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Magnificent panorama and splendid architecture, cultural diversity and traditional festivals - Stuttgart, the state capital of Baden-Württemberg, delights its visitors. Due to the numerous green stripes, parks, woods and historic buildings, some people take Stuttgart for the "paradise of Swabia". Reflected by the awareness of life experienced staying here, this paradise gets an even higher reputation. In other words, the ability to enjoy the city almost causes something like ease, even you find yourself surrounded by the original, down-to-earth Swabes. Highlights include the famous State Theatre, the large State Gallery, the Museum of Natural History and the Weißenhof settlement.
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Shops in Stuttgart are usually open Mon-Sat from 10am-7/8pm. Shops are generally closed on Sundays except for gas stations.
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Charmingly situated in the heart of one of Germany's largest wine-growing regions, this vibrant metropolis fascinates visitors from all over the world. The state capital of Baden-Württemberg delights tourists not only by virtue of its magnificent panorama, its impressive gardens and parks, its fine squares, splendid palaces and buildings in a wide range of architectural styles, but also by its cultural diversity.
Stuttgart itself lies in a basin-shaped valley that opens up to the Neckar. Vineyards and forest-rich heights are marking the conurbation according to the east and south, fertile plains to the west and north. While Cannstatt was already populated in the Romans time, Stuttgart was founded as a stud in the 10th century at a point where probably people had previously settled. 1219 Stuttgart was declared as a city by Hermann V. von Baden. From the late 15th century, Stuttgart was the duke's seat, from 1806 onwards capital of the Kingdom Württemberg.
Today Stuttgart is the cultural and political center of Baden-Württemberg but also serves as an industrial, trade-fair and financial city. A big draw for visitors to Stuttgart is the sensational Mercedes-Benz World as well as the magnificent Porsche-Museum. Discover the myth of those world-famous premium cars in Stuttgart's unique automobile museums! Furthermore, the traditional festivals also enjoy world-wide popularity. Come and celebrate!
Whether it's Stuttgart's lovely Palace square or the unique automobile museums, the relaxing mineral spas or art at its finest - here's our top 10 for your trip to Stuttgart. Enjoy!
Mercedes-Benz Museum
Porsche Museum
Burial chapel Württemberg
Stuttgart State Gallery
Mineral spas
The Weissenhof Estate and the Le Corbusier House
Citytour Stuttgart
TV tower
Schlossplatz Stuttgart (Palace Square)
Whether it's culture or relaxation, Shopping fun or musical theatre - there's lots to do and see in Stuttgart: Discover over 125 years of automobile history at Mercedes-Benz Museum and Porsche Museum, enjoy the world-famous Stuttgart ballet, celebrate at Stuttgart's beer festival or soak up the unique atmosphere at the Christmas market.
Moreover, chapels and palaces can be found all around the city and do not forget to spot one of the wine yards just around the corner. After a long day of sightseeing, you might want to relax in the mineral spas in the city or just finish the evening with a perfect glass of wine or beer. Come to the south of Germany and enjoy!
Mercedes-Benz Museum
Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History
Porsche Museum
Burial chapel Württemberg
Art Museum Stuttgart
Linden Museum
Stuttgart State Gallery
Landesmuseum Württemberg
Mineral spas
State Theatre Stuttgart
Schlossplatz Stuttgart (Palace Square)
If you love a hearty meal, you will love Stuttgart! Here you will find plenty of places that serve hot plates overflowing with beef, sausages and Spätzle. Spätzle is ubiquitous in the area and is broadly comparable to pasta. The national dish, called Gaisburger Marsch, is a stew made of Spätzle, diced beef, potatoes, vegetables and fried onions.
For an afternoon snack, the pretzel with butter is a good alternative, but there is no need to limit yourself to the regional specialties. In the area, you can also find a number of Michelin-star restaurants that are just waiting to "wow" you with their unique creations.
Stuttgarter Stäffele
Weinstube Fröhlich
Carl's Brauhaus
Markthalle Stuttgart
Tobi's Stuttgart
Alte Kanzlei
To most visitors' delight, there is an abundance of cafés in Stuttgart offering various tasty treats. Sit down at one of the many cafés and have a nice cup of coffee or tea while watching the world pass by. And why not enjoy a homemade piece of cake at the same time?
Café Le Theatre
Academie Der Schönen Künste
Café Nast
Grand Café Planie
Zimt und Zucker
Stuttgart is a city for big celebrations, wild festivities and long nights of partying. The "party mile" in the Theodor-Heuss-Strasse is second to none, and its numerous clubs, bars and lounges attract revellers from all over Germany. But Stuttgart also has countless options for guests who prefer soft music, cool drinks and a cosy atmosphere.
Biddy Early´s Irish Pub
Freund + Kupferstecher
Schräglage Club
Im Wizemann
1. Stock
Schwarz Weiß Bar
Lange Theke
A shopping precinct more than a kilometre in length, big shopping plazas and lots of elegant shops and boutiques: in Stuttgart shopaholics can indulge themselves to their heart's content.
Königstraße - pedestrian street
Stuttgart Market Hall
Das Gerber
Bungalow Gallery
Flea Market Karlsplatz
Stuttgart Airport
Stuttgart Airport is located about 14 kilometres from downtown Stuttgart. The airport is easy to reach from the city.
Lines S2 and S3 of the metropolitan S-Bahn trains will take you to Stuttgart's main train station. The journey takes 27 minutes. The trains run between 4.55am (5.25am on Sundays) and 12.25am.
There are taxi ranks outside of Terminals 1,2 and 3. The ride takes about 30 minutes.
You will also find several car rental agencies in the arrivals hall of the airport. and also parking for your private cars is available.
Address: Flughafen Stuttgart GmbH, Stuttgart
Phone: +49 711 94 80
Website: www.flughafen-stuttgart.de
Public Transport
The VVS operates Stuttgart's public transport system consisting of buses and trains. The city is divided into zones and the more zones you cross when travelling, the more expensive your ticket will be.
For short distances, opt for the "Kurzstrecke" ticket which is valid for three stops. If you are planning a busy day of sightseeing, splurge on a daily ticket, called "Tageskarte".
Tickets can be bought from vending machines, bus drivers and sales locations. The tickets are slightly cheaper if you buy them with your cell phone.
Phone: +49 711 660 60
Website: www.vvs.de
More Information: www.ssb-ag.de
There are taxi ranks at the train station, Bismarckplatz and many other locations throughout the city. You can call a taxi any time of the day.
Phone: +49 711 551 0000
Website: www.taxi-auto-zentrale.de
To find a post office you should look for the yellow "Deutsche Post" sign, many offices are located throughout town. For sending postcards and letters you can use the yellow public mail boxes.
Deutsche Post: Arnulf-Klett-Platz 2,Stuttgart +49 228 4333112
Deutsche Post Filiale: Nordbahnhofstraße 75, Stuttgart +49 228 4333112
Address: Arnulf-Klett-Platz 2,Stuttgart
Phone: +49 228 4333112
Website: www.deutschepost.de
Pharmacies (distinguished by a red "Aphotheke" sign at the front) have alternating opening hours during nights and weekends, in order to be always able to access a pharmacy. Addresses of the pharmacies on duty are posted at the pharmacies or online.
Internationale Apotheke: Königstraße 70, Stuttgart +49 711 2247820
Apotheke Stadtmitte: S/U Bahn, 1 UG, Rotebühlpl. 20B, Stuttgart +49 711 2265717
Address: Königstraße 70, Stuttgart
Phone: +49 711 2247820
Website: www.apotheken.de
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These companies operate with large subsidies from the Government which aren't re-invested into services but into the pockets of the shareholders.
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No compensation to shareholders. After all, they got the shares at a knock-down price.
Listen to the people.
One of the South Yorkshire Freedom Riders, we believe transport should be for the use of the public with control by the public not a money-maker for private companies.
Privatisation hasn't worked. Re-nationalise now.
As a taxpayer I want that profit directly fed back into rail services and my rail fare.
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'British Rail was finally getting its act together when the ill-conceived 1993 Railways Act was foisted upon them' says Bring Back British Rail Supporter John Maris, Norwich. Join us at: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
Just before privatisation this country probably had the best railway it had ever had in terms of the essential balance which always has to be struck between the quality of the service and the cost to the taxpayer and fare payer.
Ex BR chairman Peter Parker had a good joke about it. "There is good news and bad news about railway privatisation. The good news is that there are now only 25 people in the country who think privatisation is a good idea. The bad news is, it's the Cabinet."
British Rail was a calf fattened up for slaughter. The whole process was based on lies and ignorance. We were sold down the river on through-ticketing as there are now companies that only accept their own fares, thereby demanding complex purchases over long journeys. And I'll not forget the stupid old woman who, on a journey delayed by vandalism, announced loudly that such things wouldn't happen after privatisation.
Once we leave the EU we can nationalise the Railways call it British Rail. And a Casey Jones burger bar at Liverpool Street Station
Ripped the guts from the industry thanks John Major
British Rail was very cute at spending its money wisely. Since privatisation billions has been wasted in bad management. An example is train control; following the Hidden Report into the Clapham (preprivatisation) the Thatcher government said it would pay for all recommendations contained in the report. One such recommendation, which wouldn't have prevented the accident, was the development and fitment of a train control system to prevent trains passing signals at danger. BR trialled 2 systems, the one fitted on the GW main line was better. BR went back to the government who refused to pay for it! Not for turning eh!
Roll forward to after Ladbroke Grove, Southall and other post privatisation disasters caused by the loss of safety culture on privatisation, train safety once more hit the headlines. Raitrack, in a knee jerk reaction to press pressure, opted for the Train Protection and Warning System (TPWS). In order to get funding RT massaged the figures to get the cost under the £1.3million per fatality save threshold. The project, which does not provide a failsafe solution, went 13 times over budget (ORR figures). With the money wasted on TPWS the GW ATP system could have been fitted on all main lines.
British Rail was deliberately run down by the Tories in the 80s to facilitate privatisation. Let's not pretend BR was great then, it wasn't. It was deliberately sabotaged.
think how good it could have been with the money that's given to the private, mainly foreign, companies.
It was fully working well when Dr Beeching was tasked with it's destruction and paid £30,000 for the pleasure
Beeching was in the BR era. If we bring it back we need to ensure no repetition occurs
As a company British rail had credibility and were doing the best they could. I work in the current rail industry and it's an embarrassment
Didn't matter what BR did, they were getting flogged off quick before Labour got in
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We all want British Rail! We took our Care2 petition with more than 120,000 signatures to the Department for Transport earlier this month to demand public-ownership is properly considered in the #WilliamsRailReview. Add your name here: care2.com/renationaliserailways ...
Grayling has got to be THE most inept, self-serving, impotent and utterly clueless minister there is, and let's face it - he's up against some pretty stiff competition. BBBR!
Failing Grayling won't go against Tory paymasters and lobbyists
Given it's cheaper to FLY from Newcastle to London than it is to catch the train down from Carlisle (where I live)... yes. Renationalisation is needed.
Whatever the Spivs say.... British Rail WAS better than this...
I wish you luck here but sense the petition will be ignored. Directly contrary to the Tory dogma that saw privatisation in the first place.
From a freight perspective the railway should never have been privatised!
It had enough competition from a pro road government policy as it was! And still is!
Who remembers Sir Bob Reid (2)'s 1992 warning that privatisation could break the railways? I'm able to download them. He was right but the warnings were ignored by Major and MacGregor.
Conservatives, nothing but calamity and chaos
This grayling would do a better job, yes?
A return from Budapest to Szolnok (1.5 hour journey), costs £10..... return from Birmingham to Manchester.....around £40! There is no excuse!!
I can't wait to see what sort of fiasco HS2 turns out to be when/if it finally gets built.
More brown envelopes in privatisation than nationalisation
That's a shocking looking train. Looks like a kia pride
I'm not actually bothered what it's called - I just want a public transport system that IS public, i.e. owned by the public sector and answerable to us. Could be municipally-owned (best suited for local bus services), regionally owned (e.g. by Llywodraeth Cymru , Riaghaltas na h-Alba etc) (suitable for commuter train services and inter-city bus links), nationally owned (probably the best bet for most of the UK rail network or EU-owned (if we're still in it - definitely the best bet for the likes of Eurostar).
No we DONT !!!
I used to catch my train 30 minutes early because of constantly late or cancelled trains by southern fail, and. Oh yes, 30 mins late going home. That was a GOOD day!
We need more than 120k. But I'll chip in to help push us over that number.
Imogen I rest my sodding case. Care for a protest?
£160 from Newcastle to London insanity.
I've got constantly late, dirty, overcrowded and cancelled trains to thank for getting me back on motorbikes. That was about 20 years ago so nothing's changed but I've saved sbout £30k and had a load of fun!
GWR a total shambles last weekend.
Hi everyone, check out The People's Revolution Party.& some of the amazing policies from there manifesto.
It's a fantastic & expansive manifesto of/by/for the people, check it out here:
They are a party that is entirely run by the people, owned by the people and is here to bring about drastic and radical changes to our society.
They run on a system of direct democracy and members can put forward ideas for new policies that will in turn be voted on and if popular will be added into the manifesto as well as elect officers, candidates and more.
This is about real change and handing the country back into the hands of you the people.
For too long have we been subdued and forgotten about by an oppressive establishment.
The best thing is party membership is only £1 for life, WOW!
Here are their Infrastructure & Transport policies (more are added to frequently):
National Infrastructure Organisations
Network Rail, the Highways Agency, train operating companies and bus operating companies would all be required to become National Infrastructure Organisations (NIOs) under a policy to ensure that infrastructure which is essential to a functioning society is not solely operated for the benefit of private shareholders, but in the national interest.
Get rid of Nude Body Scanners
We believe that other technologies and solutions exist that are able to better serve transport authorities in carrying out their responsibility in the interests of airport and national security.
Ridesharing and Carpooling
Through a series of targeted marketing campaigns and PSA's (Public Service Announcements) we would encourage carpooling, especially for parents and those on the same street with a shared workplace, or workplaces in reasonable walking distance of each other.
Ridesharing would be promoted through The Job Center for those on low or no workplace income and would utilise ridesharing services such as (but not limited to, and purely for example) Uber, as a means of proof for bringing unemployed people into the taxiing profession and as a way to encourage self-employment.
As part of this push, MPs localised near each other would be encouraged to carpool around and on the way to parliament, which would double as a method to encourage cross-party conversation and out-of-parliament policy deliberation.
Electric and Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Incentivise existing fuelling stations to install charging units for electric vehicles to help create a nationwide network and overcome the perception of "range anxiety" amongst consumers.
Incentivise existing fuelling stations to install hydrogen fuel pumps.
Incentivise research into retrospective modifications to existing vehicles allowing them to run on hydrogen. This would facilitate an easier transition from our dependency on fossil fuels, and encourage the development of new hydrogen based vehicle (which doesn't have the same carbon footprint as the manufacture of lithium ion batteries.)
As the number of electric cars increases, an increasing amount of battery storage ends up being connected to the National Grid. This storage can be used to supply power back into the grid when it's under heavy load, and store up power when there is excess generation capacity. We will incentivise electric car owners who allow their cars to be used as dynamic storage batteries for the grid, and help smooth out variable demand.
Develop a long-term plan for complete electrification of the national rail network, and the replacement of diesel trains with electric multiple-units. This has the benefit of reduced emissions, improved efficiency, quieter and more comfortable trains. Alongside electrification, signalling should be updated to ETCS level 2 or 3 standard for improved safety and efficiency.
Investigate feasibility of building a high speed rail network that connects our ten largest cities (and Cardiff also) to the European high speed network via HS1.
Examine which areas of the United Kingdom were most detrimentally affected by the changes in the Beeching Reports, and whether it would be economically feasible to bring back any formerly established railways.
HS2 will be scrapped immediately
National Infrastructure in the National Interest
Too much of the national infrastructure that society relies heavily upon is operated for private profit. The predictable result being:
profits line the pockets of shareholders, instead of being used to improve services
shareholders often squirrel away their dividends in tax havens, withholding much needed tax revenue that can be used to benefit society
commercial interest is put before public interest
infrastructure improvements are lacklustre or dismissed over keeping costs down and profits up
Community Interest Companies
In order to ensure that essential infrastructure is run in the interests of wider society, any organisation performing a function that is essential to the UK's infrastructure (a National Infrastructure Organisation or NIO) will be required to be a Community Interest Company operated for the benefit of the British public. This has a few benefits:
Organisations are subject to the community interest test, requiring them to ensure their activities benefit their community (the British public)
Profits must be reinvested, ensuring surpluses go towards service improvement
Dividends are still acceptable, allowing for existing or new shareholders to maintain their stake and reap financial rewards for investing in the furtherance of the public benefit aims of the organisation
In addition to the public interest test, additional requirements will be placed upon NIOs:
All staff must receive at least a living wage
The highest pay must not exceed 5 times the national average wage
Full financial accounts must be published openly, with no charge for access
An annual report must be produced providing a breakdown of money spent on service improvement and on dividends, with each dividend payment itemised including the recipient
Requiring these will help to ensure NIOs are responsible, transparent businesses.
A number of existing organisations are specifically targeted by this policy:
Network Rail
Royal Mail
Highways Agency
Existing Toll Roads
Mobile phone masts
State-funded Schools
NHS Hospitals, GP surgeries & health centres
Prisons, courts
Energy generation and distribution (power stations, gas pipes, water pipes etc)
To be an effective policy, it will also cover any organisation performing one of the following functions:
operating public rail services
operating public bus services
All potholes will be repaired within 12 months nationwide
A team of designated officials will oversee all road repairs to ensure they are carried out in a prompt manner, no longer will we see lanes/roads closed with no work occurring which we see all too often.
A massive infrastructure rebuilding will occur over 10 years to provide world class roads & mag-lev trains all over the country
A Compromise on Nationalisation
NIOs are intended to provide the basic infrastructure that is essentially to a functioning society in a way that is protected from the volatility of shareholder whims. They provide the basics for innovators to provide services on top of, and without simply placing the entire service burden onto the state through nationalisation.
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Grayling won't listen. He is the most incompetent self serving politician there is. Even when he was education minister he lived in a bubble.
Bring Back British Rail shared We Own It's post.
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Another brilliant video from our friends at We Own It, shot this morning outside the Department for Transport when we submitted our Care2 petition with 120,000 signatures to Keith Williams head of the government's new rail review. #TellKeith you want public ownership! gov.uk/government/consultations/williams-rail-review
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Share this video to #TellKeith his review must recommend public ownership!
The government has announced the biggest review of our railways since privatisation. They've put a man called Keith Williams in charge. We know that public ownership is the only way to fix our broken railways. ...
Andy Fudge, this tickled me, just the name
Let's hope Kieth Williams is not a latter day Beeching.
Sadly I remember BR, it's not what people think. Always late and poor service, removed dining car, dirty carriages.
Sam Hayward
Why does much of jinxed privatisation's investmernt on new trains come from abroad? The excuse is that "Britain can't deliver on time" while many of them have certain design flaws themselves. The exported 185 DMUs are fine by standards of comfort but when you compare them with a 158, they are somewhat "slower" while operating on some lines like York to Scarborough due to being a heavier train.
Great coverage in today's Daily Mirror of our Care2 petition to Renationalise the Railways signed by 120,000 people, which we're taking to the Department for Transport this Friday 18th. Join us at the Bring our railway into public hands! Petition hand in at 10am and add your own signature here: care2.com/renationaliserailways ...
British Rail petition signed by 120k demands railways return to public ownershipEXCLUSIVE: Campaigners want a service that prioritises 'people over profit'
The railways are already owned by the public. The train operating companies are not so, once and for all, for this supporter of your cause, get the distinction right.
Seen a good coverage on ITV by Adam Shaw last night called Trouble on the Tracks
It's the tracks/signalling equipment that are fucked and causing the cancellations. The companies operating the services are useless but this is a deeper problem, there's no quick fix.
Help us reach 120,000 signatures before Friday! On Friday 18 January at 10am, we're taking our Care2 petition to Renationalise our Railways to the Department for Transport to submit as evidence to the Williams Rail Review. We must ensure public ownership is on the table. ...
Sign Petition: Renationalise our railwaysRenationalising the railways would lower fares, improve working conditions and provide a better organised service. The majority of (119381 signatures on petition)
can't get out of europe, fat chance of getting BR back LOL.
Iv'e signed this petition on a previous occasion. The longer it takes the more we subsidise another country's fares as our go up, and up, and up. Maybe we should get back in our cars and totally clog all the roads on our way to work or home or wherever people have to travel. Come on people stop using the railways they will learn we are not to be trampled on.
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Why the full postal address?
Yvonne Sowood
Wasnt the rail system on the brink of disaster when they privatised the network look what happened when railtrack started, had like 4 or 5 major train crashes
My line has cheaper fares (adjusted for inflation) than it had under BR, it's clean and reliable and a great service. I don't use the Railway that much otherwise and if people want it nationalised again that's fine but I have few problems with it. We have one of the busiest networks in the world which inevitably leads to problems. I can see issues with dividing railtrack from the operators but not entirely convinced that denationalisation would improve everything.
Yes to BRS
Signed it. Only need 360 odd signatures now.
I read somewhere that privatisation is excluded from his remit
Clicking on the link just takes you to a generic care2 page. No petition.
Page not found - will try later
Won't accept my valid email address.
It seemingly a lot more complicated than just switching over from privitation to national rail Well it will not happen in my life time, so i am resigned to AS YOU WERE ./ ARE. LOL
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With the Tories in power no chance!
This is why they won't let Jeremy in!!!
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I think people need reminding of bureaucracy running anything .British rail manky falling apart rolling stock,timetable non existant,filthy stations ,not much different from now.Prices were high then, just like now.Nationalisation will cost the taxpayer a fortune
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Documentary film winner for "Searching for Sugar Man," Bendjelloul commented on his film's subject, the elusive Sugar Man: "He's genuinely a humble man," said Bendjelloul of Rodriguez. "He wants to stay in Detroit and watch it on television. He doesn't want to take any credit for this film."
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Veteran character actor Jack McGee, known for his stints on "NYPD Blue" and "Rescue Me," is in a shoe-box-sized room gobbling like a turkey — to the immense pleasure of four grown men.
"Sound a little more defeated," the writers and producers instruct him.
Playing an evil ruler of a planet has its challenges — more so when it's an animated character dubbed Turkey Turkey.
"What is this? Which network is this for?" McGee asks with a quizzical face once he's finished.
The show is called "Axe Cop," and it's one of Fox's animated commissions that will be vying for attention on Saturday nights. Yes, Saturday nights.
The network long ago established a firm grip in the animation genre with its Sunday-night block of cartoons, propped by stalwarts "The Simpsons" and "Family Guy." Now it's coloring a bit outside the lines, delving further into the circuit with a project it calls Animation Domination High-Def.
The outpost of programming aspires to serve as a destination for an audience of adolescents and young men who might rather spend their Saturday nights partying or playing "Metal Gear Rising."
Its slate of 10-to-12-minute off-kilter cartoons will air on TV's castaway night from 11 p.m. to midnight — a tricky slot ignored by most networks (and most viewers). Showing its hipness, the experience won't stop at the remote. The animated shows will be supplemented with digital frills on the Internet (GIFs, animated shorts, user-adapted content, etc.) — making the ADHD acronym all the more fitting.
It's the network's latest experiment in blurring the TV and online borders. Earlier this year Fox inked a partnership with YouTube's WIGS channel to serve as a broadcast incubator.
As the network attempts to fill a void once occupied by zany sketch show "Mad TV," it does so while attempting to reimagine the costly and lengthy animation process.
"I had this idea of creating a subsidiary that could really benefit from Fox's dominance in our brand of animation, which is a huge part of our identity," said Kevin Reilly, the network's chairman of entertainment. "But I really wanted a whole different culture — something a little more alternative, something more experimental."
Something more like Cartoon Network's Adult Swim?
It looks that way. The network hired former Adult Swim development head Nick Weidenfeld and producer Hend Baghdady as executives to run the enterprise.
And it's an ambitious one.
Fox is providing financing for three and a half years and is aiming to launch 13 quarter-hour series and three half-hours in that time.
Spearheading the venture are "Axe Cop," based on the popular web comic about a stoic, mustached crime fighter who eats only birthday cake, and "High School USA!" — imagine an Archie Comics for the "Eastbound & Down" crowd. January will see two more shows premiere.
It begins in its regular time slot this week after getting a special prime-time preview last Sunday alongside "Family Guy" — a place any one of the ADHD shows might one day occupy, if all goes well.
"More than breaking into late-night, I see this as a seeding ground for prime time," Reilly said. "I would like to grow the next 'Family Guy' out of that period. I want to try things out that can succeed on a more modest level and really percolate. I'm hoping a few rise to the surface that can graduate to Sundays."
It's a lofty task that's apparent in Weidenfeld's demeanor weeks ahead of the broadcast launch. The long days have left the 33-year-old, who began his career as a journalist before a freelance story on Adult Swim led to a gig there, with weary eyes and disorganized thoughts — he speaks with more dashes and ellipses than periods.
"We're building something new," he said. "It's not easy."
But it is cheaper and faster. That's what has Fox hooked.
Everything — even the animation, which on other shows is traditionally sent off to South Korea — is done under one roof at a trendy, 12,500-square-foot studio on Sunset Boulevard, allowing for more collaboration between writers and animators. The compact episodes also help in keeping costs down. So, too, does the controversial non-union status of the studio.
In the time it might take just to develop one animated half-hour prime-time show, ADHD is developing, producing and putting on four shows. One six-episode season of an ADHD series costs less to produce than a single half-hour episode of one of Fox's Sunday staples, Baghdady said. And unlike its other animated series, Fox has ownership of the content — allowing the network to distribute it however it pleases.
Whether the quality of the shows is compromised as a result of the process is up to genre enthusiasts to decide, but Baghdady insists they've "created a very efficient system."
Of course, it took some time.
"It was like building the bike while riding it," Weidenfeld said of the year-and-a-half-in-the-making process. "We were building the business while finding the shows."
Weidenfeld enlisted the assistance of animation veterans Matt Silverstein and Dave Jeser (Comedy Central's "Drawn Together," Fox's "The Cleveland Show") to serve as showrunners and veritable script whisperers, helping budding talent polish ideas. Another known name in the animation circuit is Dino Stamatopoulos, creator of ADHD's "High School USA!," who was behind Adult Swim's "Moral Orel."
New talent is key, though, to forming ADHD's brand of programming — which, unlike Adult Swim, lacks cynicism, Weidenfeld said. The rookie roster includes identical twin brothers Kenny and Keith Lucas (known as the Lucas Brothers) and Joshua Miller, the creator of the forthcoming "Golan the Insatiable," about a warlord transplanted to Minnesota.
The voice talent behind the characters features some very recognizable TV names, including Patton Oswalt ("The United States of Tara"), Nick Offerman ("Parks and Recreation"), singer Mandy Moore, Ken Marino ("Children's Hospital," "Party Down"), Megan Mullally ("Will & Grace") and Vincent Kartheiser ("Mad Men").
Everyone involved seems to be entering with realistic expectations, in terms of ratings and advertising revenue.
"I do not expect to turn the lights on and take over the world," Reilly said. "It takes a while to form a new habit and get animation fans aware of what's on."
Fox's less high-profile animated series "Bob's Burgers" generated $22.7 million in ad revenue last season — less than a quarter of what "Family Guy" brought in, but still hefty. With ADHD, aimed at hard-to-reach 18-34 males, traditional advertising is getting chucked. Advertising blocks will run at the top, middle and end of the half-hours, leaving each series to run uninterrupted. The goal is eventually to have ADHD-created cartoon-ads.
"This is either going to be a really awesome and successful risk," Weidenfeld said, "or a disaster — but an inexpensive one."


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March returns for the Thrift Savings Plan were lackluster, with modest gains for some funds and others in the red.
The C Fund, invested in common stocks, inched up 0.85 percent last month after a 4.58 percent rebound in February. The fund has grown 21.93 percent during the last 12 months.
The always reliable G Fund, invested in government securities, also grew just barely in March, increasing 0.19 percent. It has gained 2.09 percent during the last 12 months.
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The lifecycle (L) funds -- designed to move investors to less risky portfolios as they near retirement -- all yielded positive returns in March, as they did in February. Still, their rates of return were smaller than in February. The L Income Fund for TSP participants who already have started withdrawing money gained 0.19 percent last month. L 2020 increased 0.17 percent in March; L 2030 gained 0.14 percent; L 2040 was up 0.12 percent; and L 2050 saw a tiny 0.09 percent boost.
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The 100th Henkle Family Reunion Cookbook Collection, 2009. This Henkle Family collective of family favorites has been gathered by the many descendants of those first Henkles that came across the plains on the Oregon Trail. Our ancestors left Cincinnati, Appanoose County, Iowa on the 4 day of April, 1853 to find a new home in the wilds of the great Willamette Valley before Oregon became a state. They brought their vast family and homesteaded in Benton County on the South Fork of Mary's River in the foothills of Mary's Peak. This magnificent family grew and prospered and still gathers each year to pay homage to those great pioneers that gave so much of themselves to insure a future for all of us yet to come. This cookbook is a tribute to them. All proceeds will be donated to the Henkle Reunion Committee, Oregon Branch.
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Humans have changed the face of the Earth by significantly altering the natural movements of chemicals on the planet's surface, according to a new study by geochemists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).
The scientists analyzed how 77 different elements were transferred between rock, soil, and water via natural processes (such as volcanic eruptions, plant growth, and erosion) versus human activities (such as mining, agriculture, and construction). They concluded that the movement of up to 62 of the elements was dominated by things people are doing.
The comprehensive inventory of how elements circulate on Earth's surface demonstrates how severely humans have influenced our planet's chemistry, said WHOI geochemists Indra Sen and Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink. It adds evidence to support the suggestion to adopt "Anthropocene" as an official term to define a new geological epoch in which humankind is reshaping the planet, the scientists wrote in the July 2012 issue of Environmental Science & Technology.
Sen and Peucker-Ehrenbrink tracked a remarkable amount of industrial and scientific data for their study. For example, they investigated natural processes such as winds, which sweep away 2 billion tons of chemical-rich dust annually, and rivers, which discharge 4 billion tons of dissolved compounds to the sea each year.
And they identified often-overlooked details. For example, previous studies estimated the amount of sediments that rivers transport by measuring how much is discharged into the oceans. But Sen and Peucker-Ehrenbrink estimated that nearly four times as much soils and sediments is mobilized by rivers but not accounted for in the discharge—because they are deposited downstream or trapped behind dams before ever reaching the sea.
The scientists also included several processes ignored in previous studies but that turned out to be significant. For example, 30,000 metric tons of cosmic dust lands on Earth every year, providing small but important amounts of osmium and iridium to Earth's surface.
To assess human activities, they compiled statistics on such things as global coal and petroleum production (from the U.S. Department of Energy) and worldwide mining for minerals, ranging from aluminum to zirconium (from the U.S. Geological Survey).
Once again, they took a closer look at the geology of ores and current industrial practices and concluded that the amount of material and number of elements that have been mobilized by humans have been hugely underestimated, because only the end product is counted in official production statistics. Up to 95 percent of some metals, along with many other minerals, can be incinerated or discarded in industrial processes that produce a pure product. By factoring in such details, Sen and Peucker-Ehrenbrink produced far more accurate estimates than previously available.
They also factored in for the first time a broader range of human activities that transport elements, including the massive movement of earth during the construction of houses, roads, and even manmade islands. Through mining and construction, humans move an estimated 35 billion tons of sediment and rock each year.
The scientists also took a closer look at how human activities are influencing natural processes. Farming, for example, accounts for a portion of the total amount of chemical compounds that cycle between air, soil, and vegetation as plants grow and decompose. Sen and Peucker-Ehrenbrink also concluded that changing human land use, particularly deforestation, has caused erosion and the transport of dust, and thereby intensified the movement of elements.
To make their estimates, the scientists could not obtain complete information about all the elements and could not escape making assumptions. To account for their assumptions, they used statistical models to place most likely ranges around each estimate of the elements' movements via human and natural processes.
Among some of the scientists' other interesting findings:
"Considering recent trends in coal, petroleum and mineral exploration, construction activities and farming practices, it is likely that human influence will continue to increase for all element cycles," the scientists wrote. "Periodic updates of this assessment will refine our understanding of how severely humans influence natural processes in the habitable zone of our planet."
This research was supported by a WHOI postdoctoral scholarship to Sen and a WHOI Coastal Ocean Institute fellowship to Peucker-Ehrenbrink.


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Prince Fielder, Austin Jackson and Torii Hunter homered, and Anibal Sanchez pitched six scoreless innings to help the Detroit Tigers overcome Miguel Cabrera's absence in a 6-2 win over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night.
Cabrera, the reigning AL MVP and baseball's first Triple Crown winner in 45 years last season, left Monday's game in the bottom of the fifth inning with a left hip flexor injury. He hasn't played since and might sit out Thursday, too, when the Tigers go for a four-game sweep.
Detroit has won four straight and 13 of 21.
Sanchez (8-7) earned his first win since July 6, allowing six hits and striking out five. The right-hander had only allowed five earned runs in his previous two starts, both losses.
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The Notre Dame team will return to present their final proposals to the public on Saturday, December 13th at 2:30pm at Northampton High School.
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A frequently asked question is how best to display dates and numbers using a specified format. There are a number of approaches for this, the most naive of which would be to add a method to your action class to do the formatting for you. This method would take in a Date (or subclass) object as a parameter, and return a formatted String.
That approach however suffers from a number of flaws. For example, it is not i18n aware. The date format specified is rigid, and will not adapt to different locales easily (assuming you're not using a default formatter that is). It also clutters up your actions with code that has nothing to do with the action itself.
Instead, the recommended approach is to use Java's built-in date formatting features via use of the s:text tag.
While the s:text tag is still very useful to format numbers, date formatting has become a lot easier thanks to the s:date tag.
The s:text tag should be used for all i18n values. It will look up the properties file for your action, and from that select the value for the key that you specify. This is best illustrated in an example:
<!-- display the number of items in a cart --> <s:text name="'cart.items'" value0="cartItems" />
The above tag will work as follows. value0 will result in a call to getCartItems() on your action class. The cart.items name is escaped, so it is treated as a literal key into the actions' properties file. Your MyAction.properties file will contain the following:
cart.items=You have {0} items in your cart.
Normal Java MessageFormat behaviour will correctly substitute {0} with the value obtained from getCartItems.
Needless to say, this can get a lot more elaborate, with the ability to specify both date and number formatting. Let us consider another example. The goal here is to display a greeting to the user, as well as the date of their last visit.
<s:text name="'last.visit'" value0="userName" value1="lastVisit(userName)" />
MyAction.java contains:
public String getUserName() { ... }; public Date getLastVisit(String userName) { ... };
Your MyAction.properties file will then contain:
last.visit=Welcome back {0}, your last visit was at {1,date,HH:mm dd-MM-yyyy}
As you can see, this is a very powerful mechanism and allows you to easily display numbers and dates using any formatting rules that Java allows.
value0 interface deprecated
The examples above pass in the values as:
<s:text name="'text.message'" value0="userName"/>
These values should now (>2.1.7?) be passed as params:
<s:text name="'text.message'"> <s:param value="'userName'"/> </s:text>
Some message format examples
Here are some examples of formatting in the properties file:
format.date = {0,date,MM/dd/yy} format.time = {0,date,MM/dd/yy ha} format.percent = {0,number,##0.00'%'} format.money = {0,number,$##0.00}
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You don't need the single quotes
In the examples, the attribue values within the tags include single quotes; these may be required if you are specifying a literal value, however if (like in the example) you are referencing a key to be found within a resource bundle (for the name) and a value from the stack (for the value), single quotes must not be used.