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By 2016 the Council needs to save £1.5 million, that amount is forecast to rise to £2.84 million by 2018.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Doug Weight will fill in as the New York Islanders interim coach for their game at Buffalo on Tuesday night, filling in for Jack Capuano who is sick with the flu.
Capuano travelled with the team to Buffalo following the Islanders' 6-0 home loss to Ottawa on Monday afternoon. He was too ill to attend the Islanders skate Tuesday morning, and remained at the team hotel for the game.
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SOCHI, Russia—The Dutch speedskaters hammered home the point one final time at these Olympics on Saturday: Sochi's Adler Arena belongs to them. It might as well be the Netherlands consulate in Russia.
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Albion is a city in Calhoun County in the south central region of the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. The population was 8,616 at the 2010 census and is part of the Battle Creek Metropolitan Statistical Area. From the time that the earliest English-speaking settlers arrived, the area has also been known as The Forks, because it is situated at the confluence of the north and south branches of the Kalamazoo River. The Festival of the Forks has been held annually since 1967 to celebrate Albion's ethnic heritage.
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DENVER, CO – 2/16/2017 (PRESS RELEASE JET) — Marca Global LLC announced today that Blair Brown has joined the online reputation management technology and services firm as Chief Reputation Officer (CRO). As CRO, Brown will report to the CEO and join the executive leadership team. Her responsibilities include assisting the company in deeply understanding its market and stakeholders while providing integrated management of all brand strategy.
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February 02, 2016 10:00 ET
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RALEIGH, NC--(Marketwired - February 02, 2016) -
The Sixth Flag, Inc. today revealed its model of Cell Structure Security to secure its Workspace-as-a-Service in the Cloud. Recognizing traditional approaches to securing the cloud and enterprise networks are still falling short, Pete Kofod, founder and CEO of The Sixth Flag, has found that this concept, which he developed from experience in the military, to be highly effective in securing his Workspace-as-a-Service.
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(Pictured: Cecelia Kouma Executive Director of Playwrights Project with Cygnet Theatre's President Judy Garrett, Artistic Director Sean Murray, and Managing Director Bill Schmidt at Playwrights in Process New Play Festival. The following post is part of a series highlighting and celebrating the theatres and theatre people of San Diego as part of the 2014 TCG National Conference in San Diego. Email Gus Schulenburg if you'd like to participate.)
Keeping live theatre alive… It's on the minds of theatre leaders across the nation. How do we retain what is magical, adapt to a changing world, and instill the love of theatre in future generations? This is especially challenging in the digital age, where technology is insidiously supplanting face to face contact.
New efforts in audience development have emerged in San Diego, with more theatres adding pre-show conversations, talk backs, workshops, and play festivals that engage audiences in the evolution of new plays. Creative thinkers (including the James Irvine Foundation) at the La Jolla Playhouse WoW'ed us with its festival of site specific work of the same name (With out Walls). Several smaller theatres in San Diego (Circle Circle dot dot, New Play Café, and San Diego Fringe) are following suit by taking their productions to the streets. Others, including Mo'olelo, The Old Globe and Playwrights Project, are focusing on engaging populations who don't typically attend theatre.
As we look to solutions, let's not undervalue the importance of theatre education, or as La Jolla Playhouse's Education Director Steve McCormick (left) calls it, "youth driven" theatre. How will younger generations appreciate live theatre if they've never been exposed to it? Thousands of San Diegans vocally support the demand for a new baseball stadium. The number of parents signing their children up for Little League, soccer and football far outweighs those signing up for theatre classes, dance and music. Why aren't people shouting out for the arts?
Most students are exposed to team sports and required to take PE in school. As the last one chosen for kickball teams, I wonder why athletes weren't required to take acting classes, where I could have reigned as team captain?
How do we ingrain the arts in communities' DNA? Do we need to elevate our local theatre artists into celebrities, as actor TJ Johnson (right) has suggested, with a theatre version of baseball cards? How do we captivate theatre lovers, develop theatre artists and build audiences? More youth theatre programs would certainly whet more appetites, and greater student discounts to professional productions would attract youth to attend theatre. If my high school acting teacher hadn't given his students the opportunity to usher at professional theatre houses (like The Old Globe), I would never have experienced theatre of that magnitude and majesty.
We need to deepen the engagement of students already bitten by the theatre bug. As Jay Sarno, Vice President of North Coast Repertory Theatre puts it, "It's one thing to be in your high school play. It's quite a different thing to be able to write and direct a one-act play and have it produced at a professional theatre like NCRT." I'm sure their student playwrights and student actors would agree.
North Coast Repertory Theatre's Student One Act Festival
Playwrights Project engages student playwrights from across the state in the process of professionally producing their plays with professional actors, directors and designers. This year's 29th festival just ran for its 15th year at The Old Globe. Jim DeVivo, Education Director at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, has identified over 50 groups across the nation producing plays written by young people. He's beginning to connect these groups to share ideas and strategies for the future.
Playwrights Project's Plays by Young Writers Festival;
Carlos Angel-Barajas, Patrick McBride,
Carol Cabrera and Brandon Kelly in FAIRY TALE by Devyn Krevat (age 17). Photo by Ken Jacques.
San Diego Repertory Theatre and its partner The San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts have designed another shining example with their program the Xchange Xperience. They have co-produced four major musicals, including HAIRSPRAY, THE WHO'S TOMMY, ZOOT SUIT and IN THE HEIGHTS. Student actors participate side by side with professional actors, directors and choreographers. Their productions of HAIRSPRAY and IN THE HEIGHTS won local theatre honors over productions that involved all professionals.
Pictured: Jai Rodriguez in San Diego Rep's In the Heights. Photo by Daren Scott.
La Jolla Playhouse brought its site specific strategies to a suburb of San Diego with its project Excavating Escondido, which engaged three local high schools in connecting the history of their city with modern life, in a play that engaged audiences in sharing their hopes of how they'd like to be remembered.
La Jolla Playhouse, Excavating Escondido
Directed by Erika Phillips and James Pillar
High Tech High has employed working actors in full time jobs as theatre teachers; however, one of these positions is slated for elimination as the school shifts its focus to science. Such is the fate of arts in the schools. The STEAM movement hasn't yet landed with this administration. Yet, adding the Arts to the focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math makes a lot of sense.
Quoting Linda Libby (left), the theatre teacher losing her job in June, "English, math, science, history… these can all be learned online… only the arts demand your presence and develop skills and knowledge that can't be acquired over the Internet." She also points out that theatre lets students fully understand that "they matter. Until students really know that they matter, they can't empathize." Every single person involved in a theatre production matters. The stars may get the credit, but it's teamwork. Just ask the crew member who forgot to put out an essential prop. And when a production evokes a response from the audience, there's a connection, a shared understanding. That is empathy.
As Malik Gillani (right) of Chicago's Silk Road Rising Theatre states, "Empathy does not require us to give up our own perspectives, but allows us to integrate others' perspectives within our own. It is critical to develop this skill in order for students to succeed in the 21st century."
Communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity – essential to the new common core standards – are all natural byproducts of theatre. So why isn't theatre top of the priority list for most schools? Ultimately, I suspect, it's because theatre is a bit scary to the uninitiated. Theatre taps our emotions, not just our intellects. Creativity by nature is unpredictable. It's provocative and dangerous. But, it's in these risky live exchanges where vulnerabilities are exposed and the human spirit is glimpsed. As we look toward solutions to keeping live theatre viable, let's not be afraid to talk theatre education. Let's engage youth in theatre and give them something to tweet about.
Cecelia Kouma was hired as Playwrights Project's Managing Director in 2000 and was promoted to Executive Director in 2007. She has a BFA in Theatre Arts, from the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has developed programs for schools, foster youth, adult playwrights, veterans, and immigrants. Ms. Kouma has worked as an arts administrator since 1987 and has presented at conferences on the topics of arts education and nonprofit management. She serves on advisory committees for the San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, San Diego Theatre Educators Alliance, and the San Diego Teaching Artist Institute.


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|Denoising Two-Photon Calcium Imaging Data
Schummers, James; Sur, Mriganka; Perc, Matjaz; Malik, Wasim; Brown, Emery Neal
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|Malik, Wasim Q., James Schummers, Mriganka Sur, and Emery N. Brown. 2011. Denoising two-photon calcium imaging data. PLoS ONE 6(6): e20490.
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|Two-photon calcium imaging is now an important tool for in vivo imaging of biological systems. By enabling neuronal population imaging with subcellular resolution, this modality offers an approach for gaining a fundamental understanding of brain anatomy and physiology. Proper analysis of calcium imaging data requires denoising, that is separating the signal from complex physiological noise. To analyze two-photon brain imaging data, we present a signal plus colored noise model in which the signal is represented as harmonic regression and the correlated noise is represented as an order autoregressive process. We provide an efficient cyclic descent algorithm to compute approximate maximum likelihood parameter estimates by combing a weighted least-squares procedure with the Burg algorithm. We use Akaike information criterion to guide selection of the harmonic regression and the autoregressive model orders. Our flexible yet parsimonious modeling approach reliably separates stimulus-evoked fluorescence response from background activity and noise, assesses goodness of fit, and estimates confidence intervals and signal-to-noise ratio. This refined separation leads to appreciably enhanced image contrast for individual cells including clear delineation of subcellular details and network activity. The application of our approach to in vivo imaging data recorded in the ferret primary visual cortex demonstrates that our method yields substantially denoised signal estimates. We also provide a general Volterra series framework for deriving this and other signal plus correlated noise models for imaging. This approach to analyzing two-photon calcium imaging data may be readily adapted to other computational biology problems which apply correlated noise models.
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The convenience of driverless cars could encourage greater use of them, counteracting the technology's energy savings and environmental benefits.
Autonomous technology allows vehicles to be more efficient during transport, which in turn reduces their energy consumption.
In a study from the University of Leeds, a number of factors were considered that achieve this and their energy savings were documented:
- More efficient computer-directed driving styles (0 to 20 per cent reduction in energy use).
- Improved traffic flow and reduced jams because of coordination between vehicles (0 to 4 per cent reduction).
- 'Platooning' of automated vehicles driving very close together to create aerodynamic savings (4 to 25 per cent reduction).
- Reduced crash risks mean that cars can be lighter and there is less emphasis from car buyers on high performance (5 to 23 per cent reduction).
However, the study also found that the greater appeal of self-driving technology could reduce or even outweigh the efficiency gains.
Lead researcher Dr Zia Wadud said: "There is no doubt that vehicle automation offers several efficiency benefits, but if you can work, relax and even hold a meeting in your car that changes how you use it.
"That, in turn, may change the transport equation and the energy and environmental impact of road transport."
The study uses analysis of self-driving technology combined with data on car and truck use, driver licenses, and vehicle running costs to model the impact on energy demand of various levels of automation on US roads by 2050.
It estimates that car energy consumption will actually increase between five and 60 per cent due to people choosing to use highly automated cars in situations where they would have previously taken alternative transport.
Dr Wadud said: "When you make a decision about transport, you don't just think about the out-of-pocket costs of the train ticket or the car's petrol; you also take into account non-financial costs.
"Car owners might choose to travel by train to relatively distant business meetings because the train allows them to work and relax.
"The need to drive is part of the cost of choosing the car, just as standing on a cold platform is part of the cost of the train. If you can relax in your car as it safely drives itself to a meeting in another city that changes the whole equation."
The study also predicts that people who currently find it difficult or impossible to drive, such as the elderly or some people with disabilities will have increased access to road transport with the advent of the new systems, resulting in an estimated two to 10 per cent increase in road energy use for personal travel.
Since Google revealed the first driverless car prototype in 2012, development on autonomous driving systems has accelerated rapidly.
The UK government recently allocated £20m to fund research projects looking to bring driverless transport to Britain's roads.
In addition, the world's first driverless public transport system came online last month with the launch of an autonomous six-seat shuttle bus in the Netherlands.


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This amazing picture shows how a driver was left dangling over the edge of the Barton Bridge when his Mercedes crashed on the M60 motorway.
The motorist was rescued by police after the vehicle went through the crash barrier, leaving it hanging over a 100ft drop into the Manchester Ship Canal.
The silver Mercedes was only saved from plunging into the water by being skewered by a metal rod from a crash barrier.
Dramatic pictures from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service show the rod went through the windscreen and out through the car's rear window.
Firefighters put out a fire in the car's engine and used a steal cable and winches to stop it from going over the edge.
The driver, in his 20s, was taken unconscious to Manchester Royal Infirmary by paramedics. The smash happened after the Mercedes collided with a van.
Van driver Ryan Jones, 23, a carpenter from Sheffield, said: "The Mercedes driver was very lucky. His car was hanging over the edge. I thought it would go over."
A fire service spokesman said: "The motorist was extremely lucky. If he has come away as reported with relatively minor injuries, then it may be considered nothing short of miraculous."
The car was heading clockwise on the M60 when it was in a collision with a van and hit the barrier at 2.10am yesterday morning between junctions nine and ten, close to the Trafford Centre.
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"Emery Babies" - a support group of adult adoptees whose birthmothers were residents at the Emery Memorial Home and Hospital, Richton, Mississippi, between 1931 and 1963. They are seeking answers to "where did I come from", "what is my family history", and "who do I look like".
As baby boomers, some adoptees are experiencing medical problems and accurate family medical history would be advantageous for treatment.
ALL BABIES are wanting to thank their birthmothers for the sacrifices they made in allowing them to be placed for adoption with loving, caring families and to let them know that there is no shame in the choice that they made.
Over the past few years, one of our Searchers has matched approximately thirty Emery adoptees with birth families. Adoption is a very private and personal matter and for various reasons not all have decided to seek out their birthmothers. As a support group, we share information about searching and leave the decision for making contact up to the adoptee. If the adoptee decides to contact the birthmother, then we have support members to assist, if needed.
* * * Emery Baby Reunion 2016 * * *
Reunion begins at 5 pm on Friday evening, Sept 30th at 215 Main Street, Hattiesburg, MS for a reception with light fare. Saturday morning, Oct 1st, we will meet back at 215 Main Street at 10 am. We will be taking a tour of downtown Richton and then we will visit the grounds of the Emery Home. Dinner will be at 5 pm, Saturday, Oct 1st, at Mack's Fish Camp, 820 River Road, Hattiesburg, MS. Dinner will be your responsibility. Sunday, Oct 2nd, we will attend the 10:30 am worship service at the 38th Avenue Baptist Church, 419 38th Street, Hattiesburg, MS. This is the church of our oldest known Emery baby, David Hulsey. Any questions please call 703-861-1172 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com. I look forward to seeing you at the reunion. Eva Wingfield, Chairperson 2016 Emery Baby Reunion. Thanks!
History of the Emery Home
In 1931, the Emery Home was opened after the E.A. Emery family donated their property to the Missionary Bands of the World. The Home was established as a home for unwed mothers. Rev. Mable Cooper was superintendent of the Home from 1931 until her death at the Home in 1961.
In 1962, Gov. Ross Barnett issued a proclamation designating January 30 as "Emery Memorial Home Day" and stated that it was estimated that two thousand young women had found a home away from home at absolutely no cost to them at the Emery Home.
While staying at the Home, the girls were assigned biblical names and their real names were kept confidential. Some of the girls were at the Home for months prior to delivery and others for only a short time. Some were there to give birth more than once.
During the early years, the Home had the same facilities for obstetrical work as hospitals and a full-time nurse and most of the babies were delivered there. In the later years, some of the babies were delivered at hospitals in Hattiesburg or Laurel.
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I'm a very big fan of random trips. Spontaneity keeps life entertaining and is the ultimate antidote to mundane repetition. A few days ago my cousin Adrian called me at the worst possible time (prior to my interview with Finn Partners) to deliver the best news; he wanted me to accompany him to a meeting in Los Angeles.
Without hesitation I accepted. The meeting he had was with the marketing representative from LRG in order to learn strategies to help Riot Kids, which is a children's street ware company Adrian and I founded.
This trip had a little bit of everything. We walked through Hollywood, marveled at the palatial houses of Beverly Hills and grabbed breakfast in Laguna Beach. The meeting went very well and further motivated us to improve Riot Kids.
One moment of this trip stands out. It was very rainy during this day but we still wanted to hike to the Hollywood sign and knock it out of our bucket list. Darkness was falling but we still thought we could make the hike so we set on up the slushy mountains through the mist. Our phones were dying and we eventually did not make it to the top but I'm glad we tried.
I am happy that even though we are both becoming adults that we can have these moments of pure spontaneity. This sense of adventure is something that I hope neither of us lose in the coming years.
Mikey's Passport
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
An update on the status of writing my book. My writing partner and I met this weekend and nailed down the itinerary of the trip. We will be spending 3 weeks on a WWOOF farm in the Phuket region of Thailand. Option 1 is Rainbow Valley Farm which is located near Khao Sok National Park. Option 2 is a family-run organic farm on the small island of Ko Lanta. We will then backpack for a week through the islands of Thailand and finish our trip by spending a week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I had a long conversation with my mother Esperanza Arevalo and decided how the book will be structured. Thank you for all your support!
|Beautiful Rainbow Valley; a possible WWOOFing location.
|Phuket's main attraction; the beach!
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Have American's Lost Their Sense of Adventure?
|Atop Mt. Tamalpais viewing San Francisco
Have American's lost their sense of adventure?
As a college student I have accomplished a lot. I completed 6 internships at many large news stations, have been a part of student government and won countless awards and scholarships during my four years in college. I always prided myself on my hard work ethic, but now that I am close to graduation I am second guessing whether or not I want to continue this back breaking work ethic or if the career I am in is really what I want to do.
You see, I am living what many Americans see as the traditional road; work hard, get your degree, get a job, get a mortgage, raise a family, etc. That is a very fine road to take if that is what you wish to do, but do most people choose that path or simply accept it as the status quo?
Times have changed very greatly from when young adults my age would choose to travel the world in their early 20's, or join the military or simply something new. The Beatniks of the 60's/70's embodied the spirit of pure adventure and would simply visit new places just to explore. Fast forward to 2014 and all my friends talk about is how they are stressing about finding jobs, fretting about interviews and pacing back and forth doing what many people in their senior year crisis do; worry about what to do with their lives. It has taken a while for me to figure out what I plan on doing immediately after college, but the answer was so simple.
I watched a video from the late philosopher Alan Watts who asked the simple question "What would you do if money where no issue? If you knew you could not fail, what would you like to do with your life?" It is a question that many are afraid to ask because they afraid to not follow their dreams. Afraid of disrupting the status quo, afraid of what their parents will say and ultimately afraid they will not achieve it. I promise not to be one of those people.
Ever since I was a child I have had a passionate love for writing. I would write in a journal when I was in elementary, started my high school's newspaper and continued my writing through blogs and essays in college. If money were no factor I would continue doing what I am currently doing write now; writing.
My newest passion I only recently discovered, but man, she has me head over heels for her. Travel was never an option growing up in my tiny town of 5,000. I would see the same faces and places day after day. Many in my town also have the notion that there is no escape and many never leave.
Ever since I traveled to Europe after my graduation from high school I wondered what else I missed out on. I felt an interconnectedness with the rest of the world that was so beautiful I can't even begin to describe it. The world is so immense and wonderful but most shocking was not the unfamiliar terrain or differences in culture, but rather how warmly similar these people were to me. Although thousands of miles away you could still recognize a friendly smile, a laugh, a display of affection, a moment of sadness and pure moment of joy regardless of ethnicity. If money were no object I would travel the world and immerse myself in the global ocean and learn new cultures while meeting new people.
Eureka! I had found the two things I was passionate about and figured out a way to put them together. After graduation I will fulfill my need for travel by spending a month in Thailand and, if money permits me to, I will continue to travel from country to country until the money runs out. I will also fulfill my need to write by completing my childhood dream of writing a book about my travels and hopefully encourage others to expand their minds by expanding their perception of the world beyond the US border.
I have found my long-lost sense of adventure and hope others will do the same. These are difficult times to be a college student and there are many reasons not to embark on an adventure such as family issues, financial issues or fear. However hopefully my book, blog and travels will encourage others to think about what they truly want to do and whether or not they are following the path to reach those dreams or if they are simply taking the well worn path because it is easy.
Many other countries encourage a gap year to follow their dreams, but we do not. Many other countries encourage their citizens to learn multiple languages, yet many in America refuse to do so. Perhaps this is the reason why only 33% of American's own passports.
Many of my American friends have never left the country where as my friends from Europe, Africa and South America have visited multiple. I truly believe that our culture and geographical location actually discourage travel and hope to change that. My book and blogs may not get many views, but hopefully the stories I will share may spark at least one person to think differently.
My questions for readers to think about and comment below are:
Do you think America's culture encourages or discourages travel abroad?
If money was not an object, what would you like to do?
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As some of you may know, my nephew has Cerbral Palsy.
During the school holidays, a local organisation called SNAPS leads activities for local disabled children and their families to do, such as bowling, arts and crafts, softplay, swimming and ice skating, enabling the families to do things together that they would normally find difficult to do.
They make a fantastic impact in our local area, and it would be lovely to be able to raise some money to help out this group that does such good work.
As such, I have volunteered to throw myself off the top of the Stratosphere hotel in Las Vegas, on their rope assisted fall!!
829 feet, reaching speeds of up to 40mph!!
Those of you who know me well, will be well aware that I am petrified of heights, so this is something I am absolutely dreading!!!
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NEW YORK — Just say H-2-No.
That's what an increasing number of public officials, environmental advocates and restaurateurs are urging people to do when they're tempted to reach for bottled water.
NEW YORK — Just say H-2-No.
That's what an increasing number of public officials, environmental advocates and restaurateurs are urging people to do when they're tempted to reach for bottled water.
Rather than spend their dollars on costly plastic containers of water, consumers should boot the bottle and turn on their taps, according to such officials as San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Salt Lake City Mayor Ross "Rocky" Anderson and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak.
Those three sponsored a resolution at last month's meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors calling for a study to examine the environmental impact that millions of empty water bottles have on municipal garbage operations.
Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have issued executive orders prohibiting the use of city money to buy bottled water, and the Ann Arbor City Council in Michigan last month approved a measure calling for city events to be bottled-water-free.
"For a long time, I've viewed [bottled water] as a huge marketing scam," Anderson said recently, explaining why he has called for city employees to drink tap water and use refillable water bottles.
Municipal water supplies are just as good as bottled water and are monitored far more closely, city officials around the country say. And a gallon of tap water typically costs less than a penny, up to 10,000 times less than an equivalent gallon of bottled water, according to the mayors' resolution.
The bottled-water business calls the attacks unfair. The head of the industry's leading trade group says bottled water's competition is not the kitchen faucet but the soft drinks, sports drinks, iced teas and other beverages that fill grocery store shelves.
"I think it's unfortunate there is now this tap water-versus-bottled water controversy," said Joseph Doss, president of the International Bottled Water Association, which represents 450 bottlers, distributors and suppliers. "We don't see it that way. I don't think consumers are replacing tap water with bottled water. We make a food product. We see other food products as our competitors."
Whether they're competing with Coke and Pepsi or the local water department, bottled-water companies have enjoyed strong sales growth since the early 1990s. A once-laughable idea -- Who'd pay for water when you can get it for free? -- has become the second-biggest category in the beverage industry.
Bottled water has been popular in many foreign countries for decades because of the poor quality of the local water supplies. The first brands to gain a foothold in the U.S. in the 1980s were imports such as Perrier and Evian, both from France, which were marketed as chic, trendy products.
Some water still comes from overseas, such as the South Pacific island nation of Fiji, but 97 percent of the bottled water sold in the U.S. is domestic.
Bottled water sales exceeded 8.25 billion gallons in 2006, a 9.5 percent increase over 2005, with sales of more than $10.8 billion. Americans drink, on average, 27.6 gallons of bottled water per person annually, up from 16.7 gallons in 2000, according to the Beverage Marketing Corp., a New York consulting firm.
That's a 65 percent increase. Only soft drinks outsell bottled water, and their market share has been gradually declining.
"It tends to appeal to younger consumers," said Gary Hemphill, Beverage Marketing's managing director, referring to bottled water. "A lot of it has to do with active lifestyles -- you're mobile and out and about. The portability is important."
Although the bottled-water industry says its growth has not come at the expense of tap water, the amount of tap water that Americans drink has been falling.
New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden believes a generation of younger Americans has grown up thinking that tap water isn't safe.
That was one reason he teamed with the city's environmental protection department to produce a $700,000 marketing campaign to urge New Yorkers to drink the city's tap water, which comes from the Catskill Mountains and often is cited as one of the purest water supplies in the country.
"Cool. Healthy. Clean. Zero sugar. Zero calories," one poster declares. "NYC Water. Get your fill."
By stressing the fact that water is calorie-free, Frieden hopes to persuade people to drink fewer sugary drinks as a way to reduce obesity. Whether that water comes out of a tap or is sold in a plastic bottle is of less concern to him.
"It doesn't matter, as long as it's not sugar-sweetened," said Frieden. But, he adds, "If the popularity of bottled water leads to people thinking that tap water isn't safe, that's unfortunate because at least in New York, our tap water tastes better than any bottled water."


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Darren Hayman was a member of "Britain's largest small band", Hefner. Lo-fi, often recorded in one take and noticeably influenced by Darren's art school experience, Hefner have provided background music for countless teenagers writing bad poetry in a lonely bedroom. Unsurprisingly they were also beloved of John Peel. Darren has been involved in a number of projects since, including The French, and most recently Darren Hayman and The Secondary Modern, who have an album out on the 15th of October. Check the website www.hefnet.com for more info.
I find it easy to like tunes that other people haven't heard of. In some ways it almost defines my taste. I don't really see the point in owning music that you are likely to hear every day on the radio or TV or in a shop. The other day I bought the Kate Nash album, I quite like it, its OK, but I don't listen to it because every time I go out all I hear everywhere I go is bloody Kate Nash.
I know it's elitist and snobbish to go to extreme lengths to listen to music that no body else knows, but I'm really surprised that more people don't do it. I suppose for many people music is a group bonding thing, being part of a collective and singing along to Angels by Robbie Williams in a field (I'm not down on that by the way Angels is a fine song), but for many of my favourite gigs I have been in audiences of less than 20 people.
Consequently I'm going to try and not be too obtuse or contrary, partly because I don't want to be seen as a complete tosser but also because I at least want people to be able to buy these things in HMV.
Dear Betty Baby By Mayo Thompson from the album Corkys Debt to his Father
I could have picked any song from this album. This one isn't necessarily the best but the one that sprang to mind. Mayo Thompson is best known for being the leader of avant-garde rockers Red Krayola who have made 50 albums or something. This is quite peculiar for him though. To my ears it sounds like his trying to make a proper album of normal songs but has no idea of how to construct it. It really is beautiful and heartbreaking and all the things Red Krayola often aren't. It sounds like a pop record made by someone who has never heard pop music before.
The Leanover by Life Without Buildings from the album Any Other City
I was privileged to tour with LWB when I was in Hefner. For a band that only did one proper album and who sold 10 copies it already seems they are going through a slow period of re-appraisal. Mark my words they'll be in Mojo in 15 years time. You either hate or love the singer's voice. My wife hates it, really hates it, the only thing she hates more is Prince. She goes round my bedroom doing a stupid un-prince like dance going; 'Look at me, I'm Prince, I'm so sexy' in a squeaky voice.
Country Road by Toots and the Maytals from the album Funky Kingston
Its quite an easy party trick to find an amusing Reggae cover version that somebody hasn't heard, but in this case I do genuinely feel this is better than John Denvers version and also the match of more well know songs of Toots like Monkey Man and Pressure Drop. The Maytals are a band, which like Talking Heads and Sly and the Family Stone, I always forget are the best band ever. I can go a few months without thinking about them and then when I hear a Toots record I wonder why I ever listen to anything else.
Saved by the Bell by Robin Gibb from the album Robin's Reign
Talking of Sly and the Family Stone, its often said that they had the first commercial use of a drum machine on Family Affair, though recently I was told Saved by the Bell beats it by some stretch. The sane muffled drum machine is on nearly every track of this bizarre, dense and emotional album. I could have picked any song from any Bee Gees album pre-disco period. They really aren't the band most people think they are. They have really intelligent unlikely, observed lyrics and tunes that I would chop my dick off to be able to write. This albums is hard to get at the moment though, you need to Ebay the vinyl.
< I Got My Lady by John Howard from the album Can You Hear Me OK?
People in the know will tell you that John's first album Kid in a Big Album is his best and they're probably right, that's where you should start. Until recently he had only released one album in 40-year career, now his released about 6 or 7, talk about a late developer. I've actually gotten to know John recently and he plays on my next record. He is as gay as a window though so I don't know what 'lady' he's 'got' in this song.


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The LPO rehearses Tuesday evenings
7:30 - 9:30pm
Pawtucket Congregational Church
15 Mammoth Road
Lowell, MA 01854
No auditions
Member dues: $25/season ($75/year)
The LPO breaks between seasons
(July through August)
Current Openings
- Violin
- Viola
- Cello
- Bass
- Trombone
- Tuba
- Percussion
Interested in joining, but your instrument isn't listed? We would still like to hear from you in case of future openings!
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