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Greylock in the Berkshires
On Saturday, June 24, 2017 at Herman Melville's Arrowhead, Berkshire Historical Society, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, I had the privilege to present my supernatural mystery Greylock to local residents and readers.
Arrowhead lies at the foot of Mt. Greylock. Because my novel takes place on Mt. Greylock and is about the supernatural powers of music … of whales … and much more … Arrowhead was an ideal location for this book reading event and signing.
[Courtesy Berkshire County Historical Society.]
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The Russian beluga whales in the novel Greylock are nothing near the size of Melville's Moby Dick, and Melville didn't write much about his singing whale, but in Greylock, the songs of the beluga whales are a driving entity for the character Alexei Georg, a classical pianist. Murder, music, mystery on Mt. Greylock is haunted suspense where music itself is a character.
Arrowhead is a place of inspiration. There is such a thing as 'power of place' in that Melville sought solitude for his imagination. Arrowhead provided that reach for Melville's true creative powers to soar. Many thanks to Peter Bergman of the Berkshire Historical Society for his invitation to bring my novel Greylock to Arrowhead. Arrowhead opens a new exhibit this June. This month marks the 61st anniversary of the 1956 film Moby Dick. The exhibit is movie memorabilia and props used in the film.
Greylock in the Berkshires!
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The Supernatural Power of Music
As part of my presentation of the story and characters in Greylock, I discussed the supernatural power of music. The account of violinist Giuseppe Tartini's sonata "The Devil's Trill" is a perfect example. Alexei's cousin, Josef, knows all about this sonata and explains what powers lie in music.
So, I asked my audience …
"Do You Believe in Music Phantoms?"
[2-minute video]
If you don't believe in music phantoms, this is the story that will test your resolve.
A Chanticleer Book Award Winner 2015
Best Book Award Finalist 2017 from American Book Fest
Here are some quick images of my spectacular weekend in the Berkshires at Arrowhead. We stayed at Hotel On North in Pittsfield. Five-star accommodations. Their restaurant, raw bar, and quality service made the weekend spectacular. Highly recommended if you are visiting the Berkshires.
Cozy lounge for a champagne toast.
Naturally, the gift shop at Arrowhead carries Greylock, as well as the Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, and, on the summit of Mt. Greylock at the Bascom Lodge. Local area libraries and bookshops too.
The Most Inspiring Mountain in Massachusetts
Mt. Greylock is inspiring for many writers, Thoreau and Hawthorne to name a few. J.K. Rowlings, author of the Harry Potter series, has claimed Mt. Greylock for her fiction too. Her new story (Fantastic Beasts) has Ilvermorny founded by an Irish witch who started a school for wizards at the top of Mount Greylock.
Here's something Herman Melville wrote about reading:
"…the books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable,
are those books we pick up by chance here and there …"
Greylock has over 60 reviews at AMAZON.COM
"Greylock is a smart, entertaining supernatural thriller. Think Stephen King meets Raymond Chandler with a score by Tchaikovsky. The author's passion for both the arts and the natural world shines through on every page. Briskly paced and yet lovingly detailed, this novel was a genuine pleasure to read." —David Corbett, best-selling and award-winning author of The Mercy of the Night.
U.S. Review of Books: "Cappa's latest is nothing less than a mind-boggling mystery … always keeping an elusive edge to her characters' personas—a plot replete with all the wonderful trappings of a romance-laced mystery with unexpected twists and turns."
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'Greylock': Thriller With Local Ties
For my Massachusetts fans, in case you missed this in the Berkshire Eagle. I just discovered this review this week. I'm planning a trip to Pittsfield, MA for a book reading and signing in June 2017. This review by Colin Harrington, The Bookstore in Lenox, Mass.
'Greylock': Thriller with local ties perfect for Halloween reading
By Colin Harrington, Special to The Eagle, October 2016.
Suspense, romance, classical music, and the supernatural all converge at the summit of Mount Greylock in Paula Cappa's thrilling new novel of murder and the occult, "Greylock."
In 2007, Alexei Georg as sonar technician aboard the USS Los Angeles submarine, pinged beluga whales in the White Sea off Russia and was transported in time and space through their whale song from half a world away. Returning to Boston and his life as a concert pianist, he receives a mysterious newspaper clipping about the same whales gathering and singing seven years earlier on the same date, Sept. 9.
It becomes the perfect, even destined theme for writing a symphony, a whale symphony. His career had already risen to notice when he performed his October sonata, a piece he claimed to have written, when in fact he had discovered it, albeit unsigned, in the sea chest of his Russian father, Aleksandr Georg.
The story had always been hazy but the music of the October sonata was sensational and he was frequently asked to perform it at major venues. Encouraged by his mentor, Dr. Leed Mensah of Wheatley College, Alexei becomes a candidate for a prestigious and lucrative Essex Institute Endowment award to write his whale symphony at the Greylock Music Hall at the top of Mount Greylock. Alexei manages to get back to the White Sea by Sept. 9, 2014, to commune again with his whales from aboard the Belyy Ved'ma with the shadowy but intuitive captain Gleb and the powerful shaman/translator Shemiossa. Alexei has his most intense telepathic encounter with the Beluga whales this time and is more determined than ever to write his symphony on Greylock. Trouble brews however, when his wife, Carole Ann, whom he has just left because she does not support his composing dreams, is murdered, and he becomes the prime suspect for her murder and three other related "slasher" murders. He soon realizes too that the October sonata is cursed and he finds that he cannot rid himself of the Russian river demon, Varlok, who demands a terrible payment for ownership of the music.
Pursued relentlessly by Boston Homicide's Detective Violet Rufft, Alexei is by turns supported and betrayed by his friends and his cousin, Josef, with whom he grew up in Plymouth, and with whom he has a bitter rivalry in the concert hall.
Strengthened by his love for TV meteorologist Lia Marrs, and wizened to the soul-shattering seductions of great music, Alexei confronts Varlok in mortal combat on Mount Greylock after a visitation from Shemiossa on the trails that lead him to musical triumph. When he believes he is freed of evil, Alexei composes the greatest music of his life, by his own talent.
This novel is terrific and a perfect book to curl up with on Halloween.
Colin Harrington is the Events Manager at The Bookstore* and Get Lit Wine Bar in Lenox, Mass.
Read the review at the Berkshire Eagle News, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Chanticleer Book Award Winner, 2015
"I've not seen anything like it since Hitchcock and duMaurier
gave us The Birds. Greylock is a stunning masterpiece."
Five Stars from Veteran Book Reviewer Don Sloan.
Print editions available at the following:
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U.S. Review of Books: GREYLOCK
Latest Review of Greylock by U.S. Review of Books …
"Cappa's plot is replete with all the wonderful trappings of a romance-laced mystery—unexpected twists and turns and plenty of red herrings. Greylock has the potential of being earmarked as another award winner."
"But when you bury guilt it becomes a scorpion. The manifestation will sting and keep stinging you until you are a mess of shreds. And the scorpion wins."
Alexei Georg finds an anonymous piano sonata hidden in his deceased father's sea chest. Claiming it as his original work, Alexei names it October Sonata, and it wins him a prestigious musical award. Unfortunately a dark force is connected to the mysterious composition. Alexei leaves for Russia to record beluga whale songs for a new symphony that he'll complete during his stay at Greylock Music Hall on Mount Greylock. Prior to his trip, Alexei leaves Carole Ann, his jealous and overbearing wife, for the beautiful Lia Marrs. While sailing the White Sea in search of whale pods, Alexei learns that Carole Ann has been murdered and he has been pegged as a prime suspect. Even though evidence is sketchy at best, Alexei has a bigger problem on his hands battling with the menacing force that constantly looks for ways to inhabit Alexei's body.
Cappa's latest is nothing less than a mind-boggling mystery. "The result of several years of research, writing, rewriting, and perseverance," The award-winning author's narrative is an interesting combination of classical works and whale facts that are tightly woven into a flurry of literature. While dropping mentions to Louisa Alcott's Little Women and Anaïs Nin's Delta of Venus, Cappa highlights quotes and titles (both books and movies) that reflect the works of the late great detective writer Raymond Chandler. Cappa includes a well-defined cast that is placed within the descriptive background of Massachusetts and the Russian White Sea. Cappa strongest writing component is in the way she utilizes dialogue, always keeping an elusive edge to her characters' personas. Cappa's plot is replete with all the wonderful trappings of a romance-laced mystery—unexpected twists and turns and plenty of red herrings. Greylock has the potential of being earmarked as another award winner.
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MediaNews Group, the largest newspaper publisher in the Bay Area, lost $1 million in the most recent quarter, down from $13.3 million in next income during the same period last year, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Costs rose faster than revenue, though revenue did increase by 13.3 percent to $334.7 million due largely to the papers the chain acquired last year in the Bay Area. Excluding the papers MediaNews acquired last year, advertising revenue fell 9.3 percent in the quarter, mostly due to dropping volume from retail, national and classified advertisers, the company said. [Last year's third-quarter report]
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Suicide-Prevention Specialists Urge Parents To Safely Store Guns, Ammo
Pleas Come Amid Spike in Teen Suicides Around The U.S.
Mike Sherry
msherry@kcpt.org
Zero Reasons Why, a community mobilization campaign to prevent teen suicide, held a rally at the J.C. Nichols fountain this weekend. (Sandy Woodson | Flatland)
Published October 1st, 2019 at 6:00 AM
The teen was beautiful and fun-loving, a cheerleader, a peacemaker, and a girl who kept everyone in stitches.
Her personality didn't change even after face-altering surgery prompted jeering at school. Life turned darker when a female friend was shot and killed.
The week after the funeral, 13-year-old Ashley Craddock, took her own life.
She used her father's unsecured gun.
To this day, family members don't know if it was the ridicule, the grief, or a combination of the two that prompted the suicide.
Ashley Craddock at age 10. (Courtesy | Lateshia Woodley)
But her cousin, Lateshia Woodley, does know one thing: "It is something you can never get over. That pain stays with you for a lifetime."
As executive director of student support services at Kansas City Public Schools, Woodley does not want any other family to endure that trauma.
The district is training students and staff to spot warning signs of mental illness, and it has increased the number of therapists (though Woodley hopes grants will help hire more).
A couple statistics illustrate the timeliness of Woodley's efforts:
With more than 6,200 self-inflicted deaths among 15- to 24-year-olds in the United States in 2017, the suicide rate among that population has reached a historically high level.
Household gun ownership correlates with youth suicide rates, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine reported in March, after analyzing state-level data from 2005 to 2015.
To many observers, the issue is crystal clear: unsecured guns in households with potentially impetuous teens is a recipe for disaster. In this line of thinking, it stands to reason that permissive gun laws contribute to the problem of teen suicide.
The San Francisco-based Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence flunks both Missouri and Kansas when it comes to gun laws. Among other things, the nonprofit says the two states should institute universal background checks for firearms purchases and repeal their "dangerous permitless carry laws."
The National Rifle Association (NRA) fiercely rejects suggestions that firearms themselves are responsible for gun violence, including youth suicides. An NRA spokeswoman last year criticized a recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics that "the safest home for a kid is one without guns."
In an online video commentary, the NRA's Dana Loesch said a physician who was quoted supporting the academy's recommendation seemed to be "trying to incite fear into the hearts of every family across America."
Yet Kansas City-area medical professionals are equally as adamant about the inextricable link between guns and teen suicide.
"To me it is really about access and how it is so closely linked to death," said Dr. Shayla Sullivant, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Children's Mercy Hospital.
One oft-cited statistic, derived from U.S. violent death data, is that 82% of firearm suicides among children ages 17 and younger involve a gun belonging to a family member. By one estimate, fewer than half (39%) of U.S. households with children store their guns unloaded and locked with ammunition stored separately.
The dangerousness of that data is compounded by the fact that guns are a highly lethal way to attempt suicide, and by research showing that many people attempt to take their own lives within 10 minutes of first contemplating the act.
The latter point is especially worrisome given the impetuousness of adolescents and young adults, where a romantic breakup or problem at school can seem like the end of the world.
"Crises can really kill you, especially when you are a teen," Bill Geis said during a teen suicide forum filmed last week at Kansas City PBS. Geis is a psychiatry professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Gender and race play a role in firearm suicides among children. Boys are much more likely than girls to take their own lives with a gun, while white and American Indian children are far more apt to shoot themselves than their black or Hispanic peers.
That racial disparity could explain why white suburban youth seem to mobilize against teen suicide more than students of color in the urban core, where the spotlight focuses largely on homicides among young black males. One of the most prominent teen-suicide prevention efforts in the area is the Zero Reasons Why campaign, which is centered in suburban Johnson County.
Complex forces within the black community help explain the racial disparity, according to Woodley, the KCPS administrator, and David Smith, the spokesman for the Shawnee Mission School District. Both of them are black.
Woodley said the stigma of mental illness remains so strong within the black community that a pastor friend only told the truth about his daughter's suicide after he realized his cover story about complications from lupus might unduly worry Woodley. Lupus runs in her family.
Stories like that make Woodley think suicide is underreported in the black community.
Smith has a different take.
Black people in this country are conditioned to expect a difficult life, he said, so struggles are not as likely to push them over the edge. A white teen might react differently, Smith said, if the message to them has been they are supposed to succeed with ease.
In addition to limiting the means by which kids can take their own lives, suicide prevention specialsts say that parents must not shy away from frank and direct conversations with their children. Suicide should not be a taboo subject.
There is also evidence that physicians can effectively counsel patients on safe storage of firearms and ammunition.
For Woodley and her family, Ashley's death was like a total eclipse snuffing out a ray of sunshine.
The girl's parents divorced after Ashley's dad dulled the pain with alcohol. And even though it has been nearly a decade and a half, the trauma continues to haunt Ashley's siblings and Woodley's son.
The suicide, Woodley said, has left "a gaping hole in the family."
Ashley Craddock's grave. (Courtesy | Lateshia Woodley)
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Seven in the morning. I stumble out of bed. Tubs and tubes litter the living room and dining table. I glance at the airlock. No popping or gurgling. No heady scents of bread and fruit. Dead yeasts have sat at the bottom of a fermenter caked in oxyclean for two days.
I pop the lid, hesitant to see what bacterial outbreak has occurred. Yet, behold!
Life! HA! HA! Take that trying to do something! Something did it all on its own!
A worry persists however. Not starting the yeasts immediately allows other bacteria to join in. They can add off flavors. I have no idea what nasties might be breeding in there. To avoid wasting time with a bad batch, I will taste the must later.
For now, let the yeast cells work their slightly gross-looking magic. In addition to making alcohol out of sugar, the yeasts draw out color, tannins and further flavors from the skins. Although it looks like a liver-after-auspices, I leave in the sack of skins. This leaches out more, well, blueberryness.
To encourage my late-bloomers, I hop over to my local zymurgist (of course I have one). Back home, my yeast fine dine on Fermax Yeast Nutrient. Although grapes and blueberries have similar nutrients, I doubt my recent oxyclean debacle has left much food for the yeast feast.
Unlike Trimalcio's never-ending dinner, my yeasts eat quickly. Not enough distracting entertainments, orgies or sugars probably. I stir the must to re-oxygenate them. Without oxygen, yeasts will go to sleep.
More curious than brave, I taste the must. It is surprisingly fine. The yeasts and nutrient are there, but blueberry notes dominate. The body is medium, tannins low, acidity medium, CO2 fizz persists and sweetness still hangs around.
So I check the hydrometer in the (far more science-tastic than a wine bottle) test tube. We have crept to 1.020 S.G. Once it gets to 1.000 the yeasts will starve and sink to their grave. I check the forcast. A cold front is moving in for the night. This worries me. If the temperature drops near 59 degrees Fahrenheit, the yeast will slow down or die.
We have no thermostat with central heating. So I treat my patient with a humidifier and blanket. Welcome back yeasties!
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MCA NashvilleJosh Turner is rescheduling the remainder of his September dates after one person was killed and seven more were injured when a tour bus carrying his crew crashed in Shandon, California late Wednesday night. "Josh Turner and
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In 2020, you'll get to see Luke Combs — on the What You See Is What You Get Tour
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Friday could be a sobering day for Russian investors.
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While Fitch's move to BBB- is already mostly priced in by markets, the main risk ahead is related to Russia's getting junked, or cut below investment grade, which would happen if another agency cuts the country's rating as well.


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MANIFEST DESTINY AND JAMES K POLK
*The Republic of Texas, still an independent nation, was in danger from Mexico, who did not fully recognise her independence, signed under duress at San Jacinto. Texas turned to Britain and France for aid, testing the Monroe Doctrine at a time the US could not afford to do so. Britain in particular wanted an independent Texas to thwart American expansion to the Southwest, as a market for British goods, and as a source of cotton. The French had their own interests in the region. By 1840, Texas had concluded treaties with France, the Netherlands, and Belgium.
*Many Americans (and many Texans) wanted Texas to become part of the Union.
*In the election of 1844, the Whigs opposed the annexation of Texas on the grounds that it might start a war with Mexico and because of the dispute over slavery. According to the Missouri Compromise, Texas, located south of the 36o30' line, would be a slave state, or perhaps more than one.
*In addition to Texas, many Americans had their eyes upon the Oregon Territory. Spain had given up her claims to the region in 1819 with the Florida Treaty, and Russia had done the same in 1825. The United States and Great Britain (through the Hudson's Bay Company, which still exists as Canada's oldest corporation) both still retained claims to the land, the US through Lewis and Clark, Robert Grey, and John Jacob Astor, and the British through Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cooke, and Captain George Vancouver, and they had agreed to share it jointly in 1818.
*Starting in 1818, American missionaries began to settle in the Oregon Country. Word got back to the east of the rich soil in the Pacific Northwest, especially in the fertile Willamette Valley, and pioneers began to move into the area, especially in the 1840s. By 1846, over 5,000 Americans had moved into the Willamette Valley along the dangerous Oregon Trail (which supposedly averaged about 17 deaths per mile). The British could only claim about 700 subjects north of the Columbia River. With such disparity of numbers, many Americans felt they ought to take control of some or all of the Oregon Country outright. The British were willing to reach a settlement, the dispute was simply over how much land each side would receive in the end. Some Americans would later adopt the slogan of '54o40' or Fight!' in reference to the northernmost border of the Oregon Country, which some Americans wanted to seize from Great Britain.
*The great issue of the election of 1844 was Manifest Destiny—the idea that God had obviously ordained that the American people spread from sea to shining sea, starting by annexing Texas or Oregon or both.
*The Whigs opposed annexation of anything, for several reasons. The possibility of war was very real if either Texas or Oregon was annexed. The money spent subduing and settling the new territory would be money that would be better spent on internal improvements or possibly returned to the states. New western territories would serve to further spread and dilute the American population, which Clay's followers hoped to unite into one nation through the improvements of the American System. Finally, any expansion would further the sectional disputes highlighted by the Missouri Compromise—Northerners would be offended at the annexation of Texas below the 36o30' line, and Southerners would be concerned by the acquisition of Oregon.
*The Democrats had also expected to take annexation out of the election as a political issue, as most national politicians saw it for the divisive issue that it was. The Democratic leadership intended to nominate Martin van Buren again. Van Buren by this point was a Free-Soil man, opposed to the expansion of slavery, and he would not support the annexation of Texas on moral grounds or the annexation of Oregon for political reasons.
*Although van Buren had a great deal of support in the nominating convention, it was not enough to secure the nomination, and on succeeding ballots it declined each time as more and more competitors arose. Eventually van Buren's anti-Texas attitudes became well known, which sealed his fate. He was opposed by, among others, Lewis Cass, a brigadier general in the War of 1812, former governor of Michigan (and a Mason), James Buchanan, a career politician and pro-Southern Pennsylvanian (and a future President and a Mason), John C Calhoun of South Carolina, a former Vice-President (but not a Mason), and James K Polk, former Governor of Tennessee, Speaker of the House of Representatives (and a Mason).
*Ultimately Polk was chosen, in part because, although very well known in Tennessee, he, like Harrison four years before, had few enemies on the national level. Because he was a relative unknown and something of a surprise nomination, Polk was called a 'dark horse' candidate, a term that still exists.
*Polk was also a friend and neighbour of Andrew Jackson, still alive and offering direction to the Democratic Party, and so Polk was presented as 'Young Hickory,' the natural successor to Jackson.
*The Whigs, on the other hand, jeered at this dark horse, and asked 'Who is James K Polk?'
*Polk ran on an expansionist campaign, calling for the reannexation of Texas and the reoccupation of Orgegon, while the Whigs said that the choices were 'Polk, Slavery, and Texas' or 'Clay, Liberty, and Union.'
*Polk won with 170 electoral votes to 105, but it was a close election in the popular vote; New York was lost to Clay when about 16,000 voters chose to vote for the strongly anti-slavery Liberty Party, ironically splitting the vote of the anti-Texas party and contributing significantly to its defeat. Had Clay had even 5,000 of their votes, he would have won New York, the most populous state, and thus the nation.
*Tyler, who had wanted an excuse to annex Texas, announced that the victory of Polk was a mandate from the people to do so, and he convinced Congress to do so through a join resolution during the last days of his presidency in 1845. He retired to Virginia, a political outcaste who renamed his plantation 'Sherwood Forest.' He would later vote for secession from the Union in 1861, and his plantation would be burned by the US Army.
*Polk was a short, thin man, supposedly a great orator and known as the 'Napoleon of the stump,' a successful politician and loyal party man in Tennessee, but in private not very interesting. He was a serious man who took his job seriously and worked himself to death. During his campaign and presidency, he created and pursued a four-point plan, and promised to retire and not seek a second term if he accomplished it all. He said 'there are four great measures which are to be the measures of my administration one, a reduction of the tariff; another the independent treasury; a third, the settlement of the Oregon boundary question; and lastly, the acquisition of California.'
1. A revenue tariff: Robert J. Walker, Polk's Secretary of the Treasury, lowered the tariff from 32% to 25%. New Englanders and the Middle States opposed it but could not stop it, and were surprised to see that it was successful, thanks in large part to a concomitant economic boom period.
2. An independent treasury: This revived van Buren's old plan for treasuries and subtreasuries that were essentially strongboxes for the government's gold, and had no business affiliations or direct influence on the economy.
3. Settle the Oregon dispute: With all of Texas to digest, the clamour of '54o40' or Fight!' died away, although some Northerners asked why the South got all of Texas while the North only got as much of Oregon as lay south of an extension of the old US-Canadian border, the 49th parallel, over 5 degrees short of what some wanted. However, most were satisfied to have gotten so much, including land occupied by British forts, without a war.
4. Acquire California: Like Texas, California had seen an influx of American immigrants, and some of them wanted to rejoin the US, and many Americans, including Polk, wanted to help them.
*Although the Oregon dispute was settled without a war, the annexation of Texas and the desire for California would not be.
*Play the James K Polk song.
*Introduce Northwest Territory Settlement Game. Although, as the class will recognise, it is based on the Land Ordinance of 1785, the same, or similar, Township and Range systems were used throughout the west in its settlement and, of course, although we speak of places as exotic as Oregon, we ought not forget that the Wisconsin Territory, part of the Old Northwest, would not become a state until 1848, so even the Land Ordinance itself is still in effect.


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China Mobile and Huawei to launch 5G network in Shanghai station
Telecommunications equipment supplier Huawei has partnered with China Mobile's Shanghai unit to launch the 5G Digital Indoor System in the city's Hongqiao Railway Station.
The digital indoor system, expected to be deployed by the end of the year, will offer fast 5G network services to all passengers.
The 5G network involves high-bandwidth, low-latency and massive connections. However, it utilises high-frequencies where signalling becomes weaker while penetrating buildings, which poses a challenge when offering next-generation connectivity in indoor locations with a large number of users.
Accordingly, China Mobile Shanghai will install Huawei's 5G digital indoor system (DIS), a commercially available solution offering 5G indoor coverage.
The 5G DIS will provide network coverage across the Hongqiao station, enabling thousands of people to use the network simultaneously for the internet or for making phone calls.
Huawei Wireless Solution CMO Peter Zhou said: "The 5G DIS was built using Huawei chips, integrated designs and high-performance antennas.
"It leads the industry in terms of performance, specification and technologies."
During the launch event, the 5G DIS offered a 1.2Gbps peak rate, which will enable a passenger using the system to download a 2GB high-definition film in less than 20 seconds.
Additionally, it will offer high-speed connectivity, 4K HD video calling and multi-way ultra-HD video uploading services while they are at the station.
One of Asia's biggest traffic hubs, Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station manages more than 60 million passengers annually.
Zhou added: "5G will also provide a big boost to Cloud services. The railway stations of the future may be more intelligent than we can possibly imagine."
RDIF and Siemens sign deal for $4.5bn high-speed rail link in Russia
Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has signed an agreement with Germany's Siemens Mobility to develop the RUR300bn ($4.5bn) Ural High-Speed Rail project.
The project involves constructing a 220km-long double-track high-speed rail link connecting the cities of Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg in Russia.
It also includes building four railway stations (Balandino and Koltsovo airports, Snezhinsk and Sysert), ten intermediate stations and station complexes, as well as a high-speed rolling stock depot.
Building four traction substations and a control building for Ural High-Speed Rail are also part of the overall project works.
RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev said: "The project to build a high-speed railway linking Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk, each with a population of more than one million, is of strategic importance not only for these regions but also for the whole country.
"It will help create the third largest urban area in Russia with a population of four million people."
Construction for the project is scheduled to begin in 2021, with commissioning expected in 2025. Once operational, trains will run on the high-speed line at a speed of 300km/h.
As a step to develop the rail link, a special purpose vehicle called Economic Partnership Ural High-Speed Rail (EP UHSR) was established in March 2016.
The EP UHSR is responsible for the preparation of the project, including procuring necessary funds and devising a strategy for implementation.
It currently comprises six participants, comprising Chelyabinsk region, Development Corporation of Middle Ural, RWM Capital Investment Group, Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works, and Russian Copper Company.
India's first semi-high speed train begins commercial operations
India has started commercial operations of its first semi high-speed train called 'Train 18'.
The inaugural run of the train, rechristened as Vande Bharat Express, was flagged off by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the New Delhi Railway Station.
Capable of running at a maximum speed of 160km/h, the semi high-speed train will operate on the New Delhi-Kanpur-Allahabad-Varanasi route.
It will cover the full distance between New Delhi and Varanasi in eight hours and run five days a week.
Equipped with 16 air-conditioned coaches, the Vande Bharat Express has a total seating capacity of 1,128 passengers.
All coaches feature comfortable seating, automatic doors, GPS based audio-visual passenger information system, dual mode lighting and onboard hotspot Wi-Fi services.
Additionally, they have a pantry car to serve meals to the passengers.
The train also has a regenerative braking system, which can save 30% of electrical energy, and insulation protection to reduce heat and noise levels to provide additional passenger comfort.
The Vande Bharat Express has been developed at the Integral Coach Factory (ICF), a railway production unit in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The unit was designed and built over a span of 18 months.
During the inauguration, Prime Minister Modi was quoted by the news agency PTI as saying: "I am grateful to designers and engineers behind the Vande Bharat Express, which will take its first trip from Delhi to Varanasi today.
"With our sincerity and hard work in the last four-and-half years, we have tried to improve railways."
California plans to scale back $77.3bn high-speed rail project
The US state of California is set to significantly reduce the scope of its $77.3bn high-speed rail project due to spiralling costs, delays and lack of transparency.
The scale back plans were announced by California Governor Gavin Newsom in his first State of the State Address.
According to the revised plan, the under-construction 119-mile (191km) rail link between Merced and Bakersfield within the state's Central Valley region will be completed, while the larger project connecting San Francisco with Los Angeles (LA) will be dropped.
Governor Newsom said: "The project, as currently planned, would cost too much and take too long. There's been too little oversight and not enough transparency.
"Right now, there simply isn't a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to LA. I wish there were.
"However, we do have the capacity to complete a high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield."
Initially, California planned to construct a 520-mile (826.8km) high-speed rail system between Los Angeles and San Francisco in a step to mitigate traffic congestion.
Commercial operations were due to begin by 2033 with trains travelling at a speed of 354kph, reported Reuters. In 2008, the California voters approved around $10bn in bond proceeds to build the project. It was followed by $3.5bn of funding from the federal government in 2010.
Last year, the state announced that project costs have increased to more than $77bn and may again soar to up to $98.1bn. According to the latest plan, building the Merced-Bakersfield section is expected to cost $10.6bn.
BNSF to invest $3.57bn on railway networks this year
US-based freight railroad operator BNSF Railway Company is set to invest $3.57bn on railway networks this year.
The latest plan includes a maintenance budget of nearly $2.47bn, which will be used to maintain the company's core network and associated assets.
The maintenance projects to be carried out this year include replacement and upgrading rail and track infrastructures such as ballast and rail ties. Overall, it will include around 12,000 miles of track surfacing and/or undercutting work, as well as replacing 535 miles of rail and nearly 2.3 million rail ties.
A portion of the budget will also be used to refurbish its rolling stock.
Additionally, around $760m has been allocated for expansion and efficiency projects. Most of BASF's planned expansion projects are on the Northern and Southern Transcon routes.
The expansion projects include connecting Southern California with Chicago and the Pacific Northwest to Upper Midwest. The remaining $340m of this year's investment will be used to procure freight cars, locomotives and other rail equipment.
BASF president and CEO Carl Ice said: "Our rail network is in excellent shape and its condition is a direct result of our continued capital investments.
"We work tirelessly to provide the level of service our customers expect and to position ourselves well for future growth opportunities."
Since 2000, BASF has invested around $65bn in its network. Last year, the company announced an investment programme of $3.3bn. As one of the largest freight transportation companies in North America, BNSF operates around 32,500 route miles across 28 US states. It also operates in three Canadian provinces.
Report states that Turin-Lyon high-speed rail will not be profitable
A report commissioned by the Italian Government has stated that the planned Turin-Lyon high-speed rail will not be profitable and will have a 'strongly negative' financial return.
The 270km route is scheduled to connect the Italian city of Turin with Lyon in France, linking the high-speed rail networks of the two countries. The core section of the project includes construction of a tunnel through the Alps mountain range between Susa valley in Italy and Maurienne in France.
According to the report, the project would result in a loss of around €7bn by 2059, taking into account overalls costs and the estimated return.
The report added that the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail will procure €1.3bn through passenger traffic. However, it will not be enough to recover the costs.
The project has been a major cause of contention between the two parties of the ruling coalition in Italy. The League party has been a proponent of the rail link, while its partner 5-Star Movement wants the project to be scrapped.
Scheduled to be completed in 2025, the line is expected to reduce travel time between Milan and Paris from around seven hours to nearly four hours.
Furthermore, the proponents of the project advocate that the high-speed rail line will help in removing millions of trucks from the road, reducing greenhouse gas emissions significantly.
The European Union, which has invested in the project, said that it may ask for reimbursement if the project is suspended, reported AFP.
Siemens secures Singapore metro lines electrification contract
Siemens Mobility has secured a nearly €70m contract to carry out electrification works of the Circle Line Stage 6 and North East Line extension (NELe) in Singapore.
Commissioned by Land Transport Authority (LTA) in Singapore, the contract includes the delivery of a direct and alternating current rail electrification system and overhead power lines for the NELe.
Siemens Mobility CEO Michael Peter said: "The extension of the Circle Line and the North East Line will expand the mobility options for millions of commuters in Singapore.
"With the electrification of the two lines, we will be making an important contribution toward decisively improving the availability of public transport in the city-state."
The metro lines will be upgraded to the Siemens Catenary System Standard Rigid (Sicat SR) aluminium overhead busbar system. The Sicat SR system has a lower installation height and a low voltage drop compared to traditional overhead power lines.
Additionally, it has a high current-carrying capacity, short-circuit resistance and reduced contact wire wear.
In March 2018, Siemens was contracted to deliver the signalling system for the Downtown Line 3 extension in Singapore. It also received the order to supply a Rail Enterprise Asset Management System in September 2018.
Earlier this month, Siemens received a contract to supply 14 S70 light-rail vehicles to Houston's Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (Metro) in the US.
These vehicles will be manufactured at Siemens' Sacramento facility in California and will strengthen Metro's S70 fleet to 51 vehicles.
UK rail passengers call for transparency on how trains are powered
A study has found that 43% of frequent train passengers in the UK prefer to know how each train is being powered so that they can make a more environmentally-conscious decision.
This study was undertaken by pan-European train comparison and booking platform Loco2 on 5 November in anticipation of the hydrogen trains coming to the UK in the early 2020s.
Loco2 asked 1,025 regular train passengers living in the UK if they would like to know how trains are powered.
A petition has been created urging the Department for Transport and the Rail Delivery Group to make it mandatory for all rail operators to be transparent about what fuel powers their trains.
This transparency will enable consumers to have the information they require to select the train they prefer to travel on in the interest of the environment.
The Department for Transport's Rail Review Team has received the request for consideration before the company releases its white paper next Autumn.
Commenting on the campaign, Loco2 executive Cristina Astorri said: "We know that rail operators have the fuel data we are asking for readily available, but it's not in their interest to share it, especially those who aren't prioritising the planet over making profit.
"The only barrier to train operators sharing this information some might say is that hybrid trains will run part of the journey using one power source and will switch to another, but this shouldn't make any real difference because they know when the power source switches. Typically, an electric train emits 20-35% less carbon emissions than a diesel train, it's a massive difference. "
This campaign is not only expected to make rail operators share the data, but will enable consumers to vote with their feet by choosing to take cleaner energy trains over the older, polluting ones.
Astorri added: "If this shift in consumer behaviour is great enough, train operators will be forced to improve the way they power their trains in order to appeal to existing and new customers."
Environmental charity Friends of the Earth chief executive Craig Bennett said: "A shift from air to rail is important to fight climate change, but more can be done to make train travel sustainable. It means making trains zero emissions and decarbonising the network.
"Giving people more information about the journeys they take means they can make greener choices about their travel too. This campaign is forward-thinking in calling for change before the new hydrogen trains, which could have a role to play alongside electrification, if fossil fuels aren't used for production, are introduced into the UK."
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Agile has become the norm in project management. All PPM frameworks will have a degree of Agility, from tolerating it for the software development teams to widely adopting Agile practices at the project and sometimes at the enterprise level.
However, the transition to Agile takes time and it is a significant cultural change. Skeptics needs to be convinced that Agile will deliver the benefits. Theory and practice shows that not all projects will benefit from an Agile approach. Measuring and benchmarking the impact of Agile on project delivery will support the "inspect and adapt" concepts embraced by Agile teams. Apart from being a justification for Agile transition it is also a good way to identify what works and what doesn't fullfilling the Agile Manifesto goal of "uncovering better ways of developing products by doing it and helping others do it".
This presentation proposes a new way of using the "traditional" project benchmarking approach adapting it to the specifics of an Agile project team.


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Listen free to Howard Stern's Birthday Bash
Buddy Iahn | January 22, 2014 | Rock
SiriusXM has announced that Howard Stern's Birthday Bash, featuring musical performances by Jon Bon Jovi, John Fogerty and Steven Tyler, will be broadcast free to the entire world on January 31st.
The live broadcast will be streamed online for free at siriusxm.com with a pre-show starting at 4 pm ET on Friday, January 31st. Jimmy Kimmel hosts the main event which will start at 6 pm ET live from New York's Hammerstein Ballroom.
"I am honored by the number of performers who want to join me on stage, and the number of fans who want to get in," Howard said. "Now, thanks to SiriusXM, I can give the world access to this event for free through this special internet audio stream in addition to my fans listening on their satellite radios."
The free stream will be available on compatible mobile devices as well as online through simple one-click listening and you won't have to download an app or enter credentials. A free encore presentation will air Monday, February 3rd at 6 am ET through the free stream for those who can't listen to the live broadcast.
Other confirmed guests include Louis C.K., David Letterman and Sarah Silverman with more expected to be revealed on The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM Howard 100 and Howard 101 throughout the next week.
SiriusXM and Stern are also giving one lucky fan and a guest a chance to win "The King Of All Prizes" which includes roundtrip airfare, two nights in a hotel and two tickets to the bash. The winner will also walk the red carpet along with the hottest stars and sit next to a Wack Packer and enjoy incredible musical performances. The winner will even get their picture taken with Stern's sidekick, Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate, and receive a VIP gift bag.
The contest is only open to active SiriusXM subscribers since October 28, 2013 who are a legal resident of the 48 contiguous United States or the District of Columbia, or a legal resident of Alaska or Hawaii who has a standalone SiriusXM Internet Radio subscription, or a legal resident of Puerto Rico who has a Sirius Satellite radio subscription. Entries will be accepted until January 23rd at noon ET.
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James Baldwin did not allow us to take the easy route of mesmerizing guilt or undemanding fear.
We have lost a great lover.
That was clear at the beginning of December when the first telephone call reached me, bearing the stunning news of James Baldwin's death. It is even more apparent now, as the more measured rhythms of monthly journalism deadlines move us beyond the initial shock and sadness, inviting us to extend, and thereby deepen, our mourning and our remembering. Indeed, now it is possible to carry Jimmy's memories into all the ambivalent national celebrations of his friend, Martin King, as well as to let his powerful sense of the humanizing uses of tragedy illuminate the meaning of what we call Black History Month, observed each February.
Such a conjunction of recollection and hope is more than accidental, for Baldwin cared deeply about King and understood his "much-loved and menaced" younger brother far better than most of us. In the same way, it is surely the case that no one in our generation felt more deeply or expressed more eloquently all the harshened beauty and the creative significance of the African-American pilgrimage on this soil. And now Jimmy continues his own journey -- relieved, I trust, of the continuing anguish which inhabited his fragile but resilient being here on earth.
I shall miss him. Having begun where he began, in Harlem (his seven-year start on me and a variety of different life-choices did not allow us to meet consciously until the Southern freedom movement brought us together -- but I know our earlier steps must have met somewhere on the beleaguered streets of our hometown), having crossed paths and shared hopes and fears together in a variety of other times and places, I am tempted to feel a special, personal loss.
But neither Jimmy's pain nor his love could ever be monopolized. He quite literally belonged to us all whether we wanted him or not. And that was his great gift, his awesome, sometimes terrifying, offering -- terrifying, partly because he saw and spoke and wrote so much that we recognized as truth, partly because he challenged all of us to link arms and lives and walk through the purifying fires with him.


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BT Says Most Telephone Services Are Restored
BT says it's managed to restore the vast majority of telephone and broadband services to customers affected by a flood at it's Paddington exchange.
It says work will continue this evening to reconnect the remainder of subscribers.
It says anyone who needs to make an emergency call should use their mobile phone, or alternatively by using a friend or neighbour's landline.


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Take a look at our Paper Sphere Ornament instructions with pictures and how-to-make steps.


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Wow, that's some good science there, Phil! Makes it rather difficult in reality to say the debate is over when you do not have your evidence, eh?
No one needs to worry about the "hockey stick" model, because it has already been destroyed. Sonicfrog highlights this part of the BBC interview, and has the real graph of the temperatures all the way back into the Global Climate Optimum (which I swiped and is at the bottom). Quite an eye opener, except for the True Believers, who will religiously stick to the approved viewpoint, but still tell us they believe in open science (sic).
That's going to leave a major mark, like a lover handing their significant other an I-hate-you-and-want-a-divorce-since-I-also-love-your-best-friend Valentine's Day card today.
Gee, you think? I'm not sure about you, but, I find this a pretty damning admission regarding the entire climate alarmism house of cards.
So, he is telling us that he really doesn't know that much about how climate works, and is simply inferring a man caused relationship because that is what he wants it to be.
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Now, now, Teach. Just because he hasn't got some of the key data DOESN'T mean the theory is unsound. In fact, it's sound as ever! And don't we all lose things from time to time? These people are only human, after all.
And just because there's no data to back up the theory, doesn't mean that it's fraudulent. In fact, if hadn't lost the data like a silly head, I could prove that Bill Gates owes me 100 billion dollars. Thus I will be suing him soon. I'm sure the judges won't let a silly thing like missing documentation affect the obvious outcome.
But you really shouldn't give too much credence to a British newspaper. After all, they've been so horribly biased against AGW for so long in that country. And this laughable rag didn't even include a key piece of information in their article.
Phil was interviewed and made his statement on a Thursday, which any school kid can tell you is Opposite Day. So by saying that there hasn't been any significant warming in the last fifteen years CONFIRMS the fact that there has been significant warming in the past fifteen years.
And now that I'm done channeling Reassic, I leave you with SONG!
But I still spent all that cash I took!
What a miserable world this will be!
That song could be a real HIT!!!
I'm working on a funny photoshop about this, hopefully done tonight or tomorrow.
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Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia, Military ranks of the United States Army, Military insignia, United States Army officers
United States Army officer rank insignia
United States Army officer rank insignia in use today.
US DoD Pay Grade
Title Second Lieutenant First Lieutenant Captain Major Lieutenant Colonel Colonel Brigadier General Major General Lieutenant General General
Abbreviation 2LT 1LT CPT MAJ LTC COL BG MG LTG GEN
NATO Code OF-1 OF-2 OF-3 OF-4 OF-5 OF-6 OF-7 OF-8 OF-9
2 General of the Army / General of the Armies
The structure of U.S. ranks has its roots in British military traditions. At the start of the American Revolutionary War, uniforms, let alone insignia, were barely affordable and recognition of ranks in the field was problematic. To solve this, General George Washington wrote: "As the Continental Army has unfortunately no uniforms, and consequently many inconveniences must arise from not being able to distinguish the commissioned officers from the privates, it is desired that some badge of distinction be immediately provided; for instance that the field officers may have red or pink colored cockades in their hats, the captains yellow or buff, and the subalterns green." From 1780, regulations prescribed two stars for major generals and one star for brigadier generals, worn on epaulettes. The period of 1821 to 1832 witnessed a brief period of using chevrons to identify officer grades, a practice that is still observed at West Point for cadet officers.
Colonels received their eagle in 1832, and four years later lieutenant colonels were using oak leaves and captains and first lieutenants their respective double and single bars. Both majors and second lieutenants had no specific insignia. A major would have been recognizable as he would have worn the more elaborate epaulette fringes of a senior field officer but without insignia. The color of insignia was gold on silver epaulettes in the infantry and vice versa in the other branches until 1851 when insignia became universally silver on gold for senior officers and gold for the bars of captains and first lieutenants. The reason for the choice of silver eagles over gold ones is thought to be one of economy; there were more cavalry and artillery colonels than infantry so it was cheaper to replace the numerically fewer gold ones.
From 1872 the majors received oak leaves in gold to distinguish them from the silver of lieutenant colonels and the bars of both captains and lieutenants became silver. In a similar fashion, 1917 saw the introduction of a single gold bar for second lieutenants. These changes created the curious situation (in terms of heraldic tradition) of silver outranking gold. One after-the-fact explanation suggested by some NCOs is that the more-malleable gold suggests that the bearer is being "molded" for his or her responsibilities—as a field officer (second lieutenant) or staff officer (major). However, this explanation may be more clever than correct, for while the insignia for second lieutenant and major are gold colored they are actually made of brass (except that the gold bars used to "pin on" a Second Lieutenant at the US Military Academy are, by tradition, 14 karat gold), and brass is a base metal while silver is a precious metal. The rank order thus does not actually conflict with heraldic tradition.
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Title General of the Army1 General of the Army2 General of the Armies3 General of the Army4
1 Worn by Grant (1866 to 1872).
2 Worn by Sherman (1872 to 1888) and Sheridan (1888).
3 Insignia chosen by General of the Armies John J. Pershing (authorized 1919 to 1948) but never actually worn.
4 Worn by Marshall (1944-1959), MacArthur (1944-1964), Eisenhower (1944-1969), Arnold (1944-1950), and Bradley (1950-1981).
Main articles: General of the Army (United States) and General of the Armies
While not currently in use today, special insignia were authorized by Congress for ten General officers who were promoted to the highest ranks in the United States Army: General of the Army, designed as a "five star" rank, and General of the Armies, considered to be the equivalent of a "six star" rank. Eight Generals were promoted to the rank and title General of the Army (Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry H. Arnold, and Omar Bradley), while two Generals were promoted to the higher rank and title of General of the Armies (George Washington and John J. Pershing).
Congress created the rank of General of the Armies specifically for Washington, although while living he never officially accepted the honor. Pershing received the rank in 1919 and was allowed to choose his own insignia; he chose to use four gold stars, but never actually wore the rank on his uniform. While a conjectural design for the rank of General of the Armies was proposed using six silver stars when the promotion of Douglas MacArthur to the rank was considered in 1956, no design was ever officially authorized. In 1976, Congressman Mario Biaggi of New York submitted a House Resolution granting Washington the promotion. The promotion was effective on July 4, 1976, the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence. Although Pershing accepted the rank in 1919 and technically had a date of rank that preceded Washington's, the new law specified that no other officer of the United States Army should ever outrank Washington. Hence, effective date of rank non-withstanding, Washington was permanently made superior to all other officers of the United States Army, past, present, or future.
While no living officer holds either of these ranks today, the General of the Army title and five star insignia designed in 1944 is still authorized for use in war time. Congress may promote Generals to this rank for successful wartime campaigns, or to give the officer parity in rank to foreign counterparts in joint coalitions, specifically with respect to Field Marshals.
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The controversial topic of the introduction of on-street parking charges in Westport is set to a head on Monday.
When a proposal by council officials to change the parking bye-laws in Westport will be made at a special meeting of the West Mayo Municipal District.
The meeting takes place in Claremorris as it will precede the monthly meeting of Mayo County Council which will be hosted in the south Mayo town - to makr the final meeting under the tenure of Cllr Richard Finn as Cathaoirleach of the local authority.
The council published four different sets of new bye-laws for Westport on public display on April 9, with a closing date of Friday, May 25, for submissions from the public and interested bodies.
In a report circulated to members ahead of the meeting, Padraic Walsh head of the West Mayo Municipal District reported that there were 76 public submissions received.
The vast majority negative towards the proposals, with 50 of the submissions suggesting that the introduction of on-street parking charges would have a negative impact on business in Westport.
According to Walsh's report the rationale behind the introduction of bye-laws is to "update the current defective bye-laws in relation to traffic flow and parking in Westport and to introduce new bye-laws for a new bus park and regulation of horse drawn hackney carriages. The changes proposed will significantly improve traffic congestion in the town of Westport and are compatible with the towns overall Smarter Travel strategy, thus furthering Westport's position as a leading light in the area of smarter travel."
"The planned changes have been put forward to tackle traffic congestion, unregulated parking and to balance the parking opportunities throughout the town so that all town centre parking spaces and car parks offer all stakeholders a range and choice of parking options depending on location. The provision of this new balanced parking at all times of the day."
Any likelihood of the bye-laws winning the approval of the majority of the seven elected members of the West Mayo Municipal District is expected to be very slim, with four members having already publicly expressed their opposition to the proposal to introduce such charges in the past.
Westport based Fianna Fáil Cllr Brendan Mulroy and Independent Cllr Christy Hyland have both been very vocal critics of the plan since it was first mooted, while Fine Gael Westport based Cllr Tereasa McGuire at a previous meeting of the municipal district put forward her own version of the bye-laws for consideration.
The remaining four members of the municipal district are based outside the Westport town area and one of those, Belmullet based Sinn Féin Cllr Teresa Whelan has also previously stated she would not support the proposals as they stand.


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ANYTHING GOES — CHAL juried exhibit at CHAW Gallery
CHAL's juried exhibit Anything Goes opens October 4th and runs through November 13th in the CHAW Gallery. This show has been juried by Michael Janis, Co-Director of Washington Glass School. The opening reception was Saturday, October 4, 2014 – 5 to 7 p.m. in CHAW gallery with the juror giving his remarks 5:30 p.m. First Place has been awarded a solo show on the CHAL Wall in the Gallery for June, 2015.
Michael Janis, Co-Director of the Washington Glass School, juried the first multi-media show of the 2014-2015 season. In his remarks to a full crowd at the October 6th opening, Michael commented on the high quality of art that was submitted. "While there was a very wide array of art, I felt that all of the entries could have been a part of the show, said Michael. He said that he kept coming back to art pieces that had unusual details and something he might not had seen before."
Michael also spoke about taking risks as artists and he spoke about his own transformation from an architect to doing what he loved – becoming a glass artist. About ten years ago, he was living abroad and decided to return to the States and try something new. He said he signed up for every class being taught in the Washington DC area about glass, and a year later he was being commissioned to make large glass pieces.
The list of exhibiting artists and their accepted art works is available here.
To see photos from the exhibit, go here.
This entry was posted in CHAL Exhibitions on September 4, 2014 by chal.


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Q: Install Git on CentOS 5.5 I have added EPEL repo and here goes...
# yum install git-core
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * addons: mirror.team-cymru.org
 * base: yum.singlehop.com
 * epel: mirrors.servercentral.net
 * extras: mirror.steadfast.net
 * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net
 * updates: pubmirrors.reflected.net
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package git.i386 0:1.7.3-1.el4.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl-Git = 1.7.3-1.el4.rf for package: git
--> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.4 for package: git
--> Processing Dependency: perl(DBI) for package: git
--> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.4 for package: git
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Git) for package: git
--> Running transaction check
---> Package git.i386 0:1.7.3-1.el4.rf set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: perl-Git = 1.7.3-1.el4.rf for package: git
--> Processing Dependency: perl(DBI) for package: git
--> Processing Dependency: perl(Git) for package: git
---> Package openssl097a.i386 0:0.9.7a-9.el5_4.2 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
git-1.7.3-1.el4.rf.i386 from rpmforge has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: perl(DBI) is needed by package git-1.7.3-1.el4.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
git-1.7.3-1.el4.rf.i386 from rpmforge has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: perl(Git) is needed by package git-1.7.3-1.el4.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
git-1.7.3-1.el4.rf.i386 from rpmforge has depsolving problems
  --> Missing Dependency: perl-Git = 1.7.3-1.el4.rf is needed by package git-1.7.3-1.el4.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(DBI) is needed by package git-1.7.3-1.el4.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Git) is needed by package git-1.7.3-1.el4.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
Error: Missing Dependency: perl-Git = 1.7.3-1.el4.rf is needed by package git-1.7.3-1.el4.rf.i386 (rpmforge)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
                        package-cleanup --dupes
                        rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

But...
# yum install perl-DBI
No package perl-DBI available.
Nothing to do

Any idea?

A: So,
I was recently setting up a cpanel instance on this server, and I was pretty surprised as I have installed git without issue before on CentOS boxes before.
So cpanel has blocked all perl packages from being installed or updated because they don't want updates to break or conflict with their packages. Thankfully yum provides a nice one time workaround for this kind of situation.

yum --disableexcludes=main install git

A: Your basic problem here is that you're mixing the RPMforge and EPEL add-on repos. As you see, they're not always compatible. Pick one and use that.

A: Just remove the perl* from your /etc/yum.conf file..then rerun your yum install.
Make sure you remember to put it back in the conf file after you've installed git
or some subsequent update may clobber something cpanel needs.

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The NHL Plays A Full Wednesday Night Schedule After The NBA And MLB Postpone Games
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David Hookstead Sports And Entertainment Editor
The NHL didn't postpone a single game Wednesday night.
The MLB and NBA both postponed games in the aftermath of brutally violent riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer. There's even a chance the NBA might be done for the year. (RELATED: David Hookstead Is The True King In The North When It Comes To College Football)
The San Francisco Giants-Los Angeles Dodgers game tonight has been postponed, sources tell ESPN. It's the third MLB game to be canceled in the wake of the NBA players refusing to play after the fallout of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) August 27, 2020
You know who didn't cancel anything, went out and did the jobs they're paid to do? NHL players, in three different games Wednesday night.
The league did exactly what it exists to do, which is play hockey games for millions of fans around the world. It's a hockey league.
A post shared by Tampa Bay Lightning (@tblightning) on Aug 26, 2020 at 8:28pm PDT
It's not a political activism organization. Outside of a message about racism prior to a game between the Boston Bruins and Tampa Bay Lightning and some messages from players, the night was relatively tame for the NHL.
Minnesota Wild player Matt Dumba called the decision to take the ice by NHL teams "disheartening," but overall, the league had a pretty smooth evening without players trying to shut things down.
Here are @matt_dumba's comments on @Sportsnet650 regarding the NHL's response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, in comparison to the NBA's response today. pic.twitter.com/Ef8i1mZGox
— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) August 27, 2020
People might not like to hear it, but the rest of the pro sports leagues in America could learn a thing or two from the NHL.
It turns out that you can hold certain opinions and still do your job. These are hockey players and they're people.
In the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting, the NHL will hold a moment of reflection before tonight's Tampa/Boston game in Toronto and tonight's Colorado/Dallas game in Edmonton.
— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) August 26, 2020
They have every right to feel however they want about the Jacob Blake shooting, but they're not government authority figures. They're hockey players. Sports are meant to provide people an excuse to unplug. They don't exist to lecture Americans about political topics.
If you want that, then turn on CNN or MSNBC. Leave sports alone. The only league that seems to understand that is the NHL. The WNBA even postponed games! Think about how absurd this is!
Anthony Cirelli wants nothing to do with Brandon Carlo. pic.twitter.com/zWT7gADwTD
— Conor Ryan (@ConorRyan_93) August 27, 2020
NHL games need to happen and every other sports league should be playing as well. If they want to sit it out, then just shut the whole thing down. The world will keep spinning. These are athletes, and sports shouldn't be destroyed by politics.
How triggered is the woke Twitter mob by the fact that the NHL didn't cancel a single game tonight to protest anything?
The athletes are playing hockey, and not lecturing the world on politics. It's refreshing.
— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) August 27, 2020
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To select the best mix of renewables and energy saving options, a tool will be developed, with which ports can identify the best choices. This tool will make use of the previously mentioned methods and tools.
The decision making tool will be based on merit-order strategy. First the "best option" will be defined, on the basis of economy (lowest costs, or max environmental effect). Options for supply and demand of energy will be ranked in ascending and decending order, the intersection giving the best options.
A general layout of the energy management strategy according to EMS ISO 50001 will be developed. The strategy will decide which energy source (including storage) will be effective (in operation), depending on the available sources and demand.
will be developed for the optimation of selected low energy options.
The methods for decision making and energy management, as well as the tools, will be described in a report, that will be distributed amongst interested ports and port operating companies.
The concept method to select the best mix of low carbon options within SMS-ports will be further tested and improved by employing this method in partners' ports.
Based on the steps described above a general and validated method including tools to select the best mix of low carbon options will be developped by the partnership, with Ghent University in the lead.


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Fernando Alonso Heads List Of Familiar Names At Le Mans
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This year's 24 Hours of Le Mans entry list has been published and the race on June 15th & 16th this year will feature a few names that are familiar to F1 fans in the newly expanded 62 car field.
Current WEC Championship leader Fernando Alonso will be making possibly his final appearance for the Toyota Gazoo Racing Team in the number 8 car alongside former F1 drivers Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima, while ex Toyota & Sauber driver Kamui Kobayashi will be in the sister Number 7 car, with 2017 WEC champion Brendon Hartley expected to be named as a reserve driver for the Toyota team at the race with a permanent seat expected to be announced for the New Zealander for the 2019/20 season.
Alonso isn't the only F1 champion taking part in the race though as Jenson Button continues to drive in the LMP1 class for SMP racing in the number 11 car with the Russian former Renault/Lotus and Catherham driver Vitali Petrov also on the team and Sergei Sirotkin will be in the team for SMP's number 12 car. Another ex-Williams racer Bruno Senna will be piloting the number 1 Rebellion racing car along with one time Caterham driver Andre Lotterer to round out the former F1 drivers in LMP1
In the LMP2 class, there's a few recognisable names with a couple of controversial ex F1 drivers taking part. Geido van der Garde will be driving for Racing Team Nederland in the number 29 and Pastor Maldonado in a Dragon Speed. Alongside van der Garde will be McLaren "young" driver (for the last 9 years) Nyck de Vries, who will be making his Le Mans debut this year, while Sky pundit Anthony Davidson will be hoping for a minimum of Pastor Disastors as he partners Maldonado in the number 31.
In the 2 GT classes (Pro & Am) there are still a lot of drivers yet to be announced by their teams, but the number 97 Aston Martin will have one-time Williams development driver Alex Lynn behind the wheel and in the Am class the number 97 will be driven by Pedro Lamy who scored Minardi's only point in the 1995 F1 season when he managed to finish 6th in the last Australian Grand Prix on the Adelaide circuit.
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The summer sun shines on southern Illinois wineries
By Chase Myers, @chasemyers_DE
Filed under Pulse
Southern Illinois has been a grape-flavored gold mine since before the prohibition era from 1920 to 1933.
The good weather and fertile soil located near the center of the country has allowed wineries such as Walker's Bluff, Blue Sky Vineyard and Rustle Hill Winery to grow plenty of grapes and produce one-of-a-kind wines.
With all three of these establishments located within a 20-mile radius of the university, it is assumed their popularity diminishes as summer approaches, but this is not always the case.
As the seasons change, people from around the area flock to wineries to partake in events, listen to good music and drink wine.
Both Blue Sky Vineyard and Rustle Hill Winery held events this weekend with large turnouts and live music.
Rustle Hill Winery hosted the Carbondale New School "Locally Grown" fundraiser and reunion, which brought out the best of both worlds with a bouncy house and activities for the kids and live music for the adults
"I love these days," Chad Weedman, a manager said. "This is my favorite event that we have in the year. We usually have a big concert, which, unfortunately, has a bunch of grown-ups that usually get a little out of control, but this is for the kids. It's just a great day."
The heat becomes a deterrent as summer progresses, but any lost business is usually made up in the fall as students come back, he said.
"The quantity of sales when the kids are here is just way more, but in the long run, its about the same when all the grown-ups are out and they come and eat dinner," he said.
Blue Sky Vineyard barely beat the bad weather this weekend with their luau event, bringing in a large crowd.
Karen Hand, winemaker at Blue Sky Vineyard, said she divides the typical Blue Sky crowd into thirds: students, locals and out-of-town clientele.
"We're a little weather-dependent, but we have students in session, so April and May are very big months for us," she said.
She said weather is a factor, but when it's not raining, all kinds of people come out from Carbondale to Cape Girardeau, Mo.
"When busy season is the busy season, its because of the weather and people coming out just to enjoy the music and those things on the weekends," she said. "You've got both business models at the same time."
Similar to Rustle Hill Winery, the business Blue Sky Vineyard receives in the fall compensates for any lost profit in the summer, she said.
"If you're on the wine trail, it is just packed at every winery during the fall," she said.
Another popular winery in southern Illinois is Walker's Bluff, a four-facility winery tucked away in the fields of Carterville.
Walker's Bluff caters to a more local crowd, separate from students, so the business stays rather consistent, Eric Walker, manager of Walker's Bluff's tasting room said.
"We do get some of the student body out here," Walker said. "Not always necessarily students, but we get people from the Carbondale area and faculty."
Walker's Bluff is no stranger to live music in the summer, with Pat Benatar performing last year and Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sheryl Crow and Charlie Daniels Band as past performers.
They plan to bring out at least one big-name band this summer, Walker said.
The roads to the different wineries are undeniably beautiful in the summer, whether open fields or dense forests surround them.
Regardless of the season, southern Illinois wineries welcome people to come out and enjoy their unique facilities, while experiencing unique wine and live music in the process.
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