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In 1923, in the year that Esther S Dunn was born, on September 1, an earthquake - the Great Kanto earthquake - destroyed one-third of Tokyo. Measuring 7.9 and with a reported duration of between 4 and 10 minutes, casualties totaled about 142,800 deaths, including about 40,000 who went missing and were presumed dead.
In 1931, she was merely 8 years old when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.
In 1944, Esther was 21 years old when on June 22nd, the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, called the G.I. Bill, was signed into law, pushed through by the veteran's organizations. Benefits provided for veterans to return to school (high school, vocational school, or college), obtain low interest home mortgages and low interest business loans, and (if needed) one year of unemployment insurance. Since most returning vets immediately found work, less than 20% of the unemployment benefits were distributed.
In 1958, at the age of 35 years old, Esther was alive when on March 24th, Elvis Presley was inducted into the United States Army. Although he could have served in Special Services as an entertainer, he chose to become a regular soldier. Almost everyone thought it would be the end of his career - it wasn't.
In 1992, Esther was 69 years old when on April 29th, riots began in Los Angeles after the "Rodney King" verdict was issued. Four LAPD officers had been accused of using excessive force (assault) on African-American Rodney King, who had been stopped for drunk driving. The beating had been videotaped. Their acquittal sparked a 6 day riot in Los Angeles.
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Jun 8, 1927 - Sep 22, 2000
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May 13, 1921 - Mar 4, 1990
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May 6, 1922 - Feb 18, 1995
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Originally, Buchteln were a Bohemian sweet dish. However, in the course of time they have become part of the traditional Austrian cuisine.
Grammatically, a singular form of Buchteln, namely Buchtel, exists. Yet hardly anyone would make use of the singular form; somehow, the plural, Buchteln, makes more sense. Some say that yeast dough is a rather challenging dough to prepare. Honestly, I do not know a lot of people who have problems with it. It is probably just me who thinks that. Why is that so? What makes it challenging?
One possible answer to that would be the use of yeast for the dough. In general, yeasts – indeed there is a plural form – can be classified as fungi. Their significant attribute is that they can ferment sugars in order to produce ethanol. They can be found on some plants and flowers, on the surface of skins as well as in the intestinal tract of warm-blooded species. It is important for us to know that yeasts are used, for instance, in the production of alcoholic beverages and in the baking industry. Firstly, in the production of beer, for example, two types of brewing exist: bottom-fermenting and top-fermenting. Top-fermenting yeasts, on the one hand, are able to produce a bigger alcohol level and need higher temperatures during the production process. Hence, they produce sweeter and ale-type beers. Bottom-fermenting yeasts, on the other hand, are able to ferment more sugars and need lower temperatures during the production process. These kinds of yeasts are used to produce lager-beers rather than ale-type beers. Secondly, in the baking industry yeasts are an important ingredient. Here, yeasts help with the fermentation of sugars that are either in the flour or added separately. The fermentation process emits two gases: ethanol and carbon dioxide. These two gases are the actual reason why bread dough or any kind of yeast dough rises significantly within some time. In order to get nice, fluffy dough, the right combination of flour, milk and yeast is needed.
Coming back to the introductory question why yeast doughs are rather challenging, you could add yet another obvious reason: they are - to some extent - time consuming. This is indispensable as dough – with the yeast in it – needs to rise, and this takes some time. Today, however, no one has time to do anything, let alone to make yeast dough.
The joy for cooking and baking should be in the foreground in today's hectic society. So, take your time and try this traditional Austrian sweet dish that I picked for you. I promise, it does not matter if you use either the singular or the plural form. As long as it tastes good, you don't have to worry.
Scald milk by bringing it to at least 180 °F (82 °C) and let it cool.
Put the yeast in a small bowl and add some lukewarm milk to it. Add a teaspoon of sugar. Let it rest for a moment, as yeast in general needs some time to ferment.
When ready, add it to the bowl with the flour. Put the remaining sugar into the bowl. Before adding the butter, be sure it has reached at least room temperature. Add the eggs as well as a pinch of salt. Finally, add ground lemon peel.
Knead it until you get nice, smooth dough.
Take a cloth and cover the bowl. Let it rest until it has risen significantly.
In the meantime, prepare a baking pan, preferably of about 5 to 10 cm height. Oil or butter the pan thoroughly. Don't spare.
When ready, take the dough and put it on a clean, floured surface. Roll the dough to 1cm thickness. Divide it so that you get equal quads of about 4 x 4 square centimeters each. Fill each quad with your favorite jam. Bind the 4 angles of the quad and roll it in your hand. Place the small heaps side by side in a baking pan. Cover them with a cloth once more and let them rest for 20 minutes, then put them into the oven.
Bake them until they are golden brown.
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For extra taste, you may also serve them with some vanilla sauce.
↑ Original weight-based recipe given in grams. Ingredient order preserved. Flour presumed as all purpose. Yeast type presumed as fresh compressed. Pinch defined as 1/16 tsp. Lemon was ambiguous, procedure texts suggests it and parenthetical means 1 lemon peel only, 1 lemon presumed to have 2 tsp of peel (minus pith). Milk, jam, and pan oil amounts unknown.
↑ Volumetric values are approximate, and were calculated from USDA National Nutrient Database data. To conserve column space, tablespoons were abbreviated as "T", and teaspoons as "t".
↑ This excessive amount of yeast will result in a strong yeast flavor. To reduce this flavor, it is recommend to use no more than 0.75% instant dry yeast expressed as a baker's %, alternatively, 2.5% cake yeast (compressed) or 1% active dry yeast, although you can expect fermentation time to increase somewhat. Further reductions will reduce yeast flavor even more, and those same reductions will result in longer times to rise during bulk ferment.
↑ A typical water amount would be 50-70% (based on flour weight), likely 57-62% depending on protein of flour, so 60% is a single average figure to work with. Eggs are 76% water, so 20% * 76% = 15.2%, which is the amount of water eggs have contributed. Butter is about 16% water, so 24% * 16% = 3.84%, or about 4%. 60% - 15% - 4% = 41%. Whole milk is about 88% water. 41% ÷ 88% ≈ 46.59%. Thus, baker's % whole milk value should be somewhere around the value of 47%. Values to try would be in the approximate range of 37-57%.
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Fatal Florida Truck Crash Has Lawmakers Looking Closer at Regulation
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A recent fatal truck accident in South Florida has lawmakers reconsidering current requirements for commercial drivers.
Truck accident attorneys in Fort Myers recognize that the question at hand is whether a driver with a poor personal driving record should be allowed to maintain a commercial license, even if the violations occurred off-the-clock.
Sen. Jeff Brandes, who chairs the Florida Senate Transportation Committee, believes that it should matter, particularly in the wake of a semi truck collision on I-75 in Hillsborough County that resulted in the death of a 42-year-old BMW driver.
According to media reports, that BMW driver was in front of a semitrailer for ABC Fine Wine & Spirits sometime around 2:30 a.m. on a Wednesday. At some point, officials say the driver of the truck pulled out to pass. In doing so, however, the truck clipped the rear of the BMW, causing the semi-truck to overturn, spilling some 30,000 pounds of alcoholic beverages onto the highway. The car was sent careening off the highway bridge and into the Alafia River, which is about five feet deep. The driver was killed on impact.
The crash caused a massive backup that shut down that stretch of highway for several hours.
While traffic homicide investigators haven't yet decided whether to charge the truck driver, what has drawn extensive attention is the trucker's personal driving history. Reports are that the 30-year-old trucker has a troubled driving record that includes more than two dozen infractions over the course of just 10 years.
Of the 27 infractions he'd racked up during that time, only two were applied to his commercial license, and even then, those were non-moving violations. The other violations were issued for things like speeding and driving with a suspended license. In fact, his license had been suspended six times during that decade.
The trucker's employer has so far refused to comment to reporters about either the crash or their driver's record. However, it doesn't appear, at least on the surface, that they did anything wrong, legally.
According to the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles, a person's past driving history doesn't disqualify him from obtaining a commercial license. The only requirements to obtain a commercial driving license in Florida are a current operator's license and passage of both written and vehicle tests.
Brandes was quoted as saying that regardless of who is ultimately found at-fault for this South Florida trucking crash, no commercial driver should be allowed to maintain a commercial driver's license with that many infractions on his or her record.
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However, those suspensions are only applicable if the person was working at the time of the offense.
Frankly, it is common sense that a history of infractions on one's personal driving record is going to come to bear on one's driving patterns in a commercial vehicle. This is not to say that individual companies don't monitor the personal history driving records of their employees. Many do. However, it isn't required, and so long as that's the case, we're going to continue seeing cases where a quick look at a driver's record will show he had no business behind the wheel of a big rig.
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Country Throwback: Miranda Lambert Belts 'Tin Man' on Bathroom Floor in 2017
by Thad Mitchell January 3, 2021
written by Thad Mitchell January 3, 2021
Country music superstar Miranda Lambert knows a thing or two about the feeling of a broken heart.
One of Lambert's signature songs "Tin Man" is all about dealing with a broken heart. The singer drew inspiration from the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" in writing the song. The song was co-written by Lambert with Jack Ingram and John Randall and has turned into a hit.
In "The Wizard of Oz," the tin man is a character without a heart. The tin man longs to have a heart in order to feel emotions such as love. In her song, Miranda Lambert says the tin man is lucky that he doesn't have a heart because he doesn't have to face heartbreak.
"Hey there Mr. Tin Man. You don't know how lucky you are," the song's lyrics go. The tune goes on to suggest Lambert would trade her "scarred" heart to the tin man in exchange for his armor.
In 2017, Lambert gave a rather rousing performance of the song that added emotional content to the lyrics. Sitting on her bathroom floor with an acoustic guitar, she belts out her hit song.
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The entire video is shot in black and white and features Miranda Lambert showing a full range of emotions while singing from her bathroom floor. The bathroom provides a unique and natural acoustic vibe to Lambert's rendition of the heart-wrenching hit.
Miranda Lambert Finds Success with 'Tin Man' Album
The song is featured on the singer's award-winning album "The Weight of These Wings." The hit album, one of Lambert's greatest successes, was released in November of 2016.
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The look of Birmingham's biggest bus company contributes just as much to the appearance of the city as traditional red buses do in London. After many years in the design doldrums, National Express West Midlands (NXWM) is two and a half years into a radical overhaul of the presentation of its buses. It promises to transform the way the streets of Birmingham look, and significantly for the better, as a new crimson-based visual identity sweeps across its bus fleet.
The new look is not only very attractive but also very clever, and impressively it's also a project where almost the entirety of the work has been done in-house. For NWXM's head of customer experience Adam Rideout and senior graphic designer Blake Cotterill, the new visual identity is the culmination of a much longer project to completely transform NXWM's brand from something staid and formal into a more human, customer-oriented business. They lived and breathed the rebranding exercise for about three years, and recently they were kind enough to talk me through the process.
To understand just what a revolution Rideout and Cotterill have wrought, it's instructive to look back over the series of less-than-happy series of NXWM's earlier visual identities. Back when I started at university in the mid-1990s, West Midlands Travel's ubiquitous buses ran in silver/grey with blue and red stripes. Although there were other bus operators in the city, none of them came close to making the impact that WMT's huge fleet – the ex-West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) bus operation – did.
While I was studying, the management-owned company merged with National Express and was rebranded Travel West Midlands. The name change was accompanied by a wider rebranding which saw the buses painted mainly white with red on the upper parts at the front (light blue on the buses serving Coventry) and dark blue on the lower parts at the back. You could see the thinking in terms of using colours similar to those of National Express's existing and well-recognised long-distance coach branding, but it lacked the subtlety of some of its competitors.
In 2008, short-lived chief executive Richard Bowker decided to introduce a single corporate image across National Express's coaches, buses and trains, and Travel West Midlands became National Express West Midlands, as it remains to this day.
Bowker's unfortunate solution for vehicle colour schemes was the "connections" device of diagonal grey stripes on a mostly white base. It suited the coaches, but looked dreary on the trains, and made NXWM's buses look even plainer than they already did. The blue parts of its buses vanished and they ended up being mostly white with a large block of red (or light blue) around the front and the thin grey stripes at the back.
When Bowker left less than three years after joining National Express, the unloved grey stripes vanished from NXWM's buses too, leaving them plain white and red. Somehow, despite being one of the biggest bus operations outside London, NXWM had wound up with a visual identity that didn't engage passengers, had zero appeal to tempt non-passengers on board, and wasn't even very practical because white gets dirty so easily on wet roads. The brand had wider problems, sounding stuffy and old-fashioned in its communications with passengers and the wider world.
If you're the kind of person who thinks that passengers neither notice nor care what colour their buses are, provided they turn up on time, then you might not think all this matters very much. But when Adam Rideout arrived at NXWM in 2012, initially as head of marketing, he found a company with an ethos that had, he says, "a very corporate feel, lacking in personality, which the livery complemented." And he thinks it absolutely does matter what the buses look like, just as much as whether they are punctual.
"We're no different from any other business, we have to keep innovating and moving forward. Look at what McDonald's is now doing with games in store and their customer environment, compared to the way it used it to be. Branding is part of product delivery, and if you don't work at it you'll be left behind, with people voting with their feet" he contends.
One of Rideout's early moves was bringing into the company Cotterill, who was already doing some outsourced design work for NXWM. Apart from some early input from London-based transport design agency Best Impressions, it is Cotterill and Rideout who have developed the entirety of NXWM's new look. But first, they concentrated on a change of culture within NXWM. One of the reasons that poor vehicle branding is a bad idea isn't directly connected with customer perceptions at all, but staff engagement.
We all like to feel challenged in our jobs, to have the satisfaction of a job well done. But there was little about the NXWM red and white buses that encouraged garage staff to go the extra mile to turn them out smartly. Thanks to the various subtle changes in livery over the years, there were two slightly different shades of white in use on the buses, and when panels needed replacing, garages had got into the habit of replacing the panels with the first one to hand, rather than one in the correct shade of white. It wasn't deliberate, but the drab corporate identity sent out the message the NXWM didn't care very much about its appearance, and garage staff responded accordingly; who can blame them? The result was pie-bald buses, which sent a message to people in Birmingham that NXWM didn't really care about attention to detail. That's hardly an enticement to get on board.
More widely, Cotterill challenged the corporate and sterile feel in the way NXWM conducted itself across the business, which could be found in the style and language the company used both internally & externally, for instance. He changed this in favour of communications with the public that used language slightly more like the way people actually speak.
With that work underway, by 2014 it was time to turn his attention to the way the buses looked. A new look would help move NXWM's brand into the more friendly and vibrant sphere that Rideout wanted. The question was how radical to be. "On the positive side, the existing livery was two-tone," recalls Rideout. With a fleet of 1600-odd buses to paint, there's a lot to be said for keeping the number of colours down. And with a five-year paint cycle to get through the whole fleet, the idea of a new livery which was similar to the existing one was attractive, especially as NXWM had finally got round to putting all its buses in the latest (admittedly not ideal) white and red livery. The first idea was to re-introduce blue, in the form of a skirt at the bottom of the white area, but to keep the existing red and white paint lines the same. "But we didn't feel this was the right approach and it didn't really move the brand forward enough," says Cotterill.
The pressure was on Rideout and Cotterill because National Express was due to place a huge order for new buses for NXWM, and there was a strong desire from the top that they should be delivered in the new colours. There was an intense period of thinking-up, trying out, modifying and then rejecting many ideas for revising the NXWM bus livery. One idea was to use the existing paint lines, keeping the red front, but having the back of the bus blue instead of white (which would have looked a little like morebus or Transdev's 'Red Express' does now). Several other colour pairings were tried out too. Then various different layouts, curves and graphic devices between the colours were trialled to see which suited the buses best, and projected the new image and feel that Rideout and Cotterill wanted.
Conscious of the need to consider the work of garage staff, Cotterill kept any complicated paint lines or vinyls away from the panels which are most often replaced due to the rigours of day-to-day bus operation in a busy, congested city; the ones at the corners. "That's why the stripe leading back from the front wheel seen on the new NXWM livery, stops short of the back of the bus," Cotterill explains.
At this stage, a cream and blue colour scheme was being considered, colours used historically by Birmingham City Transport, an early ancestor of NXWM. Although an interesting approach, it didn't quite work as a modern-looking bus, as the visualisation proves.
In fact, no livery idea was quite getting the buy-in from senior managers that Rideout wanted. "And then I had a dream about London," he adds, sounding (unnecessarily, I think) almost embarrassed. "And I wondered, could we do a new classy version of the classic red bus?" The front of NXWM's buses were already red, so there would be a familiar look to passengers as the bus approached; not an unimportant consideration.
Since the first time I saw a crimson NXWM bus, I've wondered why the company settled on crimson/red. I couldn't quite square it with the idea that it was based on the old Midland Red colour scheme (a completely different West Midlands bus company now mostly in the hands of Arriva and Stagecoach), which some commentators suggested, but it turns out that it's a combination of the fact that NXWM's buses were already red, and because of inspiration from a dream.
A bus was painted up in a new two-tone red livery, with paint lines very similar to the final version, and using the red that NXWM already employed on the majority of the current buses. But it still didn't look quite right – it was missing the retro-modern flavour that was now so desired.
But the crimson buses weren't actually the first ones the public saw.
As you'll know from previous articles, the PTEs lost their bus operations in 1986 and often give the impression that they have regretted it ever since. Following then-chancellor George Osborne's decision in 2014 to grant Greater Manchester various powers including bus franchising, in return for a directly elected mayor, bus franchising has come back onto the agenda. Through years of successful cooperative work, WMPTE's successor Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) prefers to work in alliance with local bus operators. But that's not to say that will always be the case if those operators don't deliver the bus offer that the West Midlands needs.
Rideout knew that NXWM had to prove that its buses had a continuing relevance to, and future in, Birmingham, especially with HS2 due to arrive in the city in 2026 to show what the latest in public transport can offer. Earlier in his career, Rideout had helped deliver Stagecoach's first enhanced-quality Goldline service, and he built on this experience to develop what became NXWM's "Platinum" bus offer, with a higher quality interior (and features like free wi-fi and USB charging points) and high-profile exterior. Whilst not a new idea in the industry it was certainly something new in the West Midlands. It was designed to target car drivers especially, but also to create a buzz in the city; NXWM are serious about growing the market. He and Cotterill rejected metallic colours, which are difficult to maintain, and went for a two-tone grey. "Greys are colours that sell well in the luxury car sector," he notes. The paint lines are the same as for the crimson buses, but with grey instead of red, and red instead of old-gold for the highlights.
The Platinum bus went on a tour of local events in 2015 and was paraded in front of local politicians, demonstrating NXWM's commitment to its West Midlands bus offer, but in so doing it's become widely assumed that the crimson buses were based on Platinum's paint scheme, rather than the other way round. The crimson buses, invented first, hit the streets shortly afterwards.
In visual terms, Rideout and Cotterill have hit on a unique solution to the presentation of National Express's buses, rejecting the idea of a single corporate image across all its operations, as Stagecoach and Arriva generally employ, but also rejecting the approach of letting each subsidiary bus company create its own unique look (as Go-Ahead does). Instead, the company now has a single family branding with colour variations used to mark different parts of its bus operations.
Two further colourways round out the new look.
NXWM has long branded its Coventry operations separately from those in the rest of the West Midlands, although with a common feel. The sky-blue colours of Coventry's football team have provided inspiration in the past and have done so again, with a two-tone blue version of the latest visual identity applied to the buses in Coventry.
National Express's other bus operation, in Dundee, used red and white just as NXWM did before its makeover. It was renamed 'Xplore Dundee' in 2015 and given a two-tone green colour scheme designed in partnership with students at Dundee and Angus College.
You only have to look at the way the newly re-liveried buses are presented to see that the garage staff have responded to the rebranding exercise, and take pride in turning out the buses in best possible condition. They've obviously bought into the rebranding. That adds to the perception of NXWM as a quality operation, rather than one that doesn't care about the details. Whenever routes are given dedicated route-branding, all the buses on that route are reliveried in the new colours. With existing buses repainted, and new ones entering the fleet in the new colours from the off, around one-third of NXWM's buses are now sporting the new visual identities.
Although the colourful vehicle exteriors are the part of the rebranding that has got bus industry commentators the most excited, there's more to the exercise than that.
The interiors of the buses are just as important to passengers as the exteriors, if not more so. If you can tempt a non-user on board for the first time, there's no point in them being put off travelling by bus ever again because the interior is so far removed from their expectations of quality. For the existing fleet of buses there was a limit to what Rideout and Cotterill could achieve. Panelling and flooring were too expensive to replace, so a change in moquette (the fabric covering the seats) would deliver the biggest difference. A variety of moquettes were in place across NXWM, the newest being a pattern comprising rows of grey dots that had little of the warmth Rideout was seeking for NXWM's new look and feel. This was revised to include red dots, instantly making for a more friendly interior.
On brand new buses, there was more opportunity to add character inside. Side panels have a linen/brush-stroke appearance unlike any other bus I've come across. The floors are grey and have two-tone red flecks, picking up on the crimson exteriors. Interestingly, the interiors are standardised across NXWM's buses (both the crimson ones and the Coventry blue fleet) and those of Xplore Dundee. It's a pragmatic solution to the fact that buses sometimes transfer around between the three parts of the business. This way, the exterior can be repainted without a mix of interior colour schemes resulting.
The Platinum buses have bespoke interiors. Rideout is particularly proud of the two-tone flooring, which subtly divides seating space from circulating areas, and the seats themselves.
While other large bus companies have gone for all-leather seats on their premium routes, Rideout isn't convinced that passengers like it, believing they find them too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. Instead, the Platinum seats have dark grey leather headrests and sides featuring red stitching, with moquette centres. The moquette is a modified version of that found on the regular NXWM fleet, with darker red dots, and more of them.
The other interior change that Rideout was able to deliver was to the on-bus signage. Although hardly given a second thought by most passengers, those signs that tell you not to smoke, not to stand on the stairs, that CCTV is in operation, that this is the emergency exit, all contribute to the 'feel' of a bus journey. Rideout developed an exhaustive list of signage and its positioning, and ensured that the language used had personality and sounded modern, without becoming unprofessional. They are all set in the Neo Sans typeface, matching that of the 'West Midlands' or 'Coventry' part of the 'National Express West Midlands' / 'National Express Coventry' wordmark which acts as the company logo. The previous version of the wordmark used Helvetica. "We felt Helvetica was dated and lacked any personality," says Rideout. "Neo Sans is softer, more friendly, yet still easy to read." It's a favourite of Rideout's too, having used it in his previous job at Stagecoach.
The wordmarks were redesigned as part of the new look for the buses. Look carefully (on the sides of buses, on websites, and on publicity) and you'll notice that the colours used in the logo subtly push back the 'National Express' words in the wordmark while emphasising the 'West Midlands' or 'Coventry' words, a deliberate choice to communicate with the local market.
There's one area of the operation that falls outside NXWM's sphere of influence, and that's the roadside infrastructure. In some areas of the country, bus operators attach their own flags to bus stop poles, strengthening the brand of their operation – you can see it in action in towns like Taunton (FirstGroup's Buses of Somerset), on the Isle of Wight (Southern Vectis), or along Transdev Blazefield's Ripon-Harrogate-Leeds 36 route.
In NXWM's area, TfWM uses its Network West Midlands branding on bus stops. "It's neat and tidy," Rideout says, "and avoids the situation where each bus operator puts their own flag on the bus stop pole, but it doesn't really sell our product." To an extent that's deliberate. As a publicly-funded organisation, TfWM has to be scrupulously aware of the need not to favour any one private sector bus operator over another. But Rideout says discussions are always ongoing through TfWM's Bus Alliance which might yet allow bus operators a greater opportunity to promote their brands at bus stops.
The proof of the value of the kind of rebranding exercise Rideout and Cotterill have put National Express's bus operations through is in passenger numbers and passenger satisfaction. If they go up, then it means that people are indeed influenced by the way buses look and not just by their punctuality. Of course, if NXWM staff have also bought into the rebranding and have a greater pride in the operation than they did before, you'd expect the buses to be turned out of the garages in a more timely manner, and for the drivers to translate their increased pride into better customer service. Everyone's a winner.
And that's just what Rideout has found.
"Any rebranding exercise is fraught with risk in whatever industry you look at but we were confident that what we were doing was more than just a paint job and logo tweak. Satisfaction scores from both our own and TfWM's research support that we are really heading the right direction," he says. "For overall satisfaction we are seeing scores as high as 96% on some Platinum routes with things like comfort on the bus coming out at 98%. Satisfaction with the driver was also coming out at a very high 96%, proving that the company's new direction was having a positive impact on the staff involved.
Rideout sums up the rebranding of National Express's buses as, "Changing the business and customer expectation with a livery." It's been a project encompassing much more than just a livery, but the improvement in the presentation of buses, and the increases in passenger satisfaction with NXWM (not to mention more passengers getting on board) suggests he and Cotterill and have done just that.
There was an intermediate version – between the TWM and NX colour schemes – that, if I recall rightly, used the TWM palette but had curved stripes so was less angular than either its predecessor or successor. Or maybe that was an experiment? Certainly not a huge proportion of the fleet was done, leading to a mess of at least three NXWM bus liveries once the NX version started to be rolled out.
What has been cut out from the pole in this photo?
I don't know. You'd have to ask National Express!
Iff the Blue/Cream livery attempt had been in original colours then the finish would have been much more outstanding and more in keeping with Birmingham as a whole ….bearing in mind Coventry has its own Blues….The crimson smacks if the old Midland Red and of course having different liveries for different areas cause a supposed headache with resale when moving the older buses on….The identity of Bham is gone because as with the blue/cream which would have been beautiful and practical iff done in the proper colours …It's all down to dumbing down in general across all the liveries …The individual identities of each county etc have now sadly gone and the "seen one seen them all "syndrome is now in place …The pride of each county is now gone as quite wrongly every bus has to have the same look as any other one …Shame that a certain amount of pride can't be put back into the liveries countrywide instead of this …coverall…problem we all have ….The National Coach problem that sprung up in the 70s with a one all colour still hangs over the nation's buses and it needs to stop …Iff you want people to use buses then give them a sense of identity and pride to have proper liveries for each county or city….We are not robots we are people and perhaps the liveries iff done with thought and identity might just tempt them back on the buses ….The people at the top in these bus companies tend to live in a bubble and wrap everyone in cotton wool ….Be individual …be brave ….be an instigator not a follower and give the buses some proper colours and not the same the same the same just cause its easy to do …….
But there's the bigger picture and the West Midlands as a whole – it always irked me a bit that Birmingham City Transport's blue & cream was imposed upon the rest of the region! Despite my Wulfrunian roots the Walsall Corporation paint job (mid-blue plus yellow lining, not unlike that of Glasgow's 1960s EMUs) seemed, aesthetically, to be the best of the bunch from that era.
I was shocked and in awe the other day when i passed an x13 near to the NEC . It was painted in the old deep blue and cream of birmingham city transport. Im an ex glaswegian brummy convert .ive always loved brum and that bus made me feel as though i had passed into another dimension and suddenly arrived in the real birmingham. Those bct liveried buses were one of the things that gave Brum its identity. Same as Glasgows green and orange buses. I went to Glasgow a few years back but it wasnt the real Glasgow because now the streets are full of pink and lilac buses. Yuk!!!! Those red and crimson buses now cruising Brummie streets just dont belong. This is Brum so give us back our identity. Brum should be Brum.


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My older son, now eighteen, grew up with DK books and videos about everything from trees and volcanoes to planets, the human body and death. As a bookseller who got to see the whole range of encyclopedic books being published for kids, nothing every came close to the crisp visual style of DK and the engaging way text is presented on the page. The best part of DK books for children is that they are the perfect segue to the DK books for adults, which provide a more in depth examination of subjects. With this prejudice, it takes a lot for me to look at, let alone recommend, an encyclopedia by any other publisher. However, Animal Planet, in partnership with Time Inc. Books, has put together Animal Planet Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia, a visually attractive, fact filled book that is worth the price and sure to make kids smile - and read.
At 304 pages, Animal Planet Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia is packed with information on over 2,500 animals and over 1,000 color photographs. Animal Planet Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia is divided into eight chapters with detailed profiles of the seven animal classes, which are also color coded. One feature that I find especially interesting is the green "Surprisingly Human" content box that appears from time to time, sharing facts about animals that our species shares, like the fact that female vampire bats are nice to each other, sharing food with friends who did not feed sufficiently. Another feature, the R.O.A.R. (Reach Out And Act) box, highlights Animal Planet's partnerships with "leading animal and wildlife organizations to help make the world a better place for animals" and ways that people are helping animals in our communities and in the wild.
Great photos aside, there are definitely enough features in Animal Planet Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia to make it a worthwhile investment. And, as a parent, former bookseller and school librarian, I can tell you that almost all kids are happy to sit down with a book like this and pore over the pages.


International Tea Day is observed annually on December 15. It has been celebrated since 2005 in tea producing countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Uganda, India and Tanzania. International Tea Day aims to draw global attention of governments and citizens to the impact of the global tea trade on workers and growers, and has been linked to requests for price supports and fair trade. The first International Tea Day was celebrated in New Delhi in 2005, with later celebrations organized in Sri Lanka in 2006 and 2008. International Tea Day celebrations and the related Global Tea Conferences have been jointly organized by trade union movements. In 2015, the Indian government proposed expanding the observance of International Tea Day through the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
Tea originated in Southwest China, where it was used as a medicinal drink. It was popularized as a recreational drink during the Chinese Tang dynasty, and tea drinking spread to other East Asian countries. Portuguese priests and merchants introduced it to Europe during the 16th century. During the 17th century, drinking tea became fashionable among Britons, who started large-scale production and commercialization of the plant in India to bypass the Chinese monopoly. The term herbal tea usually refers to infusions of fruit or herbs made without the tea plant, such as steeps of rosehip, chamomile, or rooibos. These are sometimes called tisanes or herbal infusions to prevent confusion with tea made from the tea plant.
Tea plants are native to East Asia, and probably originated in the borderlands of north Burma and southwest China. Camellia sinensis is thought to have originated in the northern part of Burma, and Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of China. Tea drinking may have begun in the Yunnan region during the Shang Dynasty in China, when it was used for medicinal purposes. It is also believed that in Sichuan, "people began to boil tea leaves for consumption into a concentrated liquid without the addition of other leaves or herbs, thereby using tea as a bitter yet stimulating drink, rather than as a medicinal concoction.
The earliest known physical evidence of tea was discovered in 2016 in the mausoleum of Emperor Jing of Han in Xi'an, indicating that tea from the genus Camellia was drunk by Han Dynasty emperors as early as the 2nd century BC. The Han dynasty work "The Contract for a Youth", written by Wang Bao in 59 BC. contains the first known reference to boiling tea.The first record of tea cultivation is also dated to this period (the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han), during which tea was cultivated on Meng Mountain (蒙山) near Chengdu.
Another account of tea drinking dates to the third century AD, in a medical text by Hua Tuo, who stated, "to drink bitter t'u constantly makes one think better. However, before the mid-8th century Tang dynasty, tea-drinking was primarily a southern Chinese practice. It became widely popular during the Tang Dynasty, when it was spread to Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. In India, tea was drunk for medicinal purposes, But was not used as a beverage until the British introduced tea-drinking there much later.
Through the centuries, a variety of techniques for processing tea, and a number of different forms of tea, were developed. During the Tang dynasty, tea was steamed, then pounded and shaped into cake form, while in the Song dynasty, loose-leaf tea was developed and became popular. During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, unoxidized tea leaves were first pan-fried, then rolled and dried, a process that stops the oxidation process that turns the leaves dark, thereby allowing tea to remain green. In the 15th century, oolong tea, in which the leaves were allowed to partially oxidize before pan-frying, was developed.Western tastes, however, favoured the fully oxidized black tea, and the leaves were allowed to oxidize further. Yellow tea was an accidental discovery in the production of green tea during the Ming dynasty, when apparently sloppy practices allowed the leaves to turn yellow, but yielded a different flavour as a result.
Tea was first introduced to Portuguese priests and merchants in China during the 16th century, at which time it was termed chái. The earliest European reference to tea, written as Chiai, came from Delle navigationi e viaggi written by a Venetian, Giambattista Ramusio, in 1545. The first recorded shipment of tea by a European nation was in 1607 when the Dutch East India Company moved a cargo of tea from Macao to Java, then two years later, the Dutch bought the first assignment of tea which was from Hirado in Japan to be shipped to Europe. Tea became a fashionable drink in The Hague in the Netherlands, and the Dutch introduced the drink to Germany, France and across the Atlantic to New Amsterdam (New York).
The first record of tea in English came from a letter written by Richard Wickham, who ran an East India Company office in Japan, writing to a merchant in Macao requesting "the best sort of chaw" in 1615. Peter Mundy, a traveller and merchant who came across tea in Fujian in 1637, wrote, "chaa — only water with a kind of herb boyled in it " Tea was sold in a coffee house in London in 1657, Samuel Pepys tasted tea in 1660, and Catherine of Braganza took the tea-drinking habit to the British court when she married Charles II in 1662. Tea, however, was not widely consumed in Britain until the 18th century, and remained expensive until the latter part of that period. British drinkers preferred to add sugar and milk to black tea, and black tea overtook green tea in popularity in the 1720s. Tea smuggling during the 18th century led to the general public being able to afford and consume tea. The British government removed the tax on tea, thereby eliminating the smuggling trade by 1785. In Britain and Ireland, tea was initially consumed as a luxury item on special occasions, such as religious festivals, wakes, and domestic work gatherings. The price of tea in Europe fell steadily during the 19th century, especially after Indian tea began to arrive in large quantities; by the late 19th century tea had become an everyday beverage for all levels of societies The popularity of tea also informed a number of historical events – the Tea Act of 1773 provoked the Boston Tea Party that escalated into the American Revolution, and the need to address the issue of British trade deficit caused by the demand for Chinese tea led to a trade in opium that resulted in the Opium Wars.
Tea was introduced into India by the British in an attempt to break the Chinese monopoly on tea. In 1841, Archibald Campbell brought seeds of Chinese tea from the Kumaun region and experimented with planting tea in Darjeeling. The Alubari tea garden was opened in 1856 and Darjeeling tea began to be produced. In 1848, Robert Fortune was sent by the East India Company on a mission to China to bring the tea plant back to Great Britain. He began his journey in high secrecy as his mission occurred in the lull between the Anglo-Chinese First Opium War and Second Opium War The Chinese tea plants he brought back were introduced to the Himalayas, though most did not survive. The British had discovered that a different variety of tea was endemic to Assam and the northeast region of India and that it was used by the local Singpho people, and these were then grown instead of the Chinese tea plant. Using the Chinese planting and cultivation techniques, the British Offered land in Assam to any European who agreed to cultivate it for export.
Legendary American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and entertainer "Walt" Disney tragically died 15 December 1966 from acute circulatory collapse, caused by lung cancer. He was born December 5th, 1901. In 1906, when Walt was four, He moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri. Here, Disney developed his love for drawing . The Disney family moved to Kansas City in 1911 where Walt and his younger sister Ruth attended the Benton Grammar School. At school he met Walter Pfeiffer who introduced Walt to the world of vaudeville and motion pictures. Before long Walt was spending more time at the Pfeiffers' than at home. Walt also attended Saturday courses at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1917, The Disney family moved to Chicago. Walt went to McKinley High School and took night courses at the Chicago Art Institute. He became the cartoonist for the school newspaper, drawing patriotic topics and focusing on World War I. in 1919 Walt moved back to Kansas City to begin his artistic career. He decided on a career as a newspaper artist, drawing political caricatures or comic strips. Walt also worked briefly at the Pesmen-Rubin Art Studio where he met cartoonist Ubbe Iwerks and they decided to start their own company together called, "Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists". However Disney & lwerks both Joined Kansas City Film Ad Company. where they made commercials based on cutout animations, Disney then became interested in animation, and decided to become an animator.
Walt Disney was a chain smoker his entire adult life, which affected his health and a tumor was eventually discovered in his left lung which was malignant and had spread throughout the entire left lung. Having removed the lung, doctors informed Disney that his life expectancy was six months to two years. After several chemotherapy sessions, Disney and his wife spent a short amount of time in Palm Springs, California. On November 30, Disney collapsed at his home and rushed to St. Joseph's Disney's final production was The Jungle Book and the animated short Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, as well as the live-action musical feature The Happiest Millionaire, all released in 1967.
Paul Simonon , the Bass player with English punk rock band The Clash was born 15th December 1955. Formed in 1976 as part of the original wave of British punk. The Clash's music incorporated elements of reggae, ska, dub, funk, rap, dance, and rockabilly. For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of Joe Strummer (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Mick Jones (lead guitar, vocals), Paul Simonon (bass guitar, vocals) and Nicky "Topper" Headon (drums, percussion). Headon left the group in 1982, and internal friction led to Jones's departure the following year. The group continued with new members, but finally disbanded in early 1986.
The Clash achieved commercial success in the United Kingdom with the release of their debut album,The Clash, in 1977. Their third album, London Calling, was released in the UK in December 1979, and brought them popularity in the United States when it came out there the following month. It was declared the best album of the 1980s a decade later by Rolling Stone magazine. The Clash's politicised lyrics, musical experimentation and rebellious attitude had a far-reaching influence on rock, alternative rock in particular. They became widely referred to as "The Only Band That Matters", originally a promotional slogan introduced by the group's record label, CBS. In January 2003, the band—including original drummer Terry Chimes—were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Clash number 28 on their list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.
The epic romance Gone with the Wind, premiered at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on December 15 1939. Based on the Pulitzer Prizewinning novel written by Margaret Mitchell, it is set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War (1861–1865) and the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) that followwhere the war. Set against the backdrop of rebellion, during which seven southern states, including Georgia declare their secession from the United States (the "Union") and form the Confederate States of America (the "Confederacy"), after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. A dispute over states' rights has arisen involving enslaved African people.


I take the bus to work every day. Since I transfer downtown I am accustomed to seeing people sleeping on the sidewalks. At 7AM this morning, I saw for the first time in my life, two young males sitting on the sidewalk with their sleeping bags wrapped around them, shooting up. As I approached they just looked like run of the mill homeless people. But when I walked right in front of them I could see that one of them had the needle still sticking out of his arm. The other one was rocking back and forth, tears streaming down his face, eyes rolled up inside his head. It reminded me of the utter cruelty of our society.
This realization, year after year, is what drew me into public education. Education seems to be the best way to work for a better world, which is where my heartfelt commitment lies. But in our society educators encounter relentless opposition to doing the work necessary to making progress. The root of this opposition in not philosophical, it is economic. Enough resources are never adequately allocated. Policy makers are full of idealistic rhetoric but consistently fail to come up with the cash.
If we as a society turn a blind eye towards the cruelty of leaving junkies in the street, how are we ever going to face the harmful effects of a resource starved public education system whose main function in society is to sort and rank our population? As long as the education system performs this function which solidifies the social hierarchy, it will be funded, but only up to the point of mere life support. With the development of policy under Betsy DeVos, even life support could be pulled.
The blind eye turned toward the problems that can be addressed through education is far removed from the general gaze. It is not in your face like what I saw this morning. I had a very clear snapshot of human suffering that is not being addressed. But the suffering we face in the schools exists in the dimension of time. One snapshot rarely tells the whole story the way a needle dangling from the arm of a young male couched on Third and Lenora does. To see the inherent cruelty of public education policy, you have to be in the clutches of it, all day, every day.
The same cruel society that allows the junkies of this generation to flounder, allows schools to fail the next generation. It is the cruel society that cherishes money over humanity, that encourages corporate greed over mutual aid, that allows a few to have too much and too many to have so little. It is a cruel society that only shares enough for most to just get by and ignores the pains and sorrows of those who cannot get by at all and need help.
It really doesn't have to be this way. The greed that is the ultimate driver of this suffering is a sickness. It is a risk to public health. But it can be managed. All of it can be managed, the greed and suffering can be managed if we, all the individuals in society, make the moral choice to do so.
Please. A junkie shooting up herione is not an apt metaphor for our public schools. This is insulting to teachers and staff who have made education their life's work. I'd expect such analogies from Fox News and right wing think tanks.
It is not a metaphor, it is the depths to which we have descended as a society.


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Truly unique property features a home theater with seating for 12 and a 50s-style diner
Sonrisa, a private luxury estate in Gwynedd, Pa., is now being offered by Long & Foster Real Estate, the No. 1 family-owned real estate company in the United States and an affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate. Located at 1308 Meetinghouse Rd., the estate comprises nearly 4 acres and is full of enticing features that redefine elegant living. The property is exclusively listed by Jamie Adler, a sales associate with Long & Foster's Blue Bell-Spring House office in Blue Bell, Pa., for $5.99 million.
"Sonrisa is Spanish for 'smile,' and that's what you'll do when you drive through the gate into the circular drive with its all-season fountain and view this magnificent estate for the first time," said Adler. "This property is an entertainer's dream, with spaces both inside and around the estate that are perfect for hosting both intimate get-togethers and formal gatherings."
Custom-built in 2006, this breathtaking Colonial-style property features four bedrooms, five full and three half bathrooms, an attached four-car garage and stunning exterior details, including outdoor terraces, fountains and a Koi pond. When you enter the home through its wrought-iron front door that was hand-forged in Austria, it becomes clear that Sonrisa is unlike any other home in Gwynedd Valley. The grand foyer greets you with heated inlaid limestone flooring and a sprawling rounded staircase. The expansive kitchen allows ample space for casual get-togethers, offering plenty of open area and seating options. The attached breakfast room allows for relaxing family time while sunlight pours through the surrounding windows.
The main floor also features an exceptional formal dining room and a butler's pantry. A warm and inviting family room offers plenty of seating around a fireplace for cozy nights in, and the great room with its grand, vaulted ceilings offers plenty of room for larger gatherings. The main floor is rounded out with an office that allows for the perfect quiet space for working from home.
The top floor features an impeccably designed master suite complete with gas fireplace, his-and-her closets and an oversized master bath with a heated floor, a large tiled shower and a decadent soaking tub. There are three other bedrooms on this level, each with an individually designed bathroom attached. The top floor is rounded out by a sophisticated library, complete with gas fireplace, giving you a tranquil location for reflection and relaxation.
Though the house is filled with exquisite architectural details that give Sonrisa its unparalleled luxury, the basement is what truly makes the sprawling estate an entertainer's dream. An art-deco style home theater with seating for 12 brings movie magic right into your home. You'll be transported to another era with the 50s-style diner complete with retro vinyl booths and a soda counter. You and your guests can enjoy a full night out with dinner, a movie and even a game of pool—all without ever leaving the house.
Experience Sonrisa's unparalleled beauty and explore every room in this video. Photographs of the home are also available on Adler's website. For more information, you can contact Adler by calling 215-643-2500 or 215-313-6618.
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The Rhode Island Lottery has chosen IGT and commercial partner William Hill US to provide end-to-end sports betting services at the state's licensed video lottery and table game establishments, Twin River Casino and Tiverton Casino. Sports betting operations are expected to go live at both locations by mid-November.
Under the contract, the locations will utilize IGT's sports betting platform with William Hill providing sports betting operation and risk management.The initial term of the contract is for a period of five years from the date that the first sports wager is placed at either venue, and may be extended by mutual consent for two successive five-year terms.


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Abortions Down Across U.S….Except in Michigan and Louisiana: Here's Why
Graphic: Steve Straehley/AllGov
Nationwide, abortions are down 12% since 2010, but in Michigan and Louisiana, both states that have enacted abortion restrictions, the number of such procedures has increased significantly during the same period.
The increases—up 18.5% in Michigan and 12% in Louisiana—are at least partly because those states adjoin others where abortions are even more tightly restricted. "The increases were due in part to women coming from other states where new restrictions and clinic closures have sharply limited abortion access," the Associated Press' David Crary wrote. "Anti-abortion groups said many Ohio women were going to Michigan and many Texas women to Louisiana."
From 2013 to 2014, abortions for nonresidents of Michigan rose from 708 to 1,318 and in Louisiana, the increase in abortions for nonresidents leaped by more than 1,200 between 2010 and 2012.
But it wasn't just states with abortion restrictions where the numbers of those having the procedure fell. New York, which has few abortion restrictions, saw its numbers fall 15.2% and Hawaii's plummeted 29.9%.
Abortion rights advocates say the numbers show that sex education and contraception are the key to reducing the number of abortions. "Better access to birth control and sex education are the biggest factors in reducing unintended pregnancies," Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told AP. "More restrictive abortion laws do not reduce the need for abortions."
-Noel Brinkerhoff, Steve Straehley
AP Exclusive: Abortions Declining In Nearly All States (by David Crary, Associated Press)
Abortion Drop Coincides With Sex Education Changes; State Has High Rate Of Contraception Use (by Cathy Bussewitz, Associated Press)
Abortion Rate Lowest in 48 Years (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)


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Apia assessors move in to cyclone ravaged homes
Insurer's mobile claims team on the ground providing emergency funds to customers
Apia's cyclone recovery efforts are in full swing with its team of assessors and claims staff on the ground in Rockhampton and Yeppoon helping affected customers get back on their feet.
Apia spokeswoman, Angela Wilkinson, said: "Apia assessors have begun assessing damaged homes – a crucial step in the recovery process."
"This means approving the claim, assessing the level of damage to the home, determining the required scope of works and allocating tradespeople to repair or rebuild the home."
Ms Wilkinson said: "The goal is to ensure customers get back into their homes as quickly and as safely as possible. We do not want customers left stranded in temporary accommodation for any longer than absolutely necessary."
"We have a registered panel of Queensland builders and suppliers who meet our strict quality standards for insurance work. This is complemented by a commitment to use further local panel repairers and suppliers where practical, and our policy for all repairers to seek to hire local tradespeople," she said.
Ms Wilkinson said Apia was well prepared to handle the aftermath left from Tropical Cyclone Marcia.
"We understand that these are very challenging times for many residents so it's vital that we use our scale and every possible resource to meet the needs of affected customers as quickly as possible."
"In addition to assessors going out to customer homes, we also have two dedicated Customer Response Teams on the ground in the Rockhampton and Yeppoon Recovery Centres.
"These are fully self-sufficient mobile claims offices where customers can lodge their claims in person, access pre-paid debit cards with emergency funds and arrange temporary accommodation if required."
"We have a long history of being there for Queensland residents when natural disasters strike. We were here when Cyclone Yasi hit in 2011, we are here in 2015 for Tropical Cyclone Marcia and we will continue to be here for our customers," Ms Wilkinson said.
Apia customers can lodge claims in person with Customer Response Teams at the Rockhampton and Yeppoon Recovery Centres, over the phone 24 hours a day on 13 50 50 or online at www.apia.com.au.


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package org.apache.spark.ml.dsl.utils.data

import java.util.Properties

import com.tribbloids.spookystuff.utils.{CommonUtils, EqualBy, TreeThrowable}
import org.apache.spark.ml.dsl.utils.{?, ScalaNameMixin}
import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.util.CaseInsensitiveMap

import scala.collection.immutable.ListMap
import scala.language.implicitConversions
import scala.reflect.ClassTag
import scala.util.Try

/**
  * entity-(with)-attribute-value
  */
trait EAV extends Serializable with EqualBy {

  type VV
  protected def getCtg(
      implicit
      v: ClassTag[VV]
  ): ClassTag[VV] = v
  def ctg: ClassTag[VV]
  final lazy val _ctg = ctg

  def source: EAV

  final lazy val core: EAV.Impl = source match {
    case c: EAV.Impl => c
    case _           => source.core
  }

  lazy val asOriginalMap: ListMap[String, VV] = {

    core.self.collect {
      case (k, _ctg(v)) => k -> v
      case (k, null)    => k -> null.asInstanceOf[VV]
    }
  }
  lazy val asCaseInsensitiveMap: CaseInsensitiveMap[VV] = CaseInsensitiveMap(asOriginalMap)

  def asMap: Map[String, VV] = asOriginalMap
  def asStrMap: Map[String, String] = asMap.mapValues(v => Option(v).map(_.toString).orNull)

  // TODO: change to declaredAttrs?
  override def _equalBy: Any = asMap

  def asProperties: Properties = {
    val properties = new Properties()

    asStrMap.foreach { v =>
      properties.put(v._1, v._2)
    }

    properties
  }

  /**
    * favor the key-value pair in first operand attempt to preserve sequence as much as possible
    */
  def :++(other: EAV): EAV.Impl = {

    EAV.Impl.fromMap(CommonUtils.mergePreserveOrder(this.core.self, other.core.self))
  }

  /**
    * favor the key-value pair in second operand operands suffixed by : are reversed
    */
  final def ++:(other: EAV): EAV.Impl = {

    :++(other)
  }

  // TODO: move to superclass
  final def +=+(
      other: EAV,
      include: List[Any] = Nil
  ): EAV.Impl = {

    val _include: List[String] = if (include.isEmpty) {
      (this.asMap.keys ++ other.asMap.keys).toList
    } else {
      include.flatMap {
        case v: this.Attr[_] => v.allNames
        case v: String       => Seq(v)
        case v @ _ =>
          throw new UnsupportedOperationException(s"unsupported key type for $v")
      }
    }

    val result: Seq[(String, Any)] = _include.flatMap { key =>
      val vs = Seq(this, other).map { v =>
        v.asMap.get(key)
      }.flatten

      val mergedOpt = vs match {
        case Seq(v1, v2) =>
          require(v1 == v2, s"cannot merge, diverging values for $key: $v1 != $v2")
          vs.headOption
        case _ =>
          vs.headOption
      }

      mergedOpt.map { merged =>
        key -> merged
      }
    }

    EAV.Impl.fromUntypedTuples(result: _*)
  }

  def updated(kvs: Magnets.KV[VV]*): EAV.Impl = {
    this ++: EAV(kvs: _*)
  }

  def updateIfExists(kvOpts: Magnets.KVOpt[VV]*): EAV.Impl = {

    updated(kvOpts.map(_.asKV): _*)
  }

  def defaultSeparator = " "
  def defaultKQuote = ""
  def defaultVQuote = ""

  def formattedStr(
      sep: String = defaultSeparator,
      kQuote: String = defaultKQuote,
      vQuote: String = defaultVQuote
  ): String = {
    asStrMap.map(tuple => s"$kQuote${tuple._1}$kQuote=$vQuote${tuple._2}$vQuote").mkString(sep)
  }

  lazy val showStr = formattedStr()
  lazy val showStr_unquoted = formattedStr(vQuote = "")

  lazy val providedHintStr: Option[String] = {
    if (asStrMap.isEmpty) {
      None
    } else {
      Some(s"only ${asMap.keys.mkString(", ")} are provided")
    }
  }

  // TODO: cleanup for being too redundant! not encouraged to use

  def tryGet(k: String, nullable: Boolean = false): Try[VV] = Try {
    val result = asMap.getOrElse(
      k,
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
        (
          Seq(
            s"Parameter $k is missing"
          ) ++ providedHintStr
        ).mkString("\n")
      )
    )
    if (!nullable) require(result != null, s"null value for `$k`")
    result
  }

  def get(k: String, nullable: Boolean = false): Option[VV] = tryGet(k, nullable).toOption

  def apply(k: String, nullable: Boolean = false): VV = tryGet(k, nullable).get

  def getOrElse(k: String, default: VV): VV = {
    require(
      default != null,
      s"default value for `$k` cannot be null"
    )
    get(k).getOrElse(default)
  }

  def contains(k: String): Boolean = tryGet(k).isSuccess

  def attr(v: String) = new Attr_(primaryNameOverride = v)

  def drop(vs: Magnets.K*): EAV.Impl = EAV.Impl.fromMap(asMap -- vs.flatMap(_.names))

  def dropAll(vs: Iterable[Magnets.K]): EAV.Impl = drop(vs.toSeq: _*)

  def --(vs: Iterable[Magnets.K]): EAV.Impl = dropAll(vs)

  // TODO: support mixing param and map definition? While still being serializable?
  class Attr[T](
      // should only be used in setters
      val aliases: List[String] = Nil,
      nullable: Boolean = false,
      default: T ? _ = None,
      primaryNameOverride: String ? _ = None
  )(
      implicit
      ev: T <:< VV
  ) extends AttrLike[T]
      with ScalaNameMixin {

    override def toString: String = {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
        "Attribute cannot be used as string, please use primaryName or value instead"
      )
    }

    def outer: EAV = EAV.this

    final def primaryName: String = primaryNameOverride.getOrElse(objectSimpleName)

    def explicitValue: T = {
      val trials: Seq[() => T] = allNames.map {
        name =>
          { () =>
            outer.apply(name, nullable).asInstanceOf[T]
          }
      }

      TreeThrowable
        .|||^(trials)
        .get
    }

    def defaultValue: T = default.getOrElse {
      throw new UnsupportedOperationException(s"Undefined default value for $primaryName")
    }

    def tryGetEnum[EE <: Enumeration](enum: EE)(
        implicit
        ev: T <:< String
    ): Try[EE#Value] = {
      tryGet
        .flatMap { v =>
          Try {
            enum.withName(ev(v))
          }
        }
    }
    def getEnum[EE <: Enumeration](enum: EE)(
        implicit
        ev: T <:< String
    ) = tryGetEnum(enum).toOption

    def tryGetBoolean(
        implicit
        ev: T <:< String
    ): Try[Boolean] = {
      tryGet.map { v =>
        CommonUtils.tryParseBoolean(v).get
      }
    }
    def getBoolean(
        implicit
        ev: T <:< String
    ) = tryGetBoolean.toOption

    def tryGetBoolOrInt(
        implicit
        ev: T <:< String
    ): Try[Int] = {

      tryGet
        .map(v => ev(v).toInt)
        .recoverWith {
          case _: Exception =>
            tryGetBoolean
              .map {
                case true  => 1
                case false => 0
              }
        }
    }
    def getBoolOrInt(
        implicit
        ev: T <:< String
    ) = tryGetBoolOrInt.toOption
  }

  object Attr {

    // TODO: is it useless due to being path dependent?
    implicit def fromStr(v: String): Attr[VV] = new Attr[VV](primaryNameOverride = v)
  }

  type Attr_ = Attr[VV]
}

object EAV extends EAVBuilder[EAV] {

  type Impl = EAVCore
  override def Impl = EAVCore

  trait ImplicitSrc extends EAV

  def empty: Impl = Impl.proto

  trait CaseInsensitive extends EAV {

    override def asMap: Map[String, VV] = asCaseInsensitiveMap
  }
}

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Africa Must Place Faith In Homegrown Coaches - Sepp Blatter
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Fifa president Sepp Blatter has warned that an African team is unlikely to win a World Cup if the continent does not place more faith in its coaches.
"A coach must have a feeling for the heart and soul of his players - look at Nigeria for instance," he said. "The players may be in Europe but the coach must understand, deeply, the mentality of the players. How can someone from outside do this?"
Blatter also believes African teams suffer from poor preparation.
While no African team made it past the quarter-final stage at the London Olympics, Blatter, speaking at the Games, believes the continent's sides at that level are more competitive than at senior level.
He said: "I have been analysing African football for quite a while now, more than the football from other continents� When they play at the U-23 level, African teams can match their opponents from other parts of the world.
"You may say that Europe do not pay the same level of attention to the Olympics. But no, I can tell you that Europe is not happy with their performance at this Olympic tournament. "At the senior level, [African national associations] just do not prepare their teams properly.
"Look at how teams from other parts of the world prepare, the money spent and the effort that is applied in getting ready to compete. African associations sometimes hire coaches just months before a World Cup. This has to stop."
Of the six national sides that represented Africa at the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, only Algeria had a local coach - Rabah Saadane.
Hosts South Africa, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Morocco and Nigeria - who now have former Super Eagles captain Stephen Keshi in charge - all had European or South American trainers in charge.
Meanwhile, Blatter insists that his current four-year term, which will see him spend 17 years as Fifa president, will be his last. "In 2015, I will be 79 years old and would have spent 40 years in Fifa. That is enough� I have given everything I have to football," he said.
"I hope I can deliver Fifa to somebody who will have the qualities and aptitude to lead, to not forget what Fifa is - it is about the game for everybody, the world game. "Fifa is not only for those who think that they are dominating football, the powerful countries and the big clubs."
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