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Q1 Numbers Are Up at Beasley, Radio One
Revenue trend has continued into the new year
Two notable broadcast owners issued financial updates.
Beasley Broadcast Group said revenue in the first quarter increased 5.5%, or $1.2 million, compared to the same period last year, with increases in nine of its 11 market clusters. Its operating income jumped more than 48% thanks to several factors including the loss of sports programming rights in Miami-Fort Lauderdale (thus saving money). "Same-station" revenue was up 6%.
Chairman George Beasley said the numbers reflect "the improved industry environment and the strength of our stations and ratings in their markets." He said this was the fourth consecutive quarter of same-station revenue growth and fifth consecutive quarter of "solid SOI and margin gains."
He commended the company for streamlining its operating and cost structure and said Beasley continues to aim to reduce debt, interest expense and leverage ratio. Its bank debt fell to $138.8 million from $142 million three months earlier. "We ended the first quarter with the company's lowest leverage ratio since mid-2006 and expect to continue using cash from operations to further lower debt."
Separately, broadcast group owner Radio One said it expects revenue to increase about 10% in the first quarter.
Radio One issued preliminary financial results, showing expected net revenue of $65 million in the first three months of the year. However, the size of its predicted net loss also increased, from an earlier prediction of 37 to 39 cents per share, to a revised $1.22–$1.24 per share. It blamed an increase in deferred tax liabilities having to do with amortization of some of its radio licenses.
Radio One holds net operating losses of approximately $548 million. The company also said it has increased its investment in network channel TV One; it is now the majority shareholder in that entity.


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Case 4.: Treatment of a young female advanced breast cancer patient with paclitaxel-bevacizumab therapy
The 38-year-old female patient first appeared at our department on September 22, 2010, presenting with complaints that had lasted for one year: she had dyspnea, nausea, vomiting, back pain and she could not see with her left eye and could not open her left eye. Her ECOG status was 3 at that time. She brought along her histology result: invasive ductal carcinoma Grade III. (Figure 1) ER:90%, PR:20%, HER2:+++ (with IHC). During physical examination we palpated a centrally ulcerated tumor that infiltrated the skin of the right breast (8x12 cm). In the outer, upper quadrant of the left breast a 5x7 cm tumor, in the outer, lower quadrant of the left breast a 3x4 cm tumor was palpable. There was a fixed lymph node conglomerate in the right axilla, above the lungs there was a dullness of 3 fingerbreadths on percussion, her liver was 2 fingerbreadths enlarged.
Staging examinations performed on September 23, 2010 revealed the following metastases:
cranial CT: 10x3 mm soft tissue structure in the left bulb that corresponds to an intrabulbar metastasis (Figure 2).
chest CT: 55 mm pleural effusion in the right chest, 45 mm pleural effusion in the left chest, complete atelectasis in the lower lobes of the lung, axillary and subcarinal lymph node enlargement (10-17 mm) (Figure 3 | Figure 4).
abdominopelvic CT: a a 130 mm metastasis in segments VIII, VII, VI and V of the liver and a 30 mm metastasis in segment I of the liver (Figure 5).
Bone scan performed on 24 September, 2010 showed multiple osseal metastases, so we immediately started the patient's intravenous bisphosphonat treatment. Echocardiography revealed 74% EF and a 3-4 mm pericardial effusion. Her laboratory results showed elevated liver function values (GOT:80 U/l, GPT:50 U/l, AP:269 U/l).
We would have liked to treat the patient in an international trial, but the leaders of the trial asked for a repeated core biopsy that was performed on October 19, 2010. The histology result of the central laboratory was the following:IDC, Grade III. ER:90%, PR:20%, HER2 (FISH): negative.
Having the central laboratory result, we started the treatment of the patient, who was in an unchanged general state, on November 9, 2010 with palliative bevacizumab-paclitaxel treatment.We performed the treatment as follows: 80 mg/m2 paclitaxel iv weekly, 10 mg/kg bevacizumab iv every 2 weeks. (1 cycle = 2 weeks).
In cycle 5, the patient developed Grade II peripheral neuropathy, so we decreased the dose of paclitaxel by 20%. By this time the patient's ECOG status was already 0. She could open her left eye and she could see with it again.
12 weeks after the first treatment we performed restaging examinations with the following results:
January 31, 2011: abdominopelvic CT: complete remission.(Figure 6)
February 1, 2011: chest CT: pleural effusion 20 mm on the right side, 4 mm on the left side, 7-10 mm lymph nodes that are non-pathologic in size according to RECIST 1.1 criteria.(Figure 7)
In cycle 8, the patient developed painful onycholysis (Figure 8), so the dose of paclitaxel was further reduced by 20%.
On March 26, 2011, cranial MRI examination was performed that showed the complete remission of the intrabulbar metastasis. (Figure 9)
After cycle 10, Grade III peripheral neuropathy developed and there was a repeated increase in the liver enzyme levels, so we suspended her palliative treatment. After performing the patient's restaging examinations we received the following results:
Bone scan carried out on April 14, 2011 showed regression.
April 19, 2011: breast ultrasound: complete remission, the right breast had underwent automastectomy.
April 20-21, 2011: chest CT: 8 mm pleural effusion, otherwise SD (stable disease) (Figure 10), abdominal status: negative.
Besides the side effects described above, the patient developed Grade II neutropenia as a side effect of paclitaxel, so she received GCSF (Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor) for 3 days after each treatment. The patient also had gingivitis, balance disorder and nose bleeding.
Since April 27, 2011, she receives palliative hormone therapy with LHRH analogue and tamoxifen.
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Lyrics Undercover 330: "Long Tall Sally" – Little Richard
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From this episode… From a family of 12 children, don't let his childhood nickname fool you. Little Richard was not only a tall man, at almost 6 feet, but he was a large personality. In his youth, Richard Wayne Penniman couldn't find any music he liked, so he...
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Review: Between the World and Me
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Between the World and Me
Spiegel & Grau, 176 pages
Reviewed by Caenisha Warren | June 20, 2016
When Ta-Nehisi Coates's book Between the World and Me was released last summer, it arrived against a backdrop of heightening racial unease. The phenomenon of unarmed black men and boys killed by police was at an apex. A month before the book's publication, nine African American women and men were murdered by a white gunman at their Charleston church. Two days after its release, Sandra Bland was found dead in her Texas jail cell.
Between the World and Me was an immediate bestseller and snagged Coates a National Book Award. The book's success, however, is not just a tribute to its author's visceral and poetic use of language but an acknowledgment that the story he tells about America's racial (and spiritual) condition is both prophetic and necessary.
Using the rhetorical riff of "the black body," Coates exposes society's perceptions and reductions of black people. He calls into question, or rather, calls into truth, what this nation means when it uses the term "people"—and whether the black body is included in that category. Written as a letter to his son, his words bellow deep from the ache of "the talk" that parents give to black sons and daughters about the world in which their body dwells.
Coates's words advise much like a survival guide. From the present-minded struggle of the streets to the future-minded struggle within educational institutions, he says, "Fail to comprehend the streets and you gave up your body now. But fail to comprehend the schools and you gave up your body later."
Coates explains there is no luxury in which a black body can ignore the evils of our history. Freedom for the black body may have existed as a vision within his time at Howard University, a place he experienced as Mecca—he depicts the pursuit of knowledge, expression of words, and union of relationships among a rich diversity of black bodies. But he also writes of distance, the privilege some have to stay out of the struggle, ignore it, or walk away.
Yet the struggle remains, and those who embrace the American Dream (the Dreamers) seem to be worlds away from the reality black bodies experience. Coates reflects, "I saw that what divided me from the world was not anything intrinsic to us but the actual injury done by people intent on naming us, intent on believing that what they have named us matters more than anything we could ever actually do." The distance he identifies is a negotiation of our humanity between one another. It is this struggle that Coates places into our view.
This work is unapologetically personal, one man's story. But it is also systemically familiar to the undervalued and marginalized stories of black and brown bodies. It illuminates the shouts of Black Lives Matter, a present and prophetic voice to the racial state of our nation. The wrestling Coates brings to light speaks against the notion of a civil rights movement that has overcome. These matters no longer await the conversion of white dominant voices, but rather are empowered by black value and purpose.
While Coates gives us a gift of voyeuristic intimacy into the experience of the black male body, we know that his son is not the only one receiving the lesson—or consciousness. Coates does not coddle those who pursue the American Dream at the expense of black bodies. If this book does not reflect the way you engage the world around you, does it matter to you that some of us do live this struggle? As Coates depicts, the reality is that for the black body, there is a world of difference—of distance—from the experience of the Dreamers.
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When I read this review, I ordered the book on Amazon and dipped into it as soon as the book arrived. A beautifully written but profoundly disturbing book concerning America's original sin–one from which we still can't seem to find liberation. No father in this country should have to address a book like this to his son! Lord have mercy. We can do so much better. Thank you Mr. Coates, and Ms Warren and The Covenant Companion for calling our attention to compelling personal story.
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Well the time has come to say farewell to the studio that we have made a home in for the past 3 years. This space has witnessed laughter and tears that we have long lost count of. This space has taken hits from actors and been the target of many a thrown chair but has also provided a safe space for actors to dangerously rip down walls and take risks. To fall in love and to say goodbye. This space has changed along with all of us as we have grown up over the last 3 years and we will miss it terribly!! We are excited to announce our new home will be opening in August at 202 Bathurst st, the Origami Theater. Please join us for our final event at the studio and say goodbye to the old as we usher in a new era for the actor community of the Robyn Kay Studio.
For 3 nights only, we bring you our summer showcase where we will give you an experience in theatre you will never forget. Where you will witness truthful raw behaviour and actors working off each other, moment to moment as you watch them doing the Meisner Technique and a selection of scenes and monologues to inspire you and show you that we all have something to fight for. Please join us July 24th, 25th and 26th- Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. If you ever wanted to see what a meisner class is like, here is your chance!! Help us to say goodbye to our studio and enjoy Toronto's best performers in a show that may just change your life.


UL's Logo: Three, or One?
The ultoday.com logo has attracted questions and compliments. So what's the difference between a single fleur de lis, and three?
A single fleur de lis is used by cities and schools across Louisiana and down the Gulf Coast to Mobile, and it is also used in France, Canada and many Francophone cultures, and even in Italy (in 1066, the Normans invaded England and Sicily). But the triple fleurs de lis is nearly unique to South Louisiana and the Cajuns, and so several people have asked about the difference between the single and triple design.
Then a Jim Bradshaw column on the Louisiana iris-- our native version of the fleur de lis-- prompted me to write an explanation.
When I lived in New Orleans in the 1980s, a local bank began using a fleur de lis as a corporate logo. One of the locals commented to me that, before the arrival of the Saints' NFL franchise, the fleur de lis wasn't nearly so common in New Orleans.
Which is interesting; the Saints began playing football in 1968, three years after Thomas J. Arceneaux produced the flag of Acadiana. Arceneaux's flag is based on the UL seal, and so both of them contain the trifleur. Did the UL seal influence the Saints' choice of logo? We may never know.
A year or so after I heard the comment about the Saints, I was in a swank restaurant in the French Quarter. I noticed a very old painting on the wall which depicted the French army flying a flag with three fleurs de lis. A few years after that, I received a letter from the UL President's office, and at that time the University letterhead displayed the same design in the upper right-hand corner.
So I began investigating. The fleur de lis (or lys) is a version of the iris, and is a very old device revered in ancient India and Egypt as a symbol of life and resurrection. In Christianity the iris lily becomes a symbol of purity, and frequently refers to St. Mary, represented on the UL campus by Our Lady of Wisdom Chapel.
On Christmas Day in 496 St. Remigius (St. Rémy) baptized the Frankish king Clovis and 3,000 of his followers. Tradition has it that an iris was sent from heaven to Clovis at his christening. As "Louis" is the French version of the Germanic "Clovis" it is believed that "fleur de lis" may also represent "fleur de Louis." This may explain the unusual design of the fleur de lis: it suggests both a flower and a dove, for both Clovis and his baptism.
Thereafter, the fleur de lis appears sporadically as a symbol of France and the monarchy. But in 1376, Charles V-- "Charles the Wise," a patron of learning and the arts-- tripled the fleur de lis as his official device, stating that it represented the Holy Trinity. However, as this change was made during The Hundred Year's War which was fought over the English claim of succession to the French throne, historians suspect a different motive for Charles's change. English nobles had begun quartering the fleur de lis on their armor, as a way of strengthening their claim to the French crown.
So it is suspected that Charles changed his device to distinguish the true French from the "pretenders." This parallels our situation today, as so many non-French communities and universities have attempted to usurp the popularity of our Cajun culture, by using the single fleur de lis.
From that beginning in the 14th century however, the trifleur became the emblem of France, and centuries later, marked their claims in the New World. The trifleur was the flag under which the Cajuns' ancestors first arrived in the New World in 1604-- a full 16 years before the Mayflower arrived. Even today, the Great Seal of Canada is one of the few appearances of the trifleur outside of Louisiana, a recognition of the Cajuns' ancestors as the first permanent European settlers of that country.
Then in 1682 when LaSalle claimed for France all the lands drained by the Mississippi River, the trifleur became the first flag of Louisiana, and remained so until the beginning of Spanish rule in 1762. In this way, it also became the first flag for the entire middle third of the United States, and even today can frequently be seen flying in the 15 states derived from the Louisiana Purchase. In fact, it is one of the original "Six Flags Over Texas".
As noted above, in 1965 the UL seal became the basis for Thomas Arceneaux's flag... and in 1974, the Legislature made it the official flag of Acadiana. In this way, it became representative of our region of 22 parishes and 1.4 million people.
It is fitting that the triple fleur de lis serves to represent UL, as it is not only uniquely identifies our university in the US, but it may also be unique among major college logos: it is both masculine and feminine, and it represents both academics and athletics. It is not clear that any other major university employs such a flexible, all-encompassing logo.
So that's how the trifleur became associated with UL, Acadiana and the Cajun culture, and as the ultoday.com logo it reflects that unity.


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What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. Yet while the stories of trees are as plentiful as leaves in a forest, they are rarely told. Here, Colin Tudge travels from his own back garden round the world to explore the beauty, variety and ingenuity of trees everywhere: from how they live so long to how they talk to each other and why they came to exist in the first place. Lyrical and evocative, this book will make everyone fall in love with the trees around them.


This baby had been abused, left under blazing hot sun, allowed to rust and oxidize KAW KAW!, The owner (my buddies dad) did not care much for the car, when scratched he just buys a twig paint with the identical colour code and simply spray it on, by no means hassle about fowl dung tat splats on the car principally the automobile is barely maintained when wanted and only when needed. AKA solely engine oils, transmission oil and so on, nothing carried out to the outside. GM is living on $15.4 billion in government loans and faces a June 1 deadline to restructure and get extra authorities cash. If the restructuring doesn't fulfill the government, the company may go into chapter 11 protection. The report covers the current state of affairs and the growth prospects of the worldwide motorbike rental market for 2016-2020. To calculate the market size, the report considers the common revenue of the rental companies operating in India, Europe, and the US.
Volvo vehicles (Sweden) -The transaction between Ford Motor Firm and Geely Car has different results on Volvo. This can be a quick time period WIN for Volvo vehicles (Sweden). Volvo shall be given center stage at Geely and the attention it deserves. Nonetheless, this can be a long run LOSS for Volvo cars (Sweden). The long run prediction is that Geely will absolutely take in Volvo cars and assert majority management over the brand. General, the chance of the venture appears to be on the Swedes' shoulders.
This story continues right this moment with the Ferrari F12berlinetta which is not merely our latest mid-front 12-cylinder mannequin however the first in a whole new technology of this sort of automotive. The truth is, it's the most excessive performance Ferrari ever constructed yet it still effortlessly marries excessive performance with benchmark efficiency, delivering gas consumption and emissions ranges which might be 30% lower than the earlier technology. The challenge for our engineers and technicians this time was to create a entrance-engined automobile with blistering performance that was still in a position to supply the same driving pleasure and involvement at lower speeds. A tough process as a result of it meant enhancing on the design of the 599 GTB Fiorano, deemed the most beautiful Ferrari ever. Nevertheless, their commitment and dedication has produced a car sporting an exceptional new 740 hp mid-entrance V12 engine that delivers 690 Nm of torque.
Currently, no state has mandated any licensure requirements for auto mechanics, although individuals who own their own enterprise might should get hold of a business license or different certificate earlier than they will provide automotive restore providers to their customers. Non-public certification programs exist for those auto restore specialists who desire to exhibit a high level of competency in their field.
You may find that after washing your automotive, although it seems to be all clean and glossy, it truly feels sort of tough or bubbly to the contact. The subsequent time you wash your automobile, once it is dry, try working your hand gently over the paintwork. Does it really feel a bit rough to the touch? These are the contaminants left behind after the washing process which have bonded to your automobile's paintwork. They could come from anyplace and embrace issues akin to break mud and different airborne contaminants encountered while driving, tree sap or chook droppings etc.


Back in 2000, Sarah Hayden was a nanny with a BTEC in Childcare. With a little help from her dad she decided to take the plunge and open her own nursery. Now joined by Will, her brother, Puddleduck nursery has grown to a 60-place setting that serves nearly one hundred families in their local community in rural Oxfordshire.
When opening Puddleduck, keen to do her bit for the environment, Sarah employed the services of a reusable nappy laundry company. However, she soon found that the output from the nursery exceeded the ability of the laundry company to cope, so she turned to one of the national waste companies that offer nappy waste disposal services."I chose them on the basis that they were the only company I had heard of that offered the service" said Sarah, "but that's when the nightmare started".
Sarah found that the initially reasonable charges were frequently increased and she was also hit with additional supplemental charges. Will recalls "we were paying around £1 per bag to start with, but by the end this had increased to over £9 per bag when you factored in all of the additional charges". Worse still, Sarah experienced poor service, with bins not being emptied on schedule and left overflowing with waste, and also encountered significant difficulties in trying to resolve the frequent problems. "The attitude of the staff we spoke to tended to be less than helpful" says Sarah, "and it was just a faceless, corporate experience, with a series of failed promises".
Now, says Will, "the service couldn't be better. We save hundreds of pounds each year, perhaps more, we've had no billing problems and the waste transfer note system is excellent". Sarah agrees, adding "the Green Bottoms team are always kind and considerate and the customer service is excellent. If we ever need to speak to somebody, you get straight through to someone who can help and they always come on time. In fact, on the odd occasion that a service has been rescheduled to the following day, we even get a phone call to let us know".


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Samsung's SmartTag+ Officially Announced, but No U.S. Availability Yet
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Nearly a week after appearing on B&H's website for pre-order, Samsung has now officially announced the first global availability dates for its new Galaxy SmartTag tracker: April 16. No official date has been announced for the U.S., though, but Samsung said it'll come sometime in the next few weeks.
The Galaxy SmartTag+ is Samsung's updated premium version of its original Galaxy SmartTag. The new tracker uses Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) and ultra-wideband (UWB) technology to track lost items. Anyone with a UWB-equipped smartphone, like the Galaxy S21+, can also use the companion AR finder app (SmartThings, available on both iOS and Android), which then offers simple visual guidance toward your lost item.
"UWB is a true game changer, making it possible to lock onto the position of an object with much greater precision," said KJ Kim, Execute VP and Head of Mobile R&D Office, Mobile Communications Business at Samsung Electronics. "That's why we're continuing to expand UWB throughout the Galaxy ecosystem, finding new ways to leverage this technology to help make people's everyday lives easier and more convenient."
The trackers are built on SmartThings Find's incredible offline detection capabilities, but still allow users to find them on a map no matter how far away they may be. Between BLE connectivity and Galaxy device network, SmartThings Find users can opt in and enable their Galaxy smartphones or tablets to help others find their own lost devices and tag trackers. Samsung also encrypts this data, so only the owner of the device or trackers will have access to their location.
A SmartTag+ can also be used for other helpful purposes. For example, you can use them to remotely turn off devices, like lamps, through the SmartThings app. With their small size, however, they're best used on your everyday devices, like your wallet, backpack, purse, or keychain. To get one or two for yourself, keep an eye out starting on April 16 as the trackers progressively roll out worldwide.
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The Service Engine Soon (MIL) is on and the engine could go into a reduced power mode with the "Drivetrain Malfunction" message displayed.
One or more of the VANOS faults listed in the attachment are stored in the DME, although the engine is mechanically sound and no unusual noises can be heard from the VANOS area.
These control faults relate to implausible camshaft position (intake or exhaust), the camshaft stuck situation, or the camshaft angle offset to crankshaft outside the tolerance range.
Due to unfavorable Engine Position Management (EPM) parameters in the DME software, various VANOS control faults could be set.
Perform the recommended test plans using the latest version of ISTA/D. Correct any VANOS hardware issues found, as indicated by the test plan.
After performing necessary repairs, or in case the ISTA test plan is inconclusive, program the vehicle using the latest version of ISTA/P.
Note that ISTA/P will automatically reprogram and code all programmable control modules that do not have the latest software.
Always connect a BMW approved battery charger/power supply (SI B04 23 10).
For information on programming and coding with ISTA/P, refer to Centernet / Aftersales Portal / Service / Workshop Technology / Vehicle Programming.
If VANOS control faults continue to set with the improved DME software, further diagnosis will be necessary in order to identify the cause and make the correct repair.
Covered under the terms of the BMW New Vehicle/SAV Limited Warranty or the BMW Certified Pre-Owned Limited Warranty.
This repair is also covered by the terms of the Federal and/or State-specific Emissions Warranty (dependent on vehicle model year and state of registration) that applies to the BMW models listed.
The BMW Certified Pre-Owned Limited Warranty applies to BMW vehicles that have and are still within the BMW Certified Pre-Owned coverage period, but beyond Emissions Warranty coverage that applies.
Labor operation code 00 00 006 is a Main labor operation. If you are using a Main labor code for another repair, use the Plus code labor operation 00 00 556 instead.
Even though work time labor operation code 61 00 006 ends in "006," it is not considered a Main labor operation.
Work time (WT) labor operation 61 00 006 requires an individual punch time.
Refer to KSD2 for the corresponding flat rate unit (FRU) allowance. Enter the Chassis Number, which consists of the last 7 digits of the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). Click on the "Search" button, and then enter the applicable flat rate labor operation in the FR code field.
If a vehicle control module or component was working properly and/or had no related faults stored prior to vehicle programming and it fails to program correctly and/or requires initialization, this additional work must be claimed with separate labor operations under the defect code listed above; refer to KSD2.
Repairs to address control modules and/or components with pre-existing conditions are not eligible to be claimed under the defect code listed in this bulletin.
If performing ISTA diagnostics and related test plans results in other eligible and covered work, claim this work with the applicable defect code and labor operations listed in KSD2.


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Paula Matthusen · Composer
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Paula Matthusen's "run on sentence of the pavement" seemed to promise the delightful diversion of a grand piano played, in part, by ping-pong balls bouncing around the piano's inside. It was that, but much more — an encyclopedic reminder that a composer who knows how to listen can find music in the most amazing places.
— Nancy Malitz, Chicago on the Aisle, 2011
The concert began arrestingly with Portable by Paula Matthusen, performed by eight people, each toting a specially designed radio receiver or transmitter encased in a vintage suitcase, filing around a la Phil Kline's Unsilent Night in what would have been total darkness except for the players' flashlights.
— , Lucid Culture, 2010
Paula Matthusen's vivid imagination was evident from the first sound heard during a concert of her works at Roulette in SoHo on Saturday night...
— Steve Smith, The New York Times, 2009
A pleasant surprise in the Sunday morning program [for the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music] was Paula Matthusen's piece, 'of memory and minutiae' (2006), a plaintive, haunting setting of a Norwegian prayer that fragments further with each repetition.
— Allan Kozinn, The New York Times, 2009
Paula Matthusen cleans ears with her electroacoustic music. Her use of resonating materials and clear sounds penetrates the space in a variety of patterns.
— Pauline Oliveros, Leonardo Music Journal, 2009
Matthusen's music goes beyond the experimental and invites the audience to engage emotionally.
— Elien Van Riet, Eye of the Beholder, 2009
The whispering, scratching, plinking, and sighing of her "run-on sentence of the pavement" for piano, Ping-Pong balls, and electronics, has an oddly sad, entrancing effect, especially when the stream of noise coalesces into slivers of song.
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2004
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Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective
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Undermining democracy to save money: The unexpected and illegitimate closure of the Greek public service broadcaster
By Konstantina Bania on	 July 3, 2013 Foreign correspondents
It's no wonder why the Greek government's decision of 11/06/2013 to shut down ERT, Greece's public service broadcaster, has received wide coverage from both national and international media outlets: Not only is this decision unconstitutional but it has also taken e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y (citizens, journalists, the EU governance and Greek Parliamentarians themselves) by surprise. I admit that the moment I was informed about ERT's closure I wanted to react immediately, I decided, however, to wait for a couple of weeks and see how the situation would evolve as a result of this over-hasty decision. As I expected, political stability, which is very fragile at the moment, has been severely damaged. A few days ago, one of the three parties forming the coalition government pulled out of this (admittedly unsuccessful) arrangement (New Democracy, the party that came first after the 2012 general elections and leads the coalition government, decided to close ERT without consulting with the other two, PASOK and DHMAR). DHMAR's withdrawal means a government majority of just three in Parliament![1] Thus, the decision to shut down the public broadcaster has first and foremost created a climate of political uncertainty. Yet, ERT's closure does not only undermine Greece's ability to manage its crisis but it also gives rise to a number of social and legal issues that make any European citizen wonder how far is a government willing to go to (supposedly) lead a country out of recession.
When, why and how did this happen?
On June 11, 2013, Greeks watching the news on the main TV channel of ERT saw their screens go to black. In order to meet the requirements set by the Troika (a commission consisting of representatives of the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank that is charged with monitoring the Euro debt crisis), the government had to sack a certain amount of public sector employees by June 2013 and closing ERT, employer of more than 2,500 persons, seemed like an ideal solution. "ERT is a case of an exceptional lack of transparency and incredible extravagance. This ends now" [emphasis added], government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said in an attempt to justify the government's decision.[2] An oxymoron, however, arises. The history of modern Greece is rife with examples of corruption and mismanagement of public funds. This culture of "getting away with everything" is precisely what led the country to a deep and unprecedented financial and institutional crisis but also the reason why access to information has become more relevant now than ever before. How can therefore the governors believe that the best way to save money is to violate a right whose exercise is one of the most effective means to address recession issues? One does not need to be a media expert to understand that only through access to the media can Greeks understand the harsh measures they need to comply with and communicate to the government their dissatisfaction. Isn't this the reason why ERT was established to begin with (i.e. provide the citizens with accurate and objective information and serve as a communications conduit between the governors and those who are governed)?
Shutting down ERT through the back door
Well aware of the fact that the Parliament would not support this decision, the party leading the coalition government decided to adopt an "act of legislative content" instead of following the regular legislative procedure leading to the enactment of a law.
More particularly, pursuant to Article 44(1) of the Greek Constitution, "under extraordinary circumstances of an urgent and unforeseeable need, the President of the Republic may, upon the proposal of the Cabinet, issue acts of legislative content" [emphasis added].[3] Adoption of an act of legislative content would allow the Greek government to gain time: The aforementioned provision lays down that "such acts shall be submitted to Parliament for ratification […] within forty days of their issuance […]. Should such acts not be submitted to Parliament within the above time-limits or if they should not be ratified by Parliament within three months of their submission, they will henceforth cease to be in force" [emphasis added]. In other words, the government was hoping to have 40 + 90 days at its disposal to prepare a new plan for a public service media operator. By that time, ratification of the act by the Parliament would not be needed anymore.
Legal implications: Violations of Constitutional and EU law
In (desperate) need of a legal basis, the act of legislative content[4] ordering ERT's closure broadly refers to the laws that were enacted to address crisis-related problems. These laws indeed allow the adoption of urgent measures but the act in question does not -EVEN REMOTELY- substantiate why shutting down the public broadcaster was necessary to achieve recovery objectives (why firing ERT employees was more adequate or urgent than firing other public sector employees?). That being said, the following questions automatically arise: Shouldn't the least onerous measure be preferred in order to achieve a certain goal? If reorganizing ERT is a matter of life and death (I am not a State auditor but I imagine things are pretty bad), couldn't the governors order ERT to keep news programs instead of deciding to shut down the operator altogether? And, shouldn't the fact that ERT performs a special mission to objectively inform the citizens be balanced against recovery objectives? What I am trying to say here is that, even if the "urgency" criterion were justified, this act is clearly in violation of the principle of proportionality (a fundamental principle of both Greek and EU law).
Moreover, said legislative act breaches Article 15(2) of the Greek Constitution establishing the State's duty to protect and promote media pluralism (let me note here that the Greek Constitution is one of the very few European Constitutions explicitly referring to media pluralism). Performance of this duty must be considered against the following: First, unlike other countries such as Germany, Greece has only one public broadcaster. In other words, ERT is the only alternative to commercial television (i.e. private interests). Second, as a result of the crisis, Greek private media have "collapsed as advertising revenue has plummeted".[5] Most Greek media companies face insurmountable financial difficulties that have forced them to implement massive job and salary cuts (according to union leaders, unemployment among journalists currently stands at 50%). Finally, it should be borne in mind that, in the absence of ERT, Greeks in the east and some islands – where signal coverage is poor – may have to rely on Turkish broadcasters across the border![6] In light of the above, it becomes clear why the State needs to keep financing the provision of public service broadcasting services –even (or especially) now that public (and private) funds are scarce.
Furthermore, and while this may surprise many, the act ordering ERT's closure is also in violation of EU law.
I am not referring to the Amsterdam Protocol,[7] a primary EU law instrument which has been used extensively to justify the granting of State aids to public broadcasters (it is recalled that, pursuant to Article 107(1) TFEU, State aids are, in principle, prohibited on the grounds that they distort competition within the EU). In accordance with the Protocol, which endorses the role of public broadcasting in fulfilling the democratic and cultural needs of a given society and acknowledges the need to preserve and promote media pluralism, it is the right of the Member States to decide whether or not to introduce a public broadcasting system, and if so, to define and organize the public service remit in the manner of their own choosing. In other words, at any given moment, Greece, like any other member of the EU, could decide to close its public broadcaster(s) thereby adopting a more commercial approach to the media sector.
I am actually referring to Article 11(2) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights establishing the Member States' and the EU's obligation to respect media pluralism. Surely, Article 51 of the Charter explicitly lays down that the Member States are bound by the Charter only when implementing EU law. But, aren't the laws that the Greek government adopted to address crisis-related problems laws implementing what the EU legislative and executive powers have been dictating in order to achieve recovery? In light of this, Greece's decision to shut down ERT on austerity grounds could also be perceived as a breach of Article 7 TEU, which equips the EU institutions with the means of securing that all Member States respect the values on which the Union is based such as the rule of law, human rights and democracy.[8]
What the above analysis clearly shows is that the act of legislative content is in breach of a number of constitutionally recognized principles and therefore justifies action against the Greek government on both national and EU level. On national level, a few days after the act was published, the Greek Court of Cassation suspended its implementation and ordered the Greek government to restore ERT.[9] On EU level, while the Troika claimed it had "not sought the closure of ERT", a statement the veracity of which has been questioned,[10] the institutions have not done anything to ensure that the public broadcaster starts functioning again.
Mobilization within and beyond Greek frontiers
ERT's closure undoubtedly gives rise to many legal issues. However, the wave of reaction that it triggered within and beyond Greek frontiers is far more interesting. I am referring to the unprecedented pressure exercised on the Greek government by citizens, political parties, several international organizations and public broadcasters of other countries and I feel the need to highlight some of the most important events that took place over the past two weeks. After the Greek authorities confirmed that ERT had been disbanded, journalists' unions called a 24-hour strike across Greece's broadcasters,[11] a decision which is in clear contradiction with a business-oriented approach (in other words, commercial stations would normally be expected to continue to broadcast so as to take advantage of the situation/generate revenues from advertising). Protest rallies were held in support of ERT's staff, with thousands rallying outside ERT's headquarters in Athens. International media associations such as the International Press Institute and the South East Europe Media Organization called on the Greek government to reverse its decision. It is also worth mentioning that the President of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Jean-Paul Philippot, went to Athens to hand over a petition signed by 51 European directors general. What I find, breathtaking, however, is that ERT continues to operate in spite of its official closure: Its employees refuse to leave their posts and the EBU maintains ERT's TV and radio frequencies via a live stream on the EBU website until the national broadcaster is able to resume full services to domestic audiences.[12] What these initiatives plainly demonstrate is that public television still matters to many and that the relationship between the latter and democracy is not just a point of discussion for political elites and academics.
I was advised by older and much wiser people to see the crisis as an opportunity to build a better future for my generation and the ones to follow. I would advise the Greek Parliament to do the same with ERT. I don't deny that wasting of public funds has taken place more than once. But then again, it was the governors' responsibility to create a framework within which ERT could perform its public service mission without overspending. What did the Greek authorities do to ensure that the scheme supporting ERT complies with the principles of transparency and proportionality enshrined in the Commission's Broadcasting Communication?[13] Well, not much. Nor have the Greek authorities done much to reposition ERT in the digital era (i.e. to adopt measures supporting the provision of digital media services, something which is inevitable especially if we want public media to be a point of reference for younger generations). All in all, ERT undoubtedly needs reform, both institutional and financial. In the meantime however, public authorities should treat ERT as a fundamental pillar of Greek democracy that needs restructuring, not as a part that suffers from gangrene and needs to be chopped off. This reform should take place having in mind that ERT's radio was not silenced neither during the German occupation nor the military junta.[14] After all, Greeks have made it clear that they don't mind paying an extra 4,30 euro per month to access ERT.
Proposals for the new scheme are expected by the end of this month. Stay tuned.
[1] For more information see: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/21/us-greece-idUSBRE95K0IJ20130621 and http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10135237/Greek-government-on-knife-edge-as-coalition-party-pulls-out.html For those of you who read Greek see, for instance: http://news247.gr/eidiseis/kosmos/news/ti_anaferoyn_ta_germanika_mme_gia_to_kleisimo_ths_ert.2295454.html; http://www.skai.gr/news/greece/article/235379/o-tzeims-galbreith-ston-skai-akraia-energeia-to-kleisimo-tis-ert/; http://www.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathremote_1_16/06/2013_504237 and http://www.naftemporiki.gr/story/664413
[2] For more information see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22861577 and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22871734
[3] The Constitution of Greece is available at:
http://www.hri.org/docs/syntagma/artcl50.html#A44
[4] ΦΕΚ (Official Journal) B 1423, 12/06/2013, available in Greek at:
http://www.et.gr/index.php/daily-publications
[5] Statement made by as Makis Voitsidis, the head of the Journalists' Union in northern Greece. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22879269
[6] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22879269
[7] The text of the Protocol on the system of public broadcasting in the Member States reads as follows: "The High Contracting Parties, considering that the system of public broadcasting in the Member States is directly related to the democratic, social and cultural needs of each society and to the need to preserve media pluralism, have agreed upon the following interpretive provisions, which shall be annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty establishing the European Community: The provisions of the Treaties shall be without prejudice to the competence of Member States to provide for the funding of public service broadcasting and insofar as such funding is granted to broadcasting organizations for the fulfillment of the public service remit, as conferred, defined and organized by each Member State, and insofar as such funding does not affect trading conditions and competition in the Union to an extent which would be contrary to the common interest, while the realization of the remit of that public service shall be taken into account"
[8] Article 7(1) TEU lays down that, on a reasoned proposal by one third of the Member States, by the European Parliament or by the European Commission, the Council may determine that there is a clear risk of a serious breach by a Member State of the values referred to in Article 2 TEU. In order to make this decision, the Council must act by a majority of four fifths of its members after hearing the Member State in question and after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament. Article 7(2) TEU establishes the procedure that the institutions need to follow in order to ascertain whether a Member State commits a serious and persistent breach of the Union's founding principles. In this case, one third of the Member States or the Commission call on the European Council to decide whether the alleged violation has indeed taken place. This provision requires the European Council to act by unanimity after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament. In this case, Article 7(2) TEU would apply because the act of legislative content was effectively immediately after its publication in the Official Journal
[9] Symvoulio tis Epikrateias, Prosorini diatagi 17/06/2013, available at: http://www.ste.gr/portal/page/portal/StE/ProsfatesApofaseis#a268 It is worth noting, however, that this decision concerned ERT's union of employees request to open ERT and, having this "labor law" orientation, does not refer to any of the provisions that were analyzed in this part
[10] You may find an interesting analysis here: http://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2013/06/17/greece-the-ert-shutdown-explosive-new-evidence-of-eu-dirty-tricks/ On the Commission's position see: http://www.tanea.gr/news/politics/article/5024370/komision-den-zhthsame-to-kleisimo-ths-ert/
[11] http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_12/06/2013_503983
[12] http://www3.ebu.ch/cms/en/sites/ebu/contents/news/2013/06/monitor-ert-online.html
[13] This is a soft-law instrument which lays down the conditions under which measures supporting public broadcasters comply with EU law. Communication 2009/C 257/01 of the European Commission on the Application of the State aid rules to Public Service Broadcasting [2009] OJ C257/01
[14] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22879269
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Phil on July 4, 2013 11:58 am
I agree with many of your conclusions regarding the management of ERT both materially and within the Greek public consciousness. Many foreign public service broadcasters appear to operate very effectively and remain impartial whilst still providing excellent services using a similar flat rate subscription system to ERT. The BBC in the UK for instance provides world class programming services with very high quality output by supplementing its license revenue with commercial content sales in both domestic and foreign markets. This enables it to "punch above its weight" with regard to the level of content it can produce as well as fund important peripheral activities such as best of breed web services, and digital content output through a huge number of media delivery systems. It is vital that ERT continues its role as its demise would plunge Greece into the dark ages with regard to the availability and dissemination of unbiased news content. A very well considered article.
Konstantina Bania on July 4, 2013 1:28 pm
Many thanks for your comments Phil. The BBC is undoubtedly the mother of all public broadcasters. It has managed not only to successfully penetrate new content markets but also to establish a transparent system to ensure that the granting of State funds to support new media services is not to the detriment of the taxpayers (it's no wonder why the BBC Public Value Test inspired the European Commission when the latter revised its Broadcasting Communication, see similarities between the British PVT and the Amsterdam test proposed by the Commission). Unfortunately, not every public broadcaster functions like the BBC. You may find interesting an article published in Spiegel which compares ERT and the German public broadcasters, ARD and ZDF, to conclude that the latter cost Germans way more than ERT does Greeks (proportionally speaking of course, e.g. on the basis of average income, population, etc.) If you read German, the article is available here: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/so-teuer-sind-ard-und-zdf-im-vergleich-zu-griechenlands-rundfunk-a-905375.html For those of you that read Greek, you may find comments on this article here: http://www.tanea.gr/news/greece/article/5023683/spiegel-giati-den-kanoyn-ta-germanika-kanalia-zdf-kai-ard-gia-protypa-ths-ert/ and http://www.koutipandoras.gr/38010/to-spiegel-καταρρίπτει-τον-κυβερνητικό-μύθο-τ.html
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LDs usually win out in any sound format due to using untouched or less manipulated audio mixes. This explains why even 384 kbp/s lossy Ac3 tracks from LD can outdo lossless later releases.
Older films-even classic titles in mono-can sound better due to a lack of noise filtering, EQ, and overzealous corrections being applied these days.
But in terms of DTS it's really dependent on the mix and how it was treated over time. A number of DTS LDs were released on DVD before they halved the bitrate. Many were reissues of titles that already had releases in ac3.
Unfortunately due the rarity and value I've only heard a few and own three. But I will admit after many, MANY comparisons across formats that I do give the slight nod to the DTS LDs for these three titles as just having extra potency and a slight bit more enjoyment.
Those are: The Shadow, Goldeneye and Tomorrow Never Dies. These are three of my favorite sounding films ever made, good demo titles and still sound great today-particularly the latter. Each has a BD release with lossless audio that seems relatively untouched yet when compared, the LD DTS simply sounds a tad better.
I've compared these against: DVD ac3, DVD DTS, LD ac3, LD PCM Dolby Surround and HDMA tracks from their respective BLu-ray releases. Heck I even compared to VHS hifi and the mono folddowns.
TND is the same mix on all releases but while clarity is gained going from 2.0 to 5,1 ac3, the DTS has an additional clarity to it that is hard to define. I think the reason the DTS audio sounds better is perhaps that the BD audio may have been slightly EQd or something but they are admittedly very close.
On the other hand Goldeneye is not the same on all releases-all 2.0 and 5.1 ac3 tracks on Laserdisc and the initial DVDs have a very heavy bass that magnifies into a super hot LFE track in the ac3 track. This is not on the LD DTS or any other release, but the LD DTS is noticeably clearer sounding and more balanced.
The LD of Goldeneye (which I bought when it was brand new and cost a princely sum) has bass which is really overbearing, and you can feel it in both your fillings and your colon. Whilst some might relish the prospect, it just sounds as though something wasn't quite right when they were transferring the stems.
My recommendation for BD arse-kicking audio is Alien Resurrection. The piece with the ship exploding mops the floor with any other incarnation.
Holy cow this thread is still going. I've had to get rid of all my DTS LaserDiscs and only keep Nightmare Before Christmas along with my other releases of Nightmare Before Christmas but having that setup was really nice though I never heard JP or Lost World any other way which was enjoyable at the time.
I have The Crow (dts) and it sounds fantastic.
The only Laserdisc titles I have in my collection are titles that have not been released yet on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D, standard Blu-ray, or DVD. The only exception to that rule is if only the Laserdisc version has the extended directors cut. Then the Laserdisc or DVD version is better since the entire extended movie exists.
There are many titles that were released on Laserdisc and DVD that well never see a Blu-ray version released. I also have some 1080i D-VHS titles. It happens with every format, when the new and improved format comes out certain older titles never make it to that new and improved optical format.
Laserdisc DTS is 1.5Mbps. Blu-ray DTS-HD MA is lossless. Laserdisc is about as relevant today as cassettes are.
Most of the time Laserdisc has a better sound quality then the DVD format. When DVD first came out in 1997 for the first couple of years there was many single layer 4.7GB releases with some digital video artifacts and Laserdisc had a slight edge in picture quality for a very short period of time in 1997 and 1998. However as the studios moved to anamorphic widescreen dual layer 8.5GB movie releases, DVD clearly had a better picture then Laserdisc since the digital artifact issue at higher bit rates was very hard to see for most people. Plus DVD had native component video which was better then Laserdiscs native composite video.
Also Laserdiscs had 2.0 PCM studio master soundtracks and most of the time DVD would not use 2.0 PCM since it took up too much space on the disc. Both Laserdisc and DVD had lossy 5.1 DTS and Dolby Digital, however it was extremely rare for a DVD movie to get a 1.54 Mbps DTS soundtrack and instead received half the bit rate for DTS audio when compared to Laserdiscs full 1.54Mbps DTS soundtrack. When it comes to DTS soundtracks for 99% of the movies, Laserdisc sounded better then DVD.
Overall I and most consumers preferred DVD when compared to the Laserdisc format since overall DVD was a better quality format that had the potential to use high bit rate DTS and high bit rate NTSC video that out performed the Laserdisc format. That is why the 1978 Laserdisc format died around the year 2000, just 3 short years after the DVD format came out.
Yes of course 4K Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray has a much better picture and sound quality when compared to both DVD and Laserdisc. Lossless audio with 11.1 DTS X and 11.1 Dolby ATMOS on top of a 3840 x 2160P picture quality with HDR is the way to go.


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New methods, old scandals: Why MPs' social media histories aren't as significant as you think
Ben Bradley and Jared O'Mara have both fallen foul of a very new type of scandal. Or have they?
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A sign of the times? Newly installed Conservative vice-chair for young people and MP for Mansfield Ben Bradley has had to apologise after BuzzFeed revealed that he had called for the unemployed to be given vasectomies and warned that an overly-generous welfare would lead to the emergence of a "vast sea of wasters" in a 2012 blogpost (he was 23 at the time). He said that "his time in politics has allowed me to mature and I now realize that this language is not appropriate". Downing Street have said that they won't be sacking him.
In late 2017, Jared O'Mara, briefly the Labour MP for Sheffield Hallam, lost the whip and his place on the women and equalities select committee after a slew of forum posts of a homophobic and sexist he made throughout his 20s emerged. (He is still an MP but is highly unlikely to regain the party whip.)
And in 2015, Mhairi Black, the then newly-elected SNP MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, made headlines for expletive-laden tweets she sent as a 15-year-old about her nights out.
What all three politicians have in common is that they are under the age of 40: O'Mara is 36, Bradley 28, and Black is 23. They have all grown up predominantly online, and are in some ways the first of their kind: MPs who take office with a large back catalogue of remarks made on the Internet.
However, the differences are just as important as the similarities. Black's posts probably if anything helped the SNP as while they were unusual for a politician they were exactly what you'd expect an ordinary teenager to do online. As one problem all parties have is that they are seen as the preserve of an eccentric elite, this was all to the good as far as the perception of the SNP as a different kind of party went.
There were three problems with Jared O'Mara's posts. The first was that they fed into the idea that recent allegations against him of misogynistic behaviour were more likely to be true. The second was that after he gave a moving apology for posts made in his early 20s, causing Labour MPs from across the party to row behind him, it emerged that he had made posts in his late 20s and was accused of bad behaviour just weeks before his election. One reason why he is unlikely to be welcomed back to Labour any time soon is that a number of MPs feel as if they were lied to and subsequently humiliated when more information about his behaviour came out.
The third was that the content of his remarks were unacceptable to the vast bulk of MPs and activists in the Labour party. They were also unpalatable to the country at large but that's a secondary issue. Bradley's remarks are unacceptable to people in the Labour party, and would have resulted in his suspension, but there is a large constituency in the country for hostile rhetoric to people on social security. The crucial difference between the two is that the ideas behind O'Mara's remarks are unacceptable within the Labour party but the policies that Bradley wrote in support of are still party policy, while the broader sentiment, while fringe, is given house room in in the Conservative Party.
But the risk they pose to the Conservative Party is that while the remarks in the abstract are not unpopular, they feed into a negative perception of the Tory party that the appointment of Bradley and the other 11 vice-chairs at CCHQ is meant to counteract rather than to reinforce.
It is a source of no small amount of irritation to Conservatives that Labour have not yet acquired a reputation for nastiness, but they haven't, so the O'Mara scandal just isn't as damaging to the Opposition.
The interesting question is whether or not these new scandals are a sign of things to come, a strange interregnum in which politicians with a large digital footprint are judged more harshly than their peers or just more of the same.
On balance, I'm inclined to think that this is one area where digital politics hasn't changed as much as we think. Politics has always had politicians or parties who have sought to present themselves as different or "ordinary" – Black's tweets weren't part of a conspiracy to do so but they certainly helped. There have always been a few candidates elected in surprising circumstances, who, like O'Mara, have rapidly been at the centre of questions over whether or not they are effective. And every time a Conservative politician has been rolled out to demonstrate "change", some story from their past has been unearthed which they've had to disavow with varying degrees of success.
The age of the internet has changed the medium, and perhaps increased the speed, but not really the process. At least: not yet.
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Ambulances carrying coronavirus patients forced to queue outside hospitals
By PA News
| Updated: 07:12, 30 December 2020
Ambulances with Covid-19 patients have been seen queueing outside hospitals in England as the Health Secretary prepares to announce tougher restrictions amid surging cases.
Footage on social media appeared to show emergency vehicles lined up outside the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel and Queen's Hospital in Romford, both in east London, on Tuesday, when NHS Providers' deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery warned pressure on the NHS was "rising at an unsustainable rate".
The College of Paramedics' spokesman Martin Berry said first responders were under unprecedented pressure.
"The demand on the system and the people within that system is at a level we've never had to contend with before," he told the BBC. "It's utterly heartbreaking."
A statement released by the Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Queen's Hospital, urged people to only contact ambulance services in the case of real emergencies.
Ambulances outside Queen's Hospital in Romford (PA)
"Along with the rest of the NHS, we are under considerable pressure as we look after a rising number of Covid-19 patients, some of whom are being cared for safely in ambulances before entering Queen's Hospital," it said.
"You can help us by calling NHS 111 if you need medical advice, and only coming to our emergency departments in a real emergency."
Coronavirus patient numbers have reached their highest levels during the pandemic, with 51,135 further cases and 414 deaths reported on Tuesday.
These ambulances are queuing outside Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham tonight. There's a sick patient inside every one of them. They can't even enter the building.
This is the reality of Covid – right here, right now. Hospitals at breaking point. (H/T @drpunith) pic.twitter.com/YlKLH8GBUW
— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) December 29, 2020
The Barts Health NHS Trust, which is responsible for Royal London Hospital, said in a statement it had opened an extra coronavirus ward on Sunday.
"We are treating very high numbers of patients with Covid-19 across our hospitals, and in line with our winter escalation plan we have moved into a 'very high pressure' phase and taking steps to keep our patients safe," it added in its statement on Tuesday.
Ambulances were also shown queueing outside Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
Palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke tweeted a photo, taken by registrar Punith Kempegowda, with the caption noting there was a "sick patient inside every one" of the vehicles.
Daily confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the UK (PA Graphics)
"This is the reality of Covid – right here, right now. Hospitals are at breaking point," Dr Clarke said.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is expected to tell the Commons on Wednesday more areas in England will be placed under the country's toughest coronavirus restrictions.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson chaired a meeting of the Government's Covid-19 Operations committee on Tuesday evening, when changes to the tier system were discussed.
Areas that may be moved from Tier 3 to Tier 4 due to increasing case rates include parts of the East Midlands, such as Northamptonshire and Leicestershire, as well as all areas of the West Midlands metropolitan county.
Hartlepool in north-east England, along with a handful of areas in Lancashire – Blackburn with Darwen, Burnley, Pendle and Ribble Valley – could also be upgraded from Tier 3 to 4.
The Times reported ministers are also considering imposing the country's toughest measures on parts of the south-west and Cumbria.


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In this, the penultimate part of this extended essay analyzing the recent decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice [CCJ] on the constitutionality of section 153 (1)(xlvii) of the Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act of Guyana, we examine the disposal of the first two of the claims made by the appellants. Readers will recall that this section criminalizes cross-dressing by men or women for an improper purpose not further specified. Last week, we treated the applicability of the savings law clause that the respondent prosecution had prayed in aid to justify the constitutionality of the provision.
In the view of Saunders, there were essentially four issues that arose for determination by the Court. These were, namely, whether the section violated the appellants' rights to equality and non-discrimination guaranteed to them by the Guyana Constitution; whether it violated their identically guaranteed right to freedom of expression; whether it offended the principles of the rule of law in light of the vagueness of the provision, especially with regard to the terms "improper purpose", "male attire" and "female attire"; and whether the reproving remarks of the Magistrate were appropriate and, if not, their consequence.
The argument of the appellants here was that the cross-dressing law infringed their fundamental rights in these regards because it is rooted in gender stereotypes of how women and men should dress. They averred that the section treats transgendered and gender-non-conforming persons unfavourably by criminalising their gender expression and gender identity in violation of Article 149D of the Constitution. That Article focuses squarely on inequality before the law and is distinct from, albeit complementary to, Article 149(1) that prohibits discrimination on specified grounds..
At the heart of the right to equality and non-discrimination lies a recognition that a fundamental goal of any constitutional democracy is to develop a society in which all citizens are respected and regarded as equal… Article 149 signifies a commitment to recognising each person's dignity and equal worth as a human being despite individual differences.
The constitutional promise of equality prohibits the State from prescribing legislative distinctions or other measures that treat a group of persons as second-class citizens or in any way that otherwise offends their dignity as human beings.
It was held ultimately that the section could not be reasonably justified in a democratic society such as Guyana because the section conduces to the stigmatization of those who do not conform to traditional gendered clothing and, mostly, because it criminalizes aspects of their way of life, thus enabling the State to unleash its full might against them… therefore section 153(1)(xlvii) violates Articles 149(1) and 149D of the Constitution.
Because it underpins and reinforces many of the other fundamental rights, freedom of expression is rightly regarded as the cornerstone of any democracy. A regime that unduly constrains free speech produces harm, not just to the individual whose expression is denied, but also to society as a whole. On the one hand, the human spirit is stultified. On the other, social progress is retarded. The fates of brilliant persons like Galileo, and Darwin, and countless others, sung and unsung, betray a familiar pattern in the history of humankind. Today's heresy may easily become tomorrow's gratefully embraced orthodoxy.
A person's choice of attire is inextricably bound up with the expression of his or her gender identity, autonomy and individual liberty. How individuals choose to dress and present themselves is integral to their right to freedom of expression. This choice, in our view, is an expressive statement protected under the right to freedom of expression.
This latter issue implicates the criminalization of the wearing of any form of camouflage clothing in Barbados. This has not been challenged to my best knowledge, but it would be of interest to debate whether it is reasonably required in all cases in the public interest.
Next week- The rule of law and the magisterial reproof.
That man is a Lexicunt!
It is NOT ILLEGAL to wear facsimile police clothing which is the point that you are making?
If you get such garb AND THEN PROCEED TO PRETEND THAT YOU ARE AN OFFICER, that is the crime.
The garb that circulates around Halloween for example is not authentic but carried specific differences in their design.
I can for example wear an official police shirt during official celebrations of say police week.
Ignore the Lexicunt and revert to the substantive article.
I am again asking the Luminary Jeff Cumberbatch if a fellow was to put on a camouflage outfit, could such a person rely on him to defend them in a court of law?
And would he stake his reputation that the party would get off? and not get locked up?
I did not realise that laws varied around the world. Thanks for telling me.


Dear Friends,                     The ability to look with out motive is missing in the world today, butone has to understand very clearly that every body is psychological creature,wanting to assign meaning to everything. Spirituality is not about looking forgod, truth or the ultimate. It is all about enhancing about our perception. MasterBuddha says "one should stop explaining after a certain level as the peopleunderstands from the perception level. Lord Hanuman never looked for anythingin his life & expected any thing from his master Sri Ram. His celibacynature is to teach people how to pass through in difficult times.If one wants to know spirituality, don't look for any thing, just learnto look.
path of self-realization leads to moksha marga.
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> > I find the name obscure. Where does it come from?
> Yes, it is somewhat obscure. It comes from "expr_int_format".
> > You should probably check that argv is 0.
> but this doesn't affect the algorithm, it uses only first character.
Patch applied, further tweaking can be done later.


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namespace Sylius\Bundle\ThemeBundle\Configuration\Test;

use Sylius\Bundle\ThemeBundle\Configuration\ConfigurationSourceFactoryInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Config\Definition\Builder\ArrayNodeDefinition;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\ContainerBuilder;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Definition;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Parameter;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Reference;

/**
 * @author Kamil Kokot <kamil@kokot.me>
 */
final class TestConfigurationSourceFactory implements ConfigurationSourceFactoryInterface
{
    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function buildConfiguration(ArrayNodeDefinition $node)
    {
        // no configuration
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
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    public function initializeSource(ContainerBuilder $container, array $config)
    {
        $container->setDefinition(
            'sylius.theme.test_theme_configuration_manager',
            new Definition(TestThemeConfigurationManager::class, [
                new Reference('sylius.theme.configuration.processor'),
                new Parameter('kernel.cache_dir'),
            ])
        );

        return new Definition(TestConfigurationProvider::class, [
            new Reference('sylius.theme.test_theme_configuration_manager'),
        ]);
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritdoc}
     */
    public function getName()
    {
        return 'test';
    }
}

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911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet: Fuel consumption combined 9.0 l/100 km; CO2 emissions 207 g/km
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Porsche Arena to become the "Centre of Attraction"
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Top sport and excellent entertainment
Stuttgart. A top-class main draw field and an attractive supporting program of events will transform Stuttgart's Porsche Arena into the "Centre of Attraction" – the motto of the 42nd Porsche Tennis Grand Prix – from April 20 to 28. Headed by the Japanese shooting star Naomi Osaka, the new number 1, eight Top 10 stars plus the Top 8 of the Porsche Race to Shenzhen ranking will compete for prize money totaling 662,000 euro. The winner will additionally receive a Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet as the main prize.
For the first time since 2012, all the current Grand Slam winners will be appearing in in Stuttgart: Osaka, who won the US Open in 2018 and then the Australian Open in 2019, will be joined by the Porsche Brand Ambassador Angelique Kerber (Germany/number 8) as the 2018 Wimbledon champion and Simona Halep (Romania/number 2), the winner of last year's French Open. The ensemble of Top 10 stars in the high-class field is completed by Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic /number 3), the leader in the Porsche Race to Shenzhen, Sloane Stephens (USA/number 4), title-holder Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic/number 5) plus Elina Svitolina (Ukraine/number 6), who triumphed at the 2018 WTA Finals, and Kiki Bertens (Netherlands/number 7). In addition to the two-time Porsche Tennis Grand Prix winner Kerber (2015, 2016), three other former Stuttgart winners – Julia Görges (Germany/2011), Maria Sharapova (Russia/2012, 2013, 2014) and wildcard holder Laura Siegemund (Germany/2017) – will also be competing. Another wildcard holder, Andrea Petkovic (Germany) will also be in the main draw of the WTA Tour's Premier 700 event.
"We're delighted we can once again offer our audience such a fantastic field containing all the current Grand Slam winners and eight of the world's Top 10 players. For me, it's a guarantee for exciting and high-class matches," said Tournament Director Markus Günthardt. Anke Huber, the Operating Tournament Director, is particularly looking forward to Naomi Osaka: "For us it's a special honor that she, the new world number 1 and momentarily the most interesting player on the WTA Tour, has decided to come to our tournament."
Two other Grand Slam winners will also be appearing at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, namely the Spaniard Garbine Muguruza (2016 French Open, 2017 Wimbledon) and the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko (2017 French Open). Fans in Stuttgart can also look forward to the Russian Daria Kasatkina, one of 2018's most improved players, the Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia and the Swiss Belinda Bencic, who in February celebrated an impressive return to the top of the women's game when winning the 2.8 million-dollar tournament in Dubai.
Special opening tiebreak event
Spectators at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix will be treated to the first highlight right away at the start of the main draw matches. After the successful premiere in 2018 – won by Julia Görges – six top players will go head-to-head in the Turkish Airlines Tiebreak on Monday, 22 April at 6.30 pm CET. A spectacular contest based on the system at the WTA Finals in Shenzhen whereby three players in two groups will play a champions tiebreak against each other. The group winners will go through to the final. Awaiting the winner are one million bonus miles from Turkish Airlines.
The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix begins on Saturday, April 20 at 10.00 am (all times are CET) with the qualification which will continue on Sunday, April 21 from 11.00 am. Montag, April 22's schedule, which begins at 11.30 am, includes the qualification finals and the first main draw matches. The start of play from Tuesday, April 23 to Thursday, April 25 is at 11.30 am. The first quarterfinal commences on Friday, April 26 at 1.30 pm. On Saturday, April 27, the first semifinal will start at 3.30 pm and the second at 6.30 pm. The doubles final is scheduled for Sunday, April 28 at and will be followed by the singles final at 4.00 pm.
Live on TV
From Monday to Sunday, the most attractive matches at the 42nd Porsche Tennis Grand Prix can be viewed on the long-time TV partners SWR and Eurosport as well as on the streaming channel DAZN. The final on Sunday, April 28 will be shown live by the SWR regional broadcaster. Should a German reach the final then it will be transmitted by the national ARD channel. At the start of the week on Monday, April 22, Eurosport will televise the Turkish Airlines Tiebreak live from 6.30 pm. Every Centre Court match can be viewed as a livestream in DAZN. The n-tv news channel will broadcast the day's highlights from Thursday, April 25.
Tickets for the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix are available at Easy Ticket Service (Tel: +49 711 255 55 55) or online at www.easyticket.de.
Porsche und Tennis
The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix forms the spearhead of the sportscar maker's successful involvement in women's tennis. Held for the first time in 1978, it quickly developed into one of the showcase tournaments on the worldwide WTA Tour. As a Premium Partner of the "Deutsche Tennis Bund" (DTB – German Tennis Association), Porsche has been supporting the Porsche Team Germany in the Fed Cup since 2012 and fosters up-and coming players within the Porsche Talent Team set-up. The world class players Maria Sharapova, Angelique Kerber and Julia Görges all represent the company as Brand Ambassadors. As a part of its successful partnership with the WTA, Porsche is the title partner of the Porsche Race to Shenzhen, the official qualification ranking for the WTA Finals that will take place for the first time in the modern metropolis in south-east China from October 27 to November 3 2019. Porsche is the exclusive automotive partner of the WTA and WTA Finals as well as the automotive partner of the WTA tournaments in St. Petersburg (Russia) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates).
The entry list
Porsche Race
to Shenzhen
1 1 2 Osaka, Naomi JPN
2 2 8 Halep, Simona ROU
3 3 1 Kvitova, Petra CZE
4 4 34 Stephens, Sloane USA
5 5 3 Pliskova, Karolina CZE
6 6 5 Svitolina, Elina UKR
7 7 6 Bertens, Kiki NED
8 8 16 Kerber, Angelique GER
9 11 32 Sevastova, Anastasija LAT
10 14 99 Kasatkina, Daria RUS
11 15 25 Görges, Julia GER
12 16 10 Mertens, Elise BEL
13 18 67 Wang, Qiang CHN
14 19 64 Garcia, Caroline FRA
15 20 23 Muguruza, Garbine ESP
16 21 40 Kontaveit, Anett EST
17 22 103 Ostapenko, Jelena LAT
18 23 4 Bencic, Belinda SUI
19 25 7 Collins, Danielle USA
20 26 13 Vekic, Donna CRO
21 27 12 Hsieh, Su-Wie TPE
22* 29 29 Sharapova, Maria RUS
23** 68 170 Petkovic, Andrea GER
24** 105 116 Siegemund, Laura GER
* Top 20 Wildcard
** Wildcard
Image material available in the Porsche Newsroom (http://newsroom.porsche.com) and the Porsche press database (https://presse.porsche.de).
911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet: Fuel consumption combined 9.0 l/100 km; CO2 emissions combined 207 g/km.
The consumption and CO2 emission values were determined in accordance with the new Worldwide Harmonized Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP). The NEDC values derived from this should continue to be specified for the time being. These values cannot be compared to the values determined in accordance with the NEDC measuring procedure used up to now.
Further information on the official fuel consumption and official, specific CO2 emissions of new passenger cars is available in the "Guidelines on fuel consumption, CO2 emissions and power consumption of new passenger cars" [Leitfaden über den Kraftstoffverbrauch, die CO2-Emissionen und den Stromverbrauch neuer Personenkraftwagen], which are available free of charge from all sales outlets and from Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH (DAT).
Communications, Sustainability and Politics
Sports Communications
Markus Rothermel
Phone: +49 (0) 711 / 911 25117
E-mail: markus.rothermel@porsche.de
Englisch (Porsche AG)
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Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Naomi Osaka (JPN)
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Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Simona Halep (ROU)
T19_0094: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Petra Kvitova (CZE)
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Petra Kvitova (CZE)
T19_0093: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Sloane Stephens (USA)
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Sloane Stephens (USA)
T19_0091: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Karolina Pliskova (CZE), defending champion
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Karolina Pliskova (CZE), defending champion
718 Boxster GTS: Fuel consumption combined 9.2 l/100 km; CO2 emissions 210 g/km
T19_0090: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Elina Svitolina (UKR)
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Elina Svitolina (UKR)
T19_0089: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Kiki Bertens (NED)
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Kiki Bertens (NED)
T19_0088: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Angelique Kerber (GER), Porsche Brand Ambassador, Porsche Team Germany
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Angelique Kerber (GER), Porsche Brand Ambassador, Porsche Team Germany
T19_0087: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Maria Sharapova (RUS), Porsche Brand Ambassador
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Maria Sharapova (RUS), Porsche Brand Ambassador
T19_0086: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Julia Görges (GER), Porsche Brand Ambassador, Porsche Team Germany
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Julia Görges (GER), Porsche Brand Ambassador, Porsche Team Germany
T19_0085: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Garbine Muguruza (ESP)
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Garbine Muguruza (ESP)
T19_0084: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Laura Siegemund (GER), Porsche Team Germany
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Laura Siegemund (GER), Porsche Team Germany
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Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Anastasija Sevastova (LAT)
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Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Andrea Petkovic (GER), Porsche Team Germany
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Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Daria Kasatkina (RUS)
T19_0098: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Caroline Garcia (FRA)
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Caroline Garcia (FRA)
T19_0097: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)
T19_0102: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Belinda Bencic (SUI)
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: Belinda Bencic (SUI)
T19_0101: Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: The Porsche Arena
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix: The Porsche Arena


Are you ready to take your HR Career to the Executive Level but are not sure what you need to do to make it happen?
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Hosted by the Coastal Vancouver Advisory Council Networking Team: Kathryn Moore, Lorelei Russell, MJ Muhle, Katie Wong & Sarah Kelvin-Davies.
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Residents of Maitama in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) yesterday, witnessed another earth tremor; in the early hours of the day.
In a statement from the National Geological Survey Agency (NGSA), preliminary findings indicated that the incident occurred around 12:26pm, around the vicinity of Panama Street in Maitama District.
NGSA stated that after field evaluations and on-the-spot assessments, it was determined that the intensity was about 3.0 on the Mercalli Intensity Scale, which means it was felt indoors and lasted less than one minute.
"An internal response protocol was immediately activated and relevant government agencies and stakeholders were informed. These were the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the FCT. These agencies responded promptly and arrived at the scene, which was reassuring to the residents of the locality.
"Further inspections revealed no structural damage because of the shake and hence, NEMA was briefed by the NGSA.
"Residents were consequently reassured that there was no cause for panic.


Cameron Helm began the term coming up to speed on SPARQL and RDF, experimented with several of the public TWC endpoints, and then worked with Philip on basic visualizations. He then slashed his way through the tutorials on TWC's LOGD Portal, eventually creating impressive visualizations such as this earthquake map. Cameron is very interested in the subject of data visualization and looks to do more work in this area in the future.
Philip Ng worked on a wide variety of projects this fall, starting with basic visualizations, helping with ISWC applications, and including iPad development for the Mobile Wine Agent. Philip's blog is fascinating to read as he works his way through the challenges of creating applications, including his multi-part series on implementing the social media features.


Welcome to Australia's first heritage listed city which is now alongside the Australian War Memorial, the Sydney Opera House and the Great Barrier Reef. The city of Broken Hill has developed as a vibrant mecca for artists and filmmakers, a long way from its roots as the site of the richest deposit of silver, lead and zinc the world has ever seen.
Today Broken Hill is still a working town, mining is still a major economic driver and in conjunction with the environment, agriculture, art and tourism – the city is buzzing! Not to mention the stunning, outback landscapes that surround this truly Australian city. You'll really love the authentic and genuine people, history and landscapes.
A visit to the Outback of New South Wales begins in Broken Hill, be prepared to be inspired, because once you've been here you'll understand why the locals love their place.
Tablet Version: Discover Mildura's wonderful history and cosmopolitan culture all in one with the Happee Trails Mildura ebook guide. We take you on a range of journeys that include heritage, food and fun including thefootsteps of the Mildura River Walk, Art Deco Trail, Chaffey Trail and more.
Australia's iconic Darling River Run is available as this easy to use ebook guide. Follow the outback NSW river all the way to Wentworth, NSW and enjoy the stories and local outback sights including the legendary Broken Hill and Silverton as a side trip and the world heritage Mungo National Park.
Once Wentworth was one of the busiest river ports on the Murray Darling river system, Wentworth today has a small village feel packed with plenty of history and stunning views. From the junction of the Murray Darling Rivers to the ancient sands of the Perry Sandhills you'll love exploring this town by foot, bike or car.
Cruising the Murray River on your very own floating hotel is a great holiday experience. This very large, definitive tablet guide aims to help you find boats, learn about what to take, river environment information and much more. It's a comprehensive guide that's easy to look through where you can enjoy your next houseboat holiday!
Adelaide is the perfect place to explore on foot or bike. Here are 8 walks that take in stunning architecture, river strolls, beautiful gardens, unique history, shopping and much more. In fact you'll love the diversity of our Adelaide City Walks ebook guide as your visual and interactive companion as you explore this beautiful city on your tablet.
Robinvale Euston are on a fantastic stretch of the Murray River between Mildura and Swan Hill. Robinvale is also very much entrenched in Australia's war heritage as a twin-town with Villers-Bretonneux, France. You can explore this history and much more with this eBook guide.