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If you want an objective view of energy, ask an economist, who can tell you what to expect to pay at the pump in the coming years, and why, as well as what to expect from medium- and long-term economic growth and what the real drivers will be. These are questions that are crucial to a pending decision by the US government over natural gas exports, and while we know where big oil stands versus its manufacturing rivals—it's the economist who can set things straight.
James Stafford: What every regular consumer wants to know is why the price of gas at the pump continues to rise in the midst of a much-lauded oil and gas boom?
Mark Thoma: In the short-run, of course, the price of gas is quite variable. Recent forecasts, for example, indicate that prices will decline a bit over the summer, but at some point they will undoubtedly head back up again. The real question is how the underlying trend for gas prices, which has been increasing over time, will be affected by increases in the supply of energy from shale and other sources. Will the upward trend in gas prices continue? The answer depends upon the relative growth in the supply and demand for energy. I believe the new energy sources and the corresponding increase in supply will temper the upward trend, but the trend will continue due in particular to growth in demand from developing economies.
James Stafford: According to first quarter 2013 figures, clean energy investment is at its lowest since 2009. What do you see happening in terms of clean energy investment over the rest of 2013 and then in the next 2-3 years?
Mark Thoma: With all of the budget pressures we have seen in recent years, I have a hard time imagining increased support for new investment from the government, so any increase will have to come from the private sector. The incentive for the private sector to undertake these investments depends upon the price of energy – as the price of energy rises alternatives become more attractive – but as noted in the answer to the previous question I see the price of energy continuing to rise, but do not expect the dramatic, permanent spikes in prices needed to spur a substantial increase in investment.
James Stafford: Is the ethanol mandate economically feasible?
Mark Thoma: I think the ethanol mandate is economically feasible in the sense that it could persist, but I don't think it's the best way to address our reliance on imported energy or the environmental issues associated with energy use. It's the political feasibility that seems to be most at issue, and the power struggle between states with grain interests and states with interests in traditional fossil fuels will determine the outcome. I expect the ethanol mandate will eventually be overcome, particularly since the discovery of new domestic energy supplies undermines one of the strongest arguments for it, energy independence.
James Stafford: On a broader level, is US energy policy missing the mark by interfering too much to boost renewable energy against fossil fuels? Should the free market reign?
Mark Thoma: When significant market failures are present, the free market does not produce the best possible allocation of resources and government intervention can help. Thus, the question for me is whether significant market failures exist in renewable energy research. I believe that they do, and that, if anything, we are not doing enough to promote new energy technology. This is not unique to renewable energy, such market failures are common and underlie government issued patents, research grants, and so on. However, let me be clear that I am not in favor of government "picking winners" by, say, favoring particular companies or products, but I am in favor of generous support for basic research in this area.
James Stafford: How do you see the US carbon trading market shaping up even though it is not on a national level, but remains the purview of states, most notably California?
Mark Thoma: Presently, there seems to be little momentum for a US carbon market, and I don't see that changing in the near future. The necessary public and political support simply isn't there. It will, sadly, probably take a natural disaster or extinction of an important species that can clearly be connected to climate change before any notable change occurs.


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Police Community Support Officers are an important part of our 'policing family'.
Everyday, PCSOs are out in the community, providing a high profile, uniformed presence. They play an essential role in preventing crime, gathering intelligence, and reassuring the public.
As a PCSO you can expect to be involved in a range of situations. You'll patrol the streets, reassuring the public and generally assisting in the prevention of crime and disorder, particularly in crime 'hot spots'.
You'll also be providing a real deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviour.
As the main emphasis of the role is on community engagement and helping to make people feel safer, it's key that you have the ability to develop strong links with all types of people, from all kinds of backgrounds.
You'll need strong communication skills and a calm nature to help you deal with people in pressured and emergency situations. And you'll need to be positive and professional in your approach, acting with integrity and treating individuals with respect, dignity and compassion.

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In This Issue:
- Strategies for Funding Software Development Projects
- Book Review: Beyond Budgeting
- Hot Links
Strategies for Funding Software Development Projects
As a result of my recent column Is Fixed Price IT Unethical?, I've been subjected to a slew of accusations about not dealing with the real world. Sigh. The issue that people have with my position on fixed-price projects is that although they would love to abandon the practice they're not able to because of the realities of their organization. They've effectively given up trying to align their organization's business policies with their IT values, one of the practices of Lean Development Governance, and can't contemplate adopting more effective strategies for funding software development projects. I, on the other hand, haven't given up. I've found that when you choose to fight for it that you can convince your business stakeholders to rethink the way that they approach project funding. I can't always change their minds, but I've been successful with a large enough percentage that I believe it's worth our while to try -- hence my original column, the goal of which is to provide people with the data that they need to reasonably argue against fixed-price funding.
An important first step is to educate business stakeholders in the various funding options that they have available to them, or depending on the situation to understand the implications of the funding strategy which they're currently following. In this update I overview nine strategies for funding software development projects, discussing the tradeoffs of each. The first five strategies are very unfortunate at best and unethical at worst. The last four strategies require a good partnership between the business and IT, flexibility on the part of management, discipline on the part of IT, and the willingness of the business to be accountable for the decisions that it makes. These requirements can be difficult for many organizations to meet, hence the hopelessness felt by many IT professionals.
The first five strategies are different flavors of "fixed price, schedule, and scope" strategies which I'll refer to as fixed price for the sake of simplicity. These strategies are typically born from a lack of trust between the business and their IT provider, poor relationships between the two, and a desire for the business to not consider their IT provider to be an equal partner. Needless to say, these factors all bode ill for the long-term success of your IT department, let alone a single project.
Fixed-price strategies are motivated by the demand of business stakeholders for an "accurate", up-front estimate, the goal being to reduce the overall financial risk to the business. The five fixed-price strategies, which can be combined, are:
- Strategy #1: Fixed-Price with Intended Descoping. With this approach some of the functionality that was originally promised at the beginning of the project will be dropped later in the project when it becomes obvious that there is insufficient funding. The benefit is that on the surface IT can still claim that they came in on budget, something that is clearly not true once you consider the costs that have been pushed to a future release. When it happens rarely there is nothing wrong with this strategy, but when it's commonplace for the IT provider to "surprisingly" discover the need to descope then we need to question their ethics.
- Strategy #2: Fixed-Price with Intended Extension. As the project gets near the end of the budget the IT Provider "realizes" that they've misestimated and asks the customer for more money. This situation can honestly occur in practice, but is arguably extortion if the customer isn't given any other choice. It is also unethical if the IT provider presented themselves as experienced enough to complete the project, and hence claimed that their estimate was accurate when it clearly had little hope of being so.
- Strategy #3: Fixed-Price with Intended Change Prevention With this strategy the IT provider will pad the budget as much as they can to protect themselves and then make it as difficult as possible for the business to change their requirements without paying them. Although this increases the chance that the IT provider will deliver on time and on budget, it pretty much ensures that much of the functionality delivered doesn't meet the real needs of the business (although the system does fulfill the specification). In this case I would question the ethics of charging the business for functionality that they don't actually want.
- Strategy #4: Fixed-Price with Intended Legal Battle. This is an approach that is sometimes taken by IT providers which are external to the actual business customer. With this strategy the IT provider puts in a purposely low estimate to win the work but later reneges on their promise to deliver the system for the agreed price. They're willing to fight it out in court with the customer, knowing full well that most customers will simply give up once they realize how long and expensive it is to do so. The IT provider may choose to "share the pain" but returning some of their pay after some legal negotiations. The only clear winners with this approach are the lawyers.
- Strategy #5: Fixed-Price Defined by Business. With this approach the business insists on setting the price of the contract and the IT provider often accepts an estimate that they know won't work. This can occur with external IT providers who are desperate for the business and with internal IT providers who hope that everything will work out despite the odds. In productive environments the business should be responsible for prioritizing the requirements and the IT provider is responsible for providing viable estimates. When either party crosses this line, as the business has in this case, the project is often put at risk.
My experience is that we can do a lot better than the five previously described fixed-price strategies. IT departments with a good relationship with their business stakeholders, one that is built on trust and respect, will adopt one of the following project funding strategies:
- Strategy #6: Fixed-Price with Variable Scope. With this approach you set the price and then deliver the functionality which provides the highest return on investment (ROI) as defined by your stakeholders. To accomplish this requirements are treated like a prioritized stack and you work down that stack in priority order. If stakeholders want to change a requirement, or add a new one, without changing the price then they need to drop a requirement of equal or greater value from the scope of the project. The scope varies with this approach, which is often a good thing considering the difficulty of defining requirements up front, and you get the best value for your IT investment.
- Strategy #7. Staged-Gate Funding. With this strategy the project is funded a period at a time. This doesn't imply that you need to take a waterfall approach to development, for example the Unified Process has a risk-driven lifecycle where in each phase you address a specific category at risk, and then at the end of that phase you decide whether it makes sense to continue with the project and to what extent. The project funding is effect provided in a phased manner only if the project appears to be still on a path to success. This strategy is very popular in organizations that are transitioning from fixed-price funding approaches to time-and-material (T&M) approaches.
- Strategy #8: Low Time-and-Material Rate with Delivery Bonuses. This strategy is common when external, agile IT providers are involved. The basic idea is that the IT provider is paid a low T&M rate which covers their costs but receives bonuses throughout the project based on pre-defined criteria, such as delivery of working software each iteration, thereby providing them with opportunity to make a profit. This approach effectively shares the financial risk between the IT provider and the customer.
- Strategy #9: Time-and-Material Funding. With this strategy the IT provider is paid a specific rate for their efforts and paid for their incurred costs. This works incredibly well for smaller, simpler projects or when there is a significant level of trust built up between IT and the business.
As you've seen, there are many approaches to funding software development projects, and contrary to popular belief in many organizations, not all of them involve a fixed price. Business has to ask for options when it comes to funding strategies for IT because in most cases the IT provider will simply do what they're told and follow the strategy being set out by the business. Sadly many IT professionals, in particular those working in large organizations or for system integrators, have all but given up on trying to convince the business to adopt one of these strategies. As professionals it behooves us to give our business stakeholders a choice in the way that they fund projects. If we choose to fight for what we know works we'll eventually work our way off of the fixed-price treadmill that we currently find ourselves on.
Book Review
Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free of the Annual Performance Trap
Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser
Harvard Business School Press, 2003
I've been waiting a long time to find the right time to review Jeremy Hope and Robin Fraser's Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free of the Annual Performance Trap, and this is clearly it. In Beyond Budgeting Hope and Fraser review the challenges with existing annual budgeting processes, and provide proven strategies for effectively addressing the business risks that traditional budgeting futilely strives to address. The problem with traditional budgeting is that managers soon begin to focus on making their numbers instead of adding real value to your customers. You know your organization has this problem if people commonly lament that management is too focused on quarterly results instead of long-term investment -- clearly a touchy subject in today's economic climate.
The philosophies described in the book are very similar to those espoused by the agile community --pushing decision-making authority down the hierarchy, promoting flexibility and quick decision making, promoting open and honest decision making, and promoting accountability and responsibility on the part of individuals. There are numerous examples, both good and bad, from a range of organizations world-wide, including large banks, petrochemical companies, manufacturing companies, and wholesalers. If you're truly interested in changing the business culture within your organization, this book will be a critical resource for you.
Hot Links
Is Fixed-Price Software Development Unethical?
The IBM Whitepaper Lean Development Governance by myself and Per Kroll overviews a collection of practice for effective governance of development projects.
My July 2008 Agile Update, Reducing the Risk of Fixed-Price Projects describes five strategies for reducing the inherent risks associated with fixed price projects. If you can't avoid fixed price then at least be smart about how you go about them.
My September 2007 column Agile on a Fixed Budget describes strategies for running agile projects for all combinations of fixing, or not fixing, the schedule, scope, and budget.
The Change Prevention Anti-Patternis described here.
Counteracting the False Arguments for Big Modeling Up Front (BMUF) describes the risks associated with detailed modeling early in a software development project.
Architecture Envisioning: An Agile Best Practice describes how to go about initial architecture modeling on an agile project in a streamlined manner.
Requirements Envisioning: An Agile Best Practice describes how to go about initial requirements modeling on an agile project in a streamlined manner.
I've summarized a collection of Agile project planning tips at www.ambysoft.com/essays/agileProjectPlanning.html
Iteration Negative One describes the portfolio management efforts which occur before the "start" of a software development project to select the right projects and get initial funding for them.
My [email protected] blog is posted at www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/ambler where I discuss strategies for adopting and applying agile strategies in complex environments.


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Hi folks, welcome to the HG Index (inspired by 'The Boy David's' excellent work on 'Skyscraper City')
The index has been mostly taken from 'HG Projects' & 'Glasgow Chat'
'Development' & 'Photography' have been excluded, they are easy enough to navigate in their own right.
The 'Wid Ye' thread will in due course be indexed by 'Looks', 'Bra' and 'Y-Front '' measurements.
I'm sure the Mods will update this index from time to time. The saddest thing while compiling this index was to see the amount of missing photograps within threads, I suppose that is the downside of sites like this, some very good topics had to be left out because of this particular problem. Anyway, enjoy:
A Greek Tragedy
Alexander Buchanan Campbell
C.R. Mackintosh
David Hamilton
Gillespie, Kidd and Coia
Gillespie, Kidd & Coia image archive goes online
Sir Basil Spence
Architecture in General:
BLOCK Architecture Festival 2004
BLOCK Architecture 2005
Brutalist Arcitecture
Corporation Flats
East End Cog Markers
Fabby Follies
Glasgow's Cobbled Streets & Lanes
Help! Where is this?
Oldest Tenements
Reforming the Listed Building System
Rooftop Houses
Sauchiehall Streets's Hidden Houses
Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems
Victorian era industrial buildings still standing
Areas of Glasgow:
Your most loved, & most hated, areas of Glasgow ?
A Tree in Argyle Street
Barnhill, Forest Hall
blantyre, Finmeoot
Calton, Shipka Pass
Calton-St Andrew's Square
Cardonald-Moss Heights
Cessnock and Surrounding Area
Charing Cross, St Georges Studios
Cranhill (Old House
City Centre, GPO building
City Centre, Baird Hall - Beresford Hotel
Dennistoun, The Great Eastern Hotel
Gallowgate, Barras Mural
Gallowgate, Hunter St.
Glasgow Cross, Tollbooth Steeple & Mercat Cross
Great Western Road.
Gorbals, Drinking Fountain
Gorbals, Laurieston House
Gorbals, Stirlingfauld Flats
Govan, Fairfield Farmhouse
Govan, Pearce Institute,
Govan, Water Row
Ibrox, Copeland Court
Ibrox, Derelict House
Ibrox, Georgian Teraces
Kingston,The Co-op Building
Kingston, SCWS Buildings, Morrison Street
Kinning Park, Pollok St.The Lost Gardens
Merchant City, blacked out/Shawfield Mansion
Did they clean McLean?
Merchant City-Evening Times Building
Merchant City-Bell Street Cleansing Depot (updated Sep 08)
Merchant City-Parish Halls Tour
Merchant City, Virginia Galleries
Nitshill, Waulkmill Glen
Oatlands, Lime Street/Oregon Street
Parkhead, Salamanca St.
Partick, Bishopmill Court
Partick, Scotsway House, Castlebank St.
Partick, The Goat
Pollok, Househill and Hurlet
Pollokshaws, Burgh Hall
Port Dundas, Hundred Acre Hill
Port Eglinton
Riddrie, Blackhill House
Riggend, The Wallace Stone
Robroyston, Wallace Monument
Ruchazie, Old and New
Rutherglen, Dr. Quigley's House
Scotstoun, Scotstoun House
Shieldhall, Luma Light Bulb Factory
Springboig: Des res or deathtrap?
St. George's Cross
Townhead, Glenfiield St.
Townhead, Unusual Building, Castle St.
Tradeston, The BECO building
West End, 998 Great Western Road
West End, Clarence Drive is falling down...
West End, Dowanhill House
West End, Kelvin Hall
West End, Strange Bin Shed Dome
West End, Victorian Terraced Mansions
Woodlands, Hidden House
Victorian / Edwardian Discovery
Yoker-Google Earth Overlays
Areas Outwith Glasgow:
Braehead, Derelict Building - Shiels Farm
Bowling Basin
Bowling, Dunglass Castle
Cardross, St Peter's Seminary
Cardross, St. Peter's No.1
Clydebank Baths facing Demolition
Clydebank Past & Present
Coatbridge Area
Demolished Dalmuir
Dumbarton - Riverside Distillery
East Kilbride
Hamilton-In Days Gone By
Inverkip Power Station
Mugdock, Craigend Castle
Portavadie-Pollphail Village
Renfrew, Garvel Shipyard
Strathclyde Park, Village Under Water
Baths, Wash Houses and Pools
Shettleston Baths in skips
The Steamie's
Bells Bridge
Bridges over the Clyde
Bridge to Nowhere
Dalmarnock Bridge (Removed)
Name That Bridge
Squinty Bridge / Springfield Quay Riverside Walk
Squinty Bridge closed
Walker's Bridge
Wording on the Old Central Station Viaduct Bridge Piers
Churches, Cemeteries & Graveyards:
Cathcart Cemetery , Hood Mausoleum
Cathcart Cemetery, Lodge House
Convent of the Good Shepherd
Elgin Place Congregational Church Destruction
Emanuel Swedenborg and Glasgow
Former Carmelite Convent, Langside
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Graveyards
Gravestones in the Botanics
Ruchill Church Halls
The Old Cathcart Churchyard and Linn Park
The Necropolis
St. George's Tron Church, Interior
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Renfield St.
St. Vincent Street-Milton Free Church.
Tomb at Garbethill near Cumbernauld
Cinemas, TV, Theatres & Dancehalls:
"Adult" cinemas in Glasgow
Athenaeum Theatre pics
Barrowland Ballroom Sign
Britannia Music Hall (Panopticon)
British Film Industry Archives
Cinema to Star in £20,000 Govan Revamp
Demolished Glasgow Cinemas
Films set in Glasgow, without Squalor, Neds, or Gangsters ?
Glasgow DVD Reviews
Grovesenor Cinema, Ashton Lane
Olympia Cinema, Bridgeton
Panopticon and other Glasgow Theatres
Plaza Dance Hall Demolition
Scottish Screen Archive
Taggart to go?
Taggart-Location Images from the Show
The Glasgow Empire
Youtube Glasgow
Commercial Ventures
Anderston Centre
Abandoned / Hidden Farms
Argyle Rubber Co.
Bakers in Glasgow
Bakers in Glasgow Pt.2
Barrowmen & Carters
Clyde Iron Works & Clyde Rows
Dees of Trongate
Department Stores
Dewar's Hotel, Bridge Street.
Duke Street Abattoir
Euroyachts Clydeside Crane?
Evening Times, News Sellers shouts
Glens, Hutchison, Robertson and Stepek
Henry Healy's
Kelvin Park Lorne Hotel
Krazy House
Lost Comic Shops of Glasgow
M&S, Mann Byars & Three Historic Glasgow Streets.
Merchant's House, 7 West George Street
Paddy's Market loses its licence
Pawn Shops
Simmy's Removals
Tam Shepherd's
The Barras and its future
The Big Tubes that worked in Department Stores
The Temple Piggery
The Walrus & The Carpenter
Tunnocks Factory
Demolition & Development:
Bank of Pakistan
Coliseum Cinema Fire
Cumberland St. Flats (Plus Lightshow)
Dalmarnock Flats
Demolition at Templeton's
Demolished Chimney Stacks and Funnels
More of Glasgow falls down
1930s University Lecture Theatre
Abbotsford School, Gorbals
Glasgow Met College
Notre Dame College/St Andrews College, Bearsden
Rockvilla School
School Buildings
Emergency Services
Cafe India Fire
Fire on London Rd.
Glasgow's Fire Brigade - Casualties of Fire
Grafton Fire, 1949
Langside Parish Church Fire
Old Police Station, Partick
Police Boxes
Shettleston Halls Fire
Stockline Plastics Factory Explosion
Tobago Street Police Station
Wallace the Fire Dog
Glasgow Street Names
Anachronistic Streets Names
Glasgow Streetnames with a Military Connection
Glasgow's Ghost Streets
Glasgow Street Names
Glasgow Street Names
Glasgow Street Statutory List
How were Glasgow streets named?
Old Glasgow Street Names ( Kelvin Area )
Phantom streets on the Glasgow A to Z?
History (General):
Antonine Wall, Glasgow
'Bloody Friday' Glasgow's General Strike of 1919.
Druid Glasgow
Glasgow Hurricane, January 1968
Glasgow's Past. Where would you go?
Ghost Trains / Midden Men
Govan, the stuff of Legends
History of Glasgow District Crosses
The First Urban Prowler - James Cowan
Mrs Barbour's Army
Pollok Dig
Pollokshaws Road Archeology Open Day
South Albion St.
The Five Gates of Glasgow
Who was Procurator Fiscal in late 1880s?
1937 Lawrence Street Mass Murder
Hospitals & Asylums:
Bellahouson Hospital
Chapel at the Western
Gartloch Hospital / Asylum
Glasgow Asylum Songs
Hawkhead/Leverndale Asylum
Mystery at Lennox Castle.
Old Glasgow Hospitals
Ruchill Hospital (Old Hospital Buildings off Bilsland Drive)
Schaw Convalescent Home
Sick Childrens Hospital Dispensary, West Graham Street
Woodilee Hospital / Asylum
1935 Glasgow Street Map
Glasgow Maps
Old Maps of Glasgow
Old Map of Glasgow
Old Maps.co.uk - Want to see more detail?
Renfrew Motorway Plan for Information
Windows Live Maps
Book-McPhun's Guide Through Glasgow
Bram Stoker Medal at the G.S.A.
Old Bottles
Old Medals
Stamps & Coins
Time Capsules
Ailsa View Park / RAF[ROC] Milnthird
Anti-Aircraft Battery, Carmunnock
Army Recruitment Offices
Blantyre Army Barracks
Bombs Over Glasgow inWW2]
Carnbooth Anti Aircraft Site
Clydebank Blitz - when Hyndland was also Bombed
Glasgows Nuclear Warning System
Hidden Glasgow War Memorials
Hitler's Deputy Crashed in Scotland
HLI, 15th Battalion
Mugdock Gunsite
Military (General)
Old Army Camp in Pollok
POW Camps around Scotland
Possible Nuclear Bunker?
Shieldhall ROC Post
Royal Observer Corps
West Coast Naval defences
Wartime Glasgow--Excluding Bombing.
War Trenches
Westfield Bunker
Winston Barracks
WW2 Bomber on Campsies True or False?
WW2 Household Bomb Shelters (non-Anderson)
WW2"decoy city" near Torrance
WW2 Gun Emplacement near Airdrie
Murder & Mayhem:
Barlinnie - Hanging With Frank
Duke St. Prison
Gangs of Glasgow
Glasgow Murder Mysteries
Killer Clowns
Most Violent Streets in Glasgow
Peter Manual
Rain, Violence and Chips: this is Glasgow,
Anyone had a peek at the refurbished Kelvingrove yet ?
Glasgow's Police Museum
Museums to remain open on Mondays
New Transport Museum at Riverside
Provand's Lordship
Apollo, Green's Playhouse
Beatles in Glasgow
Bob Dylan at Glasgow Odeon in May 66
Glasgow's Best and Worst Concerts
"The Chateau" 143 Oxford Street, Gorbals
King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
Live in Glasgow
Lost Record Shops
MOBO Awards in Glasgow?
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The Sensational Alex Harvey (Not much content but the links are wonderful)
Songs with Glasgow placenames in the lyrics
Soundtrack of Glasgow
University of Glasgow Queen Margaret Union
Parks & Open Spaces:
Alexandra Park, Bandstand
Coila Park
George Square
Glasgow Parks
Glasgow Green
Kelvingrove Park (Bandstand & Fountain
Kelvingrove Tiger
Linn Park (Bandstand)
London Road/Tobago Street & other sites
Obelisk in Eastwood Park
Pollok Country Park
Queen's Park
Rosshall Park /Gardens
Rosshall Park a wee hidden Glasgow Gem.
Rouken Glen Park.
Springburn Park
Tollcross Park
Victoria Park
Photographic Projects:
Advertising God
Art Deco Glasgow
City Chambers
Data Bank of the Old Museum of Transport
Early Warning System: Buildings Under Threat
Eight Points of Glasgow
Glass Grill Collection
Glasgow Folk (& Other Strangers) Caught on Camera.
Glasgow IN COLOUR pre 1980
Glasgow Smiles Better
Glasgow's disappearing Weather Vanes
Glasgow's Skyline
Heart Of Glasgow - Glasgow's Eight Oldest Streets
Hutchison Hall Steeple
Lanes with Metal Rails/Kerbs
Manufacturer's plates and stanks
Merchant Steeple
Painted Advertising
Past / Present
Past / Present Vol.2
Pre 1850 Glasgow Buildings
Pre M74 Build
Pillar Boxes
Political Graffiti
Red & White brick, Industrial Buildings
Red Phone Boxes
Revealed by Demolition
Shopfronts and Signage Design
Signs 2
Stencil Art
Street Furniture
Tenemental Mansions in Glasgow
Today And Tomorrow
Uncovered, Old Shop Signage
Virtual Mitchell
Wally Closes
Water Towers
When its Gone its Gone Archive
Where are these Locations?
Public Toilets:
The Secret Lavvy Network (the true meaning)
Glassford St.
Pubs, Clubs, Cafes & Restaurants:
Ancell's Restuarant.
Argyll Bar -Uncovered Sign
30 Bothwell St, A History (Madness Niteclub)
Bay Horse
Boni's Cafe
Buck Rogers Bar.
Crème de la Crème
Criterion Cafe 217 Dumbarton Road Glasgow
Forgotten Pubs & Clubs
Glasgow's Seedy Underbelly
Grant Arms (Rear)
Orlando Cafe
Rio Stakis Hotel, Drumchapel
Rhule Tearoom
Strange Building on the Clydeside
Western Club
Willowford Social Club
7-UP, 51 West Regent St.
Rivers, Canals & Streams > Waterways
Battle Burn
Brownfield Burn
Byres Road flood
Camlachie Burn
Flood on Queen Victoria Drive
Forth & Clyde Canal
Glasgow, Paisley & Ardrossan Canal
Holy Wells in & around Glasgow
Kinninghouse Burn
Light Burn
Loch Catrine, Glasgow's Water Supply
Mallsmire Burn - Curtis Avenue tributary?
Marlin Ford
Molendinar Burn
Monkland Canal
Monkland Canal prior to Motorway
River Kelvin
St. Enoch Burn
Sculpture & Ironwork:
Bird Sculptures in Woodside
Coneheads / how should we treat our sculptural heritage
Glasgow Ironwork
Let Glasgow Flourish- Coat of Arms
Lord Provost's Lamplights?
Sculptures & Statues Around Glasgow
Fountains Lost & Found
Shipbuilding, Industry & Docks:
Bell's Park and Quarry (Queen St.
Clyde Shipyards
Coalvilles/Clydebridge Steel Works
General Terminus Quay
Glasgow's Industry
Glasgow's Industrial Sites
Govan Graving Docks Development
Hume's Industrial Archaeology of Glasgow
Power Stations & Electricity Generation in Glasgow
Pumping Stations
Titan Crane
Titan Crane to be Dismantled
Whitelee Wind Farm
Yorkhill Quay
Social Events:
Empire Exhibition, 1938
Gala Days/Parades, Fairs and Festivals
Garden Festival, 1988
Glasgow 1990 Year of Culture remains
Queen Victoria's visit 1849.
Carntyne Park
Cathkin Park
Cathkin Park (2)
Commonwealth Games Bid: 2014
Glasgow Tigers American Football Club.
Lost Football Grounds
Mount Vernon Stadium
Mystery football ground, Polmadie
Clyde Seaplanes
G & J Weir Autogiro's, Cathcart Works.
Renfrew Airport
Space Shuttle visits Glesga
Abandoned Railway Line -Dawsholm
Balcarres Ave Railway Tunnel
Blue Trains-303s
Blythswood Square Train Station.
Botanic Gardens Railway Station
Buchanan Street Station
Central Station
Central Station 1960, the approach
Central Station & Railways
Central Station Walkthrough
Crow Rd. Station
Disused Railway Lines/Stations in Scotland
High St - Bridgeton Central
Glasgow Central Station
Glasgows Closed Railway Routes
Glasgow Cross Station
Glasgow North Railway Station (unbuilt)
Glasgow Railway Termini
Glasgow Train Accidents
Goodbye Partick Central
Least attractive Glasgow Train Stations.
Larkhall Line
Old Maryhill Station
Old Partick Central
One for the Railway Heads
Parkhead Train Station
St. Enoch Station
Suburban Train Stations
Tollcross Railway Station
Trains in the Toon
Auld Glesga Trams & Busses
Bridge to Nowhere
Busses Today
Driving in the Dear Green Place.
Glasgow's Cycling Heritage
Glasgow Inner Ring Road
Hate using Buses after 4pm
Horse Terminal, Mitchell Street
Larkfield Bus Garage Tour 8th October 2006
The Rise & Fall of the Bundy
Western SMT Bus Company
Subway Today
Subway pre- and during Modernisation - in Colour!
Carrick/City of Adelaide
Clyde Ferries
Clydeport Building, Robertson Street
Cross Clyde Passenger Ferries
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You either know your network is compromised or you're unaware your network is compromised. As far as I can determine, that's only a slight exaggeration. In the last seven years that I've concentrated on hacked networks -- most of which have been hit by advanced persistent threats -- I'm aware of only one company that has not been thoroughly and pervasively compromised.
Security professionals need to start by assuming their defenses have already been breached. It's hard to admit, but truth is always better than ignorance. It's like being mayor of a city and admitting that you probably have some crime despite a well-trained and appropriately funded police force. Crime happens. It's even in the Bible.
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Once people reach the acceptance phase, they typically ask me this question: How can a company conduct a "clean sweep" to detect badness, root it out, and start over with a known clean environment?
The short answer: You can't. Well, you can, but to get a very high level of assurance would be very expensive and, in the end, probably not worth the money, time, and effort. It takes talent and time to gain a high level of confidence that you don't have any compromised computers requires exacting, high-detailed computer forensics.
Project superscrub
Most companies don't have images of the known, clean states of all their computers. If they did, they could do a quick comparison between clean images and current images. Even then, you'd have to sift through hundreds or thousands of little differences, from temporary files to legitimate updates to log files to any tiny object that changes during the normal course of business.
And without known, clean images? Forensic examiners must painstakingly review each computer and rule out thousands upon thousands of irregularities. The fastest I've seen any company turn this around is in about 24 hours for one computer. So if you want to do a clean sweep of your network with a high level of assurance, plug that into your resource calculator: 24 hours per computer per forensic investigator. Now you know why most companies don' t have the time or money.
Worse, determining if a particular computer is clean at a particular point in time doesn't prevent it from getting compromised immediately after. I've been involved in a few greenfield efforts, and most of the time those brand-new, clean environments end up compromised just like the old, legacy environments did. Why? Because the defenders didn't spend enough time ensuring that the old successful threats wouldn't be just as successful in the new environment. Simply moving users to new, clean computers doesn't mean they won't fall victim to the same old spearphishing attack.
Instead of striving for spic-and-span perfection, if you're determined to do a mop-up operation, I recommend a "limited assurance" clean sweep. This gives you reasonable assurance that your network is fairly clean and not completely owned by badness.
In a limited assurance audit, you select a sampling of computers in each role (such as file server, database server, Web server, client workstation, client laptop) to give you confidence over the whole population.


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Accountability is a big issue with me, and as we approach the holiday season, I wish I could convince my Human to take on more of it. As it is though, I've come to realize that her endless griping and poor attitude are not going to change between now and Christmas. I thought I should take this year's letter to Santa as my opportunity to set the record straight on my treat eligibility before he loads up his sleigh.
Dear Santa Hoss,
First of all, whatever my Human has told you is a complete lie.
[This preamble may or may not be necessary, depending on how inferior and chatty your Human is. Mine often takes my instruction too personally and yammers on about how "naughty" I am to everyone in earshot. I actually have a theory that "her shrink" and "Santa," both being sounding boards for tattlers, are one in the same, so I'm sure he's had to hear all about her insecurities related to me.]
The incident with the fly mask was in no way my fault. A cheetah (or neighbor's beagle, I didn't notice which) appeared suddenly in my field and tore the ear covers off, and in the process of running for my life I may have kind of dropped it into a mud puddle.
[This of course, is not true. The real problem is that my Human continues to buy me inferior quality clothing, and despite my best efforts, my attempts to correct this by destroying the cheap material do not stop her from sticking them back on me and sending me outside. I'm walking around with holes in all my blankets like a zombie pony. It's getting embarrassing.]
The now-infamous Day We Didn't Make It To The Show was also a misunderstanding.
[My Human could simply not understand that I had requested first-class transportation, and as is typical of many airline employees, she was extremely rude and declined to change my ticket. This naturally became an opportunity for me to teach her about inferior customer service, so I had to refuse to get on the trailer. For four hours.]
And that muscle strain she got chasing me around the field is just a myth.
[I stretched before our field exercises; is it my fault she couldn't learn from my example?]
All in all, Santa, I'm pretty sure I have one of the toughest jobs at the barn. If you really do see everything, (by the way, can you train a few of those security cameras on the feed room? I'd love to know which grain bin is mine.) then I'm sure you know what a slow learner my Human is. Far below average. I honestly can't figure out how she graduated college without some teacher's assistant double-barreling her.
[I know humans only have two legs, but if they can Gangnam, I think they could pull a quick double-barrel kick off, so what gives?]
Santa, I'm sure you of all humans understand how stressful it is to deal with misbehavior all the time, so you must be sympathetic to how hard I've worked this year. With all this in mind, I'd like to suggest that you deliver double the usual amount of horse treats to my Human's house on Christmas Eve. And none of that "low sugar" stuff, either—I'm going to need a lot of energy if I'm expected to whip her into shape next year.
Oh, and Santa? Your reindeer have got to be on a strict diet for the big night. It'd be a shame to let all those childrens' carrots and Christmas cookies go to waste…and they would sure fill up the stocking I've got hanging on my stall door.
[Recycling is very "in" with Humans these days. They're too slow on the uptake of course, to realize that that's how their fields have been fertilized for the last 2,000 years.]
Right, friend?
Yours truly, Jitterbug
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This is why it's really kind of funny that I have piles and piles and piles of red lipstick. Especially since I don't wear it all that often--I tend to eat it off my lips--but I can't stop buying it.
I mentioned last week, or whenever that was, that I'm trying to wear red lipstick more often. I am rarely happy with my eye makeup and so have reduced that regime back to concealer, a paint pot, and mascara. A few years ago I bought MAC's Russian Red because I read about it somewhere, and I wore it occasionally when I wanted to make a splash or just felt like it (I really like applying lipstick. Sometimes I put piles of it on at night before I wash my face and walk around looking totally insane in floral PJs and red lipstick).
I really like MAC's matter lipsticks. They stay in place with minimal liner, don't end up smudging to high heaven, have great saturated colors, and don't over-dry my lips. This week I went and snagged myself some Ruby Woo because I wanted to feel really awkward walking up to the slick salesperson and saying the name (or not), and because I'd heard good things about it. I like it. It's like a cartoon red, a scary splash. I have tiny lips so I feel a bit self conscious about it sometimes, like there is too much fleshy face, but I've decided it doesn't matter.
However, I'm relatively low maintenance with makeup. If you can't apply it with your fingers, mascara aside, I could care less. Because of this, I'm a dedicated lover of Stila's convertible color in Poppy--I'm wearing it two posts down in the picture with the mustard sweater--even if it doesn't give the same stark look of a stick. I like it though, it's got that pressed-on, edge-fading look that's kind of romantic and debauched.
I have a tenuous relationship with red. On the one hand, I can't stand it. It needs so much attention. On the other, it's kind of right sometimes. And despite my grumblings towards it, my dastardly glasses are red.


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The Matlacha Mariners 14th Annual Southwest Florida Blues Festival will be held Saturday, Nov. 23, on the festival grounds at Sun Splash Family Waterpark in Cape Coral.
Jerry Tolliver is the co-founder and president of the Southwest Blues Society and organizer of the event.
"I've been involved in the Southwest Florida Blues Festival for maybe 12 years and organizing for the last 10," Tolliver said. "I was lucky enough to have had a good music education and this event helps others to have the same."
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The event is a benefit for local charities, senior citizen groups, student scholarships, elementary music education and much more.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the gate. Kids 10 and under are admitted free with an adult. Tickets are available online at: . Click on the Johnny Winter/Blues Festival picture on the left and BUY NOW botton at the bottom of the web page.
"This year I think we have the best talent lineup ever," Tolliver said. "Beginning with Johnny Winter."
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What: 14th Annual Southwest Florida Blues
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Tickets: $20 in advance or $25 at the gate.
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Winter is an American blues guitarist, singer and producer best known for his late 1960s and 1970s high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances. Winter was on the cover of the first issue of Guitar World and in 1988.
He was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and was ranked 63rd in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
Other artists include Sena Ehrhardt, who has been called one of the freshest and most dynamic young voices on the blues scene today.
"Sena is a very striking performer who has it all going on. She is a great vocalist who really knows how to put her all into a performance. She played a range of music styles that included blues, soul, R&B and some jazz. She is a real knockout and her father Ed Ehrhardt is a fantastic guitar player. Put this band on your must see list!" according to Bob Keiser of Blues Blast magazine.
Brandon Santini is a Memphis vocalist and harmonica player. Santini was nominated for a Blues Music Award in 2009 and has performed in Italy, Belgium, Holland, Norway, Germany and Canada.
Deb & the Dynamics originated in 2003 and has since then become one of Southwest Florida's most popular local bands. Debra Sayer (bass guitar and vocals) is accompanied by Dan Keady (guitar, vocals), Michael Baer (keyboards, vocals), Cory McClur (drums), Newt Cole (tenor, alto, baritone sax, percussion and vocals) and Don Hulgas (baritone sax, vocals).
"I try to pick music that makes you feel good and makes people want to dance. It's that simple," Sayer said.
Another scheduled performer, Stringtown, is a blues, gospel, New Orleans, country and honky tonk band all rolled into one. The group plays everyone from Hank Williams, to Van Morrison to Fats Domino, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan. A regular at Miceli's, the band also performed with many national acts at the 2012 Bonita Blues Festival.
Belmont and Jones with One String Mitchell is also performing. It features traditional, down-home, country blues.
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Wyoming Cowboys Top Skyhawks 78-60 in Opener
Junior Riley Grabau scored a career-high 17 points to lead four Wyoming Cowboys in double figures, as UW defeated the UT-Martin Skyhawks 78-60 in the season opener for both teams Friday night at the Arena-Auditorium. Wyoming used a 15-1 run to close the first half and take control of the game.
Grabau knocked down four 3-pointers, all in the first half, and added three assists. Trey Washington III and Charles Hankerson, Jr. scored 14 points apiece, while Larry Nance, Jr. contributed a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds.
Dee Oldham led UT-Martin with 15 points off the bench. Marshun Newell had 14 and Terence Smith scored 10.
Wyoming (1-0) got out to a 17-6 lead six minutes into the game, but back came the Skyhawks. They knocked down three straight 3's and closed within 17-15. The Pokes went back ahead 30-25 before UT Martin's 7-0 spurt put them in front 32-30 with 4:30 left in the first half.
That's when the Cowboys got their key run. Grabau hit a pair of 3's, Washington III added a 3-ball and then Derek Cooke, Jr. threw down a monster 1-handed dunk on a look ahead pass from Grabau at the 2:30 mark. UW led 45-30 at half.
The second half saw the Pokes keep a steady double digit lead and finish off the Skyhawks by 18. There were 33 fouls called in the second half, which led to a parade to the free throw line.
Wyoming shot 47.7 percent (21-44) from the field, which included 8-19 from 3-point range (42.1%), and they were 28-of-40 (70%) at the line. The Cowboys out-rebounded the Skyhawks 39-28 and finished with 15 assists.
UT Martin (0-1) was 20-57 (35.1%) on field goals, 7-21 (33.3%) from deep and 13-21 (61.9%) at the charity stripe.
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Gloucester County, Va., father and son farmers Clem and Keith Horsley are in the same situation. "If it wasn't for the dew, everything would be dead," Keith Horsley says. "If you talked with most of the farmers around here, you'd hear the same story," Clem Horsley says.
"The soybeans are taking a hit now," Respess said at the Virginia Ag Expo in Port Royal in mid-August. "Another week of this weather and you can write off the soybeans, too." Respess grows 450 acres of soybeans and 350 acres of corn. He estimates he'll have a top corn yield of 70 bushels per acre — "And it goes downhill from there, right down to zero."
Based on the Aug. 11 weekly survey of crops, farmers in the Old Dominion rated 62 percent of the corn crop poor to very poor, says Steve Manheimer, state statistician with the Virginia Agricultural Statistics Service.
Corn yields are expected to average 89 bushels per acre. Last year, corn yields were 123 bushels per acre; in 2000, farmers set a record of 146 bushels per acre.
Fifty-one percent of the soybean crop is rated very poor to poor. The Aug. 11 crop report forecast an average yield of 27 bushels per acre. Virginia soybean producers have had back-to-back good yields: 36 bushels per acre in 2001 and a record 38.5 bushels per acre in 2000. Manheimer points out that the soybean crop still has the potential to recover, if rain comes in time.
Respess and the Horsleys saw their last good rain in late July. "It was the first rain that we'd had since early May," says Keith Horsley. All three farmers used the word "spotty" to describe their corn and soybean crops. The Horsleys grow 750 acres of corn and 850-900 acres of soybeans.
"We had some potential on our later planted corn, but missed the rain," says Keith Horsley. "We had a neighbor picking his earlier planted corn. He was getting 55 bushels to the acre."
Respess hopes he can harvest enough corn and soybeans to "make payments and get some operating income." Thinking out-loud, he mentions the possibility of having to get off-farm work this winter.
"I've never had a loss where it hit both crops," Respess says. "Three weeks ago we thought we were going to have a bean crop."


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David Cone returns to the YES Network for his 10th season as an analyst. Upon his retirement from the game, Cone joined the YES Network team during its inaugural year in 2002, again for 2008-09 and returned in 2011.
Cone compiled a 194-126 record, 3.46 ERA and 2,688 strikeouts in his 17-year Major League career with the Kansas City Royals (1986, 1993-94), New York Mets (1987-1992, 2003), Toronto Blue Jays (1992, '95), New York Yankees (1995-2000) and Boston Red Sox (2001). He was a five-time All-Star (1988, 1992, 1994, 1997 and 1999) and captured the American League Cy Young Award in 1994 after posting a 16-5 record with a 2.94 ERA. With the award, he became the first pitcher to win the Cy Young despite not leading the league in any category or pitching for a first-place club.
While with the Yankees, Cone was 64-40 with a 3.91 ERA and 888 strikeouts, and was part of four World Championship teams (1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000). He had arguably his finest season in pinstripes in 1998, when he was 20-7 with a 3.55 ERA and 209 strikeouts. A year later, on July 18, 1999, he hurled the 14th perfect game in modern Major League history (since 1900, including postseason) in a 6-0 win vs. the Montreal Expos at Yankee Stadium. The performance also marked the third perfect game ever thrown by a Yankees pitcher, following Don Larsen's in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series vs. Brooklyn and David Wells' vs. Minnesota in 1998. The Kansas City, Mo. native was selected by his hometown Kansas City Royals in the third round of the 1981 First-Year Player Draft.
He compiled an 8-3 career postseason record and also won a World Series title with the 1992 Blue Jays.
In 1996, Cone established the David Cone Charitable Gift Fund. He was honored with numerous awards for his community service as a player and still pursues his charitable endeavors, working with the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at the Westchester Medical Center.
Jack Curry joined the YES Network in 2010 as a studio analyst, reporter and program contributor, following a 20-year career covering the Yankees for the New York Times. In addition, he contributes as a columnist on YESNetwork.com and is the host of JCTV: Jack Curry TV, the innovative YESNetwork.com original series which launched in 2013. Curry earned two Emmy nominations in 2014 for JCTV: Jack Curry TV and has four nominations for several Yankees features.
During his career with the Times, Curry authored more than 4,500 articles, covered 18 World Series, 11 All-Star Games and two World Baseball Classics. The New Jersey native also was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1999, and won multiple Times Publisher Awards.
Curry's television experience extends back to 1991, when he began contributing to Madison Square Garden Network's Yankees pre-game show and weekly baseball magazine show. Since November 2005, Curry has been a regular contributor to YES' Yankees Hot Stove show, and for the last five seasons, he has appeared on YES' Yankees Access shows. In addition, he was a featured panelist on MSG's Angles roundtable show, was a frequent guest on WCBS-TV's Baseball Insider weekly studio show, and has also provided expert baseball analysis and commentary on television and radio programs such as ESPN's Outside the Lines, MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, ESPN Radio's The Michael Kay Show and various WFAN Radio programs.
Curry also co-wrote a book with Derek Jeter entitled The Life You Imagine: Life Lessons for Achieving Your Dreams, which was a New York Times best-seller. In January 2013, Curry received the Broadcast Achievement Award from the New Jersey Sports Writers Association and was named "Top Sports Analyst" by the New Jersey-based 201 Magazine. A 1986 graduate of Fordham University, Curry resides with his wife, Pamela, in New Jersey.
Former Yankees catcher John Flaherty enters his 12th season as a field reporter, studio analyst and game analyst for YES Network telecasts. He received New York Emmy Award nominations in 2010, 2011 and 2013 for his work at YES.
Drafted by Boston in 1988, Flaherty progressed through the Red Sox farm system before joining their Major League squad in 1992. He played 14 seasons in the Majors with Boston (1992-93), Detroit (1994-96), San Diego (1996-97), Tampa Bay (1998-2002) and the Yankees (2003-05), compiling a .252 average with 80HR in 1,047 games.
Flaherty brought his knowledge of the game and his veteran style of leadership to the Yankees clubhouse when he signed as a free agent in 2003. He played in 134 games with the Yankees across three seasons, and will be long remembered for his dramatic pinch-hit, "walk-off" single to defeat the Boston Red Sox in the 13th inning on June 1, 2004 - the contest that featured Derek Jeter's famous dive into the third base stands.
Flaherty is a New York City native and a graduate of George Washington University. On May 15, 2009, he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, N.Y. In 2015, he was inducted into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame.
Now in his 16th season as the play-by-play announcer for the YES Network, Kay also serves as the host of YES' CenterStage series, hosts his own radio talk show on ESPN Radio in New York and is a frequent contributor to ESPN's Emmy Award-winning Sports Reporters. In 2008, 2011 and 2016, he handled play-by-play duties for the ESPN Radio Network's coverage of the AL Division Series.
A 31-time Emmy Award nominee and eight-time Emmy winner, Kay was named by Radio Ink magazine the second-most influential local sports talk show host in America in 2012.
Before joining the YES Network, Kay worked at the MSG Network from 1989-2001 as a Yankees reporter. In 1992, he added the assignment of Knicks locker room reporter to his responsibilities and continued in that role through the 1998-99 season.
In addition to his television work, Kay also worked as a Yankees analyst on WABC Radio from 1992-2002. Kay was a winner with Bob Goldscholl (WBBR) for "Best Sports Reporter" at the 2000 New York Metro Achievement in Radio Awards. After the Yankees' World Series victories in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2009, Kay and John Sterling were asked by New York City's Mayor to host the post-parade victory celebration at City Hall.
In 1998, Kay also began co-hosting Sports Talk with John Sterling and Michael Kay, an MSG-produced nightly sports radio call-in show which aired on WABC Radio during the winter months. During the baseball season, Kay and Sterling hosted Yankee Talk which aired 90 minutes prior to all weekend Yankees games.
Shortly after graduating from Fordham University in 1982 with a B.A. in Communications, the Bronx, N.Y., native became one of the hot sports reporters in New York City with a style that combined great reporting skills with quality writing. While at Fordham, he honed his skills working for the school newspaper and radio station, working at Sports Phone and as the public address announcer for the New York Pro Summer Basketball League.
In 1982, Kay landed a job as a general assignment writer for the New York Post. Two years later he began covering college basketball (1984-85) and then the New Jersey Nets, whom he covered for two seasons before becoming the newspaper's general basketball writer. In 1987, he moved to baseball where he served as his paper's Yankees beat reporter. While he was in that position, he got his first television job with MSG Network as host of the "Hot Stove League" segment of MSG's Sports Night. In 1989, Kay moved from the Post to the New York Daily News, where he covered the Yankees until 1992, when he made the jump to radio. With the move, he became the first newspaper reporter in any sport to make the jump into the broadcast booth full-time, performing both play-by-play and analysis.
Kay was given the "Dick Young Award for Excellence in Sports Media" by the New York Pro Baseball Scouts in 1995. He was also a part of the Yankees/MSG Production team that was nominated for New York Emmy Awards for six consecutive years. In 1998, he was on the MSG team that won for "Outstanding Live Sports Coverage-Series." In 1996 and '97, he was a member of the MSG team that won New York Emmys for "Outstanding Live Sports Coverage-Single Program" for Dwight Gooden's no-hitter and "The Battle for New York: Yankees vs. Mets."
Kay resides in Manhattan, N.Y., and in 2005 had an honorary street sign in his name erected on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. He is active with the Alzheimer's Association in memory of his mother, Rose, who passed away from the disease in 2006. Kay has also joined Joe Girardi for the "Remember When, Remember Now" banquet at the Grand Central Oyster Bar to benefit Girardi's Catch 25 Foundation and Alzheimer's research. He co-hosted the 2013 B.A.T. fundraising dinner in New York, and served as master of ceremonies at the 2013 Thurman Munson Awards fundraising dinner in New York.
In 2016, Kay was inducted into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Jodi, were married in February 2011 and have a daughter, Caledonia Rose, born in January 2013 and a son, Charles Applegate, born in November 2014.
Al Leiter enters his 12th year with the YES Network using insight gained from his 19 years as a player in the Major Leagues. He is also an analyst for the MLB Network, where he was nominated for National Emmy Awards in 2010 and 2012. Additionally, he was nominated for a New York Emmy Award in 2014.
Prior to signing with YES, Leiter worked as a postseason game analyst for FOX Sports and ESPN.
Originally drafted by the Yankees in 1984, Leiter played parts of 19 professional seasons with the Yankees (1987-89, 2005), Toronto Blue Jays (1989-95), Florida Marlins (1996-97, 2005) and New York Mets (1998-2004). He was a two-time All-Star (1996, 2000) and was a part of two World Championship teams (Toronto in 1993 and Florida in 1997). On May 11, 1996, Leiter tossed the first no-hitter in Marlins history in an 11-0 win vs. Colorado.
For his community work, he was honored by MLB with the Roberto Clemente Award in 2000 and the Bart Giamatti Award in 2002. Also in 2002, he was appointed to the board of directors of the Twin Towers Fund in NYC. He was named the March of Dimes "Sportsman of the Year" in 2003 and the John C. Mara "Sportsman of the Year" in 2004 by the Catholic Youth Organization. He also created "Leiter's Landing," a charitable organization committed to the betterment of youth through education, health care and social and community service.
A native of Bayville, N.J., Leiter was inducted into the New Jersey Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame in January 2012. He also served as master of ceremonies at New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's first induction ceremony at City Hall in 2002.
Bob Lorenz returns for his 14th year with the YES Network, serving as the primary studio anchor for Yankees pre- and post-game shows. Lorenz also serves as the host of the Brooklyn Nets pre- and post-game shows, as well as the network's Yankees Hot Stove and Emmy Award-winning Forbes SportsMoney programs. Lorenz has won 14 Emmy Awards during his time with the YES Network. In April 2011, he won his third consecutive New York Emmy Award recognizing him as the top sports anchor in New York.
Prior to joining the YES Network in 2003, Lorenz served as an anchor for CNN/Sports Illustrated, which he joined in April of 1991. He hosted CNN's signature weekly sports programming, including NFL Preview, College Football Preview, This Week in the NBA, SI Cover to Cover and Page One. He also hosted CNN's weekly baseball show from 1992 to 1996 and, from 1994 to 1996, hosted CNN's College Basketball Preview and College Coaches Corner. In addition to those duties, Lorenz also worked on a variety of programs for CNN's sister networks TBS and TNT, hosting Super Bowl specials and serving as back-up host on Inside the NBA on TNT.
Before joining CNN, Lorenz was a reporter and anchor at WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach, Fla. Having joined the station in 1988, he wrote, produced and anchored four weekend sportscasts. Lorenz earlier served as sports director at KIEM-TV in Eureka, Calif., and was a writer at CBS Extravision in Los Angeles and an analyst/anchor for Citicable in Torrance, Calif.
Lorenz is on the Honorary Event Committee for the Connecticut chapter of Make-A-Wish and has emceed its annual Make-A-Wish Ball. He has also emceed the Annual Miracle Ball, which raises money and awareness for the Miracle League of Westchester County in New York.
He holds a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California.
Meredith Marakovits returns for her sixth season with the YES Network as the New York Yankees clubhouse reporter, reporting on the team within the network's Yankees game telecasts, pre- and post-game shows, Yankees Batting Practice Today show and Yankees Hot Stove. Marakovits also appears on YES' special Yankees programming and contributes to YESNetwork.com. She has also filled in as YES' Brooklyn Nets reporter and pre-and post-game show host. She received a New York Emmy Award nomination in 2015 for her Yankees coverage on YES.
Previously, Marakovits served as the Philadelphia 76ers sideline reporter with Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, also participating in several Comcast SportsNet regional sports network programs. She also covered the Yankees and Mets for 1050 ESPN radio, and contributed elsewhere to WFAN radio in New York.
Prior to her work in New York, she served as the Phillies reporter for 950 ESPN Radio/97.5 the Fanatic. This came after her stint as the pre- and post-game host and field reporter for the Triple-A Lehigh Valley Ironpigs Television Network.
A Northampton, Pa., native, Marakovits is a 2005 graduate of La Salle University in Philadelphia, where she played volleyball and received a degree in communications. She began her career for Service Electric 2's sports division as a sideline reporter for college football, basketball and indoor football broadcasts. In December 2013, Marakovits was honored on the Rockne Wall of Fame at her alma mater - Allentown (Pa.) Central Catholic High School - for her athletic exploits.
Paul O'Neill returns for his 16th season in broadcast television, serving as a game analyst for the YES Network. He received New York Emmy Award nominations in 2011 and 2013 for his analyst work on YES.
The five-time All-Star outfielder played 17 years in the Majors, spending his final nine seasons in pinstripes. He appeared in six World Series, winning five titles, including four with the Yankees (1996, '98-2000).
Affectionately known as a "warrior" to most Yankees followers, O'Neill began his Major League career in 1985 with the Cincinnati Reds and earned the first of his five World Series championships in 1990. He joined the Yankees in 1993 after eight seasons with the Reds, and in 1994 claimed the American League batting title with a .359 average. From July 1995 to May 1997, he played in 235 consecutive games in right field without making an error. In 2001, at the age of 38, O'Neill became the oldest player in Major League history to steal 20 bases and hit 20 home runs in the same season.
He lives in his native Cincinnati with his wife, Nevalee, and their three children: Andrew, Aaron and Alexandra. He was named "Father of the Year" in June 2008 by the National Father's Day Council at its 67th Annual Father of the Year dinner in New York.
Former Major Leaguer Ken Singleton enters his 16th season as a game analyst and announcer for YES Network broadcasts of the New York Yankees, occasionally handling play-by-play duties as well.
Prior to joining YES, Singleton divided his time calling play-by-play and providing commentary at the MSG Network. In 1998, he was part of MSG's production team that won four New York Emmys for its Yankees coverage.Singleton joined the MSG Network in 1997 from The Sports Network (TSN), where he served as analyst for the Montreal Expos from 1985-96. From 1991-96, he also called play-by-play and served as analyst for CIQ Radio, the Expos' flagship radio network. In 1996 and '97, FOX Sports named him as a lead analyst for Saturday afternoon baseball broadcasts. In 1997 and '98, he worked as an analyst for Major League Baseball International.
Singleton enjoyed a 15-year Major League career with the New York Mets, Montreal Expos and Baltimore Orioles, batting .282 with 317 doubles and 246HR. He is one of only 11 players in Baseball history to hit 35 or more home runs in a season as a switch-hitter. He also ranks among the all-time leaders in most Baltimore offensive categories, including homers, RBI and total bases. During his career, Singleton was named to the American League All-Star team in 1977, '79, and '81. He was named Most Valuable Oriole in 1975, '77, and '79 and was a member of the Orioles' 1983 World Championship team. In 1982, he was the recipient of Major League Baseball's Roberto Clemente Award, honoring him for his contributions both on and off the field.
Born in Manhattan and raised in nearby Mount Vernon, N.Y., Singleton played both baseball and basketball in high school, and also played baseball in the Bronx Federation League at Macombs Dam Park on the current site of Yankee Stadium. After getting a basketball scholarship to Hofstra University and playing baseball as well for one year, Singleton was drafted by the Mets in 1967. In 2015, he was inducted into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame.
Singleton serves on the Board of Directors for the Cool Kids Campaign, a nonprofit organization that helps children and their families who are dealing with cancer. He was honored with the "Denzel Lifetime Achievement Award in Sports" at the Boys & Girls Club of Mount Vernon's 100th Anniversary Gala in March 2012.
"Yankees win! Theeeeeee Yankees win!"
If anything has become synonymous with the Yankees' run of success over recent years, it is John Sterling's memorable conclusion to so many Yankees victories. As the radio voice to 162 games a year, plus preseason and postseason, he has called 4,634 official games (4,467 regular season/167 postseason) over the last 28 seasons, without missing even one, making him one of the most recognized-and imitated voices-in all of New York sports.
Sterling joined the Yankees broadcast team in 1989 from Atlanta's TBS and WSB Radio, where he called Hawks basketball (1981-89) and Braves games (1982-87). It marked a return to the town where he first achieved fame, hosting a talk show on WMCA from 1971-78, and calling the Nets (1975-80, and as a fill-in, in 1997) and Islanders (1975-78) for WMCA, WVNJ, WWOR-TV and SportsChannel.
Sterling also previously called Morgan State Football (eight years) and Washington Bullets basketball in 1981. In addition to his seven years at WMCA and a year at WSB in Atlanta, he has also hosted talk shows on WFAN and WABC in New York. He has not missed a broadcast of any kind since the fall of 1981.
As the host of the YES Network's acclaimed Yankeeography series, Sterling has won a total of 12 Emmy Awards since 2003. He has also been honored by the New Jersey Sportswriters Association with its Radio-TV Excellence Award (1999), and was the winner of the 2001 Whitney Radio Jimmy Cannon Award. In addition, his call of a Jason Giambi home run on WCBS radio in 2002 was voted the "Best Baseball Call of the Year" in a poll conducted by MLB.com. In 2002, Sterling was also honored by the NY Air Awards for being a part of the best play-by-play team on radio.
When he's not in the booth, Sterling serves as a master of on-field ceremonies for major Yankees events, and is well known for his emcee work at City Hall (with his former radio partner Michael Kay) at "Key to the City" ceremonies following Yankees World Series victories.
Sterling enjoys attending Broadway shows and boasts an extensive knowledge of the lyrics to many American pop standards. In 2007, he embarked on his own Broadway venture in a cabaret show titled "Baseball and Broadway" in which he both served as emcee and sang alongside broadway talent.
In 2016, he was inducted, along with Suzyn Waldman, to the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. For the past 23 years, he has been a spokesman for the Leukemia Society of America. He enjoys reading, movies and swimming. He is the proud father of four children: daughter Abigail and triplets, Veronica, Bradford and Derek.
Award-winning journalist Suzyn Waldman begins her 31st season either covering or broadcasting the New York Yankees and her 13th season as the Yankees' radio color commentator, having become the first woman to hold a full-time position as a Major League broadcaster.
Waldman has spent more than three decades overcoming all the obstacles that go along with being a female sports broadcaster and has risen to the top of her profession. In 2006, she became a permanent part of the "Women in Baseball" exhibit at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, and in 2009, her World Series Game 6 scorecard was added to the Hall of Fame's collection, commemorating her being the first female broadcaster to call game action in the World Series.
In 1987, Waldman became the first voice heard on WFAN-AM in New York, the first all-sports radio station in the country. She was a mainstay on that station for almost 15 years, creating the job of the radio beat reporter, covering both the New York Yankees and New York Knicks. Her news-breaking reports, exclusive interviews and always original and controversial opinions won her countless journalism awards. Her accolades include the "International Radio Award" for her live and emotional reporting from the upper deck of Candlestick Park during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, the 1996 "N.Y. Sportscaster of the Year" Award from the National Sportscasters & Sportswriters and the 1999 "Star Award" for radio from the American Women in Radio and TV. Waldman became a popular talk show host at WFAN and co-hosted the coveted midday slot until leaving WFAN in 2002 to join the YES Network.
The word "first" invariably precedes the name of Suzyn Waldman in every facet of her television and radio career. The first woman to work on a nationally-televised baseball broadcast, Waldman added another first, being the first woman to provide play-by-play for a Major League team, when she started broadcasting New York Yankees games for WPIX, MSG Network and WNYW/FOX5 in the mid 1990s. The first woman ever to host an NBA pre-and post-game show, Suzyn worked in that capacity for the Knicks on WFAN, provided play-by-play for the WNBA on Lifetime TV and was an analyst on St. John's basketball games for MSG and WFAN.
She has been honored by countless organizations, including the Thurman Munson Foundation, the March of Dimes, B'nai B'rith, the Jimmy Fund of Boston and the U.S. Federal Women's Program. In 2006, she received the first Women's Global Health Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at the United Nations. She is a tireless motivational speaker at schools and cancer centers around the country, encouraging young women to pursue their dreams despite any pitfalls they may encounter.
Waldman's life and accomplishments have been the subject of hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, as well as chapters in children's and motivational books. She has been profiled on the Today Show, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, ABC's 20/20 and NBC's Dateline. In 2013, 2014 and 2015, Waldman was named one of Radio Ink magazine's "Most Influential Women in Radio." In 2016, she was inducted, along with John Sterling, to the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. She was also a recipient of the Gracie Award, which acknowledges outstanding team leadership and individual achievement, focusing on women who are making positive change and who further the discussion of what a fulfilling career in media looks like.
A native Bostonian with a degree in Economics from Boston's prestigious Simmons College, Suzyn spent 15 years on the Broadway musical stage and performed in countless night clubs around the world. She is proudest of her two years starring opposite Richard Kiley in Man of La Mancha. She lives in Westchester with her German shepherds, Gatsby and Margo.


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Accessories - paintings and antiques - have been carefully co-ordinated with each of the furniture groupings and help give a distinct identity to each group. For example, the core grouping in the living area is distinctively oriental in flavour. Elsewhere, African tribal artifacts form a coffee-table grouping adjacent to a tribal wall-hanging. In another group it is a shell collection which forms the focal point.
A corner grouping of a upholstered sofa armchairs in pastel shades is complemented with a coffee table grouping in bleached teak. Balinese wooden ducks and two ceramic doves bring a touch of nature to this corner. A touch of drama here with vermillion upholstered chairs and two impressionistic paintings bringing warmth to the marble and white walls.
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I don't know if this would help, but maybe let the bug fixes go first on the PC and if they're fine then send it in for peer review on the xbox so you don't have to worry about failing peer review and the 2 week wait time.
A successful modding API is something that needs to be integrated into the development of the game from the start. Case study fail: Minecraft.As TM was originally designed for the Xbox, where mods are not an option, modding has not been considered during development, and therefor would probably end up being as big a fail as Minecrafts attempts on the PC.Also I don't yet know how modding might work within the Steam ecosystem.
I hope when we get TM on pc we can use controllers again and easy craft! pc keyboard and mouse games are not that fun for long times but I do love to have easy keyboard text chat in multiplayer games!
Okay, nice to know. Thanks Geneo.
Will we be able to have community made avatars in the PC version?!?!?
Same as xbox, if it is a good model and is well thought out in its unlock method, then could get in.