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This post is going to be long and full of information so apologies in advance if confusing but there is so much to say. Firstly, The Outcasts knit night this week (Weds 20 June) will be at the jelly Handmade in The Oracle space from 6-7.45pm. It's a beautiful light and airy space and for […]
We are getting ready for Aunt Elsie’s Christmas do, hope you can join us this Saturday – we will be showing work by talented Reading artists and makers, you can come along and meet the artists, see the work and have a good time with us all. The "Do" will be at 29-31 Market Place, […]
Last weeks tea party was wonderful, we managed to haul 24 deckchairs from the Forbury to make up the numbers of seating already borrowed from Picnic and our own chairs, bake an excessively large number of cakes, lay out the china, stroke yarn hand dyed locally by Skein Queen, see the first prints of the […]
Yes, it’s here, it’s tonight and you are all invited. Come along and see the brand new book for the first time. You can get a sneaky preview right here. The china is already there ready and waiting, some is being lent to us by the wonderful Patchwork Vintage . They rent out china and […]
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We had a fantastic weekend with the knitters at the afternoon tea party. Ysolda was launching her new book and the outcasts were the hostesses. Skeinqueen and the talented Emma Bradbury were showing their wares too. There are more photos here courtesy of Ysolda and even more here courtesy of alabamawhirly We loved having the […]
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This morning, NPR reporter Sonari Glinton ran a story about the battle for the coal vote in southeastern Ohio and talked to one of the Democrats trying to separate himself from Barack Obama. Charlie Wilson, a two-term Democrat who lost in 2010, is trying to beat Rep. Bill Johnson, in part, by talking up his vote against cap and trade and his support for the coal industry. After running some of the GOP's messaging against Obama -- "fire Obama," "war on coal" -- Glinton quoted Wilson, sarcastically mocking the slogans.
"We don't need to fire Obama and we don't need to stop the war on coal," says Charlie Wilson, the Democrat running for Congress in Ohio's 6th Congressional District. He says one thing he and his opponent, Republican Rep. Bill Johnson, agree on is coal.
Within hours, the NRCC grabbed that quote and turned it into a short audio clip, implying that the comment wasn't sarcastic and Wilson really meant this. I asked Wilson's spokesman J.R. Starrett if the clip was fair.
"Is this real?" he asked. "It's the farthest thing from the truth. Charlie has fought against both administrations, both the Bush administration and the Obama administration in the battle for coal. We were just at a forum this afternoon where Congressman Johnson said he and Charlie have the same position on coal."
So I suggested to NRCC spokesman Paul Lindsay that the Wilson quote was probably sarcastic. "I never said we were FactCheck," said Lindsay.
As a Sarcastic-American, I'm hoping that re-interpreting wry comments as deadly serious comments isn't some new campaign trend.
UPDATE: I ran the clip by Glinton, too. "When he said that to me," said Glinton, "he said it clearly to mock the ads."
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Former roommate IDs murder weapon
UPDATE - Thursday afternoon saw emotional testimony in the First Degree Murder trial of Seth Techel.
The father of Techel's slain wife, Lisa took to the stand to talk about his daughter and the events surrounding her death.
Todd Caldwell, who as a Wapello County Deputy was one of the first responders at the scene of his daughter's death last may told jurors that he considered Seth Techel to be like a son.
But it was his thoughts on his daughter that brought a hush to the court room. He described a letter he received after Lisa completed a DCI internship
â??And she wrote a letter to me saying and that I must have been a good father cause girls don't turn out like that by accident. And I just know that everywhere I went that's what everyone told me about Lisa. And everyone would tell me how much Lisa and I are alike and I would just tell everybody that she's the best parts of me,â?? Caldwell said.
As emotional as that testimony was, prosecutors used Caldwell's later testimony to hammer away at the defense theory that the Techel's neighbor, Brian Tate was responsible for the murder.
Caldwell acknowledged that he and other deputies had responded several times to the Tate property, after he complained of vandalism.
Caldwell told the jury at the time he and other deputies considered Tate to be 10-96, or mentally disturbed in police radio speak.
It was only after Lisa's death that Caldwell realized that friends of Seth Techel had in fact been dumping dog feces and throwing rocks on the Tate property.
That fact was confirmed by an earlier witness.
Tyler Batterson, a self described friend of Seth Techelâ??s testified that he and several individuals had at least twice vandalized the Tate property, once after Seth had told them to quote, "go mess with Tate."
On cross examination, defense attorney Steven Gardner tried to get Caldwell to once again paint Tate as a dangerous man, who on at least one occasion was seen with a shot gun.
Brian Tate died in the fall of 2012.
Judge Dan Wilson ended testimony for the day with Caldwell still on the stand.
Court resumes at 9 a.m. on Friday.
There was plenty of dramatic testimony in the first degree murder trial of Seth Techel Thursday morning.
The day's testimony got off to a disturbing start when the state called Iowa Chief Medical Examiner Julia Goodin to the stand.
With the aid of the autopsy photos Goodin told the jury that Lisa Techel died from a single shotgun wound to the left side of her body. Goodin also told jurors that at the time of her death, Techel was pregnant with a perfectly healthy female child about 20 weeks old.
Wapello County Reserve Deputy Bryan Baum then took the stand. On the evening of May 27, Baum was charged with staking out the area where the murder weapon had been found. Police hoped that the suspect might return for the weapon.
While camouflaged and hidden in a nearby wooded area Baum saw Seth Techel and his father Doug approach the area. Baum testified he heard the elder Techel admonish his son.
What did you hear Seth Techel say whenever he got near the tree they sure seemed to walk around a bit? Did Doug Techel respond to that.?
"Yes he responded that's their job buddy. Come on now, you know that if you were on the other side of it what would you do, if you were wearing the badge what would you do you would do your job,â?? Baum said.
The court also heard from Techelâ??s former roommate, Lucas Howell.
Howell told the court, that the gun prosecutors believe was the murder weapon was a 12 gauge Mossberg shotgun he left at the Techel house roughly a week before the death of Lisa Techel.
Howell also told the jury that at the time of the murder he could neither drive nor shot a gun because of recent shoulder surgery.
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Robert Downey Jr. is still a few months away from hitting the theaters as "Sherlock Holmes," but a sequel for the super sleuth is already reportedly in the works – and this time, he might be chasing Brad Pitt.
While there is no deal in place yet, Pitt has been in talks with producers to play Holmes' nemesis Moriarty in the next installment, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition, Warner Bros. is in talks with "Justice League: Mortal" writers Kieran and Michele Mulroney to pen the script for the sequel.
In the Christmas Day-due "Sherlock Holmes," Downey plays the iconic detective originated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, while Jude Law plays his trusty sidekick Dr. John Watson and Rachel McAdams stars as love interest Irene Adler.
If the sequel does indeed take shape, it is likely all the stars would return a second time, with Guy Ritchie once again taking on the directing duties.
Earlier this summer, a studio rep shot down rumors Pitt was joining the cast of the first "Holmes" film after online posts suggested Pitt was spotted in London to film his scenes as Moriarty.
"Brad Pitt is not joining the cast of 'Sherlock Holmes' and we're extremely pleased with the production of the film," a rep for the studio told Us Weekly at the time. "As planned, it will be released on Christmas Day, 2009. In order to complete the movie, we've scheduled a few days on set to shoot a couple of additional scenes, obtain pick-up shots, and perfect some of the visual effects elements, all of which is standard filmmaking practice."
Pitt's next project to hit the big screen will be the animated comedy "Oobermind," where he lends his voice to the character of Metro Man, alongside the voices of Tina Fey, Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell and Jonah Hill.

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“How absolutely terrifying.”
“I have found what I was looking for.”
Dialogue from yet another TV investigation series? Yes, but the speakers weren’t tracking down criminals; they are Brooke Shields, Sarah Jessica Parker and Emmitt Smith III, and they were looking for themselves on NBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” The program explores the family trees of the “rich and famous,” including Lisa Kudrow, one of its executive producers, as they travel back through history, made personal by their ancestors’ experiences during the Salem witch trials, slavery, the Civil War, the Gold Rush and the Holocaust, to name a few. But on this show, the real stars are the historians, genealogists and librarians who comb through public records and archives, uncovering the roots of each week’s guest. Like anyone who learns their family history, they were overwhelmed with emotion.
Who would’ve thought that genealogy would fly on prime-time network TV? The joys of genealogy proved to be entertaining and popular on the PBS program “Faces of America,” created by historian and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., whose previous PBS programs focused on black history: “African American Lives” and its sequel, and “Oprah’s Roots.”
While some families can trace their lineage across several continents to centuries past, others count theirs in years or decades. Either way, family trees have taken root in America and are laden with memories, so it’s up to you to start the conversations and harvest your history.
So, where to begin? It depends upon what you’re looking for. There is a plethora of family history Web sites that can guide you to and through the wealth of online information; each site has links ad infinitum.
Ancestry.com is a popular portal to the past and a good place to start. For a reasonable monthly fee, with automatic renewal, you can access a broad range of public records; ships’ passenger lists, including steerage; U.S. and foreign census; city directories; and more. Other places to check are ellisisland.org, which is free, as is the Library of Congress — just Google it to get the Web sites for specific collections. Also check archives at public and university libraries; they typically require a card or affiliation for online access.
Locally there’s the Los Angeles Family History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Los Angeles. While closed for updating — it expects to reopen this fall — its public classes continue.
Then there’s Jewish geography. Online you’ll find an overwhelming number of genealogy societies, databases, maps and links to research just about every aspect of Jewish history and life, from the global to the esoteric: specific nationalities, languages, cities, countries, regions such as the Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada, burial grounds, birth and marriage certificates, obituary lists like one from Poland beginning in the late 19th century — you get the picture. Sites such as jewishwebindex.com and jewishlink.net seem to have a thousand links to Jewish history resources and organizations.
Los Angeles is fortunate to have the Jewish Historical Society of Southern California (JHSSC) and a Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles. And July 11-16, the city will host the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies’ 30th international genealogy conference at the L.A. LIVE conference center.
But searching through Web sites, archives and government records can be daunting, dusty and disappointing if little or nothing is found. And while documents can provide information, they don’t talk. The flip side of genealogy is oral history, given by elderly family members. The surest way to collect and pass on family stories and memories is to hire a professional oral historian who can also dig into the plethora of archives to find missing pieces.
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Do we focus so much on our ancient roots that we neglect our own history? Will your treasured family memories and stories be buried with your mothers and fathers? And what about those of your grandparents, aunts and uncles? The answer is yes if you haven’t recorded them for future generations.
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15 Platoons Of Police To Be Deployed For ‘Gajalaxmi Puja’ In Odisha’s Kendrapada
Kendrapada: As many as 15 platoons of police will be deployed for peaceful celebration of ‘Gajalaxmi Puja’ in Odisha’s Kendrapada town.
This was revealed at the peace committee meeting on the puja arrangements held in Town Hall on Monday. Senior officers of the district administration and representatives of puja pandals and puja committees interacted at the meeting.
The representatives of the puja committees presented their problems and raised different issues considering the fact that the Laxmi Puja will be celebrated with public participation after a gap of 2 years. The community celebration was banned in the town for COVID pandemic during the period.
The officers of the district administration assured them of looking into the issues and announced the steps taken for convenience of the visitors to the pandals. They said instructions have been issued to carry out cleaning of roads and drains and ensure supply of electricity and water.
On the representatives’ demand for widening the roads, Kendrapada district collector Amrit Ruturaj said the road and housing department has been directed to repair the damaged roads in the town before the puja.
In order to maintain law and order, the administration will deploy 15 platoons of police force at strategic points and important junctions of the town. More than 100 police officers will remain in charge of the task. Besides, movement of vehicular traffic will be regulated during the puja.
Besides the collector, district SP Madkar Sambid Sampad, additional collector Pitambar Samal, deputy collector Niranjan Behera, Kendrapada additional collector Durga Prasad Maharana, SDPO Jayant Mohapatra and chairperson of Kendrapada Municipality Sarita Sahu were present at the meeting.

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text: With Tesla having some good news in recent months thanks to DOE loans and an investment from Daimler, the company would surely not want to keep this one hanging out there. As expected, no one is talking about any details of the settlement. However, in a statement that has not yet been released in full, Eberhard reportedly says, "As co-founder of the company, Elon's contributions to Tesla have been extraordinary." In return for whatever Eberhard got, he probably had to make nice with Musk. Interestingly, Eberhard's TeslaFounders blog appears to have been closed.


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Contractor advocates are objecting to ambiguous terms in the Department of Labor's proposed minimum wage standards for federal contractor employees, saying that uncertainty about which employees must be covered is particularly worrisome in light of an increased debarment risk for wage violations.
President Barack Obama signed an executive order Thursday requiring federal contractors to disclose recent labor violations, putting in place new reporting obligations that attorneys say will raise compliance costs for contractors and could drive some companies to abandon government contract work altogether.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a $17 billion compromise bill to reform the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in the wake of its recent health care scandal, sending the bill to President Barack Obama’s desk.
A top Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services official told lawmakers Thursday that the agency continues to expect some problems with the Affordable Care Act portal HealthCare.gov in the upcoming enrollment period, but has made significant progress since the rocky initial rollout of the marketplace last year.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday detailed plans to start regulating certain diagnostic laboratory tests, likely sparking a lobbying fight over the extent of oversight and whether manufacturers of diagnostic medical devices should get some of the same special treatment being extended to labs, experts say.
Rogers Joseph O’Donnell announced Wednesday that it had hired Sharon L. Larkin, a veteran bid protest attorney at the Government Accountability Office and the current chair of the American Bar Association's section on Public Contracts Law, as a shareholder in its Washington, D.C., office.
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority took a bold stride Thursday when it told brokerages under its watch to stop taking payments for orders routed to other firms, but while market reform advocates, including one prominent lawmaker, want U.S. regulators to do the same, industry experts say Wall Street’s police likely won’t fall in step.
Opponents of a New Jersey law banning the use of “conversion therapy” to alter the sexual orientation of minors were dealt a setback Thursday, with a federal judge dismissing a second challenge to the law filed by parents claiming the law constrains their constitutional freedoms.
Challengers of Vermont's first-in-the-nation genetically modified organism food labeling law are turning to an increasingly popular First Amendment argument that is being utilized by a variety of industry groups that say such labeling violates their right to “refrain from speaking,” setting the stage for another battle over corporate rights.
Californians who purchased coverage on the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace will see average rate hikes of roughly 4 percent next year, a relatively modest rise that may stem partly from factors unique to the nation’s largest insurance market, state regulators said Thursday.
July was a busy month for attorneys bouncing back and forth between the government and BigLaw firms. Nine attorneys crossed the public-private divide, including U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commissioner Scott O'Malia, who raised eyebrows with a decision to join the International Swaps and Derivatives Association days after leaving his government post, and former Treasury Department general counsel George Madison, who joined Sidley Austin LLP after a cautious two-year hiatus.
Chances for a ballot question in New Jersey this November that would ask voters to constitutionally dedicate a rising percentage of corporate business tax revenues to open space preservation remain very much alive, with lawmakers scheduling a vote on the proposal for Monday.
California state Sen. Leland Yee pled not guilty Thursday to new racketeering charges that were tacked onto eight other pending felony counts, alleging Yee engaged in corrupt schemes with alleged Chinatown gangster Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, a U.S. attorney's office spokeswoman said.
Just days after a California judge refused to block construction of the Sacramento Kings' new $477 million arena, environmental activists on Thursday gave notice of an appeal and accused the basketball team and city of wrongfully pushing the project forward with the help of an unconstitutional law.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday extended the deadline for the third time for refiners to show they are complying with the 2013 renewable fuel standards, a change that drew criticism from the oil industry.
The Federal Trade Commission's Joshua Wright criticized the agency on Thursday for relying on inadequate cost-benefit analyses to bring forward consumer protection enforcement actions, saying a recent case over Apple mobile application purchases may impose greater compliance costs for negligible consumer benefits.
A Florida state judge on Wednesday denied a local activist's challenge to a ballot question asking Miami voters to greenlight an extended lease and renovations to downtown's Bayside Marketplace and to grant permission for a 1,000-foot entertainment tower on the property, saying the question was legally valid.
A World Trade Organization deal aimed at smoothing the flow of global commerce will not be implemented on schedule as negotiators failed to overcome opposition from developing nations aiming to tether the pact to food security initiatives, WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo said late Thursday.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would eliminate what its backers say are costly and redundant Clean Water Act permits for pesticides that were imposed five years ago by a federal appeals court.
The Central Intelligence Agency has learned through an internal investigation that its officers improperly searched and removed documents from a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence computer network that was being used to investigate the CIA’s detention program, the agency said Thursday.
The Office of Congressional Ethics' recent referral of an unnamed entity to the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Columbia for failure to register under the Lobbying Disclosure Act — which appears to be the first of its kind — is a major development in the regulation of lobbying and may signal a turning point in enforcement of lobbying disclosure laws, say Robert Kelner and Zachary Parks of Covington & Burling LLP.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's goals have followed similar themes since the start of the decade, however with the agency’s regulatory role expanding alongside today's unyielding fiscal environment its latest budget request may prove challenging to meet, say attorneys at Norton Rose Fulbright.
The Austin Court of Appeals' holding in Texas Commission on Environmental Quality v. Bonser-Lain is significant because it precludes private parties from asking courts for "second opinions" on state agency denials of requests for rulemaking, thereby avoiding a protracted and potentially costly resolution of such requests, say attorneys at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP.
International trade was successful in creating a completely private dispute resolution system outside of the courts but widely recognized and accepted by governments across the world. Bitcoin needs to follow a similar path, says Jaime Guttman of Private Advising Group PA.
Filing applications for foreign-invested real estate enterprises in China is expected to soon become merely an administrative matter instead of the approval process it currently is — a signal from the Chinese government that restrictions on such investments are being loosened, say attorneys with Paul Hastings LLP.
In light of the ACE Cash Express Inc. enforcement action, financial institutions and other businesses engaging in first-party debt collection should assume the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will attempt to impose Fair Debt Collection Practices Act standards on them through the unfair, deceptive and abusive acts or practice provisions of Dodd-Frank, say attorneys at Mayer Brown LLP.
The Hershey Company's trade dress infringement case against Maryland state Sen. Steve Hershey over his brown and white campaign signs is somewhat different from the usual campaign trademark dispute in that the politician is the one who was sued for use of a corporate trademark, says Susan Neuberger Weller of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC.
In light of City of Dover v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, those seeking to challenge impaired waters listings may be better served alleging injuries predicated on property value reductions since these kinds of injuries are more immediate than injuries based on regulatory impact — courts may be more willing to find they satisfy the requirements for Article III standing, says Brian Glass of Warren Glass LLP.
Although in previous cases World Trade Organization panels and the Appellate Body have rarely found that a measure did not qualify as a “technical regulation,” the European Communities seal products case puts future WTO complainants on notice that this threshold question regarding technical barriers to trade may have new life, say attorneys with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.
As the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation heads to the “Heart of America” for its July 31 hearing, this column will take a bit of a detour from its regular format and present a top 10 list of arguments — some strange, yet true — made in support of a particular MDL venue, says Alan Rothman of Kaye Scholer LLP.


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Deep in the woods lately hidden under snow there are secrets that spring gives up, brings to light. Still half-covered in the buff and fawn of old leaves, ringed by the green and purple teeth of new skunk cabbage, I find the bones of a deer, long leg bones long lain here, the gentle curve of ribs beside them, soft, bright ivory against brown.
I knew they would be here, somewhere. I found the skull several years ago, a dozen yards away, just the other side of the foot bridge across a stream so small it will be mostly dry by August. It was only a matter of taking the moment’s opportunity to leave the path and look, study the ground for the telltale flash of white that’s more than just a bare branch lying on the ground.
Today I looked, and so I found them. I’ve become quite good at finding bones in the spring, but I think it’s mostly just that: I look for them. I look for them because I like to see, because the sight of them seems a clue the seasons heave up to me, about the nature of life and death, the circle that can seem cruel or sad and always remains a mystery.
That mystery was with me yesterday too, I realize now, as a woman stood before me, the poet at the writers’ conference, and said she’d had to take a nap in her car in between giving lectures because ever since she started chemo, she gets so tired. And then she turned on the overhead projector and began to talk to us about memoir. I kept thinking how vital and alive and strong she was.
Here in the woods I contemplate death as in a still life, easy, poetic; at a distance created by time and circumstance and species. I have lived and seen enough to know death does not look so picturesque, visited upon us in hospitals, on death beds, construction sites, in cars, lying on the floor.
And yet… These bones lying so long, so many seasons covered over in snow and then in green (the skull, I noted today, is now growing moss) have something powerful to tell me. Revealed in this brief time of bare earth after frost heaves and just receded snow, they show me the cycle itself is beautiful. I can see it, here where the deer left its body; the bones have now become another pattern barely distinguishable from the rest, the leaves and twigs and nut shells, the seed cases and bark peelings and old shreds of grasses, walked upon by beetles, turned over under their feet.
Somehow it comforts me to know we’re all going back here. Dust to dust—words, but here I find the picture: the bright, sharp green of the skunk cabbage blade dipped in purple, beside a scattering of rib. Literally entwined.
I wonder if I will hear the poet speak again. I think she must wonder too, how many more times it will be given her to speak, how many more poems it will be given her to write. We don’t know. The mystery is how life and death complete and make each other. Somehow the bones lying beside the creek in the first burst of spring help me accept that it’s not given to me, to understand.

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We’re just back from one of the central events of the watch lover’s (and watch journalist’s) year: the Salon International Haute Horlogerie in Geneva, where luxury watch brands under the aegis of the Richemont Group (as well as a few other brands that prefer the relative calm of the SIHH to the rugby-scrum hurly-burly of the Other Watch Fair, BaselWorld) show what’s new and (we hope) exciting for 2012. It’s a whirlwind –five days, literally hundreds of watches, and the near-impossible task of trying to keep everything you’ve seen in mind once you’re home.
Every year, though, there are a few watches that it’s no trouble to recall, and one of the most memorable this year (and one of the most talked about watches among attendees) was the Jaeger LeCoultre Sphérotourbillon, one of JLC’s new complicated watches based on the “Dual Wing” concept. The basic idea behind the Dual Wing watches is to have two independent power sources (essentially, two separate mainsprings.) One mainspring powers the timekeeping gear train and the other is used to supply energy to whatever complication has been built into the watch. The reason behind this construction is simple: a complication has the potential to disrupt the accuracy of a watch by stealing energy, when it’s in use, from the escapement, which requires as constant torque as possible to work well. (Chronographs, for instance, may run at a different rate when the chronograph is switched on than when it’s not.)


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Bedlam has it’s eyes on London and plans to hit it hard…
Bedlam started out almost 2 years ago in Maidstone, Kent, being Tim Green’s own little underground night, boasting some of the industries finest DJs playing the most forward thinking house music that can be found. Drafting in such names as M.A.N.D.Y., Martin Buttrich, Audiofly, Leon, Cassy, Lee Burridge, Matthias Tanzmann, Emerson Todd, and 2000 And One, Bedlam has made its mark proving its ability to put on one hell of a party.
Now Tim Green and his Bedlam team are taking the inevitable next step and launching Bedlam for the first time in London. A move which will no doubt receive a warm welcome from the capital. After Guerilla Sounds attended the Bedlam 1st Birthday it was evident that Bedlam was onto something as the atmosphere was electric and it was only a matter of time before they made the move to London.
Bedlam have put together an amazing line-up of some truly ground breaking acts who have taken dance floors across the globe by storm with their unique sounds injected into their music. Joining Tim Green is Cadenza’s Pablo Cahn who will undoubtedly rock the Bedlam night just as much as his Summer hit ‘Elle’ did to countless dance floors and Crosstown Rebels’s duo act Art Department are set to stir things up with their unique dynamic sound. And let’s not forget Rich Adam, co-founder of the East London night Simmer, who will be setting the tone for Bedlam with some impeccable music.
It may be Bedlam’s first appearance in the capital but with Tim Green at the helm and an experienced team of music enthusiasts powering Bedlam, it will be without a doubt the most electrified and freshest night London has seen.
Nearly 2 years in the running and Bedlam just seems to be going from strength to strength….
Over the course of nearly 2 years since the creation of the profound Maidstone (Kent) underground night Bedlam [Kent], it seems that Tim Green & Co are determined to make their mark on the scene as they reach new heights.
Bedlam, being the night of fast rising UK talent, DJ/Producer Tim Green. Tim Green being the man behind great tracks like “Old Sunshine”, who has seen both his name and production work on outstanding labels such as Get Physical, Dirtybird and Cocoon. And the Co being the dedicated people [Forward Thinking Music Management] behind the organisation of the night, helping both Tim Green and Bedlam to reach new heights.
From day one hosting the likes of M.A.N.D.Y., Martin Buttrich, Audio Fly, Lee Burridge, Matthias Tanzmann, Emerson Todd and 2000 And One, Bedlam has been smashing places like Maidstone hot spot, The Loft, some old abandoned cinema and now the historic Chatham monument, The Tunnel. And Bedlam seems to be focusing on those venues that are just dripping with pure underground vibe, which seems to be another key to its success along with the countless talent of DJs they are drafting in!
And with The Tunnel being the prime location we made sure we were at the Bedlam 1st Birthday almost 1 year ago. Where we soaked up the energy of Tim Green banging out his very own “Old Sunshine” and Matthias Tanzmann building the crowd with Yousef’s “Come Home”. We can honestly say that Bedlam @ The Tunnel is a truly momentous night indeed. Which is why Bedlam at The Tunnel returns once again this weekend [29 Jan] to host rising Italian house star Leon and very special guest Cassy. And of course resident Tim Green!
Cassy, well-known for playing DC10, Cocoon (Ibiza), Panorama Bar and Fabric, is undoubtably one of the best DJs on the scene. With her music being released on Souvenir, Cocoon and the almighty German giant Perlon Records, not to mention her mix CDs for Panorama Bar and Cocoon, she has gained huge respect in the underground scene. Her unique style and party vibe earning her back2back sessions with Ricardo Villalobos as she focuses on weaving deep and dark house music, twisted techno along with skill and finesse. There’s no doubt about how things are going to turn out for Bedlam!
Leon returns to Bedlam after having played an impressive set at the beginning of 2010 alongside M.A.N.D.Y. Having releases out on Nick Curly’s Cecille Records and Steve Lawler’s VIVa MUSiC, his talents have been gaining recognition from world-class DJs as Pete Tong, Ricardo Villalobos, Carl Cox, Luciano, Laurent Garnier, Loco Dice, M.A.N.D.Y., Tiefschwarz, Matthias Tanzmann, Nic Fanciulli, Danny Howells and Marco Carola. Adding to that, an extensive 17 date tour of the USA and Canada along with constant dates in Italy, UK, Germany, Holland, Russia and Spain, it’s not hard to see why Bedlam has got Leon back behind the console.
Which brings us back to the point of success. Because it’s not just the countless number of exceptional DJs that give the feeling of climbing success, it’s also with the added expansion and launch of Bedlam London. An act of proof that Tim Green & Co not only have the credentials but also the vision – “determined to make their mark on the scene”.
Bedlam London, set for a secret East London venue on the 19th March, boasts the presence of the Cadenza star known for the hit release “Elle” and collaboration with Cadenza co-star Cesar Merveille, Columbian born Pablo Cahn along with Crosstown Rebels duo, Art Department. – One word – Sick!
All we can conclude is that London may be a bigger pond but with Bedlam’s track record and reputation, it was inevitable that it would start to out-grow its current location and search for a larger environment, which will simple fuel its success.
Wiggle set to be a storm with Cadenza star Cesar Merveille….
After a truly electric sell out night on NYE, Wiggle are set to keep the energy flowing with their first date for 2011 playing host to Cadenza’s Cesar Merveille. Cesar makes his return to Wiggle after blowing the roof off during his last appearance.
Cesar Merveille has rocketed to success over the last three years with a demand for his talent stretching all over the globe, as well as becoming a regular player in the Cadenza worldwide showcase tour. Cesar has quickly made a name for himself with releases on Cadenza, Circus, Serialism and Safari Electronique. His “Chocopop Jazz” making a huge impact in 2008, followed by his debut appearance on Cadenza in 2009 with his “Descarga EP” – being known as a major highlight in Luciano’s sets – made in collaboration with Pablo Cahn. With this kind of track record it’s no surprise that Cesar is known for emitting an overwhelming energy from his sets and is undoubtably likely to do the same at Wiggle.
Setting the musical journey at Wiggle is one of London’s key underground house music figure JB (aka Jon Barnet). Having his roots firmly grounded in the Acid House era, he has kept himself in all the right places to make his mark and gaining the respect and reputation he deserves. JB will be setting the pace and giving the night the right kick-start to what will be a fully energetic shakedown.
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In his televised national address on September 23, Prime Minister Trudeau reminded us that we “have the power to get this second wave under control…And this fall, we have even more tools in the toolbox.” But this did not happen, at least in Canada’s most populous provinces. Instead, our response to the second and third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a tale of two federations: A tale of success and failure, set east and west of the Quebec-New Brunswick border. This predicament is not a problem of federalism per se. Rather, what we have witnessed since the fall is a leadership problem within the federal system.
In principle, Canadian federalism provides a flexible foundation for effective emergency responses. It is not an institutional straitjacket like in Germany, where the federal government and the states have been caught in a joint-decision trap. While the states have different preferences about how to battle the pandemic, interlocked responsibilities and constitutional norms require that they reach agreement on almost any measure. As result, the twenty intergovernmental agreements struck since March 2020 were often half-baked, lowest common denominator solutions.
By contrast, federalism in Canada’s Westminster democracy concentrates power resources within the executive on both governmental levels. This framework allows for swift action. It enables premiers to balance regional authority and intergovernmental cooperation to prevent the spread of the virus. But only committed leadership can activate these institutional resources.
The Atlantic provinces taught us how this works. Their proactive approach has one main goal: To keep case numbers near zero by rigorously suppressing spillovers within and between the provinces. To that end, premiers deployed resolute unilateral action and coordination. They created and temporarily suspended the Atlantic Bubble in order to ensure test-trace and isolate strategies remain effective. Governments did not shy away from imposing mobility restrictions if necessary. When Edmunston was under lockdown, any non-essential travel in and out of the area was prohibited.
The other provinces thought they can get away with a less ambitious but dangerous strategy. Although many public health experts have been sounding alarm since the fall, they stuck to their reactive approach. Their main goal has never been to contain case numbers, but to ensure that hospitalization rates remain manageable. Timing, however, matters. Uncontrolled spread became increasingly self-accelerating, making hard lockdowns unavoidable.
One problem has been the lack of targeted mobility restrictions within and between provinces. Residents in COVID-19 hotspots can move freely to public health units with lower case numbers. In December, cross-border shoppers from Toronto, Peel, and York fueled the case load in Halton and Durham. In January, doctors in Whistler expressed concerns about an increasing number of COVID-19 patients from Ontario and Quebec.
Governments have policy choices, and these choices matter profoundly for Canada’s performance. The reactive approach has had devastating consequences: Significantly higher death rates, two humanitarian crises in Ontario’s LTC homes, or prolonged lockdowns. The proactive approach allowed the Atlantic provinces to keep mortality rates low, and to maintain a relatively relaxed level of restrictions.
Successful leadership not only manifests itself in policy performance, but also in policy learning and accountability. Manitoba introduced mandatory self-isolation orders for all travellers entering the province in late January. And Quebec, unlike Ontario, avoided another catastrophe in LTC homes during the second wave of COVID-19 by taking adequate precautions. Beyond that, however, no government did seriously entertain the idea of emulating the Atlantic provinces’ approach. It is hard to find substantial evidence for policy learning from past mistakes and best practice.
The lack of accountability was particularly obvious in Ontario and Alberta. Premiers Ford and Kenney were most avid in playing the game of blame avoidance to distract from their own failures. The Ontario government stubbornly refused to acknowledge problems like the LTC crisis, or to introduce paid sick leave, a policy instrument that could have prevented major workplace-related outbreaks. Instead, it launched ongoing attacks on Ottawa. The pattern in Alberta was very similar. When asked by a Calgary Herald reporter if he would take responsibility for the province’s dire situation in early December, Premier Kenney was outraged: “I reject the entire premise of your question.”
The decentralized nature of Canadian federalism puts provincial leadership into the spotlight. But the federal government is part of the problem, too. Imagine Ottawa had capitalized on its political and fiscal strength to muster a more coordinated, pan-Canadian response based on shared policy goals, standards and indicators. Suppose the feds had attached more strings to intergovernmental transfer payments, stopping the Ford government from using billions of contingency funds for budget consolidation instead of implementing paid sick leave, or making schools safe.
Not only could we have avoided many unnecessary deaths and extended lockdowns. We could also confront the third wave of the pandemic with confidence, as a truly resilient federation.
Jörg Broschek is Canada Research Chair in Comparative Federalism and Multi-level Governance, and associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University.


Donald Trump Jr. has some harsh words for any Republican Senators that side with Democrats and agree to call witnesses in his father’s trial that will not include Hunter or Joe Biden – “They don’t deserve to be in office.”
“The, let’s call it weaker Republicans…make a vote on it, if some of those guys don’t want to hear from the witnesses we’d want to hear from but will hear from the others, I want to know about it, because they don’t deserve to be in office,” Trump Jr. said on “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“I’d like to hear from Hunter Biden, I’d like to hear from Joe Biden, because frankly, these are the reasons we are even having this conversation right now. Hearing from everyone is totally fair. That’s not what we’ve heard so far while the Democrats have controlled the process,” Trump added.
Indeed, during the House impeachment hearings, Democrats called all their own witnesses while also preventing Republicans from calling theirs. For the upcomimg Senate trial, which begins on Tuesday, Democrats want to bring forward officials like White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — individuals they could have called during the House process – but they did not.
Republicans, on the other hand, want to call fact witnesses like Rep. Adam Schiff – who had contact with the Ukraine “whistleblower” before he had filed a complaint against Trump – as well as former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter over their involvement with Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.
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What we are watching is a crazed grab for power by what has become a political cult led by Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, and a very pathologically disturbed Maxine Waters. They have all let their lust for power and their utter rage over losing in 2016 render them so mindless, they have no idea what they are doing to their own lives, nor how they look or sound to rational Democrats. The whole mania is beyond their control. Their reasoning is totally irrational. They have twisted every move of President Trump, trying to make themselves look like they are upholding Truth, but at the same time, ignoring the true quid pro quo by Joe Biden and his son. Their whole distorted theme is that Trump is evil but everything they do is OK. Since they can’t control themselves, they don’t even realize that the ‘normal’ Democrats see exactly what the situation is, and are not happy about it. They see real needs in the country are neglected because of this rage against Trump. The Political Cultists have not done one single thing to better our country. They are totally caught up in hating Trump and do not have time or interest in what America needs. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of these top political cult members are not reelected, and it will be for the best. We all need rest from their endless and undying rage.


Soldiers bring strange memories home from war.
Any traveller knows the feeling, the inclination to grab some piece of a place so you have something to show you were there.
Soldiers do the same thing, only they tend to cherish odder stuff than carpets or T-shirts (though they like those, too). “These were still hot when we picked them up,” said Lieutenant-General Andrew Leslie, nodding at a couple of despicably jagged pieces of shrapnel sitting sort of hidden off to one side of his office’s conference table at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa.
Leslie is the Chief of the Land Staff, head of the whole army, subordinate in the Canadian Forces only to Chief of Defence Staff General Walter Natynczyk, and he has spent his fair share of time contending with Taliban rockets in Afghanistan. “The big one was picked up just outside Camp Julien (in Kabul),” said Leslie, looking at the shrapnel, before continuing in his calmly amicable way. “And the smaller one was picked up just outside FOB (Forward Observation Base) Masum Ghar.”
Leslie, 51, was appointed commander of the army in June 2006. And if there was ever a soldier ordained to rise into the heights of power, it was probably him.
One of his grandfathers was the legendary general Andrew McNaughton, army commander in the Second World War and veteran of Vimy Ridge in the First World War. His other grandfather was Brooke Claxton, another Vimy Ridge veteran who went on to be minister of national defence. Leslie’s dad was brigadier-general ‘Teddy’ McNaughton, a veteran of the Second World War and Korean War, former commander of 1 Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. It was in Korea that Leslie’s dad changed their family name—to Leslie—in order to comply with the terms of an inheritance.
Meanwhile, pedigree aside, it’s not like the man himself doesn’t have merit, far from it. Just watching him talk, with his totally familiar demeanour, as if being the commander of an army of close to 30,000 was the most natural and unstressful situation in the world, makes it clear why he rose so high, so fast.
Leslie got his start in the artillery in 1977, with an Ottawa reserve unit called the 30th Field Artillery Regt. He transferred to 1st Regt., RCHA in 1981. He’s been to school in England, done troop commander courses in the British army, commando courses in the French army and studied at Harvard.
Operationally, Leslie has served in Germany and Cyprus, commanded a sector of peacekeepers in Croatia in 1995 (for which he received a Meritorious Service Medal for his conduct under fire), before finally serving as the commander of Task Force Kabul in 2003.
Leslie is in an interesting position regarding the mission in Afghanistan. Due to the way the CF has been restructured, operational decisions about Afghanistan rest with Canadian Expeditionary Force Command (CEFCOM) and their subordinate theatre commanders and so, to some extent, Leslie is sitting on the sidelines of the war in Kandahar. “What control do I have over what happens in Afghanistan? Absolutely none because the mission…is run by CEFCOM.”
However, even as he says this, there’s a twinkle in his eye, because he does control certain things. “In terms of the tactics that the soldiers use when they’re overseas, that’s a function of their training. And I and my command team in the army are responsible for training, equipping, deploying, and recovering all those army folk who go overseas to do this. So yes, in terms of low-level tactics, we set the conditions here in Canada for what their about to do overseas.”
And this is no small piece of the puzzle. While CEFCOM and the theatre commanders may tell the soldiers what to do, everything they are capable of doing comes from Leslie. “(Afghanistan) has made the army more focused. Much more focused. It’s reinvigorated and re-energized our basic combat skills. It’s made us better appreciate the complexities, of the types of missions we’re not only doing in Afghanistan but elsewhere. It has acted as an instrument with which to change the Canadian army from arguably the remnants of a Cold War construct into something which is more focused on the centre of the spectrum—not necessarily peacekeeping, not necessarily Cold War fighting.”
Without a doubt, the Afghan mission has had a profound impact on the CF. Whereas at one point live-fire training was a notable milestone for the garrisoned force of peacekeepers, now company—or even battalion-level ground combat—is not all that uncommon in Afghanistan. But, it’s been a long stretch too, and the inscrutable complexity of the place means it surely hasn’t been easy.
“Quite frankly, we got there in 2002, we’re leaving in 2011. When my dad went overseas to fight in the Second World War he was gone six years….
“I know a great deal about Afghanistan. I did a tour there. I’ve been the army commander for closing on three years, and I go back quite often. Every time I actually read about the tribal dynamics or about the frontier region, every time I go to Afghanistan, I’m learning something completely and utterly new—something which changes my perception on how we’re doing it and how we should be doing it.
“Afghanistan is about as complex as it gets. It’s a counter-insurgency—and nested within that you have some predatory terrorist groups whose only interest is in the application of terror; you’ve got drug lords; you’ve got warlords; you’ve got six fascinating neighbours; you have 50 friends and allies, each of whom has a slightly different view on how to get the mission done. There are fascinating interpersonal relations in Kabul between [Afghanistan] President [Hamid] Karzai—who I admire having worked with fairly closely a couple of years ago—and some of his ministers, who are also former warlords, some of whom fought for the Russians or against the Russians, some of whom fought actually with the Taliban or against them. Holy cow. Wow….
“And every time I think I know something that’s complicated and difficult to figure, I meet a senior Afghan official who says, ‘No, that’s not the way it is at all.’ And then a completely new frame of reference kicks in.”
All of this complexity doesn’t just make it difficult to fight a war, it also makes it difficult to explain to Canadians what exactly is going on over there.
“Now, how do you explain that to a Canadian citizen who doesn’t live, breathe, eat and sleep this?” he asks with a smile.
Leslie, however, is very clear to draw a line between explaining, however difficult that is, and selling the war, or justifying it. “We explain that which we’re doing. It’s not my job to justify the Afghan mission, nor is it the job of my army generals. This is not the army’s war,” he said. “We go where we’re sent. We do that which we’re told to do, and we come home when Parliament says so.”
This, of course, brings up another topic of some controversy. When Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced during the 2008 election campaign that Canada’s mission in Afghanistan would end in 2011, it did leave a lot of military people looking around scratching their heads at the decision. “Soldiers don’t get to decide where we go, nor do we decide how long we’re going to stay. The orders that I’ve received from my chief are the military mission ends in Afghanistan in 2011. And though we’ve done great work there and I have passion for the country, my passion for Canada is more and my passion for the army is stronger: so my response to that is, ‘OK.’ The military mission ends in 2011 and my reply is, ‘OK.’”
So far at least, there is no clear opinion among the rank-and-file as to whether the end date in 2011 is good or bad. Certainly there are those who wish to stay longer, but there are also those who accept withdrawal but find the arbitrary endpoint unsatisfactory, an unfitting end to a heavy struggle.
“There are those who, quite rightly and honourably, are committed to the ground, or the circumstances where they have lost buddies. On the other hand, counter-insurgencies never have a clean ending—ever. There’s no one cataclysmic or triumphant event which has brought a counter-insurgency to an abrupt end. You could argue that Tamerlane, when he swept through there a couple decades after Genghis Khan, almost achieved that. But he did so by piling skulls very high, and we don’t do that in the Canadian army.”
Beyond the argument over the mission’s endpoint lies a somewhat stark statistical reality: the army cannot keep doing this mission at its current numbers, not without stressing soldiers well beyond the breaking point.
Leslie has made a decision, a guideline rather than an order, that soldiers will be limited to three tours in Afghanistan. If they want to go back after that, they’re going to have to produce a very good reason why. “First tour: you’re a soldier, you go…. Second tour: it has to be mutual. We ask you, you ask us. Third tour: convince us why you have to go. Fourth tour (and there have been some): you better have a skill set that’s unique that we can’t find anywhere else in the Canadian Forces. Fifth tour: there better be an incredibly good reason as to why you’re going back and we’re not going to ask you to do that….
“We are ferociously busy. In my 30 years as a soldier, we have never been busier….Let me just explain some math. So we have about 3,000 army soldiers deployed internationally. Most of who are in Afghanistan. So 3,000 are gone… 3,000 are coming home…3,000 are forming into the teams that they need to go overseas and doing basic individual training…3,000 are doing individual training at a more advanced level… 3,000 are doing collective training. You add it all up, that’s 15,000 folk.
“Then on top of that you’ve got the young men and women who are actually training the people who are about to go. Very quickly you’re at close to 30,000. You’ve got 20,000 regulars, we’ve got 8,000 full-time reservists. So we need a bigger army to do that which we’re doing….
“Now, the good news is I’ve been promised that we’re going to be growing by 3,075 regulars over the next couple of years. It would make our job a hell of a lot easier in the army if we had them trained in the battalions and regiments right now. And the growth rate is not as fast as I might hope.”
Despite the promised growth, there are other issues affecting the army’s strength, too. In the years since 9/11, there’s has been a renewed focus among western militaries on the uses of special operations forces. Small units of highly trained, adaptive and independent soldiers have proven very useful in the fight against Islamic militants. However, as Leslie notes, in an army as small as Canada’s, finding the trained men to perform these roles comes at a high cost to the regular forces.
Indeed, in some circles Leslie has become known for his opposition to special operations. But, as he argues, it was a very specific opposition. “At the time Canadian Special Operations Command (CANSOFCOM) was established, there was a vigorous professional debate between a bunch of generals as to how it should be done. I think JTF2 are the genetically blessed and represent the best—most of them come from army—that the army has to offer. And I wish them Godspeed and every success in everything they do.
“The issue had to do with the Canadian Special Operations Regiment (CSOR). So there was a vision that CSOR should work with CANSOFCOM as an enabler for them. And I understand that perspective. My point of view was I wanted CSOR in the army so as to bridge the army into more special type activities.
“My main remit is to preserve the army to be used by the Government of Canada for whatever orders might be issued to us. So the army is short of soldiers right now. We’ve lost—lost isn’t the right term—we’ve had transferred out of the army close to 2,000 officers and senior NCOs—priceless folk with incredible experience—to CANSOFCOM or the various operational commands. And they haven’t been replaced. So I’m concerned about that….
“What I didn’t want to have happen is my line, battalion, regiments and brigades denuded to actually send folk to other organizations without having a really good debate on what the impact to the army’s going to be….
“We had this professional debate. The Chief (of Defence Staff) at the time made the call. OK. He listened to what I had to say, he didn’t agree. But it wasn’t that important that I felt that anything else had to be done.”
And in terms of certain rumours that Leslie went after CSOR’s funding, he had a very frank reply. “Let me just tell you a tale of woe. Last year I handed in $50 million which we couldn’t spend,” he said. “So if I’m handing in money, it’s illogical to assume that I go after somebody else’s.”
There are other issues pressing in on Leslie beyond manpower shortages and CANSOFCOM’s troop demands, most particularly the problem of trying to equip troops in Afghanistan with the tools they need to stay alive and do their jobs.
“The troops on the frontline need everything right away and they should get it right away. Tragically, it does take time. For example, night vision goggles. There are a couple thousand sets over there. They are hard used. The breakage rate on the night vision goggles is high. We replace them from stocks in Canada, and then we in turn have to buy new ones. How long does it take to actually let a contract and do the paperwork across town to get new goggles? The answer can be, too bloody long.”
Along with night vision goggles and myriad other equipment, the most conspicuously and tragically absent capability in Kandahar these past few years has been helicopters. With that changing now, slowly, Leslie is happy to tout the procurement successes they’ve had such as the M-777 artillery pieces or the Leopard tanks.
“There have been some success stories,” he said, “but is it going as fast as I might want? Absolutely not.”
Leslie also had some interesting observations on the role of tanks in the Afghan mission. For those who have been over there to see it, there is a peculiar quality to watching these huge, massively powerful machines try to array themselves against an enemy that’s hardly ever visible. Leslie knows this.
“Tanks will not win a counter-insurgency…. There’s never going to be a victory parade in a counter-insurgency that’s going to be led by a tank. They’re there to protect the infantry….
“Those big 70-tonne monsters are the most survivable vehicle that we have in the Canadian inventory…so we didn’t buy the main battle tanks to kill other tanks à la the Cold War.”
Leslie then provides an interesting statistic, a previously unknown piece of information that made his press officer, who was sitting in on the interview, gasp in consternation and while the press officer requested that the actual numbers of tanks be kept secret, it is still a point worth considering.
“We’ve had,” said Leslie, “about [XX-number of] Leopard 1s knocked out of action and [X-number of] Leopard 2s…a total of [XX] out of 40 tanks. Think how many lives they’ve saved because what would’ve happened to those crewmen if they’ve been inside a LAV (Light Armoured Vehicle)? That’s maybe 100 lives.”
As for Leslie, it wouldn’t be a bad wager to assume that one day he’ll be moving over to the chief of defence staff’s corner office—though many contenders from the air force and navy might have something to say about that too. But, in the meantime, Canada’s top soldier will no doubt keep trying to win his battles one at a time.
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Three. - Why have the blog and you'd get? I have the blog so I can put things about arts and crafts on them.
4. - What are your hobbies? My hobbies are scrapbooking, arts and crafts, and music.
5. - A book, a song, a movie? My favorite book is the Bible.
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8. - What alternative lifestyle I wish there? I would like to try to live the country lifestyle on a farm.
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Caitlin Foord, acquired by the Thorns in January in a blockbuster three-way trade that sent Allie Long to Seattle, has ruptured her lisfranc ligament playing with Sydney FC in the Australian W-League, the Australian international announced via Twitter.
Foord scored the ninth-minute opening goal in Sydney’s semifinal against Newcastle Jets, but was subbed off at halftime after twisting her foot or ankle; a shot of the bench during the second half showed her foot to be badly swollen, but no diagnosis was available at the time.
The lisfranc joint complex is “the bones and ligaments that connect the midfoot and forefoot.” Although it’s unclear how severe Foord’s injury is, lisfranc injuries in general are reportedly non-trivial:
Lisfranc injuries are brutal. We're talking probably a minimum of 3-4 months out.— Chris Henderson (@chris_awk) February 12, 2018
Foord has suffered a similar injury in the past—as, coincidentally, has her Matildas teammate Sam Kerr.

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Favorite thing: again another wonderful city of the Loire and France,and again, lovely to walk around the river maine and the old castle over to the Cathedral;
one of the best ways to see a city or town or village is walk, and with little time to see these beauties you better see it on foot up close and personal.
along the river Maine, and also at the house of Adam or Maison d'Adam a wooden house built in 1431, located at the crossing of the rue Montault,and the place Sainte-Croix, just behind the Cathedral. It is from 1990, the Maison des Artisans d'Angers or the house of artisans of Angers.And of course the architecture is fantastic all over this one is unique indeed.
Fondest memory: views from the other side of the maine looking at the castle and from castle view to the maine and cale de savatte boats.
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- Arts and Culture
The Origins of Tapestry (See It Now!)
Favorite thing: Wall hangings in tents("double-layering") must have been discovered in prehistoric times as a way to diminish cold (and heat?), prevent wind entry and diminish dust. At first hides and other animal skin products were used; woven materials were rare. The quality of the pelts and hanging objects gave rise to interior decoration and indicated wealth and power. Cloth (woven fibers) is found in Egypt in 2000 BC, but tapestry weaving first appears in China in 400AD and spread slowly through Japan, Persia and Turkey, reaching the West in 1000 AD. At that time it was mostly woolen and silk rugs. The first Art Tapestries were in the early 1300's as personal heraldic designs and patterns (like the Oriental Rugs). Entrepreneurship rapidly expanded the output after 1350, and the Valois family who competed with each other as great Art patrons, encouraged pictorial tapestry. At that time painting was on manuscripts (small) and on wood or walls (not very portable). Nicolas Bataille became very adept at supplying their needs and soon their halls were decorated with portable tapestries. The earliest tapestry series still exissting is here in Angers, the Apocalypse. A few of another series of the same period and workshops are in the Cloisters, N.Y.C. Prior to that there are a few embroidered wall hangings, like the 11C embroidery called the "Bayeux Tapestry" in that city. Tapestry work spread rapidly through North Germany and around Flanders (Arras, Tournai and Brussels).
Fondest memory: At the beginning of the 1500's the Mille-fleurs (thousand flowers) background pattern became popular and it remains so today as seen in this tapestry which probably belongs to the Manorial Life series at the Cluny Museum in Paris (See our Cluny Tips). Two other mille-fleurs series involving aUnicorn are the most popular in the World (at the Cluny and the Cloisters). There is another series in the Chateau called the "Passion Tapestries", see them too. There are more tapestries in the Chateau and the Cathedral and 20C tapestries in the Musee Lurcat across the river in the Hospital of St. John.
- Family Travel
Office du Tourisme
Favorite thing: This office is directly across the square from the chateau d'Angers and directly adjacent to the Maison du Vin. For all of your tourist needs go here. Cash traveler's checks, get maps and other information. They are very cordial here and speak English (of course).
- Budget Travel
- Family Travel
- Study Abroad
Domaine de Pignerolle
Favorite thing: At the heart of the Domaine de Pignerolle, u will find the Chýteau de Pignerolle, a replica of the "Petit trianon" in Versailles.
This listed Historical Monument (18 th century) , it has for the last 10 years housed the Communication Museum.
This museum is very strange...
But in summer it's a funny place with a lot of shows by night ( open-air cinema, visits-shows and french hot air ballon championships...).
That's why I prefer the park: it's a also a listed Historical Monument with its French-style gardens and its surprising bunkers which reflect the important role the Domaine played during World War II.
- Theme Park Trips
- Hot Air Ballooning
- Museum Visits
Get an Angers city map - it's free!
Favorite thing: Angers' street design may be hard to follow without a map.
So, for first-timers without any map, the first place to head is the tourist information office near the old chateau. It's across the street from the chateau at the junction of Place du Président Kennedy & Rue Toussaint. Their number is 02 41 23 50 00.
They will fall over backwards to speak your language of choice and give free stuff to you.
The main part of town, the old town, is bounded by 3 major boulevardes and the river which pretty much form a rectangle around. The hub of the town, Place du Railliement, is smack-dab in the middle of this rectangle.
To get bearings: downhill generally takes you to the river, and the cathedral is a landmark often visible from many places.
Favorite thing: A trompe-l'oeil is a painting that seems real, like this one. You'll find such forms of art all over France.


UPPER DARBY – Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood plans on participating in the ‘Coffee with a Cop’ initiative from 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday at the McDonald’s located at State Road and Lansdowne Avenue.
Residents can stop in to chat and have a free cup of coffee or tea with Upper Darby police officers.
‘Six to eight officers will be assigned to participate and just meet and greet,’ Chitwood said. ‘It’s a good way to communicate with the residents and a nice public relations opportunity. We partnered with McDonald’s who liked the idea and agreed.’
According to Chitwood, ‘Coffee with a Cop’ originated in California a couple of years ago and has become popular in many police departments.
‘This will be the first of many ‘Coffee with a Cop’ for us here,’ Chitwood said. ‘Being out in the community is the old fashioned way of doing policing.’
– LINDA REILLY


Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today passed the bipartisan EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act (H.R. 1029), introduced by Science, Space, and Technology Committee Vice-Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) and Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.). The bill brings fairness, transparency, and independence to the EPA’s expert panel.
“The EPA’s Science Advisory Board was intended to provide a meaningful, balanced, and independent assessment of the science that informs federal regulatory decisions,” said Congressman Lucas. “However, the EPA systematically silences voices of dissent on the Science Advisory Board, ignores calls for independence and balanced participation, and prevents the Board from responding to Congressional requests. This is a good-government bill; it reflects the values we should uphold regardless of which side of the political aisle we are on. The bill recognizes the important role science should play in our policy debates and provides safeguards to give the public confidence in science. It restores the independent Science Advisory Board as a defender of scientific integrity.”
The SAB was created in 1978 to provide independent expert advice to the EPA and Congress on scientific and technical information that may be used to justify federal regulations. Over the past decades, shortcomings with the current process have arisen, including limited public participation, EPA interference with expert advice, and potential conflicts of interest.
The EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act:
· Strengthens public participation and opportunities for the public to comment
· Reinforces peer review requirements and reduces conflicts of interest
· Provides opportunities for dissenting panelists to make their views known
· Requires communication of uncertainties in scientific findings and conclusions
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Frank Lucas (OK-03) joined an effort to halt the Biden Administration’s rule allowing for the importation of fresh Paraguayan beef, which has historically been affected by the viral foot-and-mouth disease. The USDA’s most recent inspection of cattle in Paraguay was nearly a decade ago. Congressman Lucas (OK-03) joined Rep. Ronny Jackson’s (TX-13) joint resolution […]
Lucas: USDA fails to deliver support to Oklahoma farmers.
Washington, DC – At today’s House Agriculture Committee hearing, Congressman Lucas questioned Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack over the Biden Administration’s failed Emergency Relief Program (ERP). Congressman Lucas noted that producers in Oklahoma were feeling the negative affects of the ERP 2022 program. Secretary Vilsack questioned this claim, prompting Congressman Lucas to defend his constituents. Click here or […]
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Lucas followed up with Secretary Yellen on whether Treasury has discussed the impact of the Basel Endgame proposal with the Federal Reserve. When asked a straightforward question on the detrimental impact of the proposal, Secretary Yellen had no answer. February 6, 2024 Lucas: “Are you concerned that the proposal will undermine the […]


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Project Overview: Built to Last Construction is owned by two South Bend, Indiana locals, and they focus on carpentry and general home-based construction. They have been in operation since 2009, but never had a logo. They contacted me to fix that!
- Logo needed to be instantly recognizable as a contractor/construction company that works on homes but is not a whole home builder.
- Color requests: Bright green or bright orange.
- Logo must be able to be used on everything from graphics to print promotional pieces to shirts.
- I decided to use a strong type face that crossed between construction and fitness to show authority and recognizability.
- For colors, we opted going with what I call “Traffic Cone Orange” and black. That way, it’s easy to create have their branded colors match typical construction safety colors.
- I included four pieces in the design to instantly inform people about the company’s services: a saw blade, hammer, screwdriver, and house.
- There are many contractors out there, and I wanted to make sure that we included the year when the company was founded; setting it apart from other contractors.
You can find Built to Last on Facebook by clicking here.

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Oneida County High Point Trip Report
Oxford Peak (9,280+ ft)
Date: July 11, 2001
Author: Ken Jones
Driving: In Clifton, Idaho (on the old highway, west of US 91), near the south end of town, find First Street South.
Set odometer (0.0). Follow First Street South to the west; it will eventually become forest road 045.
It passes the Clifton cemetery, and winds through ranches. At 3.0 miles, keep left. In the next
segment you will pass through a pair of gates (not locked when I was there, and probably never locked). At
6.2 miles an ATV trail heads left; continue straight. At 6.4 miles the road ends in a meadow. Park here;
only ATVs and 2-wheel vehicles can legally continue driving (if you have one, it will make this trip easier).
You can probably get to 6.4 miles in a passenger sedan with some effort, but high clearance will make life
Hiking: Walk the ATV trail. It soon climbs to Oxford Ridge, and spends most of the time on or near the
crest. The USFS map shows this trail, the USGS does not. The USFS map is wrong beginning near the
north line of Section 1. The trail does not bear to the west side of the ridge, but down to the east. I cut
across easy sagebrush terrain and picked it up again where it climbs from the east to the north of point 8635'.
From here there is a good trail to point 9098'; it gets rough down to the saddle,
but good again to the summit.
The actual highest point on Oxford Mountain is probably not at the 9282' benchmark, but at the 9280'+
contour just to the south. The sighting is made more questionable by a large, mortared cairn on point 9282'.
I'd advise doing both in order to claim Oneida county.
This trail was not a pleasant place to be on my return, as electrical storms were in the valleys
on each side of me. Watch the weather before getting caught on this exposed ridge.

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US 1047430 A
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Description (OCR text may contain errors)
J. M. MIUHABLSON.
MOTOR GYGLE FRAME.
APPLIOIATION FILED JAN.9,1912.
1,047,430, Patented Dec. 17,1912.
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JOSEPH M. MICI-IAELSON, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE AS- SIGNMENTS, T0 MINNEAPOLIS MOTOR COMPANY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, A
CORPORATION OF MINNESOTA.
Application filed January 9, 1912.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, J osnrrr M. MICHAEL- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Motor- Cycle Frames; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.
My invention has for its object to improve the construction of motor cycles and bicycle frames, and is directed particularly to an improved arrangement of the cushioning spring connection whereby the frame is made resilient, and hence, easy riding and free from shocks and jars when running over rough roads.
Generally stated, the invention consists of the novel devices, combinations of devices and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claims.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.
Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation showing portions of a bicycle or motor cycle frame having my invention embodied therein; Fig. 2 is a section taken approximately on the irregular line on Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the socalled frame coupling link; Fig. 4 is a detail view in rear elevation showing the pronged head at the lower end of the seat post-2 of the main frame; and Fig. 5 is a detail showing the spring engaging head of the plunger of the cushioning device.
The main or front section 1 of the machine frame, may be of the usual or any suitable construction, but its seat post tube 2 is shown as provided at its lower end with a rigidly secured bifurcated head 3 having rearwardly offset laterally spaced lugs 4:. The rear frame section is made up of the usual rear forks 6, to which forwardly extended lower tubes 7 are rigidly secured, and to which the rear ends of the inclined upper tubes 8 are pivotally attached. The lower tubes 7, at their front ends, are rigidly secured to projecting sleeves of a crank shaft casing 9, which, at its front side is provided with lugs 10 that are pivotally connected to Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented Dec. 17,1912.
Serial No. 670,133.
the lugs 4: of the heretofore noted bifurcated head 3. The frame coupling link 11, which, as shown, is a wide faced member with bifurcated ends, is pivotally connected to the upper ends of the tubes 8 and to a rigidly secured lug 12 on the seat post tube 2. I
In accordance with my invention, I provide a cushioning device involving novel construction per 86, and furthermore, I employ a cushioning connection which is applied directly between the so-called frame coupling link 11 or its equivalent, and the crank shaft casing or adjacent part that moves with the said crank shaft casing. This cushioning connection, as preferably constructed, involves a longitudinally split or divided tubular casing 13 formed at its ends with supplemental internal collars 14:. Within the tube l3'is a heavy coiled cushioning spring 15, the ends of which fit within grooves formed in the collars 14, so that the said. spring, at its ends, is rigidly anchored to the ends of the said tube 13. The tube 13, at its lower end, is provided with ears 16 that are pivotally connected, by a bolt 17, to a lug 18, rigidly secured directly on top of the crank shaft casing 9. The sections of the tube 13 are shown as provided with up per and lower pairs of lugs 19 through which bolts 20 are applied to rigidly but detachably hold together the sections of the said tube.
Working through the upper portion of the spring 15 and through the upper end of the tube 13, is a thrust rod 21, the upper end of which is pivotally connected by a bolt 22, to depending lugs 23, formed on or rigidly secured to the intermediate portion of the link 11. The lower end of this thrust bolt 21 is provided with a head 24 having a spiral groove that engages the intermediate portion of the spring 15. When the bolt 22 is removed, the thrust rod 21 may be rotated to thereby vertically adjust the said rod in respect to the spring 15 and spring tube or casing 13. Such adjustments serve to vertically adjust the central portion of the machine frame, including the crank shaft hanger. lVith the spring 15 anchored at both ends and the thrust rod 21 connected to the intermediate portion thereof, there are provided, in effect, two springs, one of which always acts in compression and the other in tension. For instance, under downward strains from the weight of the rider or load, the upper part of the said spring will be compressed and the lower' part will be stretched, and under recoil, there is a reverse relative action, and the lower section of the spring cushions the movement iniparted by the upper section. Also, it is evident that by vertical adjustments of the thrust rod, that part of the spring which is above the head of said thrust rod and which acts in compression, to carry the load, may
be increased or decreased in length. Hence, practically any desired adjustment of the spring is made possible, and there is always in action, two springs or two sections of a single spring that extends above and below the head of the thrust rod. Obviously, when the thrust rod is connected to the coupling link 11 by the bolt 22, it cannot rotate, and hence, cannot change its adjustment in re spect to the spring.
With the spring connection applied between the coupling link and crank shaft hanger, an extra bracket on the seat post tube 2 is dispensed with, and furthermore, when the bolts at 10 and 12 are removed, the rear section of the frame may be separated from the main or front section of the frame, without requiring the spring connection to be disconnected at any point or at either end.
The improved spring connection or attachment described may be easily applied, may be constructed at small cost, and furthermore, is highly efficient for the purposes had in view.
What I claim is:
1. In a frame of the kind described, a cushioning connection comprising a coiled spring anchored at its ends, and an endwise movable thrust rod connected to the intermediate portion of said spring, so that one end section of said spring operates in compression while the other operates in tension.
2. In a frame of the kind described, a cushioning connection comprising a coiled spring anchored at its ends, and an endwise movable thrust rod connected to the intermediate portion of said spring, so that one 3. In a frame of the kind described, a cushioning connection comprising a coiled spring anchored at its ends, and an endwise movable thrust rod having a spirally grooved head adjustably connected to the intermediate portion of said spring, substantially as described.
a, In a frame of the kind described, a' spring connection comprising a spring casing, a coiled spring in said casing having its ends anchored to the ends of said casing, and a thrust rod movable endwise in said casing and having a spirally grooved head adjustably connected to the intermediate portion of said spring, substantially as described.
5. In a frame of the kind described, a spring connection comprising a longitudinally split spring casing, a coiled spring in said casing having its ends anchored in grooves formed in the ends of the section of said casing, and a thrust rod movable endwise in said casing and connected to the intermediate portion of said spring, substantially as described.
6. In a frame of the kind described, the combination with a front section having a seat post tube, of a rear frame section having a rigidly secured crank shaft hanger pivotally connected to said seat post tube, and having upper members, a coupling link pivotally connected to said seat post tube and to the upper member of said rear frame section, and a cushioning connection applied between said coupling link and crank shaft hanger.
7. In a frame of the kind described, the combination with a seat post tube, of a crank shaft hanger pivotally connected to the lower end of said seat post tube, a coupling link pivotally connected to the upper portion of said seat post tube, rear forks having lower tubes rigidly connected to said crank shaft hanger, upper tubes pivotally connected to said rear forks and to said couplingrlink, and a cushioning connection pivoted at its upper end to said coupling link and at its lower end to said crank shaft hanger, substantially as described.
In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.
JOSEPH M. MICHAELSON. Witnesses:
HARRY D. KiLsoRE, F. D. MERCHANT.
Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,
Washington, D. 0.


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Blasts From the Past: 11 Timeless Menus
One rule that restaurants often have a hard time sticking to is "if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it." It’s a part of the DNA of most chefs and restaurateurs to be constantly exploring, dreaming up new ideas, inventing, creating, and upgrading. That constant quest for inspiration is, in many ways, what keeps the job exciting, and at no time in history has there been so much pressure on chefs to keep their menus constantly evolving, sometimes completely changing from one day to the next depending on what’s in season. But at the other end of the spectrum are the restaurants with menus that never change.
No, we’re not talking about that local diner that’s been serving the same exact gyro for the past 30 years (while that certainly has its merits). We’re talking about restaurants that serve food that’s become timeless, a menu that’s so engrained into the very fiber of the building that even a minor change would be considered blasphemy, and very well might result in picket lines.
So what is it that makes a menu timeless, exactly, as opposed to just outdated? The quality of the food needs to be incredibly high, obviously, but these restaurants also need to be considered institutions. When you’ve reached a certain level of renown, and people come from miles away just to eat your family-style fried chicken dinner, you don’t go adding sesame-crusted tuna to your menu because nobody will order it, and if they came there for anything other than the fried chicken then they’re out of their mind. It’s that level of devotion to the dishes that makes a menu timeless.
These menus aren’t just tried-and-true, they’re glimpses into our culinary heritage. There used to be hundreds of restaurants just like downtown Los Angeles’ Original Pantry Café, but now you’d be hard-pressed to find a restaurant that still serves basically the same classic menu that it did in 1924, complete with a hamburger steak and a hot beef sandwich. If the head chef there wanted to do some culinary exploration, he’d go work somewhere else.
Our list of timeless menus runs the gamut from cheap eats (New Haven’s Louis' Lunch) to perhaps the last restaurant in the country still serving nearly unpronounceable Gilded Age fare (New Orleans’ Antoine’s). Read on for a glimpse at how we used to eat, and where you can still eat those same dishes today.
Dan Myers is the Eat/Dine Editor at The Daily Meal. Follow him on Twitter @sirmyers.

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I was running OSMC (Kodi v16) on a Raspberry Pi 2. When on my local network I could browse to the web interface by entering the IP address of the raspberry pi (192.168..) in my browser. I did not need to specify the port.
I have recently upgraded to Kodi v17 RC1. I am aware this is buggy and without support. To access the web interface I must now enter 192.168..:8080 in my browser. How can I change this so that I do not need to specify the port number? Is this something I can change in OSMC or is it something I need to change in my router?
Change the port of the webinterface to port 80 in settings -> services -> control
If you didn’t need to specify the port with v16 then to me that suggests that there was wither a port 80>8080 redirect or the web interface was actually running on 80 in the earlier release.
I changed the port using the description found here: Web Interface broken - #11 by ActionA
Changing the port to Port 80 means that the port does not need to be specified when browsing on the local network.
Port 80 should still be default on Krypton. Please ping me if this is not the case


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TOKYO -- Toyota Motor is accelerating its efforts to develop buses and commercial trucks that run on fuel cells, in a push for popularizing the environment-friendly technology despite a global shift toward electricity.
Toyota plans to launch such carbon dioxide-free -- at least on the road -- vehicles mainly in Tokyo next year.
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Fire-Fighting ship LB 30
|Customer||Hamburg Port Authority|
In May 2021, Royal Van der Leun received an order of Boskalis to install rock dumping pontoon Scraderway. The challenge we had together: delivering the project at the end of September 2021. In this short time frame, engineering had to be done quickly but accurately.
|Shipyard||De Groot Shipyards|
After the engineering, the first step was to inventory and purchase the long lead items as quickly as possible. This is a major challenge during the pandemic because delivery times have become enormous.In addition to a good relationship with manufacturers, this requires a lot of creativity from both parties.
We are very pleased that we managed to finish the Scraderway on time. The pontoon was transported to Russia on a deep-loading vessel. Here it is being phased out and tested complete during sea trials. Royal Van der Leun will complete the final phase of the project also in Russia.
Because the Scarderway will operate in temperatures of -40 degrees, it will only be operational for a few weeks a year. This is due to the freezing of the sea.
At the christening that took place at the Groot Shipyards in Dordrecht, Boskalis expressed its praises to all parties involved. “The impossible is made possible”.
This is exactly what Royal Van der Leun stands for: flexibility, doing everything we can to make it possible and being there when the customer needs us.
• System integration
• Main Switchboards
• Distribution boards
• Variable frequency convertors
• Alarm monitoring systems
• E motors
• Nautical equipment
• Engineering and project management
• Shore supply
• Wheelhouse desk / ECR console
• Navigation equipment
• Internal communication
• Cable Package
• Fire detection system
• Announcement system
• Battery chargers incl. batteries and battery boxes