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What SA can learn about business confidence from the global tech giants
Grant Sieff
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Applying the lessons of customer-centricity perfected by the Big Tech giants like Google and Amazon and strategically applying these in our own context is key to building long-term and sustainable business success.
Business confidence in South Africa remains fragile following the May election. While the results, as Sanlam Investment economist Arthur Kamp put it, were broadly welcomed as providing political continuity and opening a window of economic opportunity for the country, that window is closing fast.
In this climate, business will have its work cut out for it. Power shortages, slow growth and continued inequality in the country all need to be anticipated and planned for. Another looming issue, which often does not get the attention it deserves, is the role of big tech-driven businesses, more specifically, the immense influence they wield over the behaviour of their own – and everyone else's customers!
These days, everyone accessing the internet and the services made available by it are essentially customers of Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and, to a degree, Apple. Dubbed the 'Frightful Five' by New York Times columnist Farhad Manjoo, these companies collectively control and influence how much of the market behaves at any given time. Amazon determines how people shop, Google how they acquire knowledge, Facebook how they communicate. We could reasonably infer that Microsoft plays a big part in this last aspect and that Apple has a history of driving what technology people actually engage with, and what other tech companies emulate.
And of course, the confluence of these tech behemoths has also created the social media influencer and crowd-sourced opinion (think the Kardashians and Trip Advisor), which in turn wield significant influence in this new "market space".
Local businesses ignore the tech, retail, social and behavioural disruptions that the frightful five have spawned - at their own peril. Deciding how to negotiate the (rather rough) terrain is, of course, a question of strategy.
In securing their own future business and growth, business leaders and strategists have to ask themselves: what kinds of relationships do they build with the big data controllers and influencers, if at all? How does South Africa, and South African business, control what kind of influences these mega players have on the lives of their consumers and producers? How can local businesses define a niche and successfully occupy this alongside the mega tech companies? And, possibly, what can they learn from their success?
Scrutinising the frightful five
While the frightful five are increasingly coming under public scrutiny around ethical, practical and competitive concerns due to their monopolistic practices, it is undeniable that there is much to be learned from them too. Notably, one of the common denominators of these companies is that they have achieved much of their success by focusing their technology innovations and strategies on their customers' needs and behaviour.
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, for example, is said to be one of the great customer-centric CEOs. His 2008 letter to shareholders famously emphasised the notion of working backwards from what customers (he calls them share-owners) need, in order to innovate. His latest letter reminds us that Amazon is creating a customer-centric ecosystem that emphasises listening to customers and responding to their needs swiftly (speed matters in business). It's an ecosystem that includes other businesses too. As a percentage of total sales, independent third-party sellers have grown from 3% in 1998 to 58% in 2018, from $0.1bn to $160bn – a compound annual growth rate of 52%.
Says Bezos: "We helped independent sellers compete against our first-party business by investing in and offering them the very best selling tools we could imagine and build. We could not foresee with certainty what those programs would eventually look like, let alone whether they would succeed, but they were pushed forward with intuition and heart, and nourished with optimism".
Needle movers
"The biggest needle movers will be things that customers don't know to ask for," writes Bezos. "We must invent on their behalf. We have to tap into our own inner imagination about what's possible."
South African businesses need to go further than just emulating this approach to customer-centricity and digitisation blindly; they must craft their own unique strategies that take their own strengths and weaknesses into account. In contemplating their own strategic execution for growth, they need to not only understand their own customers and operating environment (outside in) but find a way to leverage their organisational competencies to exert appropriate influence on these customers' behaviour (inside out). Business needs to take a multi-dimensional approach to strategy that also takes into account a top down (leadership and vision of the company) and bottom up (enrolling all stakeholders including, especially, employees).
Ultimately, it's now all about creating, managing and delivering the ideal customer experience.
READ: How one VC firm amassed a 24% stake in Slack worth $4.6bn
Digitisation has given us unprecedented opportunities to connect with our customers, but at the risk of being over-simplistic, in using this power we need to make sure we know first what customers want; what kind of strategy would align with their preferences; and what kind of company culture and competency and leadership vision is needed to execute that kind of strategy.
If we get this right, as with Amazon and Google and the other tech giants, we may even get to make the rules for our unique geography, context and culture.
The watchwords here are alignment and experience. Business leaders and strategists need to make sure that their key business elements - including leadership, culture and competency of the organisation, strategy and customer preferences - are optimally aligned to not only react to how consumers are behaving but to influence that behaviour in order to better monetise it. Strategic leaders build organisations with the best employee experiences which are then optimally aligned to deliver the most desirable customer experiences.
In a country like South Africa, we have to do this while staying mindful of the immense social challenges we face and seek a path towards inclusive growth.
We are living in complex and challenging times with socio-political imperatives, technological disruption and shifting consumer culture, that pull us in many directions. The better leadership can cultivate a culture of passion, customer obsession and competency to drive a relevant strategy that creates the experiences customers desire for today and tomorrow, the more likely it is that we will be able to stay on course and take advantage of the current window of opportunity in South Africa to build long-term, sustainable business success.
Dr Grant Sieff is the course convenor for the UCT GSB Strategic Thinking and Execution for Growth and author of the book Engaging with Strategy, in your Organisation, and your Life.
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County program delayed until 2020
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BATH - Senior citizens qualified for Medicaid and returning to their homes after a stay in a nursing home may qualify for home health care through a new state program in 2020.
The program was originally scheduled to begin in April.
Steuben County Department of Social Services Commissioner Kathryn Muller said the program will include an emergency response system for individuals, assistance in accessing speech and occupational therapy, and activities of daily living including self-care, grocery shopping and laundry.
The program also will help individuals who require assistive adaptive technology or mechanical aides, such as chair lifts, she said.
Muller said her department will work with the county's Public Health Department to provide daily supervision of cases and ensure backup providers.
DSS also will refer people to the county's Office For the Aging, Muller said.
"We're always glad to help our seniors in any way we can," said Steuben County Office for the Aging Director Patty Baroody. "There are many more options available today than there were years ago, and elder care has become a very complex care system. Our staff is trained to simplify the process and promote safety and quality of life to those we serve."
Muller said nursing homes can make direct referrals through the state program and the state also will provide DSS with a list of potential clients.

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Liposuction is one of the leading forms of cosmetic surgery and is for fairly obvious reasons. Liposuction sculpts your body and gets rid of stubborn pockets of fat in little time and with minimal discomfort. While the concept of liposuction is straightforward, there are still some misconceptions and questions about this procedure.
Liposuction removes localized areas of fat from the abdomen, hips, thighs, back, buttocks, and arms that are resistant to diet and exercise.
Why do I need to be near my ideal weight?
One of the most common misconceptions about liposuction is that it provides significant weight loss and can be used as a substitute for a weight loss program. This isn't true. Liposuction gives off the appearance of weight loss because it tightens, slims, and firms your physique to provide you with a more fit contour. Regarding weight, however, the number on the scale will not be substantially reduced. Another reason that liposuction results are better when you are near your ideal weight is because liposuction doesn't affect or address the skin. Liposuction works best for patients who have firm skin elasticity. If your skin has poor tone and cannot bounce back, your liposuction procedure may only highlight this loose skin and create unforeseen cosmetic issues.
Liposuction isn't ideal for you if you lack skin elasticity. As liposuction doesn't shrink the skin, an additional procedure to address sagging skin may be necessary to reach optimal goals. Common procedures combined with liposuction are tummy tuck surgery, arm lift surgery, thigh lift surgery, and a lower body lift.
Every person has a specific number of fat cells in their body. This number of cells doesn't multiply or lessen; however, the size of the fat cells can grow and shrink in response to diet, exercise, and lifestyle choices. Liposuction permanently removes fat cells. Once gone, these cells are gone for good. The remaining cells will not multiply. It is for this reason that liposuction results are considered to be permanent. That said, just because the number of fat cells will not increase, that doesn't mean the remaining fat cells cannot grow in size if the proper maintenance is not met. A nutritious diet and regular exercise help to maintain liposuction results.
What will my recovery time entail?
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Q: Does a switch schematic symbol have a conventional "polarity"? I'm studying Rudy Severns eBook Snubber Circuits for Power Electronics; great read by the way.
In it he has the following figure, notice the phrase in the caption "including voltage and polarity conventions":

Should I take this to mean that there is a conventional orientation for the "opening" and "hinge", so to speak, of the switch symbol in a schematic? At least in a DC context where current would only be flowing the one direction?
I hadn't encountered that before and kind of have my doubts, but my engineering mind would like a convention that leads to a one-and-only-one right way to orient a symbol that otherwise has a degree of freedom to it.

A: No a switch doesn't normally have polarity, but when you implement a switch with semiconductors you have to worry whether they are one-quadrant, two-quadrant or four-quadrant, depending on what the rest of your circuit requires/imposes in terms of current and voltage. For example a BJT is good a 1st quadrant (or 3rd quadrant) switch and a diode as a 2nd quadrant (or 4th quadrant) switch. A MOSFET is good as two-quadrant switch if well chosen (body diode considerations). A good presentation of that topic is in Erickson's course.

A: I have never seen or used any convention for polarity or current direction on a mechanical switch or relay contact.
You may have to pay attention to polarity or current direction with solid-state relays or transistor switching schemes.
It is generally recommended that switches be placed in the "hot" wire feeding a load, rather than on the ground side of the load.

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Q: How to make caption language option become available in Chrome or Chrome-Canary? For both Chrome and Chrome Canary, the caption language option isn't available.
Found this Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/z3rtwt/chromes_live_captions_will_support_french_german/
I've downloaded Chrome Canary and tried everything i could find regarding flags and settings.
But for the life of me, i can't seem to make the caption language option become available...
Unfortunately OP didn't offer further details although this question has been asked in the comments at least a couple of times.
Does anyone have any ideea how this might work?
Many thanks!


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Lisbon in a Few Hours! (Part 2)
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The second part of this tour will take us through the very center of Lisbon.
The Praça do Comércio (Commerce Square)
The Rua Augusta Arch
Rua Augusta (Augusta Street)
Rossio Square - Praça de D. Pedro IV (Pedro IV Square)
The Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II (The Queen Maria II National Theatre)
The Estação de Caminhos de Ferro do Rossio (The Rossio Train Station)
The Castelo de São Jorge (Saint George Castle)
The Church or Monastery of São Vicente de Fora (St. Vincent Outside the Walls)
The Alfama
The National Pantheon - the Igreja de Santa Engrácia (The Church of Santa Engrácia)
The Museu do Fado (The Fado Museum)
Sé de Lisboa (The Lisbon Cathedral)
The Elevador de Santa Justa (The Santa Justa elevator)
The Bairro Alto
The Chiado
We will start it from the Praça do Comércio (Commerce Square), still commonly known as the Terreiro do Paço (Palace Yard), because it was the location of the Paços da Ribeira (Royal Ribeira Palace), until it was destroyed by the great earthquake in 1755. After the earthquake, the square was completely remodeled.
Situated near the Tagus River, the square was very important place in the history of Lisbon. There is a huge archway to the city center (The Rua Augusta Arch) and a beautiful equestrian Statue of King José I in the middle of it.
The Rua Augusta Arch is a stone, triumphal arch and one of the most recognizable attractions of Lisbon. It was built to commemorate the city's reconstruction after the earthquake. It has six columns and with statues of various historical figures and with the coat of arms of Portugal. The group of statues at the top represents Glory rewarding Valor and Ingenuity.
The building was originally designed as a bell tower, but later, after more than a century, it was transformed into an elaborate arch.
It takes us to Augusta Street, which links the Praça do Comércio with the other traditional Lisbon square, the Rossio.
Rossio Square, officially the Praça de D. Pedro IV (Pedro IV Square) paying homage to Pedro IV, King of Portugal, has been the place of many revolts and celebrations, executions and bullfights, and is still a favorite meeting place in Lisbon.
In the 19th century, it was paved with typical Portuguese mosaic and was decorated with bronze fountains. The Column of Pedro IV was erected in 1874 and the square got its current official name that has never been accepted by the people.
Most buildings around the Rossio were reconstructed after the earthquake in the second half of the 18th century, like the magnificent All-Saints Hospital. Only the Palace of the Independence survived it.
The Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II (The Queen Maria II National Theatre) built in the 1840s, is one of the most prestigious Portuguese venues. It was designed in neoclassical style. The main feature of the façade is a portico with six Ionic columns and a triangular pediment decorated with a sculpted relief of Apollo and the Muses. On its top, there is a statue of the Renaissance Portuguese playwright Gil Vicente, considered the founder of Portuguese theatre, whose plays, ironically, had sometimes been censured by the Portuguese Inquisition in the 16th century.
In 1887 another important landmark and an important addition to the infrastructure of the city was built in the square: the Estação de Caminhos de Ferro do Rossio (the Rossio Train Station) whose beautiful neo-manueline façade dominates the northwest side of the square.
Going towards the eastern part of Lisbon now, we will first visit the Castelo de São Jorge (Saint George Castle), a Moorish castle on the top of the hill overlooking the historic center of Lisbon and Tagus River. This well-preserved citadel offers a magnificent view of the city and it is easy to reach either taking the famous 28 tram or a tuk tuk, which is already a unique experience.
The Church or Monastery of São Vicente de Fora (St. Vincent Outside the Walls) is one of the most important monasteries and mannerist buildings in the country. It also contains the impressive royal pantheon of the Braganza monarchs of Portugal.
It was originally built in Romanesque style in 1147 outside the city walls, dedicated to Saint Vincent of Saragossa, patron saint of Lisbon, whose relics were brought there in the 12th century.
Its magnificent façade follows the later Renaissance style known as Mannerism and has several niches with statues of saints and two towers.
The Monastery buildings are reached through a magnificent Baroque portal, located beside the church façade. The monastery houses a museum containing the largest collection of Baroque Portuguese tiles.
Climbing the steps up to the bell tower, we will get one of the most beautiful views of the city.
On the slope between the São Jorge Castle and the Tejo river, lies the Alfama, the oldest district of Lisbon.
Its steep and narrow cobblestone streets are filled with historical attractions, but also restaurants and Fado bars. Seeing one of the fado dinner shows is a must.
The Arab influence here is remarkable, both in the architectural style and in the whole layout of the area.
One of the Alfama's hidden gems is the National Pantheon, located in what was formerly the Igreja de Santa Engrácia (The Church of Santa Engrácia).The church was converted into the National Pantheon in 1916 and it contains the tombs of many important Portuguese rulers and historical figures. It is worth climbing to the broad terrace that provides panoramic, breathtaking views over the Alfama neighborhood.
There is a beautiful baroque portal at the entrance to the church with the coat-of-arms of Portugal held by two angels. A high central dome was completed only in the 20th century, and its magnificent baroque organ from the18th-century was brought from Lisbon Cathedral.
On our way to the Lisbon Cathedral, we will pass by the Museu Militar (The Military Museum) and The Museu do Fado (The Fado Museum), both worth visiting if the time allows it.
Sé de Lisboa (The Lisbon Cathedral) is a Roman Catholic Church and the oldest church in Lisbon. Since the beginning of its construction in 1147, the building has been modified several times and survived many earthquakes. Nowadays it represents a mixture of different architectural styles. The facade is relatively plain, but the interior is quite stunning.
Coming back to Augusta Street, we will walk to the Elevador de Santa Justa, which will take us to our final destinations, this time on the western part of Lisbon, the Bairro Alto and the Chiado.
The Elevador de Santa Justa (The Santa Justa elevator), one of the eccentric sights of the Baixa district, was designed by an apprentice of Gustave Eiffel, Raul Mesnier de Ponsard in 1902.
It is 45 meters tall, made of iron and decorated with filigree. Up to 20 passengers at a time can travel up and down.
At the top, there is a walkway that links the elevator with Largo do Carmo in the Bairro Alto.
The Bairro Alto (Upper District or "neighbourhood") resulted from urban expansion in the 16th century, outside the walls of the historical city.
This cobbled area is a bohemian part of the city with numerous tiny shops and boutiques spread along the narrow streets, and many crowded, fun, and lively bars that are bursting with people hanging out.
Between the Bairro Alto and Baixa Pombalina, there is the Chiado, a square with its surrounding area, a traditional shopping area that mixes old and modern commercial establishments, but it is also an important cultural area, with several museums and theatres.
After a huge fire in 1988, the Chiado area has recovered, and nowadays features the highest real estate property prices in Portugal.
To be continued …
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NLRB Issues First Social Media Decision and Invalidates "Courtesy" Policy
On September 28, 2012, the National Labor Relations Board issued its first decision in one of the social media cases which have garnered so much attention in the last year and a half. The case is Karl Knauz Motors, Inc., d/b/a Knauz BMW, 358 NLRB No. 164. This was the case of a BMW salesman named Becker who was fired after posting photos and a critical message on his Facebook page about the dealership's choice of inexpensive food (hot dogs, small bags of chips, cookies, and bottled water) for a sales event promoting a new car model to customers. At a meeting before the event, Becker and other sales people expressed their disappointment about the choice of food and their concern that it would send the wrong message to their clients and negatively affect their commissions. At the sales event, Becker took photos of the food.
During the same week as the sales event, an underage driver drove a vehicle off the lot of a dealership across the street and into a pond in front of the BMW dealership. The BMW employees gathered to watch the commotion, and Becker took photos. He posted these photos on his Facebook page along with the comment, "Oops." At the same time, he posted the photos of the sales event, with critical comments. Before he posted the photos about the sales event, he told his co-workers what he planned to do.
The dealership fired Becker, and he then filed an unfair labor practice charge at the NLRB. The Acting General Counsel of the NLRB decided to issue a complaint against the dealership on the basis of evidence that (a) Becker was fired at least in part because of his posting about the sales event, and (b) this posting was protected by the law because it addressed terms of employment–the possible effect of the food choice on commissions–and Becker was voicing the sentiments of other salespeople and was continuing the course of activity that began at the group meeting before the sales event.
At the trial, the dealership defended by arguing that the one and only reason it fired Becker was because of his Facebook posting about the car accident, a serious matter, not the posting about the sales event. The judge agreed with the dealership on this point, and so did the NLRB on review. They concluded that the posting about the accident was not protected, concerted activity, but rather that it was, "posted as a lark, without any discussion with any other employee [of the dealership] and had no connection to any of the employees' terms and conditions of employment." In ruling that the dealership's only motive in terminating Becker was the Facebook posting about the accident, the NLRB did not have to decide whether the posting about the sales event was protected activity.
However, the judge and the NLRB also found that the dealership's "Courtesy" policy in its employee handbook violated the law because it would tend to chill employees in the exercise of their rights under the law. The Courtesy policy said:
"(b) Courtesy: Courtesy is the responsibility of every employee. Everyone is expected to be courteous, polite and friendly to our customers, vendors and suppliers, as well as to their fellow employees. No one should be disrespectful or use profanity or any other language which injures the image or reputation of the Dealership."
A two member majority of the three NLRB members who presided over the case agreed with the judge and held that this policy violated the law because employees could reasonably understand its broad prohibition against "disrespectful" language and "language which injures the image or reputation of the Dealership" to prohibit employees from objecting to their working conditions–whether to co-workers, supervisors, managers, or third parties–and seeking to improve them. Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees have the collective right to object to their working conditions.
In dissent, NLRB Member Hayes argued that the majority's decision goes too far, because it, "invalidates any handbook policy that employees conceivably could construe to prohibit protected activity, regardless of whether they reasonably would do so." Member Hayes argued that the majority read the words "disrespectful" and "language which injures the image or reputation of the Dealership" in isolation and did not give the whole policy a reasonable reading, contrary to precedent. He opined that, "employees and employers alike have a right to expect a civil workplace, promoted through policies like the one that my colleagues find unlawful." Read in this context, he believed the policy complies with the law.
In view of this new decision and the recent efforts of the Acting General Counsel to attack the policies of non-union employers, it would be wise for all non-union employers to review their policies for compliance with the National Labor Relations Act and amend or rescind them as necessary.
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Prior to the Industrial Revolution, Didsbury was a small agricultural hamlet within the sub-manor of Withington. The earliest recorded reference to it is provided by the granting, in 1235, of land for the building of a chapel. This became the parochial church of St. Oswald, later changing its name to St. James in 1855. Near the church on Stenner Lane was a spring or well which provided water and permitted the growth of the hamlet over the next few hundred years.
The local antiquarian, Alderman Fletcher Moss, described the hamlet as it was at the end of the 18th century in idyllic terms as a collection of half-timbered, thatched cottages, a smithy and handloom-weavers' houses, as well as the church and two inns fronting on to the village green. The point where Stenner Lane leads from the green between the two inns was known as 'The Gates of Hell' because, as Fletcher Moss explained: "...there are two inns on the broadway, and many there be that go in thereat; and narrow is the way that leadeth to the church, and few there be that find it."
Around the end of the 18th century a few larger houses were built, including Broome House, Didsbury House (also known as Mosley Hall) and the Old Parsonage (the former home of Fletcher Moss). However, the 19th century brought more radical changes and the character of the conservation area as it is today was established by businessmen who had acquired their wealth from the Industrial Revolution and who built large villas and country houses among the trees overlooking the River Mersey and on avenues such as Didsbury Park.
The Towers, owned by the proprietor of the Manchester Guardian, John Edward Taylor, was the largest of these residences. It was purchased in 1874 by Daniel Adamson, the engineer who instigated a meeting here at which the decision to construct the Manchester Ship Canal was taken. In 1920 the house was purchased by the British Cotton Industry Research Association, which named it the Shirley Institute after the daughter of a Stockport Member of Parliament, William Greenwood.
The conservation area also contains examples of more modest houses of this period, such as those in Kingston Road and the Grove, which benefit considerably from their fine wooded setting. The latter were built by the Watts family for their farm managers in the 1870s. Another eminent family, the Simons, lived at Lawnhurst, now Rosecroft School, and later at Broomcroft Hall which was donated to the Victoria University. The 19th century also saw the influence of Methodism in the area with the establishment in Didsbury House, and its purpose-built extensions, of The Northern Branch of the Wesleyan Theological Institution, later Didsbury College, and with the opening of St Paul's Methodist Church in 1877.
With the growth of the railways, Didsbury was absorbed by the resultant urban sprawl, and it became part of the City of Manchester in 1904. The Corporation's influence on the conservation area can be seen in the laying out and maintenance of parks and playing fields, the expansion of Didsbury College after 1945 and in the re-use of other buildings.


Central heating works by warming the air around the heater, which creates convection currents that carry the warmth around the room. Convection insufficiently warms surfaces of objects in a room (Ardehali et al., 2004). Warm air has a high capacity to hold moisture and when it meets a cold surface, condensation will occur. Central heating = Condensation and the chance of mould, fungus; wood rot and salt damp or flaking paintwork.
Infrared on the other hand warms the surfaces of objects without warming the air. The relative humidity in the air consequently remains low and when the air meets a warm surface, condensation does not occur.
This is one of the primary benefits to buildings of Infrared Heating.
Because water absorbs heat specifically well at 3 microns and lower – Far Infrared – Far Infrared is also beneficial in drying-out dampness from buildings – either passively or deliberately.
Passively used, the infrared from a heater will begin to warm the masonry of a building. When masonry is damp, it absorbs and emits infrared poorly and air circulation actually needs to be encouraged to remove the evaporated water vapour. As masonry dries out, the thermal reflectivity of the room also improves. This is because water in damp masonry initially absorbs the heat and does not emit the warmth back into the room, whereas dry masonry re-emits nicely. You may hear this being referred to as the "U value": where a 'low' value is to be found in dry masonry and a high value in wet.
This therefore has application and value in historical buildings, for example, or hospitals, where the present of heat and damp together need to be discouraged. Infrared dries walls and plaster and preserves paintings and fabrics.
Deliberately used, Infrared heaters such as the Herschel Advantage IR range can be used for flood recovery purposes. The Far Infrared is better absorbed by the wet masonry over time and dries from the inside out. Hotter heaters such as quartz and gas blowers are less efficient driers, because their harsher heat flash-dries the surface of the wall, creating a "skin" under which bubbles of water vapour then form, causing blistering of the surface of the masonry.
Use of Far Infrared in a building will not only dry out masonry and plasterwork over time, but is therefore also beneficial to wooden and metal fittings.
Up until the introduction of central-heating systems, the maintenance intervals for the contents and interiors of historical buildings were far-apart. This was because these buildings were typically heated by radiant sources of heat such as stoves or burners (as opposed to convection). After the introduction of central-heating systems, intrusive measures became necessary every few years to guard against mould, fungus, salt damp, surface contamination, subsurface rot, etc.
From a design and "finishing" point of view, remember that infrared heaters come in many different designs. They are not just "heaters". You can consequently mix form and function in a way never-before possible. For example, some Infrared heaters are mirrors; others are pictures which can be hung decoratively in hallways and rooms.
For public places with large atria, you can choose from a variety of attractive infrared spheres that can be suspended from the ceiling, or which can be free-standing in your reception area. Other panels are shaped to fit in the ceiling grid of offices and public places to provide heat unobtrusively.
Infrared heaters are less obtrusive than any other type of heater. All other types of heater – to some extent – require space of their own, forcing furniture and even use of the room itself to "fit around" the space occupied by the heater. This is not true for infrared panels which are typically mounted on walls out of the way of furniture and functional "use" of the room and when ceiling mounted are even more discreet.
Herschel Infrared heating has been approved for use in Grade-listed buildings because its installation requirements and impact are so small.
Adequate strength in the surface where the unit will be mounted.
There are no requirements for fuel storage, pipe-work, flues or extractor fans or any additional insulation. This makes Infrared significantly easier to install than oil or gas boilers, heat pumps, underfloor heating etc.
Infrared also has the considerable advantage of requiring no maintenance because it has no moving parts. As well as adding to the overall cost-savings case, it saves significant annual organisation. And unlike gas or oil boilers you won't have to contemplate performing an entire re-installation every 10 years.
Insulation necessary behind heat source and to prevent cold walls chilling the room No insulation necessary. Walls and other objects heat the room.
Moving parts require servicing and make product life uncertain No moving parts. Product life exceptionally long. No maintenance schedule so no interim expenses.
Costly to upgrade heat source (e.g. boilers, central heating system) Cheap to upgrade.
Specialist required to install If you can hang a picture, you can install an Infrared heater.
Ardehali, MM, Panah, NG, and Smith, TF. 2004. Proof of concept modeling of energy transfer mechanisms for radiant conditioning panels. Energy Conversion and Management 45 (2004) : 2005-2017.


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Bill Norman introduced the next report (Community Asset Transfer – Update) and Appendix A and Appendix B and said as a footnote that Heswall Hall had been completed today. Cllr Adrian Jones asked about the cost implications at 2.2. Bil Norman replied that if the transfers ran out of time they would have to use Community Fund money, however this would have to be agreed with Wirral Partnership Homes. He did see this as something reasonable and that could be achieved. However funding was only guaranteed until March.
Cllr Adrian Jones then referred to page 83, section 5.1 specifically the reference to the gap between £5.25 million and £4.8 million. Cllr Harry Smith declared a personal interest and asked what they thought the prospects were for Beechwood Recreation Centre. Bill Norman said he was awaiting a business case. Cllr Phil Davies said it would extend beyond 2012, improving the much-needed support to the community groups keen to take over. They would use financial help as proposed in 6.2 onwards. The remaining buildings would be transferred when ready and according to business plans. He was keen for as much support as possible for everybody who wants to be involved. The report's recommendations were agreed.
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Wish you could read books and Instagram at the same time? Today we find out how the New York Public Library has you covered. We also take a look at a Spider-Man prequel novel, Facebook Watch, and the guy who just set the world pull-up record.


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One Hundred Years of the Indy 500
A century ago, the first Indianapolis 500 race started in high excitement and ended in a muddle
Charles Leerhsen
Forty cars started the 1911 race, only a dozen finished. IMS Photo
The winner of the 1911 Indianapolis 500 averaged about 75 mph, less than half the winning speed in today's race. William Manning / Corbis
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was only two years old in 1911; there was no false modesty on the program for the first running of the 500. IMS Photo
Arthur Greiner drove the No. 44 Amplex, whose ill fate led Greiner to insist the car was cursed. IMS Photo
Sam Dickson rode in the No. 44 Amplex. firstsuperspeedway.com
The No. 44 Amplex that Greiner believed to be cursed. IMS Photo
About 90,000 spectators were at the Speedway when the 40 entrants rolled up to the starting line. Bretzman Collection / Indiana Historical Society
The race presented a decisive test for the Warner Horograph, shown here with inventor Charles H. Warner, which relied on telephones, springs, hammers, miles of wires and a crew of hundreds to keep track of the cars' running order and times. It failed. IMS Photo
Ray Harroun beat Ralph Mulford to the winner's circle. IMS Photo
"Smiling" Ralph Mulford, a Brooklyn-born choirmaster famous for his sunny disposition and his habit of eating gumdrops as he drove, wasn't so happy when he returned to the Indy winner's circle after taking a victory lap in his big white Lozier and found Ray Harroun being congratulated for winning the $25,000 sweepstakes. Until he died in 1973 Mulford maintained he was the true winner. IMS Photo
Harroun's Wasp, with Dario Frachitti's 2010 Dallara Honda and A.J. Foyt's 1961 Offenhauser, is still celebrated as a winner. Ron Hoskins / Getty Images
The Speedway still looked more like the old Pressley Farm when the famous New York driver Lewis Strang dropped by on a dreary day in March of 1909 to inspect a "scale model" of the first track in the U.S. built expressly for auto racing. IMS Photo
Because the track was not ready for automobiles, the very first event at the Speedway, in 1909, was a balloon race. IMS Photo
The high-living founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (left to right): Arthur Newby, Frank Wheeler, Carl Fisher and James Allison. Their invention of the 500-mile sweepstakes was a last-ditch attempt to reverse sagging attendance and create an event that would galvanize the city of Indianapolis. The idea worked—instantly and beyond their imagining. IMS Photo
Before the founders switched to bricks, they struggled with a track made of packed gravel and "taroid." The second event conducted at the Speedway, a motorcycle meeting, only underscored the inadequacies of the racing surface as the rough stones ripped up tires and caused several accidents. IMS Photo
As this picture from 1910 shows, Speedway promoters were having trouble filling the grandstand. The solution, Carl Fisher and his partners decided, was to stage one big annual event—a 500-mile sweepstakes, the longest (and therefore the most dangerous) race ever conducted on a track. IMS Photo
Smoke was a detriment to visibility in the early days of auto racing, as this photo of the start of a 1910 Speedway race demonstrates. But once a race began, dust kicked up by wind and tires was an even bigger problem because it ripped through goggles and drove glass and grit into the drivers' eyes. IMS Photo
Barney Oldfield was the most famous racing driver of his day—and the most frequently sanctioned. The former boxer and bicycle racer set many legitimate records, but made most of his money barnstorming around the country. IMS Photo
Because he was serving a suspension for having raced against Jack Johnson, the black heavyweight champ, Oldfield couldn't compete in the first Indy 500, but he covered the race as a syndicated columnist. IMS Photo
The forty car field—the largest ever assembled to that time—waits for Speedway President Carl Fisher to lead them on the first "rolling start" in the history of auto racing in the 1911 Indianapolis 500. IMS Photo
David Bruce-Brown, an heir to the Lorillard tobacco fortune, behind the wheel of his Fiat with his steady riding mechanic, Anthony Scudalari, in the co-pilot's seat. Bruce-Brown, 23, probably led for most of the way in the first 500 (timing and placement records were incomplete and inaccurate) and eventually finished third. He and Scudalari died a little over a year later while practicing for a race in Milwaukee. IMS Photo
Although relief driver Cyrus Patschke took the wheel for at least 30 laps, Ray Harroun was so exhausted after finishing the 1911 Indy 500 that he could barely respond to those who congratulated him for being the official winner. IMS Photo
After he got some food and water, Harroun announced that he would never drive in races again, saying it was simply too dangerous—and he kept his promise. IMS Photo
The Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet was one of the best and boldest drivers on the early racing scene, but he aspired to design his own line of reasonably-priced automobiles. A few months after the first Indy 500, he helped found the Chevrolet Motor Company. IMS Photo
The men of the early 20th-century motor press sometimes referred to the 13th circuit of an automobile racecourse as "the hoodoo lap," not because more bad stuff happened then, but because they fervently wished it would. Coming at that point, a wreck would play nicely into the tabloid trope that superstitions are not to be flouted, and it would give a long car race some much-needed narrative cord. And so it was on May 30, 1911, as several dozen reporters leaned forward anxiously to watch the 40-car field for the first-ever Indianapolis 500-mile race power past the starting line for the 12th time and roar yet again into turn one.
They weren't a bad lot, the newspapermen who had come to the two-year-old Indianapolis Motor Speedway to cover the event, but they required—and by some standards of judgment deserved—all the help they could get. Many by then had been in Indianapolis for a month or more, pumping up the importance of the Speedway and the coming sweepstakes—the longest race ever contested on the track—via the dispatches they filed for their far-flung dailies. They had recorded the arrival of virtually every "sweepstakes pilot" in the race, especially Ray Harroun, driver of the No. 32 Marmon "Wasp," an Indianapolis-built car and the only single-seater in the race. (All the other drivers traveled with "riding mechanics," who manually pumped oil and swiveled their heads constantly to check for oncoming traffic.) They interviewed drop-by celebrities like Detroit Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb and "noted songstress" Alice Lynn, investigated the burgeoning supply of counterfeit $1 general admission tickets, and scrambled for stories about the Indianapolis house cat that "deliberately committed suicide" by jumping from a sixth-story window, the downstate chicken with 14 toes on its left foot and the rumored sightings of a PG-rated pervert known as Jack the Hugger. For men accustomed to doing little more on a workday than walking the length of a boxing ring to ask one toothless man his opinion of another, this was arduous labor.
But the 500-mile sweepstakes, when it finally transpired on that surprisingly cool Tuesday morning, wasn't paying the pressmen back in kind. The race had gotten off to a thrillingly raucous start replete with aerial bombs and a grandstand packed with an estimated 90,000 enthusiasts. People were excited by the amount of money at stake (the winner's share would be $10,000, an impressive sum in an era when Cobb, baseball's highest-paid player, made $10,000 a season) and the danger. (In the downtown saloons you could bet on how many drivers, who wore cloth or leather helmets and had no seat belts or roll bars, might be killed.) But with every mile the story line had become more and more scrambled and the spectators more and more subdued. Those charged with describing the "excitement" to an eager audience of millions were feeling the first damp signs of panic. Like every other lengthy automobile contest these experts on baseball and boxing had ever witnessed, this one was damnably confusing. The auto racing tracks of the day simply did not have the technology to keep track of split times and running order once cars began passing one another and going into and out of the pits.
On certain early developments almost everyone could agree. "Happy" Johnny Aitken, in the dark-blue No. 4 National car, had grabbed the early lead, only to be passed, after about seven miles, by Spencer Wishart, a mining magnate's son driving a squat, gray customized Mercedes said to have cost his daddy $62,000. Eight laps later Wishart (who wore a custom-made shirt and silk tie beneath his overalls) suddenly pitted with a bad tire, leaving the lead to a big brown Knox driven by an unheralded public-school kid from Springfield, Massachusetts, named Fred Belcher. Soon Wishart stormed back onto the course, but into what lap exactly no one, including the judges, could say for certain. The leaders, as mile 30 approached, were starting to lap the stragglers, so the field was a snake eating its own tail. Belcher now found himself running second to a ball of smoke concealing, it was generally believed, the dark red Fiat of 23-year-old David Bruce-Brown, a square-jawed, fair-haired New Yorker from a wealthy merchant family. A class-war theme might be emerging—trust-fund kids versus their working-class counterparts—but then again, perhaps not.
The crowd regained its focus and oohed each time a scoreboard worker indicated a change in running order by manually removing and rehanging the car numbers on their pegs. Still, the denizens of the infield press box—more skeptical than the average fan, and with a better perch—couldn't help noticing that the Speedway's four scoreboards were usually not in agreement, and that a crew from the timing department was frantically trying to repair a tripwire that had been snapped by who knows which automobile a lap or two back. (The crew succeeded, but the wire was immediately rebroken.) The Warner Horograph, as the Speedway's timing system was known, was a ridiculously Rube Goldbergesque device involving miles of wire as well as rolls of paper, typewriter ribbon, springs, hammers, telephones, Dictaphones, marbles and hundreds of human beings. Its sheer complexity was impressive, but the Horograph was utterly useless when it came to recording time and keeping track of races. Given such chaos, was it really so wrong to wish for a spectacular accident that would wipe away the early muddle and allow the beleaguered scribes a second chance at getting a grip on the action?
Of course it was wrong, but moral questions wither in the face of a hoodoo, even one conjured by a coven of pasty-faced, ink-stained hacks. Right on cue, the No. 44 Amplex, a bright red car driven by Arthur Greiner and traveling in mid-pack, lost a tire, though accounts vary as to which. The bare wooden wheel hit the bricks hard, causing Greiner's auto to swerve crazily and veer into the infield, where it plowed through tall meadow grass and began a somersault, only to stop in mid-maneuver, so that it stood straight up, balancing on its steaming grill. The 27-year-old Greiner was flipped from the cockpit like a shucked oyster, with the steering wheel somehow still in his mitts. Riding mechanic Sam Dickson, meanwhile, remained more or less in his bucket seat, one hand planted on the dashboard, the other clutching a leather side-handle, his only restraining device. This was the sort of heart-stopping moment that only auto racing could provide. If the car fell backward, returning to its three remaining tires, he might get nothing worse than a jolt. But if it fell forward, it would drive Dickson's head into the ground like a tent spike. The crowd fell silent. Dickson tensed. The Amplex rocked on its radiator.
Sensing disaster, scores of spectators began surging over the fence that separated the track apron from the homestretch. This was a common occurrence in the wake of a potentially fatal accident. So eager were some men, women and children to get a closer look that they would risk their own lives by running across a track teeming with racing machines.
In real time, the upended Amplex couldn't have taken more than a few seconds to fall. And when it did, it fell forward, killing Dickson. As Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote: "There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted." Dickson's body was taken with dispatch to the Speedway hospital tent and the race continued without interruption, with the drivers swerving around spectators unable to control their morbid curiosity.
Twenty-five minutes later, the invading spectators had been dispersed by Speedway security guards, and the grandstand resumed its distracted rumble. Standing alone over the wreck of Dickson and Greiner's race car was a 14- year-old Hoosier named Waldo Wadsworth Gower, who had sneaked into the Speedway the day before and spent the night in the pits. In a letter he wrote in 1959, Gower recalled the piercing sadness brought on by the sight of the mangled auto, reminding him of a similar Amplex he had seen being polished to a high gleam two months before at the American Simplex factory in Mishawaka, Indiana. With "a nice shiny coal oil lantern hung on the radiator cap" and the light "of a bright moon," he wrote, it had found its way to the city of big dreams.
This is all very touching, I thought, while reading the letter, which had been passed along to me by Sam Dickson's nephew Scott—but I also couldn't help wonder why this kid was standing in the middle of the infield getting all Proustian instead of watching the race. Gradually, though, as my research deepened, I came to realize that except in moments of crisis very few spectators were following the action. Newspapers and auto-industry magazines noted that for most of the day many seats in the grandstand, though paid for, went unoccupied, and lines at lavatories and concession stands remained serpentine.
Few watched for the simple reason that no one could tell what he was seeing. The opening half-hour had been bewildering enough, but at least it was fairly apparent in those first 30 miles who held the lead. As the field approached 40 miles, tires started to blow. Belcher's Knox, Wishart's Mercedes and several other cars were among the first to hobble into the pits. It took some crews only two minutes to change a tire, others eight or 10 or 15, and no one was timing these stops officially, so the already debatable running order became inscrutable. To compound the chaos, some cars were crossing the finish line and then backing up to their pit, so they (perhaps inadvertently) got credit for a whole additional lap when they emerged and traveled a few feet back across the line. And the worst breaches of order and continuity were yet to come.
What made all this especially maddening was that the race was proceeding exactly as everyone had expected it would, given the natural antagonism between bricks and tires: the smarter drivers, like Harroun, were going at the relatively easy pace of 75 miles an hour or so in an attempt to keep pit stops to a minimum, just as they had said they would in pre-race interviews. You might think that such a conservative and formful contest would help the clocking and scoring officials in their labors. But no. As the trade publication Horseless Age put it, "The system...did not work as expected, merely because the cars were so numerous and tore around so fast." In other words, if only there hadn't been a car race at the Speedway that day, the Warner Horograph would have functioned just fine.
A few writers—a largely ignored minority, to be sure—were frank about the problems. "The workers at the great score boards...keep very bad tally on the laps that each car makes," wrote newspaperman Crittenden Marriott, whose on-deadline dispatch has held up well. "Hundreds of amateur mathematicians do sums upon their cuffs and find that the pace is 70 to 75 miles an hour, a speed that the survivors maintain till the end." The New York Times: "It was acknowledged that the timing device was out of repair...for an hour during the race." (Some sources had the downtime as considerably longer.) No one sounded more exasperated than the influential weekly Motor Age, which dismissed the race as "a spectacle rather than a struggle for supremacy between great motor cars." There were "too many cars on the track. The spectator could not follow the race."
Most reporters, realizing that a conventional story was easier to compose on deadline than an exposé (and, no doubt, that Speedway publicist C. E. Shuart had been covering their drink tabs), acted as if the race had a coherent storyline. The writers did this partly by guessing at what they were seeing and by agreeing to agree on certain premises. But mostly they accepted the Speedway's official version of events as disseminated by Shuart—even though it did not always jibe with the venue's scoreboards, and would change substantially when the judges issued their Revised Results the next day. What any one of these spoon-fed reporters had to say about the running order is mostly worthless. But by braiding their accounts, and occasionally referencing the Revised Results, we can begin to recreate a very rough version of the race.
The dashing David Bruce-Brown, we can say with a fair amount of certainty, played an important role. Virtually all the writers agreed that his Fiat, leading when the Amplex plunged into the infield on lap 13, was still ahead when the field began to stream past the 40-mile mark. At 50 miles, though, accounts diverge. Most dailies said "the millionaire speed maniac" remained on top, but the Horseless Age, in an issue that appeared the day after the race, had Johnny Aitken and his No. 4 National back in front at this point, with Bruce-Brown second and Ralph DePalma third. The Speedway's Revised Results, meanwhile, put DePalma in the lead at mile 50, followed by Bruce-Brown, then Aitken.
Virtually all sources converge again at mile 60, where they have DePalma ahead, and most also say Bruce-Brown reclaimed the lead soon after and held it for a good long while. At mile 140, some sources place Bruce-Brown a full three laps, or seven and a half miles, ahead of DePalma, with Ralph Mulford and his No. 33 Lozier third. As for Harroun, he had been riding as far back as tenth place for most of the race by some estimates, but he moved into second place at mile 150. Or so said some sources.
The second significant accident of the day occurred at mile...well, here we go again. The Star said it was the 125th mile, the Horseless Age between the 150th and 160th miles when Teddy Tetzlaff, a California driver on Mulford's Lozier team, blew a tire and crashed into Louis Disbrow's No. 5 Pope-Hartford, seriously injuring the Lozier riding mechanic, Dave Lewis, and taking both cars out of the competition. The Revised Results have Disbrow dropping out of the race after about 115 miles and Tetzlaff leaving with mechanical problems after a mere 50. So by the Speedway's lights the participants weren't racing when their accident occurred and Lewis did not officially fracture his pelvis.
At mile 158, Harroun pitted and turned his car over to a fellow Pennsylvanian named Cyrus Patschke. At about mile 185, Bruce-Brown blew a tire and made his first pit stop of the day, and Patschke took the lead. In the opinion of every reporter at the Speedway, and according to the initial data provided by the Horograph, Patschke reached the 200-mile mark first. The Revised Results, however, have it Bruce-Brown, DePalma, Patschke.
The buffs who still chat about such matters know that May 30, 1911, was not the finest hour for the steering knuckle (the automobile part that allows the front wheels to pivot). Several knuckles had given way early in the day, and at about 205 miles, relief driver Eddie Parker broke the one on the No. 18 Fiat and spun out at the top of the homestretch. Though not a serious mishap—no one was hurt and Parker got out and with a few others pushed his car a few hundred yards into the pits—it set the stage for what steering knuckle historians know as the Big One.
As the leaders, whoever they were, came down the homestretch on what is officially said to be mile 240, Joe Jagersberger's red and gray No. 8 Case bounced off the concrete retaining wall on the outer part of the track and skidded diagonally toward the infield, traveling perhaps 100 feet. Jagersberger's riding mechanic, Charles Anderson, fell or perhaps jumped in panic out of the vehicle and wound up underneath it, lying on his back; one of the Case's rear wheels passed directly over his chest. He was able to get up, however, or at least begin to—when he saw Harry Knight bearing down on him in the battleship gray No. 7 Westcott.
Knight was a rapidly rising young pilot trying to win enough money to marry Jennie Dollie, the so-called Austro-Hungarian dancing sensation. She had at first balked at his pre-race proposals, saying, "No haphazard racer for my life's companion!" via her hopefully not very expensive interpreter. But she had proffered a tentative yes, the Star reported, after "she found out Knight was a man of good habits and devoted to his mother" and he presented her with a diamond solitaire. All Knight had to do was to pay for the ring, but here now was Anderson literally standing between him and a possible share of the purse. Should he mow down the hapless riding mechanic and perhaps improve his position in the running order—or swerve and quite likely wreck?
His love for Miss Dollie notwithstanding, he crushed the brakes and veered toward pit row—where he crashed into the vermilion and white No. 35 Apperson, taking his own and Herb Lytle's car out of the race. (Anderson was hospitalized briefly, but survived.) In an article headlined "Who Really Won the First Indy 500?" by Russ Catlin in the Spring 1969 issue of Automobile Quarterly and in a very similar and identically headlined piece by Russell Jaslow in the February 1997 North American Motorsports Journal, the authors state that Jagersberger's Case hit the judges' stand, leading the timing officials to scramble for their lives and abandon their duties.
The incident those authors describe is consistent with the sometimes slapsticky nature of the day, yet there is no evidence of a crash into the judges' area. The official historian of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Donald Davidson, a revered figure in motor sports and staunch defender of the official results of the race, maintains that Catlin got this wrong, and that Jaslow merely repeated the untruth. Davidson notes that the smashing of the judges' stand would surely have been mentioned in the newspaper accounts of the race (especially since the structure was just a few yards from the main press box), but that absolutely no reference to a smashup appears in any daily or weekly journal. He is right about that, and what's more, a brief film clip of this portion of the race, available on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=DObRkFU6-Rw), appears to bear out Davidson's contention that there was no contact between the Case and the judges' structure. Ultimately, though, the question is moot because Jagersberger's car came close enough to the stand to send timing officials running, and there are contemporary reports stating that after the accidents at mile 240, no one was keeping track of the timing and running order for at least ten minutes. If the operators of the Warner Horograph hadn't lost the thread of the race narrative before that moment, they would have done so then. In any case, with the halfway point approaching, the Indianapolis News reported, "so much excitement was caused in the judges' and timers' stands that the time for the 250 miles was overlooked." Horseless Age said Harroun's reliever, Patschke, had the Wasp ahead at the halfway point; the Star said Harroun himself had the car in the lead, and the Revised Results said it was Bruce-Brown, followed by the Wasp, then Mulford's Lozier.
Taken to a local hospital, the men involved in the incident at mile 240 were found to have serious but not life-threatening injuries. Meanwhile at the Speedway medical tent, one reporter noticed a curious sight: Art Greiner reading an extra edition of the Star that had been dropped off at the Speedway just minutes before. "Bruce-Brown in Lead," read the main headline on a page-one story that included a report that he had been fatally injured in the accident on lap 13. After being carried to the enclosure, Greiner had likely received the standard Speedway hospital treatment: his wounds packed with black peppercorns to deter infection and bandaged with bed linen donated by local citizens. He had probably been given a few stiff belts of rye whiskey as well; he seemed serene and reflective when the reporter approached.
"I was perfectly conscious when we whirled through the air," Greiner said. "Dick[son]—poor boy—I guess he never realized what happened." Then alluding to pre-race complications with the 44, he said, "I'm convinced now that it really does have a hoodoo."
Around the 250-mile mark, Patschke pulled into the pits and hopped out of the Wasp, and Harroun grabbed a hot-water bottle and hopped back in. If the Wasp truly had the lead, then it was Patschke who had put it there.
All sources had Harroun ahead at 300 miles, but now Mulford was making his move. The Lozier hovered 35 seconds behind the Wasp from mile 300 to 350 and onward, according to Horseless Age. For what it's worth, the Revised Results have Mulford in front at 350 miles—though the Star spoke for most journalists when it said "Harroun was never headed from the 250th mile to the finish of the race."
At about 400 miles, the drivers positioned themselves for the final push. DePalma bore down so furiously that he was forced to come in for tires three times over a mere 18 laps. Mulford's Lozier also had tire trouble: late in the race, he pitted for a replacement that took less than a minute, then came in again a few laps later for several minutes. The crowd, said Motor Age, "realized that it really was a race. They forgot their morbid curiosity in accidents and studied the scoreboards."
But what exactly did they see there? After 450 miles, the Lozier team would insist that its car was listed first on at least one of the scoreboards and that officials had assured team manager Charles Emise that was one of the rare scoreboard postings people could trust. As a result, Emise would say, he signaled Mulford to ease off in the last 10 or 20 miles so he wouldn't have to pit and jeopardize his lead. Several members of the Lozier camp would later swear that Mulford saw the green, one-lap-to-go flag first, at which point he was running comfortably ahead of Bruce-Brown, with Harroun third. A mile or so later, Bruce-Brown's Fiat dropped back behind Harroun.
Mulford, in this version of events, crossed the wire first, and, as was the custom among drivers of that day, ran an "insurance lap" after getting the checkered flag, to be sure that he had covered the required distance. When Mulford went to the winner's circle to claim his trophy, he found Harroun already there, surrounded by cheering multitudes. Harroun, the official winner, didn't have much to say beyond, "I'm tired—may I have some water, and perhaps a sandwich, please?" Or something to that effect. Whether he ever wondered if he really crossed the wire first, we will never know. As a driver who came up in the era before windshields were invented, he had learned to keep his mouth shut.
Adapted from Blood and Smoke: A True Tale of Mystery, Mayhem and the Birth of the Indy 500, by Charles Leerhsen. Copyright © 2011 by Charles Leerhsen. Reprinted by permission from Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved.
Charles Leerhsen's previous book was Crazy Good, a portrait of the harness-racing champion horse Dan Patch.
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'Female CCC members fondled in prison vehicle' – The Zimbabwe … – The Zimbabwe Mail
CCC female members and their Lawyer Chris Mhike
LAWYERS representing 25 members of the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) who were arrested last week in Harare's Budiriro suburb have accused the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services wardens of transporting female prisoners in the same van with male prisoners who are not members of the party, which resulted in the females being fondled along the way.
The lawyers, Wilbert Mandinde, Kudzai Kadzere and Chris Mhike added that one of the accused persons acquired the COVID-19 virus while in prison and has been isolated for 10 days.
Harare magistrate Yeukai Dzuda ordered the State to investigate the abuse and bring the report to court by Friday.
Meanwhile, the defence filed the accused persons' bail applications.
But the State said the accused might join their colleagues to commit similar offences if released on bail.
The defence insisted that bail was a constitutional right and the accused persons' liberty must be preserved. They also submitted that the State failed to provide reasons for denying the opposition members bail.
The matter was postponed to today for bail application continuation.
Allegations are that on January 14, 2023, the accused persons responded to an invitation for a meeting at Budiriro MP Costa Machingauta's house.
Last Saturday, the activists who were dressed in their party regalia gathered at Machingauta's house where they chanted CCC party slogans.
It is State's case that ZRP Budiriro received a tip off that the accused were gathered illegally and went to investigate.
"Upon arrival at the scene of crime, the police observed that the accused's conduct was disturbing the peace of a section of members of the public. The police ordered the accused persons to disperse, but they resisted leading to their arrest. The accused had no lawful excuse to act in the manner they did," the State submitted. – News Day
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The Zimbabwean embassy in South Africa is expected to launch a strategic plan for the return of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders.
South Africa cancelled the ZEP facility last year stating that holders will not be allowed to reside, work or learn in that country beyond 30 June 2023 if they cannot find alternative legal permission to live there.
About 180 000 Zimbabweans face deportation.
Several lobby groups met last week at the University of Cape Town to discuss the upcoming court bid to oppose the government's decision to scrap the ZEP.
A lawyer representing permit holders, Advocate Simba Chitando, told SABC News that the Zimbabwean government is not responsible for the decision to terminate the ZEP. He added:
In my view, all the Zim government can do is make provisions to accept the Zim nationals who may want to return to Zimbabwe. It looks like the Zim government is saying that for those who wish to return, I got the sense that it is a voluntary exercise, and they are doing what any government would do when there is a crisis in a foreign country, to make provisions for the return of its own people.
South Africa's cancellation of special permits for foreign nationals is part of a broad exercise of reviewing its immigration policies to manage an influx of economic migrants.
It is viewed as the government's response to intensified calls and efforts by South African nationals who have over the years been calling for the ejection of foreign nationals whom they argue were taking their jobs and business opportunities.
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Mason Greenwood has had criminal proceedings against him discontinued.
Charges against Manchester United footballer Mason Greenwood have been dropped.
Greater Manchester Police have announced today that criminal proceedings against the 21-year-old have today been discontinued. The 21-year-old striker had been charged with attempted rape, engaging in controlling and coercive behaviour and assault, allegations relating to the same woman.
But in a statement today, Chief Superintendent Michaela Kerr, GMP's Head of Public Protection, said: "Given the significant media coverage of this case, it is only fair that we share the news that the 21-year-old man, who had been arrested and charged in connection with an investigation opened in January 2022, no longer faces criminal proceedings in relation to this.
"The investigation team has remained in regular contact with the legal team, providing any updates of note, and so understand the rationale for the discontinuation of proceedings at this stage, and that this decision has not been taken lightly.
"Despite the media and public's interest in this case, we have decided not to comment on it in any further detail.
"I would, however, like to use this opportunity to reiterate GMP's commitment to investigating allegations of violence against women and girls and supporting those affected, regardless of their circumstances, throughout what can be a hard and upsetting time for them. An ever increasing number of officers are receiving specialist training and the force is more consistently utilising tools, available via the criminal justice system, to keep people safe and care for victims.
"If you feel you are or might be a victim, please don't let this case put you off asking for help."
A CPS spokesperson said: "We have a duty to keep cases under continuous review. In this case a combination of the withdrawal of key witnesses and new material that came to light meant there was no longer a realistic prospect of conviction. In these circumstances, we are under a duty to stop the case.
"We have explained our decision to all parties. We would always encourage any potential victims to come forward and report to police and we will prosecute wherever our legal test is met."
Greenwood, who joined United aged six, has been suspended by the club during the court process. He has not played professional football for a year. The last game he played for United was the Premier League fixture against West Ham on January 22 last year.
About a week later, on January 30, Greenwood was arrested after a woman made a series of posts on Twitter. He was arrested and has been suspended by United ever since.
The following day, his sponsor Nike announced it had suspended its relationship with the footballer, later confirming the partnership had ended. Prosecutors charged Greenwood with the three offences about eight months later, in October.
He appeared before magistrates on October 17 and then before a judge at Minshull Street a month later, on November 21.
(Alliance News) – Vast Resources PLC on Thursday said the High Court of Zimbabwe has granted a default order against the Minister of Mines & Mining Development, in relation to the release of a historic parcel of diamonds.
The London-based mining company with projects in Romania and Zimbabwe said the High Court order for the release of the parcel of 129,400 carats of rough diamonds is expected to be signed in the coming days.
The company said the High Court should allow for a "lawful and transparent" process to begin for the release of the historic parcel to the company.
Vast Resources said the stones would be independently cleaned and valued, before being sold via a tender process. The company noted that once these processes have been finalised, it will refocus on other opportunities in Zimbabwe.
The diamonds have been held in the custody of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe since 2010, pending the determination of an appeal against the High Court's decision in 2009. Vast resources began formal legal action in the High Court of Zimbabwe in December 2022.
Chief Executive Officer Andrew Prelea said: "Despite taking longer than anticipated, I am very pleased to announce that after many years of hard work and discussion with the Zimbabwean Government the matter regarding the release of the historic parcel has now been amicably settled in a manner supported by an Order of the High Court of Zimbabwe.
"This demonstrates the Zimbabwe Government's and in particular His Excellency President Cmd. E D Mnangagwa's commitment to resolving legacy issues related to investment in Zimbabwe in a transparent and legal manner for the mutual benefit of investors and the Country."
Vast Resources shares were down 14% trading at 0.68 pence per share on Thursday afternoon in London.
By Harvey Dorset, Alliance News reporter
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W. Va. Code § 16-2F-4(d) provides that for minors seeking a waiver of the parental notification requirement for abortions, "The court shall inform the minor petitioner of her right to be represented by counsel and that if she is without the requisite funds to retain the services of an attorney, that the court will appoint an attorney to represent her interest in the matter. If the minor petitioner desires the services of an attorney, an attorney shall be appointed to represent such minor petitioner, if she advises the court under oath or affidavit that she is financially unable to retain counsel." The fee for such attorney is capped at $100.


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Dr. Jorge Rubal, CEO and Medical Director of the LB Community Clinic.
The Laguna Beach Community Clinic asked its 3,000 patients Thursday to take advantage of its telemedicine resources rather than visiting its offices.
To best safeguard public health, Dr. Jorge Rubal asked those with a medical needs to please call first 949-494-0761 to determine if the clinic can assist them without needing to leave home.
"If you have a health need we strongly urge you to call us first or use the online patient portal, rather than coming in directly," Dr. Rubal, CEO and medical director for the Laguna Beach Community Clinic, said in a prepared statement.
Dr. Rubal added that it's been the clinic's mission for 50 years to provide excellent medical care regardless of a patient's ability to pay. Their business hours are the same as they have always been: Monday to Friday 8 a.m.– 12 p.m. and 1 – 5 p.m. The office is open on Saturday from 8 a.m. – 12 p.m.
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Stary człowiek w smutku (hol. Oude man met het hoofd in de handen, ang. Old Man in Sorrow lub On the Threshold of Eternity) – obraz Vincenta van Gogha namalowany w końcu kwietnia 1890 podczas pobytu artysty w miejscowości Saint-Rémy.

Numer katalogowy: F 702, JH 1967.

Historia i opis
Obraz został namalowany na podstawie wcześniejszej litografii Starzec obejmujący dłońmi swą głowę (U bram wieczności). Litografia, jedna z dziewięciu autorstwa van Gogha, opiera się z kolei na rysunku opatrzonym angielskim tytułem "Worn Out". Angielski tytuł jest przejawem ówczesnych ambicji artysty, żeby pracować dla angielskich magazynów ilustrowanych.

Oba dzieła są prawie identyczne – przedstawiają samotnego, starego człowieka siedzącego na krześle, pochylonego do przodu, z rękoma obejmującymi twarz. Obraz jest kwintesencją rozpaczy. Charakterystyczne jest, że van Gogh powrócił do tematu po 8 latach. Obraz jest być może odzwierciedleniem jego stanu psychicznego w tamtym okresie.

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Obrazy rodzajowe Vincenta van Gogha
Obrazy w Kröller-Müller Museum w Otterlo


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Tech support is 7 days a week, 5am-1am so there is heaps of hours available and there are a lot of staff that fit in uni around work.
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 Fonds de solidarité vieillesse, un établissement public français ;
 , une fiducie d'investissement britannique contrariant activement gérée, qui vise à obtenir une croissance du capital à long terme principalement par le biais d'investissements dans des sociétés cotées au Royaume-Uni.


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Lehman Engel
A. Lehman Engel (born September 14, 1910, Jackson, Mississippi; died August 29, 1982, New York City) was an American composer and conductor of Broadway musicals, television and film.
Work in theatre, television and filmsEdit
Engel worked in a variety of positions on television specials. He was composer and conductor of the music for the famed 1954 television production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, starring Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson, but did not work on the 1960 remake starring the same two actors. He was conductor of the first (and so far, the only) television version of Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town (1958) (TV), as well as, in the preceding years, of the Hallmark Hall of Fame productions of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in 1957, The Taming of the Shrew in 1956, and The Tempest, in 1960, all with Maurice Evans.[1] He also conducted the music for the Broadway musical version of Lil' Abner, but not for the 1959 film version of the show. The music in the film was conducted by Joseph J. Lilley.[2] He also musically directed and vocally arranged the 1959 musical Take Me Along.
Lehman Engel also composed the music for the 1939 Broadway revival of Hamlet, starring Maurice Evans, as well as for the original 1948 stage production of Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman. In 1965 he served as the musical director for the Broadway production of La Grosse Valise (composer Gérard Calvi, lyrics by Harold Rome)
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater WorkshopEdit
Engel founded the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, a workshop in New York for musical theatre composers, lyricists and librettists. Engel also founded and personally supervised the Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, originally based at the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County Music Center in Los Angeles.
Lehman Engel worked as musical director for the St. Louis Municipal Opera for a number of years before moving to New York to conduct on Broadway. He won 6 Tony Awards, and was nominated for 4 more. The category for which he won and was nominated no longer exists.
RecordingsEdit
Engel also conducted the first 3-LP version of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, a 1951 Columbia Masterworks Records album which was highly acclaimed, but did not, as advertised, really feature the complete opera. The mono recording, starring Lawrence Winters and Camilla Williams, was eventually released on CD. It was the longest Porgy and Bess album made up to that time (129 minutes), and would remain so for many years, until it was superseded in the 1970s by two complete recordings of the opera which both won Grammys.
Between the late 1940s and early 1950s, under the supervision of Columbia Records executive Goddard Lieberson, Engel conducted what were then the most complete recordings of several classic Broadway musicals of the past, many of which were appearing as albums for the first time - among them Girl Crazy (with Mary Martin performing both Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman's old stage roles), Oh, Kay! (with Barbara Ruick as Kay and Jack Cassidy as Jimmy de Winter), Babes in Arms (again featuring Cassidy and Mary Martin) and Pal Joey (with Harold Lang in the title role and Vivienne Segal repeating her original 1940 stage role as Vera Simpson). All of these were studio recordings, not original cast albums. The Pal Joey recording was so successful that it actually led to a major, long-running revival of the show in 1952, with the same two stars who had appeared on the album, Vivienne Segal (who had also starred in the original 1940 stage production) and Harold Lang.
He also conducted what was then the most complete recording of The Student Prince (with Robert Rounseville as the Prince and Dorothy Kirsten as the barmaid Kathie) in 1952, as well as what was then the most complete recording of Oklahoma! that same year. The Oklahoma! album used Robert Russell Bennett's original orchestrations and starred Nelson Eddy as the cowboy Curly.[3]
For RCA Victor, Engel conducted studio recordings of Carousel in 1955 (with Robert Merrill as Billy Bigelow, Patrice Munsel as Julie Jordan, and Florence Henderson as Carrie); and Show Boat in 1956 (with a very politically incorrect Merrill singing the roles of both Ravenal and the black stevedore Joe, Ms. Munsel as Magnolia, and Risë Stevens as Julie La Verne). These versions were also more complete than previous recordings of these shows.
All of these recordings were eventually issued on CD and were milestones in their time for their completeness.
As authorEdit
Engel also wrote several books on musical theatre. One of them, The American Musical Theatre: A Consideration, was perhaps the very first book to discuss in detail the writing of a Broadway musical, the elements that went into it, and the art of adapting "straight" plays into musicals.
Engel was close friends with Pablo Picasso. He also mentored Maury Yeston, who succeeded him in teaching the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, Alan Menken, Stephen Flaherty, Andrew MacBean, and Edward Kleban.
SexualityEdit
Lehman Engel made no secret of his homosexuality, but in his autobiography This Bright Day (1974) he made no overt reference to it.[4]
^ Lehman Engel on IMDb
^ mccarthyos (15 June 1961). "Li'l Abner (1959)". IMDb. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
^ "Cast Album Database". Retrieved 27 August 2016.
^ "The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy". google.com.au. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
Lehman Engel Papers at Yale University Music Library
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The Kaminkers. Sculptures for cities, villages and forests
14 April 2017 — 10 July 2017
The Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to present a show by two bright St. Petersburg sculptors — Dmitry Kaminker and his son Daniil Kaminker
Dynasty of artists who draw inspiration from nature
Variety of subjects and techniques
Total installation where the general statement does not negate a private one
They live and work in the "Artist's Village", founded by Dmitry 30 years ago in Shuvalovo, a suburb of St. Petersburg.
Most of the works selected for the show were born there, in the peaceful silence between a lake and a forest. The main materials are wood, stone, bronze, cardboard, paper and wax.
Dmitry Kaminker believes that an artist is not a showman, entertaining the public, but a shaman, who communicates with the spirits of ancestors and nature, and conveys their strength and values. This mystical component of the Kaminkers' art comes along with the social aspects. As a result, the works by the father and the son receive not only plastic, but also mental expressiveness, and amaze the viewer with deep and paradoxical ideas, and laconic language.
The exhibition, which is a kind of visual philosophy, features Dmitry Kaminker's works of different years and different techniques. Their thematic range extends from biblical subjects ("The Prodigal Son", "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel") to the absurd events of the XX century and the present days history.
The sizes of the works vary as well: from large-scale pieces to rather small ones. The small works are not intricate and self-sufficient sculptures, but the ideas for prospective urban sculptures — "minimonumentalism" as the author prefers to call them. Some of the projects have already been implemented in St. Petersburg, for example, "Oarsman", "Blind Man", "Organizer". The monumental "Aviator" became the hallmark of Pulkovo Airport.
Daniil Kaminker has his own topics and mythology connected to nature: northern forests, swamps, roughly hewn timber. There are no obvious images of people in his works, but it is understood that "Compasses in the Swamp", "Boot Stuck in the Quagmire" or "Ax" implicate the hidden presence of people.
"When a person enters a real forest he replaces compasses with overshoes. He has to plunge step and still gets bogged in the quagmire, — explains the artist's the absence of people. — A tree that was used for a sculpture, continues to live its life — it rots, cracks or on the contrary, sinks to the swamp bottom and get stained, freezes and petrifies".
The dense, strange, gloomy and insecure world of Kaminker is inhabited not by people but by "Wolf-dog", "Boar", huge wooden "Lizard" and "Mosquito". There you one also find a pickled cucumber made of a whole oak log.
These works are no longer crafts from the series "nature and fantasy". Perhaps these are images of the unconscious, metaphors of the unknown and threats of the future, a philosophical reflection on the transience of life and the eternity of nature.
The show by Dmitry and Daniil Kaminker at Erarta Museum is designed as an installation, where large objects are combined with "minimonumentalism", and the general statement does not negate the self-sufficiency of each work.
present exhibitions
31 May— 29 September 2019
Mario Testino: Superstar
14 June— 06 October 2019
Grame Studios: Signs and Sounds All Around
Georgy Frangulyan. Solid Line
15 May— 22 July 2019
Valeriy Pchelin & Igor Mikhailenko. Sacred Forest