This is the final of a three-post series written by undergraduate students who completed summer research in Palau with the Palumbi lab.
One. Plan ahead, but stay flexible.
The first day we arrived in Palau, we went straight out to sample corals on a reef. Though we planned to eventually sample five reefs per collection day, this one was supposed to be a learning experience–and learn we did. It took us five hours to sample that one reef! We cut through storm swell back to the lab, where we were met with unexpected problems. First, the small corals had been so disturbed by the bumpy ride through choppy water that they were nearly dead, thus rendering them useless for the experiment. Second, we had taken five hours to sample just one reef! A longer-term concern emerged: how were we ever supposed to do five reefs per day, as planned? Third, we had technical difficulties with our computers, which run the experiments and are essential to the entire operation.
We busted out our best troubleshooting skills. By day four, we had fixed the problems and were ready to sample again, but Mother Nature had different ideas. We awoke that morning to the sound of rushing wind and heavy pellets of rain. A faraway typhoon was brushing past Palau on its way to Taiwan. It whipped up waves that prevented us from sampling for the next two days.
By day six, I was concerned. It was difficult to imagine that we could still finish the work we set out to do. Yet, somehow, we did. By the time we were able to sample again, on day seven, we were ready. The computers were working, we were becoming more efficient at sampling, and Steve had discovered a more effective way to transport the coral (bubble wrap… who would've thought?). We sampled three reefs that day, and we only got more efficient as time went on. Soon, we were sampling five reefs a day with time to spare. We ended up sampling from every reef we originally planned to visit in thirty-five days exactly. The ten extra buffer days we built into our field season turned out to be necessary for finishing all of our work. In field work, I quickly learned, you have to be ready for things to go wrong — which they inevitably will.
Two. Don't eat mayo in the hot and humid tropics. Just don't. Ask Steve.
Three. Know your nuts. A "coconut" is a ripe coconut with hard, thick white meat and a smaller volume of water. A "mengur" (pronounced muhng-oor) is a young coconut with soft meat and a larger amount of refreshing water. Both are delicious, but they serve different purposes. Need coconut shavings for taro pudding? A coconut is what you're looking for. Thirsty after a long field day? Try a mengur!
Four. Know your tides. The depths of the corals we sampled ranged from less than one foot to dozens of feet. Timing was everything, because many reefs were impossible to collect coral samples from at high or low tide.
Five. Take a look around. This is foremost a safety precaution. The reef can be a dangerous place, with hazards ranging from stinging fire coral to biting Moray eels and sharks. Though I had been taught how to avoid fire coral several times, I was a slow learner. The first time I was stung, I grabbed onto a patch of fire coral thinking it would be a good handhold in the strong current. A second time, I was sampling when I felt a burning on my arm and looked down to discover that the entire area was covered in fire coral. After two encounters with this silent, neon-green foe, I realized I could identify and avoid it just by taking a look around me before diving down. Once I was aware of my surroundings, I was safe from fire coral. That goes for sharks, eels, and rays too.
But also, taking a look around helps you appreciate the reef. We worked hard, but I never let myself forget where I was. On one collection day, we found ourselves in poor visibility. On a dive to the reef floor, I saw a blurry, moving shape in the distance. As I approached, the shape became more clear, and I recognized the distinctive lumpy head, massive size, and lumbering movements of a bumphead parrotfish. What a find! These giants clean the reef of algae, munch on live coral, and are just a pleasure to see. Swimming closer, more and more shapes appeared around the parrotfish. Closer still, and I could see that they too were bumphead parrotfish. The school of fifteen behemoths turned from me and glided across the reef, and I headed up for air, astounded. Seeing one bumphead parrotfish was a delight. But chancing upon a school of that size was amazing, and I would've had no chance of seeing them with tunnel vision. Keep your eyes peeled!
A crown of thorns starfish. These starfish prey on coral and give a nasty sting when touched.
Six. Nonverbal communication is key. We couldn't talk underwater, so communication with our partners was done using a specialized system of sign language.
Seven. Some things just never dry in the tropics. And sometimes they smell weird.
Eight. Use proper equipment. This one took me the longest time to learn.
I made several careless mistakes, from dreadful sunburns to minor electric shocks to small frying pan mishaps–all caused by my own failures to use the proper equipment. Simply wearing a rash guard prevents sunburn, and wearing rubber boots when handling wires in outside rainy environments is a must. As for deep frying while wearing a tank top… Well, that one was so bad that Steve recommended it as a title for a blog post. A smart fry cook wears long sleeves.
Nine. Know how to cook a few meals really well. They'll come in handy. I cooked a time-intensive squid ink pasta from scratch and a quick Chinese chicken salad while we were in Palau. A good meal lifts everyone's spirits and wins you affection and adoration!
Ten. Be grateful. Everyone worked hard in Palau, and I wouldn't trade my experience this past summer for anything. I was thankful every day for the opportunity to spend five weeks with a motivated, exciting team in a beautiful field site like Palau. Most of all, I am grateful to have been a part of research that helps us better understand and preserve an ecosystem that I love and people depend on.
Wow thanks for the advice and I'll be sure to keep these tips in mind!! Also, the clown fish at the end is sick!!


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78th George Dressler: Back Nine Comeback For Young
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The 78th Dressler champion Brett Young (Pennsylvania Golf Association photo)
YORK, PA (April 24, 2018) - As he approached the 13th tee in Tuesday's second round of the 78th Dressler Memorial Championship, Brett Young was 5-over par for the day and 6-over par for the championship. The leader at the time, Ken Phillips, was at 1-over par on his round through 11 holes. Young knew that he needed some red numbers in his final six holes to catch the leaders, who were two groups behind him on the course. After a steady stretch that included a pair of birdies and a bogey-free remainder of his round, the field started coming back to Young. As the winds picked up, conditions got even tougher, and by the end of the day, Young's 36-hole total of 148 (+4) was enough to claim the title at the Country Club of York, in the season's opening event, which was presented by LECOM.
"I didn't know what conditions would be like at the end of the day," said Young, of Nemacolin Country Club. "I thought originally that even par or 1-over would do it. But it just got really windy and so much tougher. I just thought that I needed to try to get a couple of shots back and then see what would happen."
What happened was that Young claimed the Championship division crown with his solid finish. The recent graduate of California University of Pennsylvania was able to outlast Phillips as well as Kevin Fajt and Kevin Rossi, who all tied for second at 149 (+5).
The key for Young's comeback was birdies on the back-to-back par 5s on the second nine at the classic Donald Ross design. After a birdie on No. 14 to get to 5-over par, Young's second shot on the 489-yard 15th hole flew the green. He then played a tricky flop shot and sunk the ensuing putt for his second straight birdie.
"After those birdies, I just wanted to make some pars and see what would happen," said Young, who qualified for the 2017 U.S. Amateur.
After making par on 17, his strategy was put to the test on the 18th and final hole of the afternoon. Young's approach on the 384-yard par-4 stayed above the hole. His birdie putt rolled seven feet by, but he was able to steel his nerves and knock in the seven-footer to post the clubhouse lead at 148.
Senior Division
Meanwhile, two groups back, Phillips, of nearby Lancaster Country Club, and Rossi, of Scranton Municipal Golf Club, were locked in a duel that looked like it would decide the Senior division winner. After Phillips bogeyed the 12th hole and Rossi drained a birdie putt on No. 13, the two were tied for the lead at 1-over par. But Rossi's tee shot on the 14th went right off the tee and he couldn't find it and ended up posting a double bogey there. When Phillips, the first round leader, made consecutive bogeys at holes 15 and 16, the two golfers were tied yet again.
But on the 17th, Rossi dropped another shot when his par putt hung on the lip. Phillips, the current Pennsylvania Golf Association President, made par there and took a one-shot lead into the 18th. However, his drive found the left rough. Compounding matters further, Phillips then bladed a wedge and his ball ended up in the back right rough. With the green sloping away from him, he chipped it across the green. After getting his fourth shot to within six feet, Phillips had that putt to make bogey and force a playoff for the Championship division title. But the putt strayed to the left, and Young's victory was cemented. Despite the late struggles, Phillips did win the Senior division title with his score of 149.
"I'm thrilled to win the Senior title here on such a great golf course," Phillips said. "I'm disappointed with my finish, but hey, that's golf."
Rossi had a chance at birdie on 18 to get in a playoff but his 35-footer wouldn't fall. Joining Rossi and Phillips in second place overall was Fajt, of Hannastown Country Club, who got into the hunt with birdies on No. 14 and No. 15 before dropping a shot on each of the next two holes.
Phillips' score was good enough for a two-shot margin in the Senior division over home club hopeful Jeff Poet, whose second round score of 76 tied for the best in that division. Finishing third in the Senior division was Scott Mayne of Deer Run Golf Club, whose score of 153 was one shot ahead of 2016 Senior division champ Michael Vassil of the Country Club of Scranton.
To a man, the competitors raved about the conditions of the course over the past two days.
"It was my first time here, and this course is really great," Young said. "They did a great job with it and getting it ready for this championship."
Phillips hails from nearby Lancaster and is certainly more familiar with the club, and also had great things to say about the experience of the golfers during the event.
"I'd like to give special thanks to the staff and membership here at the Country Club of York. It's great for us to be welcomed with top-notch hospitality."
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ABOUT THE George Dressler Memorial
Formerly a public links tournament, the George Dressler Memorial is a 36 hole stroke play event with Championship (up to age 54), Senior (ages 55-64) and Super Senior (age 65 and older) divisions. There is a simultaneous team event with a best-two-of-three-score format among teams of three players from Pennsylvania Golf Association member clubs.
All players up to age 64 play from the same tees. The Senior Division is paired among the Championship Division
The tournament is named in honor of George Dressler, who was a member of the United States Golf Association's public links committee.

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Questions: I just leased a Honda CRV with a 72 month lease through Bank of the West and the dealership. I was told this was the best deal I could get and even though the lease was for 72 months, I was expected to turn the car in at 32-36 months.
I have A+ credit and was turning in another CRV after 2 years. The dealer said they could lower my payments and get me in a new car. The payments were lower until I went to finance where they tacked on stuff. I should have walked out but they wore me down.
This was yesterday. Can I get out of this now? I feel I was scammed.
Answer: Hi Marilyn. Being that you are in AZ, there is no cooling off period and once the contract is signed and you have driven all four wheels off the lot, you own it.
I would suggest going back to the dealer and letting the sales manager know how you feel about this deal. Let them know that you feel you've been scammed and you'd like them to work with you to make this right. If they won't listen, then go to the general manager and even tthe owner if you need to.
I'm assuming this is a new car, so I'd let them know that if they do not work to help you that the survey you get from Honda will reflect your dissatisfaction. These surveys are very important to dealers.
Lastly, when Bank of the West calls to do an interview with you, you can let them know how unhappy you are with the deal. They may refuse to fund, but be careful not to intentionally "kink" the deal as the dealer may have legal recourse, since you did sign a legally binding contract.
I'd also be very unhappy with whoever told you that you could trade out in 32-36. Yes, it's true you can, but you will more than likely have to have a ton of money down to make it work. 72 month leases are really tough and I highly recommend avoiding them.
All that being said, I'd probably suggest raising as big a stink as possible with the dealership management and see how they can help.
Please don't hesitate to get back in touch with me if you have any additional questions.
I too suffer from this same story, I recently bought a new F150 in a "lease to own" program offered by the Ford dealership through Bank of the West. I too was told I could trade in the car with positive equity at 32-36 months of the 72 month lease or opt to refinance and purchase the car. I was also told this was a great deal and only great credit individuals get this deal. So what is the process of trading in a lease? I do not picture myself keeping the truck the whole time.
Im 4 years into a lease with Bank of the west I want out but the fees!!! dumbest mistake i ever did DONT lease! unless you own a business! I plan on buying the vehicle out right when the lease is done!
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Plot: When California girl Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) is unexpectedly clobbered by a meteor full of outer space gunk, she mysteriously grows to 49-feet 11-inches tall and is instantly labeled a "monster" named Ginormica. The military jumps into action, and she is captured and held in a secret government compound. The world learns that the military has been quietly rounding up other monsters over the years. This ragtag group consists of the brilliant but insect-headed Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. (Hugh Laurie); The macho half-ape, half-fish The Missing Link (Will Arnett); The gelatinous and indestructible B.O.B. (Seth Rogen); and the 350-foot grub called Insectosaurus. Their confinement time is cut short however, when a mysterious alien robot lands on Earth and begins storming the country.
As a last resort, under the guidance of General W.R. Monger (Kiefer Sutherland) – on a desperate order from The President (Stephen Colbert) – the motley crew of Monsters is called into action to combat the aliens and save the world from imminent destruction.
"Monsters vs. Aliens" is scheduled to hit conventional and 3-D IMAX theaters on March 27th, 2009.
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Silas Finn è un personaggio immaginario protagonista di una omonima serie a fumetti italiana per ragazzi, di genere western/umoristico, creata nel 1979 da Tiziano Sclavi e disegnata da Giorgio Cavazzano. Insieme alla più celebre Altai & Jonson, è una delle principali collaborazioni tra Sclavi e Cavazzano.

Storia editoriale
La serie esordì nel mercato tedesco nel 1979, e la prima pubblicazione avvenne in Germania il 26 luglio del 1979, sulla rivista a fumetti Zack, n. 16, e distribuita anche in Belgio, Francia, Lussemburgo e Olanda. Dopo le prime storie, tuttavia, Tiziano Sclavi cede il proprio incarico allo sceneggiatore François Corteggiani, sempre disegnate da Cavazzano.

Vennero realizzati numerosi episodi di varia lunghezza pubblicati inizialmente in Germania e solo alcuni in Italia pubblicati sul Messaggero dei Ragazzi a partire dal 1985 e, qualche anno dopo, riproposte sulla rivista Magic Boy. Nel 1992 è uscito il volume cartonato Il West di Silas Finn, edito da Massimo Baldini Editore nella collana "Moby Dick", che riunisce tre avventure realizzate dalla coppia Sclavi/Cavazzano: "Caccia al tesoro", "Intervista a Buffalo Bill" e "Scoop al Promontory Point".

Personaggi e comprimari
Il protagonista - in origine chiamato Peter O'Pencil - è un inviato del giornale Boston Tribune e, al fine di poetr scrivere i suoi articoli, si ritrova a vivere avventure spesso insieme al fotografo B. J. Crocker e con una moltitudine di personaggi come la redazione del giornale e avversari come il misterioso Malabar intenzionato a uccidere il reporter.

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DJ Khaled, whose real name is Khaled Mohamed Khaled, was born on November 26, 1975. He is primarily recognized as an American disc jockey.
He has also held positions as a record producer, executive, and songwriter. He has a sizable fan base on social media and is a well-known media figure worldwide.
In 2009, he headed 'Def Jam Records South as its president. He was a founding member of "We the Best Music Group."
He served as a judge on the singing competition program "The Four."
Khaled Mohamed Khaled was born to an immigrant Palestinian in New Orleans, Louisiana.
They were also Arab musicians, but the media does not know their names because they are not well recognized.
His mother and father were the ones who first sparked his interest in music and encouraged him to pursue a career in the field.
DJ Khaled Early Career
He always had a thing for hip-hop and soul, and it started at a young stage. During his formative years, he spent his time working at record shops.
While working at Odyssey, a music store in New Orleans, he was instrumental in helping the careers of numerous well-known musicians, including Birdman, Mavado, and Lil Wayne.
After he left the shop, he began his career as a DJ, blending together genres such as dancehall, hip hop, and reggae.
As of 2022, DJ Khaled's net worth is currently estimated to be around $75 million dollars. DJ Khaled makes his fortunes from his music and other endorsement deals.
DJ Khaled has endorsement relationships with a number of brands, including Weight Watchers, T-Mobile, Ciroc, and Apple, which bring in tens of millions of dollars annually.
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By Cosmo Garvin
When selling tamales outside bars late at night is outlawed, only outlaws will sell tamales outside bars late at night.
That's why we did a double-take when we ran across an item "banning cart vendors" on the Sacramento City Council's to-do list. Always concerned that the man might be trying to shut down small business people—especially the providers of such tasty and important treats—we called Councilwoman Bonnie Pannell for an explanation.
"We're not trying to ban them. But they need to be regulated," Pannell was quick to explain.
In fact, technically, it's already illegal to sell food outdoors in Sacramento outside of the central business district. Even there, you need a permit.
But that doesn't mean that there aren't dozens of entrepreneurs pushing carts full of helados around wherever kids are gathered and carrying buckets of roses into restaurants on Valentine's Day. Problem is the city can't control where people vend, when they vend or what they vend.
"We get constant complaints about them," Pannell explained. In particular, she said cart jockeys like to set up outside churches and sell their wares after services, often blocking sidewalks and causing traffic jams.
"Sometimes these guys will set up right across from a school, and you'll have kids running across the street. It's a safety issue," threw in Bob Rose, Sacramento's code-enforcement manager.
But vendors rarely are cited, said Rose, and complaints usually are handled on a case-by-case basis. The issue will come to the council later this summer, when city leaders try to untangle an ordinance regulating other mobile-food vendors such as catering trucks.
"It's a tough issue. Some of these guys are just trying to make a living," said Rose. "We want to find a way for them to do that legally."
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Vaseem Khan talks elephants, food and Mumbai…
On September 16, 2015 September 16, 2015 By thebooktrailerIn Author Interviews, Books set in India, Cuppa and a cake, cuppaandacakeLeave a comment
I'm off to meet a man about an elephant today. Yup, you read that right. I am currently sitting in an Indian restaurant, with the fragrances of the food and drink wafting all around me waiting for Vaseem Khan – the author of The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra. Suddenly there is a loud trumpeting sound – Vaseem's taxi? As I approach the door, an elephant bedecked in jewels comes lumbering around the corner before stopping right infront of me. Truck uncoils and a man slides down and announces himself – Hello he says. Vaseem Khan at your service.
Well with that novel approach (never have I had an author arrive by elephant) I just have to start firing away with the questions straight away.
You create a vivid picture of the sights and sounds of Mumbai. Can you tell us a little more about Chopra's city?
Mumbai is an eternal city. It is constantly changing but its soul will always remain quintessentially Indian. The city was once a series of seven islands occupied for millennia by Koli fisherman until the Portuguese established a trading centre there in 1534 and called it Bom Bahia or 'Good Bay' from whence the name Bombay is derived. A century later the Portuguese gifted the territory to King Charles II of England as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza. Charles promptly leased the islands to the East India Company which transformed the disparate islands into a city. By the end of the 1700s Bombay, with its deepwater port and established trade routes, was the 'Gateway to India'. In 1995 Bombay was rechristened, after Mumbadevi, the stone goddess of the original Koli fishermen.
Today 20 million live in the city. Is it any wonder that Mumbai is a non-stop assault on the senses? People's lives are a blend of modern and traditional sensibilities – Mumbai, like most metros in India, is facing a cultural onslaught from westernisation – which brings both good and bad, as I describe in my novel. But most people are still very wedded to their ancient culture. What is a constant is how warm and friendly everyone is.
How did you think about having an elephant in your story?
The book comes to life! (C) the booktrail
You could say that the elephant was born on my first day in India. I remember vividly walking out from Bombay airport in 1997, aged 23, into a wall of sizzling hot air. The first thing I saw set the scene for me – a group of lepers and beggars milling about the taxi rank. At the first traffic junction we stopped at there was a thumping on the window. I turned to see a tall well-built gentleman in a sari. My first eunuch. I turned back to the road and there, lumbering through the traffic as cool as you please, was an enormous grey Indian elephant with a mahout on its back. This surreal sight stuck with me and eventually became a part of the novel I wrote when I returned to England ten years later.
When you think about it, elephants make great crime fighters – they are intelligent, have great memories and display a range of emotions, which is important to me as a writer as the dynamic between Ganesha and Inspector Chopra is a key aspect of the novel, adding much charm and humour.
To discover more read my blog piece: "What makes an elephant a great sidekick for a crime novel?': https://blog.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/what-makes-an-elephant-a-great-sidekick-for-a-crime-novel/
Can you tell us more about Ganesha?
Ganesha is a one-year-old baby Indian elephant. He is sent to Chopra by his long lost uncle Bansi. But Bansi doesn't reveal why he is sending him an elephant or anything about Ganesha's background. This is a mystery that will be revealed slowly over the course of the book and series. Bansi does say – in a letter – that Ganesha 'is no ordinary elephant'. These words gradually prove prophetic as Chopra discovers there is more to little Ganesha than meets the eye.
When Ganesha first turns up he is very despondent. But we soon see his real personality emerge. He is adorable, of course, but also tenacious, determined, mischievous and adventurous – he is a child, after all. As well as helping Chopra he will be getting into a few scrapes of his own!
What next do you have planned for Chopra and Ganesha?
Well, Chopra and Ganesha are just getting started! I have just completed their second adventure, 'The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown' which is about the theft of the world's most famous diamond – the Kohinoor, which was originally mined in India and then given to Queen Victoria during the Raj. The Kohinoor is currently part of the British Crown Jewels. In the novel the Crown Jewels have been brought to India for a special exhibition. A daring robbery sees the Kohinoor stolen and Chopra and Ganesha called in to try and recover the great diamond.
After that Chopra and Ganesha will be on the trail of a kidnapped Bollywood star, and then in the fourth episode they will be travelling outside of Mumbai to Chopra's native village in Punjab, North India, to try to unravel the mystery of Ganesha's origins and the disappearance of Chopra's Uncle Bansi.
My aim is to showcase different parts of India as the series progresses. India is really a collection of countries – it is so different everywhere you go. I'd like to put Chopra and Ganesha into different cities and regions so that we can use those wonderful environments as backdrops to the stories.
What should we eat if we visit Mumbai?
Vaseem feeds Ganesha before we talk more food! (C) Vaseem Khan
Mumbai is a gastronome's paradise. As a world city there are now restaurants from every cuisine on the planet – many of these restaurants are in the suburbs of Juhu and Bandra or in the richer zones of south Mumbai.
Punjabi dhabas – to taste truly authentic Punjabi Indian food – tandoori chicken, nan bread, butter chicken, Mughlai dishes – eat at a traditional dhaba. These are usually rustic restaurants such as Uttam's Dhaba in Marol, but there are others with an upmarket ambience such as Urban Tadka in Seven Bungalows.
http://www.urbanrestro.com/restaurants/mumbai/andheri/urban-tadka-seven-bungalows
Leopold's Café is a Mumbai landmark and features in my second novel in this series 'The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown.' It was previously made famous in the novel Shantaram. It has a range of delicious Indian and continental cuisine and is a good place to stop when exploring south Mumbai. http://www.leopoldcafe.com/index.htm
Mumbai is a coastal city so there are many great seafood restaurants. Try amazing Maharasthran-style seafood at Gajalee – especially the crab. http://www.gajalee.com/
Mumbai street food – if you can stomach it. Mumbai's street food is amazing ranging from steamed rice cakes called 'idli' to chicken lollipops. You can find some great pictures of Mumbai street food on my Pinterest board: https://www.pinterest.com/vaseemkhanUK/mumbai-street-food/
With many thanks to Vaseem for a very interesting and food infused interview. Right then, we're off for an elephant ride now so be sure to catch up with Vaseem later on! and Ganesha of course
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Adding three new platforms within a month that allow you to play back songs, podcast and radio through your TV may go some way to stopping users from defecting to other services that already support the devices and adding support for Sonos was also a particularly smart move, given the popularity of its speakers.
Mixcloud says its getting around 14 million monthly users, which puts it alongside Apple's claimed 15 million active users each month (around 6.5 million of which pay for the service), and plans to "increase [that] dramatically" through 2016.
How easily achievable that will be remains to be seen – other notable services like Rdio have fallen along the wayside, despite offering a sizeable catalog and multi-platform options.
A spokesperson said the features are live for all users now, paying or free.


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Trump just lifted shipping restrictions for Puerto Rico. But the real challenge just started.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
President Donald Trump bowed to critics of his Puerto Rico relief efforts Thursday and said he would waive the 1920 Jones Act, which says that all shipments between two U.S. ports be carried on U.S. flag vessels.
But U.S. shipping executives and unions say the move won't speed the delivery of relief to the island after the devastation of Hurricane Maria because there were already more than enough U.S. flag vessels to handle relief supplies.
Critics of the Jones Act restrictions say that they slow deliveries and raise prices, especially in emergencies. They say that when Trump initially declined to temporarily waive the act he was showing more concern with a handful of shipping companies than with 3.5 million Puerto Rican citizens.
Thomas Crowley, chief executive of a company with about 100 vessels including tugs, barges, container ships and tankers, is one of those U.S. flag shippers and a leading contractor for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The company has already delivered hundreds of containers and generators to Puerto Rico.
He said the problem in Puerto Rico isn't deliveries by shipping companies to ports and terminals. The problem is distribution of those goods to people who need them.
"Would the relief effort be better or is it being hampered by the existence of the Jones Act?" he said in an interview. "The answer to that question is clearly no. Of there were a case where a foreign vessel had a role we would support that."
Most shipping companies have both U.S. and foreign flagged vessels — so the Jones Act waiver doesn't matter as much for them; they can use U.S. or foreign flag vessels.
There are primarily three companies whose fleets are entirely or mostly U.S. flag vessels. They are Tote Maritime, Trailer Bridge and Crowley. The Masters, Mates and Pilots union said that cargo attributed to the Jones Act makes up less than 3 percent of total U.S. shipping.
Crowley, who was in Washington for an annual conference, said he and fellow shippers spent much of the week meeting with lawmakers and administration officials, including a Tuesday morning session with Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao and Pentagon officials.
"We were barraged with this Jones Act thing in every meeting," Crowley said. "I'm like what are you talking about? Why is this even an issue? You're not solving any problems."
Instead, shipping companies and unions say the Jones Act is crucial to supporting the U.S. shipping industry and protecting jobs — which Crowley said was just the sort of thing Trump has pledged to do.
"The Jones Act is very important to our company and America's shipping industry," he said. "If America wants to have seafarers the Jones Act is essential. Otherwise the jobs would go offshore like they've done in some many industries."
He said that protecting those jobs was just the sort of thing Trump has pledged to do.
Klaus Luhta , vice president at the Masters, Mates and Pilots union, said his union met on Tuesday with some Democratic members of Congress on other issues and ended up talking about the Jones Act. "The Jones Act is one leg of three legged stool that allows US flag shipping to continue to exist," he said.
He said that U.S. flag shipping companies have tonnage ready to be deployed.
Crowley said that waiving the Jones Act for Florida after Hurricane Irma hit there did little other than give some business to foreign flag vessels.
Florida, which has no oil refineries and little pipeline infrastructure, obtains much of its gasoline by ship from refineries in Louisiana and Texas. After Trump lifted the Jones Act for Florida, a customer cancelled a contract with Crowley for gasoline delivery and bought instead from a foreign flag vessel. The switch had nothing to do with availability of the tanker, he said.
"Our crew members in Florida were calling and saying they need work to buy a new car or fix their houses. And we had to tell them the booking was cancelled," he said. Altogether, 46 U.S. flag vessels and six foreign flag vessels delivered fuel to Florida after the Jones Act waiver.
Foes of the Jones Act — including leading Republican lawmakers — say that it drives up prices, especially on islands like Hawaii or Puerto Rico, and hurts their economic competitiveness.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a long-time advocate of repealing the Jones Act restrictions, wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security saying "I am very concerned by the Department's decision not to waive the Jones Act for current relief efforts in Puerto Rico, which is facing a worsening humanitarian crisis following Hurricane Maria."
San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz said on CNN earlier this week that she wanted Trump to repeal the Jones Act, "which makes everything that comes into Puerto Rico — that makes it more expensive."
"Much of this high cost is attributable to the Jones Act – also known as the Merchant Marine Act of 1920," said a 2014 report by the New York Federal Reserve, though it noted that the Government Accountability Office findings about costs were inconclusive. The GAO suggested a Jones Act exception for shipments of natural gas to the island, a cleaner and perhaps cheaper alternative to the oil now burned to generate electricity.
In 2015, Anne Krueger, former chief economist of the World Bank and deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, wrote that the Jones Act "requires using very costly US-built ships and crews for all sea transport to and from the mainland."
Crowley disputes that.
"Shipping rates have very little impact on the prices consumers see on the shelf. This has been demonstrated by studies time and time again," he said. He acknowledged that American maritime workers have higher wages.
"Do American workers earn more than Chinese, absolutely. Does that impact how merchants price goods? It does not appear to be the case. Why? Because the supply chain we have is second to none."
He boasted that his company also has built up its supply chain and facilities in Puerto Rico that have weathered the storm. He said that three days after the storm hit, his terminal was open. At 8 a.m. the next day when the port first opened, he said, one of his ships delivered 500 containers. Thanks to having his own generator, the company has maintained 200 refrigerated containers.
"If we cut some American jobs, replace them with foreign labor and save a few pennies on the delivered goods then perhaps you could get the answer swayed to 'yes', but no one has ever made a factual case that this is true," he added.
After the president announced the waiver on Thursday, Crowley said in an email: "We understand the waiver will be temporary. In the meantime, we hope people will take the time to learn what our American vessel crews, dock workers and truck drivers are doing 24/7 to bring help to Puerto Rico. Americans responding to Americans in need."
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My name is Horman Chitonge and I am a professor in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. I teach courses in Rethinking Africa's Development, as well as the Land and Agrarian Question to postgraduates and I write to you now to lend my knowledge to the current debate around the Tafelberg land in Sea Point.
I have recently published new research conducted in the city of Lusaka following an increase in conflicts over urban land there. There are many similarities between the situation studied there and that playing out in Cape Town currently. In fact, these are trends we see across the African continent and central to the discussion is the urban land question in places that have not planned for the poor. Despite this, we have observed that city officials appear to lack awareness of or interest in the problems that our research reveals.
There are two realities that I believe city authorities particularly need to bear in mind. The first is that the issue of land in urban areas is an issue of social justice. People who have nowhere to go also have a claim on city land and if the city does not manage that properly it is going to create all sorts of problems. Most fundamentally, you have to find people somewhere to go. If they are in the city, you cannot just dismiss them. You have to offer them alternatives. Most municipalities are not good at doing that.
Secondly, changing our mindset is very important. Most people, including researchers and academics as well as city officials, think the land question is a rural question. They think that in the urban setting there is no land question, only a housing question. That mindset is very dangerous. There is a big land question in the urban setting especially now that urban growth is proceeding at an accelerated rate across the continent. One of the major questions is around where we settle people. City officials need to change their mindset about land to realize there is a big issue in the cities.
There is need to think about the poor and working-class as part of the city and to allow that they have access because it disadvantages them seriously to be in outer-lying areas far away from major services, markets, and areas of employment. Poor and working-class people spend a lot of money coming into the city and some of the time most of their salary ends up going to transport costs. That is also an issue of social justice: you have the poor who earn less staying far away from work paying almost 75% of their income into transport because we have never thought of them as being part of the city.
The City of Cape Town is currently not adequately addressing this situation. Just going to give the people of Khayelitsha toilets does not solve the problem; the problem is that Cape Town has been designed in a way that does not incorporate the poor who end up on the peripheries. Even where small pieces of land appear where poorer communities could be provided with residence close to the city, we tend to reserve these for future development or redevelopment of the city and to keep the poor outside of the city. But that model does not work. The moment the poor begin to be in larger numbers they will challenge the status quo. Cape Town has not done much in terms of dealing with that problem. We keep blaming the apartheid government, but we need to interrogate what we are doing to redress some of those problems. We cannot just placate here and there – that is not solving things.
Part of resolving this aspect of the urban land question lies in democratizing the process. People should have a say in how land is used. These decisions cannot just be taken bureaucratically in an office in the CBD. Consulting with communities to see what the priorities are is essential and part of what our constitution requires. Fully embracing this, however, in a manner which does not simply re-inforce the interests of the few, means shifting our mindsets. We have to come from the view that the city belongs to all of us, not that the city belongs to some more than others. We need to address that misconception as an urgent issue. If we solve that, then you can build low-cost housing for all kinds of people in the city and you do not zone off according to income. The way the city is currently outlined, the poorer you are the further out you will be, and yet there are spaces available. These spaces are not used because we think "those people don't deserve to be here" or "if they come here property values will go down". But that is because we do not realize that the city belongs to them as well. We have to live in a city together. As long as we do not realize that, we will not even use the spaces that are available and could be used for low-cost housing, with the land in Sea Point being a perfect example. Places like this are always earmarked for something else and given to other forms of development which perpetuates the same kind of set up where the poor are pushed to the periphery and those with better income stay separate. That is not healthy and that is not good for social justice.
I fully support the campaign to stop the sale of Tafelberg. For one, we need a city that is inclusive and that is integrated, not a city that is segregated by the level of income you earn. We can build a city where the poor can live close to the rich and if we have a chance like this one where we can develop low-cost housing, that is an opportunity we must not miss. There are all sorts of fears around taking this action, but we have to overcome that and take decisions to build this integrated city. Secondly, this is also a question of justice. This is an opportunity to transform the city. If you give into a private school development you will have the rich people bring their kids there and you will have lost an opportunity to have a more integrated city.


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In the fading atmosphere of the New Hollywood era, William Friedkin – the wunderkind director with an Academy Award for his cop drama, The French Connection (1971) who then scored an even bigger success with The Exorcist (1973) – began work on what would prove to be the most controversial film of his career: Cruising (1980). In the process he established a template for a sub-genre, the serial killer thriller, that would thrive long after his film had left theatres, having caused widespread offence among the very audience he'd hoped to appeal to, via a campaign mobilised by the counter-culture press. As such, Cruising can be read as a bitter farewell to the seventies and its cinema and industry. This Devil's Advocate dives deep into the phenomenon that is Cruising, examining its creative context and its protagonists, as well as examining its ongoing popularity as it turns 40 in 2020.
Eugenio Ercolani's and Marcus Stiglegger's book on William Friedkin's Cruising is an important addition to the annals of scholarship and fandom devoted to this long neglected and underrated masterpiece of American cinema in the 1980s. Meticulously researched, it documents the gay culture that surrounds the film and its former controversial status, as well as the biographies and backgrounds of the key, creative people involved. Most importantly, it offers a new, open-minded interpretation of this wilfully fragmented and complex film. – Adrian Martin, film critic
Eugenio Ercolani is a prolific documentarian and film historian. He has most recently published 'Darkening the Italian Screen' with McFarland Press. Marcus Stiglegger is a professor of film studies based in Berlin, and has published numerous books on film aesthetics, film history and media theory.


An award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author says the world needs to listen more to what the Pacific ocean and its peoples have to say about looking after our planet.
Simon Winchester was in Wellington last week for the New Zealand Writers Festival talking about his latest book "Pacific -the Ocean of the Future"
He spoke with Koroi Hawkins about why he believes the world should listen to what the Pacific has to say.
SIMON WINCHESTER: My thesis I suppose very simply is that the Mediterranean was the in land sea of the classical world and the Atlantic is the in land sea of today's world. The Pacific is where if you look at human development finally the world meets itself. Because those who began human civilisation in Ethiopia fanned out in two directions, one going very crudely up to Europe and others going through India and to China to divide themselves into two basic chunks of people, Easterners and Westerners. The people in the West across the Atlantic, across the American continents stood on the shores of the Pacific now looking at each other. And now at last and ever since Balboa was the first European to do so, entered the Pacific and started as it were confronting, colliding with or engaging with people on the other side of this vast ocean. So it seems to me that now with China particularly being gigantically powerful both socially, economically and militarily and with the United States being somewhat nervous about this, that although the world is easily distracted by what is happening in the Levant, you know all the problems with the Middle East and so forth that the real challenges and the real trade patterns and the real problems associated with things like global warming and climate change and so forth. All will be focused on and around the Pacific ocean, that the Atlantic has had its day, the Mediterranean had its day but the axis that used to be between Alexandria or between New York and London now the axis is between Yokohama and Long Beach the Pacific is the future.
KOROI HAWKINS: You hint at the Pacific now, or always having had something to give back to the world rather than years of the world being able to give things to the Pacific. We got Christianity and development. And something that is not resources and that is not in the form of timber or minerals, that the Pacific actually has a lesson to teach the world.
SW: Well I saw this very powerfully symbolised in this voyage which is going on now of this beautiful and very large traditional sailing canoe or wa'a as it is called in Hawaii waka here in I believe New Zealand, which set out from Maui in 2014 to go around the world without any navigational instruments. No wristwatch, no sextant, no compass and of course no GPS. And blow me down, you know people thought they couldn't do it because this skill had long ago vanished thanks largely to western imperialism. But no it still exists and it is being re-taught now to people in Hawaii and who are teaching it to other Polynesian peoples as well. And the canoe managed to get all the way down here to New Zealand and then over to Australia and then through the Indian Ocean to Diego Garcia and Mauritius the East coast of South Africa. It is now in the Atlantic ocean it has just reached Cuba a few days ago and in a few days or a few weeks rather it will be going up Chesapeake Bay up the Potomac River to the White House to show the Hawaiian president what Hawaiian Polynesian people can do and what they have always been able to do ever since Tupaia stood on Captain Cooks deck back in the 1780s. So I think this, you may think it trivial but I think its symbolic that Polynesians in all sorts of ways have abilities that we have disdained for far too long and now we should offer them what I think we should offer to the Pacific more generally which is our respect.
KH: So many issue going forward climate change one of the larger of them, the Pacific it seems is trying to tell world something about looking after our planet and that we are all on the same planet.
SW: I couldn't agree with you more, I mean we are facing serious problems the report just a couple of weeks ago suggesting that actually the sea level rise now in the Pacific is going to be at least four feet by the end of this century which means that low lying countries like Kiribati and Niue and so forth will be largely submerged the whole problem of climate refugees will become a major topic to talk about. There is some work being done I mean it is not all doom and gloom there are environmental problems being solved, the case of an albatross in the North Pacific, particular birds in Hawaii. But generally speaking the Pacific rather as barrier reefs or coral reefs more generally have been the canary in the coal mine. The sort of obvious and colourful indicator of climate change. Now the Pacific generally with its sea level rise, the rise in its temperature the rise in its acidity, the rise in the frequency of storms is reminding us that more eloquently than other part of the world, I think that the planet is in danger. But if we behave ourselves if we lessen our emissions if we start to behave responsibly towards this ocean then the planet as a whole might under our super-intendence calm down. So the Pacific is the place once again going back to your first question about the ocean of tomorrow, it is not merely the ocean of tomorrow in terms of confrontation but in terms of learning how we can take care of this planet. The whole message of the Hawaiian canoe's voyage is Malama Honua which is to take care of our planet and the Pacific is where we are, I hope, learning to do that.


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Conveniently overlooked or just not mentioned by our media was the 'Newsweek' report from February this year on the Syrian Government not using the banned nerve agent Sarin against its own people. You would have thought it crucial that people should have been told this.
Secretary of Defense James Mattis said that the U.S. has "no evidence" that the Syrian government used the banned nerve agent Sarin against anybody in Syria. As the article says, Mattis offered no temporal qualifications, which means that both the 2017 event in Khan Sheikhoun and the 2013 tragedy in Ghouta are unsolved cases in the eyes of the Defense Department and Defense Intelligence Agency. In other words, there is not now, or has there ever been any kind of proof for the accusations made against President Assad and by implication, Putin's Russia.
Taken together with the claim of Iraqi WMD of which there was no such thing, we would all need to very, very dubious of the recent events in Salisbury and Douma. No less an expert than 'Major General Jonathan Shaw, a former head of Britain's Special Forces has challenged Theresa May's claim that President Assad was behind the chemical attack in Douma. In his statement he said, "Why would Assad use chemical weapons at this time? He's won the war. That's not just my opinion, it is shared by senior commanders in the US military. There is no rationale behind Assad's involvement whatsoever. He's convinced the rebels to leave occupied areas in buses. He's gained their territory. So why would he be bothering gassing them?" Speaking exclusively to The Mail on Sunday, the ex-SAS and Parachute Regiment commander added, "The jihadists and the various opposition groups who've been fighting against Assad have much greater motivation to launch a chemical weapons attack and make it look like Assad was responsible. Their motivation being that they want to keep the Americans involved in the war following Trump saying the US was going to leave Syria for other people to sort out."
In fact, he was invited to speak to SKY news but when he raised these issues, he was promptly cut off, as you see from this short clip.
But his views were echoed by Admiral Lord West, former head of the Royal Navy, who said, "If I was advising President Assad, why would I say use chemical weapons at this point? It doesn't make any sense. But for the jihadist opposition groups I can see why they would."
As you can read here, the Russians found forty tons of chemical weapons after clearing terrorist ISIS groups out of one area. They reported this to the US and suggested that these terrorists not only had such weapons but would likely stage an attack in Syria with them and then get the White Helmets to blame Assad. Syria, which was confirmed to have destroyed its sarin stockpiles under a deal brokered between Russia and the US in 2013, has denied the current American accusations. Russia also pointed out that thorough impartial investigation of the incident never took place, with OPCW experts refusing to visit Khan Shaykhun. It has argued that the attack could have been staged. For more on this, have a look at this short video.
What is of particular interest is the testimony of the two medics in the hospital where the injured were treated directly after the alleged attack.
So knowing Assad had no motive to launch a chemical attack even if he could get such weapons and having no concrete proof to show the world that he did it and further, not waiting for an investigation of any kind to take place, the western powers launched an attack of this sovereign country. In doing so, they broke several international laws they claim to uphold and contravened the very UN Charter they helped draft. But the Russians and Syrians remained calm in the face of such scandalous behavior and instead asked that the OPCW be sent to examine the site of the alleged attack. After some prevaricating, this was finally agreed and the inspectors were due on the ground in Damascus last Saturday, (14th April 2018). However, out of the blue that Friday, warplanes from the West struck and bombed the site the OPCW were supposed to examine. As a result, under UN mandate, peacekeepers from the UN had to visit the area to judge how safe it was before giving permission to the OPCW inspectors to examine it. The delay then was contrived by the western press as being Russia's fault, which it patently was not. It was the fault of the West for bombing the site when they knew it was due to be examined.
When finally the UN force on the ground pronounced it safe and the Syrians and Russians announced that the examination would go ahead, Washington and London immediately issued statements accusing the Russians of tampering with the site. If that isn't classic smoke and mirrors I don't know what is. For the western press it means that if the OPCW were to find evidence of chemical weapons which could only have come from, let's say, The Porton Down Laboratories, then our media can scream that the Russian planted them there as the Yanks predicted. If it turns out, (as I suspect), that no evidence is found of chemical weapons by the OPCW then it's the same story, the Russians cleared it all away.
But if all of that is not perplexing enough, it appears that London handed over samples of the substance used in the alleged Salisbury attack to to the Organisation for the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons (OPCW), who in turn sent them for analysis to the Spiez Laboratory in Switzerland. It turns out that the Skripals were poisoned with an incapacitating toxin known as 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate or BZ, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, citing the results of the examination. The Swiss center sent the results to the OPCW. However, the UN chemical watchdog limited itself only to confirming the formula of the substance used to poison the Skripals in its final report without mentioning anything about the other facts presented in the Swiss document. Incidentally, the Spiez Laboratory. This facility is a Swiss state research center controlled by the Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection and, ultimately, by the country's defense minister. The lab is also an internationally recognized center of excellence in the field of the nuclear, biological, and chemical protection and is one of the five centers permanently authorized by the OPCW. Interesting too that the toxin, BZ, was never produced in Russia, but was in service in the US, UK, and other NATO states. This story was covered in the West by Tyler Durden here.
So where does all that leave us? That the West has been continually denigrating both Moscow and Damascus is an absolute fact. They routinely demonise Assad and Putin in a most undiplomatic and ugly manner. They would blame them for the hard winter we have just had if they thought we'd believe them. And yet Moscow would know that there was not a single benefit to them in using Novichok on their own citizens in the UK at this time or any other. They could have shot, knifed or choked both if they wished and nobody would have been any the wiser. Similarly, Assad is on the point of overall victory in Syria and Trump has announced he intends to bring his army home. Even a village idiot under such circumstances would not commit a chemical attack on his own people and Assad is no idiot. He's a British trained medical doctor, a popular political leader to his own people and a true reformer in the western sense. He protects both a thriving christian and jewish community in Syria while engaging muslim terrorists intent on destroying his country. The Russian presence in Syria is legal under international law but the presence of western forces there is utterly illegal.
And finally, people all over the west people are beginning to claim that all of this is just more false flag operations carried out by the west in attempt to get backing from their own people for more wars. Very worryingly, "Theresa May has declared without hesitation that she would order a nuclear strike to kill hundreds of thousands of people if she thought it was necessary." Wow! If she thinks it is necessary. Necessary for what? Her own flagging political career perhaps? A war time Prime Minister is guaranteed the people's support, right? Compare that against Putin's many statements and pleas to the West for peace in our world and respect for international laws. Instead the Democrats in America are intent on making you believe that Hilary lost the election because of the Russians. On that topic, it may be informative for you to watch this nugget,
called 'Overthrow.' In it, they chronicle 100 Years of U.S. Meddling & Regime Change, from Iran to Nicaragua to Hawaii to Cuba. By one count, the United States has interfered in more than 80 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000. And that doesn't count U.S.-backed coups and invasions. Now try googling Russian Meddling & Regime Change and it won't take you long to see the huge difference.
It's all a lot to take in but worth it if you seek the truth rather than the lazy option of wanting to believe propaganda.
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Those are recordings of Radio Sovereign which was a UK pirate from the past. This station has a lot of old pirate material. Over the last few days it has been on 1611, 1614, 1616 and 1494. Faint but clear signal on the SDR in Carlow at midnight 25 Nov on 1615 kHz. When it is not on medium wave it has been on 6318.
Super strong signal in Dundalk, but obviously very low power.
I think that is a different station.
Energy on 3945 and 7705 Khz today for those that have a SW radio. 3945 should be receivable in most of Ireland.
Ando nows a lottery more than this website people talking about lickin radio nobs to be nosey. No offence.
But he has been around since the Original Dublin based on 93.2 ENERGY 1995-1997 NOW a top engineer on repairs, with this kinda stuff .
agreed, it has been suggested here before not to be naming operators behind current pirates for obvious reasons.
does fresh have any plans for live programing in the future or will it continue to relay danceoneradio?
Energy is a good signal on 3945, nothing heard on 7705. 1395 is a couple of minutes ahead of 3945.
The Dundalk station is on 6318 today. The station never identifies itself. When not playing oldies it runs recordings of pirates from the past.
Only been on for a few weeks - no processing on the audio - automated but a good selection of music.
Today (Sunday) Easy on a blank carrier and Retros audio sounding a bit rough.
Christmas fm testing on 105.2 this evening, Easy radio now back on playing easy listening music, listening to Retro Radio and there does not seem to be any issues with there audio sounds fine, they did have a power cut earlier on this evening but everything up and running now.
Hot FM has a massive success for over 20 years in Dublin with a famous recognised name, following and listenership.
Hot FM attracts a listenership that is of the younger market from children to adults around 40 years old.
just checked both servers, 4 listener connections out of 9999 on 1 and 1 out of 200 on the other.
Frank is a complete con artist. He posted a message the other the day about having 1,000 listeners online. He had 7 at the time.
Christmas FM tests now on 88.1, 99.4 and 105.2 (west Dublin).
Christmas FM on air in Sligo now on 95.0.
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The site seems to be far side of saggart, very poor in south dublin.