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Apple’s largest — and most expensive — iPad ever is a powerful new tool for artists and graphic designers. But can it replace a laptop for the rest of us? The new iPad Pro is the biggest and fastest Apple tablet to date. The pressure-sensitive Pencil stylus offers superior sketching and drawing, and the Pro’s […]
There are tons of streaming TV apps, but I’m on the hunt for a streaming workout app that won’t cost a fortune. Running is free, or costs about as much as a quality pair of sneakers, which is one of the main reasons I prefer it to other forms of exercise. Why pay for an […]
Apple’s HomeKit framework is more than just a platform for controlling your home with Siri. Developers will have the chance to build apps for your home. Last year, Apple announced a technology that will let you control the appliances in your home with Siri. It’s called HomeKit. And if Apple’s plans work out, it will […]
The FIAT brand launched a first-of-its kind on-air campaign this week featuring :15-second GIFs as part of creative designed for both television and online. The “Endless Fun” campaign kicked off Monday night (June 10) across cable television with four commercials, which can be viewed on the FIAT brand’s Tumblr page, and a :30 second online […]
Dana Anderson, svp, marketing strategy and communications at snack and gum giant Mondelez International, recalls a new business presentation she made in the early 1980s that was anything but sweet. Today, Anderson laughs as she tells the tale—and well she should. Public speaking has become her forte. She ranks among the most in-demand presenters in […]
In the 19th century, the beer industry wasn’t run by multi-billion-dollar conglomerates that could brew and ship millions of bottles with the push of a button. At that time, the budding industry was spearheaded by entrepreneurial brewers who had to invent recipes, brewing processes and taste profiles before they ever shipped a single bottle. Heineken […]
This year’s Super Bowl ads featured high-profile celebrity appearances from Ellen DeGeneres (Beats Music), Bob Dylan (Chrysler), and Scarlett Johansson (SodaStream), but a new report suggests those brands might have been better off saving their money.
Flex Seal, a solid partner with JD Motorsports with Gary Keller for several racing seasons, will return in 2014 to support both JDM drivers – Jeffrey Earnhardt and Landon Cassill – in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Bookmark and Share Flex Seal will be Earnhardt’s primary sponsor for Saturday’s season-opening DRIVE4COPD 300 at Daytona International Speedway, […]
The trial continues Friday for a Naples business suing marketing giant Ontel Products Corp. and its As Seen on TV brand for patent infringement on its snap-to-bra camisole. BraNovations Inc., owned by J.D. and Michelle De Sousa of Naples, claims the New Jersey-based company violated their patent for Cleava, a cleavage covering invention which snaps […]
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“Blankets are okay but they can slip and slide, and when you need to reach for something your hands are trapped inside. Now there’s the Snuggie- the blanket that has sleeves!” The Snuggie presents a simple solution to a problem you didn’t even know you had. In the fall of 2008, Allstar Products Group, a […]
Coke has unveiled an addition to its packaging arsenal as the drinks giant adds its global Spotify partnership to its cans for the first time. | Marketing Magazine
Kanye West claims his appearances on girlfriend Kim Kardashian’s reality show are “all for love.” It was rumored he decided against appearing on the show because he’s vehemently against sharing his private life with the public. The rapper has been featured on “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” only a few times since being in a […]
Acura is getting ready to launch the most expensive ad campaign in the brand’s history which will focus on promoting the redesigned 2014 MDX.
YouTube’s rollout of premium pay channels may sound promising, but transitioning from the home of free online video to a pay site will be challenging – and may be of little value for existing brands.
Be Your Own Best Advertisement: Learn how to make a name for yourself in fashion by mastering the art of branding with the help of some industry experts. All of Your Game of Thrones Hair Questions Answered: We talked to the show’s hair designer and got all the dish about the style and symbolism behind […]
For Steve Jobs, branding wasn’t some secondary objective, peripheral to his “true” objective of making great consumer products. Branding was within everything that he did.
Without even trying, Kate Middleton is arguably one of the top fashion influencers with major branding potential. Just think about how much revenue she could generate with Kris Kardashian as her mentor…
Rene Syler is the perfect example of someone who had success on national television and was fired, hit rock bottom trying to stay in an industry that just didn’t fit anymore and then created her own career built around her own unique brand online.
ADOTAS – Social media is the tool of the decade for marketers and brands. With new technologies and the advancement of […]
Twitter is an excellent tool for personal branding. The key to effectively branding your content and creating a clear impression of your business for your audience is keeping your Twitter activity consistent and engaging.
Twitter on Wednesday launched its new Lead Generation Card, in an effort to make it easier for users to show interest in promoted discounts from their favorite brands.
Yes, that’s great advice when it comes to personal branding; the trouble arises when the advice gets implemented carelessly, thoughtlessly or inappropriately. Then there’s a lot of flash and dash, but little response. Those targeted get confused or turned off instead of attracted.
The Great Gatsby, which opens next week, is being promoted through a multichannel campaign that includes co-branded apparel, Champagne, jewelry, hosiery, makeup and travel. The Great Gatsby, which hits theatres May 10, is being called the most stylish movie ever made. It’s ironic, then, that the film’s multi-channel marketing has demonstrated all the subtlety of […]
For some of the biggest consumer brands, nostalgia is anything but yesterday’s news.
Adidas announced it will donate all proceeds from the sale of a commemorative t-shirt to The One Fund Boston, established to aid Boston Marathon victims, Boston.com reported.
Nicktoons, the animation channel from kid’s TV channel Nickelodeon, has revealed new branding across its on air channel and digital site…
Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has criticised the pay of pop bands like One Direction, suggesting that their high pay is “downright insensitive and grossly immoral”.
Yangpu district police have arrested a man suspected of making a profit of more than 50,000 yuan ($8,040) selling phony Snuggie brand blankets online, police said Wednesday.
Cee Lo Green and sake? The combination seems a like bit of a stretch for the eccentric Georgia native, but is it really? The singer-songwriter, Voice coach, and member of both hip-hop group Goodie Mob and soul duo Gnarls Barkley, has always had a flair for the atypical. So it somehow seems right that he […]
She does not just have the body of a supermodel – she is a supermodel – but Helena Christensen has come out swinging for a woman’s right to be curvy, especially as she is pregnant. After a slew of weekly magazines discussed Kim Kardashian’s pregnancy eating and weight gain, Helena branded the stories ‘public bullying’ […]
They may have announced it in a Facebook posting, but it might as well have been an advertisement launching the newly minted Tiger Woods-Lindsey Vonn brand partnership.
Click-through rates (CTRs) on tablets outperform smartphones by 250% for branding campaigns, but also lead when it comes to direct-response campaigns, which traditionally rely on less resource invested in the ad creative.
In this day and age, you need to be branded. You need to be known as the go-to person for serving the need of the market in your field.
PC Pal’s MD discuses the relationship between branding and customer service. In my last two columns, I have discussed what branding is all about and how to ensure you can implement the key ingredients to creating a strong brand. But there is a third dimension to branding that is often overlooked. This element is the […]


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"I realized there may have been room for misinterpretation," the designer said after the backlash.
Two words: Janelle. Monae.
"Let's move from talk to action."
An unprecedented number of people attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner this year are engaged in refugee affairs.
The moves served the exuberant designer well. At the end of her fashion shows, right on the runway, she is known for doing
"You can't change the world alone, but maybe you can be an accessory."
Fashion mogul and social activist Kenneth Cole talks about his philanthropic efforts in Haiti and what the six year anniversary of the devastating earthquake means to him.
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"While we were here, we also looked at people who did footwear, to see if there was a way we could create something in-brand that would benefit the community. This is how we found Rebuild Globally and Deux Mains. We launched our exclusive sandals designed and made in Haiti from recycled tires."
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Swaths of Puerto Rico still lack electricity. Jehu Garcia, film-making equipment company owner and YouTuber, wondered how he could help. He’s built his own do-it-yourself version of a Powerwall, and tackled the Puerto Rico power issue with his technical know-how by building a solar generator, and providing information for others to also build the DIY generators.
Garcia created a solar generator, which he explained in his video is “essentially a small, lightweight, portable Powerwall.” The solar generator is a box “containing batteries, an inverter, a solar charge controller, and all kinds of different connectors to get the power in and out.” His 13-minute video details how to make the device, and the text below includes links to the various components a builder would need – costing around $550, a figure which includes the cost of a solar panel, an extension cord to connect the device to the panel, and around six light bulbs. “This is a complete system ready to deploy in Puerto Rico to light up a home and to give at least power communications or medical devices,” Garcia said in his video. The device can be equipped to offer around one kilowatt-hours worth of battery.
Garcia called for people to build the solar generators, and send completed devices or parts to Javier Camacho, a contact of Garcia’s in Puerto Rico. Camacho recorded a video sharing his experience on the island, saying, “We are at the mercy of the people that can actually put the grid on – or, we could help them. We could make something.” Camacho has access to a maker space, according to Garcia, with people who could build the solar generators. OZY reported there have been 15 installations so far.


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Poor care at VA hospitals cost 1,000 veterans their lives, report says
$1B in malpractice settlements as horror stories revealed
“The problems at the VA are worse than anyone imagined,” Mr. Coburn said. “Over the past decade, more than 1,000 veterans may have died as a result of VA’s misconduct and the VA has paid out nearly $1 billion to veterans and their families for its medical malpractice.”
Read more: Poor care at VA hospitals cost 1,000 veterans their lives, report says - Washington Times
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Govt health care in action. And they hire criminals as well. Our vets dont deserve this, and Obama has some explaining to do.

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Sabor A Mi Song Sample Lesson Sample In the style of Los Lobos. In this Guitar by Ear lesson you will learn the rhythm and lead guitar parts to this Latin pop ballad without using music, tab or video. The song is fully demonstrated at the beginning of the lesson and then you are taught all of the guitar parts completely "by ear." This way you learn quickly and you memorize as you go. The lesson also includes three versions of the backing tracks for you to practice the different guitar parts with.


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Decatur Artway Phase V (Decatur, GA) – Call For Artists
The Decatur Arts Alliance seeks sculptures to be placed in the city of Decatur, Georgia as part of Decatur Artway Phase V. Sculptors are encouraged to be a part of this two-year sculpture exhibition.
Deadline: 31 Jul 2019
The sculpture must be available for the duration of the two-year contract. All submissions must be professionally constructed of durable materials which will withstand the elements. No maquettes or renderings will be considered for selection. Decatur Arts Alliance will only accept existing and ready to install works. All durable outdoor media are encouraged. Delivery and installation of the selected work will be scheduled the week of October 7 through 11. If the submitted work has been selected and confirmed for another exhibition before July 31, 2019, please contact Angie Macon, Decatur Arts Alliance at your earliest convenience.
Decatur Artway Phase V Artist Benefits
Decatur Artway Phase V selected artists will be awarded an honorarium of $2000. The installed work may be available for sale. Artwork sold as a result of the Decatur Artway will be subject to a 20% commission. It will be deducted from the purchase price and retained by the Decatur Arts Alliance.
The Decatur Arts Alliance will, in partnership with the Decatur Tourism Bureau and the Downtown Development Authority, market the Decatur Artway to include (but not limited to) printed walking/cycling/driving sculpture tours, online tour with a mobile app, and docent lead tours for visitors and residents. The Decatur Artway opening will include an artist talk which will be videotaped and used on the mobile app and website.
About Decatur Arts Alliance
The Decatur Arts Alliance (DAA) is a nonprofit partnership of artists, business owners, and residents dedicated to supporting and enhancing the arts in the city of Decatur, GA. The DAA sponsors the annual festivals and special art events for members only. It provides a collaborative environment to coordinate the interests of artists, gallery owners, theater groups, dance groups, and performance venues within Decatur. DAA develops the city as a strong arts community. DAA sponsors the Decatur Arts Festival, the YEA! event for young emerging artists, Oakhurst Porchfest, and the Decatur Wine Festival.
For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Which MyClose App version you must download to operate your antitheft system depends on the tracker release. To understand which App version you need to download please check out the Read Carefully booklet you find in the product package. If the Read Carefully booklet you find inside the package does not specify which version to download, you should download MyClose App 1.0. Otherwise, please download the App version specified in the Read Carefully booklet you find in your product package (check out the label sticked to the Read Carefully booklet).
MyClose App 1.0 and MyClose App 2.0 are available in English only. The text messages you receive on your phone as alarms are instead available in 5 languages: Italian, English, French, Spanish and Dutch (you choose the text messages language by the configuration software or by MyClose App 2.0).
Yes, you can use with a mobile phone that is not a smartphone all MyClose antitheft products in the GSM version (based on GSM communication technology). You will receive alarms on your mobile through phone calls and text messages.
Yes, you can use with an old smartphone whose operating system is not compatible with MyClose App all MyClose antitheft products in the GSM version (based on GSM communication technology). You will receive alarms on your mobile through phone calls and msgs.
With MyClose App 1.0 you can: activate/deactivate the system alarm, request your vehicle position whenever you want to know it, configure your tracker working parameters, select from your contacts the number to be alerted in case of alarm, select the language of the alarms text messages. With MyClose App 2.0, on top of the functionalities already available with MyClose App 1.0, you display the status of the system components for a smoother system switch on: smartphone, tracker / communication unit and lock / motorbike brake disc lock.
The movement alarm is the alarm you receive on your mobile in case of unauthorized movements of your lock / motorbike brake disc lock. When system alarm is activated, unauthorized movements of the lock / brake disc lock are interpreted as theft attempts and trigger the movement alarm that is sent to your smartphone.
You can personalize the lock sensibility to movements according to your needs, by choosing between: high sensibility, medium sensibility and low sensibility. High sensibility: 1 movement of the lock / motorbike brake disc lock in a minute is enough to trigger movement alarm to your mobile. Medium sensibility: 2 movements of the lock / motorbike brake disc lock in a minute are needed to trigger movement alarm to your mobile. Low sensibility: 3 movements of the lock / brake disc lock in a minute are needed to trigger movement alarm to your mobile. We recommend the high sensibility setting in case you are parking in high theft risk area or if you want to be alerted as someone tampers with your vehicle. You can change the sensibility of the lock / motorbike brake disc lock through the App or through the configuration software from your pc.
Yes, you will receive also an alarm in case communication from tracker to lock / from the tracker to the motorbike brake disc lock is lost. The frequency of this alarm is defined by the user in the configuration software or through the App. It is useful to keep receiving this alert in case the connection between the lock and the tracker is not re-established. Besides, you will receive an alert in case your tracker is switched-off. You can choose to activate/deactivate alarms for missing communication between lock and tracker and for tracker switch-off.
The padlock and the tracker only work in combination with each in other to send alarms to your smartphone. You can use the lock / motorbike brake disc lock by itself only as a mechanical lock with no communication functionality.
MyClose antitheft system has passed the French CLASSE SRA and the Dutch TNO (4 stars) homologations. Still resistance tests are made both in laboratory and by hand. Those certifications represent a proof of quality for the best mechanical resistance of the product for its category.
The Mini U padlock, the motorbike brake disc lock and the tracker are all waterproof and resistant to dust. The Mini U padlock and the motorbike brake disc lock are classified IP56 that means resistant to strong water spurts coming from any direction and also to see water and no dust that can interfere with correct system working can enter into them. In other words the padlock and the motorbike brake disc lock can stay under a thunder storm without any protection. The tracker is IP45 that means resistant to water spurts coming from any direction and is protected from entrances of any piece of dust and dirty bigger than 1 mm.
You can start a new system registration either from MyClose App or Myclose web site (section MyCustomer Area). During the registration phase you will choose the credential you will use to access the App and the customer area in the website, and you will insert the codes reported on the brochure â€śCodes for activationâ€ť you will find inside the package.
So the important data for registration are:
MyClose Master information: â€˘ SIM Number â€˘ Tel Number â€˘ Product Code


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According to a recent article in Venture Beat online magazine, the role of the kitchen can see some dramatic and positive changes. Consider that…
1. Innovation follows the money
A kitchen remodel can return anywhere from 70 to 120 percent at resale of the home. Thus, when homeowners invest in a kitchen, they often aren’t afraid to spend. This allows builders and homeowners to see a return on their investment. Expect to see exciting new advancements in the coming years.
2. Growth of smart kitchen appliances
Smart appliances and devices are the most tangible applications of AI in the kitchen, as major tech companies like Samsung and KitchenAid continue to develop smart refrigerators, ovens, dishwashers, etc. We can also expect a wider variety of connected kitchen devices, like Amazon Echo and Google Home.
3. Personalized dining experiences
AI will play an active role in commercial kitchens and restaurants. As industries focus on personalizing product offerings for customers, restaurants may begin using applications that provide relevant recommendations and customized menus. For example, menus could be customized according to prior knowledge of customers’ food allergies, which would alleviate much of the stress some patrons encounter when dining out.

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The scope of innovative researches of department and laboratory is carried out in three large directions:
1. “Management of surveying and geomechanical processes at open-cast minings” prof. Nizametdinov F.K., prof. Ozhigin S.G.
The first direction includes three problems:
— development of scientific bases of creation of geomonitoring open pit massifs of open-cast mining;
— development of methods of calculation and an assessment of stability of slopes of ledges and open pits in various mining-and-geological conditions;
— development of actions for ensuring stability of stationary slopes of open pit ledges.
In this direction contracts with the mining enterprises are signed: JSC SSGPO, JSC Shubarkol Komir, JSC Sary-Arka ENERGY, JSC “East Mine Administration” for the total amount of 37,7 million тг., research supervisors: Dr.Sci.Tech. prof. Nizametdinov F.K., Ozhigin S.G., executives: Ozhigina S.B., Hmyrova E.N., Besimbayev O. G., Nizametdinov R. F.
2. “Management of geomechanical processes by underground mining”
Research supervisor: prof. Sabdenbekuly O.
In the second scientific direction – research of the geomechanical processes happening by underground mining (the head prof. Sabdenbekuly O., отв. performers: Zhunusova G. E., Besimbayeva O. G., Nizametdinov R. F. etc.) contracts with the enterprises were carried out: NOVO Tsink LLP, JSC Zhayremsky GOK, JSC Altynalmas, etc. for the total amount of 20.0 million tenges.
3. “Monitoring of a condition of a terrestrial surface of the Karaganda coal basin on the basis of a satellite radar interferometry”
Research supervisor: assoc. prof. Mozer D. V.
In the third scientific direction – monitoring to a condition of a terrestrial surface of the Karaganda coal basin (the research supervisor: Cand.Tech.Sci. Mozer D. V., отв. performers: Tuyakbay A.S., Satbergenova A.K.) the RK MAUN scientific project with the sum of 23.0 million tg is won.
TS of the department (64%), undergraduates (100%) and students in number of 10 people of specialties Mining and G&K take part in implementation of scientific contracts. On the basis of scientific researches of chair systematic work on preparation of theses by undergraduates and doctoral candidates is conducted.
Educational process and scientific researches of the faculty of chair is carried out on the unique surveying and geodetic equipment of Leica Geosystems firm: the electronic tacheometer in number of 3 pieces, including robotized, global satellite system: a base station and a portable rover, the laser scanner “Leica HDS”, an electronic level, a fotogrammetrichesky computer prefix, and also there is an electronic tomografogeoskanning system of the Swedish production.
For the automated processing of results of surveying and geodetic measurements and planning of mining operations there are modern geographic information systems: GEMCOM, CREDO, LISCAT, SAMARA that allows to conduct training at qualitatively new level. The equipment is concentrated in cathedral scientific laboratory “Mine surveying, Geomechanics and Geometrization” and republican laboratory of the engineering profile “Computer Development of Resources of Mineral Raw Materials”.
Electronic laser HDS Scan Station 3D scanner.
Technical characteristics: angular accuracy 12″, spatial coordinates 6mm., distance 4mm., the speed of scanning is up to 50000 points a second.
Professional system (GPS Systems 1200), GX 1230.
Technical characteristics: the two-frequency receiver of a geodetic class, SKO a statics in respect of 3 mm + 0.5mm/km, a statics on height of 6 mm + 0.5mm/km, kinematics in respect of 10 mm + 1mm/km, kinematics on height of 20 mm + 1mm/km.
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Technical characteristics: accuracy (SKO) on 1 km of forward/reverse motion electronic measurements of 0.3 mm, automatic heating of the display at -5 °C, memory on 6000 measurements, the range of working temperatures from -20 °C to +50 °C, Protection against dust and IP53 moisture, the weight of 2,8 kg.


WeGo Public Transit Announces Ridership Increase
WeGo Public Transit (Nashville, TN) has announced it is closing out 2023 strong with an increase in ridership.
“There were 1.8 million more rides on our services in comparison to the last fiscal year. Additionally, WeGo Ride, an employer-sponsored program which provides employees an alternative to driving by riding the bus, increased by 25 percent,” according to a press release.
“We are thankful for the strong support from our key stakeholders, partners and riders,” WeGo CEO Steve Bland said. “We look forward to building new partnerships as we continue to deepen our engagement and outreach within the Nashville community.”
“We are on the right track with WeGo’s upward trajectory in visibility, growth and community engagement,” Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell added. “I look forward to this continuing trend as we advance public transit goals for Nashville citizens.”
“Key projects for 2024 include the grand opening of the Dr. Ernest Rip Patton, Jr., North Nashville Transit Center on 26th Avenue and Clarksville Pike. The center will provide multiple bus bays to better get across town,” according to the release. “Riders will have convenient access citywide while saving time by not having to transfer downtown. The community will economically benefit with improved access to job opportunities along with workforce skills training for residents and more.”


On 7 October, the Maritime Equipment and Warfare team at DE&S placed an order with Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd (SEA) which includes a technical refresh for the NATO Sea Gnat decoy launcher system, (officially named Outfit DLH in RN service). There have been hopes for some time that the RN will obtain a trainable launcher but for now, SEA says the contract involves “upgrade the ships’ countermeasure capability with a new fixed barrel system”.
The contract also covers control system upgrades to resolve obsolescence issues on the Type 23 frigates’ magazine torpedo launch systems (MTLS). 8 of the frigates will receive the update which includes open architecture to improve integration with the combat system and ease future modifications. Despite the continued investment in existing systems, there has been no order for an MTLS to be fitted to the RN’s Type 26 anti-submarine frigates. Space is allocated in the design and the Australian and Canadian derivatives will carry the weapon.
The £34M contract is the largest the RN has ever awarded to SEA and in addition to the decoy system and MTLS modifications, also included are changes to the air-weapons handling equipment. These are likely to be modifications to handle the new Sea Venom and Martlet missiles safely.
Sea Gnat consists of sets of 6-barrelled 130mm mortars with 1 or 2 pairs mounted on the upper deck on each side of the ship. (Typically called Mk 36 Super Rapid Blooming Offboard Chaff (SRBOC) in USN service). The mortars are hand-loaded from ready-use lockers and can launch 3 types of decoy rounds. RF seduction or ‘chaff’ rounds contain hundreds of strips of foil to create a radar reflective cloud intended to lure radar-guided missiles away from the ship. Infra-red rounds (main image above) use flares to attract missiles that rely on heat signatures for guidance. Active rounds descend slowly by parachute and transmit radar signals either in deception mode to confuse the missile seeker or in jamming mode to blind the radar.
The Outfit DLH chaff decoys made by Chemring include the Mk214 Mod 1 which is a 23Kg round. The Mk216 Mk1 Type 1 is a slightly more sophisticated 27kg round with a barometric height sensor which detonates the chaff cloud at the correct attitude whatever the ship’s movement. The Mk 245 A2 is an IR seduction round that includes five sequential, airburst submunitions which ignite flares at 7-second intervals.
The Mk251 Siren Off-board Active Decoy (OBAD) round was developed by Marconi (now Selex ES) and has been in service as part of the Outfit DLH suite since 2003. A low-G rocket fires the round upward and out to around 500m away from the ship, it then descends on a parachute, utilising a parasail wing that allows the decoy to manoeuvre slowly. The onboard computer manages the multimode I/J-band jammer.
Outfit DLH consists of either twin or quadruple six-barrel launchers bolted to the upper deck which cannot be trained to launch a decoy in the optimal direction to counter incoming threats. The ship must use precious time to manoeuvre onto the best heading in the given wind conditions before launching the countermeasures. As anti-ship missiles have increased in speed there is decreasing time to react. The bolt-on Sea Gnat is cheap, reliable and simple solution but more sophisticated trainable launchers have been in development for many years.
As far back as 2010 Chemring demonstrated their Centurion launcher prototype which contains 12 barrels on a rotary mounting enclosed in a cupola with a low radar cross-section. This would increase reaction time and can be pre-loaded with a variety of rounds. Positional accuracy is further enhanced by stabilising the mount to compensate for the ship’s motion.
Centurion also has the potential to counter threats beyond missiles and could be loaded with anti-torpedo countermeasures / small depth charges. In 2013 Chemring teamed up with Raytheon to experiment using the Centurion to launch a Javelin anti-tank weapon with the intention to adapt it for maritime use to counter FIAC or small boat swarming attacks. In 2019 the RN conducted an experimental test-firing of Marlet missiles from panniers on its 30mm gun mountings but it was not deemed a success, mainly due to efflux management issues. It is possible that Centurion or a similar purpose-built decoy launcher could also be adapted to provide a better platform for the delivery of lightweight defensive missiles such as Martlet or a maritime NLAW variant.
Centurion or an equivalent would appear to be a significant and low-cost enhancement to RN surface ship defensive capabilities and it is hard to understand procurement has been delayed for so long. However, in January 2022, DE&S published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) stating “a requirement for a Trainable Launcher capable of deploying future and legacy rounds”. This forms part of the wider Electronic Warfare Countermeasures (EWCM) project, which includes the Maritime Electronic Warfare Programme (MEWP) project. This will eventually provide a broad range of enhancements to RN EW and soft kill countermeasures capabilities.
Defeating the counter-countermeasures
Adversary anti-ship missile systems are not only gaining speed but are increasingly able to accurately discriminate between the intended targets and decoys. This requires countermeasures to evolve with similar levels of sophistication. Not only are faster reactions needed but the decoys must be positioned with more accuracy. A new generation of missiles designed for use in cluttered littoral environments have sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms and can visually identify individual targets so will not be easily seduced by the radar return of a chaff cloud or heat from a flare. This would imply that ship-mounted EW systems or active RF decoys are likely to be the most effective form of soft kill defence against missiles using active I, J or Ka-band radar for terminal guidance. Passive IR-guided missiles such as the Kongsberg/Raytheon Naval Strike Missile are especially hard to defeat using soft-kill countermeasures.
The Anglo-French Acccolade technology demonstrator was run by Thales between 2011-16. The initial concept of a manoeuvring expendable airborne RF decoy carrier vehicle was not fully developed but the programme was used to de-risk concepts including a miniaturised RF transmitter derived from Thales’ Scorpion advanced shipborne jammer. Like the Centurion system, Accolade was test-fired on Sailsbury Plain but has not made it into operational service. Thales says the development of OBAD rounds continues today based on work done with Accolade but focused on a different concept of operations and utilising the latest electronics. MEWP includes plans to replace the obsolete Mk 251 Siren round but it is unclear when this will be in service.
The more obvious hard-kill close-in weapon systems catch the eye but another important layer of soft-kill defences are often overlooked or underestimated when assessing warship capabilities. The RN is generally acknowledged to have good defensive electronic warfare systems and passive countermeasures and through MWEP is working to resolve obsolescence issues and keep pace with emerging threats.
Good Lord, I may even manage to be first (if I can type fast enough).
Question. Is there opportunity for the weird Australian active RF decoy missile that hovers & can manoeuvre (Nulka)? In service with Australia, Canada & US. I would have thought alternative payloads were also possible.
Nulka is big…really big and on an AB I have seen a maximum of 8(Usually only 4) carried . They sit in dedicated launch tubes between the funnels in the midships cross passage. You cannot reload them.
NULKA creates a ghost electronic ship as well as messing up whatever it can of the incoming missiles sensors.
The ideal ‘thing’ would be fast fired a reasonable distance from the ship and then persistently hover around.
However, you could see that role played by a mid weight drone in future that is pre positioned and flying in a high threat environment. Maybe kept at altitude to keep it out of the salt spray and swoop down and EW transmit/fire chaff when a threat emerges?
It’s very possible that Leonardo’s Britecloud may see service onboard ships soon. This can do everything Nulka can do RF wise but better and in a much smaller package. A launch vehicle for the jammer will need sorting, as the current explosive squip, is not powerful enough to launch it any significant distance. There have been images of Britecloud using a parawing, but how and what it was launched by were not included. But raises the possibility that a ship variant is being looked at.
The image provide by our good friend X shows low impact from the main unit. Vertical launch helps too
They are chunky units. But there is lots of space on today’s big hulls.
The hangar is useful after all as it has ‘roof real estate’ !
It is still a shed. Stepping things towards the centrer is betterer. Look at some of the US Terrier and Tartar hulls.
The only person who likes hangars beyond the flight is the club swinger who sees it has his mini-sports hall……….
yes , 1950s and 60s designs were like that. But an advanced new design was laid down in 1959 that has set the pattern since
Some since have even placed the VL tubes beside or in front of the hangar,
This country tried the no hangar but still a landing area for a while , but decided on the error of their ways and slotted in one hangar each side
Having Hangers on Ships is one thing but having enough Helicopters to fill them is another….. We have neither enough Ship Hangers nor Helicopters to Park in them really.
How about just dangling something from a small quadcopter?
If it is active it needs power.
The chaff needs to disperse into something that look, to the incoming, like a warship….
A packet of crisps and a can of beer will do it
The RN has had trainable launchers the 3″ Corvus launchers for throwing out distraction chaff. From experience they had issues with among other things the electrics, barrel loaded switches and firing cables.
Superseded by firstly SRBOC and then DLH they removed the troublesome barrel loaded switches by using magnetic reed switches and the firing pulse is done by an induction coil coupling between the barrel and round. No training or elevation movement required as the barrels are bolted to plinths on the deck. It is simple, has little to go wrong with it and pretty much Jack Proof. (Stand fast the really small shear pins in the barrel/round clamp mechanism!)
Trainable launchers will speed up reaction times . However trainable launchers have moving parts and complexity so there is more to break, fail and go wrong. Looking at the videos there are a lot of pistons, hinges, pivots etc to keep greased up and free of salt encrusting.
You will still be reliant on the unsung but critical system inputs of Wind Speed and Direction from Anemometers and ship speed from the Log for getting the chaff seed patterns deployed correctly. Lose those inputs and the soft kill systems automation of chaff seeding is degraded
In total agreement, looks sexy but more moving parts and potential failure points may make this an issue for availability and maintenance. How useful is it if the training drive breaks
The problem with decoys, as demonstrated during the Falklands conflict, is that if an escort vessel does manage to decoy an incoming missile away from themselves, it will just seek out a new target, which is likely to be the vessel they were there to protect. In a peer conflict, it might be worthwhile considering Q ships, expendable vessels configured to appear like a major target and able to soak up incoming missiles.
Do you like to be the expendable target soaking up missiles?
This is something those much vaunted drones could do…………
Agreed that a lost missile is still a dangerous proposition for a fleet / carrier group!
This is why, after that lesson from the Falklands, the RN classifies AShMs as threats that require a hard kill response too- regardless of success of passives.
This is apparently different to the USN (at least Gulf War era), who felt that passive decoys were sufficient, and RN escorts ended up shooting down an Iraqi missile or two that would have caused problems if they hadn’t.
If the RN’s policy is to shoot down the missile anyway, even if it has lost lock, then probably less need for Q ships.
I have an uncomfortable feeling that radar guided SSM’s will decline in favor of imaging infra-red.
It is worth remembering that your average IR based air to air missile (AIM-9, ASRAMM, Iris-T) now has a seeker that can identify aircraft shapes and target particular parts of the shape.
The Naval Strike Missile (replacing Harpoon in many navies) uses IR with passive RF as a backup. Such new missiles are going to be very hard to counter with either Chaff or flares.
More and more it is going to be complex decoys or hard kill.
You can have imaging with radar. Next SSM’s will have AESA radars with SAR capabilities.
Standard chaff clouds will be obsolete in 10-20 years for top peers.
It won’t be long before these missiles can actually see a ship and know what it is they are looking at.
With speed AI is advancing it can be already today. Public don’t have access to black programs. So even what i said above might be “pessimistic”
There have been a few ‘camera systems’ down the years.
I am sure we are close. But not quite. That is we may have something that can do it that is ‘fridge’ sized (for want of something to compare) but not quite something we could stick on the front of missile.
I seem to remember they might be able discriminate what is the ‘centre’ of the target they are homing in on as thats the the sweet spot for a substantial warhead to cause major damage. I dont know if this is the actual case anymore.
Search for this image caption in Google
It is an image from 10 years ago. And obviously we are not in top secret stuff.
Armour drones that line themselves between the incoming ordnance and the ship will eventually come into use. A 10×10 grid of them each equipped with a square shield might defend against all manner of physical threats.
They tried something similar at the start of WW2 to ‘catch’ incoming aircraft – Unrotated projectiles they were called
‘A small cordite charge was used to ignite a rocket motor which propelled the fin-stabilised 7 in-diameter (18 cm) rocket out of the tube to a distance of about 1,000 ft (300 m), where it exploded and released an 8.4 oz (240 g) mine attached to three parachutes by 400 ft (120 m) of wire. An aeroplane hitting the wire would draw the mine towards itself, where it would detonate.’
HMS Nelson 1940. The flaws werent obvious at the time , but yours are
What particular flaws do you have in mind?
The Multi Ammunition Softkill System (MASS) is a trainable launcher connected to ship sensors by launching decoys that operate in all relevant wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum: ultraviolet, electro-optical, laser, infrared, and radar.
1: Multi Ammunition Softkill System (MASS) is becoming popular now. How about combining SeaGnat with MASS. Former for early phase chaff/flare, and latter for close-in use?
2: IR-imaging homing missile is a bit of problem, I can see. But, at the same time, such an imaging homing can my soft-killed by proper smoke and/or chaff-IR-reflector with numerous flares. Just wait for such system to be developed.
More the thing is that IR sensors/detectors can be saturated by a very intense source such that they are not able to discriminate.
The only way round that is by using a very large, very heavy, very hard to calibrate and very expensive prism(s) systems such as, for example; Calcium Flouride (200-7000nm); Zinc Selenide (600 -18000nm) or Germanium (2000-14000nm) so as to try and separate the wavelength(s) of interest to a narrow band away from likely flare IR frequencies. OK you don’t really want to use prism optics in a missile but it does for the schoolboy level physics analogy!
The only issue is that if your opposition knows which prism you have fitted then they will, pretty much, know how to saturated the detector by using flares that saturate that range of frequencies.
There is also the tiny problem of needing to keep the ‘prism’ optics dead dry as they are hygroscopic!
As ever having multiple means of targeting and comparing the data is the way forwards as you cannot fool all of the sensors all of the time.
I should have added that this was why industrial sapphire was/is used for some IR applications. Sapphire has good mechanical strenght and does not need to be specially protected and so can be the outside object on the nose of the missile.
But it too has its own limitation(s).
There is a way around IR seeker saturation overload, which is through digital blinking. The blink rate and duration can be controlled. This is a system that has been in use for quite a while. Some of the first systems to use it were aircraft missile approach warning systems (MAWs). As it was found that when the MAWs detected a threat, it would then deploy flares, but then blind itself, due to the flare’s intensity. By blinking it allows the seeker’s sensor to reset and not be overloaded. Then to see beyond the flare as its intensity wanes and extinguishes.
This process is also being used in missiles that use IR sensors, ASRAAM for example.
Aircraft launched flares are becoming obsolescent, As when they deploy, they don’t mimic an aircraft’s flight profile. Which means a missile with a moving target algorithm can quickly distinguish between an aircraft and a flare or pattern of flares.
Apart from a kinetic kill. The more effective method is through directed infrared countermeasures (DIRCM). This gets round the missile seekers blink capability by having a much longer duration than a flare, where the light intensity is more focused on the seeker. DIRCM uses a highly focused IR light source. It is being replaced with a laser-based system (LIRCM), e.g. Leonardo Miysis.
With older missile IR seekers, you could pulse the DIRCM, which made the missile believe the target was moving away. Which then made the missile turn away towards where it thought the target was. Today’s Imaging infrared sensors are not so easily fooled. They require the sensor be constantly lit up and overloaded. The missile will then either fly on a straight path or towards the last known position of its target. Today’s DIRCM/LIRCM do not have the strength to burn out the seeker. Though that is likely to change in the future with the adaption of more powerful lasers.
Presumably the future is AI drones
Spot on! Think out of the box.
Drone with decoys but must be quick reactions.
Once in the air the drones can be coordinated to do some very clever things
I think we should be looking to add aircraft style missile approach warning systems to ships and linking this to DEW to blind EO missiles. This should be backed up by ECM/ECCM on ships and perhaps on towed platforms behind the ship to avoid lock-on-jam targeting.
It is quite clear that chaff/flares fired from ships no longer provide good protection.
That was a done deal long ago and the pinnacle of that was the development of the SAMPSON radar/threat suite.
It is already linked to ECM and the soft kill systems etc
That software then lives in a CMS module that can be ported and used with other capable radars.
This discussion is about the effectors that are then loosed off in response.
The right kind of chaff and flares with ECM can be surprisingly effective. The main thing is to mess up as many of the incoming weapons sensors as possible, at the same time, so the missile gets confused about what is real and what is a ghost.
Regarding the MTLS updates on the 8 A/S Type 23, could it be the intention to migrate these to the 8 Type 26 rather than order additional units?


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As part of our annual cookie baking day (our 36th) my friend and I tried this recipe from Taste of Home. We always make biscotti
We do love our biscotti in this house. Here is my latest experiment using our basic recipe and changing up the flavours. 2/3 cup butter
I enjoy experimenting with new flavours of biscotti at Christmas. This year, I made two old standards (apricot/almond and double chocolate) and then tried peppermint.
I love biscotti and like to change up my basic recipe. For these lemony ones, I used a half batch of my basic recipe, added
I love biscotti – they are lovely dunkers. I have a standard recipe I use and just swap flavours. I like having a few
I love a good dipping-cookie and biscotti fit the bill in a very tasty manner. I have included three variations to my basic recipe. There

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Goodrich Petroleum Corp. says it has significantly lowered the cost of drilling in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale, but still posted a first-quarter loss.
Goodrich is one of the major players in the shale, an oil-rich formation that stretches across the middle of Louisiana into Mississippi.
Goodrich said current well costs have been lowered by about $3 million because of shorter drilling times and lower service costs. The lower-cost wells — now totaling about $10 million — offer more competitive rates of return.
That’s important for Goodrich, which has leased more than 325,000 acres in the Tuscaloosa and large pieces of East Feliciana, Tangipahoa and St. Helena parishes.
Wells in the still-developing Tuscaloosa are some of the most expensive, if not the most, in the United States. The formation has been among the hardest hit by the drop in oil prices, which were at more $100 last summer. Prices fell below $50, but are now at about $60 per barrel.
Goodrich says it can break even on a $10 million well with $50 oil if the well produces 600,000 barrels of oil, the lower end of expected production. The 10 largest TMS wells have had peak production rates equivalent to 1,500 barrels of oil per day.
Goodrich reported that a recently completed well in Tangipahoa Parish produced the equivalent of 650 barrels of oil per day during flowback testing, a measure of the well’s economic potential. The company expects to complete the Kent 41H-1 well later this year.
The update was part of the Houston-based company’s first-quarter earnings report.
Goodrich reported a first-quarter loss of $28.5 million, or 58 cents per share, compared to a loss of $29.9 million, or 68 cents per share, a year ago.
The company’s hedging strategy allowed it to sell its oil for an average of $75.95 per barrel during the first quarter, down from $91.34 a year ago. For 2015, the company has a total of 3,500 barrels of daily production swapped at an average price of $96.11.
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ENTRY is now open for the very first Wonsie Woddle - the quirky fundraiser taking place on the Headland.
Charity champion Stephen Picton is urging fellow fundraisers to don the nighttime clobber and stroll from the Heugh Gun Battery to Victoria Arms to support good causes.
The event will be held on Sunday, June 15 and entry forms are now available for people to sign up.
Entry costs £5 which will all go to Dementia UK but all of those waddling down the seafront will then be able to raise sponsorship cash for their chosen charities.
Entry forms are available from the Victoria Arms, on the Headland, Silhouette Beauty, in York Road, Bonnie Babies, on Hartlepool Marina and Monkey Sangers sandwich shop, in York Road.
Organiser Stephen, 42, who famously raised £50,000 before his 40th birthday is now looking to double that tally before he turns 50.
The cabbie, who lives in the Blakelock Road area of town with his wife, Sandy, said: “I knew we would get a great response straight away and that’s exactly what’s happened.
“I’ve had loads of people telling me they’re going to sign up and asking where to get the entry forms from.
“It’s something different, I’m hoping it can take off in a big way so we can make it an annual event, that would be brilliant.”
Stephen is delighted to be able to show his support for Dementia UK, the charity which has helped his dad, James, 67, since he was diagnosed with the condition two years ago.
People can also sign up contacting Stephen on 07903776256.


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Scientific Name : Hyphessobrycon anisitsi
Common Names : Diamond Spot Tetra
Care Level : Easy
Size : 3 inches (8 cm)
pH : 5.5 - 7.0
Temperature : 72°F - 80°F (22°C - 27°C)
Lifespan : 3 - 5 years or longer
Origin / Habitat :
South America, Paraguay,
Temperament / Behavior : Can be fin nippers and best kept in a small school (shoal) of 6 or more.
Compatible Tank Mates : They can be a pest (bullying smaller fish) when kept singly and you may see better behavior if kept in a small school of 6 or more.
Tank Region : Middle to bottom
Gender : Can be difficult to determine, female may be more full bodied
This Fish is one of the hardiest of the commonly available tropical fish but it may not make a good choice for a community tank or a live plant tank. They will view your live plants as a food source and will nibble at them. Since it's best to keep them in small schools they can quickly destroy your live plant collection, so plastic plants are the way to go with this fish.
a larger tetra, growing sometimes up to 3 inches (8 cm) and if kept in good
water conditions can live 3 to 5 years or more. If you are planning on keeping
them in a community tank caution is advised. They can be fin nippers and may
bully smaller tetras and slower tank mates. Keep them in schools of 6 or more
which should help direct their aggression towards the other tetras instead of
their more peaceful tank members. Buenos Aires
Males are more colourful, particularly in the unpaired red fins, and females are rounder. A typical egg-scatter that is easily spawned; parents will eat the eggs if not removed immediately after spawning.
The species was originally described in 1907 by C.H. Eigenmann as Hemigrammus anisitsi. L.R. Malabara re-assigned it to the genus Hyphessobrycon in 1989 on the basis of the scaled caudal fin [see more below]. In 1923 and 1928, E. Ahl had described this fish as Hemigrammus caudovittatus and Hyphessobrycon erythrurus respectively, considering these were different species; Zarske & Gery in 1995 established these names as synonyms of Hyphessobrycon anisitsi (Eigenmann 1907), now the accepted name.
The genus Hyphessobrycon--the name from the Greek "hyphesson" [believed to mean "slightly smaller"] and "brycon" [=to bite]--was erected by C.H. Durbin in 1908 and presently contains more than 100 valid species. The classification is deemed incertae sedis [Latin, "of uncertain placement"]. It was formerly considered within the Subfamily Tetragonopterinae, but Javonillo et.al. (2010) suggest that this subfamily should be restricted to species within the genus Tetragonopterus since they do not share physiological characteristics with species in other genera such as Hyphessobrycon.
Authors that have recently studied the systematics of the genus Hyphessobrycon have unanimously pointed out that the group is not well defined and its monophyly is yet uncertain. [A monophyletic genus is one wherein the species share a common ancestor, thus linking them together physiologically.] Mirande (2009) for example has proposed several revisions to the Family Characidae based upon phylogenetic diagnosis. Some genera have been moved to a new Subfamily, while others are now (temporarily) assigned to a specific clade within the Family pending further study. The recognition of groups of species [clades] within Hyphessobrycon is based primarily on similarities of color patterns; an hypothesis of its intra-relationships is currently unavailable, except for the rosy tetra clade proposed as monophyletic by Weitzman & Palmer (1997).
Hyphessobrycon has until recently been differentiated from Hemigrammus solely on the basis of the fish in Hemigrammus possessing a scaled caudal fin; this however is now known to be unreliable, since it occurs in intermediate conditions (de Lucina, 2003).
These fish are omnivorous, in its habitat it feeds on worms, insects, crustaceans and plants. It will accept almost any prepared food, frozen foods and live. It will eat some plants, aggressively some writers report.
Attains close to 3 inches (7 cm); some authors mention 3.5 inches.
Minimum Tank Suggestion36 inches in length.
Care and feeding:
Feed Buenos Aires Tetra a varied diet of quality commercial foods 2 or 3 times per day the amount of food they will consume within a few minutes. They are not picky eaters and will readily accept a wide variety of plant and animal based foods. They should readily accept quality flake, freeze-dried and small pellet foods, tubifex worms, blood worms, frozen foods, algae or plant based flakes and crisps, brine shrimp, mysis shrimp and a variety of other similar food items.
Water Region: Top, Middle, Bottom:
These fish will swim in all areas of the aquarium.
Acceptable Water Conditions:
This is a very undemanding species, as can be seen by the wide range of acceptable conditions.
Hardness: 2-35° dGH
Ph: 5.8 to 8.5
Temp: 64-82° F (18-28° C)
The Buenos Aires Tetra are generally a good community fish. They are quite active and when provided with plenty of space they will school. As mentioned above they will eat most plants, with the probable exception of Java Fern, and so should be kept with stone or plastic decorations. And remember, keep them well fed so they don't snack on the fins of their tankmates!
The male will have brighter red fins, sometimes tending towards yellow. The female is fuller bodied and has a more rounded stomach.
The Buenos Aires Tetra are egglayers. The female will lay eggs on plants or green floss
Credit : http://www.tfhmagazine.com/blogs/category/tfh-extras/page/2/

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Lock the Gate Alliance says the NSW Government must stop its damaging, ham-fisted flip-flopping and instead should act decisively to protect Hunter Valley horse and wine country and all productive farmland from coal mining.
Planning Minister Rob Stokes has released a statement this morning apparently contradicting media reports that the Government is exploring options to resolve conflict over the coal mining in the Hunter Valley.
Lock the Gate coordinator, Georgina Woods, said:
"We urge the Government to put in place systematic and permanent protections for existing agricultural and tourism industries and sensitive areas across the Hunter.
"The Drayton South mine is in the hands of the Planning and Assessment Commission, and we will wait to see the result of that process. But it is unforgiveable for the NSW Government to have put local communities through five long years of hell because the Premier is too indecisive to fulfill a long-standing promise to protect farmland from coal mining.
"Five years ago the Government promised that important farmland and drinking water catchments would be off limits to mining, but in the years since they have left rural communities to suffer.
"They’ve been left to fight for their livelihoods and industries against multi-national mining companies, with no support from the government.
"If the NSW Government is serious about resolving mining conflict, then it needs to put in place upfront protections for priority areas instead of forcing communities to fight in protracted conflicts, mine by mine.
"The government very nearly lost the seat of Upper Hunter in the last state election, and its failure to deliver long-standing promises to protect farmland, villages and water resources from coal mining is going to be one of the biggest issues next time around,” she said.

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All the good deeds in the world have been done-cashed in
Like a check, I am using the pen my grandfather gave me,
Blue with a flashlight on the end of it. Saturday you came
And we went to the grocery store and ordered salami from
A red-headed hooker whose mind was somewhere else,
Probably on fucking a man in a yellow suit, who can’t sing
With a damn.
At a J. Geil’s concert, my aunt sits between an old woman
Who looks like a duck and has a bad hair perm, ignoring
The stench of too much perfume. I am calm in my mannerism,
Trying not to become one of the faceless voids in the crowd,
Trying to be polite, trying not to cast myself out.
People act like
Zombies without an original thought in their head. I wonder if
They like it. I wonder if their moods change from day to day,
If they are happy about their life, if they are proud of what they
I am not proud, I am disgusted, self-loathing, and insecure,
Wallowing in my own self-pity of acceptance. I try to fit in and give
Up, force myself to do good deeds. You say I am ridiculous,
That I can’t see past a brick wall.

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St Stephen Parish Council is recruiting!
St Stephen Parish Council is looking for a new team member to join our small friendly
Grounds Team to maintain Parish Council grounds and to ensure we provide a high
standard of grounds care and maintenance across all Parish Council open spaces,
properties and facilities. This is a part-time permanent role. Further details can be found on the Vacancies page.
Strategic Rail Freight Interchange
Following the decision of Herts County Council to sell 300 acres of land, partly in St Stephen Parish, to SEGRO for the development of a rail freight interchange, the campaign group Save St Albans: Fight the Freight has launched a petition against the sale. Details of the campaign are on this poster. The petition can be found via this link.
Community grants available from St Albans District Council!
Community groups and charities in St Albans District can apply for grants of up to £5,000 for projects that help vulnerable people.
St Albans City and District Council has launched its £50,000 Community Project Fund for 2022/23.
The fund supports the delivery of projects and activities that benefit the whole community and are in keeping with the Council’s inclusion strategy.
Grants are primarily for time-limited projects run by smaller organisations and which meet a community need.
Councillor Sarwar Shamsher, Vice-Chair of the Housing and Inclusion Committee, said: “These grants offer very valuable assistance to the District’s voluntary and community groups and can be used for sport, arts, music, outdoor activities or social groups.
“The fund is a major part of our inclusion strategy that is intended to support residents who are in need. The groups who benefit do a great deal of important work that has helped thousands of people across the District.”
There are two rounds of funding this year, with the first opening on Thursday 16 June. A second round starts in November.
The Council’s Response Fund for 2022/23 has also opened for applications for grants from between £200 to £2,000 from a pot totalling £10,000.
Voluntary and community sector organisations, social enterprise organisations and community interest companies can apply here: www.stalbans.gov.uk/grants.
These grants are for small capital items or for funding for projects that need to be implemented quickly.
Grow Your Business in 2022
Not sure of your business direction or financial situation post-COVID?
Free help is at hand!
Grow your business in 2022 is a programme of support for local businesses over a year old at NO COST.
Funding has been provided to St Albans Enterprise Agency (STANTA) to deliver a programme of business advice and training to help businesses who are suffering/have suffered as a result of the pandemic. STANTA has nearly 40 years’ experience of helping local businesses to start, grow and develop and is offering to help your business to consolidate, diversify if necessary and grow in 2022. And all at no cost to your business!
STANTA can advise on:
- Managing debt and controlling costs
- Business review
- Advice on marketing: social media and networking
- A clear action plan for the next three to six months
- Financial planning
- Making your business online
- Specific concerns relevant to your business
- Trading successfully post COVID – download a Safe to Trade toolkit to help
The programme will start with a 90 minute Zoom meeting with an experienced business advisor who will help you determine the best way forward for your business. If you need to do more research to determine the way forward, a follow up meeting will be arranged as part of the programme.
You can then choose which training courses and workshops you attend to help you achieve the objectives you have identified. Among the courses available are:
- How to grow your business during challenging times
- How to develop an effective continuity plan for your business
- How to write a business plan
- Putting your business plan into action
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If you’re interested in registering for this FREE package of support, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org or telephone 01727 837760. Please provide these details:
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STANTA will then contact you to arrange your Zoom meeting with a business adviser.
Remembrance Service 2021
Join us on Sunday, November 14, for the Parade of Standards, led by the Harpenden Pipe Band, which will take place along Park Street from the railway bridge to the War Memorial. where, at 2.45pm, the service of remembrance will take place, led by Rev’d Kylie Hodgins, Vicar of St Luke’s Church, Bricket Wood. The programme detailing the order of service will be available free at the memorial.


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Instead of putting your efforts into pop, a healthier alternative is sparkling water.
If you tend to reach for the sugary drinks rather than a glass of water, you could be consuming an average of 30 grams of sugar every day.
When you regularly consume sugary fizzy drinks you are putting your health at risk. As well as the significant sugar intake, the effects of sugar on our productivity can be detrimental.
An immediate hit of sugar will create a burst of energy, making us feel unstoppable. But not long after our body has hit the high, it will then crash when the energy has come out of our blood.
This is known as a sugar crash and is more prominent in the afternoon when people have had a sugar ladened lunch.
To help you curb your cravings for sugary beverages we’ve revealed why you should swap the pop for an ice-cold glass of sparkling water.
The average fizzy drink contains 10 grams of sugar per can. According to research, in 2016 approximately 206.9 litres of soft drinks were consumed per person in the UK.
Teenagers currently drink the most sugary drinks, as figures by Cancer Research UK revealed that those aged 11 to 18 each drink just over 234 cans of soft drink a year.
The recommended daily allowance for sugar consumption is set to 30 grams per person. However, if you drink more than two cans of sugary drinks you could be exceeding this by up to 50%.
Many studies have shown that people who drink sugary drinks consistently gain more weight than people who don’t. So if you’re trying to be more conscious of your diet, quitting the cans of pop may be a way forward.
Not only does sparkling water contain almost zero calories, but it has zero sugar.
While many people may not favour sparkling water, when combined with a low-calorie squash, or infused with fruit, it can provide a thirst-quenching drink. Especially for those who like a sweet taste to their drinks.
Just as you can infuse still water, you can also infuse sparkling water to add flavour. Lemons and limes are a popular choice as it adds the sharp sweetness you can often find in pop.
However, you can also add other fruits such as berries, and also cold water tea bags.
Compared to drinking high amounts of sugary drinks, sparkling water can support your health and productivity.
As infused sparkling water contains no artificial sugars, you will not have the same ‘crash’ as you would experience when drinking pop.
Instead, by drinking sparkling water you will feel more hydrated, focussed and alert.
Give sparkling water a try and see if an infused water can help you make the swap.

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Tamta took the stage this morning for her first rehearsal. She was followed by Lake Malawi, Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman and finally Polish Tulia. After a dinner break, another five acts from the first semi-final will appear on stage.
A bit unusual to start on a Saturday, but that’s the case this year due to Holocaust Memorial Day on the 8th of May where there will be nothing going on in the arena. But today, the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest kicked off with the first rehearsals and press conferences from the nine countries located in the first half of the first semi-final.
30 minutes. That’s the duration of the first rehearsal on stage. After an In-Ear rehearsal backstage, the artists take the stage and their half hour starts. Usually, they will manage four run-through’ each. As rehearsal ends, the delegation meet in Viewing Room. They will here watch the recording of the rehearsal and comment on camera angles etc. They will request changes and the producers will aim to meet those requests in time for the second rehearsal.
From Expo Tel Aviv, let’s take a look at the first four rehearsals today:
Cyprus: Tamta – Replay
There are six white pillars on the stage when Tamta arrives and she starts her anthemic entry. She wears a small dress and a black jacket (looks like a leather, but probably will be something like latex) and after a few moments she’s joined by her 4 male backing dancers. They wear hats and suits and their choreography is very well prepared. Everything works perfect together with the pillars and background LED graphics.
In one moment, the jacket is torn from Tamta by the dancers and everytime we hear the triple “Replay-Replay-Replay” there is some kind of flash and the same second-or-two is shown three times. The whole package is simply perfect and we couldn’t wished for better opener.
Czech Republic: Lake Malawi – Friend Of A Friend
(For today, they had changed rehearsal slot with Montenegro)
Czech Republic and Lake Malawi brought three Instagram frames on stage as was already seen on some photos from stand-in rehearsals. The three guys are in each their frame and nobody expected HOW exactly they will work with them. The surprise comes with the refrain, the “friend of a friend of a friend” part. In that part, the frames are multiplied and moved over the screen as multiple phones screens and the effect is very good.
They also use various pastel colours over the whole frames, mostly blue, yellow and pink. The whole time the logo of Lake Malawi – a wave – is seen in the background. At the end, it is changed to a FRIEND in a multiple world languages but still forming the logo of a wave.
Finland: Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman – Look Away
If you hoped for some improvement from the Finnish national UMK final, you may be disappointed as the vocals aren’t strong. In the third run-through, they improved though so maybe he just needed to get use to the stage. A very positive thing about the staging is the female dancer in the green dress who is standing and dancing in the middle of the stage. We may see also her reflection on the LED background in a part of the song and in the end, the background shows the sunrise.
Darude is on the side with his DJ set, while Sebastian is using the front catwalk.
Poland: Tulia – Fire Of Love (Pali Sie)
Tulia went with red-blue-yellow costumes with golden crowns, probably to look a little bit more like a fire (who knows). Also the colours of the staging are more in the red tone. In the beginning they got a carousel similar to the one from German Sisters national final performance. The four singers are shown in the LED background one after each other. Those who loved the small vocalises between refrain and verses will be disappointed as those were probably cut off, at least they were not included in the first rehearsals.
Poland will need to work more on the stage presence as the work with the camera is not perfect and also the effort to make the crowd clap looks weird and amateurish. In general, I think the song misses most of the things that were attractive to me. But who knows how the audience will react.
After a lunch break, we’ll continue with the rehearsals from Slovenia, Montengro, Hungary, Belarus and Serbia.


The Centre finally gives okay to decks for the four-lane of the 3rd phase of the National highway linking Shimla to Parwanoo.
The Cabinet Committee for Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved Rs. 2,000 Crore for the four lane of 29 km stretch from Kaithlighat to the Shimla town.
The Centre would initially release Rs. 1500 Cr and the remaining Rs. 500 Cr would be given in the later stages.
T he 3rd phase of the National Highway Kaithlighat to Dhalli to Shimla would pass through 25 revenue villages. Under this, 919 bighas of land would be acquired to decongest the road.
The State capital town recorded footfall of more than 35 lakh tourists per annum but due to serpent jig zag rouged road it’s difficult to reach the State.


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A space for leisure and commerce, without cars, also without parking. That is what the remodeling work on Dique street, in the capital town of San Andrés, will leave when it is finished, something that is scheduled for the end of August. Meanwhile, residents, merchants and visitors are stoically enduring the deconstruction process in which the street is immersed, the main one in a town that sees summer approaching, and with it a significant increase in traffic and avid foreigners. to enjoy good gastronomy and the proximity of the sea.
Although the original idea was that the three phases in which the remodeling project has been divided do not overlap in the seven months of duration foreseen, and thus reduce the inconvenience to neighbors and merchants, the truth is that some complications related to telecommunications have caused that one and three, which began this week, have made the first days of this last stage very difficult.
The acting Councilor for Infrastructures, Dámaso Arteaga, visited the work on Thursday to check the state it is in and how the work is progressing. “We still have a difficulty in part one, with an installation that must be moved and the completion of that phase is delaying us a bit. It is a telephone installation, and we are coordinating with the company to do it as soon as possible,” Arteaga explained to DIARIO DE AVISOS.
The mayor explained that phase 3 is now beginning and that it is expected to “finish it on time.” “The retaining walls are already being concreted in the upper part, so we can say that the work is advancing, although with some vicissitudes,” he pointed out.
With respect to the detours that have been implemented this week, “they have already been raised and warned, and you can go around the Castle to go back to the avenue, although more detours are also enabled inside the town.”
And it is precisely that these traffic diversions caused chaos this week, mainly due to the ignorance of many of the drivers, also having a clear condition for businesses, which have seen how some customers gave up due to the impossibility of reaching .
The El Pescador Neighborhood Association emphasized this matter, pointing to the lack of signaling for detours. “We value the development of the work, based on the fact that the work has not stopped, although it is late. But it is also true that there has been poor signaling for drivers, who have seen and wanted to find the exits and circulate through the town with adequate signalling.
Like two days ago, when work began on the third section, people were confused because they did not know where to go,” they said. For what can happen in the summer months, given that the work is not expected to end before the end of August, El Pescador has requested that, for the month of July, “the lane that at the time was disabled to use it as car parks”. The association recalls that “in July and August the entrance to the town must have two lanes, because if it is already a circulatory chaos in the summer months, we do not want to think about what will happen with a single access lane.”
The initial idea was to keep the car parks in this lane of the avenue until the new car park was opened on the site of the so-called tome, with more than 300 spaces, a work that has not even started.
“You have to think that, apart from the bathers, there are the neighbors who work and who must come home for lunch to return to their jobs in the afternoon. They are the big ones always affected by the queues and at this point the problem would be huge ”, they insist from the neighborhood association.
“We have always agreed with the pedestrianization of the avenue. We believe that it is an advance for the town and that, of course, it must be complemented with the provision of more parking space. The tome has never been a real option for us and from the beginning we have opted for the Infobox car park: paved, signposted and illuminated”, concludes El Pescador.
From the City Council, Arteaga maintains that, although there are some inconveniences in Dique street, the truth is that they are “permanently talking with the merchants and with the neighbors, monitoring the work and addressing in the best possible way the unforeseen events that arise ”. For this, as he explained, they also maintain continuous contact with supply companies, such as Emmasa, for the conditions that the scuppers are having. The acting councilor concluded by assuring: “We want to finish on schedule, despite the fact that, as I said, we have some difficulty derived from some facilities.”
More than 900,000 euros of investment
The remodeling of Calle Dique involves an investment of more than 900,000 euros and contemplates adapting its current use, intended mainly for traffic and parking, to that of a free public space classified as a Plaza.
The objective is for pedestrian and leisure use to be the priority, leaving a lane for restricted traffic of neighboring vehicles and loading and unloading, and on the other hand, it is planned to provide the parking line of Avenida Marítima with a sidewalk , since there is currently no pedestrian itinerary between these car parks and the surrounding roads.
In addition, this entrance street to the town will be provided with adequate lighting that is attractive to visitors and tourists; In the same way, with the action planned in the surroundings of the Castle, the front of San Andrés will be modernized and embellished.
The Department of Works specifies that the action contemplates the adaptation of the road and sidewalk and pedestrian fords, adjusting to the accessibility regulations for people with reduced mobility, while the bus stop on Avenida Marítima will be conditioned and the adaptation will take place. surrounding landscape.
Likewise, the design of a new drainage system, conditioning of efficient public lighting and the use of urban furniture and some gardening will be carried out.
Parking in the Mamotreto
One of the initial bets to reduce the impact of the elimination of the car parks on Dique street was to enable the lot of the tome, at the head of the Las Teresitas beach, as car parks.
The idea was that this space could be ready before the summer, but the truth is that the delay in its awarding has led the work until this month of June, where it is expected that it can begin, after it has been definitively awarded. last May.
With a budget of 357,000 euros, once the reconsideration act is signed, this work will have an execution period of two months. This means that until the end of July, at the earliest, this space cannot be available. Specifically, the works that will be carried out are paving and asphalting, installation of lighting and signaling systems, as well as providing the space with a solar installation.
The site of the tome will make available to residents and users 259 places for light vehicles, 29 for motorcycles, seven for vehicles for people with reduced mobility, four six-seater modules for bicycles, as well as another one for the Local Police or Emergencies. Lighting will also be provided with 35 points of light. As the City Council has pointed out, initially it is not planned to charge for the use of this parking lot.
More works are waiting to begin in the surroundings of the fishing district
Along with the remodeling of Calle Dique, there are other projects that are going to be developed in this area of San Andrés and that are already underway, in different phases. Thus, the beginning of the work on the second bridge in the town will begin in the coming weeks, as well as the aforementioned conditioning of the parking lot of the tome, and perhaps the most important work, the rehabilitation of the surroundings of the Castillo de San Andrés to turn it into a interpretation Center. The winning idea for this space has already been delivered to the City Council, converted into a construction project, with an investment of four million, and divided into two phases. The first is the consolidation of the tower and redevelopment of its surroundings. The second is the development of the Interpretation Center and creating the pedestrian and garden area next to the Castle.


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The quick foods industry’s pivot to electronic and get-out has occur with product gains — but it’s arrive at a cost to foot website traffic, according to latest data.
In-human being visits at fast foods chains nationwide are even now dramatically reduced than before the onset of COVID-19, in accordance to Gravy Analytics, a place intelligence platform. Those people results dovetail with similar knowledge exhibiting the pandemic — which sparked common lockdowns that pressured a lot of food items and beverage establishments to undertake a “to go only” format pushed by cell — has led to shifts in client behavior that will possible outlast the virus.
As of Dec. 8, foot targeted traffic at places of Burger King, Popeyes (QSR), KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell (YUM), Domino’s (DPZ), Papa John’s (PZZA), and Starbucks (SBUX) is down a lot more than 50% compared to where it was in February of 2020, Gravy’s facts shows.
As COVID-19 bacterial infections surge anew, the swoon is possible to persist as people hunker down at the time once again for what community well being authorities warn will be a brutal wintertime.
“For the Christmas and New Decades vacations, it is probably that the foot traffic will mirror what we saw for the duration of the 7 days of Thanksgiving, with vacationers ingesting rapid food items all around the vacations but a steep drop on the holiday seasons themselves as persons decide to continue to be home with household and friends,” Jolene Wiggins, CMO of Gravy Analytics, told Yahoo Finance recently.
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Info Intelligence system Placer.ai also observed recently that the “shift absent from schools and ordinary commute routines” strike breakfast menu choices at chains like McDonald’s, Starbucks or Panera this calendar year. Yet Ethan Chernofsky, Placer.ai’s CMO, suggests this won’t last extended into the new yr.
Accordingly, speedy meals giants are also stepping up their game to convey food stuff specifically to the client. Starbucks (SBUX) is doubling down on innovation as it eyes tech-enabled travel-through merchants.
In the meantime, McDonald’s is also doubling down on the three “Ds”: electronic, shipping and delivery and generate-thru. In addition, Restaurant Makes Intercontinental introduced options to insert far more than 10,000 electronic drive-thru menu boards to Tim Hortons and Burger King eating places in the US and Canada by the conclude of 2022.
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1kg trimmed, washed leeks, chopped into 2" lengths
200g chevre or feta or a mixture
100g mature cheddar
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salt & pepper & nutmeg to taste
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1 egg, beaten
Preheat oven to 200oC. Simmer leeks for 15 mins, drain very thoroughly. Add butter, cheeses, dill & seasoning. Stir well and cool. Use as filling for pie fashioned from the pastry and sealed with the egg. Bake for around 30 mins. Cool for 10-15 minutes before eating. Return to the sofa and prepare for death, but with a better disposition than before.