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Former White House counsel John Dean, continuing his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee (see June 25-29, 1973), provides a sheaf of documents to the committee. Among those is the "Opponents List and Political Enemies Project," informally called President Nixon's "enemies list." The list is actually a set of documents "several inches thick" of names and information about Nixon's political enemies. It was compiled by a number of administration officials, including Dean, White House aides Charles Colson, Gordon Strachan, and Lyn Nofziger, beginning in 1971. One of the documents from August 16, 1971, has Dean suggesting ways in which "we can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies." Methods proposed included administration manipulation of "grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc." The Dean memo was given to then-chief of staff H. R. Haldeman and top White House aide John Ehrlichman for approval. Though Dean testifies that he does not know if the plan was set into motion, subsequent documents submitted to the committee indicate that it was indeed implemented. A condensed list of 20 "White House enemies" was produced by Colson's office; a larger list included ten Democratic senators, all 12 black House members, over 50 news and television reporters, prominent businessmen, labor leaders, and entertainers, and contributors to the 1972 presidential campaign of Democratic senator Edmund Muskie. The condensed list includes, in priority order:
"1. Arnold M. Picker, United Artists Corp., NY. Top Muskie fund raiser. Success here could be both debilitating and very embarrassing to the Muskie machine. If effort looks promising, both Ruth and David Picker should be programmed and then a follow through with United Artists."
"2. Alexander E. Barkan, national director of AFL-CIO's committee on Political Education, Washington D.C.: Without a doubt the most powerful political force programmed against us in 1968 ($10 million, 4.6 million votes, 115 million pamphlets, 176,000 workers—all programmed by Barkan's COPE—so says Teddy White in The Making of the President 1968). We can expect the same effort this time."
"3. Ed Guthman, managing editor, Los Angeles Times: Guthman, former Kennedy aide, was a highly sophisticated hatchetman against us in '68. It is obvious he is the prime mover behind the current Key Biscayne effort. It is time to give him the message."
"4. Maxwell Dane, Doyle, Dane and Bernbach, NY: The top Democratic advertising firm—they destroyed Goldwater in '64. They should be hit hard starting with Dane."
"5. Charles Dyson, Dyson-Kissner Corp., NY: Dyson and [Democratic National Committee chairman] Larry O'Brien were close business associates after '68. Dyson has huge business holdings and is presently deeply involved in the Businessmen's Educational Fund which bankrolls a national radio network of five-minute programs—anti-Nixon in character."
"6. Howard Stein, Dreyfus Corp., NY: Heaviest contributor to [Democratic presidential candidate Eugene] McCarthy in '68. If McCarthy goes, will do the same in '72. If not, Lindsay or McGovern will receive the funds."
"7. [US Representative] Allard Lowenstein, Long Island, NY: Guiding force behind the 18-year-old 'Dump Nixon' vote campaign."
"8. Morton Halperin, leading executive at Common Cause: A scandal would be most helpful here."
"9. Leonard Woodcock, UAW, Detroit, Mich.: No comments necessary."
"10. S. Sterling Munro Jr., Sen. [Henry Jackson's aide, Silver Spring, Md: We should give him a try. Positive results would stick a pin in Jackson's white hat."
"11. Bernard T. Feld, president, Council for a Livable World: Heavy far left funding. They will program an 'all court press' against us in '72."
"12. Sidney Davidoff, New York City, [New York City Mayor John V.] Lindsay's top personal aide: a first class SOB, wheeler-dealer and suspected bagman. Positive results would really shake the Lindsay camp and Lindsay's plans to capture youth vote. Davidoff in charge."
"13. John Conyers, congressman, Detroit: Coming on fast. Emerging as a leading black anti-Nixon spokesman. Has known weakness for white females."
"14. Samuel M. Lambert, president, National Education Association: Has taken us on vis-a-vis federal aid to parochial schools—a '72 issue." (Facts on File 6/2003) Committee chairman Sam Ervin (D-NC) is clearly outraged by the list, and particularly by Lambert's inclusion. He says, "Here is a man listed among the opponents whose only offense is that he believed in the First Amendment and shared Thomas Jefferson's conviction, as expressed in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, that to compel a man to make contributions of money for the dissemination of religious opinions he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical. Isn't that true?" Dean replies, "I cannot disagree with the chairman at all." (Time 7/9/1973)
"15. Stewart Rawlings Mott, Mott Associates, NY: Nothing but big money for radic-lib candidates."
"16. Ronald Dellums, congressman, Calif: Had extensive [Edward M. Kennedy] EMK-Tunney support in his election bid. Success might help in California next year."
"17. Daniel Schorr, Columbia Broadcasting System, Washington: A real media enemy."
"18. S. Harrison Dogole, Philadelphia, Pa: President of Globe Security Systems—fourth largest private detective agency in US. Heavy Humphrey [former presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey] contributor. Could program his agency against us."
"19. [Actor] Paul Newman, Calif: Radic-lib causes. Heavy McCarthy involvement '68. Used effectively in nation wide TV commercials. '72 involvement certain."
"20. Mary McGrory, Washington columnist: Daily hate Nixon articles."
Another "master list" of political enemies prepared by Colson's office includes Democratic senators Birch Bayh, J. W. Fulbright, Fred R. Harris, Harold Hughes, Edward M. Kennedy, George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Edmund Muskie, Gaylord Nelson, and William Proxmire; House representatives Bella Abzug, William R. Anderson, John Brademas, Father Robert F. Drinan, Robert Kastenmeier, Wright Patman; African-American representatives Shirley Chisholm, William Clay, George Collins, John Conyers, Ronald Dellums, Charles Diggs, Augustus Hawkins, Ralph Metcalfe, Robert N.C. Nix, Parren Mitchell, Charles Rangel, Louis Stokes; and several other politicians, including Lindsay, McCarthy, and George Wallace, the governor of Alabama (see May 15, 1972). The list also includes an array of liberal, civil rights and antiwar organizations, including the Black Panthers, the Brookings Institution, Common Cause, the Farmers Union, the National Economic Council, the National Education Association, the National Welfare Rights Organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Convention; a variety of labor organizations; many reporters, columnists, and other news figures; a short list of celebrities including Bill Cosby, Jane Fonda, Dick Gregory, Steve McQueen, Joe Namath, Gregory Peck, Tony Randall, and Barbra Streisand; and a huge list of businessmen and academics. The documents provide suggestions for avenues of attack against individual listees, including using "income tax discrepancies," allegations of Communist connections, and other information. (Facts on File 6/2003) In 1999, Schorr will joke that being on Nixon's enemies list "changed my life a great deal. It increased my lecture fee, got me invited to lots of very nice dinners. It was so wonderful that one of my colleagues that I will not mention, but a very important man at CBS, said, 'Why you, Schorr? Why couldn't it have been me on the enemies list?'" (CNN 3/27/1999) Schorr does not mention that he was the subject of an FBI investigation because of his listing. (Spartacus Schoolnet 8/2007)
Staffers from the Church Committee (see April, 1976), slated with investigating illegal surveillance operations conducted by the US intelligence community, approach the NSA for information about Operation Shamrock (see 1945-1975). The NSA ostensibly closes Shamrock down the very same day the committee staffers ask about the program. Though the Church Committee focuses on a relatively narrow review of international cables, the Pike Committee in the House (see January 29, 1976) is much more far-ranging. The Pike Committee tries and fails to subpoena AT&T, which along with Western Union collaborated with the government in allowing the NSA to monitor international communications to and from the US. The government protects AT&T by declaring it "an agent of the United States acting under contract with the Executive Branch." A corollary House subcommittee investigation led by Bella Abzug (D-NY)—who believes that Operation Shamrock continues under a different name—leads to further pressure on Congress to pass a legislative remedy. The Ford administration's counterattack is given considerable assistance by a young lawyer at the Justice Department named Antonin Scalia. The head of the Office of Legal Counsel, Scalia's arguments in favor of continued warrantless surveillance and the unrestricted rights and powers of the executive branch—opposed by, among others, Scalia's boss, Attorney General Edward Levi—do not win out this time; Ford's successor, Jimmy Carter, ultimately signs into law the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (see 1978). But Scalia's incisive arguments win the attention of powerful Ford officials, particularly Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld's assistant, Dick Cheney. (Dubose and Bernstein 2006, pp. 36-37) Scalia will become a Supreme Court Justice in 1986 (see September 26, 1986).
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One of the most important steps in your client intake process is sending a contract that outlines your policies, what your service includes, and anything else that you need to communicate to your client.
Not only do contracts help you in case of a legal situation, but they're also great for letting your client know what to expect. I prefer to state my business policies in contracts instead of sending a welcome packet because clients are much more likely to read a contract. That way, my clients know what's going on and I only have to create one document instead of creating a contract AND a packet.
I now use HelloSign to send my contracts. I used to use Docracy, but they, unfortunately, shut down. I was really sad because Docracy was totally free. After doing some research on a handful of different contract signature programs, I found a way to send free contracts through HelloSign. They offer 3 free contracts a month which is really cool. If you send more than 3 there's a monthly fee.
By the way, I offer virtual assistant contract templates if you need them.
In the video above I'll show you how to create and send a contract through HelloSign.
Step 1: Prepare your contract or obtain a template.
- You can get mine here (they're super affordable!).
- If you're using a template, update the template for your own business. If you're using my templates, edit anything in bold or parentheses.
- Make sure the contract text or template is saved as a PDF or Word doc.
Step 2: Upload contact to HelloSign
- Log into or sign up for HelloSign.
- When you log in, it will take you to a page with some options. Select "Me and Others."
- Click the "Upload the file" on the next page to add your contract.
Step 3: Prepare doc for signing
- Scroll down to the text boxes below the file. Make sure your name and email address are already there. (If you added these when you filled out your profile, they should show up in these fields automatically.)
- Add your client's name and email address to the correct text boxes.
- Click "Prepare doc for signing." This will take you to your actual contract.
Step 4: Fill out the contract
- Add text boxes to the blank spaces.
- For the area at the top where your client's business name will go, click "text box" on the top toolbar and drag the box to the blank space on the contract.
- It will then ask "Who fills this out?" Click "Me, now." This will allow you to type your client's name and business name into the spaces on the contract.
- Sign the contract
- For the places that need to be signed, click "Signature" on the toolbar and drag text boxes to those fields.
- Select "me, now" for your signature space and it will bring up your signature. If you haven't used HelloSign before, it will ask you to draw or type your signature.
- For the space for your client's signature, choose "client's name" and check "required."
- Use regular text boxes to the places where your names must be printed.
- Date the contract.
- Click "Sign Date" on the toolbar and drag a box to the date fields. This should add the current date.
Step 5: Send the contract
- Review everything and click "Continue" at the top.
- The next section is a message to your client. Fill in the subject line and the message, then hit "request signature" to send the email.
To view contracts:
- From the homepage, click "Documents" on the left toolbar to see your options. The arrow on the right will let you view, share, edit, or download them.
For a lot of new VAs, the contract is one of the most intimidating parts of the client intake process, but it doesn't have to be. HelloSign and my contract templates make it so easy!
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Ariana Grande got a bit more than she bargained for this Halloween. The songstress went on a spectacularly spooky adventure for a segment on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. And while it was an absolutely horrifying experience for her, the results are pretty hilarious for us. (Sorry!)
Grande went through an American Horror Story-themed haunted house, with Ellen producer Andy Lassner at her side. (Because, honestly, making her do it alone would've been a little bit cruel.) The American Horror Story Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios was no run-of-the-mill house of terrors. The petrified pair clutched on to each other as they encountered clowns, demons, pig men, and chainsaw-wielding psychos inspired by six seasons of the creepy Ryan Murphy series. (No My Roanoke Nightmare-inspired disembowelment, thankfully.) Their reactions every time a new monster popped out ranged from screaming expletives to, in Grande's case, falling to the ground in fetal position.
The super-scary maze looks awesome, but, in all honesty, we're more than happy just experiencing it second-hand. Watch the full clip for yourself below.


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The Chemical Process Industry is still at an early stage in its adoption and usage of cloud computing. However, going by the industry's structure and prevailing trends, the chemical industry is well positioned to leverage significant benefits from this emerging technology. With increasing cost pressures due to rise in commodity prices and intensifying global competition, chemicals businesses need to achieve a fundamental reduction in their underlying cost structure for driving greater operational excellence.
In addition, challenges such as ongoing globalization of manufacturing and research and development (R&D), industry consolidation and the rise of the sustainability agenda are demanding new approaches to how the industry operates. The chemical industry segment has to find new ways to stem pressures compounded by the need to manage and mitigate supply chain risks more effectively in a globalized world, and to respond to customers' demand for shorter lead times and more specialized formulations.
What does the cloud have in store?
With Cloud computing, chemicals businesses can meet all challenges mentioned above. However, currently the usage of cloud services is still at a nascent stage in the chemical industry. The adoption of cloud services in the chemical industry is bound to grow as industry experts predict. The chemicals companies are already using outsourcing, off shoring and shared hosting service centers in many areas of their business, and are actively consolidating and standardizing IT across the business. Compared to other industry segments they are ready to offload some of the processes and entrust a variety of activities to external cloud providers.
While the cloud brings significant benefits, the chemical sector still is doubtful of the technology's disruptive and pervasive impact and needs to evaluate its longer-term costs and risks. Moreover, the significance and effects of cloud computing will vary between different industries, and even for different organizations within the same industry.
No doubt the cloud brings agility, speed, instant availability of resources, and tools that enable collaboration and innovation. The chemical sector will evaluate their options and take some time to hop on the cloud bandwagon.
The life sciences industry is one example where the cloud has seen rapid acceptance. There are a number of real-world examples of life sciences companies using the cloud to bring new agility to their research and development processes. For e.g. Pfizer's Biotherapeutics & Bioinnovation Center (BBC) business unit began using Amazon cloud services earlier this year to develop and refine models in antibody docking runs. According to Giles Day, BBC's head of informatics, "We use the cloud to shorten the process to two to three hours from two to three days. But what really interests me is that it changes the way we do our science. Using the cloud lets us work in a more iterative way and keep the momentum of the research project going."
The life sciences sector is using the cloud for developing new therapies and products — and getting them to market fast. Genomics, proteomics, modeling and high-throughput screening (among others) are important activities that speed next-generation discovery and development, and they all require flexible and immense computational power on demand – precisely what the cloud offers.
The way to the Cloud
To take advantage of the many benefits of cloud computing, chemical companies can begin by taking a sensible, staged and risk-based approach. It is worth taking the time to learn what the cloud can and cannot do, and how best to match the cloud's advantages with your organization.
Begin with a Cloud adoption assessment
Look carefully at your business processes, rather than infrastructure or architecture. The most sensible way to start is by doing a top-down assessment of these processes, first making sure they align to strategic objectives and then scoring each process to identify its suitability for transfer to a cloud delivery model.
Do not think about replacing the datacenter
Instead, think about processes where performance can be dramatically improved by rapidly scalable, on-demand computing.
Move processes in stages
Consider using the cloud for development and testing and for projects that require minimal security, such as test data around process management, or a development environment for enterprise applications like SAP or Oracle. Next, consider migration of internal situational applications onto a platform as a service technology (PaaS) to eliminate data and infrastructure redundancy while increasing application usability and extensibility. Then, as employees become more comfortable with the cloud they will also use it for short-term, processing-intensive applications such as large statistical analyses.
Create a roadmap
Don't jump into the cloud head on. Make a rational plan from your present to future state that brings the benefits of the cloud to the business processes that will benefit most. If you have something on your roadmap that doesn't have a service yet available in the market, move it forward on your roadmap, don't necessarily cross it off. The rapid development and improvement of cloud hosting services in the market means that it is likely a provider is already working to provide a service compatible with your needs.
Ask hard questions and demand data-based analysis regarding cost savings
Do not assume automatic and substantive cost savings. Do a return-on-investment (ROI) analysis. Consider conversion and ongoing costs as well as savings. Do not be intimidated by the jargon. Conduct an experiment or pilot on workgroup applications, or on a non mission-critical, non-integrated application. If satisfied, be ready to scale once you have proven the benefits are worth it.
To read more on how the Cloud can help you in bringing agility, mitigating supply chain risks more effectively, and responding to customers' demand for shorter lead times and more specialized formulations read our article on Cloud Computing in the Chemical Industry.


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When I think of fall returning to New Orleans it's with great excitement that I realize I can start wearing my hand knit socks with vigor again. After a summer full of flip flops and sandals my feet long for the feel of little purl bumps. September and October can still be pretty hot though and not every day is going to be wool worthy. That's when I spotted this new Panda Silk yarn at my lys. One touch and I surrendered. I knew I had to wrap my tootsies in some of this stuff. The warm oranges and yellows had me thinking of beautiful sunsets. Amaterasu (wiki link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaterasu) is the Japenese mythological sun goddess.
This lace pattern is pretty stretchy and the yarn has lots of drape so I worked these up on size 0 needles to give the sock a little more body and also because I found the Panda Silk to be on the thin side. If you substitute sock yarns I would look for something on thinner side to match the gauge of the Panda Silk.
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Yesterday I was musing about the green pros and cons of Robert Llewellyn's Carpool internet TV show, in which he drives around in a hybrid or EV with notable business people, celebrities and tech heads. True, it does involve some perhaps unnecessary driving around—especially when the conversation isn't about cars—but he is also promoting some of the most advanced motoring technology around. And green questions aside, I'm increasingly enamored with the relaxed, revealing conversations that result. Yesterday he interviewed Dale Vince of Ecotricity, revealing a little more about how he went from living in a truck to being one of the richest men in the UK by harnessing the power of the wind. This next episode is a little more car centric, as Robert takes the Mitsubishi MIEV electric car for a spin, and boy is he impressed!In case you haven't been following, there's been a lot of excitement here on TreeHugger and elsewhere about the Mistubishi MiEV electric car—especially the fact that it's going to be available in Japan a year ahead of schedule, and Mitsubishi are opening a second battery factory because of unexpectedly high demand.
Apparently boasting a top speed of 130 kph (81 mph, although Llewellyn seems to hit 86!) and a range of 130 km (81 miles) or 160 km (99 miles), the MiEV looks set to be a serious alternative for your average commuter/city run around. And if this video is anything to go by, the performance is excellent. And while gearheads may be craving more technical details, I personally find it refreshing to see a motoring show that avoids the usual jargon - concentrating instead on how it drives, how far, how fast, and how much it will cost. I think I may be becoming a fan...


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Today 3 of my good friends are dropping great approaches to cumbia.
the funny part is all of them are doing what they're not supposed to …
the one who does balkan is doing mexican , the one who is a real mexican is doing balkan, and the french one ..well HE IS CANALH!!! so u know what we are bringing!!!!!!!
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My homie Tommi from Balkanbeats and Cafe de Calaveras made this epic remix from La troba Kung -Fu!!
La Troba Kung-Fú – Maria Hernandez (Café de Calaveras rmx) by CafedeCalaveras
My Amigo from Mexico Mykol Orthodox does Balkan Cumbia
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Canal H's Super Cumbia
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Join TMI's team of highly skilled trainers for this 5-day/6-night advanced exploration of remote viewing (RV). Refine the skills you acquired in TMI's foundational RV program and gain new ones. You will receive and practice advanced RV techniques, and enjoy the opportunity to work personally with one of the world's leading remote viewers—Joe McMoneagle!
Reinforce Your Remote Viewing Skills and Take Them to the Next Level
The approach you choose to access a particular outcome is very important. It can either support or inhibit your efforts to remote view. Learn the science of target selection along with additional tools and techniques to improve your understanding of RV and establish a reliable home training routine. Practice in-depth Gestalt methodology and learn the specific criteria necessary for acquiring and constructing meaningful perceptions about a target.
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Through psychometry, a deeper sensing of the unknown, you can discover facts about events and people by touching inanimate objects associated with them. Information can be acquired about the contents hidden inside a container by placing your hands only on the container. For instance, you may sense impressions from a pen left on a table. "Energy residue" associated with objects can tell revealing stories. Impressions can also be received from someone you might have lightly brushed against in an elevator, impressions that carry information about the person's near future or what they experienced during the recent past.
Refine your remote viewing perceptions to determine aspects of a target, such as its purpose, use, and category. Is it religious, scientific, or industrial? Describe conceptual aspects of the target, discerning what is possible vs. probable.
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Remote Viewing II includes advanced investigative techniques such as:
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We kill... to live... to survive. Why is this so fucking intriguing? Ask any Hollywood half-wit screenwriter what being undead is all about and you'll get as many answers as a gothed-up tart has piercing. So, why the complexity? Why the hullabaloo? What makes becoming a methodical mass murderer so interesting? One word: Envy.
See, Slurpee, it's all rooted in your crippling fear of "the End". Your instinctual human need for survival keeps you going. Day to day, in and out of weeks and through the years until you're pushing up daisies in Jesus' well-manicured lawn. While you toil away at your mundane existence, we persist. We CAN die, but not without outside assistance. See, unlike you cattle, we get stronger with the passage of time. Instead of falling apart and reverting to a drooling, diapered state punctuated by a rather pathetic end; we just keep going. We're the Energizer Bunny gone seriously and irreconcilably wrong, wrong, wrong.
So, sit back and enjoy yet another unnecessary Vampire tale, and you will. Because your disturbed little inner child needs to romp in a place where it's okay to kill a kitten by shoving a firecracker in its dirty daisy, so to speak. The story you are about to read are true. We do exist...we do exist.
Chicago, IL. December, 1989
It's cold, it's fucking cold. The wind slices through my Levi's tearing at the delicate flesh beneath. Or, that's how it feels, luv. I think my nuts fell off some place between Watertower and Neiman Marcus. The "Magnificent Mile" they call it.
Nothing "Magnificent" about Michigan Avenue. Nothing even remotely engaging. Unless you think watching people spend inordinate sums of money on things they probably don't even need is "Magnificent". The "Magnificent" things happen underneath the city street. In the pedways and parking garages that run under the Mag Mile. Down there, filthy, homeless derelicts huddle together for warmth, waiting for some unsuspecting bystander to come their way. Down there, sauced up tarts give their bosses sloppy blow jobs, knees in the filth, in a last ditch effort to improve their station in the office. Down there is where my life ended and my tale begins...
As I was saying, it was fucking cold. As such, I sought respite from the bitter winds of the Windy City beneath the street, in the pedway below. For blocks I walked undisturbed, until I came upon an especially dark and menacing corner. A poor unfortunate soul shivered beneath its tattered, piss-soaked rags. He? She? It. It held out it's shaking, frostbitten hand and solicited help in the form of some "spare change". Being as I have always had an underlying feeling of guilt bordering on nausea when dealing with "transients", I offered a rather quick "Fuck off" and quickly turned the corner to get back above ground to the #65 Bus and home to my warm, sheltered existence.
Someone had other plans. My foot no sooner hit the first step when I felt the all-too familiar sting of a blow to the back of my head. The world flashed white and the last thing I remember was the transient looming above me as the world went black...
I've been hunting you for years. Watching your every move. The way you laugh. The women you keep time with. The ones you just fuck and discard like a wet nap. The smug way you seem to feel you're above it all. Yes, that's you Sidney. You little shit. You aren't even worth my time. As fucked up as it sounds, however, I need you. You've become an obsession... a rather unhealthy, irritating one at that. I don't know when my intentions changed from ripping your offensive tongue from your pouty little mouth to making you my companion and nurturing you for the next century or so; but, they did and it really chafes my pampered little ass.
So, I followed you that night. Watched from my Mercedes as you shivered and cursed at the cold. Laughed at your oh-so-human frustration with some unknown boogey-man deity who makes the weather shit ice balls with the sole purpose of pissing off poor little Sidney. I cackled as you fell to the ground when that homeless man hit you in the head with an empty bottle of gut-rot rye whiskey. What a fitting end for you...death by hypothermia, as the homeless man took everything he could off your prone, helpless form. I watched as he ran off to get his next fix, leaving you to die alone, cold and frightfully underdressed for the occasion.
I waited a few minutes, to make sure you truly understood on some subconscious, base level, the frailty that is the "human condition". Then, I picked you up, cradled your cold, disheveled form in my arms and carried you to the leather bound safety of my S class. I embraced you there, on the Corinthian leather of my car. I figured you would appreciate the irony as you were to be re-born in much the same fashion as you were conceived back when mommy and daddy did the baby dance in the back of your grandparent's Chevy. Then, as you shivered and changed in the back, I hopped into the front seat and sped off to find your first victim. I'm not without some sense of justice. I pulled up outside the closest liquor store and waited for your attacker to emerge with his ill-gotten bottle of Courvoisier. Ah... even derelicts can behave Neuveau Riche when they hit the jackpot and get a fist-full of silver.
He came out as expected (you humans can be SO predictable) and proved to be very helpful when asked if he could help me carry some groceries to my high-rise for the sum of twenty dollars. Knowing that he planned to rape and rob me once upstairs made what was to come even more delicious. I would have paid a twenty thousand to see the look on his face as he reached into the back seat expecting a cold cut platter and some spinach dip from Jewel and wound up staring face-to-face with his death made incarnate.
I watched as you pulled him by the lapels of your leather jacket into the back of the car and ripped into his throat. Watched as you gulped his life from his neck. Witnessed his thrashing legs lose their outrage as he succumbed to your embrace. Smelled his blood mingle with the scent of his alcohol-infused urine as his body voided itself in one last effort to survive. Slowly, his body slid out of the car and into the gutter, sans jacket.
"Lick the wound on his neck, Sidney.", I said.
You answered me with an outraged hiss. A hiss! Little fucker. So, I grabbed you by the nape of your neck and shoved your face into the bloody mess of ragged tendons and severed vessels.
"I said LICK, you wretched little cur."
You obliged, rather reluctantly, and then I released
my grip and allowed you to scurry back into the car. We drove in silence
to my condo in Gold Coast where you would prove to be the most incorrigible
and thankless of all my progeny. Oh Sidney. Sweet, beautiful, tragic Sidney.
If I had known what you were to become, I would have let you freeze to
death on those steps that night.
She would have you believe that she's the good guy in all of this. Utterly humanitarian the way she "rescued" me. Rescued me from what? My budding musical career? My growing legion of female fans? Or the sex and drugs thrown at me constantly? Or did she save me from death that night on those cold stairs. Did she? I may have survived on my own. She's a cunt. A possessive, overbearing, ridiculously bourgeois cunt who threw money at me when I was sad, lectured me endlessly when I was naughty and never noticed when I was being a good boy. She's a cunt, and I hate her.
Now where were we?


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Ever wonder how actor Dan Stevens' facial movements seamlessly became the Beast in Beauty and the Beast or how the alien Thanos was portrayed in Guardians of the Galaxy? It's called motion capture, and it's the process of recording a live motion event and "magically" translating it into actionable data that allows for a 3D – or digital – recreation of the performance.
Motion capture isn't just for entertainment, though. This cutting-edge technology is now being used by a few digitally savvy healthcare companies in their quest to advance patient recovery in the convenience of their own homes.
To learn more about the amazing healthcare benefits of motion capture technology, we spoke with senior software engineer Kevin Steele, Ph.D., from Reflexion Health, a pioneering digital healthcare company that employs motion tracking technology in their virtual physical therapy platform to improve the patient rehabilitation experience and, ultimately, create a better path to recovery.
Kevin, what do you do at Reflexion Health?
As a senior software engineer, I use my background in computer and robot vision to investigate and implement various body tracking technologies. My role is to help identify the best algorithms to use within remote exercise monitoring. Our aim is to optimize our patients' post-operative recovery by allowing them to do their physical therapy at home with the integrated assistance of a motion tracking camera and an on-screen avatar who demonstrates proper form and provides audio-visual interaction to patients.
Motion tracking, or motion capture, is such a broad category of technology. What does it mean at Reflexion Health?
Motion tracking is any technology that uses a computer to discover and follow the location of an object. It's definitely a broad category and it's evolving – that's what makes it such an exciting field to be in. The type of motion tracking we do is full-body pose tracking, which is specifically concerned with identifying the location of the primary joints of the human body using non-intrusive instruments, like cameras.
Using this technology, we can make a camera and software system work together to compute the joint locations of a human body and track those locations in real time. With this joint data, we can evaluate how a person stands or determine the motions a person is making. We can then, translate this stream of data into meaningful insight and provide patients with valuable input on their exercise performance and inform their treating physical therapist on their patient's overall progress and outcome.
Using the data that comes from a depth camera (the gray pixels), Reflexion Health's tracking software computes the location of a person's joints (shown in red and yellow).
What can be tracked using motion capture?
Human motion tracking is most often performed on the face, the hands or the full body. In the case of hand tracking, it's generally possible to track the three primary joints of each finger, two joints for the thumb and one for the wrist, although some technologies exist to track the hand in more detail.
When performing full body pose tracking, we can follow the location of most of the major joints – the wrist, elbow, knee, etc. However, not all joints can be easily tracked. The spinal column is made up of dozens of small joints, and most current technologies can't track all of those joints in real time.
How does this technology work?
Several technologies exist to perform full body tracking, each with its own strengths and limitations.
Optical and inertial motion capture equipment-those often used for video games and movies- provide very accurate joint position data. Unfortunately, they require specialized equipment in the form of wearable devices and suits, which can be more challenging for patients recovering from a significant surgery.
Off-the-shelf video cameras that come equipped on mobile devices also track joint positions and body pose, but are usually less accurate due to the limbs being occluded or blocked from the view of the camera. The software, as a result can't figure out where those joints are.
One of the more recent technologies for full-body pose tracking is the depth camera. It's similar to a conventional camera, but instead of taking pictures with each pixel being a specific color, each pixel is a single number – the distance from the camera to the object seen at that pixel.
What type of motion tracking technology does Reflexion Health use?
We utilize depth cameras. With depth cameras, software can track a person's motion by analyzing a sequence of depth images, or frames, taken at about 30 times per second. When the software sees the depths near a person's arm change from the previous frame, it can simulate how the person's arm must have moved to account for that difference, then calculate the new joint positions of the arm based on that simulation.
To find joint positions, we employ a unique method called Human Pose Estimation. It utilizes a machine learning technique called Random Decision Forests (RDFs) that learns what common human poses look like to a depth camera. When the depth camera is then pointed at a person, the software simply feeds the images to the trained RDF, which then estimates where the person's joint positions are. This method is very robust, and is in fact also used by the Microsoft Kinect to estimate human pose.
So how does motion tracking technology help patients rehabilitate after surgery?
With motion tracking technology at our disposal, we can create reliable software applications that patients can conveniently interact with during their post-operative recovery. An even greater benefit is that patients can utilize this technology in the comfort of their homes. At Reflexion Health, for example, our FDA cleared software system, VERA uses motion tracking technology to monitor a patient's participation to a prescribed physical therapy program while the patient is recovering at home. When patients perform their home exercises, VERA guides them through each exercise, measures their motion, and provides them with audio-visual interaction. Simultaneously, VERA captures this data and sends it to the patient's treating physical therapist, who is able to monitor and communicate with them remotely.


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vizettes.com was the rebirth of various interactive works from the creative studios of Rich Coffey. Selected Flash-authored narratives and abstractions were resurrected and reassembled from his former sites: enteraktiv.com and bone 2.com.
From music to multimedia, Rich has always kept his creative impulses in high-gear. He was active on the New York professional music scene for many years, composing, touring and playing. (Visit richcoffeymusic.com for a taste of his music and scores..)
From savoring the spectacular vista of Rio de Janeiro from the awe-inspiring heights of Corcovado, trudging the back streets of Leningrad before perestroika, or simply nurturing the inquisitive mind of his socially conscietious son; Rich Coffey's travels and creative pursuits lend a unique perspective to the ever-expanding frontiers of digital media. (read more about Rich...)
Rich is currently designing and developing interactive multimedia and web sites for a major New York financial institution. Web design and development, mountain biking, railroad history and composing music are a few of the activities that keep a smile on his face...
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The average ACA premium went up: Is its small tax penalty to blame? The New York Times reports that young and healthy individuals find it cheaper to pay the tax penalty for remaining uninsured than an insurance premium for coverage. Without them, the Affordable Care Act health exchanges are struggling to keep premiums down and insurers participating. In 2014, 8.1 million taxpayers were hit with penalties. Through last April, 5.6 million 2015 returns included penalties. The penalty is 2.5 percent of AGI, up to a maximum of $2,085.
The feds nabbed dozens of IRS-fraudsters. The massive call-center scheme, run by 61 people and entities in the US and India,stole hundreds of millions of dollars from Americans. "For nearly four years, this criminal network used a variety of schemes to trick frightened individuals over the telephone by tapping into their worst fears—arrest, deportation and other problems with the U.S. government authorities," said assistant attorney general Leslie R. Caldwell.
Hillary Clinton's CTC plan would help very low-income workers and young children. TPC's Elaine Maag explains how Clinton's plan for the Child Tax Credit would direct $15 billion toward the poorest workers and increase benefits for low-and middle income families with young children. The most effective and efficient investments in children are made when they are very young; even relatively small boosts in family income during early childhood years matter.
Child tax credits, dependent exemptions, and questions of fairness. TPC's Gene Steuerle considers the issue. "Whatever the right balance between the social welfare and equal justice approaches, most voters judge government on whether they think they are being treated fairly. But if children are both expensive to support and reduce a household's ability to pay taxes, and if a welfare system separately provides supports for households with low incomes, then shouldn't adjustment for children put explicitly in the tax system apply to most or all households?"
Should the charitable deduction be available to non-itemizers? Only 25 percent of US taxpayers itemize, and they're the only ones allowed a deduction for charitable giving. What if all taxpayers could claim that deduction? A new TPC brief by Joseph Rosenberg, Gene Steuerle, Joycelyn Ovalle, and Philip Stallworth analyzes the challenges of implementing a non-itemizer deduction, its possible effects on charitable giving, and ways to make it more effective in terms of cost and IRS enforcement.
Maybe the tax code should be bigger and less progressive… Alan Viard and Sita Nataraj Slavov of the American Enterprise Institute make that suggestion in a new essay. TPC's Howard Gleckman explains their thinking: "In other words, raise taxes on middle-income households (where the bulk of the money is) to fund government programs that benefit middle- and low-income people without impeding economic growth." There's a hitch, though. Political parties would have to flip their rhetoric.
Some viewpoints on the corporate income tax… TPC's Eric Toder and American Enterprise Institute's Alan Viard were recently featured in AEI's VIEWPOINT series. Learn about the effects of cutting the corporate income tax here, and about the flaws of and possible corrections to the corporate income tax here.
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Within native tools, there is no way to quickly get an at-a-glance view of all applications deployed via Group Policy Software Installation (GPSI) policy across a domain. This simple GUI utility lets you quickly view all applications that have been published or assigned (or removed) using Group Policy, within a domain. With the newest version, you can also print the list of applications to a report or save it as a .csv file.
The figure below shows what this tool looks like:
The GPSIViewer utility will automatically try to resolve the AD domain that the workstation running the tool belongs to. If it can not or you wish to connect to a different domain, then you will be able to enter the domain name manually, using either the LDAP distinguished name, as shown above, or the DNS name (e.g. mycompany.com). Note that, when you remove a deployed package from a GPO, that package definition is not actually removed from AD. This is because removed packages may need to be de-installed from target machines and thus the package is marked for removal. Using this mechanism, the next time the user or computer that had installed the application processes the GPO, it knows to remove the package. I have marked removed packages with Red to indicate their state.
Requirements: For the 1.7 version of "GYPSY", you need the .Net Framework 4.6x installed on the machine where you run this utility from.
Release History
Version 1.7 (current): Updated to .Net Framework 4.62
Version 1.6: Added the Date Created and Date Last Modified columns to the display and to reporting.
Download: from above — 10.6KB
Version 1.5: The 1.5 version adds a few new features. For example, I added a column that lists any transforms applied to the package. I also add "tool tips" to each row, which lets you hover your mouse over a column that contains large amounts of text, and see what the full contents of that text is without having to expand the column. I also added the ability to print the list of apps to a printer. Finally, I created a save to .csv option that lets you output the list to a .csv file for easy import into Excel.
Download: GPSI "GYPSY" Viewer 1.5 — 10.1KB (UNAVAILABLE)
Version 1.0 (original): This is the original version of the tool that allows you to view GPSI deployed apps.
Download: SIViewer 1.0 — 7.3KB (UNAVAILABLE)


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30th September 2015
In this weeks show Leo reads The Lady with the Lamp and Stem cell treatment, Sue reads Killed off by the Archers, Hugh reads A Cuban Adventure and Dave continues his holiday to Belfast report. All this plus the usual mix of news, sport, what's on, outlook for living, outlook on life and postbag.
Show presenters: Hugh& Bill
Show Editor : Nigel
Studio Technician : Nick
Coventry talking newspaper is also available on itunes, tunein, stitcher, iblink, Sonata+ radio for the blind.


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The Race with Grace 10K is a USA Track & Field certified road race (NY12131KL) that was established in 1991. Held on Thanksgiving morning at 9:00 AM, the race begins in front of First Bible Baptist Church on Manitou Road. Following a flat, fast course that encompasses Latta, Manitou, North Greece and Frisbee Hill Roads, the route finishes in the north parking lot of the church, adjacent to the main auditorium.
The entry fee includes a ¼ zip, long-sleeved tech pullover L/S to the first 200 registrants and long sleeve cotton tees to registrants 201-800. Sizes guaranteed if you register prior to November 1st. There will be plenty of food and refreshments, complete computerized race results available online, and if you are in the right place at the right time, a finishing photo. Awards are given to the top male and female finishers in the open masters (40+), veterans (50+) & seniors (60+) categories.
The race attracted more than 1,000 runners in recent years. In addition, it's the last race of the Rochester Runner of the Year series.
Race records:
Melissa White - 34:45 (2005)
Mark Andrews - 30:05 (2003)
Course records:
Judy Johnson - 35:53 (2008)
Noel Bateman - 30:42 (2009)
Race With Grace 2019


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Performer, composer, session bassist and the leader of The Alison Keslow Group, she has shared the stage as well as recording credits with many artists, including Joan Armatrading, Jerry Marotta, Tony Levin, John Sebastian and Mindi Abair.
Alison has two solo albums - "Between Earth and Sky" released in 2003 more recently in 2014 "Bass Dharma".
Alison is currently on the summer faculty at Berklee College of Music in Boston and is co-owner with her husband of Sudbury School of Music in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
When we began discussing who to have on as our first guest on Above The Basement we immediately thought of Alison. Apart from being our friend, she is an amazingly impressive player and composer and is in high demand in the Boston music scene.
During our conversation, we talked about her Boston Music Award nomination, how she came to Boston through Berklee College of Music, her past and current projects and her thoughts on writing, working and her musical meditation.
See more of who we are at www.abovethebasement.com.
Join us! Learn more at www.patreon.com/abovethebasement.


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It's important to be well-prepared for a media interview so you can convey your key message and represent yourself and your organization or business well. Some people might get nervous or feel like their old "test anxiety" from school is surging back when they are getting ready for a media interview. Others may … [more]
Sometimes when I talk with nonprofit staff and suggest they talk with reporters about the good work they are doing, I discover that they are worried – about how reporters will view their agencies, and how they will find the time to manage "one more thing."
You don't need to be afraid of reporters. In any community, journalists can … [more]
One of the best (and free) tools for connecting with journalists who are seeking sources is HARO (Help a Reporter Out). Originally begun as an enewsletter by Peter Shankman, more than 800,00 subscribers get 3 HARO emails per day listing topics journalists are seeking sources for. Major national media outlets, including Fox News, … [more]
The way a story is told within the recovery community – in the context of support groups and AA meetings – is very different from the way a story should be told in the public eye. In this session at RISE19, organized by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), Ami Neiberger-Miller talked with treatment … [more]
Our work on behalf of Teens for Gun Reform supporting their White House protest after the Parkland tragedy won an award from Ragan's PR Daily. In only 30 hours, we were able to issue a press advisory, do follow-up, and support an avalanche of media attention at the event. The resulting photos and interviews were seen worldwide. … [more]
It's every public relations professional's worst nightmare – a press release typo becomes front page news. So how do you recover?
The Women's March issued a news release this week attacking President Donald Trump's new Supreme Court justice nominee, but there was one problem.
The space for the nominee's … [more]
Drawing on her media relations experience and a series of roundtables with a group of treatment court graduates, Ami Neiberger-Miller assembled a guide, "Sharing Your Treatment Court Story: A Guide to Help You Prepare." Published by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), the guide offers … [more]
I once spent hours going back and forth with a client over a letter to the editor. They wanted it to be just right for their president and CEO to sign. They littered clean copy with jargon and industry insider language and I kept taking out all the muck, and made the message simple and on point. Finally, we reached final draft form and I was … [more]
In journalism and public relations, a news embargo or press embargo is a request that the information or news provided not be published until a certain date and time, or before certain conditions are met.
Typically, an embargo is set up by emailing a news release to reporters with "embargoed until date/time" written on the … [more]
You can have the most well-written and newsworthy press release in the world, but if you send it out on a bad day or at the wrong time, you may hurt your opportunities for news coverage. The day and time you issue a press release matter.
The key questions to consider are:When will editors and reporters reading their email be most likely … [more]
Should I go "off the record"? It's one of the most common questions I hear from clients I assist with media relations training and support. Even just curious people who find out I work in media relations often want to know how going off the record or "speaking on background" works. What "off the record" … [more]
Media relations can be challenging, even for those working in criminal justice or law enforcement, who interact with journalists regularly and rely on them to inform the public about information. In this July 2017 presentation at the annual conference for the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP), Ami Neiberger-Miller … [more]
As a media relations expert, I am routinely asked how to craft pitching angles or get a story placed with a blog, publication or broadcast outlet. Of course, if you have news – something that is timely, breaking, uniquely interesting, or of great public value – you can often achieve coverage and placement. But what about when … [more]
If you want to reach out to bloggers with a story idea or information from your nonprofit, association or small business, what are the best ways to reach out?
As a blogger, I get pitched regularly by people offering me content for my blog. Most pitches are awful – off-topic, poorly written and unfamiliar with my audience. … [more]
We conducted an in-person media relations training for an association client that sought to better understand how to work with the media and suggest ideas for story coverage.
As part of the training, participants:Understood who the media are, their deadlines, and working environments. Learned how to write a press release. Discussed … [more]
The Washington Post recently caused a stir by inviting people to pitch the editorial board. Most editorial boards enjoy hearing from readers and appreciate input – especially if it is thoughtful and well-assembled. But most of them don't do what the Post did and put up an online form to help you make your pitch. Before you pitch the … [more]
Intuition and strategy play big roles in media relations. There are times that you need to listen to your gut, and times when you just have to execute. But it can be easy to make a mistake, even while executing an awesome strategy. The last thing you want to do is introduce a problem that could have been avoided. Here are six common media … [more]
The annual PR PowerLines survey of journalists was published in January 2015, and the results offer tips on getting your news release read (and used) by journalists, that can assist small business owners, nonprofit workers or association professionals.
Tip #1 – Send press releases to journalists via email. Email distribution … [more]
This presentation offers tips for journalists on covering trauma and working with survivors of trauma. The presentation was delivered at Columbia University in New York by Ami Neiberger-Miller while she was working for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS).
Journalists: Covering Traumatic Events with Sensitivity … [more]
This moving story interviewed children of fallen service members for a Memorial Day weekend piece in 2012 featured on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. Steppingstone LLC's Ami Neiberger-Miller worked with the producers on a concept for the story and then she worked with TAPS staff to locate children who would be comfortable … [more]
Writing a press release may seem like a chore, but it's really a great tool to use to share information about your organization, association or company. But it's important to be succinct and clear – journalists spend on average, less than one minute reviewing your press release before hitting the delete button or deciding to get … [more]
Building relationships with journalists is key to nurturing stories and managing your organization or company's reputation in the news media. Twitter offers some great ways to nurture relationships with reporters and improve your visibility and understanding of what they are covering and how they work. Pitching a journalist … [more]
I once had a client with a very localized story in the DC area say to me – maybe you can get Christiane Amanpour to cover it! It was not likely at the time, given that Amanpour was across the world and very focused on reporting in conflict zones.
But Amanpour's influence as America's most well-known foreign correspondent … [more]
Requesting a correction to a news story is a delicate business – and it's easy for even a well-branded and iconic nonprofit organization to make a mistake. The American Red Cross recently sent a 12-page list of corrections to ProPublica and NPR over an investigative series highlighting serious concerns about its … [more]


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STRASBOURG -- The European Parliament has said the seven-member delegation that will monitor Moldova's parliamentary elections on July 29 will be led by a Romanian, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports.
Conservative Romanian parliamentarian Marian Jean Marinescu, who has been critical of Moldova's handling of the crisis that followed the controversial elections of April 5, will head the group.
Two other Romanian members of the European Parliament will be in the delegation, which is scheduled to be in Chisinau from July 26-31.
The other four members of the team are from Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Bulgaria.
Moldova's Communist government -- which won the spring elections -- has accused Romania of meddling in its internal affairs and fomenting unrest in Chisinau after the vote.
Romania denies the accusations, but several Romanian officials have expressed concern over the way the last Moldova elections were held and have asked Chisinau to ensure free and fair polls this time around.


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Fiat 500 Hatchback | 0.9 TwinAir Lounge 3dr
Fiat 500 Hatchback Overview
I would like all maintenance and service costs included
Initial Rental (Personal)
£2,247.37 inc VAT
Initial Rental (Business)
£1,364.94 ex VAT
Contract Length
48 Months
Processing fee
£199.99 ex VAT
Standard Options
- Electric front windows
- Heat insulated glass
- Heated rear windows with wash wipe
- ESC ASR/MSR HBA Hill holder
- Traction control
- Apple car play/Android Auto
- Cruise control
- Dualdrive PAS
- Rear parking sensor
- Stop/start system
- 7" HD Touchscreen Radio, Bluetooth, USB, Aux-in and DAB
- External temperature gauge
- Trip computer
- Electrically adjustable painted door mirrors with defrosting / external temperature sensor
- Grey dashboard trim
- 4 speakers
- Rear speakers
- Body colour bumpers
- Chrome plated exterior door handles
- Solid paint
- Front fog lights
- LED daytime running lights
- Air conditioning
- 1 passenger grab handle
- Auxilliary 12V power socket
- Cloth upholstery
- Height adjustable steering wheel
- Techno leather steering wheel with audio controls
- Chrome pack - 500
- 7 airbags - Driver, passenger, side, window and drivers knee airbags
- Curtain airbags
- Tyre pressure monitoring system
- 50/50 split folding rear seats with height adjustable rear headrests
- Driver's seat memory
- Front headrests
- Front passenger seat memory
- Height adjustable drivers seat
- Isofix child seat preparation
- Automatic door locking
- Immobiliser
- Locking fuel filler cap
- Remote central locking
- 15" alloy wheels 74B
- Fix and go puncture repair kit
Technical Options
- HC+NOx: N
- Particles: N
- Standard Euro Emissions: EURO 6
- Bore: 80.5
- Catalytic Convertor: True
- Compression Ratio: 10.0:1
- Cylinder Layout: IN-LINE
- Cylinders: 2
- Engine Layout: FRONT TRANSVERSE
- Fuel Type: TURBO DIRECT INJECTION
- Gears: 5 SPEED
- Number of Valves: 8
- Stroke: 86
- Valve gear: SOHC
- EC: True
- EC Combined: 60.1
- EC Extra Urban: 72.4
- EC Urban: 46.3
- WLTP - MPG - Low - Min: 5.4
- WLTP - MPG - Medium: 5.6
- Any aspect of the vehicles safety cause concern?: Data Not Available
- Based On ID: N
- Coin Description: TwinAir
- Coin Series: Lounge
- Ghost model for valuation purposes: N
- Man Corrosion Perforation Guarantee - Years: 8
- Manufacturers Paintwork Guarantee - Years: 3
- NCAP Adult Occupant Protection %: 27
- NCAP Child Occupant Protection %: 3
- NCAP Overall Rating - Effective February 09: 85
- NCAP Pedestrian Protection %: 0.9
- NCAP Safety Assist %: M1
- Service Interval Frequency - Months: 66
- Service Interval Mileage: N
- Special Edition: Data Not Available
- Special Order: Data Not Available
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Mileage: 999999
- Standard manufacturers warranty - Years: 3
- This vehicle is classed as a car for VED purposes: N
- Timing Belt Interval Frequency - Months: 53
- Timing Belt Interval Mileage: 49
- 0 to 60: Data Not Available
- 0 to 62: 11
- Engine Power KW: 63
- Engine Power RPM: 5500
- Engine Torque LBS.FT: 107
- Engine Torque MKG: 14.8
- Engine Torque NM: 145
- Engine Torque RPM: 1900
- PS: True
- Top Speed: 106
- Alloys?: True
- Space Saver?: Data Not Available
- Tyre Size Front: 185/55 R15
- Tyre Size Rear: 185/55 R15
- Tyre Size Spare: TYRE REPAIR KIT
- Wheel Style: N
- Wheel Type: 15" ALLOY
- Height: 1488
- Height (including roof rails): N
- Length: 3571
- Turning Circle - Kerb to Kerb: 9.3
- Wheelbase: 2300
- Width (excluding mirrors): 1627
- Width (including mirrors): 1893
- Boot Capacity Saloons: 185
- Fuel Tank Capacity (Litres): 35
- Gross Vehicle Weight: 1370
- Luggage Capacity (Seats Up): 474
- Max. Towing Weight - Braked: 800
- Max. Towing Weight - Unbraked: 400
- Minimum Kerbweight: 1000
- No. of Seats: 4
- Payload: 370
Fiat 500 Hatchback AIR FORCE TWO (73/100)
Fiat's answer to combating emissions and fuel consumption is smart, small and perfectly formed. Jonathan Crouch takes a look at the improved 500 TwinAir range.
Ten Second Review
With its innovative two-cylinder petrol engine, Fiat's 500 TwinAir has always been notably frugal and clean in 85bhp guise. These days, there's a pokier 105bhp engine option too and a package of well-judged 500 range model updates. Does this trendy little citycar still makes sense?
It's fair to say that the Fiat 500 TwinAir offers an ingenious solution to a very simple remit. Lowering running costs, consuming less fuel and emitting less carbon dioxide is a formula that manufacturers of small cars have been working to for years now, but the gains have often been marginal, mere incremental improvements that pick at the easy wins and do little to push vehicle engineering on. Fiat sees things differently. With the innovative TwinAir engine, the Italian company contends that not only can you enjoy low cost, clean motoring, but that you needn't do it in a car that relies on battery packs or which would struggle to show a bike courier a clean pair of tailpipes. There are now two versions of this unit, offering either 85 or 105bhp. Now that other brands are introducing downsized petrol engines into the citycar segment, does the Italian brand's technology still stack up?
Driving Experience
As in all the best shampoo commercials, this is the science bit. Forget ProRetinol B5 and never mind the Boswelox, the Fiat 500 TwinAir features something a whole lot cleverer. In the past, engine designers have concentrated on optimising the fuelling of an engine, such that we've moved from carburettors to electronic fuel injection and then to common rail architecture and direct injection. The other half of the combustion equation, the management of air into the engine, has attracted less attention. The 875cc 0.9-litre TwinAir unit uses the same technology pioneered on Fiat's MultiAir engines, replacing the camshafts of a four-valves-per-cylinder engine with electro-hydraulic control of the inlet valves, allowing the engine to breathe more efficiently. On the road, the 500 TwinAir certainly feels brisk enough, even in 85bhp form getting to 62mph in 11.0s and on to 107mph. Go for the 105bhp version and those figures improve to 10.0s and 117mph. Push the two cylinder engine hard and it gets rather vocal, but around town refinement is more than acceptable. Two driving modes are offered - Standard and Eco. In Eco, torque is restricted from the normal peak of 145Nm to 100Nm and the steering lightens up, which makes low-speed manoeuvring even easier. There is a noticeable change in engine note at 2500rpm, the powerplant clearly working harder as the TwinAir system does its thing.
Design and Build
Fiat would've been unwise to mess with the 500's shape too much, so sensibly, they've kept exterior styling tweaks to the minimum with this improved model. As before, there's a single three-door bodystyle, though you can order it in soft-topped '500C' form if you like the idea of having an electric fabric-folding roof. As for those design changes, well up front, there's a sleeker chrome grille that sits below revised headlights and is positioned at more of an angle than before. Between these two elements are smarter daytime running lights, with a shape that echoes the zeros of the '500' logo. Rounding the front off are updated chrome trims and a ribbed bonnet that that looks a little more stylish. At the rear, there are smarter tail lights that incorporate a body-coloured panel in the centre. This has meant the reversing and fog lights have moved from the clusters to the lower rear bumper. Your Fiat dealer will also offer you a more fashionable choice of wheels, graphic packages and paint colours to round off the updates. Inside, the biggest change is the inclusion of 'Uconnect' infotainment systems on all models, although only the top 'Lounge' variant is fitted with a touchscreen as standard. Redesigned air vents flank the screen, leading to a much more integrated feel than you'd get in many more expensive cars. Drivers will also appreciate the smarter steering wheel with its chrome-plated switches. Plus, if they're in a plush 'Lounge' model, they've the benefit of an optional 7" TFT instrument cluster. The 185-litre boot remains as before, no bad thing as this still trumps many rivals.
Market and Model
Prices for fixed-top 85bhp 500 TwinAir models start at around £13,000, so you're looking at having to find a premium of around £1,300 over the more conventional petrol unit in the range, the 69bhp 1.2-litre entry-level unit. There's a substantial £2,500 model-for-model premium to find if you want the open-air pleasures of the 500C soft-top derivative. The least you can pay for one of these with TwinAir power is well nearly £16,000. The pokier 105bhp TwinAir engine only comes as an option on the top 'Lounge' trim level where it will cost you from around £14,500. Equipment very much depends on your choice between 'Pop Star' and 'Lounge' trim levels. There's also the option of the Dualogic robotised manual gearbox which allows for clutchless gearchanges just by nudging the gearstick up and down a sequential 'box. Seven airbags and anti-lock brakes with electronic brakeforce distribution help the 500 to a EuroNCAP five-star rating. So what do you get for your money? 'Pop Star' spec includes air conditioning, 15-inch alloy wheels and heated mirrors with body-colour caps. Top 'Lounge' spec meanwhile, gets you a panoramic glass sunroof, rear parking sensors, a chrome front grille, front fog lights, a leather-trimmed steering wheel and a Uconnect 5" LIVE touchscreen infotainment system with smartphone integration. If you want to go further, then your dealer will want to tell you about the latest range of so-called 'Second Skin' decal packages.
Cost of Ownership
It's hard to argue with the bald facts. Compared to the conventional 69bhp 1.2-litre petrol engine in Fiat's 500 range, the 85bhp TwinAir unit offers 23% more power and yet delivers a 15% reduction in fuel consumption and emissions. Yes, Fiat charge you for that privilege, but the asking price isn't exorbitant and in some cases the additional costs could be recouped very quickly. It's probably not the sort of car we'd recommend to those covering higher mileages but it works extremely effectively in traffic, its Start&Stop system making queuing a curiously serene experience. The CO2 return of 90g/km and a combined fuel economy figure of 74.3mpg for the 85bhp model won't be seen in the urban sprawl and crawl but you should still see a number around the high forties. Go for the 105bhp TwinAir powerplant and your running costs aren't hugely affected, rising marginally to 99g/km and 67.3mpg. These are for fixed-top models. There's no reduction in these returns if you go for the 500C soft-top. Residual values of 500 models in general have held up very well and the TwinAir looks set to be the engine that sparks the highest demand, combining as it does the running costs of a diesel with the perkiness of a petrol.
Working smarter rather than harder is something we can all buy into and in this improved Fiat 500, Fiat's two cylinder TwinAir engine has proved to a big step forward in the evolution of the citycar. Although the technology might appear complicated, the end result of more power, lower fuel bills and lower emissions isn't hard to digest. Coupling this ingenious engineering to a package that's as appealing as the Fiat 500 results in one that can't really fail. We've heard promises of these 'cake and eat it' solutions so often that we can be excused for being more than a little sceptical, but here's one that delivers on its claims. Although we'd recommend the bigger 105bhp version of this unit if you like a little more performance (or maybe occasionally need to travel longer distances), the standard 85bhp TwinAir powerplant covers all the bases for city driving. Making economies often means going without some of the things that put a smile on your face. Here's one budgetary measure that bucks that trend.
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Considering that people mostly apply for a combined DL to avoid coming to RTO again and again, the state transport department will allow applications licence for only one type of vehicle from April 15 till May 15.
The change, on experiment basis, is to put a check on road accidents in the state and deaths caused due to them. In 2015, there was 8.4% increase in road accident deaths in UP over 2014-the highest in the country.
The state, despite a road safety policy in place, has not been able to control road accident deaths. The transport department's assessment for 2015 showed that while 4 lakh people in state bought cars, at least 14.25 lakh people applied for car licences.