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What Will The New 2021 Buick Lacrosse Look Like – The specific 2021 Buick LaCrosse is easily the most typical sedan staying throughout the storied brand’s collection. Roomy, peaceful, and also attain, the specific LaCrosse delivers the regular Buick come across, nevertheless, the necessity for the specific barge-like speak to. The particular brand’s largest sedan provides adequate design, persuasive choices, and in addition finalizing to contend with magnificent automobiles, which cost more. The particular LaCrosse went through a complete transform about 2021, and then, an important underhood up-date about 2021, along with a completely new hybrid powertrain, which paired the 2.5-liter inline-4 having a engine unit. In comparison, to complete hybrids, the actual LaCrosse’s reasonable-hybrid powertrain provides a little improve to fuel economy. Nevertheless, it will not drive the vehicle about power supply on your own.
Basically, together with the transform plus up-schedules this previous calendar year, the fundamental guidelines about Buick’s huge car stay the identical: a massive 4-doorway together with space for all, if they will not opinions the remarkably tiny back again once more couch. Buick helps make the real LaCrosse becoming a vehicle that seems, like a traditional sizeable car out of your name brand. Nevertheless, it really is is not going to respond, such as a solitary. It is agile about this type of big sedan, and contains finalizing so as to extra, furthermore Buick a lot several trims from the LaCrosse in addition to lively safety technological innovation with an updated infotainment plan.
2021 Buick LaCrosse Redesign
Buick’s change from the LaCrosse about 2021 executed wonders to hide the actual sedan’s aspect and also modest-mannered traveling dynamics. A huge grille, catching headlight fashion, along with shapely engine make softer the style beforehand. About back again yet again, the specific 2021 Buick Lacrosse tail-finish off is uncomplicated as well as clear as well as reduced-curving tail illumination instead of a whole lot various. The just legitimate problem is certainly a disappointing note concerning Buick’s annoying fashion past: the particular portholes. Regarding a not great cause, they have got come up with check around the LaCrosse’s entrance aspect quarter portions and in addition take away from the or maybe appealing design.
The exact interior in the LaCrosse will likely be moderate along with clear, using a nearly symmetrical dash panel and also attentively located oversees. Buick delivers concentrated the actual dash with regards to a large infotainment touchscreen display, while the incorporation in addition to the remainder in the interior is not accomplished along with numerous competitors.
As well as electricity-changeable front aspect recliners, plus an interior guarded inside of practically genuine unnatural normal natural leather, even foundation design LaCrosse gives a luxurious experience. Premium trims obtain perforated all-natural leather material conceals and offer the rubbing operate to your top part recliners, developing the specific LaCrosse a long-haul champion. Again-office chair comfort drops individual to many taking roofline, which diminishes concerning the head as well as lower-leg area substantially. Luckily, there is present lots of shoulder blades joints place for 3 adults throughout.
The specific car’s 15 cubic-ft . trunk area area (14.3 cubic feet inside the hybrid), without the most significant inside the class, is going to be properly-shaped as well as benefits of a large opening. Buick delivers carefully located storage area inside the cabin, making use of the room that is at this time there. A big space for storing box from the reduced middle games console is a wonderful occasion, delivering adequate area for almost any ladies handbag and even tablet. The exact LaCrosse seems sophisticated from any kind of cut education because of easy-make contact with elements through. Nevertheless, the more-spec designs in addition to world shape leathers tend to be absolutely lovely. Just a couple of suggestions inside aid remind travellers from the LaCrosse’s affordable entry ways-diploma price brand.
2021 Buick LaCrosse Engine
The exact 2021 Buick LaCrosse replicates the entire performance sedan when forced. Nonetheless, it is most joyful being a recognized cruiser. All us have not powered the exact eAssist moderate-hybrid LaCrosse but, the standard options at this time. The product sets an electric engine to many 2.5-liter inline-4 however differs from comprehensive hybrids in this particular. It’s driven about power source by yourself. The exact fuel, together with electric motors, arrives collectively to offer a significantly better fuel economy together with a a bit more energy. Paired to some 6-acceleration automobile, the device will be ranked in a small 194 hp plus 187 lb-ft relating to torque.
We are going to up-time this kind of space whenever we have spent a while proper powering the specific wheel through the foundation LaCrosse. The 3.6-liter V-6 is in fact optionally available round the LaCrosse and is particularly required with of-wheel drive. The specific 310-hp V-6 engine is delivered paired to some 9-rate computerized, a combination that offers a great deal of attracts also loaded with tourists. The particular rigid, lightened structure, along with quick directing, assists the LaCrosse come to feel almost sports activities along with control on your own correctly throughout the shape. 18-” wheels tend to be normal, while 20-in . combined with a varied suspensions are usually optionally readily available. Within our evaluating, we currently have discovered the actual journey along with handling to turn into a whole lot more enjoyable around the normal 18-” wheels, which may have a lot more sidewall offer. Simply because we have came to predict from Buick, the particular appear to be deadening throughout the LaCrosse supplies a hushed, in close proximity to cocoon-like encounter inside of.
2021 Buick LaCrosse Safety and Features
The actual 2021 Buick LaCrosse gained a somewhat unusual 5-movie star general rating in authorities automobile accident evaluating. Which is enough for 2 elements mentioned before typical. Even so, most of us deduct a single about Buick’s stinginess with regards to dynamic safety technologies. That is certainly unfortunate for the reason that LaCrosse appears to succeed in incident reviews. United states government testers provided this the 5-celeb basic rating, for example 5 superstars for each and every sub-check-a unheard of obvious sweep. The specific IIHS ended up being as sort as well as supplied the exact LaCrosse mainly best, “Excellent” incident-check out ratings together with an “Exceptional” ranking due to the computerized unexpected unexpected emergency braking plan. Top lighting fixtures graded due to the fact “Bad” keep the Lacrosse by means of making IIHS honors.
Adaptive high end cruise trip, along with automated unpredicted crisis braking, is fixed towards high-priced LaCrosse Premium cut. Simultaneously, sightless-location screens in addition to back again go across-guests notices are usually limited to Cardiovascular system and soul as well as Premium models. This kind of produces a a lot more in comparison to $10,000 hit about the basis cut education to get safety modern technology that is presented in further brands’ vehicles due to the fact typical.
The specific 2021 LaCrosse is available in 4 trims, starting from the completely ready basis cut towards high-class Premium. Buick does not generate it’s reduce sums as elementary as numerous customers may foresee, significance numerous investigation may be crucial before check out a Buick dealership. Base LaCrosse sedans also known as 1SV, begin about $31,000 like spot and therefore are offered designed with persuading man-made natural leather material furniture, 18-” alloy wheels, energy entrance aspect seats, 8-presenter noise, as well as an 8.-” touch-screen in addition to Apple CarPlay along with Google google android Vehicle. The actual base cut is simply presented in just a darker and also white-shaded without the range of paying much more for virtually any a variety of colors.
Transferring totally as much as Premium pushes the specific price just to timid relating to $40,000, as well as gives all of the goodies towards the Lacrosse. Around this specific education, the exact LaCrosse features a heated up up controls, top side-couch lumbar realignment along with rubbing, deals with the present, ahead of time crash notices, lively lane deal with, sightless-location display screens, again go across site visitors notices, in addition to cooled front side side seats. The product variety-topping LaCrosse Avenir reduce loads about far more organic leather material, nevertheless its cost brand raises tremendously to $50,000 along with its well worth will likely be questionable at this level.
The option through the LaCrosse collections may be the real Coronary heart and soul reduce. Correct in the center of the product variety, the specific Lacrosse Center and soul offers safety features as well as interior goodies and keep the actual price in a more affordable diploma. Even so, the exact LaCrosse 1SV provides a large worth if energetic hues are certainly not an essential aspect.
2021 Buick LaCrosse Price and Release Date
The specific 2021 Buick LaCrosse gives 6 cut sums – 1SV, Desired, Sporting activities Visiting, Coronary heart and soul, Premium, as well as Avenir – as well as starting expenses, which range from $30,495 to $45,795.


As we approach the 40th anniversary of our first concert, the Rochester Gay Men’s Chorus is happy to announce the creation of the Chuck Lundeen Memorial Fund in support of special projects for the RGMC. John Williams, husband of the late Chuck Lundeen, has provided the following special message.
Chuck Lundeen loved the Rochester Gay Men’s Chorus! Chuck was a longtime member of the RGMC bass section and one of the original Rochettes. The RGMC was an important part of Chuck’s life and a significant early connection with the LGBTQ community when he relocated to Rochester. He developed many longtime friendships from among the singers and volunteers. It was when he was singing and I was a volunteer (we were called B Sharps!) that Chuck and I met. That led to 32 years of partnership for the two of us. When we wed, members of the RGMC sang at our wedding.
Chuck enjoyed introducing people from all walks of life to the Chorus, especially straight allies. We often gathered groups of people to dine before Chorus concerts and attend together. Even after he was no longer singing with the Chorus, Chuck was a loyal and enthusiastic audience member.
Together we made the RGMC a philanthropic priority and encouraged others to do so as well. The RGMC honored us by having the RGMC Artistic Directorship be named after the two of us.
I will always remember how Chuck remarked that his life would have been so different if, while growing up in northern Minnesota, there had been a gay chorus in his community. He grew up in a time where there were few outlets beyond the bars for socializing.
And aren’t we all pleased and proud that Rochester, NY DOES have a gay chorus - and a terrific one!
How wonderful that Chuck is being honored by the RGMC in this its special anniversary season. I know that Chuck is smiling to think that his legacy lives on and that support for the Chorus continues.
And here’s a special note. For the first $2,000 donated to this Chuck Lundeen Fund, every
dollar will be matched dollar for dollar by donations from me, Robert Neale and from loyal
RGMC supporter Norman Horton. Every dollar counts.
Long live the RGMC! Here’s to the next 40 years of music making and community service!
Please consider making a donation today by returning the enclosed donation form with your payment. On behalf of the entire chorus, we thank John and Chuck for their generous support over the past years and for many more years to come.


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Kenilworth musician Mister Keith’s final show of his tour, to be held in the town, has sold out.
He is playing the final show of his Parlour Tour on Saturday October 31 at a house in Common Lane.
Mister Keith, whose real name is Keith Ayling, said: “I’ve been playing in people’s houses since 1986 and it’s a great way to showcase songs on an intimate level.
“There is a personal connection when someone sits right in front of you and sings.”
Bob Dudley, who will be hosting the concert, said: “Hosting a house concert is a great way to get friends and neighbours together for a fun evening.
“I jumped at the chance to host it and it sold out straight away.”
Over 30 people are expected to attend the house concert.

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With all abuzz about the Eminem/Chrysler Superbowl ad, “Imported from Detroit,” you might have noticed it was filmed partially at the Fox Theatre. Just last month, Untapped revealed some interesting history behind the refurbishment of the theater, which we will reproduce below.
The Fox Theatre was financed by film producer William Fox in 1928 and designed by Charles Howard Crane.The original interior featured a six-floor lobby, a tri-level auditorium in homage to an Arabian tent, a massive elephant head, and was ornamented in “black marble, red leather, aluminum gilt, and 300,000 crystal jewels.”  The building itself was a total of ten floors, with office space on the upper levels. It was a theater of many innovations: an extensive sound system, an orchestra pit that could be raised and lowered via pneumatic pumps, and the first in the world to have built-in equipment for talking movies.  In the 1940s, the Fox diversified its programming by booking live acts, including Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong and Jack Benny. In the 1950s, the stage was graced by Elvis and various Motown stars. The Fox was one of the few theaters still operational in 1970, but the content of its films had shifted. The 1970 publication of Detroit: A Young Guide to the City described the films shown as those that “usually deal[t] with race or sadism.”  At the time of its refurbishment in 1988, it was the largest remaining movie house in the world. Newsweek reported that “after an $8 million facelift, the 5,100-seat Fox Theatre reopened as a bejeweled grand dame, sparking civic optimism for revitalizing Detroit’s once-elegant Woodward Avenue.”
News articles tend to gloss over the ownership of the Fox Theatre. The Detroit News simply stated that the theater “changed hands several times”  before it was purchased by Mike Ilitch. This is despite the fact that prominent Detroit businessman Chuck Forbes, who owned and successfully renovated the Gem and Palms theaters, had ownership prior to the Ilitches. Daniel Duggan of Crain’s Detroit Business responded to my e-mail inquiry regarding ownership of the Fox prior to Forbes, “Sorry, nobody here knows.”  The sale of the Fox to the Ilitches was brokered by the city of Detroit, and Forbes filed a lawsuit in 1994 against city officials and Mike Ilitch, “claiming the city reneged on an agreement to sell him other downtown real estate in exchange for selling his building to Ilitch. He also said he was threatened that some of his properties would be condemned if he didn’t sell [the Fox].”  Forbes eventually dropped Ilitch’s name from the lawsuit and the city settled with Forbes, giving him land and parking in the Grand Circus area. One of the key defendants, Emmet Morton, left his position in city government after the deal went through to become an employee of the Ilitches. Forbes also physically relocated some of his other properties, including the Gem Theatre and a few accompanying buildings when they became threatened by demolition in the construction of Comerica baseball park in 1997. Comerica Park is home of the Detroit Tigers, owned incidentally by the Ilitches. Fortunately, the story of the Fox Theater ends well. The Ilitches and the city recognized its economic potential, due to a proximity to Comerica Park, and $12.5 million was spent in renovations. The theater is currently utilized as one of the main performance venues in Detroit.
For more interesting stories on the private developer involvement in decaying Detroit public infrastructure, check out the amazing interior photographs from the United Artists Theater and Michigan Central Station, by Untapped photographer Ryan Southen.


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|Title||Are You Sitting Comfortably? The Book Jackets of Edward Bawden|
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Edward Bawden (1903–1989), CBE, RA, draughtsman, watercolorist, poster designer, illustrator and murals, was also one of the most diverse, inventive, and prolific designer of books jackets of his generation.
Who else but Edward Bawden could have illustrated East Coasting, a charming little collection of travel essays published by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1930? Here, Bawden’s comic genius found full expression. The title page alone boasts such quirky seaside-themed illustrations as a tent flapping open in a gust of wind, revealing the bather changing within, and a giant lobster snatching an old lady from her bath chair while holding a top hat in its free claw.
Are You Sitting Comfortably? generously collects more than 100 book jacket designs and illustrations by Bawden, who worked with many of the leading publishers of the 20th century.

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The overflow from China’s economic high tide is transforming the housing markets of suburban Los Angeles.
Affluent Chinese home buyers are driving prices past boom-era peaks, spawning a subset of property brokers and mortgage lenders that cater to their distinct needs — and even dictate design details in new subdivisions.
Chinese buyers bought 12% of all U.S. homes purchased by foreign citizens last year, up from 5% in 2007, according to the National Assn. of Realtors. More than half their home purchases were in California. And more than two-thirds of them paid cash, the trade group said.
The trend appears unlikely to unwind soon. More than 60% of China’s wealthy have left or plan to leave the country, at least part time, and their No. 1 destination is the United States, according to the Hurun Report, a Shanghai publishing firm focused on recently minted millionaires and billionaires.
Despite dizzying ups and downs in U.S. home prices, the market can seem more stable than in China, where fears of a property bubble have added to the economic and political worries of the burgeoning middle and upper classes.
Eva Chen and her husband travel between their homes in Shanghai and Arcadia, where they purchased a property near Santa Anita Park in October. They scooped up the second home as an escape from pollution and a shot at better schools for their two infants.
Compared with housing prices in China, the $1.27-million Arcadia property didn’t seem expensive.
“The Arcadia house is cheaper,” Chen said.
Others want the prestige of a San Marino or Pasadena mansion, even if paying for it means working in China and rarely visiting. One of Ng’s neighbors bought a Pasadena estate, then lived there for just two days out of the two years that followed.
“He was not renting it out,” Ng said. “People have so much money, they just say, ‘What the heck. It’s a nice neighborhood. I might as well just buy one.'”
It’s a story echoed by Patti Hahn of Arcadia, gesturing to the house next door, which sold for $2.45 million last year, up from $1.55 million in 2006, the last time it changed hands.
“No one lives there,” Hahn said.
In Las Vegas, which has a long-established community of ethnic Chinese residents, as well as the allure of gambling and inexpensive housing, Lennar went a step further when it developed a 40-acre housing tract, Lantern Gardens, on the outskirts of town.
In addition to applying feng shui design principles and interior apartments for relatives, Lennar designed a central park that is round instead of square and aligned most of the homes on a north-south axis, reflecting the preferences of many Chinese.
“The traffic coming through was principally Asian, and mostly Chinese,” said Jeremy Parness, the company’s division president for the area.
The company has even taken care to avoid putting the number four in any address, because it rhymes with the Chinese word for death, Parness said.
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Flaw in web versions of WhatsApp, Telegram put accounts at risk
- Author: Arturo Norris Mar 15, 2017,
Mar 15, 2017, 19:05
The way WhatsApp and Telegram encrypted messages without validation meant that the companies had no idea, and no way of knowing, that malicious code was being sent. Included in this list are popular, secure chat apps WhatsApp and Telegram, and Check Point software has just released details of a vulnerability that left millions of user accounts exposed to hackers. At least in the case of WhatsApp, once paired using a QR code, the phone needs to have an active internet connection for WhatsApp messages to be relayed to the browser on the computer.
This vulnerability, if exploited, would have allowed attackers to completely take over users' accounts on any browser, and access victims' personal and group conversations, photos, videos and other shared files, contact lists, and more.
There is no evidence that the flaw was used by hackers but a spokesperson for Check Point says it had been present on the platforms for a significant time period and put "hundreds of millions" of accounts at risk. When the victim opens this innocent looking file containing malicious code, the malicious file allowed the attacker to access WhatsApp's and Telegram's local storage, where user data is stored.
Due to both apps' end-to-end encryption it was impossible, the firm claims, for them to prevent the malicious file from being sent.
This threat has been patched over since 8th march and is no longer a problem.
"Thankfully, WhatsApp and Telegram responded quickly and responsibly to deploy the mitigation against exploitation of this issue in all web clients".
As such, there is no notification of an update sent directly to users; instead, users who want to make sure they are definitely using the latest versions should simply restart their browser.
"However, Check Point's research team has managed to bypass the mechanism's restrictions by uploading a malicious HTML document with a legitimate preview of an image in order to fool a victim to click on the document in order to take over his account".
Nevertheless, the fact malicious files hidden the way Check Point's researchers slipped them in was indeed a security design error, he said.
Telegram's flaw was much more subtle and required "very unusual" behavior by the victim, such as right-clicking on a video and opening a new tab, said spokesman Markus Ra.


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Stuart is a one year old male MinPin/Terrier mix. He is very friendly, sweet, and affectionate. Stuart would be a great little dog for a family! He still needs to be neutered, but you can submit an application to adopt him now at the Humane Society of Erie County, 1911 Superior Street, Sandusky, or call 419/626-6220.
Here’s something cool they’re doing at HSEC:

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A copy may be a news item, an editorial, a feature story or any literary article. Duties of a copyreader: Straighten out ungrammatical construction.
Huggins This last of our three-part series examining the life and research of Jerald Tanner, focuses on the integrity Jerald brought to his research of Mormon historical documents. Sandra and Jerald Tanner J erald Tanner's research was always centered in determining the truth, not just uncovering problems in LDS claims.
Besides examining the church's own material, at times he found it necessary to examine the veracity of works that were critical of the LDS Church. The latter source in addition had a tantalizing note to the effect that "apparently there are no copies of the original extant.
This naturally represented a challenge to Jerald and Sandra's circle of friends to see if they could find an original copy.
In late Pauline Hancock, pastor of the little Church of Christ in Independence, Missouri, received a letter from Susan Kallenbach of the Yale University Library's Western Americana Collection announcing that they had not the original itself but a copy of the original, which they were willing to photocopy or microfilm.
They stressed however that they had no information "as to the location of the original copy. Walters, fellow researcher and pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Marissa, Illinois, had managed to trace the original from which the Yale copy was made to a certain Mr.
Fulk, who allowed him to examine it in his home. Walters was disappointed to discover that it was not an original but only made to look like one: Fulk's copy the page had been cut all the way across just above the word Defence.
A blank piece of paper of the same quality as the rest of the title page was pasted above the word Defence. I couldn't see the point of this until I returned home and checked [R.
He sent a copy of the Cowdery Defence that he had somehow obtained possibly from the Tanners' tract to Yale and received a letter back from Archibald Hanna, curator of the Western American Collection, informing him that the copies he had sent were derived from the Yale copy, further noting that the Yale copy had been "photographed from a pasted up dummy," which suggested to Hanna that "the original may have appeared in a newspaper and that Cowdery decided to reprint it as a pamphlet and so pasted up a dummy and had a title page set for it.
In response Jerald made the question a matter of his own investigation, and on April 7,he and Sandra issued a tract entitled A Critical Look: A Study of the Overstreet "Confession" and the Cowdery "Defence"which set out to prove that the Defence, along with another document related to Cowdery that also placed the LDS Church in a bad light, were both forgeries.
Here we shall focus only on the Defence. In making his case against the Defence Jerald repeated many of the same concerns shared by Anderson and other early investigators, i. But, as in most of his work, Jerald's most decisive argument was a literary one in which he proved, I believe beyond reasonable doubt, that the Defence had been cobbled-together from published Cowdery writings, especially from the series of letters he wrote on the history of the Church which appeared in the LDS newspaper Messenger and Advocate.
There are two legitimate reasons that authors may write similar things in different places. The first is that everyone has his own distinctive style of writing, features of which show up consistently in whatever they write.
It is also a common practice among writers when they write on a topic they have already covered to copy what they formerly said in a new work. Jerald, however, discovered close parallels to Cowdery's writings that fit neither of these criteria. In his pamphlet Jerald focused only on the first: We compared all of these sources with the purported "Defence," and the results of this study are rather interesting.
In the letters found in the Huntington Library we found no parallels of any importance; likewise the History of the Church contained no significant parallels.
In the Evening and Morning Star we found only one important parallel—i. He concluded that "whoever wrote the 'Defence' used the Messenger and Advocate.
Usually the motive for recopying something that you have written before is that the author has occasion to talk about the same topic again. But what we find in the Defence are phrases and chunks of text taken out of one context and patched in to another, without there being any obvious connection between the two settings.
This is the case, for example, in the following three parallels: The only way someone could make a case for its authenticity at this stage would be to prove that Cowdery was in the regular habit of plundering phrases and paragraphs from his earlier writings and dropping them without rhyme or reason into his later ones.
Ina year after Jerald's pamphlet, Richard Lloyd Anderson wrote an article on Oliver Cowdery for the Improvement Era in which he prefaces his own attempt at debunking the Defence by saying: But he does not mention the Tanners efforts from the previous year at all.
Historians less beholden to the LDS Church than Anderson were also less quick to come to the conclusion that the Defence was indeed a forgery fathered on Cowdery. After reading the Tanners' pamphlet, historian Juanita Brooks wrote to Sandra saying: You have convinced me that the item is genuine and that it was really written by Oliver Cowdery.
You did for me what I had intended to do with the Messenger and Advocate letter myself, and the result is clearly that Cowdery was really the author. Brodie similarly did not agree with Jerald's arguments. It just goes to show that not everyone has a head for discerning textual relationships.
With time, however, Jerald's position has won out, leaving Brodie to be one of the very few historians to hold out for the authenticity of the Defence. As a historian I have long been cognizant of the fact that being careful about getting at the truth of history is not a necessary prerequisite for success in publishing, in fact a certain cavalierness in fiddling the truth is often just the right recipe for achieving big sales and pride of placement on the shelves of major book stores.The UIL sponsors five journalism contests - News Writing (45 minutes), Feature Writing (60 minutes), Editorial Writing (45 minutes), Headline Writing (30 minutes) and Copy Editing (15 minutes).
Students compete at the district level, and then the top three places advance to regionals. Turnitin provides instructors with the tools to prevent plagiarism, engage students in the writing process, and provide personalized feedback.
click to download “Instructions for Authors” PDF version (Sep. ). Instructions for Authors (revised September) 1. Editorial Policy. There are no specific differences between the copy reading symbols of the English language and the Filipino language. These are symbols noted by a proofreader to improve the style and flow of a.
We’ll take a look at editing out some obvious duplicates. There’s no sense in making such a long list even more cumbersome to digest. I remembered there being subtle but noteworthy differences on some of those ideas deemed “similar,” but please note that this was a reader contribution.
Oct 04, · Editing with proofreading symbols - Duration: Alex Kahn 33, views. When Is a Short Headline Your Best Copywriting Trick? pencil writing tutorials | mazic writer.


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The last time we saw Lesley Manville in a fashion movie, she was playing the highly strung sister and business partner of Daniel Day-Lewis’s fastidious British couturier in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread. Now she returns in a very different fashion film set in very much the same era: the musty old 1950s, playing a chirpy London cleaning lady called Mrs Harris whose backdated war-widow pension kicks in at the same time as a win on the football pools (younger viewers may need to Google that), and she heads off to Paris with a big dream: to buy a beautiful Christian Dior gown.
Wide-eyed Mrs Harris finds herself initially looked down on with haughty Gallic astonishment by the fashion house’s formidable director of operations Mme Colbert (Isabelle Huppert), who has no great wish to be addressed as “ducks”. But Mrs Harris’s innate charm and innocence wins everyone over. It is adapted from the 1958 novel by Paul Gallico in which she was “Mrs ’Arris” in its original American title: a condescension that this film corrects.
There’s such a lovely sweet-natured sense of fun in this Cinderella tale, a multicoloured confection like something that Fortnum & Mason might put in the shop window. Manville carries it off with absolute conviction: she plays Mrs Harris’s naivety with just the right lightness, her determination with the right edge of steel, and her inner grief at the long-denied loss of her husband with the right seriousness and sadness.
And there’s a terrific supporting cast giving it some zing both sides of the Channel. Anna Chancellor is hilariously awful as the mean Lady Dant, who has enough money to buy a staggering Dior dress (it is the sight of this garment that triggers Mrs Harris’s frock-yearning) but is too stingy to pay her cleaning lady what she owes. Ellen Thomas gives a lovely performance as Mrs Harris’s best mate Violet and Jason Isaacs comes close to pinching the whole thing as the rackety, cheery Archie, who is involved in greyhound racing. Once Mrs Harris makes it to Paris, she encounters the scary Mme Colbert (great tongue-in-cheek stuff from Huppert) but also the handsome, soigné Marquis de Chassange, played by Lambert Wilson, who appears to take a gallant shine to Mrs Harris, causing her to be all aflutter.
Preposterous though it may be, this is a terrific family movie in a style audiences may not have seen since Mary Poppins. I hope it’s a box-office smash up to Christmas and beyond.
• Mrs Harris Goes to Paris is released on 30 September in UK cinemas and 27 October in Australia.

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Book Review: “Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood. My Life In Soul” by Eddie Floyd and Tony Fletcher
I haven’t written a book review since high school, but I just finished a book about one of the biggest hit makers from Stax Records golden age, Eddie Floyd. Floyd, along with co-author, Tony Fletcher, trace the Floyd’s life story. Told primarily in the first person, it feels as if you’re listening to Floyd reminiscing. From his early childhood bouncing from Montgmery Alabama and Detroit and back, Floyd doesn’t pull any punches. He speaks candidly about his troubled youth and how a teacher at a detention center designed for African American boys under 15 years old, Mt Meigs, turned him around by helping him develop his love of singing and set him on the path to stardom.
As he tells his story, he weaves a tale of meeting, and working with such well known artists as Bo Diddley, Bill Wyman and one of the best studio backing bands Booker T & The MGs. And as you read these names, it isn’t done as if he’s name dropping, but more as a story line trying to be as complete as possible. He saves most of his glowing praise for the people who he co-wrote with at Stax, especially Steve Cropper who was co-writer on songs such as “634-5789” and his first big hit as a solo artist, and title of the book, “Knock On Wood” as well as Booker T Jones, as in Booker T and the MGs (the backing band at Stax). In fact, he loved working with all the musicians and writers at Stax.
If you’re looking for salacious, behind-the-scenes stories, you won’t find any. In fact, early on in the book he states emphatically, and I paraphrase, if you want to learn about the music, keep reading, if you want the dirt, don’t bother. When speaking about the turmoil in Memphis after The Reverend Martin Luther King was assassinated and the rifts that were occurring at Stax, all he would say was Isaac Hayes hired a couple of body guards of ill repute, but that he didn’t have much interaction, other than saying hi in the hallway. As close to any problems he may have encountered was his history with Wilson Pickett. They knew each other from Floyd’s first band, The Falcons, where Wilson spent a short time as lead singer. They had an altercation over “634-5789” when Stax gave the song to him to record and he didn’t want to do it. Cropper described it as Floyd came at Wilson ready to fight, although Floyd remembers it a little less confrontational (on a side note, it became a huge hit for Wilson). There were other run-ins, over the years, but Floyd still loved him as a brother.
Over the years, Floyd has recorded or performed with a who’s who of R&B/Soul and Rock Royalty. Bo Diddley played guitar on an early recording of Floyd’s in DC, “Will I Be The One” and “Set My Soul On Fire.” He toured around Europe with Bill Wyman’s post Rolling Stones group Rhythm Kings. And even played with up-and-coming artist Paul Young (“Every Time You Go Away”). He also talks about The Blues Brothers Band and how he began touring with them. As with Wyman’s and Young’s he didn’t want to be listed as part of the band, but instead listed as special guest. Which brings up another slight angry exchange with musical director Blue Lou Marini. Marini chalked it up to problems with the tour manager.
As I mentioned, most of the book is written in the first person from Floyd’s perspective, co-author Fletcher was able to add comments, and recollections from many of the people who Floyd worked with. From Cropper and Marini to Wyman and Young, their recollections jibed quite a bit with Floyds memory, and all generally acknowledged Floyd was a genuine, nice person. He still returns to Otis Redding’s hometown for their annual festival held in his memory.
If you are interested in the path of a true gentleman in the world of R&B and soul music, or if you would like to know about the camaraderie that pumped out hit after hit for Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave, Otis Redding and others at Stax, as well as the downfall of the label, from a well-established insider, this is the book for you. His is a true American Story of determination and hard work, and how far that will get you. For the most part, each chapter is based around one of his hits and the story around how it was developed.
He also speaks candidly on what songs did well and which ones didn’t. He speaks of the lean times with the same attention as the boom times as one who realizes he is a sum of the whole, rather than just brag about the hits. It’s also apparent from the book how much emphasis he places on friendships. Floyd and Fletcher Fletcher have put together a story of a true gentleman who made it.


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Improving Evaluation Design
This paper, produced for the Evaluation Roundtable event on 27th April 2016, offers a practical resource for foundation staff in assessing and/or improving their processes for the design stage of commissioning external evaluations. It does not cover all aspects of the evaluation cycle but, drawing on insights from Roundtable discussions to date, it addresses concerns raised by a broad range – in terms of size, type, stage of development and approach to evaluation – of foundations.
In the UK, over the last five years, there has been a significant increase in demand for different types of evaluative activity. How this activity is defined has become increasingly amorphous. Experiences shared through the Roundtable show that attitudes to, and organisation of, evaluation are different in every foundation, and inextricably bound to broader cultural factors. Discussions about process alone will not answer critical questions about what it means to use evaluation effectively.
This broader question of what it means to be a learning organisation (covering questions about organisational culture, and the sharing and use of evaluative information) is the theme of the 2017 Roundtable.
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Kim Kardashian really is not happy with the new Instagram changes as it is only her and her Momager Kris Jenner who can sell Kim Kradashian.
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“I just don’t think they should have the right to sell [our photos] to advertising companies on our behalf. What if we don’t want to advertise what they want?”
The site has had so much backlash since the new changes where announced and even loads of celebs have been kicking off about the changes.
So the future for the photo sharing site does not look very good!
She may have been busy with dominating the world and performing on the X Factor the weekend but Rita Ora has found the time to released her new single.
The new single is called Radioactive and you can watch the video above.
Jacintha Saldanha, one of Kate Middleton‘s nurses who was prank called by two radio DJ’s committed suicide this morning after she gave info about Kate’s health thinking that he was talking to the Queen.
Now St. James Palace has released a statement about the loss:
“The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jacintha Saldanha. Their Royal Highnesses were looked after so wonderfully well at all times by everybody at King Edward VII Hospital, and their thoughts and prayers are with Jacintha Saldanha’s family, friends and colleagues at this very sad time.”
Jacintha Saldanha, who was caring for Kate Middleton was found dead this morning.
Well now the hospital that she worked for King Edward VII has released a statement about the sad loss:
“It is with very deep sadness that we confirm the tragic death of a member of our nursing staff, Jacintha Saldanha.
Jacintha has worked at the King Edward VII’s Hospital for more than four years. She was an excellent nurse and well-respected and popular with all of her colleagues.
We can confirm that Jacintha was recently the victim of a hoax call to the hospital. The hospital had been supporting her throughout this difficult time.”
New sources have said that other staff members have been supporting Jacintha since the prank phone call has taken place.
Kate Middleton‘s personal nurse who looked after her while she was staying at the King Edward vii hospital in London has committed suicide.
The nurse Jacintha Saldanha who gave personal info about the Duchess to Australian DJs who prank called the hospital trying to get information out of them on Kate’s health by pretending to be the Queen and Prince Charles.
A spokes person from Scotland Yard has said:
“Police were called at approximately 9.35am this morning to a report of a woman found unconscious at an address in Weymouth Street, W1. London Ambulance Service attended and the woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Inquiries are continuing to establish the circumstances of the incident. The death is not being treated as suspicious at this stage.”
Jacintha was only 50 years of age and had two children.
Yesterday in the early hours of the morning a Australian radio station thought it would be funny to put on voice as the Queen and Prince Charles to talk to Kate Middleton as a prank call.
The Austrailian DJ duo called the King Edward VII Hospital as they thought that the nurses would just put the phone down on them.
But thinking that it really was the Queen the nurses gave some personal details about Kate’s health.
Since then the hospital have released a statement saying:
“This was a foolish prank call that we all deplore. We take patient confidentiality extremely seriously and we are now reviewing our telephone protocols.”


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Worms State Exhibition “Here I stand” marking the 500th anniversary of the Diet of Worms in 1521
Worms-Verlag, 2021, 128 S., 14 x 19.5 cm, 49 Abb., Softcover
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The state exhibition “Here I Stand: Conscience and Protest – 1521 to 2021” in Worms commemorates Martin Luther’s refusal to recant at the Imperial Diet in Worms on 18 April 1521. Similar historic scenes of protest, prompted by people’s freedom of conscience, are told by Anne Hutchinson (Massachusetts 1637), Olympe de Gouges (Paris 1791), Georg Büchner (Giessen 1834), Sophie Scholl (Munich 1943), Martin Luther King (Washington 1963) and Nelson Mandela (South Africa 1963).
Our historical reflections of morality also cover essential ethical stances of today’s society, and this companion contains a collection of selected articles and illustrations for further reflection. It concludes with an epilogue by the editor, Volker Gallé, in which he describes the voice of conscience as “fully aware, thoughtful, talkative, personal and situational”.

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Linkin Park is one of today’s most popular bands and they are filling the biggest stadiums of the world. Drummer Rob Bourdon, guitarist Brad Delson, DJ Joseph Hahn, singer Mike Shinoda and shouter Chester Bennington released their 6th studio album „The Hunting Party“ on June 13th 2014. After their incredible performances at “Rock am Ring” and “Rock im Park” in summer 2014, they returned to tour Europe in November 2014.
They played 16 shows in Europe between November 3rd and 24th, 9 of those in Germany. Special guest was the metal core band “Of Mice and Men” from California.
Linkin Park is the perfect symbiosis of performance and sound. They know how to walk the line between electro and rock, rough sequences and hypnotic samples. The No.1 album “The Hunting Party” was the centerpiece of the shows. In addition to the new songs, (more…)
Cro is one of the most successful rappers in Germany. His track “Easy” catapulted him directly into the charts in 2011 – and into the hearts of his fans. Cro was able to even top the incredible success of his debut album “Raop” with his second album “Melodie”. His music sounds like summer: easy, breezy and lighthearted, apparently his recipe for success.
The „Mello“ tour started in Switzerland on November 5th 2014, followed by shows in Austria and Germany. Support act in Germany was rapper DCVDNS. He already performed at the „Bundesvision Song Contest“ and wears glasses as a “mask”. Besides him, Cro had two more special guests: his label buddy Teesy and the young rapper Dajuan, who has also contributed to the new album.
The 90-minute show included (more…)
Event Rookie reports about Black Box Music at the Marteria Tour:
„All the equipment was supplied by Black Box Music and with the responsible for the technical service the decision was made to use equipment from Martin Professional.“
(Event Rookie “From the football field on the Stage” 4/2014 issue)
His new album „ Zurück in die Zukunft II“ („Back to the future II“) achieved very good sales figures from the beginning and so did his spring tour. He played 14 shows altogether in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. His performance changes from being a thoughtful verbal acrobat, an energetic singer or his pot-smoking alter ego „Marsimoto“. His concerts were sold out almost everywhere, also the last one in Berlin at the Max-Schmeling-Halle. His so far biggest concert as a solo artist lasted two hours and he performed songs from his new album as well as from the previous one. As special guests he had invited Campino and Miss Platnum.
On 18.11.2014, the tour will continue after the successful festival season. It starts in Bern and ends on 06.12.2014 in Nuremberg. Here are the latest tour dates:
18.11.2014 Bierhübeli in Bern (Switzerland) (more…)
The atmosphere at the open-air concerts at the IFA Summer Garden this year was fantastic. More than 25,000 visitors were enjoying the mixture of entertainment and emotions.
Part of the great atmosphere was caused by the location itself – the Summer Garden of Messe Berlin is considered to be Berlin’s most beautiful open-air area. It is only during the IFA that the so-called ,green lung’ of the Messe Berlin exhibition (more…)
Event Rookie reports about Black Box Music at the Sido Tour:
„The required equipment was delivered by Black Box Music from Berlin, where the team has already rehearsed in advance.“
(Event Rookie “Rapper cozying up” 4/2014 issue)
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FOH Online reports about Black Box Music at the Cher “Dressed to Kill” Tour:
„Keeping with the international theme, the sound company handling the North American tour is Black Box Music of Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1992 by managing director Thilo “Baby” Goos, Black Box Music (BBM has since grown into a large operation. The company complex includes full-on staging, lighting, sound and production services, with a 500-box L-Acoustics inventory and the ability to simultaneously support up to seven major tours.“
(FOH Online “Dressed to kill” June 2014 issue)
Lighting&Sound America reports about Black Box Music at the Cher “Dressed to Kill” Tour:
„For his PA, Bracey relies on L-Acoustics, provided by Black Box Music, of Berlin, Germany. He is generally a fan of L-Acoustics, but admits, “We considered other systems as well. We were very open-minded about what we were going to take.” Bracey used the L-Acoustics K1 box on the Pink tour; this time around, however, he had another option to consider: the brand-new K2 cabinet.“
(Lighting&Sound America “Cher gets dressed to kill” June 2014 issue)


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The NHS is the best thing this country has ever invented. Right now, Labour has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be the party that not only created it but restored it to glory after Tory neglect.
In 2014, the NHS was the most efficient healthcare system in the world. But after a decade of this government’s cuts and privatisation (and the worst pandemic in living memory), it’s on its knees.
Labour can give the British people the NHS that Clement Attlee and Nye Bevan created back in 1948, ready for the 21st century, rebuilt after all the suffering, clapping and unprecedented corruption. It can promise to take back our NHS as the service it was intended to be – there when you need it, working for patients not profit – instead of drifting towards American-style privatisation. That’s a straightforward story that will resonate with people.
Labour must reverse past moves towards privatisation
If Labour is willing to ‘turn the NHS on its head’, its TOP priority should be ending wasteful privatisation (PFI, outsourcing, private profiteering £££)
Undo the damaging 2012 and 2022 legislation
— Cat Hobbs (@CatHobbs) October 11, 2023
Wes Streeting’s speech at conference hinted at this level of ambition with its call to “rescue, rebuild and renew the health service today”, saying “there is nothing wrong with the NHS that can’t be cured by what’s right with the NHS” and talking about the Dickensian situation in dentistry – reminding people that this government is taking us backwards. And Rachel Reeves has committed to challenging the government’s corrupt crony contracts.
Labour’s National Policy Forum has rightly rejected a two-tier system and says the NHS must be so good people don’t have to go private. It says “the NHS is not for sale” under Labour.
But this statement isn’t meaningful or compelling unless Labour recognises and reverses the variety of ways that the current government (and previous ones) have indeed put the NHS up for sale. These include the internal market which costs around £4.5bn a year and PFI contracts that put a debt burden on NHS trusts of up to 13% of their income.
They include the 2012 legislation that opened up NHS contracts to the external market and removed the Secretary of State’s duty to provide care, leading to rationing of NHS services. And the 2022 Health and Care Act which carved up our NHS into chunks, introducing an even greater role for the private sector with ‘provider collaboratives’.
Along with, of course, the huge contracts given to profit-making companies throughout the pandemic, including private hospital contracts that failed to dent the waiting list and billions spent on privatised Test and Trace. The British public didn’t vote for any of this.
Ending cuts and privatisation is compatible with Labour’s health priorities
Privatisation actually kills. An Oxford University study links the increase in outsourcing since the Lansley 2012 legislation with 557 unnecessary deaths. The US spends double what we do on its privatised healthcare system, yet the mortality rate is higher.
The government is also using cuts to promote the role of the private sector in healthcare. The number of beds in NHS hospitals has halved in the past 30 years. Staff are on strike after years of real-terms pay cuts.
Starving the NHS of funds pushes people to go private. If they can afford to dig into hard-earned savings for a much-needed operation, they do. If not, they wait, suffer and sometimes die while waiting.
Streeting’s speech offered £1.1bn to help beat the backlog. But that’s a drop in the ocean. The UK needs to invest at the levels of other European countries. As the Health Foundation has shown, France spends the equivalent of £40bn a year more than the UK, Germany an extra £73bn annually.
It’s misleading to suggest that this country is ‘pouring money in’ while ignoring both the huge funding gap and the ways in which privatisation wastes the existing budget. Labour must tell the truth about this and hold the government to account.
Ending cuts and privatisation is compatible with the other points that Labour wants to make about healthcare, which are really truisms. Prevention is better than cure. Technology keeps evolving. We have an ageing population. Yes, of course.
Funding the NHS properly and reinstating it as a fully public service will lay the groundwork for dealing with these issues constructively. AI and data that benefits patients, quicker computers for GPs, staff to deliver long-term prevention policies and social care that works for patients not private equity.
We are urging Labour to reinstate the NHS as a fully public service
Our message on the NHS at Labour conference, featuring the excellent @AndrewMeyerson.
Ahead of the next general election, we call on Labour to commit to reinstating the NHS as a fully public service, with proper funding and staffing.
— We Own It (@We_OwnIt) October 11, 2023
Ed Dorrell wrote for LabourList last week that everybody knows that the NHS is in desperate need of investment, which reinforces this point. But he also says people don’t believe the NHS can improve and that everyone has a personal horror story. This doesn’t feel constructive. Many people like to moan, in general and about public services. So what? Labour can prove the naysayers wrong by increasing public satisfaction with the NHS, as it has done in the past.
Labour says NHS reform is inevitable – so that reform should end the privatisation that was never part of the founding vision, building on the legislation drafted by Professor Allyson Pollock.
Polling repeatedly shows that four out of five voters want our NHS in public ownership. Most people understand that privatisation distorts incentives, leading to unnecessary interventions, cherry-picking and waste, with the NHS picking up the pieces.
Only the NHS trains doctors and nurses. Only the NHS provides accident and emergency services. Only the NHS deals with all cases, however complex. Only the NHS can get us out of this mess.
That’s why We Own It stood outside Labour Party conference calling on Keir Starmer to reinstate the NHS as a fully public service. That’s why more than 10,000 of our supporters wrote directly to Starmer and Streeting, and we will continue to make this demand until and beyond the election.
Our grandchildren need us to take back the NHS, this country’s proudest achievement. Labour must not miss the opportunity.

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A 10 MW offshore turbine is in the works that addresses the growing demand for reliable and efficient offshore wind energy. Over its lifetime, each Britannia from Clipper Windpower is expected to displace the use of two-million barrels of oil and offset the need to dispel 724,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. It will initially deploy in European waters.
The 10 MW design is an evolution of Clipper’s 2.5 MW wind-turbine architecture introduced in 2003. The overall design concepts were introduced by Jim Dehlsen, a pioneer in the wind energy industry for more than 30 years, as well as an experienced wind engineering team that had been involved in the development of four generations of wind turbines –ranging in size from early 550 kW turbines up to the 1.5 MW models.
“We plan to achieve the same tower mass as current 5 MW machines, while using larger diameter blades to bring the cost-of-energy down for offshore operation,” said Amir Mikhail, PhD. Senior Vice President of Engineering at Clipper Windpower. “The design concept is to produce twice as much power for the same mass.” He explains that the project targets a lighter nacelle (the enclosed drive train and associated equipment at the top of the tower) which will also translate into lower balance-of-plant (BOP). Some aspects of the Clipper Liberty 2.5 MW machine are being scaled up to the Britannia, however a raft of additional innovations are being introduced to make this concept work in the real world.
The company spent many years working with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado to prove out the early stages of the 2.5 MW design. In fact, NREL’s National Wind Technology Center provided a grant to help develop and test the initial Liberty concept.
Modern gearboxes typically use two-stage planetary and one parallel-shaft stage with helical gears which are attached to a single generator. However, this necessitates massive gear casings that stretch the capabilities of traditional manufacturers, and places enormous loads on the bearings. Wind turbines have grown from an average of 700 kW to over 2 MW in the past decade, and some 5 MW models are currently in operation. As a result of this shift in orders of magnitude, the three-stage gearing concept suffers too many failures due to excessive loads. Clipper has spent many years refining a lightweight two-stage helical design using four permanent magnet (PM) generators instead of the usual single-wound rotor-induction generator. This was then validated during extensive testing at NREL which evolved into the company’s 2.5 MW turbine.
“The Liberty’s multiple-drive path design radically decreases individual gearbox component loads, which reduces gearbox size and weight,” said says Bob Thresher, director of NREL’s National Wind Technology Center. “The new generators significantly reduce component mass by eliminating much of the copper that would be required for windings in the rotor. The machine will also take advantage of advanced feedback controls to reduce load excursions in turbulent wind conditions and optimize pitch schedules to reduce drive train loads and improve energy capture.” Apart from reducing loads, this approach is aimed at boosting turbine uptime.
Also under development is a way to improve the variable-speed technology used in most modern wind turbines. Variable-speed designs maximize energy capture from the wind by continually adjusting the rotational speed of the blade to match prevailing wind conditions. The Clipper design harnesses the latest generation of transistors and switches to achieve full power conversion which is more suited to modern grid requirements such as low-voltage ride through and grid stabilization in a simpler way, about half the cost of full speed conversion. The company has been granted many patents in this area.
This all adds up to weight reduction. Many modern gearboxes in MW-scale wind turbines weight 50 to 70 tons. By comparison, Liberty’s gearbox weighs in at only 36 tons, including gearbox, brakes, and housing.
Some of these concepts are being carried over to the Britannia 10 MW model. It will use permanent magnet (PM) generators, and will incorporate an advanced gearbox system and control systems. But due to its scale, most components will have to be redesigned to accommodate much greater loads and operate well in a challenging marine environment.
“The 500 working Liberty machines have proven the variable speed concept, which can be migrated directly into the Britannia,” said Mikhail. “We also took the idea of dividing the load and carried it to a higher level.”
Four generators atop a 10 MW wind tower would require a more complex connection to the gearbox. So instead of four PM generators, the load will be separated into four outputs inside the drive train to make it more compact. Result: a single medium-speed generator with multiple windings. The medium speed makes it possible to use a two-stage gearbox rather than the 3-stages commonly used in the industry. As a general rule of thumb, with fewer stages, there are fewer reliability issues, and efficiency is higher.
A 30-year life span was another novel idea introduced to the market by the Liberty as opposed to the typical 20 years offered in the industry. The Britannia Project is also targeting a thirty-year span.
Similarly, the Liberty’s two preloaded, low-speed tapered-roller main bearings are being scaled up. These bearings help absorb the massive thrust loads and mitigate problematic axial motion as well as main shaft misalignment often associated with low-speed bearing failures.
A major effort has been made to reduce unscheduled maintenance costs for the proposed turbine. Doubly-fed induction generators, in contrast, require replacing brushes, while other U.S. concepts require rotating rectifiers and exciters which are generally placed in the rotor hub. So like the Liberty, there are no moving brushes, rotating rectifiers, or exciter parts in the generator’s rotor. The PM generator also eliminates the need for brushes on the shaft as there is no need to excite the rotor.
“The total weight of the Britannia’s nacelle is currently targeted at 500 tons, which is comparable to current machines which are half the capacity” said Mikhail. “Lower weight translates directly into lower costs for the machine and the balance of plant which ultimately translates into lower cost of energy.”
While what goes on atop the tower is of vital importance, the blades can make or break turbine performance. Mikhail explains that energy production is proportional to the square of the blade diameter, and loads increase with the cube of the swept area.
Over the years, then, OEMs have made their nacelles larger as more features were added to mitigate loads. This trend can not continue indefinitely and so Clipper has opted for a two pronged approach: reduce the weight of the machine and lengthen the blades to capture more energy while introducing innovation into blade design to lessen their loads.
While most turbine rotors today have less than 100-m diameters (the largest currently has a 126-m diameter), the Britannia Project targets a 150-m rotor diameter. Carbon fiber will be used to reduce weight and boost energy production. This is being accomplished with a proprietary airfoil design that makes the blade as light as possible and a novel structural layout.
“Carbon fiber is expensive so we are making judicious use of it, particularly to change the geometry of the spar and to maintain the stiffness requirements of the skin in certain areas,” said Mikhail. “These brand new blades will each weight 30 tons and be 72 meters long.”
He adds that they were designed to have a higher tip speed which means they will have to deal with a high Reynolds number. This represents a type of flow to which these proprietary airfoils are suited. These flat-back airfoils allow for more structural rigidity with minimal performance loss.
The company expects major energy capture gains. Clipper verified the perform-ance using a model of the intended blade in the DLR Wind Tunnel in Braunschweig, Germany.
To execute this project, Clipper has established a Centre of Excellence for Offshore Wind in Blyth in the northeast of the UK in conjunction with the Blyth-based New and Renewable Energy Centre (NaREC). NaREC is one of five centers of excellence set up by the North East regional development agency, One NorthEast. It includes a range of research, testing, and development facilities for verifying components before they are assembled on the prototype wind turbine.
NaREC is providing a full-scale test support package for engineering and a drivetrain test laboratory, including blade testing facilities. OneNorthEast funding has already established a blade test stand. This will be expanded to cope with the 72-m long blades. Further test stands will be erected in the near future for gearbox and generator testing.
Engineering for the project is being directed by Clipper’s Advanced Technology Group in California while the company operations in Blyth will handle the Balance of Station which includes foundation, assembly, and erection. Funding provided by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) also will support the development of Clipper’s turbine supply chain and related manufacturing facilities. This has already been set in motion. For example, following successful modeling in Germany and subsequent blade plug development, Clipper signed a lease agreement with the Shepherd plant in the Northeast of England to produce the blades, starting with those intended for the prototype. This new 4,000-m2 facility recently broke ground near Newcastle.
The first machine will be based near shore for easier testing. “The Britannia prototype will run at 7.5 MW on land,” said Mikhail. “However, we will ramp it up to 10 MW for testing to ensure it is operating as planned.” While everything will essentially be the same as the intended offshore model, the tip speed will be limited occasionally to keep noise levels down.
Before it is erected, however, the timeline calls for the NaREC gear box testing facility to be ready by the middle of 2011 to allow testing of that system. Mikhail says he intends to conduct thorough and realistic tests of the drive train before moving forward with prototype construction. The plan is to test key components before putting up the turbine in the Blyth area, currently targeted for the second quarter of 2012.
That model will have to include a host of redundancy and marine-worthy features to ensure it can cope with the tough demands of
the North Sea. Mikhail said the this includes multiple features to increase reliability and cut down on required maintenance for the simple reason that an offshore turbine can be hard to reach due to weather and sea conditions. Accordingly, it includes four different lines of power output (each 2.5 MW), fully redundant sensors, and other key parts. So even if one part of the turbine does go offline, it can continue to operate at 7.5 MW until repairs are safely carried out.
The nacelle will be fully enclosed to keep the air inside free from salt and humidity. In addition, a dehumidifier will maintain air quality. These features have been extended to include areas of the tower that house equipment. WPE
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Monday, November 8, 2010
We are counting down the days until the next edition of EXTRA LARGE with music from myself and my special guest DJ BK-One! Most of you know BK from his decade-long stint DJing for Brother Ali. Some of you might have picked up his fantastic "Radio do Canibal" record. It's not every day that BK gets behind the turntables to rock a party like this, so you will not want to miss out on catching him spinning this Friday night!
To help get everyone in the mood to dance, I asked BK to contribute a few of his favorite new and classic cuts from his music collection to share. I asked for five - he gave me seven! Read on and download seven bangers spanning the global and musical map.
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OK, BK-One, take it away!
1) Darwin Jones Untitled
An unreleased disco/boogie bomb from Darwin Jones and his Tulsa buddies. After doing a bunch of session work out in California, Jones was given free reign to noodle around in Sly Stone's home studio. This is the result.
2) Débruit 149 Dalston Airline
Debruit's squiggly keys and choppy vocals are easily my favorite discovery of 2010. The Paris-based producer makes amazingly catchy, but bizarre tracks that sound familiar and exotic at the same time.
3) Luiz Carlos Vinhas Yê-Melê
The pianist from Bossa Tres goes for dolo. Someone should use those opening vocals. Come to think of it, there's a King Crimson sample that might sound good with them.
4) The Shangri-Las Bull Dog
Since I stopped DJing for Ali, I've been working on making my DJ sets more diverse, trying to reflect more and more of the sounds that you might hear playing around my house. I've had an especially good time throwing in oldies (doo-wop, girl groups, original rock & roll, etc...) alongside all the hip hop, funk, and tropical records that I've been playing for years. The Shangri-Las are one of my favorite girl groups. Those hand claps, along with the slightly distorted vocal harmonies and a dope harmonica solo, make this a no-brainer.
5) Ned Doheny Get It Up For Love
Can't go wrong with some blue-eyed soul in the mix. This album has an absurdly cheesy cover and homie's name is Ned, but this is undeniably smooth. Co-written by Hammish Stuart (Average White Band).
6) The White Shadow Funk Strut
A four minute Troutman-on-meth funk freakout that was inspired by Batman/Jack Nicholson? Yes please!!! The White Shadow is an old school DJ from Norway that was down with BDP and named himself after the late-70's CBS show about a Bulls player turned South Central teacher. Do I really need to say more?
7) Los Silvertons La Moto
Earlier this year, I had two back-to-back DJ nights in Arizona. The shows couldn't have been more different from each other (one was a club night full of drunk downtown kids in Tucson, the other was at a dusty saloon full of black cowboys and cross-dressing art kids out in the middle of the desert), but the two crowds shared an attitude that led to some of the most fun I've ever had DJing. They were excited to dance, and open to hearing anything I had for them. By the end of each night, I was pulling stuff like this Peruvian garage rock record out just to see what they would do...and they never disappointed. Wouldn't have ever guessed it, but Arizona set the new standard by which my DJ gigs are judged. Excited to see Minneapolis rise to the challenge this Friday!
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The Toronto flood of July 8, 2013
We remember life’s events by seasons, where we were, how we felt, fragrance, what was playing on the radio or other sensory parallels. Our kids will forever remember the Toronto flood of July 8, 2013 as a catastrophic event that happened just as they began their “summer vacation” from school. The rain pounded Toronto for only a few hours but left a near 97mm of water to ravage the homes of Toronto residents. It was the worst flash flood from massive rains since 1954’s Hurricane Hazel, an event that was retold for decades by those that experienced it.
Over a year has passed since July 2013 when Toronto homes were awash by nearly 97mm of rain, yet many residents still struggle with what the storm left behind. Although an exact number has yet to be tallied, experts surmise that the insured losses from this storm could well exceed $600-million. If these predictions are accurate, this storm stands a contender against southwestern Ontario’s devastating disaster in 2005, which was the third most expensive event of the last 20 years. Due to the fact the heavy rainfall buried cars, flooded basements, and damaged city infrastructure, a variety of insurance premiums are being claimed, costing the financial institutions and the residents of Toronto a fortune in repairs.
The summer of 2014 has brought with it more heavy rains and with each storm everyone wonders whether we will have a repeat of last year’s catastrophe. The insurance Bureau of Canada has said that it’s not a matter of “if” but rather “when” that is the question. ISBC spokesperson, Steve Kee explained in a Canada AM interview. Here is some information to help you prepare for that possibility.
Toronto Basement Flooding Protection Subsidiary Program
In this time of need, the City of Toronto promotes their Basement Flooding Protection Subsidiary Program. Through this program, the City extends up to $3,200 in financial subsidiary to single-family, duplex, and triplex homes. With this money, home owners are able to install a variety of flood protection devices, including:
- Backwater Value — Up to 80% of the cost on a maximum of $1,250
- Sump Pump — 80% of the cost up to a maximum of $1,750
- Pipe Severance and Capping — 80% of the cost up to a maximum of $400
Eligible homes will also have the opportunity to combine the tools listed above, adjusting the maximum cost and subsidiary percentage accordingly. All maximum costs include labour, materials, as well as taxes. For more information on eligibility and application, please visit the Basement Flooding Protection Subsidiary Program website.
Protect Your Toronto Home
On the City of Toronto’s website, they have posted a very educational video on flood protection. Due to a recent increase of severe weather conditions, residents are urged to watch this video and implement some of its tips:
- Isolate your home from the City’s sewer system to reduce chances of basement flooding
- Slope ground away from your home
- Fix leaky pipes, windows, and basements
- Clear eaves of debris
- Ensure downspout drain is at least 18-metres from your home
Canada AM Link
Steve Kee of the Insurance Bureau of Canada explains what homeowners need to know in the thick of storm season and how they can prepare.
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Stopping by to show support and wish success on your musical journey.
Before even reading your about/bio section, I instantly picked up on the Santana influence. Very cool:) Awesome tracks!
Dale- tronic. Cool surfer music sound, nice minor key action!
Enjoyed listening, keep on groovin!!!
Greetings from Bavaria. Best wishes :)
love your sound...great guitar playing...you are definitely OTVOG (on the verge of greatness...best wishes for success from King Coral in Seattle
"Rainy" incredible wawa guitar sings, rhythmical groove and tasteful work Mike. LA best wishes.
Hey cool rockin' stuff, thx for the connection
Mike, what a musical night cap!!! You groove bro. I appreciate the fanship too!
Thanks for the support Mike! Spent some time in Hawaii and enjoyed surfin your Dick Dale jam! Well done!
Thanks so much for your support.
I wish you all the best in all of your musical endeavors!
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Wade has missed 19 games this season, mostly by design. Team officials wanted him to rest his sore knees so he could kick things into high gear for the playoffs. But Monday’s absence was not part of the plan. After the team initially said the All-Star guard hurt his ankle. The Heat are now calling it a strained left Achilles tendon.
Wade scored a season-high 32 points in Miami’s win over the Pacers on Dec. 18 and is averaging 19.3 points.
Wade practiced Tuesday and participated in Wednesday morning’s shootaround, then sat on the bleachers with ice wrapped around both of his problematic knees.
“It’s something I can play with. I took a few days off to rest it and I’m ready to go tonight,” Wade said.
“It will probably be by committee. Everybody’s ready to go, there’s no excuses and we have more than enough to get the job done,” Spoelstra said.
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The Pacers won the first meeting 90-84 in Indianapolis on Dec. 10. Eight days later, the Heat rallied late for a 97-94 home victory. The teams will meet one more time, April 11 at Miami, before attention turns to what many expect to be a rematch in the Eastern Conference finals.
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House Judiciary Committee to Vote on Mueller Report Subpoenas
The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to vote on subpoenas this week seeking release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s full Russia report.
House Democrats have set an April 2 deadline for receiving a copy of the full Mueller report, but so far Attorney General William Barr has only agreed to turn the 300-page document over sometime in “mid-April, if not sooner.”
The “deadline still stands,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said in a statement posted to Twitter.
If the Democrats don’t receive the document Tuesday, a vote on the subpoenas will be held when the Judiciary committee meets Wednesday, Nadler said Monday morning.
Barr has said he needs time to review the report to redact any grand jury testimony; information that could compromise intelligence “sources and methods”; material that could affect ongoing Justice Department investigations; and information that might “infringe on the personal privacy” or reputation of “peripheral third parties.”
But many Democrats have expressed skepticism about that process.
“We have a new species of political dinosaur. It’s called the ‘Barr-Redactyl,'” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
“William Barr believes that he can take his time and redact the 300- or 400-page report from Bob Mueller,” Durbin continued. “I think it’s long overdue for him to apply to Court to get a waiver when it comes to grand jury information and then to produce this report in its entirety for the Congress.”
Barr sent lawmakers a four-page letter on March 24 that said Mueller had completed his investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia.
The letter said Mueller’s team of investigators did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.
It also said Mueller had chosen not to reach a determination about whether Trump had obstructed justice, but Barr concluded that the special counsel’s evidence “was not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction of justice offense.”
Trump and his allies have since claimed the Mueller report “fully exonerates” the president of wrongdoing.
In an op-ed published in the New York Times on Monday, Nadler said, “[w]e have an obligation to read the full report, and the Department of Justice has an obligation to provide it, in its entirety, without delay.
“If the department is unwilling to produce the full report voluntarily, then we will do everything in our power to secure it for ourselves,” Nadler continued. “We require the report, first, because Congress, not the attorney general, has a duty under the Constitution to determine whether wrongdoing has occurred. The special counsel declined to make a ‘traditional prosecutorial judgment’ on the question of obstruction, but it is not the attorney general’s job to step in and substitute his judgment for the special counsel’s.”
Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said on Twitter Friday that “[w]hile I join Chairman Nadler in looking forward to reviewing the classified information in the report at a future date, he stands alone in setting arbitrary deadlines for that release and in calling the attorney general to break the law by releasing the report without redactions.”
The judiciary committee vote would not automatically issue subpoenas but authorize House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler to send them.
The panel will also vote to authorize subpoenas related to a number of President Donald Trump’s one-time aides, including former senior adviser Steve Bannon; former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks; former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus; former White House Counsel Don McGahn; and McGahn’s former deputy, Ann Donaldson.
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