San Francisco Animal Care and Control.
"I don't ever want to go back to San Francisco," she said, "unless it is to pick up Rylee and bring her home."
Sam Whiting is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: swhiting@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SamWhitingSF
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Sam Whiting has been a staff writer at The San Francisco Chronicle since 1988. He started as a feature writer in the People section, which was anchored by Herb Caen's column, and has written about people ever since. He is a general assignment reporter with a focus on writing feature-length obituaries. He lives in San Francisco and walks three miles a day on the steep city streets.


It's that time of the year again. Pomegranates are everywhere and will adorn our kitchen counters and tables through the New Year. Pomegranates are known antioxidants and maybe best of all (and more importantly), provide amazing juice for fall and winter cocktails.
Pomegranates are slightly tart and require a small amount of sugar in mixed drinks for balance. You can use granulated sugar (like we did for this recipe), simple syrup, or a generous portion of liqueur. We always recommend that you start off with smaller increments and build the drink to your liking.
Directions Pull apart 1 pomegranate and collect all the little seeds in a martini shaker. Muddle well, which should yield about 3 ounces. Remember that you can always cheat and buy the juice!! Strain the juice into a new shaker, then add the tequila, sugar, and orangecello. Shake with ice, then strain into a glass filled with ice and rimmed with sugar.


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Hottie of the Week: Vaslav Nijinsky
Posted by Heather in Culture, Victorian Celebrities
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To start this week off on the right foot (haHA crappy Monday jokes), here's Vaslav Nijinsky (March 12, 1898 – April 8, 1950), a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent wildly considered the greatest dancer of the 20th century. He was one of the few male dancers who could dance en pointe and he apparently had ups to rival Michael Jordan (citation needed).
He was introduced to dance by his parents, who were also dancers, and he entered the Imperial Ballet School in Russia before he was 10. In 1909, he joined the Ballets Russes (founded by Sergei Diaghilev who eventually became Nijinsky's lover…more on that later) and rose in popularity and acclaim as the star dancer of the company.
Along the lines of Lisztomania, the public went insane when they watched him perform (and even went on panty raids backstage): "An electric shock passed through the entire audience. Intoxicated, entranced, gasping for breath, we followed this superhuman being… the power, the featherweight lightness, the steel-like strength, the suppleness of his movements…" I'm not even sure how one would execute a panty raid on a member of the corps de ballet. Are there panties to raid? Anyhoo…
We also have to spend some time here talking about how he married his fangirl stalker. No, really. (For more ridiculous details, see #3 on this Cracked article here. "Romola de Pulszky Shared Her Sexy, Schizophrenic Husband With His Male Boss" sums it up pretty darn well.) Her name was Romola de Pulszky and apparently, she saw him perform once and then made a determined effort to get to know him (i.e., broke off her previous engagement, followed his touring company across Europe, convinced Diaghilev that she was a rich benefactress to get his attention and secure ballet lessons with one of the troupes dance-masters, AND, despite his continual ignoring of her, booked train compartments and hotel rooms next to him and told people she wanted to have his child. YIKES.).
Even MORE strangely, he randomly proposed to her (through halting French and mime, since neither spoke the others' language. No, I am not making this up.). I mean, look at this crap:
"On board ship, Romola had a cabin in first class, which allowed her to keep a watch on Nijinsky's door, while most of the company were exiled to second class. She befriended his masseur and was rewarded with a rundown on his musculature. Determined to take every opportunity, she succeeded in spending more and more time in his company. The unexpected friendliness was noticed by Baron de Gunsbourg, an investor in the Ballets Russes, who had been tasked with keeping an eye on the company. Instead of reporting back to Diaghilev on what was occurring, Gunsbourg agreed to act on Nijinsky's behalf in presenting a proposal of marriage to Romola. Romola thought a cruel joke was being played on her, and ran off to her cabin crying. However, Nijinsky asked her again, in broken French and mime, and she accepted. Although Gunsbourg had a financial interest in Ballets Russes, he was also interested in forming his own company, and a split between Diaghilev and his star dancer might have presented him with an opportunity. … Back in Europe, Diaghilev "gave himself to a wild orgy of dissipation…Sobbing shamelessly in Russian despair, he bellowed accusations and recriminations; he cursed Nijinsky's ingratitude, Romola's treachery, and his own stupidity".
…BUT THE CRAZY CONTINUES.
"As the company was due to start performing immediately, there was no honeymoon. A few days after the marriage, Nijinsky tried to teach Romola some ballet, but she was not interested. "I asked her to learn dancing because for me dancing was the highest thing in the world", "I realized that I had made a mistake, but the mistake was irreparable. I had put myself in the hands of someone who did not love me." Romola and Nijinsky did not share accommodation until after the season was safely underway, when she was eventually invited to join him in separate bedrooms in his hotel suite. She "almost cried with thankfulness" that he showed no interest in making love on their wedding night."
I've got nothing, folks. If you want even more of the crazy, check out that Cracked article that I linked; it includes bisexual affairs, more crazy letter writing, revisionist history, attempts to pray away Nijinsky's homosexuality, bouts of schizophrenia, and an eventual committal to an asylum. He died in a London clinic in 1950 and his body is buried at Montmartre Cemetery in Paris. Despite his Jerry Springeresque marital dysfunction, he'll forever be known as one of the most outstanding and sensual performers to ever grace the stage.
Dracula the Ballet: A Review
Posted by Heather in Ballet, Reviews
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One lovely early November night, my fellow Vicky A, our friend Jennn, and I decided to gamble with the evening's entertainment and take in a performance of Dracula the Ballet as performed at the Kennedy Center. Dracula + ballet can ONLY equal a good time, right?
Here we are by the ballet placard. Notice our incredible fanged impressions. Can you tell we went in with extremely low expectations? All due respect to both the Washington Ballet and the Kennedy Center, it had the potential to be utterly fantastic or utterly abysmal. Either way, we went in expecting a good time.
While we weren't sure how well the book was going to translate into dance, I have to admit that the performance was enthralling. The sets themselves were incredibly elaborate but also multi-functional; a stairway at the train station became a grand staircase at a party and then became part of the structure at Carfax Abbey or part of the sanitarium where Renfield was housed. The ballet began to the sound of a loud, beating heart, an effect that I adored. The costumes were beautiful and the dances themselves told the story remarkably well. I must also comment on the excellent special effects department and their use of fog, which I will elaborate on a bit later in this review.
So, here's the man himself, played in our performance by Jared Nelson (pictured above). When he first appeared, there were a few titters in the audience at his rather androgynous/feminine appearance (especially since his makeup and lipstick were so dramatic and he himself was ballerina-slender and elegant), but in my opinion, I think they nailed the look. In the novel, Dracula is described as having lips that were blood red, almost looking like they were dripping with gore before he even takes a single bite. The fact that this Dracula looks like he's wearing blood red lipstick (Guerlain Rouge Automatique Habit Rouge or Chanel Allure Laque Dragon, for sure) fits with his established look. He's also described as having a hawkish look, and a lean, aquiline nose: "His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead….The mouth … was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth. These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor." (Dracula, Chapter 2) As you can see, Dracula here has the perfect look: strong, angular features, pale with ruddy lips, with a cruel look to his features. Add a ridiculously wonderful swirly coat and we have our man…beast. Bat. Thing. Monster. Hottie. Anyway.
His interactions with the characters were in a word, mesmerizing, especially the contrast between his duets with Harker, Lucy, and Mina respectively. Each dance was unique and emblematic of Dracula's particular relationship with these people. His dance with Harker was fraught with tension and anguish on Harker's part and all power and cajoling seduction on Dracula's part; he had his captive and once Harker learned too much, it was clear he would never let him escape. I think this was the moment that truly convinced me that this would be a performance to remember.
Dracula oozed the raw sexuality and power of the role, but he also moved and acted like a predator, animalistic and feral. Dracula performed a fantastic feat of physicality when he was about to prey on Lucy and Mr. Nelson actually pulled some Cirque-du-Soleil moves in his descent by backflipping down the wall like a lizard (much like is described by Harker in the novel when he sees Dracula scaling the wall head-down like a squirrel or other creature) and occasionally hanging upside down by his knees like a bat. I was continually impressed by small moments that alluded to aspects of the novel; the creative director and/or the choreographer clearly had done their research and knew their subject matter extremely well.
The dances with the women were no less dramatic. Dracula's dance with Lucy might have been one of the most beautiful and powerful in the performance. This was a dance wholly in contrast with his domination of Harker; there was an ebb and flow in their interactions and hints of great romance in Dracula's wooing of Lucy; you could almost feel her longing for him after he left her. Later on, when Dracula visits Lucy to consume her blood entirely, her need for him was as palpable as his animal need to feed (See picture below: definitely pretty hot). Even watching him "feed" I was reminded of an animal and its prey, rather than the romantically sterilized vampire-biting that pervades literature and media these days. Right before he left her for the final time, fog filled the stage and he was pulled backwards into it, seemingly dissolving into the fog itself. It was a gasp-worthy effect and extremely well done. At the end of each act, I was eager to see more, which to me, is the mark of any good performance, whether you know the story or not.
Dracula's duet with Mina was one of the most incredibly physical dances I've ever seen. We were only a row or two back from the stage and every once in a while, I could hear Dracula exhale breath as he performed, which was a testament to the exertion of the dance itself. I have no idea how often he picked her up and wound her around him like a vine or how he wound around her like a snake but it was incredible to watch. The overtones of master/prey were not as pronounced; the dance declared them as equals of a sort, where Dracula reveals his predilection towards Mina as a particular bride or partner rather than just making her, like Lucy, just another servant. This is emphasized when we get to see them together towards the end of the ballet walking arm in arm like a genteel Victorian couple, a presentation of his new bride to his vampire coven, if you will.
Another great performer to watch was Renfield. I had no idea how the ballet was planning on incorporating the complex subplot of Renfield, the caretaker of Carfax Abbey, Dracula's eventual home, who goes mad, consumes numerous insects in his obsession with consuming life like his master. I imagine it would be difficult, if not impossible to convey all of the above through a wordless medium such as ballet, but once again, I was pleasantly surprised by their fearless creativity. When Renfield would interact with Mina, you got the sense that he was, in fact, trying to convey important information about Dracula to her, much as he did in the book. How you act out a wordless warning to someone while dancing in a straight-jacket I'll never know, but he managed it and we sat back, impressed and wowed.
Without giving away anything of the ending, I'll simply say that I left the performance extremely impressed and wanting to see it again. Another fun moment: much like Lincoln Osirius in Tropic Thunder, Dracula didn't break character during the curtain call, dramatically and carefully stalking out onto the stage, step by step, as haughty and dignified as during the ballet itself. Well played, Drac. Well played. Until next time, my red-coated friend… Thanks for a…bloody good time.


A lot of little kids think their parents know everything. I grew up thinking you knew everything. You were the person I looked up to and tried to emulate the most – I wanted to be just like you.
For years we shared a bedroom and I didn't like sleeping by myself, so I'd beg for you to let me sleep in your bed. You'd refuse so I would start bargaining. First I'd offer ten cents, then fifteen, and finally, in tears, I'd kneel on my bed offering you my entire life savings: a whole fifty cents. Around that time you'd dramatically sigh and allow me to climb into bed with you saying I didn't really have to pay you after all. So sweet.
And went for a midnight swim in the ocean in Aruba.
But, I'm pretty confident I can say that the adventure you're most excited about in life is the one you're about to start.
I'm so thankful for the two of you and the amazing things you're going to do together. May God bless this new phase of your life.
Aww, well thank you. It was hard choosing what memories to share.
She is indeed. ❤ And thank you. We've got tons of good memories together.


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Our client is looking for someone to join their team who is keen to learn more about working in the non-profit visual arts sector by supporting the Director and undertaking a sequence of project assistant assignments across the organisation.
Situated at the heart of the new Granary Square development in Kings Cross, our client is the national fundraising charity for art.
The successful candidate will be excellent at juggling multiple priorities, efficient in handling routine diary management and administration and quick to learn new systems and ways of working. They will have an appetite for working in a range of departments and will be eager to turn their hand to new challenges.
This year-long position will be split between continuous part-time administrative support in the Director's office and a sequence of part-time positions as a projects assistant in 3-4 different departments.
Project roles, which will each last for 3 to 4 months, could involve working on the Student Art Pass, Museum of the Year, our client's grant-making and programmes activity, or in the finance and resources and communications teams.


Always interesting how often this can happen - Elon Musk is in big trouble in the US for his, allegedly drug-fuelled, tweets about Tesla - another mighty titan on Industry on his way down.
Musk is a genius in the true sense of the word, able to dream and realise things that most people cannot. However, he is also human and hubris affects everyone.
Now made of money and with a multi-million fan club, Musk is now like a tinpot dictator - listening only to acolytes and also rich and powerful enough to ignore everyone else.
Until he screws with the markets, by saying he was going to privatise Tesla and had funds lined up he massively moved the market - it is a fairly open and shut case. He is going to be in deep trouble and the US justice system is brutalist in its construction. Of course, liberal use of highly paid lawyers may save him, but even this might prove hard if the SEC just wants to make its point.
Tesla of course has been struggling, unable to make the cars quick enough to sell - which should really be a saving grace given they lose money on everyone they sell! The economies of scale seem to be more elusive and Musk is too involved to let it go. On his rocket adventures the science is beyond him so he has to leave he technical to experts - as such, the business burns his money but with a much better success rate.
Anyway, we will find out pretty soon how well Tesla does with out him!
Could Chequers really be dead?
I was pretty sure to start with that the 'Salzburg Surprise' was a manufactured confection to get the UK and EU populace to see that the concessions about to be agreed by both sides beyond respective red lines, were in fact pragmatic choices in the face of no deal disaster.
Yet, I wonder, perhaps that position was overly cynical and I have fallen at my own low hurdle.
Rule of Capitalists@Work NO.1 (Since 2006) - It is never conspiracy, instead everytime and always rank incompetence/idiocy is the cause - unless 100% proven to be conspiracy, which, by definition is excruciatingly rare (here's looking at you, Alistair Campbell) as it implies competence which in and of itself is highly unlikely in any given situation.
Exhibit 1 here is Prime Minster Theresa May, who has long form for incompetence and no record at all of competence. Aided and abetted by the senior civil service, who, from afar, certainly appear to have all the competence of a vat of sulphuric acid being appointed as guardian to a litter of puppies.
As readers here know (see the excellent comments on the last post), there is no way to square the circle of the kind of soft brexit the remainers want with the square of the EU acquisition of Northern Ireland.
I think there is only one way of discovering if this is the case though, because if May has failed as badly as this then surely she will be resigning this week. Talk of an election is for the birds, a definite loss to Labour is not what the Tories will seek. A little bloodletting and someone more at ease with a Canada style deal is surely the only way.
However, incompetence is strong in the government, they may just cling on to May because they are too frit to act decisively. Of course there is the long-shot that this is indeed all negotiated posturing and Chequers will be the outcome.
Boris Johnson, Lord of House Starkers, continues his now back-bench revolt.
Undermining the cowardly, craven, psychologically Stockholm Syndromed and thoroughly emasculated Theonsa GreyJoyless while pretending he is supporting her.
Meanwhile 'Govey' LittleFinger continues his similar, incessant, granting and withdrawing of support to all sides, in his attempts to seize the Iron Throne for himself.
The Tory 'Red Wedding Conference' is just weeks away and..
What? C@W readers have no idea who or what is Game Of Thrones. Most popular television series in the world? Multi million selling 10 novel series ?
Here's some early 80's ELO encouraging Boris to get on with it!
Labels: 2018 tory conference, Boris Johnson, Brexit.
An America writer well worth checking out from time to time is Adolph Reed, professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He's an honest leftie with a genuine, well-considered ideology; and as such is highly illuminating, indeed scathing, on identity politics - in particular, that highly significant segment that is the US 'race' industry - as a malign and ego-driven diversion from the proper lefty business of pursuing the wellbeing of the working class as a whole.
My recommendation for the weekend is this essay: The Trouble With Uplift - How black politics succumbed to the siren song of the racial voice.
Shouldn't laugh about so serious a matter; but, really.
Anecdote. One day I was out and about in Wittenberg, looking for a suitable present for Master Drew - then a pre-school kiddie. I saw a bookshop and popped in to scan the children's section. There, in the shelves marked Für 4-6 Jährige, was the following attractive offering.
I had a quick scan, and it turned out to be ... an anti-NATO propaganda tract! Well, obviously I bagged it right away and joined the check-out queue.
At the time, my follower was the ageing Herr Trenchcoat, who desperately wanted to see what it was that had seized my interest. So he grabbed the nearest book to hand, and joined the queue behind me, straining over my shoulder to see what I'd got. I turned to look, and there he was, carrying a copy of - Windsurfing for Beginners!
I forebore to ask him if he had a trip planned to Warnemunde. GSOH was not a requirement for his employ.
PS, I also bought my lad a really fine die-cast model of a BTR-60PB, as good as any Dinky-toy, if not better ... One day I'll turn it up and post a pic.
Will May and Barnier really dance?
Poor Prime Minister May, forever trapped by Brexit. She never wanted to do anything other than a very small, Brexit In Name Only deal. Yet the suave Monsieur Barnier could see through only his francophone goggles, a way to smash the UK.
So, after nearly 2 years of negotiation we have actually done precisely nothing towards Brexit. A deal is on the table that will be rejected and there are not enough back-up options to fallback too The rock is rolled up the hill, only for it to come tumbling down again.
No side is covered in glory, the Remainers acting like a fifth column in the UK help egg on the EU to do their worst deal with the UK in the hope of forcing a second referendum. The Leavers in the Conservative party have hung around, unsure of their own position and too lazy to come up with a workable alternative to the BINO proposed by May. The EU themselves have sat in their smug utopia casually shrugging at what is actually an existential crisis for the Union.
But I can't see Chequers, as much as it is in reality a better deal for the UK than the EU would like to do, really working. The EU will insist it is watered down and that will mean it won't keep May in power if the Leaver Conservatives can manage to topple her.
Where this would leave the UK is in a bad place, the basics of an exit deal need to be completed to prevent economic and social dislocation next year. Perhaps Barnier will see sense, but I think this is hard as the current UK offer is not great from the other side of the channel - it is exactly the pick and mix they have said they want to avoid and so whilst is still BINO will create an itch for the EU.
After months of hiatus, Brexit is going to be sorted in the next two months at last - in terms of whether the UK falls into political chaos or a BINO deal is done. I reckon it is still 50-50 at best for May.
Around these parts we do not tend to encourage tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories, but I'm putting down a marker here for future reference.
Having been in Paris myself on Sunday I couldn't fail to notice that a fairly prominent mass stabbing took place there - with two British tourists hurt - apparently perpetrated by an Afghan nutter run amok. It promptly featured in UK news outlets, as you'd expect.
Then, radio silence on the Beeb and in the Grauniad. No updates on Tues or this morning, notwithstanding the clear British interest, and even though more details became available elsewhere.
What price a *liberal meejah* resolution, post-Swedish-election, to minimise such stories?
the modern world is so interlinked via financial globalisation. The economies of the world, whilst they have their own rhythm to some extent, after often treated as pawns by the veracity of the global markets.
However, just as many are buffeted by the markets. Egypt and India stand out here. Egypt because as a geography and demographic entity it is a nightmare. An arab country with no oil, but also not enough food or water for its fast growing population. Indeed, Egypt must for these reasons alone be one of the most unstable countries in the world as it matters little what its politicians do faced with such a dismal situation.
In India, they have had a strong, reforming government for a number of years and indeed, though no China, things have been going well for India. However, India also has no oil, so the companies there which import are suffering from huge increases in import costs and the rupee has fallen to all time lows against the dollar. Of course, India exports a lot and receives plenty of foreign currency so its stock market and its bit exporting businesses are doing very well - but the economy as a whole still ends up on a knife-edge. Adding to its complex situation, the US is demanding India comply with new oil sanctions on Iran - but India imports a million barrels a day of crude from Iran at huge discounts to market and this helps it to limit the level of oil price inflation entering its economy.
Finally, we have not even mentioned Argentina, itself in another IMF rescue but with a huge government deficit, weak currency and 30% inflation - so trapped is Argentina by its poor performance that even many economists have given up trying to find a way out for the Country.
Collectively, these countries account for a big share of Global GDP - yet all are in crisis somehow even whilst Trump engineers a boom in the US and the EU slowly recovers from the financial crisis and Global growth is strong. Emerging Markets are always at risk of currency flight back to the West and this seems to be happening again with China trying in a limited way only to interfere when it spots resources to be bought on the cheap (hence of these countries, only Russia really appeals).
Will the crisis spill over - it does not seem so at the moment as the causes of the distress are a benefit to the main markets, but politically there are big risks especially in Turkey and Egypt - as well as Russia of course but there at least the Government is safe and there is no foreign debt to worry about.
A person hotly tipped to be leader of a Rebel Alliance against the Galactic Imperial European Empire, has announced he will now be a Man Solo.
Mr Solo has been booted out of his home on Corellia, by his partner. Marina, of 25 years.
Ms Wheeler has long complained about his free-booting ways. Smuggling women onto falcons. Using the excuse that traffic was backed up on the Kessel Run Hyperspace cycle lane, for his lateness back from work.
The maverick former Imperial Moff of London has long had a history of indiscretions. Notably Petronella Wyatt and Helen Macintyre. And he famously had to resign from a deputy seat at the Imperial Chamber of Moff Howard, when he was photographed by paparazzi in an embrace with a minor royal.
Solo has denied he has got the embarrassing news out ahead of a possible leadership challenge to Grand Moff May.
" I am just a poor trader. Whose flings have led him to be flung. So tonight I shall be lonely, Hand Solo.
I am not attempting to reboot the Tory franchise with a main character spin-off. At least, not until I've checked my support levels in the conference hall."
By our correspondent, Master Yoda.
Vincent Cable resign, has he? Not. Say He. Hmmm.?
Yes, but also, no. Go, he has not. In time all is possible.
The last of the Jedi, swept away. By break up of the Old Republic.
After lifetime of study. Meditation.
Training in ways of the Farce.
Vincent Cable, the rank of Padawan, had he reached.
The ins and outs of the Green Party don't usually interest me; but just lately they've had an eye-catching scandalette, plus a tiny fanfare as their new two-headed leadership was announced. So I had a cursory look at their website and assorted pronouncements.
Well. What has 'green' to do with the Greens? Environmental concerns doesn't get any more airtime in this piece than do Brexit, or Windrush. "we will always campaign with others to oppose Brexit, we think it's time to say loudly and clearly that the Green party will never be part of any vapid centrist blob ... we proud to say migrants and refugees are welcome here". Not much doubt - and no surprisies - over which side of centre they take up their stand.
But what green ground, exactly, do they stand on? Anti-fracking, of course: and pro unicorns & fairy-dust. But, to invoke one of my touchstones, nothing I can find on their entire rambling website (complete with Philosophical Bases in 50 numbered sections) suggests they have set their faces against the tree-burners at Drax. This, by the way, is in clear contrast to FoE, Greenpeace, RSPB et al who have long since recognised the 'renewable biomass' nonsense for what it is.
The other one that always bears checking up is Nuclear. They offer pro forma hostility: "fundamentally opposed to nuclear energy, which we consider to be expensive and dangerous"; but in contrast to (e.g.) many continental greens there is no hint of pressing for anything like Germany's policy and actual programme of rapid closure of nukes. "Will be phased out" is all we get from our Greens.
In this, they are much like FoE and Greenpeace UK, who similarly say that nukes are expensive (no, really?) and in the long run should go. This actually puts them in opposition to many heavy-duty environmental activists who reckon the risks of fracking are nothing compared to those of nukes; want a German-style policy ASAP; and despair over the timidity of their leadership.
I suppose we should politely wish the new Green 'co-leaders' a happy time in office. But if Windrushery is their idea of carving out a distinctive policy platform, there will still only be one Green MP ten years from now.
In watching the disgrace that is the demonstrations outside the Labour HQ tomorrow justifying anti-semitism and seeing how the moderate Labour types are doing nothing, I felt sadness.
The same sadness that I feel when I view the Government actions on Brexit where they are unable to follow any road other than the muddle through middle - the road to nowhere.
Why does this tell me that liberalism failed? Well when I was a young man, I studied and believed in neo-liberalism. It had after all just finished off the communist threat without a major world war. Something of a first for the 20th century.
But liberalism was also in the West, a move of the overton window to the centre-right. Left wing Marxism and social democratic ideas were co-opted in small amounts into the State, but Reagan, Thatcher and Kohl were confident to promote free markets and free countries.
In the 1990's in the UK, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton fought back from the left by basically being centre right politicians, but from the centre left and re-infecting the US and UK with a limited amount of Marxist thinking.
Liberalism - freedom of people to worship, to consume with options generated by markets, freedom to vote, to own property and to speak freely is everywhere imperilled by the spread of Marxist ideology. Marxism denies gods, limits consumption, agitates against property ownership and finally denies free speech if it is critical of Marxist ideology.
In truth, Blair and Clinton were not trying in any way to destroy liberalism - after all much of it appealed to them personally. But what has come since is deeply troubling.
Firstly in 2008 we had a huge recession, caused in the main by untrammelled use of Capital by big banks and weak or complicit Governments (complicit in the UK for tax revenues). here the freedom to consume and the use of markets was challenged - both because incomes fell and because markets could be seen to have failed.
In the UK from 2003 liberalism has been undermined too by mass immigration. Much of what is now the craziness of political correctness is derived from the beginnings of identity politics. Blair was keen on immigration for cultural and political reasons. He decried those opposed as racist - so began in a formal way the launch of identity politics into Western life. Now, the freedom to speak freely was undermined and the freedom to vote was also undermined by a lack of alternatives who opposed immigration. This in turn had been a side effect of the growth of the EU which pushed the mass immigration agenda and itself was totally undemocratic. There was not way to oppose politically the Liberal elite.
Finally, the last shibboleth, the freedom to worship was challenged in the West by the rapid rise of Islam due to immigration and its idiotic Middle Eastern policies which appeased the spread of Wahhabism by Saudi Arabia whilst at the same time attacking secular Iraq and funding radical groups which would become Al-Qaeda and ISIS in later decades. Political Islam cannot work inside a Liberal democracy they are competing not complimentary ideologies, much as Marxism cannot be aligned with Liberalism.
So by the mid-2010's we had reached a point where all the key elements of Liberalism were discredited. So we saw a rejection of the 'liberalist' centre across the West and the rise of two new competing ideologies to replace it. The first a populist explosion, based on trying to redeem the benefits of liberalism from its failure - in the UK, UKIP railed against immigration and restrictions on freedom of speech. In the US, Trump railed against speech restrictions but also the legacy economic damage of 2008. On the Left, Marxism discovered that identity politics was a like for like replacement for the core principle of class warfare. With this update to Leninist thought in place, a new attack from the Left could begin - if by accident with Jeremy Corbyn and by design with Bernie Saunders.
They won't, the centre did not hold and now does not exist - even as the successors thrash out their new positions so inadequately in public.
Labels: Corbyn, Political Science, Politics, Trump, UKIP.
'Do or not do, there is no try ?'"
"Do or do not" is a state of mind. Approach to any challenge, it is. If into a fight you go, with only mindset of TRYING to win, succeed, you never will.
But win you could, if you fight believing you will win."
"I see. and ..and will Theresa May ever believe she can win, Master Yoda?"
What Is It With Farmers?
In my soldiering days I spent plenty of time in the country. Even dealt extensively with farmers on one occasion, when I was appointed Damage Control Officer on an exercise that roamed over a huge area of private arable land, laying waste as it went (with compo to be agreed between the DCO and the landowners - I may tell the story another day). But hey, basically I'm a townie through and through.
So what is it with farmers? They've had a drought this summer and the testimony of the cameras is there for all to see. But what about insurance? Like forward contracts and other financial products, insurance was pretty much invented for farmers. I am no stranger to weather insurance and weather-related derivatives (energy industry, me: we use 'em all the time) and they really aren't difficult to arrange. All this whingeing about how farmers have already used up the winter fodder and now need to buy in more - that's what insurance is for, all day long.
Hard-hearted? No, just hard-headed, as far as I am concerned. So - can someone tell us what's wrong with this robust retort to our country cousins?


E was the letter of the day in this session discussing advice as a profession, which was defined by three e's: education, experience and ethics (which probably should be first).
Industry or profession; a quick straw poll showed that all in the room think financial planning should be a profession, but the FPA's Mark Rantall states you can't just call yourself a profession without backing it up, and with 50% free-riders enjoying the benefits of a professional body without signing up.
Mark says he sees financial planning as the second most important profession behind medicine - health first and finances a close and important second. But Brian Bissaker points out though that this is not necessarily recognized by the wider community.
Greg Medcraft agreed that in developing this (e)Framework we need to strike a balance between self regulation and legislation.
However, the scale of legislative change facing planners is enormous: banning commissions, banning volume rebates, increased education standards and stronger super among others, and while Bissaker believes this legislation will push us (as an industry) toward professionalism, the risk is that the scope and cost involved of all these reforms will make advice more expensive, and put it out of reach for everyday Australians.
Simply put it's all about doing the right thing - that is the hallmark of a profession.
And the goal of all this: give all Australians access to high quality advice.
It's as simple as eee.
BlueChip Communication's Bruce Madden, Carden Calder and Paul Cheal are attending the Financial Services Council annual conference on the Gold Coast.


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FutureBridge invites you to its webinar
Data monetization and new mobility business models
Thursday, September 26 2019 at 10:30 am (CEST)
About this webinar
While automated, connected, electric and shared technologies form the foundation of New mobility era, new business models are the glue that binds them all together.
Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS), Automated-Mobility-on-Demand (AMoD), Connected Car Services, Vehicle Data Monetization and Mobility Blockchain are some of the new business models emerging as a result of technological advancements in connectivity and cloud computing and the decreasing cost of battery technology and sensors for autonomy.
Data is the fuel for future mobility
Many companies in the automotive and adjacent sectors are investing in their ability to extract value from car data and use the valuable insights to provide connected services. Some are launching pilots and others have started to scale up their offers and capabilities. In the beginning of August, Avis Budget Group announced a new partnership with Israeli startup Otonomo, to link its global fleet of more than 100,000 connected cars to Otonomo's cloud-based marketplace.
Car makers are exploring new revenue opportunities or collaborate with startups who have developed or in the process of developing a successful business model. One of the latest examples is Nissan Motor Co and its Chinese partner Dongfeng Group, working to launch a joint venture to manage car fleets for Didi's ride-hailing and car-sharing services.
Also, Bosch is working with EnBW, on a prototype for a charging process based on blockchain technology. Bosch's prototype promises to streamline the current charging process, so drivers can find a station, reserve their spot, and pay without hassle, with the car doing much of work by itself.
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Understand disruptive business models in new mobility and the players behind them
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La gare de Baziège est une gare ferroviaire française, de la ligne de Bordeaux-Saint-Jean à Sète-Ville, située à proximité du centre-ville de Baziège, dans le département de la Haute-Garonne en région Occitanie.

Elle est mise en service en 1857 par la Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi et du Canal latéral à la Garonne. C'est une halte voyageurs de la Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF), desservie par des trains TER Occitanie circulant sur l'axe Toulouse - Narbonne - Perpignan.

Situation ferroviaire
Établie à  d'altitude, la gare de Baziège est située au point kilométrique (PK) 279,371 de la ligne de Bordeaux-Saint-Jean à Sète-Ville, entre les gares ouvertes de Montlaur et de Villenouvelle.

La gare possède toujours un faisceau de voies de débords d'où débute un embranchement particulier pour la desserte des silos de la Toulousaine de Céréales.

Histoire
La Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi et du Canal latéral à la Garonne fournit, en 1854, à la commune les plans de l'emprise du chemin de fer qui va traverser son territoire d'Ouest en Est . Le conseil municipal les étudie en août 1854. le piquetage et les travaux vont principalement se dérouler en 1856 et 1857.

À la fin des travaux le conseil réagit car il estime que la Compagnie n'a pas tenu ses engagements concernant la remise en état des chemins latéraux.

La Compagnie du Midi met en service la section de Toulouse à Béziers et la gare de Baziège le . En 1858, Baziège est la  du chemin de fer de Bordeaux à Cette, elle dessert cet important bourg commerçant de , située à  de Toulouse,  de Bordeaux et  de Cette.

Quelques années plus tard, en 1879, le conseil municipal reconnaissant les apports du chemin de fer, demande au préfet d'autoriser l'ouverture des cafés jusqu'à 23 heures afin de permettre l'accueil des voyageurs des derniers trains de la journée. Il vote également un crédit de 120 francs pour l'installation d'un réverbère sur la voie qui relie le bourg à la gare.

En 2011, l'ancien bâtiment voyageurs est toujours présent, il n'est pas ouvert aux voyageurs de la halte SNCF.

En 2014, selon les estimations de la SNCF, la fréquentation annuelle de la gare était de .

Service des voyageurs

Accueil
Halte SNCF, c'est un point d'arrêt non géré (PANG) à entrée libre. Elle est équipée d'automates pour l'achat de titres de transport.

Une passerelle permet le passage d'un quai à l'autre.

Desserte
Baziège est desservie par des trains régionaux TER Occitanie qui effectuent des missions entre les gares de :

 Toulouse-Matabiau - Carcassonne - Narbonne, à raison d'environ deux trains par heure en heures de pointe et d'un train par heure en heures creuses. Le temps de trajet est d'environ 25 minutes depuis Toulouse-Matabiau et 1 heure 15 minutes depuis Narbonne.
 Toulouse-Matabiau - Perpignan, à raison d'un train toutes les 2 heures. Le temps de trajet est d'environ 25 minutes depuis Toulouse-Matabiau et 2 heures 5 minutes depuis Perpignan. Certains trains sont prolongés au-delà de Perpignan, jusqu'à Cerbère voire Portbou le week-end.

Intermodalité
Un parking pour les véhicules est aménagé. Elle est desservie par la ligne 204 du réseau Tisséo, et par la ligne 350 du réseau liO.

Service des marchandises
Baziège est une gare Fret SNCF, code 611723, qui propose un . Cela concerne essentiellement des trains de céréales qui desservent l'embranchement de la société Toulousaine de Céréales.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Liste de gares en France
 Liste des gares d'Occitanie
 Ligne de Bordeaux-Saint-Jean à Sète-Ville

Liens externes

Gare en Haute-Garonne
Ligne de Bordeaux-Saint-Jean à Sète-Ville
TER Occitanie


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And this is why I have not posted this week. I have been laying around (in my dreams) nursing this awful sinus end of the summer cold trying not to breathe on anyone I love. It about whipped me. The only saving grace was some easy dinners and lunches I had prepared for, short but complete lessons in school and a husband who covers and picks up the slack.
We are still knee deep in all these "projects" for Courtney and Carly. I feel like they are actual members of our family since a portion of each day is devoted just to them. Now people, they are just the dolls! They are not real. This week we have endeavored to sew some tu-tus and long skirts so they too can practice their dance moves. A dear friend, thank you Rachael, crocheted them (all four girls) caps and they are about as cute as can be...and Sunday at church Olivia had a great idea....she went to her Aunt Sam for help. This is what she said.
"Hey, Aunt Sam, when you are done with your Reunion cup today (aka communion cup) can you save it for me? It would make a great smoothie treat for my girl." Her mind is always working. Of course she got it. But, just in case, she had also approached her Dad with the same idea, so we are in abundance of "reunion" cups around here.
My last comment is my new obsession, thank you Netflix. HEROES. Yes, the show. And now that it is coming upon season 4, I am watching numerous episodes to get caught up and soon I might begin to speak Japanese. I cannot even fold laundry when I am watching, I might miss a subtitle. I found myself trying to figure out what superpower someone "might" have the other day....yes, I am addicted, and I have friends who are so glad.