Beautifully set-up, beautifully written, flawlessly performed. A lovely new single from an artist who rightfully shows no signs of slowing down.
Adopting a brilliantly colourful and energetic, punk-pop performance style and set up, Life As Mary’s latest release is easily one of their most attention grabbing and memorable to date – an impressive achievement, considering how catchy and likable all of their releases have been so far. Time Is Out offers up an addictively enthusiastic fusion … Continued
Since 2006, Fynbo has released five original albums, an achievement that this latest project speaks volumes on behalf of. That level of skill, knowledge and authenticity can’t be faked, and generally takes a lot of dedication to reach.
Another absolute beast of a single, from the UK’s own King Casual – Get Up / Get Down really is as uplifting and energizing as the title implies.
Complete with stunning flickers of guitar work, thoughtful lyrics, and just enough vocal personality to add further to that inherent sound and style that is quickly becoming known as BEINIR – Drowning In Melody is, for lack of a better term in the heat of the moment, an absolute tune.
The band set things up with style, progressing with endless levels of flair & ability. Their unity is on form, the music is ready & waiting to be that addictive little anthem that gets you geared up to take on the world with the best possible energy.
The songwriting is something else, this album presents hit after hit, and always beautifully performed. Whether the moment is high energy, set to get you dancing, or mellow and reflective of personal, intimate issues, Jo Potter’s voice is striking; perfectly expressive and naturally connected to the stories at hand.
Emerging with something of a classic driving rock ballad vibe, Flame is a quickly addictive and familiar piece of music and writing, though with a notably poetic back-bone that lays out a series of detailed images and scenes that perfectly suit the emotion and energy of the music.
Fusing a beautifully warm and nostalgic rock soundscape, mildly Oasis-like in progression but with an Americana twang and a punk-pop vocal arrangement, Kings Of The Earth are quick to impress with this single.


In a previous series of posts, I described a number of loads for open cars, starting with gondolas, including loads of pipe (you can read it at: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2012/01/open-car-loads-pipe-in-gondolas.html ), and I also described how I build loads of bulk materials (see: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2012/02/open-car-loads-bulk-materials.html ), and even a little bit about lumber loads in gondolas (at: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2012/03/open-car-loads-lumber-in-gondolas.html ). There are others as well, which you can find by searching on a term such as “open car loads” in the search box at upper right of this page. But loads for flat cars have been only lightly treated, just touching on crate loads (see: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2012/03/open-car-loads-crates-and-machinery.html ), though lumber is perhaps the quintessential flat car load.
Owl Mountain Models has just released a really excellent new kit for flat car lumber loads, kit no. 3001. These kinds of loads, if built board by board, are really a lot of work, as well as consuming quite an impressive amount of stripwood (ask me how I know). After doing that job once, I pretty much decided that once was enough. Now this Owl Mountain kit immensely simplifies the task. You can see some pictures of the kit and a completed model at their website, http://www.owlmtmodels.com/lumber/3001.html , but I will show the basics here also.
Here is the package you get with kit no. 3001, which is priced at $24.95. The poly bag alone is 5 x 13 inches. It contains four sprues of board panels (about which, more in a moment), a sprue of bracing and dunnage boards, and excellent, detailed directions.
The back of the kit label shows in a nutshell how this material is assembled to make lumber stacks. (The direction sheet is much more detailed.)
When you open the bag, you can see all the panels, eight to a sprue; each panel is eleven boards wide and two deep, making 22 boards per panel. If you were to stack all eight panels from one sprue together into one lumber stack, that’s 176 boards, which I leave to your imagination to consider doing one board at a time. Then multiply that by all four sprues (four stacks) to see what this kit really gives you.
The individual boards are dimensioned to represent 3 x 10-inch boards. And by the way, if you would like even more sprues to make bigger stacks, Owl Mountain has an add-on kit no. 3012 with more of them.
When you look at these panels, you immediately realize that this is, in a sense, an implementation in styrene of Paul Chandler’s lumber load method, which used individual panels of real wood. That method was written up in the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society magazine Trainline, issue 112 (Summer 2012 ), page 41. You can still buy that issue from the Society’s web site at http://www.sphtsstore.org/servlet/the-Trainline-back-issues/s/105/Categories .
To start on the Owl Mountain kit, I used a conventional sprue nipper to separate the panels. This is the only part of the job really requiring any clean-up, as the cutting scars can’t be avoided even with the sharpest of nippers (I found the corner of an X-acto chisel blade very helpful cleaning scars).
Once the panels were all cleaned up, I took the advice in the directions, and gently applied medium sandpaper to the tops and edges of all panels, so they wouldn’t have the shiny plastic surface. The directions also discuss weathering of the panels, though freshly cut and dried wood would not accumulate much weathering in its journey to market, nor even in the drying yard unless on the outside of a stack. I may weather some future stacks, but decided not to do more to the present panels than vary individual boards with Prismacolor artist’s pencils.
Assembly of the stacks goes quickly with any styrene cement. I often use Testors, or Plastruct’s Plastic Weld (more powerful), and found both worked well on this job. Remember that rather than one really tall stack, the loaders usually divided the load into two parts, with the same separator boards in the middle as underneath the load. The kit provides exactly this. Here is a pair of stacks, with separators. The slight color variation from the artist’s color pencils is visible.
You can see that I chose the option of making one end of the stack much more irregular than the other, something often seen in photographs of lumber on flat cars.
By the way, a full set of stacks, using all the panels in the four sprues, along with dunnage, weighs about 2.25 ounces, so you should not add weight to these loads.
The assembly continues with stakes, cross-ties, and longitudinal ties. One slick idea in the directions: on a flat car such as the SP F-70-7 or F-70-10, with deck notched at the stake pockets. setting the stakes a little low allows them to fit right into that notch (though oversize for the pocket itself), thus aligning the load. Here is a photo supplied by Owl Mountain, of a weathered load on a Class F-70-7 car:
I think this kit is a terrific addition to the modeler’s arsenal of ways to make loads, and several aspects of its design represent clever thinking. I will review it in my upcoming column in Trainline, so the SP Society membership can learn about it. I think the kit is a bargain at the price, and cannot recommend it highly enough.


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Day two in London, we had a pretty good idea of what our itinerary would look like. First call was the Thames River cruise we had booked as part of our three days on Big Buses in London. We jumped on the closest stop to King’s Cross, where our hotel was, and enjoyed the sights of London – such juxtaposition of ancient and new architecture.
Amazing St Pauls Cathedral is quite a dominant structure but we also kept catching glimpses of The Shard – often viewed alongside centuries old structures.
Our Thames Cruise took us from the Tower of London to Greenwich and back. Along the way, we learned how the banks had been transformed over the centuries, from slums and warehouses, to million dollar apartments and tourist attractions.
As we arrived in Greenwich, a charming town, we spied The Cutty Sark, a magnificent sailing vessel, built in 1869. I didn’t get the chance to explore it but really regret this. It would have enabled me to get an idea of life aboard ship- for future novels.
We headed on up the hill to the observatory, residence of nobles and site of the Octagon Room, used for viewing the heavens. Also here, if course, is the Zero Longitude line. On the way back to port, we enjoyed a closeup view of the bridges, including Tower Bridge.
My favourite part of London came next- The Tower of London, a massive structure – prison, home of the Crown Jewels and garrison. It’s history spans 1000 years! Once home to exotic animals (gifts to the monarchs from other countries) , now only humans and ravens live there. The ravens were very large birds where I had imagined they were the size of a crow.
Beefeaters are part of the pomp and ceremony. Unfortunately, we weren’t allowed to take photos of any of the crown jewels including the Coronation Crown.
The White Tower sits at the centre of the complex and houses the armoury. It was built by William the Conqueror during the early 1080’s. It provided accommodation for the king and his representatives as well as housing a beautiful chapel.
The wall itself houses many families and in olden times, the wall towers were the home of royalty. Below is King Edward’s chamber. The Ancient fortress now overlooks modern high-rises.
Amongst the greens are remnants of the original fortifications constructed by Henry VIII.
I had to leave too soon and would recommend setting aside a whole day for this marvellous place if you can.
Next time, we finish up day two in London with Buckingham palace and plan our last day in this marvellous city of contrasts!
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|Russian diamond manufacturer Kristall Smolensk is selling a replica of the Great Imperial Crown for $15.5 million.|
The crown, which weighs 2.3 kilograms, comprises more than 11,000 round, oval and pear-shaped white diamonds, weighing 1,928 carats and set in white gold. The stones were sourced from Russian miner Alrosa, certified by the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), and cut and polished by Kristall. The piece also includes a pear-shaped, 384.71-carat, purple tourmaline and 74 round, white pearls. Since its debut nine years ago, the crown has been on display in various Russian cities, including the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg and the State Historical Museum in Moscow.

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South Tangerang Police arrested a man for allegedly deceiving the parents of a student who wanted to attend medical school at one of the state-owned universities in Jakarta.
S, 40, allegedly told the parents that he could help the student enter the medical school in exchange for Rp 150 million (US$10,774).
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“Police arrested the suspect in Bogor on Friday,” said Alexander as quoted by tempo.co.
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“According to the suspect, he did it to pay off debt and finance his second marriage,” said Alexander.
The suspect will be charged under articles 372 and 378 of the Criminal Code on embezzlement and fraud. (iwa)

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Actor Rhea Chakraborty, who has been quite active on Instagram lately after the death of boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput last year, requested fans to spend more time in the real world. Recently she took to her Instagram story and talked about mindless social media scrolling.
Rhea is slowly getting over the trauma and social media attacks she faced after the death of Sushant. She is finally getting back on Instagram after almost spending a month in Mumbai's Byculla jail.
On Tuesday night, she shared an enlightening post that read, "Mindless scrolling on social media causes disengagement in real life, disengagement in real life makes it seem dull and boring. Live your life, your life is not here. It’s all around you. Love – RC (sic)."
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On the work front, Rhea was recently seen in Chehre that released in cinemas on August 27. The film also stars Amitabh Bachchan and Emraan Hashmi in lead roles.
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If you search for “shredding” on Google, two definitions will appear at the top of your screen: 1. To tear or cut into shreds. 2. To play a very fast intricate style of rock lead guitar.
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Darrell Braun recently presented a video where he demonstrated 10 of his hardest-to-play chord voicings, all of which stretch over four or five frets.
In the late Seventies and early Eighties, if there was one name from the jazz guitar world that rock and metal listeners were likely to know, it was Al Di Meola.
Mixing small chords into your blues licks is a great way to give your soloing a more polished sound.
Undoubtedly, you’ve walked into your local guitar store to check out some axes, pulled a guitar off the wall, plugged it in and began wailing with a selection of your favorite riffs.
How would you like to be able to visual triads in their root position and first and second inversions on the guitar neck?
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In modern music, 440Hz has been established as the tuning standard. The pitch is that of A above middle C, and it provides a measure by which musicians can ensure their instruments will be in tune...
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The minor scale is the most commonly used scale in metal. This month, I’d like to detail the most prevalent minor scales in metal: natural minor (also known as the Aeolian mode), the Dorian mode,...
Born from the boogie-woogie sounds of jazz piano in the very early 20th century, the swinging shuffle groove is built from an insistent and repetitive forward-leaning rhythm that is generally...
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Set in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range
There are plenty of local attractions and historical sites to visit while you stay at Tatong Tavern. Nestled at the foot of the Great Dividing Range, you can explore Wall to Wall street art in Benalla, follow the North East Victoria Silo Art Trail or visit local wineries, Ned Kelly Country, and Mount Samaria State Park. Tatong Tavern boasts its own local rich history which is sure to grab your attention.
Check out some of the main attractions close to Tatong Tavern below!
Ned Kelly was hanged a murderer in Melbourne on the 11th of November 1880. He was 25 years old. He was a man with a strong sense of family, misunderstood by many, a larrikin and underdog, bushranger and rebel making his way in a country borne out of brutal, harsh convict settlement. What is astonishing is that when Ned was sentenced to hang 30,000 people signed a petition asking for a reprieve, sadly for Ned, he never was.
Tatong Angling Group
The Tatong Angling Group (TAG) was formed in 1993 after major floods had struck the Region. The group was set up when a number of local anglers came together, in response to their shared concerns with regard to the health and condition of these important local streams, and how they saw them being managed. With their interest in the future of the local catchment TAG saw the opportunity to become actively involved in the participation in stream management.
Wall To Wall
Established in 2015, Wall to Wall Festival provides the regional township of Benalla in north-east Victoria, and its visitors, the chance to see the latest street art offering, painted live during a weekend. The end result providing an ever-changing artistic landscape.
During the annual paint, visitors of all ages also enjoy a program of creative experiences including a feature exhibition at the Benalla Art Gallery, emerging artist programs, artist talks, workshops, interactive activities, bus or walking tours, film, immersive VR experiences, music events and more.
Mount Samaria State Park
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There are a range of camping and picnic areas, walking tracks and lookouts provide the visitor with many opportunities to experience this semi-remote park. During the spring and early summer the forest is alive with brilliant displays of wildflowers. Year-round, it provides a haven for an array of birds and wildlife and is ideal for nature observation and photography. The high altitude of the park provides spectacular views from Mount Samaria Summit, Rocky Point Lookout and Wild Dog Falls. Historic remains at Samaria Well, Spring Creek Sawmill, the timber tramway and braking station reflect past practices.
Wine & High Country
Enjoy the taste of Victoria’s wineries, home to no less than six wine growing regions. The families of Morris, Buller, Campbell and Chambers put this area on the map for their famous Muscats and Tokays.
Local wine tours take in some of the areas finest wineries, such as Baileys, Brown Brothers, Booths, Morrisons of Glenrowan and Auldstone Cellars. Long or short tours available or even custom tours to suit your own intinerary can be found by visiting the Tourist Information Centre in Mair Street, Benalla.
Victorian Silo Art
The Australian Silo Art movement all began in Northam Western Australia in 2015.


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SUDBURY REJECTS BID BY PARK-OHIO INDUSTRIES
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Sudbury Inc. said yesterday that its board had rejected an unsolicited offer of $170 million by Park-Ohio Industries for the company, calling the bid inadequate. Sudbury, a maker of industrial machine parts, reiterated that it intended to maximize stockholder value. The company said it would continue to pursue talks with potential bidders but added it had not decided that a takeover would be in the best interests of its stockholders. Last week, Park-Ohio proposed a cash merger valued at $11 a share. Shares of Sudbury slipped 12.5 cents a share, to $12.625, and Park-Ohio rose 37.5 cents a share, to $15.

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After being down a stunning 80 points today, the S&P futures are down another 28 overnight, or more than 100 in 24 hours.
Global confidence has been effectively shattered. The outright lies of governments worldwide - that there was no need to de-lever, there was no need to take insolvent banks into receivership, we could spend more and more on "stimulus" programs along with social spending and that demand represented by deficit spending was all sustainable GDP - all is being exposed as an utter load of crap and the "valuations" these lies have supported are being systematically shredded.
There is no floor as things sit right now. From a volumetric perspective we have broken key levels with the next serious support in the 900s on the S&P 500.
Price is now back to levels last seen in the early part of 2009 and if the market does not hold up there we are headed for the 666 lows and below.
This evening we are losing about ten points per hour in the overnight session, implying that we will lock-limit down at -50 on the S&P 500 before midnight!
The arrogance of our government - at all levels - has finally reached the point where the markets give the finger to it all. What's worse is that it's not just us - it's also Europe, where the willful and intentional refusal to deal with the peripheral nations' problems have turned into a monstrous mess.
To put this in the proper perspective over the last ten trading days we have gone from 1328 on the S&P to 1081, a loss of nearly 19%!
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Characters: Faramir, Elboron
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As the World Spins, So Do We
Faramir looks into the untouched whiteness and rubs his tired eyes.
She sleeps...curled up like a fern-frond...born early...at the winter-solstice...when even the light is delicate.
Elboron stands beside him in silence, seemingly contemplating the white puffs of his breath. Faramir looks down and feels a jolt of defiance. This sombre mood is not what she needs.
He lifts his son up and spins him around in rapid sideways motion into the snow-covered field. When he looks back he sees wild circular tracery, filling with shadow as the light fades...on the shortest day.
As the light grows stronger, so will she.

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5.Broken drive belt.Of course, the most common reason the dryer starts okay, but the drum wont turn is always a problem with the drive belt.To verify that the drive belt issue, just try turning the drum by hand, the belt ought to provide some resistance, but if the drum rotates easily, then the belt is not in good working condition.
Broken drive belt.The drive belt works hard for your dryer, suspended between two pulleys as it actually spins the drum with the motor.Given the weight and motion on the drive belt, it can fray, tear or break with time or overly heavy loads.When this happens, youll notice your whirlpool duet dryer not spinning.To test the drive belt, try.
Belt.When the dryers belt is worn or broken it wont be able to turn the drum.Youll need to replace the belt to get your dryer working again.Be sure you purchase the correct belt for your model.Then place the belt on the drum where to old belt had been and wind it.
Dryers use a belt connected to a motor to turn the drum.Overtime the belt can wear out or become brittle.If the dryer isnt tumbling then inspect the belt to see if it is worn or broken.The belt should be flexible and have lots of grip on both sides.You will need to disconnect the power and remove the front panel to replace the belt.
The belt may not be broken but off the idler pulley.Resubmit another question with a model number if you wish to check and repair this problem yourself.With the model number i can give you instructions on accessing and checking this problem and how to replace the belt if necessary.
Let the dryer cool down, lifted the top and the belt is still on and tight.Took the front off and checked the motor and idler pulley.All looks good.I can hear the motor spinning, but the drum wont turn.I give the drum a push and it starts spinning and continues to spin.It seems like the pulley on the motor just isnt grabbing the belt to.
Dryer gets hot but, wont spin.No humming sound from the motor and the belt is good.Used to dry a load and immediately put in another load and it will not spin.
Timer would countdown when you pressed start but the motor wouldnt start turning the drum.Watched appliance parts pros videos amongst others on youtube to determine the issue and found it had a broken belt.66 broken drum belt on my samsung dryer.I ordered the belt with 2 day shipping.The belt came in the mail and within 30 minutes i had a.
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London, New York, Paris, Milan. No need to name any more cities here – you know we’re talking fashion. Although Buenos Aires might not be the most obvious design capital in the world, it racks up loads of points for originality and style, and Palermo is the BA fashion Mecca for boutiques, market stalls, second-hand stores and street vendors flogging their creative wares. So it is of little surprise that Buenos Aires also holds its own catwalk extravaganza, fondly known as BAF Week…
You will have heard Gustavo Santaolalla’s music. He may not be a household name everywhere, but his prodigious talent – some have argued genius – has been one of Argentina’s greatest musical exports. Where to begin? Well, there was an Oscar for Ang Lee’s gay cowboy epic Brokeback Mountain soundtrack. Oh, and there was another one the following year for…
Nothing quite prepares you for Gaby Kerpel. In his benchmark album, Carnabailito, he took the sounds, mood and, most importantly, the vibe (or onda as they would say in Argentina) of this stunning part of the country and mixed it, mashed it, messed it until it was, if not quite unrecognisable, then certainly genre defying.
Argentina has long seduced international directors with its lower production costs and scenery. Seems this country at the end of the world was always destined to sparkle as a star of the silver screen.
Lionel Messi is universally admired wherever in the world football is watched – except in his native Argentina. It would be a gross oversimplification to say that Messi is unloved in Argentina. But he is certainly subject to more denigration and skepticism in his homeland than anywhere else in the world. Read on to find out about the main criticisms leveled against him and how much truths lies behind them.
Electronica has always found a home in Buenos Aires. It has also provided Argentina with some of its biggest breakout acts – most notably the Gotan Project and Gustavo Sanatolla’s project Bajofondo Tango Club. Then, in the post-superclub space came The Manta Raya. And since their genesis in 2000, with the current bands making the same sort of New Rave noises (M83, Foals, Hot Chip et al), they have found their groove again and are partying as hard ever. Read on to find out all about this anarchic Argentinian electronica outfit.
By design, there is little monotony in the life of a freelance foreign correspondent – and that’s what keeps me sane. Moreover, I get to witness events and visit places that most others do not. It’s a great gig, and Argentina is an excellent place to be in business.
Don’t let the following words put you off: Juana Molina is an actress turned musician. Yet her ambient bedroom mixes remain warm sounding, luscious even, and ruefully manage to skip over the ‘that’s interesting’ which experimental music often elicits, to be gorgeous cross over music, soundtracking dinner parties in Buenos Aires and across the world.
For an interesting change from Buenos Aires’ main museums and impressive art galleries, let’s get boho-pretentious in a city that is all about the arty parties.


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Blood vessel wall damage often results in the formation of a fibrin clot that traps inflammatory cells, including monocytes. The effect of clot formation and subsequent lysis on the expression of monocyte-derived genes involved in the development and progression of ischemic stroke and other vascular diseases, however, is unknown. Determine whether clot formation and lysis regulates the expression of human monocyte-derived genes that modulate vascular diseases.We performed next-generation RNA sequencing on monocytes extracted from whole blood clots and using a purified plasma clot system. Numerous mRNAs were differentially expressed by monocytes embedded in clots compared with unclotted controls, and IL-8 (interleukin 8) and MCP-1 (monocyte chemoattractant protein-1) were among the upregulated transcripts in both models. Clotted plasma also increased expression of IL-8 and MCP-1, which far exceeded responses observed in lipopolysaccharide-stimulated monocytes. Upregulation of IL-8 and MCP-1 occurred in a thrombin-independent but fibrin-dependent manner. Fibrinolysis initiated shortly after plasma clot formation (ie, 1–2 hours) reduced the synthesis of IL-8 and MCP-1, whereas delayed fibrinolysis was far less effective. Consistent with these in vitro models, monocytes embedded in unresolved thrombi from patients undergoing thrombectomy stained positively for IL-8 and MCP-1.These findings demonstrate that clots are potent inducers of monocyte gene expression and that timely fibrinolysis attenuates inflammatory responses, specifically IL-8 and MCP-1. Dampening of inflammatory gene expression by timely clot lysis may contribute to the clinically proven efficacy of fibrinolytic drug treatment within hours of stroke onset.

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Watching Cable TV in Monroe
There are so many reasons to get cable TV in Monroe, GA. Digital cable is easy to connect to all of your TVs, which is great because 1/3 of all Americans, or 4,521 in Monroe, have 4 or more televisions. Thanks in part to cable technology, DVR use has grown nearly 4% since 2006, and now 7% of America's total TV viewing is time-shifted content. Cable also provides high-speed Internet. In fact, 72% of Americans bundle their Internet and cable services. And 48% watch TV shows online. In Monroe that makes 9,863 residents who bundle their cable TV subscriptions and Internet packages, and 6,576 who use that Internet to stream TV content online.


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When a poster of McDonald’s Plan to Win was taken off a wall in corporate headquarters for a freshening-up, chief executive Jim Skinner personally intervened to get the strategy statement back in place ASAP.
“I told people, never, ever take the Plan to Win down and leave it down—do whatever it takes to replace it,” Skinner says. “People might see that and think, ‘Oh, Plan to Win’s down. There must be a change strategically.’”
A change in direction may well be the last thing wanted by McDonald’s management, stockholders, loyal franchisees, suppliers, and perhaps even customers. Studies have shown that Ronald McDonald is nearly as well known as Santa Claus. Awareness of the brand’s dominance in the U.S. restaurant market may be even higher.
McDonald’s U.S. sales topped $30 billion last year, outstripping the next-closest competitor, Subway, by $20 billion. If Subway were suddenly to merge with Burger King and Starbucks, McDonald’s would still rank No. 1 on QSR’s annual QSR 50 rankings, by a margin nearly equaling the systemwide sales of Dairy Queen.
Skinner recently observed to investors that McDonald’s captured 11.3 percent of the “informal eating out market,” or more than $1.10 of every $10 that’s spent in a limited-service establishment. But the real poke in the eye for competitors is a sense that the brand is unstoppable, even by the Great Recession.
U.S. comparable store sales increased in 2008 and ’09, as they had for the five years before. The gains of 4 percent and 2.6 percent, respectively, came as overall industry sales were in significant decline. The biggest, some muttered, was getting even better at outperforming everyone else.
“They deserve a lot of credit in a very tough environment,” says Mark Kalinowski, an analyst who tracks McDonald’s and a number of other quick-service chains for Janney Montgomery Scott in New York City. “Out of all the national and the big regional chains, McDonald’s is putting up the best numbers of any of them.”
The underlying factor, according to Skinner, is the Plan to Win, the credo that was implemented seven years ago after a rare and nearly disastrous period of drift for the chain. At its heart are the general areas of focus known in every nook and cranny of the organization as the Five P’s—People, Products, Place, Price, and Promotion. Also stated are such goals as serving more customers more often in ways that enhance brand loyalty and profitability.
The Plan was conceived as a way of governing the strategy to keep Brand McDonald’s on course regardless of how the business climate or marketplace might shift. Efforts to improve the business would be guard-railed within the Five P’s, as would investment. In that way, McDonald’s bet, the system would stay fixated on better serving customers and improving operations, with only the how’s left as variables.
Skinner acknowledges the content of the Plan is less important than its role as a touchstone for an enormous, multifaceted company with diverse operations around the globe. Every team in every market in every nation has its own adaptation of the Plan, setting out its responsibilities in what rolls up into one grand strategy, hopefully aligning everyone from crewmembers to Skinner himself.
“We use the Plan to Win to set up our business plan for each of our units, so it goes all the way down to the individual restaurant,” says Susan Chrisman, a six-store franchisee in Louisiana.
“We could have put any nine things up there—‘Best place to eat, drink,’ whatever the platitudes,” Skinner says during an interview with QSR at McDonald’s Oak Brook, Illinois, headquarters. The “key to the enlightenment of the organization” was “the focus on the customer and the restaurants, and the absolutely relentless focus on improving existing restaurants.”
The results are plainly reflected in McDonald’s standout financial results, Kalinowski says. “Their marketing is working (read Promotion and Products), they’re offering value (those P’s again, plus Price), and they’re executing well at the restaurant level.”
But what do the P’s foretell for the future? As Kalinowski says, “It’s always a struggle to remain relevant to the consumer.”
Skinner stresses that the Plan isn’t some Ouija board that indicates operators should add a new Snack Wrap today and flat-screen TVs next month. Rather, he asserts, it ensures the organization will spot the next big thing because it keeps the focus on customers and what they want.
“One of my big concerns for the organization, when it sort of thought the business was rocket science, was, could we get back to where we’d realize it was not rocket science?” Skinner says. “We didn’t need a lot of people with intellectual fiber to figure out that faster service, hotter food, greater value, in a relevant environment that our customers loved and wanted to come back to, is the answer to any question you have about the restaurant business.”[pagebreak]
Yet at McDonald’s level of performance, even simple issues like serving speed or order accuracy can entail considerable sophistication, at costs not exactly at the “aw, shucks” level, either. The chain is being reminded of that now with the planned roll out of a next-generation point-of-sale system.
The new registers will use images on the keyboard to designate items in their various forms. Instead of hunting for three keys to indicate the customer wants a smoothie in a certain flavor and size, the crewmember would hit a single key bearing a depiction of that precise order.
The format promises to cut service times, boost order accuracy, and allow stores to handle more customers during crunch periods. In the paradigm of Plan to Win, it looks like a slam dunk in the People area, improving the experiences of harried crewmembers, hurried customers, and multitasking managers. Operations enhanced? Customer experience improved? Check and check.
But some franchisees aren’t lovin’ it, says Dick Adams, a frequent critic and former franchisee of McDonald’s who now works as a franchise-relations consultant.
“They just installed a new POS system in 1999,” Adams says. The cost of replacing that technology, after investing six figures per store to provide the McCafé beverages lineup, has many franchisees grousing about their cash flow, he says.
It’s not that the owner-operators object to the Plan to Win or the focus it’s yielded, Adams says. “I can’t say they’re unhappy because they’ve enjoyed six years of sales increases,” but “they don’t feel as if they’ve shared in those increases in terms of profits or cash flow.”
And, he adds, those capital-intensive initiatives came in an environment where tighter consumer spending was already dampening profits.
Besides being upset by the new technology investment, they’re not turning cartwheels about the new breakfast Dollar Menu, either, Adams says. “It’s still early, but there’s a feeling you’re discounting to the same customer you’d get anyway,” he says.
Skinner allows that the breakfast bargains are likely to increase the percentage of transactions involving a deal, a proportion that virtually hadn’t changed while a Dollar Menu was offered only at lunch and dinner. But he stresses the need for McDonald’s to boost traffic as well as sales at breakfast, a meal it’s dominated by pulling market share from everyone else.
And he insists there’s no opposition from franchisees to the new morning array or any of the other major initiatives that have been undertaken as part of the Plan.
That includes McDonald’s ambitious, multistage beverage program, which progressed beyond the McCafé coffee phase to the introduction of frappés and smoothies. Sure, there’s been a lot of press about dissension in the ranks, but some reporters just like to “pick off” a disgruntled franchisee here or there, Skinner says.
“Any time you’re embarking on a billion-dollar project and implementing something in 14,000 stores, 85 percent of them managed by franchisees, you’re going to have a difference of opinion on how to implement that,” he says.
But “I’ve never had any one of them call me and say, ‘Jim, we’re going the wrong way, we have all kinds of crises,’” Skinner says. “Cash flow is at an all-time high here in the U.S. We’ve always had a good relationship with our franchisees, but it’s always better when the results are better.”
“There’s plenty of debate leading into a decision,” says Don Armstrong, a 13-unit franchisee in Portland, Oregon, and chairman of the National Leadership Council (NLC), McDonald’s franchisee advisory group. “But once the decision is made, there’s no more need for debate.”
The new POS system, the breakfast Dollar Menu, the beverage program—Armstrong says he favors them all, as does the NLC.
“It’s always tough to make investments in difficult times,” he says. “It would’ve been easier for us to have suspended the McCafé roll out because of the bad economy. But because we didn’t, now we can operate from a position of strength.”
With an investment on the scale of the POS changeover, “it’s never easy, but you do it because it’s the right thing,” Armstrong says. “It’s pretty much understood in the field that our technology needed to be upgraded.”
Chrisman says she volunteered her units as test sites and the new system is working “beautifully.” She says it’s been particularly appreciated by the crewmembers because it makes their tasks easier.[pagebreak]
Technology can be a tougher investment to swallow because of the delayed gratification, says Jan Fields, the newly appointed president and chief executive of McDonald’s USA. “Unlike with a new product, you don’t see an immediate return on it,” she says.
With the new POS system, “yes, it’s an investment,” Fields says. But “technology today does not last as long as it once did. We have to take advantage of what becomes available. It helps us in accuracy. And for every 10 seconds we can shave off our transactions, we can handle 15 more cars through the drive thru an hour.”
U.S. operations are also seeking to boost the accuracy of drive-thru orders by enhancing the clarity of the speakers that order takers use to communicate with customers.
She echoes Skinner’s assessment that franchisee resistance to the initiatives developed under the Plan to Win has been “grossly overstated.” With the beverage program, for instance, “They’re pulling frappes and smoothies onto their menus like nothing we’ve experienced before,” she says.
The cold whipped drinks are the last phase in the program’s roll out, which followed the introduction of new hot and cold coffees and espresso-based drinks. The systemwide addition of the treats is scheduled to be completed before the summer.
As for the new breakfast Dollar Menu, Fields says, “It was passed with 97 percent of the system approving it. How much dissention could there have been?”
Not enough sales data exists yet on the new bargain array, according to Fields, who spoke with QSR days after the roll out. But “it’s certainly increasing traffic into the restaurants.”
True to the overriding aim of Plan to Win, Fields says, the new value menu is more of a unification of systemwide efforts than a new price-cutting program hatched by the home office. Virtually all U.S. stores were offering a bargain at breakfast in one form or another, she says. “We just got them all focused on the same one.”
“The key drivers of our system, we have to stay focused on them, to continue working on each of those items because we haven’t realized their full potential yet,” Fields says of the latest initiatives launched under the Plan to Win. “My goal is to keep it going.”
Skinner would not say what specific undertakings might follow the beverages, morning Dollar Menu, and POS roll outs.
“I even get that question from the board, ‘What’s the next big thing?’” says Skinner, who also serves as the vice chairman of McDonald’s Corp. “I have no idea. But I do know our protocol will bring us to the right consumer insights at the right time and the choices for innovation.”
He strongly indicated it wouldn’t be the six-second scrambled eggs a visitor would find in the Menu Innovations Center on the day of the interview. Enhancing drive-thru operations, the source of 65 percent of McDonald’s sales, is a higher priority, he says.
Because of McDonald’s position of strength, Skinner says, it will put more emphasis on areas where many chains have slashed their budgets. For instance, “training and educating our people, we’re ramping up our efforts around that,” he says.
More attention will also be paid to staffing. “We’re one of the fortunate companies today that can hire, and continue to hire, not just because we’ve opened new restaurants but because we’ve been successful.”
Similarly, McDonald’s is raising its capital expenditure budget by $300 million, to $2.4 billion, for 2010. Part of that is earmarked for opening 1,000 new restaurants, with much of the remainder used to redesign some 500 U.S. units (2,300 globally), the continuation of a project begun five years ago to keep a contemporary look in stores. “People ask, ‘When are you going to be done?’ We’ll never be done with our reimaging,” Skinner says.
One of the things that won’t change, he stresses, is the Plan to Win. “The opportunity to strategize through the Five P’s is infinite, the continuum of trying to do a better job for your customers.
“I’m a stickler for consistency and staying the course,” Skinner says. “One of our values is staying focused on continuous improvement. It’s easy to throw a bunch of bricks and mortar at a bunch of countries. The hard part is trying to get existing restaurants to be better, all the way from relevant reimaging to executing at the counter.
“I used to take it personally when someone says, ‘Well, they’re the industry leaders now, but will it last?’ We don’t hear that too much anymore.”


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Our F1 scribe previews what should be a cracking Austrian Grand Prix.
The F1 field heads to Austria off the back of a race weekend that produced more drama than an entire season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. What transpired at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has added fuel to an already rather large fire, with Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel’s title duel reaching insanely hostile levels.
Well, that certainly escalated quickly! The venue that produced one of the more sedate race weekends of 2016 became an absolute monster this year causing more crashes than a Victoria Secret model doing a Playboy photo shoot in the middle of Gillooly’s Interchange. And I have to say, I loved every single minute of the incident-packed Azerbaijan Grand Prix. So much so, that if we get a similar sort of Grand Prix their next year I may just have to change my favourite race track from the Nuremberg Ring to the Baku Street Circuit.
I’ve opted to change the format up for this previous race segment as there’s just so much to talk about and not much column space to work with. I’ll take a look at how the top five finishing drivers performed individually.
Daniel Ricciardo: The grinning Aussie, who only qualified in a lowly 10th place and dropped as low as 19th place during the early salvos of the race, took full advantage of the long Safety Car stints and crashes to claim his first victory of the year. While all around him were losing their heads, the Red Bull man kept his cool and thanks to some smart strategy work by his support team was able to claim a vital.
Valtteri Bottas: The Finn’s second place looked rather improbable after he was forced to limp into the pits on the opening lap after he and Kimi Raikkonen were involved in an incident. Furthermore, the Mercedes man was actually in third place heading into the dying moments of the race but he somehow managed to pip the highly impressive Lance Stroll into second with the finish line just a few metres away.
Lance Stroll: Stroll followed up on a great showing in Canada with an even more impressive drive out in Baku. While some will say the 18-year-old Canadian was just in the right place at the right time, I beg to differ. To keep a cool head when the world around you is falling apart shows a great deal of mental fortitude, which is something you really wouldn’t expect from a rookie. Stroll produced a clean drive and avoided any major risks and was fully deserving of his third-place finish.
Sebastian Vettel: Seb was a very naughty boy out in Azerbaijan and was extremely lucky to escape with a fourth place finish. The duel between the Ferrari man and Lewis Hamilton reached Cold War-esque levels out in Baku with the former deliberately banging wheels with the latter after Hamilton – and don’t believe the PR nonsense that has been spewed by his camp because he did do this – brake-tested Vettel while the Safety Car was on track. While Vettel escaped with only a 10-second stop-and-go penalty on the day, he is still under investigation by the FIA and may face a sterner penalty this week.
Lewis Hamilton: I know I tip him most weeks but I really don’t like the Brit. And my animosity towards him has only increased after his child-like reaction to what occurred in Baku. Yes, Vettel acted like an absolute tit when he went full on Mad Max and banged his wheels against Lewis’, but come on mate, you were stirring the pot when you decided to stomp on those brakes of yours with Vettel a few metres behind you. To then come out and label Vettel as a disgrace is really calling the kettle black. It seems the pressure may be starting to get to the Mercedes man.
Top 10 Baku Classification
Daniel Ricciardo (1st), Valtteri Bottas (2nd), Lance Stroll (3rd), Sebastian Vettel (4th), Lewis Hamilton (5th), Esteban Ocon (6th), Kevin Magnussen (7th), Carlos Sainz (8th), Fernando Alonso (9th), Pascal Wherlein (10th)
Austrian Grand Prix | Sunday 9 July | The Red Bull Ring | 12:30
To Win Race
Lewis Hamilton 8/10 | Sebsatian Vettel 22/10 | Valterri Bottas 4/1 | Kimi Raikonnen 16/1 | Daniel Ricciardo 25/1 | Max Verstappen 25/1 | Sergio Perez 250/1 | Felipe Massa 250/1
Once one of the most formidable race tracks in the world – during its heydey as the Osterreichring – the Red Bull Ring is now a rather tame beast. While the circuit does still possess a few hairy corners, that will get the drivers’ blood pumping, it’s lost a lot of those fast high sweeping turns that made it such a wild drive back in the 70’s and 80’s.
While the track was totally rebuilt in the mid 90’s, it only became known as the Red Bull Ring in the late 2000’s. It took even longer for a race to be held there again, with Formula 1 only making a return to the track in 2014.
Since making its return to the Formula One calendar, the Austrian race weekend has been dominated by Mercedes with Nico Rosberg winning the 2014 and 2015 editions of the race and Lewis Hamilton taking top honours last year.
With the track bordering on the Styrian Mountains and the Styrian Forest, Drivers are often confronted with late afternoon thunderstorms. This could be the case again this weekend with the local weather bureau predicting a 50% chance of rain for Sunday.
As was the case last year, Pirelli has issued the three softest compounds for the race weekend with the ultra softs, super softs, and softs being nominated.
Podium Finish – Daniel Ricciardo – Yes – 11/4
The Red Bull man is on something of a hot streak at the moment and it’s ridiculous to think that you can get him at 11/4 to finish on the podium, especially considering Sebastian Vettel could be facing a time penalty. The cards are certainly in the Aussie’s favour as this is the venue happens to be the facility in which his team does most of their off-season testing. Get on a Ricciardo podium presence at an unbelievable 11/4!
Fastest Qualifier: Lewis Hamilton 27/20
This is another brilliant price as Hamilton seems to have rediscovered his qualifying touch. Yes, there’s a boatload of controversy surrounding him, and he’s even harder to stomach than he was a fortnight ago, but I’m here to make money and I’m extremely confident I’ll do just that by having a large strike on Hamilton to claim pole.
To Win Race: Valterri Bottas 4/1
This is a rather speculative punt and I wouldn’t recommend going large on it but the Finn could reap a healthy dividend if he manages a win here. For all of Lewis Hamilton’s dominance in qualifying out in Austria, the Brit has never really impressed during the main race, with former teammate Nico Rosberg beating him in both 2014 and 2015. I actually think Hamilton struggles with the setup of the track which makes Bottas a rather attractive prospect at 4/1!

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Rowing is one of the oldest Olympic sports. Though it was on the programme for the 1896 games, racing did not take place due to bad weather, but male rowers have competed since the 1900. Women's rowing was added to the Olympic programme in 1976. Today, only fourteen boat classes race at the Olympics: [note 2] Each year the World Rowing Championships is staged by FISA with 22 boat classes raced. In Olympic years only the non-Olympic boat classes are raced at the World Championships. The European Rowing Championships are held annually, along with three World Rowing Cups in which each event earns a number of points for a country towards the World Cup title. Since 2008, rowing has also been competed at the Paralympic Games.
The recovery phase follows the drive. The recovery starts with the extraction and involves coordinating the body movements with the goal to move the oar back to the catch position. In extraction, the rower pushes down on the oar handle to quickly lift the blade from the water and rapidly rotates the oar so that the blade is parallel to the water. This process is sometimes referred to as feathering the blade. Simultaneously, the rower pushes the oar handle away from the chest. The blade emerges from the water square and feathers immediately once clear of the water. After feathering and extending the arms, the rower pivots the body forward. Once the hands are past the knees, the rower compresses the legs which moves the seat towards the stern of the boat. The leg compression occurs relatively slowly compared to the rest of the stroke, which affords the rower a moment to recover, and allows the boat to glide through the water. The gliding of the boat through the water during recovery is often called run.
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Saturday, 4 August 2012
Fair playing field a "small issue" to Dan Lett
|Should the well off decide which parties & politicians|
can and can't get their messages heard?
Removing vote subsidies gives the wealthy few
oversized influence in deciding which parties
can and can't afford to run ads.
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Party members passed motions at the 2011 and 2012 AGMs to continue accepting the subsidy. Despite this, the executive decided to take a pass. This caused several high-profile members to rebuke the executive for disregarding the motions. It also convinced party president Lorraine Sigurdson to resign her post and not run for re-election. "I have to tell you I'm exceedingly pissed off about it," an angry Susan Hart-Kulbaba, a former MFL president, told delegates at the Victoria Inn in Winnipeg. "We don't come here to sit here and make policy and not have it followed."
Publicly calling out the executive is humiliating for Premier Greg Selinger, and a strong signal that he may not have control over his party. Still, it's hard to understand how this issue became the spark for this outburst.
The subsidy was a compromise when the NDP outlawed union and corporate donations. However, since it was introduced four years ago, the opposition Progressive Conservatives have effectively made the subsidy a political hot potato, decrying it as a misuse of public funds and refusing to accept it. The NDP continued to support the subsidy, defending it during last fall's general election campaign.
However, faced with a growing deficit and increasing political pressure to get it under control, Selinger decided now was not the time for the party to continue taking a taxpayer subsidy for election expenses. It was not hard to see the method in Selinger's madness. At a time when he was trying desperately to project an image of austerity, the vote subsidy seemed to be a luxury the taxpayers couldn't afford. Passing on this year's subsidy would in essence take this issue out of the opposition's arsenal.
("Outcry signs of NDP house divided: Small issue turns into embarrassment for Selinger". Dan Lett (June 5, 2012). Winnipeg Free Press.)
|Manitoba Club ballroom.|
Issues affecting members of "The Original
Social Network" will be different then those
facing most working Manitobans.
Should Manitoba Club members and wealthy
Manitobans have more say in which parties can
afford to run ads than the majority
of working Manitobans?
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The problem, of course, is the precedent this sets and the viewpoints it legitimizes. Per-vote subsidies are apparently a "waste" as Sun Media would have it, not an affirmation of the democratic promise. Manitoba Club type, wealthy donors should decide who has a pulpit to speak from (which advertising money allows), not the wishes of voting Manitobans.
Now, what did Manitoba PC MLA Kelvin Goertzen make of this act of taking the "issue out of the opposition's arsenal"?
Mr. Speaker, since becoming the Leader of the PC Party in April of 2006, the member for Fort Whyte [then Hugh McFadyen] has had the opportunity to travel our province and to meet thousands of Manitobans. Those that have spoken with him personally will have appreciated his sincerity, his depth of understanding of the issues that affect Manitoba and his willingness to stand up for what’s right for Manitoba, and for Manitobans.
Over the past five years we, as his colleagues, have seen his willingness to identify issues and to take a clear stand on them. He stood up for all Manitobans who saw the routing of the new bipole line as a bad decision. He stood up against the vote tax, Mr. Speaker, and he won that fight.
("Tribute to Hugh McFadyen". Kevin Goertzen (June 21, 2012). mysteinbach.ca).
|Should the public or the wealthy few|
decide which parties get this?
Some - though probably few on the Winnipeg Free Press payroll - may ask that the point of having two Tory parties in Manitoba is. Why not give Manitobans a REAL choice?
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North Olmsted police will soon be wearing body cameras
Published: Jan. 26, 2023 at 11:30 AM EST
NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO) - Thanks to money from a state grant, North Olmsted police officers will soon be wearing body cameras.
The department was recently awarded $139,560 from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services.
Officials are now planning the next steps to obtain the body cameras.
At this time, there is no exact start date of when officers will be equipped with the body cameras, but officials hope by mid-summer.
North Olmsted officers already have dash cameras in their cruisers.
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4. Kawhi Leonard
Last rank: 6
Kawhi Leonard has quietly risen up the MVP Rankings over the last month. Despite his team's struggles entering the All-Star break, Kawhi has positioned the Clippers very nicely for a late postseason run.
Leonard has been a huge part of the Clippers 36-17 season. A huge question leading up to the beginning of the season has always been health and availability for Leonard. Barring any major setback, Leonard is set to make an All-NBA team under the 65-game threshold.
A lot of NBA media figures wrote off the Clippers as potential title contenders after they fell short due to health for the past four seasons. They have not only eliminated those claims but after an early season trade for James Harden, the Clippers are looking like true title contenders.
Leonard's stats may not wow any fans, But when on the floor, the Clippers have a clear edge over any other team. The push for MVP for Leonard has only begun just recently, which is why some fans may be surprised when they see his name this high on the list.
Without Leonard, the Clippers would likely be in the same place they were last season. With a very dim future, the time is now in Clipper land.
Leonard still has a lot to prove if he wishes to win the MVP award, but he has risen up the odds over the last two months. The Clippers first game out of the break will be against the OKC Thunder.