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Ford's Transit Connect is a small van - with big ideas. It must suit buyers in both small and compact sectors of the LCV market - and does so thanks to the choice of both short and long wheelbase bodystyles and a versatile loadbay. This revised version gets a smarter look, a classier cabin and a more efficient 1.5-litre EcoBlue diesel engine. Overall, there may be prettier little vans, but there are few more practical ones.
It was the Transit Connect that really galvanised the small van sector when it was launched in the UK back in 2003. A whole host of copycat rivals - Citroen's Nemo, Peugeot's Bipper and Fiat's Fiorino - quickly followed. But despite tough competition, this Ford has continued to find a ready band of buyers. The Blue Oval brand says that's because, unless its competitors, it uses fewer car-derived components in its construction, leading to a less compromised commercial vehicle result. Originally, this design had to cover both small (think Peugeot Bipper or Citroen Nemo) and compact (think Citroen Berlingo or Renault Kangoo) sectors of the LCV market, segments covered by other brands with two separate models. That was a bit of a stretch. These days though, Ford too, has separate models to offer, with the little Transit Courier slotting in beneath this Transit Connect to form a four-strong Transit offering for UK van buyers.
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You don't buy any van prioritising ride and handling but with Ford's strong reputation in this department when it comes to passenger cars, then it's fair to expect this Transit Connect to dynamically, be one of the class leaders. Which broadly, it is. Like any LCV, this one handles better fully loaded, but even in the unladen state, cornering response is predictable and bodyroll well controlled. Once you've dropped off your load, you could even imagine rather enjoying yourself on the way home around the twisty stuff in one of these. To a point. Of course, to a certain extent, you'll be limited by the modest output of the new 1.5-litre EcoBlue diesel powerplant that most Transit Connect customers go for. There's also an improved 1.0 Ecooost petrol engine option with 100PS. An upgraded six-speed manual transmission is now fitted to all engines as standard and the 1.5-litre EcoBlue engine (offered with 75, 100 or 120PS) can also be specified with an advanced new eight-speed automatic transmission, which has been engineered to deliver smooth, swift gearshifts. If you're towing, then the top diesel's the variant to choose, offering a braked trailer towing capacity of up to 800kg. Depending on the variant you choose, the turning circle is between 11 and 11.9m. There's plenty of hi-tech here as well. Safety-wise, the Electronic Stability Program (ESP) is standard across the entire range, plus there's Hill Launch Assist to stop you drifting backwards on uphill junctions, Anti Lock Brakes with Hydraulic Brake Assist, Active Yaw Control (that assists with oversteer and understeer), Roll Movement Intervention (to reduce body roll) and, if the worst comes to the worst, Roll Over Mitigation.
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From the outside, it's clear that Ford's development team have prioritised function over form in this design. So though the front end is these days sleeker and smarter, the overall look is still very boxy and practical-looking. Styling changes made to this revised model adopt the latest Ford design DNA. An imposing three-bar Transit grille combined with slimmer headlamps - with powerful HID Xenon lamps and LED daytime running lights available on high series models - combine with a more aerodynamic lower fascia and front spoiler to deliver a fresher look. Inside, where build quality from the Turkish factory remains solid, it's much as before, though there's now a wider use of switchgear and design cues from plush Ford passenger car models like the S-MAX. The upgraded cabin features a revised instrument panel with a new central control area that incorporates a floating, tablet-inspired six-inch colour touchscreen on high series models, featuring Ford's SYNC 3 communications and entertainment system. New trim materials provide a stylish and hard-wearing working environment for long working days in the cab. Getting comfortable at the wheel is easy thanks to a steering wheel adjustable for both reach and rake. And there's plenty of cabin storage space. Though it's difficult to know where you would put a sandwich box, a flask or a big bottle of water, there are compartments both in front of the gearstick and behind the handbrake, then between them in the centre area between the seats, a holder for coins and tokens and two large cupholders, narrow bins in each door, a lidded glovebox, an optional tray under the front passenger seat and a shelf at the top of the facia capable of holding A4 documents. Oh and a curry hook for your Friday night takeaway. A load-through hatch in the bulkhead and fold-flat passenger seat enable long loads up to 3.0m (L1) and 3.4m (L2) to be safely carried in the vehicle. In addition, a multi-fold dual passenger seat now enables van models to carry up to three people in the cab.
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Pricing starts at around £16,000 excluding VAT and there's a premium of around £1,000 to go from the 'L1' short wheelbase bodystyle to the 'L2' long wheelbase version. If you're looking to carry people as well as packages, there's a 'Double Cab-in-Van' option with a fold-out rear bench. Or you could go for a full Kombi version with proper rear seats. Trim levels run from 'Base' (where there's the option of a frugal 'ECOnetic version) to 'Trend' and on to 'Limited' and 'Sport'. Whichever Transit Connect you choose, equipment levels run to a reach and rake-adjustable steering wheel, see-you-home lights that stay on at night to guide you to your front door, remote central locking that allows you to lock and unlock the cab and load area separately, Hill-Start Assist to stop you drifting backwards on uphill junctions, a full steel bulkhead and a sliding side door. There's also a DAB digital radio, a trip computer and steering wheel stereo controls. This revised model introduces a comprehensive range of segment-first driver assistance features, including an Intelligent Speed Limiter - that enables automatic adjustment of maximum vehicle speed to remain within legal limits. There's also a Pre-Collision Assist with Pedestrian Detection emergency braking system, Side Wind Stabilisation and Active Park Assist that helps to steer the vehicle into both parallel and perpendicular parking spaces.
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The signing of a service trade agreement with China could affect issues on the legislature's agenda during the extra session this week, after the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) yesterday vowed to block all proceedings in the remaining four days.
TSU legislative caucus whip Hsu Chung-hsin (許忠信) told a press conference that the trade pact would subject local businesses to fierce competition, bring in white-collar Chinese workers, and lead to an outflow of Taiwanese expertise and knowledge to China.
The service trade agreement is one of the follow-up agreements to the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) which came into effect in July 2010.
Although there are more stringent restrictions on Chinese investments in certain industries covered by the service trade agreement, under WTO rules, those safeguards will have to be lifted after the end of the interim period of 10 years following the ECFA's signing, Hsu said.
"From then on, Taiwan will be wide open to China" because limiting the number of China-funded firms, share holdings, scope of business activities and recruitment of Chinese employees would be considered a violation of the core principles of the WTO, Hsu said.
Under the agreement, China would open 80 service sectors to Taiwan, while Taiwan would open 64 sectors to China. The sectors include those related to commerce, telecommunications, construction, distribution, the environment, health, tourism, entertainment, culture, sports, transportation and finance.
The wide range of industries covered by the trade pact was not made public until the agreement was signed at 2pm on Friday in Shanghai.
Hsu said that financial conglomerates would benefit from the agreement because the pact would facilitate access to the Chinese banking, insurance and securities markets, but that will "come at the expense of the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises and workers in Taiwan."
The TSU demanded that Premier Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) present the pact before the legislature to discuss with lawmakers how it would affect the nation, and that the deal should take effect only after the legislature approves it.
The TSU will boycott the remaining days of the extra session scheduled for next month to force the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to agree to its demands, Hsu said.
During the session, the KMT had expected to pass an amendment to the Income Tax Act (所得稅法) to scrap the 8,500-point TAIEX threshold that automatically triggers the imposition of the tax on most individual investors. It also wants to pass a proposed referendum on the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City's (新北市) Gongliao District (貢寮) as well as clearing a number of other bills before the extra session ends on Thursday.
The KMT also considers the draft senior secondary education act (高級中等教育法) as urgent, considering the limited time left to prepare for the planned 12-year education scheme, set to begin in August next year.
Lawmakers across party lines on Friday called for a full and detailed examination of the signed service trade pact, with the opposition demanding that the legislature examine the deal thoroughly before deciding whether to allow it to go into effect.
KMT caucus whip Lin Hung-chih (林鴻池) yesterday said his party was not opposed to a review of the agreement by the legislature, but did not consider it necessary that Jiang present it at a question-and-answer session with lawmakers.

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The Paisley on Thursday nights is becoming known as THE place in Victoria for songwriters to gather and play some of their original tunes to a welcoming, appreciative audience. Local singer/songwriter Terry Brennan hosts the evening with warmth and humour, puting everyone at ease. This is a great place to bring some friends for a tasty meal, and then stay for a night of wonderful original music. Any genre is fine, but must be your own tunes. There is a weekly door prize, donated by our sponsor, Tom Lee Music. Sign up is at 7:30, with the show starting at 8:00. Come on down...we'd love to see you!
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FROM YORKVILLE VILLAGE TO THE PACIFIC COAST...A SONGWRITER'S JOURNEY From the tradition of Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, John Prine and Steve Earle comes a troubadour straight out of the heart and soil of this fair, wide land. Brennan's teen years were spent haunting the clubs of Yorkville Village in Toronto, eventually sharing the same stage... more info
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Clinton, Obama stir N.D. Democrats
About 17,000 people jammed an arena in Grand Forks, N.D., to hear Sen. Barack Obama speak. Most of the crowd stayed a couple of hours longer to listen to Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Sen. Obama mentioned Clinton only briefly, saying some Democrats don't believe they can win in North Dakota, comments attributed to his opponent.
Obama spent most of his half hour speech targeting President Bush and Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain.
The last Democrat to carry North Dakota in a presidential race was Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Obama said he can win the state's three electoral votes.
"We have to be the party that rallies not just Democrats, but Independents and yes, Republicans to a common purpose. I don't want to just be the president of red states or blue states. I want to be the president of the United States. That's how we'll change this country," Obama told the crowd.
Obama offered few specifics, in contrast with Clinton, who spoke for nearly an hour and talked at length about healthcare, education, agriculture and national security. Clinton said she's the candidate of specifics, not speeches.
"It will not be enough to say it's our turn, we're going to bring people together -- we're going to make you feel good. We have to go toe to toe with Sen. McCain on national security and the economy," Clinton said.
Chuck Long, a North Dakota state convention delegate, said Barack Obama has him more fired up than any candidate in years.
"It means being more willing to step-out -- more willing to take and voice, more willing to get involved in the campaign. But it also means just getting more involved in the community, helping people in the community," Long said.
Long said his enthusiasm is fueled by the possibility that Obama is the candidate who could win North Dakota.
Many of the people who spent hours waiting to see Obama and Clinton came out of curiosity.
The candidates spoke at the North Dakota state Democratic convention, but that didn't stop some Minnesotans from taking in the spectacle.
Megan Russillo and her husband Rob drove 80 miles from Plummer, Minnesota. She said it was a rare opportunity to hear presidential candidates in person.
"I wanted to see him face to face, more one on one instead of just on TV. I guess it just seems more real, more like a human contact," Russillo said.
Russillo and her husband both said they're leaning toward voting for Obama.
Deb Frey held a large sign for Hillary Clinton. Frey is a retired school teacher from Fargo, N.D., who is a diehard Clinton supporter, but said if Barak Obama wins the party nomination, she will throw her support to him.
"Oh, I'll definitely vote for Obama, absolutely," Frey said. "But I love Hillary. She's brilliant. She's at the perfect age in life. She's so knowledgeable, so savvy."
Many people walked out of the arena carrying both Obama and Clinton signs, perhaps an indication of the challenge Democrats face in choosing a presidential candidate.


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Gunman held clearance despite past incidents
Aaron Alexis, 34, who was discharged from the Navy in 2011 and had been involved in a previous shooting incident involving a neighbor in Texas, has been identified by the FBI as the gunman who killed 12 people Monday at the Washington Navy Yard.
Alexis had been in the Navy as a full-time reservist from May 2007 to January 2011, and left as a petty officer third class, according to biographical data the Navy provided. He was born in Queens, N.Y., and the FBI stated his last known residence was in Fort Worth, Texas. Law enforcement officials said Alexis recently worked as a military contractor.
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Hewlett-Packard confirmed that Alexis was employed by a subcontractor of the company. An HP spokesperson stated: "Aaron Alexis was an employee of a company called "The Experts," a subcontractor to an HP Enterprise Services contract to refresh equipment used on the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) network. HP is cooperating fully with law enforcement as requested."
( PHOTOS: Shooting at Navy Yard)
The Wall Street Journal reported that Alexis had a secret security clearance through The Experts. "I don't know if it was his first day on the job or what but we are trying to figure it out," company CEO Thomas Hoshko was quoted as saying by the Journal. "The guy must have snapped," he added.
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus told CNN he has been informed Alexis "was in the Ready Reserve" and "in some capacity or another, he was a Navy contractor" in the area of informational technology.
USA Today on Monday night reported that a federal law enforcement official said Alexis legally purchased some of the weapons used in the attack in Virginia within the past few days. Alexis, who reportedly had been staying at a nearby Residence Inn since late August or early September, allegedly drove to the Navy Yard complex, cleared security checkpoints and parked in a lot, the official told USA Today.
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From February 2008 to January 2011, Alexis was stationed in Fort Worth as a member of an aviation support squadron. The Wall Street Journal's Julian E. Barnes reported on Twitter that an official told him the "Navy kicked Aaron Alexis out of the military in 2011 in connection with a 2010 shooting incident." The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday that a Navy officer said Alexis "had a pattern of misconduct" and was discharged from the service after multiple disciplinary infractions in 2011.
Alexis was arrested in September 2010 on a charge of discharging a firearm, according to a Fort Worth Police Department report. In the incident, Alexis allegedly shot a gun through his apartment ceiling and into the apartment of a woman who he'd allegedly confronted days earlier for making too much noise.
"She told that she was sitting in a chair when she heard the loud pop and saw the dust," the police report said. "She then saw that their [sic] was a hole in her floor just a couple of feet from where she was sitting while shredding papers and a hole in the ceiling."
( WATCH: Witnesses describe confusion at Navy Yard shooting)
Describing her confrontation with Alexis in the apartment building's parking lot, the woman told police that "she is terrified of Aaron and feels that this was done intentionally."
He didn't respond to three separate attempts by the police officer knocking on his door, prompting the officer to call for Fire Department backup. He came out of his apartment when the Fire Department arrived and spoke with the police, confirming he had a gun.
"He told me that he began to take the gun apart when his hands slipped and pulled the trigger discharging a round into the ceiling," the police report said. "When asked why he didn't call police or go check on the resident above him, Aaron said that he didn't think it went all the way through since he couldn't see any light through the hole."
He also told the police that he "thought that people would just think it was a firecracker."
( Also on POLITICO: Navy Yards shooter Aaron Alexis worked for contractor HP)
"I then asked why he wouldn't answer the door when I knocked and he said that he thought it was just his upstairs neighbor and he didn't want to talk to her because she is always making noise," the police report said.
Alexis was never tried on the weapons charge in Fort Worth, Joe Shannon Jr., the criminal district attorney in Tarrant County, Texas, said in a statement. "After reviewing the facts presented by the police department, it was determined that the elements constituting recklessness under Texas law were not present and a case was not filed," Shannon said, adding that no one was injured in the shooting.
And in 2004, Alexis had also been arrested by Seattle, Washington police for shooting out the tires of another man's car, the Seattle Police Department stated in a post on Monday. Two construction workers had parked their car in the driveway of their worksite, next to a home Alexis was staying at. Alexis later pulled a gun and fired three shots into the rear tires of the car and then "walked slowly" back into his house, the police report stated.
"When detectives interviewed workers and a manager at the construction site, they told police Alexis had 'stared' at construction workers at the job site every day over the last month prior to the shooting," the SPD wrote in the blog post. "The owner of the construction business told police he believed Alexis was angry over the parking situation around the work site."


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A former Bronx councilman will spend five years in prison for misdirecting hundreds of thousands of dollars for community projects to his girlfriend and family instead.
Larry Seabrook was sentenced Tuesday.
He was convicted of nine of 12 counts in a trial last summer in Manhattan federal court. The conviction came a year after another jury deadlocked on fraud charges.
Prosecutors wanted the Democrat to get seven to nine years in prison. Before he was arrested, he also had served as a state assemblyman and a senator. He has continued to deny wrongdoing.
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Nildram applies the brakes
Updated Pipex-owned ISP Nildram has joined the ranks of providers who are interfering with traffic to reduce the bandwidth burden from peer-to-peer networks and other "non-interactive" traffic.
The firm applied bandwidth throttling on Monday, restricting P2P and newsgroup traffic to as slow as a snail's pace 64Kbit/s. Customers, including business users, who contacted the Reg said they got no prior warning about the changes.
Ian Willmore, the firm's business and partner support manager, started a thread on the broadband forum thinkbroadband.com. He has not responded publicly to any of the criticism, or questions over service issues such as latency, posted in response.
Nildram tech support told one irate user yesterday that they had themselves just got news about the policy, and that it would apply during business hours only. Our correspondent wrote: "We operate around a dozen Nildram business accounts (including SDSL) and use FTP [file transfer protocol] and NNTP [network news transfer protocol] to synch up between offices. [They] really screwed us badly as we had no warning at all to make alternate provision and move provider."
Nildram did update its FAQ to reflect the bandwidth throttling last week. It says:
This weighting allows us to preference interactive traffic such us HTTP (Web), VoIP and VPN over non-interactive traffic, such as P2P (peer to peer) and NNTP (Newsgroups). This provides an important quality of service improvement for these applications where delays have a very noticeable effect and we expect that Nildram customers will see improved performance from these applications.
Nildram last acted to discourage downloading two years ago when it used the more crude method of a monthly GB limit, and applied it only to consumer customers.
Parent company Pipex introduced traffic shaping on its services in 2005, and was among the first non-BT ISPs to do so. Recently, the takeover target began cutting off punters who it thinks are abusing their connection, although it won't publish specific limits.
Without significant investment in network infrastructure, it seems customers will have to get used to traffic management. Nildram's speed limits seem particularly draconian, however, and the poor communication with users is inexcusable. ®
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Our website was updated on Thursday 17th May announcing the introduction of a new traffic management process which was enabled during the evening of Monday 21st May. We also posted an announcement on Think Broadband. This new process took on board feedback from our customers from an earlier change of traffic management in October 2006 which we backed out a few days later.
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FREITAS, Renan Springer de. Sociology of religion as a recapitulation of Christian replacement theology: Max Weber and the prophetic roots of western rationalism.Traducido porRenan Springer de Freitas. Rev. bras. ciênc. soc. [online]. 2008, vol.4Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 0102-6909.
This paper discusses the dependence of current sociological efforts towards explaining the rise of western rationalism on Christian replacement theology. Replacement theology is the view that Jesus redeeming sacrifice reported in the Gospels superseded and replaced Judaism because it made universal the access to divine grace, which had before been restricted to an ascriptive chosen people. I argue that this theological thesis lies at the root of Webers view that the pariah condition peculiar to the Jewish people made the Jews - unlike Pauls missionary work - unable to diffuse the rational conduct of life which had been established through the (Hebrew) prophetic doctrine of a universal God.
Palabras clave : Sociology of religion; Occidental rationalism; Hebraic prophecy; Christian theology.


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Monday, January 23, 2012
Coffee Germania
Making coffee at Kaffeemaccherei.
Like many places around the world, ask the local coffee people about their "scene" and you get similar reactions: "it kinda sucks", "it's lacking", "we need help", etc., etc. It seems in Germany it isn't much different. Ask the Germans where to get coffee and they'll tell you that there's only one or two places serving decent coffee - little do they realize that those "one or two" shops is typically more than most American cities.
Coffee and almond pastry at Der Backer Eifler.
My trip to Germany was less about coffee than it was about driving and cars, so I didn't really take the time to research or make tremendous effort to visit coffee spots. If it was out of the way (like Hoppenworth & Ploch, located in the middle of a university campus and a pain in the butt to get to) or open odd hours (sorry Berlin, but opening at 1pm on a Sunday is "odd" and not enough of a draw for me to delay my tour), then I just didn't bother. After all, if I really want to have okay coffee served by attitude filled hipsters, then I certainly don't need to fly to Europe for the experience. America is the leader in that regard.
Hoppenworth & Ploch - Frankfurt
Located on a university campus, H&P was the first place I tried to visit on my stopover to Africa. Colonel Matt was in town, had a car and we were in search of this place that supposedly serves great espresso. We drove around, consulted the iPhone, drove some more, got lost, dead-ended several times, always thinking that we could drive up to the coffee place (it said so on the iPhone). Finally, we realized that it was not going to happen, that we would have to find parking and hump it in across campus. With no parking to be found anywhere in the Westend, we gave up. Maybe that backerei chain would have passable coffee.
A regular coffee at Karin.
Cafe Karin - Frankfurt
The problem with a 5am arrival is that you can spend five hours getting yourself together and it's still only 10am. Wolfram Sorg said that Karin has a good breakfast, so I went there after I gathered myself, my rental car and arrived in downtown Frankfurt at 7am - only to find that Karin opens at 9am.
WTF??? This is Frankfurt. The financial center of Germany. Hell, it's the financial center of Europe and where the Euro is based. Nobody works until 9am?? This isn't America because Americans would be working. Ironically, the only place open in the neighborhood was a Starbucks (opens at 7am) and a bakery serving passable coffee with cream and sugar. I had to wait.
The day's special for six euros fifty.
When Karin finally opened, I was treated to fresh food, nicely prepared, at a good price and bitter, over roasted coffee. Better to stick with Coke Lite and a bottle of water.
Cafe Karin
Grosser Hirschgraben 28
60311 Frankfurt am Main
+49 69 2952-17
Kaffeemacherei - Lovely table settings.
Kaffeemacherei - Frankfurt
Truth be told, it's a rare experience for me to visit a coffee place and wish that I was the owner. Typically, I might admire a certain aspect of that coffee shop's operations, like their volume and revenue stream, or their retail sales, or perhaps their decor, or packaging.
On the other hand, I'm also thankful that many of the shops I visit are not mine because of generally rude baristas, poor sanitation, lack of standards and slipshod presentations.
Celebrity photos brighten the whitewashed walls.
But Kaffeemacherei is different. Located in a relatively nondescript neighborhood with a simple exterior that belies the gorgeous interior. Lots of white paneling and cute details compensate for this truly tiny shop. From the color coordinated La Marzocco GB-5 to the fresh flowers on the table to the complete presentation of labels signs and probably one of the best printed menus I've ever seen in a 3W cafe.
A slightly foamy cappuccino.
Speaking with the owner who, evidently, decided to open Maccherei after burning out on a photography career. Whatever the path that led him here, the execution here is world-class. I loved it.
The coffee was decent and the foam on my cappuccino while slightly foamy was still nice. When I grow up and burn out on my next career, I want to open a cafe this nice.
They squeezed seating for 12 in this tiny cafe.
Arguably the best printed menu in the 3W.
Eckenheimer Landstrasse 70
60318 Frankfurt
+49 69 48008766
Welcome to Kaffeewerk Espressionist.
Kaffeewerk Espressionist - Frankfurt
You've probably heard about it and I'm pretty sure you've never seen one in a working cafe environment, but if you want to see the new La Marzocco Strada EP 2 group, then this is the place to be. Of course, it doesn't look like they know how to exploit the machine's potential, but the ladies working here look pleasant enough. And yes, they're Russian. Run, don't walk.
Nestled in what seems to have been a sort of industrial area reclaimed by development and modern buildings, the roadwork makes it a but confusing to arrive, but the modernist decor is typical of the new wave coffeeshop. Lack of on-street parking is settled by parking on the sidewalk fronting the shop.
The view from my seat at Espressionist.
I haven't really been paying attention but at Espressionist they have two different types of macchiato. Maybe this is true for the rest of Germany or across Europe, but this is the only place I visited where there was any confusion. The girls offer a macchiato and a latte macchiato. My German is poor and their English was slightly better than my German but we were still unable to come to an understanding regarding the difference and I went with the latte macchiato.
Which turned out to be a basic Cafe Latte - espresso and steamed milk. Not that the drink was bar or poorly prepared, I just don't like drinking big lattes and it wasn't to my liking. I wanted a small, quick drink with greater coffee-to-milk ratio. The latte was nicely prepared and looked good in the tall glass but I wish they went with simple naming conventions instead of two types of macchiato when one will suffice. Perhaps it's to satiate the Starbucks educated crowd.
Hello, Latte Macchiato.
It was quiet when I visited, with only one or two other patrons coming in for a coffee. They offer a small selection of baked goods that looked pretty good and I enjoyed the few minutes I spent there before heading back out into the wilds of Frankfurt.
Kaffeewerk Espressionist
Europa Allee 29
60327 Frankfurt
+49 69 91316787
The Coffee Altar at Bonanza Coffee Heroes.
Bonanza Coffee Heroes - Berlin
My one and only stop in Berlin was delivered by the informative blog Cafe Kultur Berlin. Located in the old East Berlin in a Cold War era building (in fact part of the charm of the place is that it looks like it could have been part of the Cold War), I knew I was in a house of serious coffee people when: a)a guy was wearing a tie and vest, b)the guy had facial hair, c)he was wearing a hat, d)he was very intently brewing a pour over, e)he was weighing and measuring as he brewed, f)he took pictures of his brew and g)seemed mildly irritated by the fat guy in a blue Columbia news media jacket wearing a camera.
Ah, Third Wave thrives even in Germany. Lucky the world.
Bonanza: macchiato.
What I liked most about Bonanza was the interior of the building itself. Dilapidated concrete in need of patching gave a distinct Soviet Cold War feel to the place. I fantasized what it must have been like in 1980s walking along the streets and seeing what this space was during those times. Bleak, cold, dismal. Quite a difference from today.
Paired with the Cold War building was a collection of what looks to be 1950s era Probat roasters. Here, Bonanza roasts their own coffee with burlap bags stacked against a wall, little stools positioned about for guests to use and a monolithic steel altar to espresso-making, complete with the requisite Synesso espresso machine.
Bonanza's collection of roasters.
Granted, it was about half an hour to closing, so the place was quiet. The two guys there (one of them the owner) were busy either photographing the v60 brew, fiddling with the cash register, or preparing to go to a concert. I'm not one to tip my hat that I work in coffee, so I kept that to myself because I find it much more interesting to see how a place operates when they think you're just some schmoe. Though I did find it amusing to hear them talk trash about Counter Culture (the mustached guy is from the Southeast United States).
After the guys left, I chatted up the female barista about how things were and if I could have a coffee please. They had a couple of hand brew coffees available and asked her to select the one she was most excited about. She chose their El Salvador coffee. I don't know much else about the coffee because that's all the menu board read: "El Salvador."
Brewing with the V60.
Brewed in the Hario V60, Bonanza follows the style espoused by most baristas: fast. My coffee brewed in just over two minutes, which might have been attributable to the relatively new barista but that guy with the mustache shooting pictures of his brew did the same thing.
The coffee itself wasn't too bad (I liked my macchiato better), but the quick brew time resulted in a distinct underextracted sour tone to the coffee. Not terribly bad but nothing to savor and run home to tell momma either. The barista was pleasant enough and we chatted briefly about Berlin and some things to do in the city before I bid my adieu and headed off in search of the brauhaus.
My cup of El Salvador. Bright, but sour.
Bonanza Coffee Heroes
Oderberger Strasse 35
10435 Berlin
+49 176 61691 496
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TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. gaming regulators are investigating millions of dollars paid by affiliates of Japanese billionaire Kazuo Okada's Universal Entertainment Corp to a former consultant for the Philippine gaming authority around the time the company was lobbying to win concessions for a $2 billion Manila casino.
A Universal subsidiary made a $5 million payment in May 2010 to Rodolfo Soriano, a close associate of the former head of the Philippine gaming regulator, according to a Reuters examination of bank records, corporate filings, court documents and records prepared by Universal staff. The payment was made via a shell company in Hong Kong and was part of $40 million in transfers made by Universal's U.S. affiliate Aruze USA that are now a focus for investigators.
The document trail connecting Soriano to the $5 million payment has not been previously reported.
It's not clear whether Okada, 70 and ranked 18th among Japan's wealthiest by Forbes, personally approved the payments. Universal, more than two-thirds controlled by Okada and his son through Okada Holdings LLC, has filed suit against three ex-employees saying they acted without proper authorization in channeling $15 million of the total through Hong Kong-registered Future Fortune Ltd.
The revelation of the contested payments is the latest twist in a bitter falling out between Okada, who made his fortune making and marketing pachinko machines - a mix of slot and pinball machines - and Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn. Okada was Wynn's partner and largest investor until Wynn charged this year that Okada had broken compliance rules - and possibly U.S. law - by paying some $110,000 in entertainment and other expenses for gaming regulators from the Philippines and Korea.
The investigation of the much larger payments by Okada's company threatens to complicate Universal's attempt to get a U.S. federal court to reverse Wynn's decision to redeem Okada's Wynn Resorts shares at a discount. It could also complicate Universal's push to complete the casino on Manila Bay that it began building in January and has promoted as a VIP-destination resort for China's newly rich, some critics say.
"I don't have any illusions that it is going to be stopped, but there has to be accountability," said Teodoro Casino, a Philippine congressman who has urged the government to suspend the Universal project.
Universal referred questions to Yuki Arai, the lawyer who is representing the company in lawsuits against former employees. His office had no comment as of Friday.
Soriano could not be reached for comment. A woman at his home in Manila said he no longer lived at that address. She declined to say how he could be reached. An attempt to reach him at a Manila business operated by the family of his wife was also unsuccessful.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board has been looking into payments by Okada-controlled companies to Soriano, a consultant to the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), which regulates gambling in the Philippines, said a person with knowledge of the matter. The Control Board has sent agents to Japan and elsewhere to investigate claims that potentially improper payments were made to Soriano, said the person, who asked not to be named as the process is ongoing, adding the payments were also part of an audit by Nevada authorities of Universal in Japan that began in August.
If Nevada authorities determine there is evidence of wrongdoing, state gaming regulators can limit or restrict gaming licenses or impose other sanctions. Universal, which also makes slot machines, is one of two public Japanese companies, along with Konami Corp, that are registered with and report to the Nevada Gaming Commission.
At least two former Universal employees have discussed the payments to Soriano with the FBI, said people with knowledge of those talks. Any FBI investigation would be for a potential criminal case, separate from the regulatory probe. A spokesman for the FBI office in Las Vegas, which handled the interviews, declined to comment.
The disclosures deepen questions about compliance and controls at Universal at a time when those issues are already under scrutiny because of revelations it paid to entertain Philippine and Korean gaming officials at the Wynn casino resort in Macau and the Wynn resort in Las Vegas. Those revelations were first made public by Wynn after he commissioned an investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh.
Records reviewed by Reuters show the $5 million transferred from Nevada-incorporated Aruze USA was sent first to Future Fortune, which was set up in Hong Kong in 2008 and run by a succession of Universal employees. From that firm's HSBC bank account, the money was sent to People's Technology Holding Ltd, a firm established in 2009 and wholly-owned by Soriano.
The payment was part of $40 million that moved from Aruze USA's accounts through Future Fortune in the first half of 2010, just as Universal sought tax and ownership-related concessions in the final months of the administration of former Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. It also sought to resolve road use issues that risked complicating its casino development, people involved in the project say.
The remaining $35 million was paid in January-May 2010 to a firm called Subic Leisure and Management, records show. Subic Leisure was registered in the British Virgin Islands in September 2008, weeks after Universal acquired reclaimed land on Manila Bay and announced plans to build Asia's largest aquarium, a Ferris wheel and a 2,050-room hotel and casino.
Under corporate laws in the British Virgin Islands, Subic Leisure does not have to disclose its directors or investors. HSBC said it had no comment.
Universal has looked to Asia for growth to offset a decline in its home market for pachinko. It won a provisional license to operate a casino in the Philippines when it paid about $300 million for land as part of the Manila Bay project.
But Universal continued to lobby for its casino to be exempt from corporate tax and for an exception to rules requiring Philippine investors own 60 percent of the venture, three former employees involved in the project said. Universal, which has a market value of around $1.7 billion, announced it won those concessions in April 2010. Arroyo left office in June 2010.
"The incumbent PAGCOR management has no knowledge about the said transfer of funds," the regulator said in an emailed response to questions from Reuters for this article.
Soriano, a confidante of former PAGCOR chairman Efraim Genuino, frequently visited Universal offices in Tokyo and hosted Okada on his visits to Manila, former associates say. Widely known by his nickname "Boysee," Soriano operated at the nexus of business and politics in Manila and often networked over rounds of golf at the Wack Wack Country Club, one of the country's oldest golf courses, people who worked with him say.
Manuel Camacho, 79, a Manila-based lawyer who formerly represented Universal in the Philippines, said it was understood that Soriano was an agent for Okada on the Manila casino project even as he worked for PAGCOR as a consultant. "This guy Soriano - that is Okada himself. He is acting for Okada," he said.
Camacho, who also spoke to Freeh investigators, claims money he was paid by Universal was diverted by his former law partner, Genuino's son, Erwin, and sent as a pay-off to local officials to win clearance for road building. Erwin, his father Efraim and their lawyers could not be reached for comment.
Okada has defended himself against accusations of misconduct in the Wynn case in part by saying he was not directly involved in running Universal. He also argues he was pushed out as a Wynn shareholder for raising concerns as a director about a $135 million donation approved to a foundation aligned with the University of Macau. Okada told Reuters in an interview in Hong Kong last month he would also file lawsuits against former Universal employees he accused of negligence that contributed to the crisis for his company in its relations with Wynn.
"Once we started looking back at things in 2011, I realized I had been deceived all along," Okada said. "To be honest, I feel like an idiot for trusting people."
At the time of that interview, the payments to Soriano had not come to light.
In a lawsuit filed by Universal on August 20 in Tokyo District Court, Universal claims Mitsuo Hida, 65, then president of Aruze USA's Japan branch, made an unauthorized debit of $5 million from the company's Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ account in May 2010. Records show the money was transferred via Future Fortune, where Hida was a director, to Soriano's People's Technology.
In his rebuttal to the lawsuit, Hida, who led the effort to win concessions for Universal's Manila casino from the Arroyo administration, says he was operating under Okada. "Kazuo Okada is the president of Aruze USA in its entirety," he wrote in his statement filed with the court. "I was operating under his chain of command in conducting business."
Hida declined to comment further when contacted by Reuters. His lawyer also declined comment, citing the pending legal case.
A second lawsuit accuses three former Universal employees, including Hida, of acting without authorization in sending $10 million to Subic Leisure and Management. That lawsuit has been filed with a Tokyo court, but remains partly sealed.
Internal Universal documents reviewed by Reuters describe the series of payments to Future Fortune as both "consulting fees" and, in one case, an "increase in capital." The $5 million payment to Soriano's People's Technology was described as an "advance payment" in one internal document.
It was not immediately clear how the payments were treated in quarterly financial reports or in mandatory disclosures to Nevada gaming regulators. An email from a member of Universal's compliance unit shows staff sought guidance on how to account for the $40 million paid to Future Fortune in mid-2010.
Both Soriano and Genuino, who left his post in June 2010, face separate charges of bribery and corruption lodged by Philippine officials over payments from the gaming authority to candidates in May 2010 elections in the Philippines. Both were also guests at Wynn resorts with their expenses paid for by Universal when Okada was a major Wynn shareholder and Genuino was the chief gaming regulator for the Philippines. The Freeh report first disclosed those payments.
Universal has acknowledged both men, and other officials from the Philippines and Korea, were guests it sponsored. It maintains the free lodging and expense payments did not violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a U.S. law against paying bribes. Okada said the arrangements were made by employees no longer with the company, and he was not aware of the payments.
Wynn said the payments uncovered by Freeh were evidence that Okada was "unsuitable" to serve as a director of the Las Vegas-based company, and forced the redemption of Okada's 20 percent stake in Wynn Resorts for $1.9 billion, a 30 percent discount to the market value. Wynn Resorts had no comment about the $5 million payment to Soriano when asked by Reuters.
Soriano and his wife stayed free at Wynn resorts five times between 2008 and 2010, records show. On a June 2010 trip, Soriano travelled with Efraim Genuino to Wynn Macau where Universal covered their expenses of $2,974.70, including $25 for Soriano to watch a movie.
Genuino checked out on June 10. Soriano left a day later. Within the week, Genuino announced his resignation as PAGCOR chief, a move that incoming Philippine President Benigno Aquino said meant "one less problem for me."
Reporting by Nathan Layne, Taro Fuse, Kevin Krolicki, Teppei Kasai, Fumika Inoue and Mayumi Negishi in Tokyo; Farah Master in Hong Kong; Sue Zeidler in Los Angeles; Joseph Menn in San Francisco and Rosemarie Francisco and Manuel Mogato in Manila; Writing by Kevin Krolicki; Editing by Ian Geoghegan


text: The stage victory, between Mola di Bari and Margherita di Savoia, marked Cavendish's 12th stage win of the Giro in his career [AFP]Mark Cavendish dominated the sprint finish of the sixth stage of the Giro d'Italia for his second victory in this month's race, while Luca Paolini's overall lead remained unchanged on Thursday. Cavendish dedicated the victory to Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt, who died exactly two years ago after clipping a wall and crashing during a descent at the Giro. On the victory podium, Cavendish held aloft Weylandt's No. 108, which was permanently retired from the race. "This is a sad day for all of us,'' Cavendish said. "We miss him every day.'' Payback The victory was pleasant payback for Cavendish after getting dropped on a mild climb toward the end of Wednesday's stage, which was won by German sprinter John Degenkolb. This time, with a long, straight and flat finish, Cavendish was set up perfectly by his team and had enough time to raise his arms in celebration before crossing the line. "The team did an incredible job today,'' Cavendish said. "Everything was 100 per cent.'' Cavendish, the British standout with the Omega Pharma-Quick Step team, clocked almost four hours over the mostly flat 168-kilometre leg from Mola di Bari to Margherita di Savoia. Elia Viviani, an Italian with Cannondale, crossed second, and Matthew Goss, an Australian with Orica-GreenEdge, was third, both with the same time as Cavendish. It was the 12th Giro stage win of Cavendish's career and his 99th victory overall. The Isle of Man rider also won the opening stage in Naples. In cycling's three Grand Tours, the Giro, Tour de France and Spanish Vuelta, Cavendish has won a combined 38 stages. Paolini lead In the overall standings, Paolini remained 17 seconds ahead of Rigoberto Uran, a Colombian with Sky and 26 seconds in front of Benat Intxausti Elorriaga, a Spaniard with Movistar. Overall favourites Vincenzo Nibali, Ryder Hesjedal and Bradley Wiggins remained fourth, fifth and sixth, respectively. Wiggins had to change bikes with about 30 kilometres to go during the stage, which followed the Adriatic coast before a short finishing circuit. Several Sky riders waited to escort Wiggins back to the main pack, which became tougher when they were slowed by a crash that split the pack into two, but they eventually caught up. Ji Cheng, the first Chinese rider to enter the Giro, withdrew before the start of the stage due to a fever. "We don't want to take any risks. Health comes first,'' the Argos-Shimano team physician Edwin Achterberg said. The race remains along the Adriatic coast for stage seven on Friday, a hilly 176-kilometre leg from San Salvo to Pescara. On Saturday, the overall standings should see a major shakeup with a 55-kilometre individual time trial from Gabicce Mare to Saltara. The race ends on May 26 in Brescia. SOURCE: AP Sport Cycling France Isle of Man


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May 30, 2013, Quebec (ISN) – The 2013 FIVB World League men's volleyball tournament gets underway on three fronts on Friday including Quebec City where Team Canada will face the Netherlands at the Colisee Pepsi. (Live at 7 p.m. EDT on Sportsnet East, Ontario, West and Pacific).
The six-week World League is an annual 18-country intercontinental tournament which offers the largest cash prizes in the sport.
Canada, ranked 18th in the world, returned to World League play last season and placed 12th. The Canadians are in pool C with Japan ranked 19th, South Korea at 24, Finland at 30 and Portugal and Netherlands both at 36. If Canada places first in its pool it will advance to the six-country World League final set for July 17-21 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
"We have the ability to win our robin pool matches every weekend," said Justin Duff of Winnipeg who just returned from Russia where he helped his pro team to the league title. "We are looking forward to showing the Canadian fans the level we are at. We are well prepared to start this tournament and we are going to get better as it progresses. "
Canada's head coach Glenn Hoag is confident his troops are ready.
"Our preparations are going very well and we are anxious for this tournament to start," said Hoag, who also won a pro title this season in Turkey on a team that included Canadian national team players Gord Perrin of Creston, B.C., and Adam Simac of Ottawa. "The Dutch are going to be a tough opponent like all European teams. They have a lot of talent and have a nice blend of youth and experience. They are tall and we expect them to play a physical game."
The Netherlands meanwhile are in a rebuilding phase and step one has been accomplished by returning to the World League this season for the first time since 2010.
"This is the level we have to be at now, we have to be present at these special events," said Netherlands head coach Edwin Benne. "It's been very hard work to come back but we feel we have a great group of guys who want to accomplish our goals together."
There is no shortage of experience on the Canadian team either. Steve Brinkman of Bowmanville, Ont., has played in 224 international matches and captain Fred Winters of Victoria could also reach the 200-match plateau this summer. Louis-Pierre Mainville of Notre-Dame-de-L'Ile Perrot, Que., looked strong in exhibition matches against Turkey earlier this month after missing most of the past two seasons with a knee injury.
There is also some young talent with the 23-year-old Perrin who was a big revelation for the Canadians in the World League last year and continued to sparkle this winter in Turkey.
Scoring sensation Gavin Schmitt of Saskatoon, Simac and Duff are players entering the prime years of their careers.
Canada plays the Dutch again on Saturday at 4 p.m. in Quebec. The following two weekends they face Portugal (June 7-8) and South Korea (June 14-15) at the Hershey Centre in Mississauga. Canada closes out its round robin June 28-29 in Finland and July 6-7 in Japan.
Last year Poland won its first World League crown defeating the U.S., in the championship final. Cuba was third.
http://www.volleyball.ca/content/world-league-2013 and www.fivb.org


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* P&G; profit $1.22/share vs Street view $1.11
* P&G; raises forecast for fiscal year
* Shares rise as much as 4 pct
* Kimberly-Clark profit $1.37/share vs Street view $1.35
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By Jessica Wohl
Jan 25 (Reuters) - Procter & Gamble Co's quarterly
profit soared past expectations as the world's largest household
products maker used higher prices and new products to drive
sales growth, the strongest indication yet that turnaround
efforts are paying off.
The results, along with improved forecasts for the fiscal
year, follow months of criticism from analysts and most notably
from activist investor William Ackman, who blamed P&G;'s top
brass, led by Chairman and Chief Executive Bob McDonald, for
earlier missteps.
Shares of P&G;, the maker of Pampers diapers and Gillette
razors and a component of the Dow Jones industrial average
, jumped as high as $73.25 in morning trading, their
highest level in all of McDonald's 3-1/2 years at the helm.
"They've been stuck in the mud for years and this is kind of
a ray of hope for the company and they should be commended on
the quarter," said Channing Smith, co-manager of the Capital
Advisors Growth Fund. P&G; represents 2 percent of that
The results, with profit and sales ahead of analysts'
expectations, come after months of efforts by P&G; to reignite
growth in sluggish markets such as the United States while also
expanding in emerging markets, where it typically sells
lower-priced merchandise.
Back in April 2012, analysts took McDonald to task on a
tense conference call after P&G; cut its outlook. That summer,
Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management bought the company's
shares and began pushing for more change.
Profit has exceeded analysts' expectations every quarter
since, helped by new products such as Tide Pods single-dose
laundry detergent.
Still, P&G;'s growth lags that of peers such as Unilever Plc
P&G;'s organic sales, which strip out the impact of
divestitures and foreign exchange, grew 3 percent in the latest
quarter, while Unilever posted 6.9 percent sales growth on
P&G;'s rivals such as Unilever, Colgate-Palmolive Co
and Kimberly-Clark Corp have done well in recent years
while Procter struggled, and now perhaps it has the firepower to
bounce back, said Edward Jones analyst Jack Russo.
"Procter's been left out of the party a little bit, so it's
nice to see them reappear here and kind of exert their influence
on the group," he said.
P&G; has seen U.S. volume growth continue in January, said
Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller. At the same time, it
believes it can improve market share in Europe over the next few
months with products such as a new Ariel detergent based on the
successful U.S. Tide Pods, McDonald said.
Still, analysts would like to see more improvement in other
areas. Stifel Nicolaus analyst Mark Astrachan called the results
"solid and encouraging," particularly the sales growth, but said
P&G; continues to lag in categories with strong growth trends,
such as beauty.
Meanwhile, rival Kimberly-Clark also posted a
better-than-expected profit on Friday.
P&G; has been under pressure to improve performance since
Ackman bought a stake of about 1 percent, making his Pershing
Square the company's eighth-largest shareholder. Ackman has said
many of the company's problems were the fault of top management
but said in the fall he understood the board wanted to give
McDonald more time to repair years of damage.
"When the company is performing, obviously the pressure from
Ackman will probably fade somewhat," said Capital Advisors'
Smith, adding that while he does not know Ackman's intentions,
it is clear that Ackman's investment in P&G; is worth a lot more
today than when he bought the shares.
Ackman could not immediately be reached for comment.
Even before Ackman took a stake, P&G; was going through a $10
billion restructuring and other changes. It cut 5,500
nonmanufacturing jobs through December, near its goal of
reducing 5,700 positions by the end of June, Moeller said on
Competitors such as Colgate and Kimberly-Clark are also
trimming their ranks.
P&G; earned $4.06 billion, or $1.39 per share, in the fiscal
second quarter ended in December, up from $1.69 billion, or 57
cents per share, a year earlier.
Stripping out unusual items such as restructuring charges
and acquisitions, P&G; earned $1.22 per share. That topped the
company's own forecast of $1.07 to $1.13 per share and analysts'
average target of $1.11, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Net sales rose 2 percent to $22.18 billion, topping
analysts' forecast of $21.91 billion.
P&G; expects fiscal 2013 core earnings of $3.97 to $4.07 per
share, up from an earlier forecast of $3.80 to $4. The fiscal
year ends in June. Analyst estimates were at the bottom of that
new range.
It expects organic sales to rise 3 to 4 percent this year,
narrowing a prior forecast of 2 to 4 percent growth.
P&G; also said it now plans to repurchase $5 billion to $6
billion in stock after calling for $4 billion to $6 billion in
For the current quarter, P&G; forecast core earnings per
share of 91 to 97 cents, with sales up 3 to 4 percent. Analysts'
average forecast was 95 cents per share.
Shares of P&G; were up 3.7 percent at $73.00 late on Friday
morning, off an earlier high at $73.25.
(Reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago; editing by Jeffrey
Benkoe, Nick Zieminski and Matthew Lewis)