Need To Rent A Bus in The UK?
The UK offers so much to see and do, as it is made up of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each has its own capital (London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast), although most political decisions are still made at Parliament in London, and all four countries share a currency, the Pound. The Royal Family resides in London; Queen Elizabeth II is the reigning monarch and lives at Buckingham Palace.
The cities of each country contain a wealth of attractions, and the UK offers plenty of outstanding natural beauty, too; particularly the Scottish Highlands and the mountainous region of Snowdonia in Wales. Renting a minibus or coach is an ideal way to see as much of this historical kingdom as possible while you're here.
The UK's airports are notoriously busy. Its biggest is London Heathrow, which handles almost 73.5 million passengers per year. Of the top five airports in the UK, only Manchester, in North West England, is outside London. It takes third place, with almost 22 million passengers flying from here each year.
Whichever airport you are flying into, after a long flight you won't want to be negotiating the crowds and trying to find transport to your accommodation. Rent A Bus can provide you with stress-free airport transfers, collecting you and your travel companions from the airport and driving you straight to your destination in a comfortable, air-conditioned minibus or coach, so you can sit back, relax and enjoy the sights from the minute you land.
As the UK offers so many places of cultural and historical interest, it can be difficult to know where to start when you're sightseeing! When you rent a coach or minibus in the UK from Rent A Bus, you and your party can enjoy your own personal guided tour, tailored just for you. A professional, experienced tour guide will accompany you, taking you to all the main places of interest and any other locations you want to see.
London, the English capital, is the main tourist destination in the UK, with millions of visitors each year taking in the notorious Tower of London, site of many historical imprisonments and beheadings! The Crown Jewels are also kept here. The British Museum is a fascinating insight into the UK's national evolution and all the cultural influences that make the island so diverse. For some stunning views over the city, take a ride on the London Eye while you're here!
Scotland offers beautiful and dramatic scenery, and its cities are steeped in history. Its capital, Edinburgh, is dominated by Edinburgh Castle, perched high on a hill above the city, parts of which date back to the early 12th Century. The castle also houses the National War Museum of Scotland. Edinburgh is also a famous shopping location, with many of the stores located in 17th Century buildings along the Royal Mile.
Cardiff's National Museum offers a fascinating insight into the history of Wales. The Welsh capital is also home to beautiful Llandaff Cathedral, which dates back to the 13th Centruy and houses artwork by the famous Pre-Raphaelite painter Rossetti. The riverside gardens at Bute Park are another major attraction here.
The UK is famous for its nightlife. Liverpool is a well-known party city, with plenty of live music venues including the famous Cavern Club where the Beatles used to play. Brighton is known for traditional pubs and comedy clubs, while Glasgow offers nightclubs to suit every taste.
To take full advantage of the nightlife you won't want to worry about anyone being designated driver, or having to find a taxi at the end of the night. When you rent a coach or minibus from Rent A Bus in the UK, no matter where you're staying, we can get you home safely at the end of the night. We will meet you at a pre-arranged time and location, and drive you back to your accommodation in your own air-conditioned minibus or coach.
Renting a coach or minibus in the UK is a convenient and reliable way to see the sights in comfort and safety. Our modern vehicles all have air-conditioning and are regularly serviced, to provide a relaxing and memorable UK vacation for you and your party.


When we feel that we need to do or say something because someone is watching and their opinion matters, we put ourselves in the cage of conditional living. We can never truly be free because we are constantly trying to please others. We make our happiness conditional upon other people's response to us – but how they respond depends on where they are on the emotional scale, it has nothing to do with us, except that it reflects where we are on the emotional scale. And truly, the only thing we need to prove to ourselves is that we are powerful creators – that's all.
When you say the words "I don't need to prove anything to anyone" you set yourself free – free from the notion that you have to "get it right" because you see, it doesn't matter if you get it right the first time or the second time or the hundredth time, since Source is always guiding us around all the obstacles that our on our path. Really the only obstacles on our path are the negative beliefs that we have going on that we don't even know are there. We don't really need to work on our negative beliefs in order to unravel them and work them out of our system – all we have to do is to adopt one powerful new belief and that is "that I am loved beyond measure, I am important and God, the Universe, the Source of all things wants me to have, be and do everything I want, I have guidance that will lead me to what is best for me, and I don't need to prove anything to anyone".
There is power in this belief. There is freedom in this belief. It is the basis of who we are. It is the foundation stone of our self-worth. It is who we really are.


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150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF RIDGEWAY HISTORY CONFERENCE
150th ANNIVERSARY HISTORY CONFERENCE
Welcoming Reception
Conference- Day Two
THE LITERARY EVENING
Derek Warfield & The Young Wolfe Tones
FIENNE, FENIANS, OR 'FINNEGANS'? Gary Roy
The Fianna, from the third cycle of Irish heroic literature, were bands of warriors sworn to defend the coasts of Ireland from foreign invaders. They were devoted to war, the chase, and the arts of poetry. They considered themselves 'Goidels' - true Gaels, the purest population of Feni-free landholders, never servants nor slaves. They had three mottos: "purity of our hearts, strength of our limbs and action to match our speech.'
Fenian would appear to have been a neologism coined in 1840 by Colonel Charles Vallancy as an Anglicization of Fianna.
The term was quickly taken up by the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a republican body which had been founded in 1858, mostly by veterans of a failed 1848 uprising. The IRB was driven by the belief that Ireland had a natural right to independence and that this right could only be won through armed rebellion.
The Brotherhood had members on both sides of the Atlantic. Bernard McNulty, a close friend of John Boyle O'Reilly, a notable Irish Fenian, established a US branch of the IRB in 1858, and was soon joined by other Irish American nationalist organizations. They became the US Fenian Brotherhood led by John O'Mahony, an Irish-born Gaelic scholar (and participant in the failed 1848 Rebellion) who had been exiled to France and then to the US.
US Fenian 'circles' or militia groups, began training for the day they would return to Ireland and liberate the island from British rule. But the transatlantic planning was interrupted by the start of the American Civil War. Fenian leaders however, were quick to realize that the war would provide practical combat experience, and the militia units were absorbed into the Union Army making up more than 15% of its total strength. Fenian recruiting continued throughout the war. Membership increased significantly despite Church opposition and financial concerns.
At the end of the hostilities there were thousands of ex-soldiers looking for work, a huge cache of arms and munitions available for purchase, and most compellingly, an hereditary, idealized cause to fight for. The Brotherhood prospered with monetary donations coming in from all over the States.
The year 1865 was to be the start of the insurrection in Ireland. The US Brotherhood waited for word from the IRB to begin sending troops over. But the British Government had other plans. Acting on information supplied by a spy in the office of James Stephens, the Fenian Irish leader, a wave of Fenian arrests were made in September 1865, and 'habeus corpus' suspended in 1866. Everything ground to a halt.
In December 1865, the US Brotherhood came asunder: one member under O'Mahony, was determined to wait for the appropriate moment to join an IRB general uprising in Ireland. The other, led by William Randall Roberts, determined immediate action against the British in Canada.
Once the split had been made, the so-called 'Roberts Wing' set the invasion of Canada in motion. Robert's grand scheme would see Canada invaded, an independent Irish state established and the occupied territory then exchanged for Ireland's liberty.
"Fighting" Tom Sweeney, a veteran both of the Mexican and US Civil Wars was appointed as the military commander of the invasion. He planned a 3-prong assault. Two diversionary attacks, one from Chicago and the other from Cleveland/Buffalo, involving roughly 8000 troops, would draw the Crown forces to the western end of Upper Canada. The main force of 15,000 then would attack and secure Lower Canada from Vermont.
Although the plan was sound in principle, it fell apart in execution. Commanders either became ill or were unable to meet deadlines. Troop strength was overestimated. Logistical issues- specifically lack of boats, forced cancellation of the Chicago expedition, and a similar problem necessitated relocation of troops from Cleveland to Buffalo. Communications between all three forces became difficult, and the sympathy of the US government, which had been presumed up to the beginning of 1866, was nonexistent when the attack movement began in May.
The only regimental leader who was battle ready by the scheduled invasion date was Colonel John O'Neill of the 13th Fenian Regiment Nashville Tennessee. Arriving by train from Clevenland with 350 men, O'Neill took over command of the troops at Buffalo. He was given orders to proceed, and with a force of 1,000 plus he crossed the Niagara River on June 1st.
Major General Thomas Sweeny
General John O'Neill
The Fenian 'Sunburst" flag
There are numerous books available which detail the rise of Fenianism in the US, the most recent of which is "The Fenians" by Patrick Steward and Bryan McGovern who are keymote speakers at the Conference.
Special mention is made as well of the Fort Erie Museum's publication "The Year of the Fenians" by David Owen, which contains a highly informative, succinct overview of the rise of US Fenianism.
Janice Wilson
General Charles Vallancey died in 1812 so could not have coined the term 'Fenian' in 1840.


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Store Manager Jerry Reilly brought the boys to the different store departments, including produce, fish and bakery, where they got to go home with a healthy treat. The Scouts learned about healthy eating habits and recycling.


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This summer there were several launch events at Pitti Uomo.
Kenji opened up in Florence again, with his new Tie Your Tie store (small but lovely); Benedikt had his Shibumi showroom with new tailoring; it was effectively the launch of Neapolitan trouser maker Lino Pommella (for whom I, Mark Cho and Antonio Ciongoli designed some denim trousers).
But the biggest launch was undoubtedly Sartoria Vestrucci - the re-born tailoring house being led by Tommaso Melani of Stefano Bemer, and Salvatore Ambrosi.
The new Vestrucci has a shop on the south side of the Arno in Florence, with a small entrance but deep space, running back through racks of ready-made tailoring to bespoke cutting tables at the back.
At the first table stands Loris Vestrucci, old and already once-retired, picking apart basting stitches.
Behind him work two apprentices, hired for him to train and provide some future for the bespoke.
Vestrucci himself is smiling and cheeky, muttering his views on any tailoring within his view. The length of my Caliendo jacket and the flyaway peak lapels of a customer both came in for commentary.
I'd been a fan of Vestrucci's style for years without knowing it.
Vestrucci cut for my friend Tommaso Capozzoli for years, working at home with his wife. And I had always admired Tom's green tweed jacket and solaro suit among other things.
He had also cut historically for several Japanese in the industry - including Kenji Kaga of Tie Your Tie and Kentaro Nakagomi of Coherence.
Tom (below, centre) is now the face of Vestrucci, and you will see him on the website as well as on trunk shows to New York and elsewhere.
Vestrucci's style will be familiar to those that are aware of the peculiarities of Florentine tailoring.
So the shoulder is a little extended, but only lightly padded, with a fairly natural run down into the sleeve. Its width (as we discussed previously here) creates an impression of strength without using padding or roping.
The canvas is similar in weight to other Italian tailors, and the chest is cut clean without being too close. It is accentuated by broad lapels.
One difference from other Florentine tailors (most obviously Liverano) is that the lapel is not concave but straight, with even a touch of belly (curving outwards rather than inwards). The front quarters are also relatively closed.
The jacket is slightly shorter than most, and in common with other Tuscans has no front seam running down below the hip pocket.
The double-breasted jacket has a relatively low and flat gorge. Thankfully this is more in fashion now after years of high, pointy lapels that threatened to flop down the back of the jacket.
One of the reasons Tommaso Melani says he was excited about launching Vestrucci was that the Florentine style is rather underrepresented in the ready-made market, and that's certainly true - Italian tailoring around the world is dominated by Naples and the Abruzzo region.
The quality and level of work in a Vestrucci jacket is very high, and a challenge of the new brand has therefore been reflecting it in the ready-to-wear.
Here they've largely succeeded, with neat finishing and most of the Vestrucci style details reflected in the jackets.
They are made in Italy, although decline to say which factory (which is sensible in my view - too much is often read into manufactures which often offer different levels of quality).
Vestrucci will be doing trunk shows in partnership with Stefano Bemer and Ambrosi - in London and in the Bemer showroom in New York, with more to come.
As a strategy it makes perfect sense, with customers now able to have bespoke or RTW shoes, trousers or suits from the same group. How far they can go into the very competitive RTW tailoring market remains to be seen.
In the meantime, I highly recommend visiting the Vestrucci shop if readers are ever in Florence.
It doesn't have the character of an older tailoring boutique yet, but there is a real range of RTW on display to try on, plus Bemer shoes, a nice range of knitted ties and leather goods.
The shop is at 58 Via Maggio. Trunk shows will be announced on their site, as well as on our Trunk Show Calendar.
I'll report separately, later, on the Holland & Sherry charcoal-flannel suit I am being fitted for.
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It's just occurred to me – being constantly measured up for very expensive bespoke suits year after year, are you always fighting to stay the same weight and shape by living in the gym and eating green leaf salads to avoid having to throw away fits from yester year? Wearing bespoke must consign one's life to a never-ending diet!
Adam makes a good point.
Simon, how much room is left on trouser waist to allow for expansion after a heavy meal ?
I suffer with bloating which means a 38 inch trouser can start off loose and end up tight as the day progresses !
What did Mr Vestrucci have to say about the length of your Caliendo jacket?
Simon could you recommend any RTW brands that use side ajusters for their formal trousers?
I bought an Ozwald Boateng RTW suit recently which happened to have side-adjusters on the trousers. That being said, with hindsight, for the price (£2,200+ with alterations), I feel like I should have gone bespoke at somewhere like Whitcomb and Shaftesbury, or back to Graham Browne for another commission (with some change left over).
What's the suit like? I had one years ago and was pretty happy with it.
My bespoke? Can't really comment effectively yet, given it's a first fitting.
I am really look forward to see your suit be finished and have more information on how's Vestrucci style details look like. BTW, price of Bespoke start from €6000 ex-VAT is really quite high, even more than Liverano or Cifonelli as I remember.
Those jackets look superb and your description of the construction in terms of an effective compromise between heavy canvassing and completely unstructured looks attractive (the cut of that green check jacket looks excellent). Couple of questions – are their jackets typically in the wool cloths shown in the photos? Secondly on the subject of construction it would be very informative to see the internal structures of English and the various regional Italian styles together with the finished items as a comparison. Have you already done this and if not would you consider this as a future posting?
Sure, I can look into it. Generally, though diagrams or similar are better for showing these things – you can't tell the weight of a canvas very easily from a photography, for example.
And on the Vestrucci jackets, no there is quite a range of cloths.
Simon those prices are incredibly high for bespoke and definitely for RTW. The market is extremely limited for 3k euros RTW suits. Where the market exists it's usually high end fashion brands like t ford who are selling a lifestyle brand with huge marketing behind it. What is the reason for this pricing strategy? Curious from a business perspective.
Six grand? I'll stick with Steed.
One of the issues which puts me off Italian tailoring is the ( to my mind ) very short jackets which predominate. I am having some trousers made by Caliendo ( wonderful at Euros 550 ) and a discussion ensued about the length of the English bespoke jacket I was wearing. Elia was shocked by how long it was. To my mind a jacket simply must cover the seat comfortably. If you go back to classic writing such as that by Alan Flusser a jacket should reach half of the total height of a man. That doesn't seem to be the case with Italian tailors. On separate note a further discussion entailed about very light grey trousers. and whether these were formal enough for office or evening wear. Any thoughts.
Interesting, thanks. I actually find Elia's length a nice compromise – covers the seat, but not too traditional English in length (which can depend on a more structured, sharper cutaway to work I find). But yes, covering the seat is an objective point, most other things are subjective.
Interesting sartoria but prices are crazy.
I can got beautiful bespoke in Naples for 1,200-2,500 Euro.
It's ironic to me that they are offering Florentine tailoring without a concave shape to the lapel. Maybe I have just come to see the Florentine style as synonymous with Liverano, but I find the concave lapel shape the most appealing aspect of the cut – the creation of " )( ", not " Y ", which this lacks. And their prices are comparable to Liverano, a well established brand with a track record.
Simon, I am under the impression you have stated in the past that you pay full price for your commissions. Is that still the case? This just seems like a huge price to pay for what I see as a dicey mix of an "unretired" tailor, brand new apprentices, and a trouser maker you have been less than pleased with in previous reviews.
I don't always pay full price for commissions; I often receive a discount. I do nearly always pay, however.
In this case I had cloth from Holland & Sherry already, and they offered a large discount in order to try out the new service.
Any product or service could have its price increased two or three times with proper marketing and affluent customer base. Ambrosi and Bemer have the clientele and with little marketing it will be happily paying those prices. From a business perspective it is great. I'm happy for them because they may be the first generation of makers living better than customers.
Does it matter when getting a bespoke suit whether it is the head cutter who does the fitting personally?
From my understanding it would be better that a head cutter personally measures you as opposed to a Store Manager when some of the information might be lost in transition.
What are your thoughts on this? Will there be a compromise in quality when the person cutting the suit is not the fitter?
Many Thanks for the reply Simon!
Simon, you may give me your opinion. Is the ready-to-wear collection reasonably priced in matters of its quality and level of work?
There's a lot bound up in whether something is 'reasonable' or not. I also don't know their exact costs. But it is more expensive than much else in our market, while still being cheaper and better value than most of the big designer brands.
Thanks Simon! Could you please name a few houses offering ready-to-wear in a similar quality and level of work?
When can we expect your review of the final suit?
Could you name some tailors from Abruzzo as examples, please?
When will you be posting the final review for the Vestrucci suit?


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Join us for Webinar Wednesday at a special time (9pm Eastern U.S.) as Kathryn Lake Hogan presents, "Making the Most of Canadian Census Records." Learn strategies and techniques on how to get the most out of the Canadian census records in order to gain a better understanding of your ancestors. This webinar will put those techniques into practice by following three different families (Canadian, French-Canadian & African Canadian) through the census records.
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"I am sory for kissing you Braden."
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Preheat an oven to 375°F (190°C). Butter an 11-inch ovenproof fry pan or large baking dish.
In a bowl, stir together the cherries, the remaining 1/3 cup sugar and the lemon zest. Remove the pan from the oven, pour in the cherries and top with the batter. Bake until the clafoutis is set in the middle, 30 to 35 minutes. Serve warm with ice cream. Serves 6 to 8.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Lacylee from Delicious and Easy! This is an elegant dessert that ups the game at dinner parties (with little stress). I had to use frozen cherries, still amazing. Word of advice - clafoutis is not the same puffy, cloud like deliciousness when lukewarm or cold (it seizes up a little). Plan your prep ahead of time, so that you can serve it hot. Big difference!
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Iliketoeat from Tender, delicious dessert I made this Wednesday night when my son was stopping by. I used sliced, frozen peaches instead of cherries because that's what I had. I used the Emile Henry rectangular pan. It was a really delicate, wonderful dessert. Can't wait to try it with cherries.
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Lion Philips (Zaltbommel, 29 oktober 1794 - aldaar, 28 december 1866) was een Nederlands handelaar in tabakswaren. Hij is de grootvader van Gerard en Anton Philips, en was een belangrijke geldschieter voor Karl Marx.

Familie
Lion Philips was de zoon van Benjamin Philips en Lea Hartog. Benjamin kwam uit Veenendaal en verhuisde later met zijn familie naar Zaltbommel. Lion Philips is daar ook geboren en overleden. Hij was getrouwd met Sophie Presburg. De zuster van Sophie, Henriëtte, trouwde met de Duitse advocaat Heinrich Marx. Zij was de moeder van Karl Marx. Uit het huwelijk van Sophie en Lion werden negen kinderen geboren, onder wie de bankier Frederik Philips, de vader van de latere oprichters van het Philipsconcern, en August Philips, die advocaat en deken van de orde van advocaten te Amsterdam was.

Zaken
Van zeven broers en twee zussen was Lion de oudste, en de enige die te Zaltbommel bleef; de anderen trokken de wijde wereld in, hetgeen voor de zaken bijzonder gunstig was. Lion begon samen met een compagnon, Gerlacus Ribbius Peletier, in 1815 een bedrijf in tabakswaren, "de Eenhoorn". De opvolgers van dit bedrijf zouden nog tot in de tweede helft van de twintigste eeuw actief blijven in de tabakshandel. Naast de tabakshandel had Lion Philips ook nog andere zakelijke activiteiten, hij poogde onder meer een dekenfabriek op te zetten, maar die brandde jammerlijk genoeg af. Zijn beleggingsactiviteiten en andere zaken verliepen aanzienlijk beter en bij zijn overlijden in 1866 werd het kapitaal van Lion Philips op zo'n ƒ 189.000 geschat.

Religie
De familie Philips was van joodse oorsprong en kende een aantal voorzangers en rabbijnen. Dat weerhield Lion Philips en zijn vader Benjamin er niet van om op 1 februari 1826 met hun respectievelijke families toe te treden tot de Nederlandse Hervormde kerk. Er was geen maatschappelijke dwang daartoe, sinds de "gelykstaat der joden" die sinds 1796 in de Nederlanden gold, waren er geen handels- of andere belemmeringen aan het geloof. Men kan er dus van uitgaan dat de bekering uit persoonlijke overtuiging voortkwam.

Relatie met Karl Marx
Karl Marx en Lion Philips hadden een nauwe relatie; Marx verbleef regelmatig bij de Philipsen gedurende zijn verblijf in Nijmegen en later in Zaltbommel, en schreef hem brieven. Er zijn zeven brieven aan Marx en zeven aan Philips bekend. Deze brieven behandelen diverse zaken, van de Amerikaanse burgeroorlog tot de uitvinding van elektriciteit, maar curieus genoeg niet een van de belangrijkste redenen voor de sterke betrokkenheid: geld. Lion was Marx' voornaamste sponsor en de zakelijke middelaar tussen hem en Henriëtte Presburg. Dit was nodig, want de verstandhouding tussen Marx en zijn moeder was slecht: "Ik ben (...) met mijn familie gebrouilleerd, en heb, zolang mijn moeder leeft, geen recht op mijn vermogen". Het gevolg was dat het Lion Philips was die Marx toelagen verstrekte, eerst uit de erfenis van Heinrich Marx, daarna als voorschotten op de erfenis van Henriëtte.

Na haar overlijden in 1863 betaalde Lion, die in het testament van 1849 tot een van de executeurs was benoemd, wat er na de voorschotten nog overbleef van Karls erfdeel: zevenduizend gulden, een aanzienlijk bedrag. Daarnaast stopte Lion Philips Marx af en toe ook wat extra's toe: "Van mijn oom heb ik in eerste instantie 160 pond afgeperst, zodat we het grootste gedeelte van onze schulden konden afbetalen" schrijft Marx op 7 mei 1861 aan Friedrich Engels.

Marx vond bij Lion Philips en diens zoons en dochters 'een gastvrij huis'. Bovendien kon hij er "intellectuele discussies voeren met ruimdenkende, liberale ubiquisten".

Culturele referentie
In de Sovjet-tv-serie Karl Marks. Molodye gody ( Карл Маркс: Молодые годы, "Karl Marx' jonge jaren") wordt de rol van Lion Philips gespeeld door de bekende Oekraïense acteur Leonid Bronevoy..

Bibliografie
 Werner Blumenberg: "Ein unbekanntes Kapitel aus Marx' Leben. Briefe an die holländischen Verwandten. In: International Review of Social History, 1, 1956, Nr. 1, S. 54-111
 Nederland's Patriciaat. Bd. 50, Den Haag 1964, S. 330-343
 Heinz Monz: Der Erbteilungsvertraag Henriette Marx. In: De Antiquaar, Hilversum 1971, II. Jg., S. 6 ff.
 Heinz Monz: Karl Marx. Grundlagen zu Leben und Werk. NCO-Verlag, Trier 1973
 Manfred Schöncke: Karl und Heinrich Marx und ihre Geschwister. Köln 1993 ISBN 3-89144-185-1
 Jan Gielkens: 'Was ik maar weer in Bommel' : Karl Marx en zijn Nederlandse verwanten : een familiegeschiedenis in documenten / bezorgd en ingel.. Amsterdam 1997 ISBN 90-6861-099-6
 Jan Gielkens: Karl Marx und seine niederländischen Verwandten. Eine kommentierte Quellenedition. Trier 1999 [vielmehr April 2000] (=Schriften aus dem Karl-Marx-Haus 50) ISBN 3-86077-845-5
 Izumi Omura u. a. (Hrsg.): Familie Marx privat – Die Foto- und Fragebogen-Alben von Marx' Töchtern Laura und Jenny – Eine kommentierte Faksimileausgabe. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-05-004118-8

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Zie ook
 Philips (geslacht)
 Presburg (familie)

Nederlands ondernemer
Karl Marx
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Brittany leads global health partnerships for Zipline International, a Silicon Valley-based startup that designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver essential medical products in areas with challenging terrain and road infrastructure. In this role, she creates opportunities for governments, foundations, corporations, and development agencies to collaborate to achieve shared goals of improved health access and quality. Zipline's mission is to ensure that all health workers have access to the routine and emergency health products they need to care for their patients, whenever and wherever needed. Prior to Zipline, Brittany worked at the intersection of business, global health, and entrepreneurship in roles at the Skoll Foundation, the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Johnson & Johnson, and McKinsey & Company.
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Prashant Yadav is Strategy Leader-Supply Chain at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School. Yadav's research and policy advisory work focuses on health care supply chains in developing countries. He also works on role of new technology in pharmaceutical supply chains, globally. He is the author of many peer reviewed scientific publications and his work has been featured in prominent print and broadcast media including The Economist, The Financial Times, Nature, and BBC. Prashant serves on the advisory boards of many global organizations and has been invited for expert testimony in the US Congress and legislative bodies in other countries on the issue of medicine supply chains. Before his current role, Yadav was Vice President of Healthcare at the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan and a faculty member at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Before that he was Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program and a Research Affiliate at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics.
Keiko Honda is Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group. Honda works to further the World Bank Group's mission of ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. To that end, MIGA's portfolio supports investments in regions where capital is most scarce. MIGA is now the leading political risk insurance provider in fragile and conflict affected countries.
ené Berger is a global health, supply chain, and HIV/AIDS expert with more than 25 years of international development experience across sub-Saharan Africa. He currently serves as senior vice president at Chemonics and the IDIQ director for the USAID Global Health and Supply Chain Program – Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project and IDIQ director for the Global Health Supply Chain (GHSC) – Technical Assistance (TA) Multiple Award contract. Previously, he served as a director on the Human Resources for Health in 2030 (HRH2030) program. Mr. Berger has also managed the USAID HIV/AIDS offices and teams in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia, including assisting in the design of USAID's largest local contract globally – the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) supply chain contract. Mr. Berger has designed and overseen integrated services across USAID's health, population, and nutrition portfolios and has managed PEPFAR-funded activities and led the design and submission of annual country operational plans to achieve control the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Mr. Berger holds a bachelor's in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a master's in public health from Johns Hopkins University.
Wendy Schultz-Henry is President and CEO of InSTEDD, an innovation and design non-profit that provides support for partners to implement technologies for social impact. InSTEDD specializes in last mile innovation for humanitarian purposes in the areas of health, crisis response and global development. InSTEDD utilizes a rigorous needs assessment and Human Centered Design process to build solutions for local and global challenges. InSTEDD is committed to making the technologies developed available for use as Open Source so that they can evolve and benefit from the inputs and contributions of the communities and projects around the world in which they are used. InSTEDD works in close collaboration with impact driven local partners, large NGOs, private sector and governments. InSTEDD is a co-founder and contributor to the OpenHIE Global Community of Practice. Wendy was recruited to join InSTEDD in 2006 to provide a business perspective to InSTEDD's social impact mission. She brought with her 25 years of experience in the private sector and a passion for program design and execution strategy. She began her career working as a member of the Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center team responsible for the development of the then state of the art super mini computer. In 1991 she began working in the venture capital niche sector of turnaround management where she honed her skills in a volatile IPO market. While working in the venture capital sector Wendy created a business focused on bringing operations functions to small businesses and start-ups with a social goal of building capacity to support at-risk youth and women.
Jonathan Stambolis is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zenysis Technologies, which has developed a rapid interoperability and advanced analytics solution that helps developing countries deliver their healthcare in a truly data-driven way. Previously, Jonathan represented Australia at the United Nations in New York with responsibility for global health, humanitarian affairs and development. During this time, Jonathan negotiated the groundbreaking 2011 United Nations Political Declaration for HIV/AIDS and served as an Adviser on Global Health to former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Gene Trousil joined One Network in 2004 and is responsible for network operations, professional services, re-seller/value-added reseller channels, and the Devices Division, which markets One Network's mobile and handheld computer solutions. With more than 35 years of experience, Mr. Trousil has managed successful enterprise-class system deployments in large scale operations. In addition, he has deep experience in mobile computing applications. Recently, he was elected as CEO of Vitalliance Corporation, a joint venture between One Network Enterprises and Imperial Logistics, the largest provider of logistics services in sub-Saharan Africa. The goal of Vitalliance is to better serve the logistics in Africa by combining public and commercial sectors to lower cost for in-country medical and humanitarian last mile services and to transfer the technology whenever possible to local control.
Raj Kumar leads a global team of over 100 Devexers and serves a community of 1 million global development professionals. His personal experience in over 50 countries, including a childhood partly spent in rural India, informs his work.
Tim Wood has more than 30 years of experience as an executive, program manager, and senior supply chain strategist within the healthcare, aerospace and defense, high technology, consumer products, industrial products, and pharmaceutical industries. Mr. Wood leads the IBM Public Sector Supply Chain Management practice, specializing in applying leading supply chain concepts in a practical approach to deliver tangible improvements in accelerated timeframes. Previously, he served as the Global Supply Chain Director for the USAID Procurement and Supply Management (PSM) program from September 2017 through June 2018. In addition to leading the IBM Public Sector Supply Chain practice with more than 600 practitioners, Mr. Wood has also managed the design and implementation of a world-class production system for a Fortune 100 pharmaceutical company.


Marie Feldman has been a registered dietitian for over 19 years and has worked as a certified diabetes educator for 10 of them. She received her Bachelors in Clinical Dietetics at UC Berkeley and been an outpatient dietitian at previous institutions such as Memorial Sloan Kettering and Cedars-Sinai. She enjoys providing medical nutrition therapy and education to adults, namely in the areas of weight management and diabetes. In addition, she has served as a research department manager and helped facilitate over 30 industry-based clinical trials, primarily with a focus on diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She has maintained her nutrition blog NourishYouDelicious.Blogspot.com for almost 10 years and recently published a diabetes cookbook, The Big Book of Diabetes Recipes.


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Asiophrida luzonica es un coleóptero de la familia Chrysomelidae.

Fue descrita científicamente por primera vez en 2000 por Medvedev.

Referencias

Asiophrida


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Q: What is the fastest format for a key in a JS object [Improved] Backround Info
For a program I'm working on I need to track the path taken through a web. In this case, a web is defined a series of nodes, each node having zero or more child nodes. It's a web and not a tree because any node can point to any other and can be circular.
My program will start at one "entry point" node, and traverse through the web until it has taken a path that is considered "valid". All valid paths are stored in a series of nested maps, each map containing the keys of all possible next steps.
For example:
{ 0: {1: "success"} }

This nested map defines the path:
entryNode.children[0].children[1]

I have a minimal example of the traversal algorithm for benchmarking purposes:
// you can ignore this, it just helps me get some more info on the results
function getStandardDeviation (array) {
    const n = array.length
    const mean = array.reduce((a, b) => a + b) / n
    return Math.sqrt(array.map(x => Math.pow(x - mean, 2)).reduce((a, b) => a + b) / n)
}

//// values that can be converted to a 1-digit base-36 number
// let list = [30, 31, 32]
//// without base-36: 411ms
//// with base-36: 2009ms

//// values that can be converted to a 2-digit base-36 number
// let list = [36, 37, 38]
//// without base-36: 391ms
//// with base-36: 1211ms

//// arbitrary large numbers
let list = [10000, 10001, 10002]
//// without base-36: 4764ms
//// with base-36: 1954ms

//// I tried encoding to base 36 to reduce the key length, hence the keys like '1o' and '1p'
//// This seems to hurt the performance of short numbers, but help the performance of large ones
// list = list.map(n => n.toString(36))

let maps = {}
let currentMap = maps
list.forEach((n, i) => {
    if (i === list.length - 1) {
        currentMap[n] = "res1"
    } else {
        const tempMap = {}
        currentMap[n] = tempMap
        currentMap = tempMap
    }
})
console.log(maps)

// store samples for stdev
let times = []

const samples = 1000
const operations = 100000

// collect samples for stdev calculation
for (let k = 0; k < samples; k++) {
    const begin = process.hrtime()
    // dummy variable to simulate doing something with the result
    let c = ""
    let current = maps
    for (let i = 0; i < operations; i++) {
        // simulate what the final algorithm does
        for (let j = 0; j < list.length; j++) {
            current = current[list[j]]
            if (typeof current === 'string') {
                c = current
            }
        }
        current = maps
    }
    const end = process.hrtime()
    // get the ms difference between start and end
    times.push((end[0] * 1000 + end[1] / 1000000) - (begin[0] * 1000 + begin[1] / 1000000));
}

const stdev = getStandardDeviation(times)
let total = 0;
times.forEach(t => total += t)

console.log("Time in millisecond is: ", total.toFixed(2), `+-${stdev.toFixed(2)}ms (${(total - stdev).toFixed(2)}, ${(total + stdev).toFixed(2)})`)

The Question
While testing, I wondered if using shorter keys would be faster, since I'm guessing JS hashes them somehow before doing the lookup. And I found that different object keys resulted in drastically different performance, varying by about an order of magnitude, with the only difference being the size/characters used in map's keys. There's not an obvious pattern that I can see, though.
I laid out the different input lists and their results in the top of the benchmark source, but here's the actual maps used and their respective times:
// raw numbers
{ '30': { '31': { '32': 'res1' } } }
Time in millisecond is:  411.00 +-0.13ms (410.86, 411.13)

// converted to base-36
{ u: { v: { w: 'res1' } } }
Time in millisecond is:  2009.91 +-0.18ms (2009.72, 2010.09)

// raw numbers
{ '36': { '37': { '38': 'res1' } } }
Time in millisecond is:  391.52 +-0.16ms (391.36, 391.69)

// converted to base-36
{ '10': { '11': { '12': 'res1' } } }
Time in millisecond is:  1211.46 +-0.19ms (1211.27, 1211.65)

// raw numbers
{ '10000': { '10001': { '10002': 'res1' } } }
Time in millisecond is:  4764.09 +-0.17ms (4763.93, 4764.26)

// converted to base-36
{ '7ps': { '7pt': { '7pu': 'res1' } } }
Time in millisecond is:  1954.07 +-0.17ms (1953.90, 1954.25)

Why do these differeny keys result in such wildly different timings? I've tested it a lot and they are quite consistent
Note:
I'm using Node V16.15.0 for benchmarking

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Thus, the final code will only work correctly on the board. Nonetheless, the functions to control the LEDs work well on simulation, so we can use them individually to test.
As usual, we have very simple to use functions that allow us to control the LEDs of the micro:bit matrix, which are available on the led namespace.
To turn on a specific LED, we simply call the plot function of the led namespace and pass as input both the x and y coordinates from the LED we want to light. The x coordinate corresponds to the horizontal axis and is counted from left to right, and the y coordinate corresponds to the vertical axis and is counted from top to bottom . Both the x and y coordinates range from 0 to 4 .
So, if for example we want to light the first LED we pass the coordinates (0,0) and for the last LED we pass (4,4).
You can try this previous code on the simulation mode and confirm that both the first and the last LEDs of the matrix will be turned on, as shown in figure 1.
Figure 1 – Turn on LEDs on the micro:bit simulation.
To turn off a specific LED, we simply need to call the unplot function from the led namespace, also passing as input the x and y coordinates of the LED. The coordinates system works the same way it does for the plot function.
So, to turn off the previously lighted LEDs, we can simply use the following commands and confirm the result on the simulation environment.
You can check at figure 2 that the LEDs previously lighted are now off.
Figure 2 – Turn off LEDs on the micro:bit simulation.
Finally, if we just want to toggle the current state of the LED, we can use the toggle function of the same namespace, passing as input the x and y coordinates of the LED, again using the same coordinates system.
You can check at figure 3 the toggled LED, which is now turned on.
Figure 3 – Toggle LED on micro:bit simulation.
Now that we have already introduced the basic functions for controlling the LEDs, we will create a simple program to turn on and off all the LEDs of the matrix, one at each time. First we will do it using the plot and unplot functions and then using the toggle function.
So, as said before, both x and y coordinates range from 0 to 4. Thus, we will perform the LED actions inside two loops ranging from 0 to 4. The outermost loop will iterate the x coordinate and the innermost loop will iterate the y coordinate.
Since all the 5 iterations of the innermost loop will execute before the outermost loop goes to the next iteration, then the LEDs of column 0 will light row by row, then the LEDs of column 1, and so on.
In order to introduce a small delay between each iteration, we will use the waitMicros function of the control namespace, which blocks the execution for the number of microseconds specified as input. In this example I will delay 2000000 microseconds, which corresponds to 2 seconds, but you can play with other values.
Next we will achieve the same effect but using the toggle function. In this case, we call the toggle function at the beginning of the loop to turn on the LED and then call it again after the delay to turn off the same LED.
Then drag the downloaded file and drop it on the micro:bit drive, which appears when you connect it to a computer. Remember that it appears as a USB drive but when we drop the code there it will be automatically uploaded to the board and run.
Upon finishing the procedure, you should see the LEDs light one by one in the previously mentioned order. Then, the procedure will then repeat for the toggling loop.


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David Shambaugh (; born January 18, 1953) is the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs, and director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC. He is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Biography
Shambaugh is the son of George E. Shambaugh, Jr., a physician. David Shambaugh earned his bachelor's degree from the Elliott School of International Affairs of George Washington University, where he now teaches. He received his Masters of Arts in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and earned his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Michel Oksenberg.

Shambaugh is the Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science & International Affairs, and director of the China Policy Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C. He specialises in China's domestic politics, China's foreign relations, China's military and security, and international relations of Asia. Regarded inside and outside China as an authority on China's foreign policy, military and security issues and Chinese politics, Shambaugh has been cited in the state media. He is a regular media commentator, and has acted as an advisor to the United States government and several private foundations and corporations. He was formerly the editor of the China Quarterly, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Shambaugh's book China Goes Global was selected by The Economist as one of the best books of the year. In 2015, researchers at the China Foreign Affairs University named him the second-most influential China expert in the United States, behind David M. Lampton.

Bibliography

 China's Military in Transition (1991)
 Beautiful Imperialist (1993)
 Deng Xiaoping: Portrait of a Chinese Statesman (1995)
 Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice (1996)
 The China Reader: The Reform Era (1998)
 China's Military Faces the Future (1999)
 Is China Unstable: Assessing the Factors (2000)
 The Modern Chinese State (2000)
 The Odyssey of China's Imperial Art Treasures (2005)
 Modernizing China's Military (2003)
 Power Shift: China & Asia's New Dynamics (2005)
 China-Europe Relations (2007)
 China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan, and the United States (2007)
 American and European Relations with China (2008)
 China's Communist Party: Atrophy & Adaptation (2008)
 International Relations of Asia (2008)
 Charting China's Future: Domestic and International Challenges (2011)
 China Goes Global: The Partial Power (Oxford University Press, 2013)
 China's Future (Polity, 2016)

China and the World (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, 2020).
China's Leaders: From Mao to Now (Polity, 2021)

References

External links

The China Challenge May 8, 2014 issue New York Review of Books including Shambaugh 2013 book

1953 births
Living people
American political scientists
American sinologists
Elliott School of International Affairs alumni
Elliott School of International Affairs faculty
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies alumni
Quarterly Essay people
University of Michigan alumni


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One (stylized as ONE and previously known as Super One Television) is a television station in Malta owned by One Productions, the Labour Party's media arm. Broadcasts commenced in March 1994.

Studios
The station is administered and broadcasts from its studios in Marsa.

The station also has an Outside Broadcasting Unit, which it first used during the Malta Labour Party's May Day celebrations on 1 May 1997. One TV also won the first two editions of the Television Station of the year awards in 2006 & 2007.

External links

Television stations in Malta
Television channels and stations established in 1993
1993 establishments in Malta
Labour Party (Malta) publications
Marsa, Malta


Andy Thompson from the Coded for Worship blog has created a way to have an ESV bible verse that changes every day as a screensaver. It uses a program called rsssaver (PC only sadly) to show the ESV daily verse feed as your screensaver. This is a great idea to keep your screensaver from becoming boring and the same day after day!
Your atilrces are for when it absolutely, positively, needs to be understood overnight.


Learn how to effectively use this technique with many familiar and innovative exercises. You will learn ESSENTRICS theories, techniques, objectives and exercises for toning, strengthening and shaping the muscles. You will also learn the science of weight loss, muscle development, body toning & strengthening and anti-aging. In this manual we evaluate different strengthening techniques and discuss the different objectives and benefits of each method.
ESSENTRICS is a full-body strengthening program that achieves increased flexibility primarily though not exclusively through strength. In order to benefit from increased flexibility the muscles need to be strengthened in a lengthened position. It is a well known fact that any perceived flexibility gained when doing passive flexibility disappears immediately once you begin to move. This is because all movement requires strength and so the muscles revert to a contracted length. However if the muscles are strengthened in a lengthened position, they will remain lengthened when movement recommences.
By following the rules of the ESSENTRICS program, the muscles are developed to become strong, long, lean and slender. The act of moving muscles in the elongated position strengthens them as they are being lengthened, which permanently renders them more flexible and strong. This indirectly leads to pain relief, as the joints are no longer jammed tightly together. This powerful method of strengthening is done equipment-free using the body's own weight as the force of resistance. Passive stretching may feel good and seem effective while it is taking place, but it does not have a lasting effect on the muscles. Flexibility can only be permanently increased when it is combined simultaneously with strengthening.
In the Level 4 Learning Guide there are sections about using music for strengthening exercises, as well as how to choose music for a complete routine. You will also learn how to create and structure your own Essentrics workout.
You will be required to learn the illustrated anatomy from the Level 4 Manual. This may require you to take an Anatomy & Physiology course in order to gain a thorough understanding of the key anatomy involved in the Essentrics exercises. Identify which bones the muscles attach to (not the specific origins) and indicate how many joints the muscles pass through. Teachers will also be expected to apply a deeper understanding of the physiology behind the exercises and techniques and be able to analyze what is happening to each muscle at a cellular level. This knowledge will give the teacher the proper tools required to address client issues with the proper vocabulary and expertise.


eVenzia Technologies is pleased to announce it's wining for the website redesign and development of our existing client "Deksa LTD". it's important to know and feel that our clients are satisfied with our quality services and motivates them to return back and upgrade their projects with us. The new website will help visitors within local and international market to find all the necessary information related to all the activities of the organisation.
Technology Used: CSS, JQuery and HTML5.
Compatible Browsers: IE8, IE9, IE10, IE11, Firefox, Safari, Opera & Chrome.


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Q: Issue Connecting to RDS Endpoint with EC2 Instance through EB I am having an issue with my Elasticbeantalk environment where the EC2 instance is not allowed to connect to my RDS instance. I can't seem to determine why this might be because I configured the RDS security group to allow MYSQL connection for any IP and have the same inbound rule in my EC2 instance security group. I tested my endpoint connection from my command line with nc -zv test-db.cffvlzfsdafasf6x7kir.us-east-2.rds.amazonaws.com 3306 and I Connection to ... succeeded! as a response, which indicates there isn't an issue with my security group on the RDS instance, but in my EC2 instance log I have Unhandled rejection SequelizeConnectionRefusedError: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3306.
Here is my connection via Sequelize and I checked the username and password for my environment variables, which I confirmed are correct:
var Sequelize = require('sequelize');
var path = require('path');
var sequelize = new Sequelize(process.env.LOCAL_DATABASE, process.env.RDS_DATABASE || process.env.LOCAL_USERNAME, process.env.RDS_USERNAME || process.env.LOCAL_PASSWORD, process.env.RDS_PASSWORD, {
    host: process.env.RDS_HOSTNAME || 'localhost',
    port: process.env.RDS_PORT || '3306',
    dialect: 'mysql'
});

Any suggestions of a checklist that I should perform or where I might be going wrong?

A: This part is all wrong:
var sequelize = new Sequelize(process.env.LOCAL_DATABASE, process.env.RDS_DATABASE || process.env.LOCAL_USERNAME, process.env.RDS_USERNAME || process.env.LOCAL_PASSWORD, process.env.RDS_PASSWORD, {
    host: process.env.RDS_HOSTNAME || 'localhost',
    port: process.env.RDS_PORT || '3306',
    dialect: 'mysql'
});

You somehow managed to put a || where you needed to put a , and a , where you should have put a ||. Try this:
var sequelize = new Sequelize(process.env.LOCAL_DATABASE || process.env.RDS_DATABASE,
        process.env.LOCAL_USERNAME || process.env.RDS_USERNAME,
        process.env.LOCAL_PASSWORD || process.env.RDS_PASSWORD, {
    host: process.env.RDS_HOSTNAME || 'localhost',
    port: process.env.RDS_PORT || '3306',
    dialect: 'mysql'
});


Warwickshire County Council announces some Changes to Police and council services - so what does it mean to the people of Kenilworth? From the 28th February 2011 next year Kenilworth Library could be a little crowded as the Police Station is closed to the public and Warwickshire Direct (Kenilworth Library) will then offer a police front desk.
To make this happen, Kenilworth Library will see a mini makeover, closing from Monday 10 January 2011 and opening again on 9am Mon 7 February 2011. There are also some self service machines being installed. Leamington Library was also refitted recently - when it opened, some people were saying there was more space - there were less books on display. Back in the old days, when Kenilworth Library had a set of stairs leading to the ground floor where the Tourist Information and massive study space were located, the library had a lot of room. Sadly today, the place is shrinking with one just one floor and is it four or five services crammed in? For those who do not know, the Town Centre Manager is also located there. And there was talk of the Kenilworth Weekly News having a desk too.
There is a room on the ground floor to the rear which can be hired by the day or the hour (it has a small kitchen and a toilet), in my view we need to relax the rules and get some Starbucks Fairtrade coffee and light snacks allowed in the place like other forward thinking authorities have learned (see Hillingdon, London) while fighting back the cuts (see BBC Panorama). Some have even hosted the odd pop concert (Diana Vickers at Lancaster Library).
Find out more on Monday 13 December 2010 (2.30-4.30pm) at Kenilworth Library for the first of two drop in sessions.
These changes enable us to make better use of our resources and thus provide a more effective and efficient service to the public and we welcome this opportunity to team up with Warwickshire County Council and Warwick District Council to offer this kind of service in Kenilworth and feel sure that the local community will benefit.
Police front desk enquiries and council services are soon to be delivered to the public in new ways in Kenilworth – and an information session is being held this month so local residents can find out more about it.
From 28 February next year, Warwickshire Police force will be teaming up with Warwickshire County Council and Warwick District Council to provide front desk police services from 'Warwickshire Direct – Kenilworth' and Library at Smalley Place. The services are currently available from the front desk enquiry office at Kenilworth police station, situated next door.
'Warwickshire Direct – Kenilworth' and Library is also set for a makeover in January and February, with the result being a more relaxed and informal layout, an improved seating and newspaper area, more space for books to be displayed, and the installation of new state-of-the-art self service machines, which will give customers the opportunity to borrow, return and renew books themselves.
The first of two drop in information sessions about the changes will be held on Monday 13 December, with afternoon tea, running from 2.30pm to 4.30pm at 'Warwickshire Direct - Kenilworth' and Library.
The move to integrate police services into the 'Warwickshire Direct – Kenilworth' and Library facility follows successful schemes in Warwick and Alcester, where police services are now available from Warwickshire Direct at Shire Hall and Globe House – meaning that members of the public can now access a wider range of services under one roof.
The services will include those currently offered at Kenilworth such as reporting crime and anti-social behaviour incidents and lost and found property enquiries.
Before the police services move in, and in order to carry out the planned improvements to the building, the Warwickshire Direct and Library facility will be temporarily closed to the public from Monday 10 January 2011 and reopen again at 9am on Monday 7 February 2011.
Talking about the planned makeover, Tracey Baker, Divisional Library Manager for Warwickshire County Council said: "We are very excited about the proposed new look for 'Warwickshire Direct – Kenilworth' and Library. We hope that everyone will appreciate that we need to close for this short period to enable all this to happen and apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
"Warwickshire Police is currently reviewing all policing services and the facilities required to support them. This includes enquiry offices at police stations.
"These changes enable us to make better use of our resources and thus provide a more effective and efficient service to the public and we welcome this opportunity to team up with Warwickshire County Council and Warwick District Council to offer this kind of service in Kenilworth and feel sure that the local community will benefit.
"The public are reminded that all members of the force remain committed to protecting communities from harm and will not be distracted from this need by the process of change. We will continue to reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured in Warwickshire, both on the roads or as a result of crime, and reduce burglary of homes and vehicle crime.
"Warwickshire Police is committed to dealing with every enquiry by delivering the right service, first time and providing local people better access to facilities when they need them most.
"The police station in Kenilworth will still be an operational base and there will be no reduction in policing in the town as a result of these changes."
Kushal Birla, Head of Customer Service and Communications at Warwickshire County Council, said: "In February, people in Kenilworth will start to see and experience the benefits of the changes that we are making to the town's Warwickshire Direct facility and Library, including the refurbishment and the integration of police services.
Susie Drummond, Head of Customer and Information Services at Warwick District Council, said: "We already deliver a wide variety of services to customers in Kenilworth with our partners in Libraries and Customer Services.
A further drop in information session about the changes will be held on Friday 7 January, with a coffee morning being held at 'Warwickshire Direct – Kenilworth' and Library from 10.30am to 12.30pm.