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The HTC ThunderBolt is Verizon's first 4G LTE smartphone. It's big, it's fast, and it's a battery hog. TechRepublic's Jason Hiner dubbed it the "Ferrari of smartphones". In his real-world testing, Jason got about four hours of battery life out of a single charge–when using the phone's 4G capability.
Wanting to see the hardware inside HTC's power-hungry device, I cracked open the ThunderBolt for this week's TR Dojo Teardown. I also asked TechRepublic members if using the phone's killer feature (access to Verizon's 4G LTE network) worth sacrificing battery life.
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1. Disable unnecessary Wi-Fi and 4G when not in use.
If you're not in an area with a Wi-Fi network or 4G coverage, turn these radios off to conserve battery life.
To turn off Wi-Fi, press Home, then Menu, and then Settings. Select Wireless & networks and make sure the Wi-Fi option is unchecked.
To turn off 4G, open the phone's dialer and enter *#*#4636#*#* . This will open a hidden setting menu. Select the "Phone Information" option and and scroll down to the "Set preferred network type:" drop-down menu. If "CDMA + LTE/EvDo auto" is selected (the default setting), the phone will automatically choose the connection that provides the best speed–3G or 4G. By selecting "CDMA auto (PRL)," you can force the phone to only use its 3G antenna. (Thanks to CNET's Android Atlas for this tip.)
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Not enabling always-on mobile data will require you to manually refresh applications that send and receive online data, it can also extend battery life. To disable always-on mobile data, press Home, then press Menu, and select Settings. Press Wireless & networks, select Mobile networks, and then uncheck "Enable always-on mobile data".
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Letting a bunch of tasks run in the background, can run down your ThunderBolt's battery. Luckily, there are apps like Advanced Task Killer Free, which allow you quickly kill any or all running tasks. TechRepublic blogger Jack Wallen uses this app to extend his Android phone's battery life. "I actually place a shortcut to this tool on my desktop so that a single press will kill any unnecessary tasks that are slowly chomping away at my battery life," Jack wrote.
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34 woman were selected to be a part of the 2013 Sea Gals squad, they all come from different backgrounds but have one thing in common, it was a nerve racking process.
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Heritage Sites of New South Wales
Heritage consists of those places and objects that we as a community have inherited from the past and want to hand on to future generations. Our heritage gives us a sense of living history and provides a physical link to the work and way of life of earlier generations. It enriches our lives and helps us to understand who we are today.
New South Wales' heritage is diverse and includes buildings, objects, monuments, Aboriginal places, gardens, bridges, landscapes, archaeological sites, shipwrecks, relics, bridges, streets, industrial structures and conservation precincts.
Identifying and listing items of heritage significance are the first steps in protecting and managing those places and objects that we as a community want to keep. Listing our special places on statutory heritage registers provides a legal framework for managing the approval of major changes so that heritage significance is retained and not diminished.
There are four main statutory lists. Locally significant heritage places are listed on local council Local Environment Plans. The State Heritage Register lists our State's most significant heritage places and objects known as items of state heritage significance. Nationally significant places are listed on the National Heritage List. Places of world-wide significance like the Sydney Opera House are inscribed on the World Heritage List.
Heritage places from all four lists collectively demonstrate the unique history and achievements of the people of NSW and Australia. As physical links to Australia's past, heritage places trace the transition of Australia from its ancient indigenous origins to a penal outpost of Great Britain to the advanced culture of today's developed nation.
The practice of heritage listing in New South Wales has developed from several International agreements and British and American models. These concepts provided successive State governments with the tools to respond to community pressures for heritage conservation such as the formation of the National Trust in New South Wales in 1945 and the Green Bans Movement of the 1970s. The NSW Heritage Act was passed in 1977 providing landmark legislation in heritage conservation in the State. Amendments to the Act in 1987 introduced a new section that required State agencies to compile their own Heritage and Conservation Registers on a proactive basis. These are commonly known as 'Section 170 Registers', and are the first example of a list of items specifically required to be prepared under the Heritage Act.
Retaining our limited heritage resources is green, sustainable, an investment and community building.
Sustainable development begins with recycling. Recycling heritage buildings reduces our consumption of resources and ecological footprint. Reusing instead of demolishing an average 19th century terrace is equivalent to saving 15,000 litres of petrol or five car trips around the planet in embodied energy.
Heritage attractions underpin tourism, enhancing long term growth. Heritage places provide the material to promote our State and neighbourhood profiles. Limited in supply, the rarity and authenticity provided by heritage places are attractions that cannot be built or recreated anywhere else.
For individuals, studies show heritage properties can attract higher resale values. Price premiums attracted by heritage character and listing can also extend to adjoining properties. Listing gives owners greater certainty the heritage qualities of the area are protected.
For communities, heritage plays a major role in the appeal and life of neighbourhoods. Even heritage places with no current use or in a neglected state can provide the impetus for revitalising a neighbourhood.
Heritage regions can be identified in New South Wales in terms of topographic identity, popular identity and the process of occupying the country. Common processes and patterns of settlement have developed within certain regions, while others present varied patterns in which there is both unity and complementarity.
The stages to be expected in the development of country towns can be neatly summarised as follows: administrative and legal origins in a properly surveyed township; the provision of essential services such as an inn, a store and a smithy; the growth of settled population epitomised by resident ministers of religion and church buildings, instead of visiting clergy conducting church services in private homes or barns; then the provision of educational facilities for an increasingly youthful population; the creation of community self-help organisations such as a School of Arts or a Debating Society or an Oddfellows Lodge; the hallmark of colonial success, the production of a local newspaper; the quintessential country town feature, the Pastoral, Horticultural or Agricultural Show; and finally the right to have a municipal council. These things may not happen in precisely this order but they are convenient yardsticks for the transition from a police-magistrate's small settlement to a developed country town community.
Darling Plains, Central Tableland and Lachlan
Darling Plains
The whole area is given unity by the rivers draining to the Upper Darling River and the great area of alluvial soils which these braided meandering rivers produce. Farming is devoted to sheep-grazing for wool, wheat and cotton growing, with increasing amounts of oil and fodder grains.
Pastoralists entered this area from the south and north. In 1832 the Australian Agricultural Company pre-empted the best land on Liverpool Plains and drove the squatters on. Due to the rough grazing of the plains and the danger of dingoes, there were more cattle runs than sheep stations. Early runs were owned by absentees which explains the absence of early impressive houses in the squatting districts. Rather there were ex-convict or convict stockkeepers living in huts.
After 1860 sheep steadily replaced cattle, more owners came to live on their stations and better houses began to be built. Urban development prior to 1850 was very limited due to a sparse and poor population. Isolated inns were common. Some of these became towns but many have turned to dust or been burned.
Timber became important in the Pilbara region by the 1870s, the railway arrived in 1873 and Tamworth began to prosper as a traffic centre. In 1888 Tamworth was the first Australian town to use electric lighting. It is particularly rich in residential buildings from the late nineteenth century.
Dubbo was a prosperous town and brick buildings were common from the 1870s. The railway brought a gasworks in 1881. The town boomed in the prosperous years of the 1880s and much of its architecture is of this period.
The twentieth century has seen the effects of closer settlement and subdivision on this area as well as crop diversification into sorghum, oilseeds, sudax, soybeans and cotton.
Central Tablelands
The region is a flat plain elevated by uplift and containing parts of the central tablelands and central slopes. It represents an area of early occupation, mostly within the limits of occupation of 1829. The new colony's need for new expansive grazing land was the prime mover in the early colonisation of the tableland and the establishment of the early towns. The basic purpose of opening up this large area was to breed cattle. The entire region was opened up to settlement when Governor Darling redefined the limits of location in 1826. More intensive European exploitation of the region created a need for villages and market centres.
The impact of the 1850s gold rush was more dramatic on the Central Tableland than anywhere else in New South Wales. The massive influx of transient miners, their followers and the requirements of the new towns beside the mines created an exciting and tumultuous period of resettlement which has been the focus of national interest. In the middle of the mining period the railway reached the Central Tableland and towns along the railway line, such as Lithgow, Bathurst and Orange, grew. Although suffering from a very inadequate water supply until after 1890, Orange blossomed with fine public, ecclesiastical and private buildings in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The opening of the Crown Lands office confirmed the premier position of Orange in the Central Tableland in 1885. Lithgow was transformed, almost instantly, from a rural backwater into one of the major industrial towns of New South Wales. The first Australian steelworks was opened in Lithgow in 1900.
This comprises the main area of the Lachlan river basin above Euabalong, flat, with a slight fall to the west with occasional hills composed of granite intrusions. This is a transitional area to the semi-arid plains of Western New South Wales. The land is used for grazing, large scale wheat and oats.
Pastoralists had been bringing their cattle into this area for grazing long before the area was officially opened up for settlement in the 1840s. Between 1835 and 1858 a number of settlers opened up large pastoral runs in many parts of the region. These stations were all very large and vulnerable to drought and the protracted drought of 1849 to 1852 presented great problems.
There were six major gold rushes on the Lachlan between 1861 and 1894 which created almost all the major towns of the area. The introduction of the railway and new land administration legislation had important effects. The twentieth century saw the transformation of a region that had been dominated by cattle, sheep and gold into an area characterised by wheat, wool and fat lambs as the railway across the plains made possible the bulk transportation of wheat.
Manning River, North Coast and New England
Manning River
The Australian Agriculture Company was found in London in 1826 to raise funds to exploit the grazing possibilities of New South Wales becoming apparent from wool shipments and the reports of successful immigrants. A large grant was given to them on the northern side of Port Stephens extending to the Manning River. At the head of the Manning River a town was laid out as company headquarters called Carrington and many buildings were erected. These were abandoned in 1930 for Stroud. Only a church is left standing and Carrington is chiefly to be seen as an archaeological site of considerable complexity.
Settlers began arriving in the Manning Valley from 1827. In 1830 the new County of Macquarie opened up the land as far as the Hastings with the scaling down of the penal station at Port Macquarie. Cattle stations as well as timber were important. The pastoral inflow continued into the 1840s, with many absentee landowners providing only huts for the men. There were also resident landowners who built substantial homesteads and grew wheat, tobacco, maize and vegetables. The Manning Valley was in the 1860s clearly divided between a small farm area with few stock on small acreages, and the big cattle runs in the hills to the west. The 1860s saw the collapse of wheat as a crop due to rust and the beginnings of dairy farming. The running of the Pacific Highway and the railway through Taree brought this town to prominence. The area relied for most of its transport on coastal shipping and consequently there are many wrecks.
North Coast
This region is not strictly a coastal plain, consisting rather of a series of river valleys separated by ranges, or in the case of the Clarence-Richmond divide, by an extensive stretch of sterile and undeveloped land. Coasts typically alternate headlands and coastal barriers, with bar-bound river mouths dangerous to large vessels.
In 1823 convicts were shipped north from Newcastle to Port Macquarie. Convicts cut cedar and grew maize for their own consumption. With the removal of the Port Macquarie Penal Station in 1833 (the prison continued in use until 1846), land around the port was opened to free settlers. Cedar cutters worked in the brushes, rolling logs to the water's edge or sometimes using bullocks. Logs floated downstream and were intercepted at ports from which the timber was shipped to Sydney. These ports were the first settlements on the rivers. Shipbuilding accompanied the cedar getters in their northward spread.
Land was opened to agriculturists in the 1850s. The farmers with their dense population and many and frequent needs to buy goods, created a new town system on the lower parts of the rivers. Different forms of produce were tried in the tropical climate. The only tropical crop to prove successful was the sugar cane. Sugar succeeded early on because it could be sold to a local market in an unrefined state and was soon aided by the building of mills in 1870 by the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. When in the 1890s the sugar cane was heavily infected with the gumming disease, dairying was taken up as an alternative.
In the twentieth century beach mining, tourism and the movement of retirees into the area has seen a further shift in this area.
New England
The New England region is largely made up of a plateau bounded on the east by very rugged country. The plateau itself is generally a rolling thinly forested surface with extensive flat areas such as Beardy Plains. The area presented an attractive grazing resource to early settlers.
When the Australian Agricultural Company took up its vast estates on the Liverpool Plains in 1832 it displaced some squatters and barred the way to others seeking well-watered land. Some of these went up to New England. In 1839 there were 46 stations, in 1852 there were 178 and one million sheep. As the population grew, village centres emerged to provide the origins of present day urban settlement. The 1870s and 1880s were a period of major urban growth, impelled by larger population and characterised by the new and more elaborate architectural styles. Armidale had 76 inhabitants by 1846 with a post office, inns, a new court house, a new steam flour mill and a new church. A hospital was built in 1853 and a newspaper published from 1856. The railway arrived in Armidale in 1883 and went progressively northward until it reached Wallangarra on the Queensland border in 1889. The next forty years saw major growth, from incorporation in 1863, and grand new buildings ranging from hotels to a new town hall, court house and gaol in the 1880s boom style neoclassical architecture.
These towns were built mostly of timber, though brick was increasing in the larger towns, not only in the main streets but in the residential area. The "blue brick" was a characteristic local feature. Above all, there was a new grandeur in the prominent buildings, and the emergence of a class of affluent people who generally made one residential part of the town their own, though still building in the vernacular Georgian style until the 1890s when Federation homes made their appearance. New England country towns largely saw their present day landscapes come into being from 1816 to 1914.
Murray, South Coast and Illawarra
The area comprises the district drained to the Murray River below the mountains of the Kosicusko Range. After the exploration by Hume and Hovell in 1824, there was about a decade of delay before stock from the settled area in the nineteen counties was moved as far south as the Murray region. In the 1840s an increasing number of newcomers came not from the north but from the south, from the pastoral districts of Victoria. By 1850 all desirable water frontages on both sides of the Murray had been taken up. The towns of the Murray region all took their municipal shape in this period. By 1848 Albury was still of modest size with a population of 654 and only twelve houses. Eleven years later it was a thriving town with municipal status and a significant newspaper. Many of the lesser towns grew up as crossing places on the Murray.
The fundamental engineering work that led to irrigation in the region was the creation of the Hume Reservoir, damming the Murray upstream from Albury which was completed in the 1930s. Instead of fruit for canning or grapes for wine, the western Murray region was irrigated primarily to ensure a regular supply of fattened lambs: land use was not made more intensive but the farmer was better ensured against drought. Although the farming life in the whole western half of the region has been diversified and made more secure by an irrigated water supply, the ecological effects have been profound.
There is no continuous coastal plain, rather a series of valleys containing settlement separated by ridges and plateaux of wooded country. Dominant land use has been dairying, with cheese manufacture particularly important in this region, though more butter than cheese was always made. Pigs, maize and sorghum have always been important, as has fishing.
The whaling stations of Twofold Bay constitute one of the principal heritage resources of the south coast. Australian mainland whaling began in Twofold Bay in 1828 and continued up to the late 1840s.
The south coast attracted settlers from the 1830s onwards seeking new, free pastures for their cattle and sheep. The first pastoral runs in Moruya were taken up in 1828 and 1829, although initially only overseers and a few stockmen were the only residents. The first owner-occupiers came in 1829-1830. Settlement was patchy because of the rugged nature of the country which separated the river valleys. In 1846 the new County of Auckland was proclaimed, extending from the Brogo River in the north down to the Victorian border.
Drought and an outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle in the mid 1860s greatly reduced the number of beef cattle in the area. This led to a decisive swing away from pastoralism for wool and beef to the dairying which became the hallmark of the south coast in general but Bega in particular. A new and highly significant element appeared in the dairying scene. Factories run by farmers cooperatives had first appeared in the Illawarra in 1883. In the Bega Valley the number of dairy farmers supplying the co-operative factories grew rapidly. The economic basis, and the way of life of the farming community, had changed dramatically over the past twenty years. Ironically, the two model estates of Kameruka and Bodalla, redolent of colonial perceptions and paternalism, are the best known part of the dairying heritage of the south coast.
Because of the extreme difficulty posed by the coastal roads, coastal shipping remained for over a century the main line of communication for south coast farmers. No railway was ever built in the area so shipping remained unchallenged for a remarkably long time. The waters around contain many important wrecks, significant evidence of coastal trade over 150 years.
This is a long, narrow coastal region bordered on the west by steep scarps with few crossings, as at Bulli, Macquarie Pass, Fitzroy Falls. The rugged sandstone plateau separated this from inland regions. Rural occupation began about 1815, when graziers from the drought stricken County of Cumberland found a way down to the pastures of the Illawarra. In this early period, cattle and sheep were grazed on the extensive grasslands around Lake Illawarra and Dapto and Shellharbour grew up as villages to serve this area. To the north cedar cutters worked in the mixed eucalypt and rainforest land that occupied the narrow coastal plain and lower slopes of the escarpment. In the early 1830s a town was sited at Wollongong.
Mining began in earnest in 1857 under the stimulus of high prices occasioned by gold rushes. Mining villages sprang up. In 1887 a railway linked the northern mines to Wollongong and this line was linked through t Sydney in 1889. Coal continued as the major employer of labour into the 1920s and 1930s, the mining villages remaining separate settlements with Wollongong as the chief town. The railway also brought tourism to the Illawarra.
In the post war years, the manufacturing industry became important as a result of harbour improvements. The Illawarra landscape retains the traces of many separate mining villages, each dependent on adit mine and jetty, now encompassed in a combination created by post-1945 industrial development.
Southern Tablelands, Monaro and Murrimbidgee
Southern Tablelands
Undulating country differentiates the tableland from the highlands of Blue Mountains and Monaro. Topography is fairly uniform, vegetation is mainly open bushland and was attractive to early pastoral settlement. Grazing is the predominant activity, with sheep for fine wool being predominant. Wheat growing, which in the nineteenth century was important, is now insignificant.
From the 1820s onwards an increasing amount of settlement occurred in this region and market towns sprang up along the lines of communication coming south from Sydney, the key centre being Goulburn established in 1828. Between Goulburn and Marulan, Towrang Stockade was the headquarters for road making gangs between 1833 and the mid 1840s. The beautiful stone bridge over Towrang received its keystone in 1839 and the ascendancy of Goulburn as the principal city of the plain was assured.
The Depression and shearers' strike of the 1890s were a watershed in the decline of many townships on the southern tablelands. An antidote to stagnation for many centres was tourism. Limestone caves were the key to tourism in the nineteenth century. In the more recent past the well preserved colonial townships have capitalised on their heritage appeal and leisure needs of the Australian Capital Territory to create a different sort of tourism.
Gold, copper and iron, together with marble and other limestone deposits, have played an important role in the heritage character of the region.
Within the Monaro, the plateau has an undulating hilly surface with some flat areas. The plateau rises to form the Australian Alps. The Snowy Range rises to 2,300 metres and forms a watershed between Snowy River and Murray River waters exploited for water storage and hydroelectricity. The plateau's vegetation comprises forest, subalpine woodlands in the mountains and extensive grassland. The whole of the upland plateau is used for sheep grazing, with beef cattle of secondary importance. Grazing on the high alps has now been stopped.
By the 1830s virtually the entire Monaro region was taken up with squatting runs. The relative success of the graziers is enshrined in their homesteads, outbuildings and outstations, many of which are built in stone. As the herds of brumbies increased, horses became an important element in the economy and folklore. There were many men from Snowy River. From the 1860s until 1957 the practice of moving stock up to the highest country in the Snowy Mountains in summer and driving them back into the valleys in autumn became standard. The well trodden stock routes and stockmen's huts are important heritage items as tangible evidence, beyond the general degradation of an alpine environment, of the most significant use of this practice in Australian history.
The creation of Kosciuszko National Park in 1906 and the abolition of snow leases in 1956 recognised the environmental degradation of earlier uses of the land and ushered in a new era of tourism for the region centred around the leisure pursuits of fishing and skiing.
The Snowy Mountains Scheme legislated for in 1949 caught the popular imagination and interest of the international engineering world. At an expenditure of $82 million between 1949 and 1973, the Scheme succeeded in diverting the Snowy River and the Eucumbene to supplement the flow of the Murray and the Murrumbidgee and provide electricity for the central grid of New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT. It brought growth and prosperity to the township of Cooma and led to the flooding of Old Adaminaby.
This region coincides with the middle section of the Murrumbidgee River including drainage from the eastern uplands by way of the Tumut River. This is now wheat sheep country. The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area forms the western boundary beyond which extensively grazed plains of the Western Region.
Pastoral expansion beyond the limits of location spread west along the Murrumbidgee. The prime frontages along the Murrumbidgee were the first to be taken up and new stations opened up on the tributary creeks both north and south of the main river. Bad relations between Indigenous Australians and the drought of 1850-41 led to the abandonment of some stations but the opportunities offered by the gold rushes led to the Murrumbidgee stations becoming a vast fattening paddock for stock. The Murrumbdigee and Lachlan Pastoral Districts contained around 75% of the entire pastoral investment of New South Wales in the 1870s.
Gundagai was the first township to develop around the Gundagai run in 1826. Wagga Wagga established as an administrative centre in 1847 soon became the most important regional centre due to new roads and the steam boat trade both passing through Wagga and bypassing Gundagai.
The most significant change in the development of this region was brought about through irrigation. The Burrinjuck Dam was completed in 1926 and irrigation towns began to be established at Leeton, Griffith and Coleambally for the development of intensive agriculture, particularly fruit growing.
There is a geographically uneven spread of listings in New South Wales which reflects its historical development. The earliest colonised region (Sydney) is the location of the oldest items. Sydney, as the centre of government for a colony that once covered two thirds of the continent and as the largest and most densely populated urban area in Australia contains many State significant items, such as imposing head offices of government agencies and private corporations. As a capital city, major port, a major industrial area and a focus for migrant settlement, Sydney is the site of many significant heritage items. Much that is of heritage significance within the central city area is significant not only (or not even) to the region, but to a far wider locality – in some cases, to the world.
Upper Hunter
This region is characterised by the important role of river navigation in establishing its settlement pattern, and by the dominance of coal in its economic life. Established as a convict settlement in 1801 and 1804, there are a number of heritage sites remaining from the convict period. A decision was made to open up the Hunter Valley to settlement in 1820 and most convicts were removed to Port Macquarie by 1823. The settlement continued as a mining village until dominated by the Australian Agricultural Company until its monopoly was broken in 1849.
Early farmers grew wheat, vegetables, maize and tobacco which enjoyed a boom in the 1830s and 1840s. Floods in the 1850s and 1860s led to many farmers leaving the Hunter River and commencing the great trek northwards which eventually encompassed all the northern river alluviums. The river was the chief form of transport in the region. Shipping provided easy access to the Sydney market, to overseas markets for coal, and boats on the river made contacts with towns and butter factories easier. East Maitland, West Maitland and Morpeth flourished during this period and West Maitland in particular has many fine heritage structures dating from the 1880s.
The Hunter Valley dominated Australia's bituminous coal production until the 1970s. Early mining began around Newcastle which is built over a honeycomb of tunnels. With the exhaustion of coal easily accessible by adit and shaft mines spread out creating mining villages which have since been absorbed as suburbs of Newcastle.
In 1859 Newcastle became a municipality and by 1890 it was exporting over two million tonnes of coal a year and was a thriving city to rival only Sydney. Manufacturers produced aerated waters, agricultural implements, bakeries, biscuits, bricks and tiles, chemicals, coachworks, engineering, soap and candles, fell-mongering, flour-mills, furniture, printing and woolwashing. Many notable buildings survive from this period including the stone harbour, the Court House and Fort Scratchley.
Western Plains
The region comprises an attenuated Western Division drained by the Darling River, and with the lower Murray as its southern boundary. The whole area is semi-arid grazing country in a fragile state of unimproved and much degraded vegetation. The establishment of a Crown Lands Commissioner at Balranald in the 1840s and Euston after 1853 mark the commencement of settlement and the entire west Murray and lower Darling frontages had been divided into stations by the mid 1840s. On the upper Darling in the Warrego country extending from Bourke far into Queensland settlement came in the 1840s from the pastoral areas to the east and southeast.
The first steamboats started to ply the Murray in 1853 and by 1859 their range was extended to the Darling. The impact of the riverboat and the wool barge in the last third of the nineteenth century was very great and the two decades after 1850 saw the beginnings of all the river towns of importance. The wharves, the public buildings such as the gaol, the court house, the Crown Lands office are of particular significance from this period.
The railway reached Bourke in 1885 and throughout the twentieth century the river trade declined in the upper Darling as in the lower and last wool shipment along the river to Bourke railway station was delivered in 1931. There are numerous shipwrecks on these inland waters. The remains of the Rodney, for example, encapsulates much of the regional history: pastoralism, the river trade, the water frontage stations, the tensions with the shearers' union, the uncertainties of the Darling flow.
Water supply had always been an issue in this Region. Change came with the exploitation of the Great Artesian Basin. Bores transformed the settlement of the region and brought capital investment. To the outback graziers and overlanders the bores were fundamental resources from the 1880s onwards. The Depression and drought of the 1890s led to legislative controls and complex shifts in land occupancy bringing about the end of pastoral leases and their replacement by perpetual leases.
There were spectacular deposits of gold, silver, copper and opal on the Western Plains. The towns away from the major rivers owe their existence to mineral discoveries. The development of Silverton and Broken Hill in the 1880s and Cobar in the 1870s are of major importance as well as the opal fields of the west.
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Keep up to date with all the latest news, previews, match reports and exclusive interviews in this ecb.co.uk section on the LV= County Championship, cricket's four-day competition
Adams leads Hampshire recovery
Jimmy Adams came to Hampshire's rescue with a gutsy 74 not out as his side were reduced to 165 for eight before rain ended the opening day of their LV= County Championship Division Two match with Gloucestershire at Bristol.
Read more about Adams leads Hampshire recoveryPardoe and Samaraweera prosper
Half-centuries by Matthew Pardoe and Thilan Samaraweera, the latter's unbeaten, took Worcestershire to 198 for three on a rain-shortened first day in their LV= County Championship Division Two clash with Leicestershire.
Read more about Pardoe and Samaraweera prosperLV=CC & YB40, May 8: As it happened
Sam Robson's second hundred in as many innings was among the highlights on the latest day of LV= County Championship action. Nottinghamshire defeated Kent by seven wickets in a rain-affected Yorkshire Bank 40 clash.
Read more about LV=CC & YB40, May 8: As it happenedBallance and Rashid rescue Yorkshire
Gary Ballance and Adil Rashid both struck faultless centuries and featured in a record-breaking partnership to get Yorkshire out of trouble on the first day of the LV= County Championship Division One match with Somerset at Headingley.
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Live images from Headingley, where hundreds from Gary Ballance and Adil Rashid helped Yorkshire recover from a poor start on day one of their LV= County Championship match with Somerset.
Read more about Ballance and Rashid rescue YorkshireNapier rejuvenates Essex
Lancashire seamer Luke Procter took four wickets in 28 balls, including that of Alastair Cook, but a fighting 102 not out by Graham Napier helped Essex recover on day one at Emirates Old Trafford.
Read more about Napier rejuvenates EssexFinn cleared for Middlesex duty
Middlesex have been handed a timely boost ahead of their LV= County Championship trip to Warwickshire with the news that Steven Finn will be available for selection.
Read more about Finn cleared for Middlesex dutyBallance keeps Yorkshire stable
Gary Ballance and Adil Rashid led the fightback for Yorkshire as Somerset failed to take a wicket in the afternoon session of their LV= County Championship Division One game at Headingley.
Read more about Ballance keeps Yorkshire stableYorkshire without Lions pair
Yorkshire will be without England Lions duo Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root for their LV= County Championship clash with Somerset at Headingley.
Read more about Yorkshire without Lions pairRogers doubles up in stalemate
Chris Rogers took his score on to a monumental 214 before Middlesex's match with Surrey petered out into a draw at Lord's.
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Recent works
SXSW 2012 : feedback on Interactive Awards
The Douro region : two thousand years of history
Cultural and Tourist Center of Wine of Bordeaux : model and augmented reality
360 000 | "Nuits Sonores 2012"
Nuit Digitale 2012
This year, the CAPC ( museum of contemporary art ) became the venue of choice for an event that gathered 3000 visitors and partyers.
We were commissioned by Digital Campus to exhibit a new interactive piece. The installation that we unveiled adorned the giant nave of Entrepôt Lainé with two large screens that participants fed actively with photographs and texts_ a live performance that went on for a rough nine hours.
Dataviz: opportunities of data visualization
Students from the university of Bordeaux III were involved in the creation of the interface after a workshop with Julien.
Danone - Corporate affairs seminar
Running for an Interactive Art award at SXSW 2012
We are invited to attend the awards ceremony in Austin, Texas, on March 13th.
As a matter of facts, the town hall is shipping a team of agencies active in the digital field to represent the city of Bordeaux, so we are naturally joining the team!
To support us, vote for Aquatypes to win the People's Choice Awards ! Select "Aquatypes" and send !
Tree Party !
Around a cocktail, guests got hooked by interactive meetings, hanging their picture on the tree and sending their messages from the touch screen or by SMS.


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The elegant appeal of this crystal table lamp is clear.
Add sparkle to any room with this contemporary crystal glass table lamp. The body features stacked cubes of clear crystal accented by chrome finish elements. This appealing design is topped with a white fabric drum shade.
Customers most agreed on the following attributes:
Perfect size and quality, chic pretty. Love this lamp, sophisticated and modern. I love it in my bed room and also my living area . I can't decide where to place it because it looks great in both rooms.
Love love love this lamp!
Beautiful finishing touch to a contemporary bedroom. Have received many compliments.
Beautiful lamp, but only gave 4 starts as slightly disappointed that the white lamp shade pictured is not what I received. The lamp shade is actually beige in color. I needed white to match my baby's room, so now I need to buy a new shade.
We like it!
I have mine on an end table next to my white couch. Put a black faux suede shade on it to highlight crystal cubes. It looks gorgeous and everyone who sees it compliments me!
The lamps are on your night stand in our master bedroom. The lamps are just tall enough, the shades are very well made and the design is perfect.


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Authentic and ecological facing bricks for contemporary, traditional or rural style residences, office buildings, public buildings …
Clay pavers for garden paths, terraces, driveways, bicycle and pedestrian paths, squares, roads …
Vande Moortel and Natural Paving are working together on the distribution of a new series of exclusive Clay Pavers for the UK market.
Congratulations to Marie-Louise Agius and Willerby Landscape for the achievement in obtaining Gold at Chelsea Flower Show 2013.
Clay pavers used: SeptimA Mahagony.
We were delighted to see one of our pavers – SeptimA Melange – feature prominently on the cover or the March edition of Pro Landscaper magazine.
Brick K (basic red-pure) is the newest brick added to our range. It is a red, red-brown to red-blue non sanded facing brick. Brick K can be used as e.g. an accent in combination with Brick P, D, V or N.


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Many smart people have spent many long years researching a strange phenomenon related to birth order. The theory goes something like this: your personality is directly impacted by your birth order. If you're the firstborn, you tend to be a certain way. If you're the youngest, you tend to be another way. I'm no psychologist, but I can assure you, it's all true, and it all goes back to your mother. May the good Lord help you if you were born after number five.
The Metamorphosis of Motherhood
After your first child |
After your third child |
Sometime after your fifth child |
Maternity clothes are so cute! |
I can't wait to get back into my normal clothes. |
These are my normal clothes. |
Jake, come here! |
Jake, I mean Susie, come here! |
You—come here! No, not you. You! Yes, you! If I say "you," I mean you! |
Look at the homemade costume I made for you! |
Let's see what's left at the costume store. |
Here's some aluminum foil and a Sharpie. |
What would you like for dinner? |
This is what we're having for dinner. |
If you don't eat the casserole, it's going in the soup for tomorrow. |
Don't eat that off the floor! |
The floor isn't that dirty. |
Get it before your brother does. |
Your birthday is only a month away! We'd better start planning. |
I forgot candles. I'll hold up five fingers and you can blow them out. |
No, I didn't forget your birthday. It's called a "surprise party." |
Would you like to learn soccer, karate, piano, origami, French pastry making, Spanish, or water polo? |
You're taking ballet because your sister takes ballet. |
There are lots of great cartoons on in the afternoons for kids your age. |
Let's pick up before Daddy gets home. |
Let's pick up before Grandma comes. |
Let's just move. |
Let me help you! |
Let me know if you need my help. |
You don't need my help. |
I've created a wish list of educational toys for Timmy's first Christmas. It includes all the Newberry award-winning books, a baby biology set, Latin fridge magnets, and a planetary motion crib mobile. |
Don't buy him anything that makes noise, needs batteries, might choke the baby, or requires parental supervision. |
Just give us the money. |
My husband wrote me a love note and rubbed my feet! |
He watched the kids so I could go to the grocery store by myself! |
He vacuumed!!! |
We need to childproof the house. |
How come the baby is the only one who can open the baby gate? |
He'll only do it once. |
Please put on your new shirt. |
Please put on a clean shirt. |
At least you're dressed. |
I will never be one of those mothers. |
I feel sorry for those mothers. |
I am one of those mothers! |
I didn't know I could love anyone like this. |
I didn't know my love could multiply like this. |
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Palestinians ditched; Egypt next?
International donors are weary of Mahmoud Abbas' sorry little West Bank kleptocracy, while the squeeze on the state budgets of all the industrial nations makes it harder to shake loose money for an unpopular destination.
By Spengler, September 29, 2012,
reprinted from Asia Times
"No one cares about the Palestinians," I wrote in this space two years ago [1], and since then the world has stopped funding them. As a result, the Palestine Authority is collapsing, comments Khalid Elgindy, a former PA adviser, on the website of the Council on Foreign Relations, about "the wave of Palestinian protests that swept through the Israeli-occupied West Bank this month [and] … virtually paralyzed life in Palestinian cities, with scenes reminiscent of the first intifada".
The PA can't pay salaries because international donors, including the Gulf States, haven't sent promised aid:
A rapid infusion of cash from the international community and Israel may buy the PA some time, but it cannot kick the can down the road forever – especially if a recently released World Bank report is right that a more severe fiscal crisis will take root if donor countries fail to act swiftly.
Even if the PA manages to hobble along for a few more months or years, a weak and divided Palestinian leadership with questionable domestic legitimacy will be in no position to negotiate a comprehensive agreement with Israel or make that agreement stick. This week's mass arrests of Hamas activists, carried out in the wake of the protests, speaks to the PA leadership's deep sense of insecurity. [2]
International donors are weary of Mahmoud Abbas' sorry little West Bank kleptocracy, while the squeeze on the state budgets of all the industrial nations makes it harder to shake loose money for an unpopular destination. The World Bank warned on September 19 of a "deepening Palestinian fiscal crisis" and issued an "urgent appeal" to donors. [3]
Diplomats and bureaucrats at international organizations will issue press releases, wring their hands, make promises and then break them. No-one is going to write a check to the Palestine Authority.
The question is: when will the world also grow weary of Egypt? With liquid cash reserves down to a month or two worth of imports in July, Egypt began bouncing checks to oil suppliers in August, and has stopped importing some urgently needed items. The latest shortage to plague the Egyptian economy is infant vaccines. (See North Korea on the Nile, Asia Times Online, August 28, 2012.) The news site AllAfrica.com reports:
Cairo – Tens of thousands of children are at risk because of a vaccine shortage in Egypt, pediatricians warn."The longer the government fails to immunize these children, the more vulnerable to disease they are," Eman Masoud, head of the Pediatrics Section at Abul Riesh University Hospital in Cairo, told IRIN. She said a delay of more than one or two months in obtaining vital vaccines like MMR, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, can put children's lives in peril.
Over the last two weeks, parents have lined up at many of the government's 5,000 health offices which vaccinate children for free, only to be told: "The vaccines are not available." (Shots are, however, available for the equivalent of US$50 at private clinics.) [4]
It's hard to get accurate readings on Egypt's economic free-fall, but according to the country's importers association, the reluctance of banks to provide trade financing to Egyptian firms has cut imports in half since the January 2011 revolution, and now threatens essential food supplies. The government claims to have six months' of wheat stockpiled and recently bought additional supplies, but other staples, including beans, sugar and cooking oil.
Ahmed Shiha, the head of the Cairo Chamber Commerce importers' group, warned earlier this month that Egypt has been living off inventories of key food commodities, according to the Egyptian news site el-balad.com. [5]
After the 2011 revolution, importers stocked up on food out of fear of devaluation. Now they are having trouble obtaining letters of credit to replace their diminishing supplies. Especially vulnerable is Egypt's provision of beans, the biggest staple after bread. High dollar prices and dwindling cash reverses could lead to a 40% reduction in the supply of imported foods, Shiha warned. Egypt imports half its total food consumption.
By its own estimate, Egypt needs $12 billion to get through the next year. Some private estimates quoted by the Egypt Independent put the gap at twice that much. [6] Every few days, the Egyptian government hails another multi-billion-dollar aid package from a foreign donor, but none of these packages appears to entail much ready cash. Qatar deposited $500 million in Egypt's central bank in August, and promised another $1.5 billion, which is yet to appear.
Egypt announced that Turkey had promised $2 billion in aid, but Turkish press accounts doubt that Egypt will spend any of that money in the near future; $1 billion is reserved to finance the operations of Turkish firms in Egypt, which does nothing for Egypt's urgent import requirements. The other $1 billion, the Turkish newspaper Star wrote on September 15, is just an advance on the prospective $4.8 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). [7]
Turkey still owes the IMF $5 billion from its borrowing after the 2008 crisis, so it will expect repayment out of the IMF money – if the IMF loan ever comes through. In the meantime, the $1 billion will sit in the central banks' display window and won't be spent.
The Barack Obama administration offered the Egyptians $1 billion (half of which was debt forgiveness rather than ready cash), but shelved the proposal after the attacks on America's Cairo embassy until after the November elections. Saudi Arabia seems to have no intention of funding the Muslim Brotherhood, the monarchy's most dangerous internal opponent.
For the moment, it really does seem like Egypt is living on diminishing stockpiles, as the Chamber of Commerce's Shiha warned. Egyptians will have enough bread to go around, but not much to put on it, and not enough gasoline to distribute it.
Some problems simply can't be fixed. In the past, I have argued that the Palestine problem is hopeless but not serious. Roughly one in four Palestinian men between the ages of 20 and 40 is paid to carry a gun, and a putative nation whose economy is based on the imminent prospect of violence does not have first claim on scarce international resources.
Meanwhile the living standard of Arabs in the so-called Occupied West Bank is double that of pre-crisis Egypt; compared with Egypt or Syria, it is an oasis of peace and plenty.
After years of intoning that the Palestine issue was the crux of the world's security problems, the world has left the keys in the wreck and walked away from it. And the Oslo process is ending with a whimper rather than a bang.
Egypt is a different matter. The notion that the world will find $1 billion a month for Egypt – let alone $2 billion – seems whimsical. The catastrophic decline of a nation of 80 million people is something the world has not seen in some time, and policymakers would be wise to take precautionary measures.
1. Obama in more trouble than Netanyahu over Iran, March 16, 2012.
2. Why Palestinians Protest: The PA Leadership Is Not the Only Problem, Foreign Affairs, September 20, 2012.
3. World Bank Warns Of Deepening Palestinian Fiscal Crisis, World Bank, September 19, 2012.
4. Egypt: Vaccine Shortage Hits Egypt's Children, AllAfrica.com, September 14, 2012.
5. See el-balad.com.
6. Hunger economics: Do rising food prices mean trouble ahead?, Egypt Independent, September 20, 2012.
7. Mısır'ın istikrarına bizden 2 milyar $, Star, September 15, 2012.
Spengler is channeled by David P Goldman. His book How Civilizations Die (and why Islam is Dying, Too) was published by Regnery Press in September 2011. A volume of his essays on culture, religion and economics, It's Not the End of the World – It's Just the End of You, also appeared last fall, from Van Praag Press.


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Trinity Norris does not remember the storm that destroyed her family's mobile home in Holt, Alabama. She was two-years-old on April 27, 2011 and suffered a traumatic brain injury so grave that doctors weren't sure she would survive the med flight from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham.
As that monster storm enveloped their neighborhood, the Norris family climbed into a bathtub together and prayed. Against the twister's deafening roar, Trinity held onto her mother Leslie, along with her older brother Jaylan and her baby brother Jatex. Her father Reggie shielded his family with a mattress. Leslie described the moment of impact.
"It was a big growling noise, felt like something picked us up and threw us and we were just kind of airborne being tossed inside the trailer," Leslie said. "I just remember shutting my eyes trying to escape from the situation but still holding on tight to the kids and when it was all over we were just laid out in the field, all open, no longer inside of our home. Next thing I know I hear Reggie saying, 'Oh no, my baby! Oh no I got to get my baby.'"
Trinity was badly injured and they needed help fast. Reggie picked up his little girl and walked two and a half miles to DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, the entire time telling her she would be okay. Trinity immediately underwent emergency brain surgery and the next day was flown to Children's Hospital of Alabama in Birmingham.
"She had a very severe head injury and a lot of people didn't think she was going to survive," said Dr. Margaret Winkler in critical care at Children's Hospital.
Trinity underwent multiple brain surgeries and was in intensive care for weeks. The injury to the right side of her brain caused her to lose mobility on her body's left side. She could not walk and did not talk for weeks after the storm. The Norris family stayed by Trinity's side and prayed for her recovery.
"We were worried that she wasn't going to be the same Trinity that she was before this happened," Leslie said three weeks after the storm. "But she's been showing her true colors, every day something new comes back."
Doctors were hopeful that Trinity would regain mobility through rehab, but it was going to be a long road. Still, she made remarkable progress and doctors discharged her May 19, 2011.
Today Trinity is a chattering, climbing, happy preschooler. She still goes to regular physical therapy and she's still learning to use her left arm and leg. Her mom said they've been amazed at Trinity's progress over the past year and she continues to surprise her doctors and family.
"It first started with her left leg," Leslie said. "They said she would never move it by command and she started kicking it by command and before you knew it she was walking. You know it's not the same as it was before, but she's walking. As far as her left arm, she moves it also by command, but she's not able to use it yet. She tries though, the fact that she even acknowledges it, to try, that's a big step and the fact that they said it would never happen, it's just a sheer miracle."
Trinity walks with a slight limp, but recently began to run again. She wears a brace on her left leg to keep her knee from buckling. Her physical therapists are trying new techniques to motivate her to use her left arm more. Her mother said she fed herself with her left hand for the first time this week. Every day there is progress and even at her young age, Trinity understands she's different from other kids.
"She was always like the little competitive type" Leslie said. "And when she's around other kids and they can do something and she can't, that just don't sit well with her. And the fight, I think that's also what's helping her too, it's motivating her not to give up and to keep trying and keep fighting."
How the Norris family all survived that day is a mystery. Since relocating to Sylacauga, Leslie and Reggie have married and they've joined a church. Leslie found a job teaching and the family rented a brick house close to relatives.
They now follow a severe weather plan during tornado warnings in which they all wear helmets and go to a safe place. Like other tornado survivors, they struggle with flashbacks and fear, but they count their blessings.
Trinity's recovery reminds them to never take anything for granted.
"I give God all the glory, " Leslie said. "It was nothing but God, you can't explain that. He worked a miracle."
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Modern Contemporary Garden House by David Guerra, is a more recent work in a home remodeling project. The goal is make homes more interior space than before, gives the participating gardens in the interior of the house that would bring natural feel in every room of the house. Provide coolness and more light. Renovation is needed to create new life and new ways of using modern house in accordance with the era and style that … Read entire article »
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Texas on the Potomac invites you to read Washington bureau chief Rick Dunham's in-depth examination of the Houston region's lawmakers that appeared exclusively in the Sunday print edition of the Chronicle! For a detailed analysis of each local House member, click on their photo, or go here to see our "online extra" featuring additional information on all members.
The Houston-area congressional delegation is a study in contrasts.
It contains the two biggest talkers in all of Congress — one Democrat and one Republican — as well as several of the more circumspect lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
It includes some of the most predictable party-line voters in the House of Representatives and a rebellious Republican known for straying from the GOP leadership.
It has one of the wealthiest members of Congress, as well as a few of much more modest means.
It has the most conservative bloc of lawmakers in the most conservative Republican delegation on Capitol Hill. But it has two distinctly liberal Democrats, too.
☛ Delivering for Houston
At times, this fractious and often fractured group of political opposites seems to struggle to deliver on issues of importance to Houston — as when NASA passed over Space Center Houston as a final resting place for one of the retiring shuttles.
And yet the delegation regularly comes together for hometown causes. The members brought $90 million in federal spending back home last year through congressional "earmarks," winning funds for projects as small as $300,000 for radiological equipment for the Harris County Hospital District and as large as $5 million to the University of Texas Medical Branch for a national biodefense training center.
"The history of the delegation has been to make the region's interests prominent over partisanship," said Rice University political scientist Robert M. Stein.
☛ Group's power wanes
This complex portrait is the result of an in-depth Houston Chronicle study of the delegation. Among other things, the study examines their ideological stands, their party loyalty, their voting participation records, the time they've spent at the House microphone and the number of legislative proposals they've sponsored (and passed).
Overall, the Houston delegation has seen its power wane over the past two decades, with the retirement of powerful House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Bill Archer, R-Houston; the departure of longtime Senate Finance Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen, D-Houston; and the fall of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, whose tactics and effectiveness earned him the moniker "The Hammer."
Bentsen's prowess in funding the massive network of federal highways in the Houston area prompted the Texas Legislature to name the 270-mile stretch of U.S. 59 between Laredo and Houston the Sen. Lloyd Bentsen Highway. And DeLay masterminded the 2003 congressional redistricting process that transformed the state's delegation from a Democratic-majority group to a Republican-dominated one.
☛ Up-and-comers
The area delegation does have some up-and-comers. Rep. Kevin Brady, R-The Woodlands, was picked by his party leadership to be a spokesman on fiscal issues, and second-term Rep. Pete Olson, R-Sugar Land, a former naval aviator, has quickly gained notice for his "subject-matter expertise" on issues such as aerospace and defense, said Stein.
The Rice professor also said Democratic Rep. Gene Green is widely respected across party lines as a coalition-builder who is "able to focus on the policy interests of the city and not be side-tracked by partisan or ideological constraints."
☛ Dallas gains influence
Still, it's their colleagues a couple hundred miles north on I-45 who have been gathering power since the Republicans regained control of the House. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex now boasts two members of the GOP leadership — House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling, the fourth-ranking GOP leader, and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions — and an influential committee chairman, Ralph Hall of the Science, Space and Technology Committee.
Houston has none — no lawmaker in the senior GOP leadership and no committee chairs. And, observers say, the area's clout is unlikely to change soon.
"None of the nine current U.S. House members (from the Houston area) are likely candidates to return the region to the privileged status it enjoyed during the Tom DeLay era," said Mark P. Jones, chair of the political science department at Rice University.
Also contributing to this report were Sarah Tung, Katie Perkowski and Meredith Simons of the Washington bureau.


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Restaurant chain hails success of O2 Media message-based marketing promo.
The campaign, jointly run by buying agency Starcom, found mobile was 142 per cent more efficient in delivering incremental sales revenue than the measured campaign average, 4.4 times more efficient than TV and 2.6 times more efficient than online.
Pizza Hut's main challenge is the mixed blessing of offer-based promotions, which raise sales but bring in consumers that are less loyal and more price sensitive.
This promo was therefore designed to bring in more custom at the key times of Happy Hour, Lunch Buffet and Kids Eat Free.
It used O2 More's 'intelligent' targeting to hit the right audience and then used O2 Media's You are Here feature to locate diners within half a mile of Pizza Hut's 343 UK restaurants.
These offers were also promoted through Priority Moments, O2's location based loyalty programme.
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The analysed campaign ran for 15 months (from Nov 2010 to January 2012) and involved TV, Radio, Facebook, Digital, Out Of Home and ATM.


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American hard rockers Kiss have enjoyed something of a renaissance in recent years; 2009's 'Sonic Boom' – which was the band's first record of original material in over a decade, and also the debut studio release of its current line-up – recalled their glory days, right down to its comic-style cover art.
Lead single 'Modern Day Delilah' was immediately hailed as a classic, and they took no prisoners as they embarked on a glorious 36-date European tour.
Looking to build on that momentum (producing an album every three years might seem routine for the majority of bands, but then not many have been going strong for almost 40 years), 'Monster', Kiss' 20th studio album, is more of the same – straight-up rock and roll that pays homage to their 70s pomp and stays true to principles that have seen them rack up album sales in excess of 100 million, including 28 gold records, during a storied, globe-trotting career.
Books about bands – and, for that matter, rock music in general – are big business, playing on the compulsive need of fans to know the finer details; to inhabit a space and time in which the songs they so lovingly play on their iPods and car stereos flourished, to take a peek between the ears of the artists who created them.
It's no surprise then that when such books are penned by bands and artists themselves, a more coveted bounty of music ephemera is laid bare.
Peter Hook's Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division is a lucid and unromantic account of the band's short life and a veritable treasure trove for those aforementioned fans. Between chapters, a detailed timeline is presented, sketching Joy Division's gigging history and notable events of the period, including the rise of bands like the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols, and the goings on at the then-nascent Factory Records.
Not many modern bands can be classified as 'heavyweights' of the musical landscape.
Indeed, most modern bands would scoff at desiring such a thing, but The Killers undoubtedly occupy the upper echelons when it comes to stadium appeal, international success and sheer bigness.
Wearing their ambition and bluster with pride (frontman Brandon Flowers once declared 2006's 'Sam's Town' as "one of the best albums in the past 20 years"), they now unveil 'Battle Born', their fourth studio album of original material and the follow-up to 2008's commercial smash 'Day & Age'. And in keeping with the band's penchant for not beating about the bush, it's a doozy.
In many ways, it's hard to believe 'Sun' is Cat Power's first album of original material since 2006's 'The Greatest'.
That record – steeped as it was in rich, harmonic Delta blues and lush, pastoral meditations on life, love and loss – seemed sure to precede a major assault on a mainstream which had been largely passive toward her output since 1995's 'Dear Sir'.
Six years and one covers album (2008's 'Jukebox') later, 'Sun' has been described by the singer as "a rebirth" and about "personal power and fulfillment."
Few indie bands have been as well-hyped in recent years as Spector.
Telegenic, impeccably styled in a la mode suits and leather shoes, and occupying a berth on the BBC's Sound of 2012 list, they seem almost too vogue to be believed.
Whether you've succumbed to the publicity or not is now irrelevant however, because their debut album is here – there's no longer any pithy witticisms or ham-handed proclamations to hide behind; just 12 songs that constitute 'Enjoy It While It Lasts'.
Even the great first records tend not to stretch the artist's artistic license too much, but in just eight songs which comprise Eugene Twist's debut 'The Boy Who Had Everything', a heady fusion of blues, jazz, 50s rock, soul, psychedelia and pop marks the 25-year-old musical polymath as a true original.
While the musical landscape often seems awash with singer-songwriters, one hasn't truly washed up on the mainstream since Jack Johnson tumbled into the charts bearing Banana Pancakes and a surfboard. Which isn't to say there hasn't been some excellent ones along the way – Cheval Sombre and Adrian Orange spring to mind – it's just that their avowed loyalty to the familiar folksy themes means you know what you're getting the moment you pop their CD in the car stereo.
Guns N' Roses, Glasgow has missed you. But, to borrow an oft-used phrase peppered throughout their demi-god ex-guitarist's autobiography, "We'll get to that in a little bit."
Chief support act Thin Lizzy take to the stage as the blazing sun which had arrested the city all afternoon begins to lower behind the asperous shell of the SECC, taking a leaf out of Axl Rose's book by arriving on stage a little after their 8PM slot. No matter – with this crowd (baying mob would be a better term, such is the devotion of show-starved GNR disciplines), a little tardiness isn't going to provoke a riot.
'Streets In The Sky', The Enemy's third album, has arrived.
You remember The Enemy, don't you? Like The Fratellis, The View and countless other bands to achieve public attention in the last seven years. This lot emerged, fiercely intent and carried along on a wave of positive sentiment from certain quarters of the music press, only to largely disappear under the weight of big expectations when their second album dropped. 'Streets In The Sky' has been hailed as a return to form, but aside from this record having a great title (like debut, 'We'll Live And Die In These Towns'), does it share any other similarities with the band's #1-selling debut?
The Horrors come bounding out of the blocks at a packed 02 ABC (situated on that most amaranthine of Glasgow's streets, Sauchiehall), launching into 'Mirror's Image', as if to demonstrate to those who launched themselves upon the 'Skying' bandwagon that there's plenty more where that came from in the back catalogue. Drenched in new wave, 'Mirror's Image' is the perfect opener for this time-warp set.
Faris, who barely moves from his microphone stand all night but to wipe his brow with a leather-jacketed arm, as well as to exhort the crowd to "jump around" and "push the people who're standing still out of the way" about midway through the set (at which point a dozen or so diehards convoke at the front barrier, jiving like Bez minus maracas), commands the stage like an enlivened interlocutrix beanstalk, eyes boring straight ahead, vocals relentlessly baritone.
While the title 'Generation Freakshow' conjures up images of, well, chaos, the latest Feeder album is less a snapshot of the generational zeitgeist than a whistle-stop tour of the band's back catalogue.
There's little to differentiate this, their eighth studio album, from the output the Feeder boys have been producing since their formation over 20 years ago, which is to say the songs here showcase good ol' fashioned rock, with a generous emphasis on the trio's pop sensibilities.
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Published: Feb 12, 2013 04:14:51 PM Updated: Mar 19, 2013 09:24:22 AM
Dear Swimming Australia Member
Member Welfare, Anti-Doping, Gambling and Illicit Drugs in Sport Policies
In light of recent announcements and media coverage relating to the Australian Crime Commission's (ACC) report on Organised Crime and Drugs in Sport, I'm sure many of you are wondering if, and how this impacts or involves Swimming Australia.
First and foremost, I'm pleased to be able to inform you that neither the board, nor management of Swimming Australia has received any information that would suggest or imply involvement with the findings of the ACC's report on Organised Crime and Drugs.
While it appears this issue is currently confined to the professional sports, that in no way means we can assume swimmers, coaches, staff and officials do not need to be vigilant and take a lead in this area.
As such, Swimming Australia will conduct a full review of all policies in relation to Member Welfare, Anti-Doping, Gambling, and Illicit Drugs in Sport. The aim of this review will be to ensure Swimming Australia is being proactive in maintaining best practice in these areas of integrity and ensuring the credibility of our sport.
As a member of Swimming Australia you are reminded that you are bound by our Member Welfare Policy and subsequent policies in relation to Anti-Doping, Gambling, and Illicit Drugs in Sport.
Swimming Australia prides itself on being committed to the health, safety and general well-being of all its members, and is dedicated to providing a safe and fair environment in which to train and compete.
As such, Swimming Australia maintains a robust Member Welfare Policy, and supporting policies, which are an essential part of our organisation's proactive and preventative approach to tackling inappropriate behaviour at any level.
For our sport to maintain the integrity and credibility that it has established over more than a century of success in and out of the pool, athletes, coaches, team officials, staff and all Swimming Australia members are encouraged, and obligated to report any knowledge of activity that contravenes our Member Welfare Policy and subsequent policies in relation to Anti-Doping, Gambling, and Illicit Drugs in Sport.
Sport in Australia is held in high regard as a positive influence that enriches the lives of all who are involved, and our sport of swimming is widely considered as a leader in this area. As Australians, we greatly value the essence of sport in our culture and our community, and we all have the right to enjoy our sport in a fair and positive manner, at whichever level we participate.
I would like to assure you that it is our commitment to all members to ensure that everyone associated with Swimming Australia complies with these policies and maintains the integrity and credibility of our sport.
I wish you all a safe, fair and successful swimming career.
Yours sincerely
Barclay Nettlefold
President, Swimming Australia
Details on all relevant Swimming Australia policies can be found at www.swimming.org.au or for further information contact 02 6219 5606 or email email@example.com
Member Welfare Policy – The Swimming Australia Member Welfare Policy aims to ensure that:
Anti-Doping Policy – Swimming Australia is bound by the World Anti-Doping Authority and Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency policies in ensuring athletes are able to participate in a drug free environment.
Gambling and Betting Policy - Through this policy, Swimming Australia aims to ensure that our core values, good reputation, and positive behaviours and attitudes are maintained.
Illicit Drugs in Sport Policy – Swimming Australia wishes to prevent the use of Illicit Drugs in Sport through increased education for athletes and the community in relation to the potential harm associated with the use of Illicit Drugs. Swimming Australia has adopted this Illicit Drugs Policy to:
(a) address and deter the out-of-competition use of Illicit Drugs by Athletes;
(b) deter and prevent the use of Illicit Drugs in the community; and
(c) reduce the harm caused to individuals, families and stakeholders of Swimming Australia and the broader community as a result of Illicit Drugs.


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and baby makes five. this afternoon we welcomed carson waveland into the world. we have a BO
Y. to say that daddy is over the moon thrilled would be the understatement of the century. to say i'm in disbelief that i know have a son would also be quite the understatement.
he weighed 10 pounds 3 ounces and was 22.5" long. how he had any room to perform his acrobatic tricks while inside my belly, i'll never know.
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In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois fashions a nice appearance and high ideals in order to gain back the love she once lost. She feels guilt due to her former husbands homosexual affair and tries to exert an air of impressiveness with men she meets in order to hide her feelings of inadequacy. Furthermore, after the death of all her family, Blanche becomes fearful of dying alone. Due to her only love occurring at a young age, Blanche portrays an air of youth in order to gain back the love she lost. Tennessee Williams shows Blanches yearning for new love and her constant facade in his use of color symbolism, lighting and Blanches jealous dialogue.Holding onto the Past
Throughout the play, Blanche guilts others for achieving what she desires. Blanche can hardly stand to acknowledge her sisters love of Stanley not only because he does not stand up to her ideals, but also because she yearns for the feeling of love. After discovering Stanleys background and seeing his badges, she asks her sister He had those on when you met him (24)? Blanche searches for any reason to view Stanley and Stellas love as superficial. When Stella begins to describe her love for Stanley, Blanche quickly changes the subject and begins to guilt her sister about her leaving Belle Reve. She accuses Stella of ignoring her situation, asking Where were you! In bed with your Polack! (27). Blanche blames her own inability to find love on her sister, explaining I took the blows in my face and body. (26) Blanch claims that her responsibility in taking care of her dying family caused damage to her youth and appearance. Blanche believes that because Stella did not have to go through their deaths, she retained her youth and found love. Throughout Blanches dialogue, her jealousy of Stella and Stanleys marriage shows.
Tennessee Williams uses color symbolism throughout the play in order to display Blanches fading ideals and the ideals of those around her. When Blanche first arrives in New Orleans she dresses in a white suit and white gloves and hat (15). The white color of her apparel portrays her high ideals and her perception of herself as innocent and uncorrupted despite her promiscuous past. As explained in the play, the name Blanche even means white. Blanches high ideals stem from her relationship with her only love. Stella claims Blanche didnt just love him but worshipped the ground he walked on (102). She put everything she could into her marriage with the boy, but his affair made her feel inadequate. Blanches failure in retaining her youth and ideals show in her once white letters to her lover that begin yellowing with antiquity (41). Eunice describes Belle Reve as A great big place with white columns (17), displaying the heritage of both Stella and Blanche. The faded white stairs (13) that lead to Stella and Stanleys home show that Stella has begun to leave her high ideals and aristocratic thinking behind. However, upon Blanches arrival Stella finds herself stuck between Stanley and Blanches ways of thinking. She is shown wearing a light blue satin kimono (50) in scene three, but then later after becoming angry at Stanley she wears white hat and gloves (37). Stanleys act of throwing the white radio out of his window shows his attitude towards Blanches idealism.
Lighting is used throughout the play in order to portray Blanches attempts of hiding her true age and behavior. When Blanche first meets Stella, Blanche demands that she turn that over-light off! (19). Blanche wants the light to be off in order to hide her aging. Blanche feels that she must retain the amount of youth she possessed during her first love as a seventeen year old. Blanche explains falling in love, It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been in shadow (95). Blanche views her life when she was in love as her peak years and tries to retain her seventeen year old self. When explaining the boys death, Blanche says And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again (96). After her husbands suicide, she blames herself and begins to feel inadequate. She later explains Such things as art- as poetry and music such kinds of new light have come into the world. (72). Her words show that she equates light with art, which she values most. Blanche is ashamed of her past and hides outside of the light because she does not value herself. Since she was so young when she found love, she believes she needs to keep up her youthful appearance and hide her past in order to fall in love again.
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois hides behind a façade of high ideals and youthfulness. Blanche attempts to retain her seventeen year old self when she was able to feel love. She feels deficient and uses her high ideals as a charade to hide her promiscuous past. Tennessee Williams portrays Blanches guilt of her husbands affair and her fear of dying alone in his use of color symbolism, lighting and the guilt she attempts to place in others. Blanche fights with reality throughout the play only for reality to eventually gain the upper hand.


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Genny C turns 30
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Dozens turned out to help wish Genny C. a happy 30th birthday Saturday afternoon at the Seneca Park Zoo. Genny C's habitat was decorated for her special day. The zoo also hosted their "Zoo-Boo" Event for Halloween.
Genny did get some treats of her own, including a birthday cake fit for a pachyderm and pumpkins, one of her favorite foods.


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