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Dallas officials plan to announce Tuesday the landing of an aviation-related tenant at Dallas Executive Airport.
"It's going to be good," said City Council member Tennell Atkins. "It's going to attract people."
Details remain sketchy for now. But that's the sort of success the city hopes to achieve by promoting and upgrading its long-languishing airport in southern Dallas.
Those efforts, however, are also exposing a long-standing truth: Changing an airport can ruffle neighbors, particularly when they are surprised.
Beginning this summer, Dallas Executive's two runways will be rebuilt to handle heavier loads. A proposed lengthening of the main runway awaits approval. The projects, with a combined cost of $35 million, are designed to make the airport safer for all sizes of general aviation aircraft.
An update of the airport's master plan forecasts an increase in flights and in the number of planes based there. It projects that the airport's fleet mix will include more business jets and suggests a runway extension to 7,136 feet. That would be in line with Dallas Executive's primary competitors, Addison Airport and Collin County Regional Airport in McKinney.
Nearly two years ago, the City Council's Economic Development Committee discussed proposals for improving and marketing the 1,040-acre airport. The goal was to help Dallas Executive realize its economic potential.
Last November, Atkins was quoted in news stories as saying the planned upgrades, particularly the lengthened runway, should help the former Red Bird Airport finally take off. Another council committee briefing in February continued the drum beat.
Hearing about all this, airport neighbors started asking: What's up?
Their questions and concerns were the typical: noise, traffic, property values, development at and near the airport.
"I don't think it will bring anything positive to the neighborhood," said Ben Giersch, who has lived near the airport for seven years.
But the chief problem, he and others say, has been a lack of public communication and inclusion.
"If there's nothing to hide and they're not blowing smoke, why didn't they involve me?" said Karen Cameron, who has lived near the airport for almost 10 years.
Development of the airport's master plan "will include an active public outreach program to solicit comments and suggestions," according to the plan's introduction.
City staff members told the council's Economic Development Committee in 2012, "All constituent groups must be included in this process for success."
But those who live near the publicly owned airport say they weren't invited to planning meetings or told what's in store for Dallas Executive until recently.
After pressing for information, they packed the airport's conference center on April 3 for a meeting hosted by the city. They heard Mark Duebner, the city's aviation director, describe the proposed improvements, apologize for the poor communication and promise to do better.
"This is 100 percent my fault that we did not have more public meetings about this project," he said. "You are our neighbors. And you should be given the opportunity to hear from us, talk with us.
"We are 100 percent transparent," he said, "because we're not that smart to have a conspiracy."
Raymond Crawford disputes that. He says the lack of communication has been more troubling than the proposed improvements.
"I'm not against development," he said. "My concern from the get-go has been transparency."
Crawford, who lives about a mile from the airport, has been a leading contributor to a Facebook page, Neighbors of Dallas Executive Airport, that has rained criticism on the city and on Duebner.
He has written letters to the aviation director and the Federal Aviation Administration, contending that the city didn't follow rules with the runway projects.
Federal law requires an environmental review and a public hearing when federally funded aviation projects include a new airport, new runway or major runway extension. The Texas Department of Transportation, which manages such projects for general aviation airports, determined that rebuilding Dallas Executive's existing runways did not require such a review and hearing, said Dave Fulton, the department's director of aviation.
The separate runway extension proposal will be reviewed before a public hearing, he said.
Crawford and others question why the extension is necessary, given what they heard from Duebner at the April 3 meeting.
"We expect Dallas Executive to be in the future as it is today," he said. "We're improving the airport. We're not expanding it. We're making the existing facilities better."
The aviation director said the airport "won't have anything bigger than the Gulfstream IV. That is our sweet spot. The customer we're going to serve is the customer we have now."
A Gulfstream IV is one of 26 jets, and 182 total planes, now based at the airport. It's in the largest class of aircraft at Dallas Executive.
The airport's master plan, however, says one reason for lengthening the main runway beyond 7,000 feet is to "better accommodate all business jet operations." That could include larger aircraft than those in the current fleet.
The 685-foot extension would help compensate for the impact of new runway safety standards related to the improvements. Planes now land close to the end of the 6,451-foot main runway. When that runway is rebuilt, its landing area will be moved inward from the edge by 400 or 500 feet, depending on a plane's direction.
"The net effect ... is to keep us with roughly the same amount of operating space as we have now," Duebner said in an interview. "We think getting 7,000 feet provides enough pavement and enough safety areas that operators of all types of [general aviation] aircraft are going to feel comfortable and good about using our airport."
The more the better, he said.
"We will not be a commercial airport," he said at the April 3 meeting. "We also know we live in your neighborhood, and we're sensitive. But our goal is to have a quality airport that generates activity that spins off into additional economic benefit for the city and for the area. That's our mission."
The improvements will make Dallas Executive more competitive. But the challenge of attracting planes and tenants will remain.
"There's not a bunch of general aviation aircraft sitting somewhere desperate to find an airport," Duebner said. "It's going to be a tough, long fight to get planes to come to Dallas Executive with all the other options they have in the area."
In the meantime, he encourages neighbors to keep asking questions. "We're always going to be here," he said at the April 3 gathering. "Call me, email me."
He pledged to keep holding meeting with neighbors "until no one shows up."
Cameron said she'd take him up on that.
"You bet you," she said, "if I know about it."


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In a March issue of The New York Review of Books, our July speaker, Jessica Mathews dissects the new book by Henry Kissinger:
"Almost from the beginning of its history, America has struggled to find a balance in its foreign policy between narrowly promoting its own security and idealistically serving the interests of others; between, as we've tended to see it in shorthand, Teddy Roosevelt's big stick and the ideals of Woodrow Wilson. Just as consistently, the US has gone through periods of embracing a leading international role for itself and times when Americans have done all they could to turn their backs on the rest of the world . . ." Click to read more.

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A state agency reports today that Syracuse officials continue to flout civil service rules by keeping more than 100 employees on the payroll of the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency when they actually work for the city.
The report by the state Authorities Budget Office also says the city "appears to misuse various grant funds" to pay personnel costs for some employees of the urban renewal agency.
The Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency no longer serves a legitimate function and should be dissolved, the report concludes. City officials strongly disagree, saying the agency still serves a vital role addressing blight in poor neighborhoods.
David Kidera, director of the Authorities Budget Office, said his office conducted the review "in part" to follow up on an article last May in The Post-Standard, which documented the urban renewal agency's continued hiring of workers who have nothing to do with urban renewal.
The Authorities Budget Office warned Syracuse in a 2009 report that such hiring was declared illegal decades ago in an opinion issued by the state comptroller.
"This practice enables the city to circumvent civil service rules, report fewer city workers than are actually working for city departments, and opens the possibility that federal grant funds could be used inappropriately to offset the cost of city operations," today's ABO report states.
Mayor Stephanie Miner, who chairs the urban renewal agency, said Wednesday in response to the ABO report that she will continue her efforts to reduce the urban renewal agency payroll, which has shrunk by 14 percent since she took office in 2010.
Miner also said her administration will change some of its payroll practices to address concerns raised by the ABO. But her finance commissioner, David DelVecchio, a SURA board member, said the city never misused federal funds.
"That's not the case," DelVecchio said. "You don't use federal money for city purposes."
The state Legislature created the Syracuse Urban Renewal Agency in 1962, along with similar agencies in other cities, so Syracuse could take advantage of millions of dollars of federal and state urban renewal aid.
As a public benefit corporation legally distinct from the city, the agency is able to hire employees without going through the civil service system.
In 1974, federal urban renewal allocations gave way to the Community Development Block Grant program, and SURA's role was greatly diminished. But the agency never stopped creating jobs at the behest of mayors.
Civil service rules are designed to curb favoritism in hiring and to protect experienced professionals from changes of administration. Miner created jobs on the SURA payroll for her husband's grandson, her top aide's nephew, her campaign manager and several of her strongest political supporters, The Post-Standard reported in May. With some exceptions, the mayor can hire — and fire — SURA employees at will without them being subject to competitive testing.
As of July 2012, SURA had 103 employees working in 14 city departments. The agency is run by the mayor, DelVecchio, and the president of the Common Council, Van Robinson.
Bill Ryan, Miner's chief of staff, concedes that the job duties of 28 current SURA employees have little or nothing to do with urban renewal work. Those positions will be gradually converted to normal city jobs through attrition, he said.
Many of the workers who currently hold those jobs are long-time employees, hired before Miner was mayor, and city officials do not intend to convert their jobs to civil service positions until they leave, Ryan said.
City officials contend that the 75 other SURA employees — who work in the departments of law, neighborhood and business development, or planning and sustainability — are dedicated to urban renewal work. However, none works exclusively on SURA business. Among them are code enforcement officers, city planners
and paralegals. Ryan said city officials will review whether some or all of those jobs should become city jobs.
The ABO report notes that the city, which is self-insured for workers compensation, cannot insure SURA workers. SURA uses federal money from its Community Development Block Grant to buy insurance for its employees, a cost of about $50,000, said DelVecchio.
Because only 19 SURA employees are authorized to be paid with CDBG funds, federal money should not be used to buy insurance for the others, the ABO contends. DelVecchio said the city will stop using CDBG money to pay insurance premiums for all but the 19 employees in the future, to address the ABO's concern.
The ABO was created in 2006 to monitor the operations of public agencies and authorities and to require them to file public reports. The office can refer issues to other agencies, but has no enforcement powers.
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Washington Nationals Manager Frank Robinson criticized Toronto Blue Jays catcher Gregg Zaun for a play at the plate yesterday that resulted in first baseman Nick Johnson injuring his right heel.
Johnson, who landed awkwardly on the heel when crossing the plate in the seventh inning, was taken to the Washington Hospital Center for X-rays and an MRI exam.
"What he tried to do is avoid Zaun's leg," Robinson said. "He jumped over his leg. And this is why catchers get knocked on their butts, just that very reason. He blocked the plate when he didn't have a chance for a play at the plate. That's why you should never as a runner avoid knocking them on their butt, because there is a good possibility you're going to get hurt."
Zaun said he got his leg out of the way when he saw the throw wasn't going to beat Johnson, adding, "Apparently, there was not anyone behind home telling him to slide."
"He [Robinson] gestured at me, but I didn't take it personally," Zaun said. "From his viewpoint, it may have looked like a dirty play, but he should know better than that. I'm not a dirty player."
Church Is Close to Return
Robinson and outfielder Ryan Church have set an optimistic target date of tomorrow for the rookie to return to action.
Church, who bruised his left shoulder colliding into the outfield wall in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, said yesterday that he felt a lot better, even as he missed his third consecutive game. . . .
Robinson said the Nationals are more talented than the 1989 Baltimore Orioles team he managed, which improved 321/2 games from 1988 and finished second in the American League East.
"There is more proven talent on this team," said Robinson, adding that the teams are similar in their commitment to fundamentals.
Nationals ace Livan Hernandez knows a lot about what it takes to make the postseason, having played a key role in the Florida Marlins' 1997 championship run.
"It's too early," Hernandez said. "June -- nobody goes to the playoffs in June."


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Melt butter and onions in a pan, stir for a few minutes until onions begin to soften. Add squash and 3 cups of water. Cook until tender.
Drain squash and onion mix, but set water aside.
Mix squash mix, 1 c. of water reserved from cooking, and 1 can of cream of chicken soup. Place half of mix on the bottom of a casserole dish. Cover with 1/2 of cheese (4 oz). Top with last half of squash mix, and remaining cheese. You can cover this and freeze it at this point until you are ready to bake/eat. When you are ready to bake sprinkle 1 row of crushed Ritz crackers on top, and pour 1/2 c. melted butter on top of crackers. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
*For a vegetarian version-use 1 can of cream of mushroom soup instead of cream of chicken.
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Cal Poly's baseball team moved to as high as No. 4 in major national polls Monday, including a ranking of No. 4 from Baseball America.
The Mustangs clinched a Big West Conference series, 2-1, with a 1-0 home win over rival UC Santa Barbara on Sunday.
Cal Poly also is ranked No. 4 by Perfect Game, while the Collegiate Baseball and USA Today/ESPN polls have the Mustangs at No. 6.
Mustangs pitcher Bloomquist honored
Cal Poly sophomore right-hander Casey Bloomquist earned Big West Pitcher of the Week after throwing 7 2⁄3 scoreless innings Sunday against UCSB.
Bloomquist is 7-0 with a 1.25 ERA.
Cal Poly men's tennis team falls, 4-3
Cal Poly's men's tennis team scored two quick points before San Francisco rallied for a 4-3 home win.
On doubles courts, Cal Poly's Jurgen De Jager and Ben Donovan won 8-2 before teammates Devin Barber and Corey Pang won 8-4 to clinch the doubles point.
In singles, Cal Poly's Matt Thomson swept 6-2, 6-2 before Pang won 2-6, 7-6 (8-6), 6-3.
Cal Poly fell to 7-11 overall.
Mustangs women's golfers in hunt
Cal Poly has two women's golfers in the top 15 of The Gold Rush at Yorba Linda Country Club as Taylor Yoshitake is tied for 10th place (151) and Jamie Corr is tied for 13th (152).
The individual leader is Alice Kim of Gonzaga with a 4-under 140. The Mustangs carded a total of 625, putting them in seventh place. Gonzaga leads with a 592.


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The General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) is a national organization unifying women's clubs across the country, supporting the arts, preserving resources, advancing education, promoting healthy lifestyles, and encouraging civic involvement; Their Motto, "Unity in Diversity."
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GFWC CFWC Woman's Club of Redondo Beach is dedicated to advancing our national and state federated values in our local community. We organized in 1908, Federated in 1910 and incorporated in 1915. In addition to promoting charitable, educational and service programs we take pride in the preservation and care of our historic clubhouse. We are a recognized 501(c)(3) exempt organization, are nonpartisan and nondenominational.


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German telecom company E-Plus has introduced its first Android smartphone namely the Base Lutea. BASE Lutea smartphone is a rebranding from ZTE Blade, from ZTE Corporation with improved models with 5-megapixel camera instead of a 3 megapixel. Actually, the device is already being sold in India is known as Dell XCD35 and in the UK is Orange San Francisco.
The E-Plus Base Lutea is powered by a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen display with resolution of 480 x 800 pixels that support for multitouch technology, a 2GB microSD card, an FM radio, an MP3 player, 1250 mAh battery should give up to 6 hours of talk time and 250 hours of standby time and running Android OS 2.1. E-Plus Lutea smartphone also comes with Bluetooth, 3G, GPS and Wi-Fi.
The Base Lutea Android smartphone will be released in early December 2010 for free with an E-Plus two-year contract that offers $18/14 euros per month and gets 200 MB of high-speed data (HSDPA at 7.2 Mbps).


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After the company installed Intelek Technologies' EDI solutions, Melton was able to save time and money.
"With DiamondMine and StripMiner software from Intelek Technologies, we are realizing significant savings compared to when we handled EDI transactions and load procurement internally," says Randy Rhines, senior vice president of IT at Melton. "We're also gaining immeasurable amounts of business we might not have secured otherwise."
With its DiamondMine EDI software handling and speeding up the process of mapping, Melton could devote at least half of a programmer's time to other duties, saving about $40,000 a year in salary and benefits. Using the StripMiner software, Melton can monitor shipper loads and respond quickly. With this, the company was able to eliminate the need to double the staff required for this task, saving $90,000 a year.
"Without this package of solutions, we would be realizing a loss of business and higher costs from managing EDI transactions in-house," says Rhines.
Everyone's doing it
Within the transportation community, EDI is the method of choice for communicating in a standard way, explains Ken Weinberg, vice president with Carrier Logistics. Weinberg defines EDI as the idea of transmitting data between two parties electronically. "For all intents and purposes, it's a language."
These days, it's a language carriers are going to have to use if they want to do business with the big players in the shipping community. EDI first came on the scene in the 1970s. Today, it's not just considered an add-on solution; for a lot of trucking companies, it's a given.
"The majority of your big shippers require some kind of EDI now," says Jimmy Star, owner of Woodfield, a carrier out of Camden, Ark. "It's just how business is done nowadays." Woodfield operates on Horizon EDI software from Melton Technologies, or MTI (not to be confused with Melton Truck Lines.)
Using this EDI standardized language, MTI's system manages Woodfield's communications with shippers automatically, reducing the human element. With the technology, the carrier has been able to save on personnel, speed up its receivables, and improve customer satisfaction. "People don't want to talk on the phone anymore," Star says.
Transaction sets
According to Carrier Logistics' Weinberg, EDI is a "non-standard standard." While there are certain transaction sets for different types of communications and data being sent, shippers may use the fields within the transaction set in different ways. Some of the most common transaction sets include:
* 204: Load Tender
* 990: Response to Load Tender (accept or reject)
* 210: Invoice
* 214: Transportation Carrier Shipment Status Message
* 997: Functional Acknowledgement
Using these transaction sets, which can be automated, carriers can relieve the back office burden, according to John Gaither, MTI's vice president of sales and marketing. "When it's done in this manner, it's so automated that our customers don't have to do anything."
MTI's Bob Hogan, implementation specialist, says his company's software eliminates the need for duplicating data entry, as it captures information from the shipper automatically. The data is then presented to the user in MTI's suite. That lets the carrier focus on the management decision of whether to accept the load or not, he says. The system also has the potential to automatically book the load if the carrier is contracted with a particular shipper. This type of system also promotes accuracy because there is little human intervention.
The American National Standards Institute facilitates the development of EDI standards by establishing consensus among qualified groups. The American Trucking Associations' Information Technology and Logistics Council publishes Electronic Data Interchange Implementation Guidelines to help members understand the standards and provide ideas for putting them into place.
VAN vs. direct
Carriers have two different options for sending EDI data to the shipper. The direct method requires the carrier to access the web sites of all its shipper customers and set up communication for each. Or, carriers can use Value-Added Networks, or VANs, which serve as "post offices for EDI," or clearinghouses of data, says Tom Heine, president of Aljex Software. There are several companies that provide VAN services, which involve converting the transaction sets into the format the shipper or carrier wants.
Every shipper prefers a different format for receiving the transaction sets. Some may want FTP (file transfer protocol), others Applicability Statement 2 (AS2), etc. For a monthly fee and a per-character fee, a VAN will translate the data into the needed format and send it to the other party over a secured network, according to Carrier Logistics' Weinberg.
Using a VAN can get expensive, and it's easier to trade information directly, especially with the Internet, says Heine. However, it can also be hard for a carrier to juggle all the different communications for each customer. The system has to be up and running 24 hours a day, seven days a week in order to manage this, according to Doug Anderson, vice president of sales at Kleinschmidt, which provides EDI VAN services.
If you have a small number of trading partners, it will be more feasible to connect directly and do it all yourself, Anderson says. But if you have a lot of shippers and you don't have a big IT department, it may pay to let someone else handle it for you.
Kleinschmidt can translate data into any format the shipper wants. Its servers never go down, providing 100 percent uptime, he says. The company offers two production sites, multiple Internet service providers, and 24/7 staff availability.
EDI software companies provide different options for going direct and with a VAN. Carrier Logistics built its software so customers can "map" their customers' requests without a VAN. The company's system connects directly to the customer, while its staff will also assist.
With MTI, users can connect directly or through a VAN.
Intelek Technologies also helps carriers to bypass VAN charges where possible, although it helps customers handle both direct and VAN communications. Gary Hopkins, president of Intelek, says the company offers outsourcing services, so you don't need technical staff. Intelek can either supplement a carrier's staff or be their technical staff. Its DiamondMine EDI software can be deployed via Internet/phone connection, on its IBM iSeries platform, through software-as-a-service run on Intelek's servers, or through a Web-based solution.
According to Aljex's Heine, 70 percent of the Aljex's third-party logistics customers connect directly. Aljex provides an EDI solution that caters to third-party logistics customers, the intermediary between shippers and carriers in some cases.
"[EDI] changes the whole landscape for a company," says Heine. EDI locks in a carrier or a broker to the business, putting a barrier in the way for others looking to take your customers, he says. "Once you're part of the system, you're part of the system."
The next big thing in EDI is XML, says Kleinschmidt's Anderson. Sound like alphabet soup? XML, or Extensible Markup Language, is another supported way of exchanging data electronically. According to Anderson, XML is another format for EDI that is more readable by humans than the traditional EDI formats. Someone new to the industry or unfamiliar with traditional EDI formats can pick it up more quickly, and the software used to translate XML is less expensive, he says.
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GPS Fleet Tracking Provider Honored for Innovation and Growth in Small to Medium Business Services
GPS Fleet Tracking Provider Honored for Innovation and Growth in Small to Medium Business Services
ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwired - Dec 4, 2014) - NexTraq has been named a silver winner in the Small or Medium Business Service of the Year category in Best in Biz Awards 2014, the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts.
NexTraq has more than 14 years of experience in the telematics industry, and continues to produce the most comprehensive, reliable and easy-to-use GPS fleet tracking solution on the market. The NexTraq Fleet Tracking platform is a cloud-based application that helps small to medium businesses in the service and distribution industries simplify processes while increasing revenue and decreasing costs.
Best in Biz Awards' fourth annual North American program was its most competitive yet. As in previous years, the fourth annual program in North America featured a large and distinguished judging panel comprised of members of the media who reviewed and scored the hundreds of award nominations. More than 550 award nominations were received this year in a variety of company, executive, team, and product focused categories. Nominations were fielded from public and private companies of all sizes, from virtually every major industry and region in the U.S. and Canada.
"The companies presented to me appear, each in their own way, poised to carve out market share and positions in new industries, and I want to congratulate each of the affiliated executives," said Jonathan Marino, TheDeal.com.
Winners of Best in Biz Awards 2014 were determined based on scoring from an independent panel of 53 judges from highly recognized newspapers, business, consumer and technology publications, radio outlets, and analyst firms. In addition to the numerous judges returning from previous panels, this year's 53-person judging panel included several worthy additions to this high-profile group.
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Casey stalks Ashley. Norris is sulking because Rita refused his marriage proposal. Ashley and Claire take Yvonne to the dentist while Kirk looks after Freddie. Jerry asks Eileen to the cinema. Gail discovers that the freezer is off. David has removed the fuse ruining the food. Casey tells Kirk that Ashley has been held up and that she has come to take over babysitting Freddie. Casey takes Freddie. Audrey sees Casey with Freddie. Casey tells Audrey that her and Ashley are together and will be getting married. Audrey is concerned. David intercepts a package for Gail and dumps it in a wheelie bin. Rita reads the lonely hearts out to Norris who is not amused. Ashley is furious when he finds out that Casey has taken Freddie. Audrey tells Claire what Casey said and that she has Freddie. Claire is confused. Ashley finds photos of himself all over Casey's flat. Casey has locked Freddie out on the balcony and won't give Ashley the key. Ashley is scared by Casey's behaviour. She tells him she started the fire at their house. Hayley meets a Private Investigator to try and find her son. Audrey and Claire see Ashley's car at Casey's flat. Ashley tells Casey to stay out of his life. Casey holds Freddie on the balcony and threatens to kill herself and the child. Claire bangs on Casey's flat door.
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- Ashley Peacock - Steven Arnold
- Claire Peacock - Julia Haworth
- Hayley Cropper - Julie Hesmondhalgh
- Becky Granger - Katherine Kelly
- Fiz Brown - Jennie McAlpine
- Kelly Crabtree - Tupele Dorgu
- Rita Sullivan - Barbara Knox
- Norris Cole - Malcolm Hebden
- Kirk Sutherland - Andrew Whyment
- Jodie Morton - Samantha Seager
- Darryl Morton - Jonathan Dixon
- Jerry Morton - Michael Starke
- Kayleigh Morton - Jessica Barden
- Mel Morton - Emma Edmondson
- Finlay Bryant - Ramone Quinn
- Gail Platt - Helen Worth
- David Platt - Jack P. Shepherd
- Audrey Roberts - Sue Nicholls
- Eileen Grimshaw - Sue Cleaver
- Sean Tully - Antony Cotton
- Violet Wilson - Jenny Platt
- Freddie Peacock - Dylan & Hayden Whitbread (Uncredited)
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- TV Times synopsis: Casey kidnaps Freddie and takes him to her flat, where she threatens to jump from the balcony unless Ashley agrees to talk to her; and Hayley and Becky meet a detective who could help them track down Hayley's son.
- Viewing Figures: UK broadcast - 9,380,000 viewers (3rd place).
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240. Why is it then that the obstacle to such
developmentsand I am thinking again mainly of wind farmsis,
for example, at the moment in Wales stuck at the National Assembly
level? That is not local opposition. It may have started there
but there is a crisis of decision making at a national level within
the United Kingdom, is there not?
(Mr Byers) I would prefer not to comment because otherwise
I would show my ignorance. I suspect that it is a particularly
Welsh issue. One just must respect that where the geography works
it works. In fact, maybe we ought to move to Wales to increase
the demand there.
241. And the jobs.
(Mr Wolfe) Can I pick up on one other point, not so
much on that last question but on the previous two, and it reflects
back also to what David said earlier on about NETA. So much of
the thinking and so much of the infrastructure historically has
been focussed on the concept of very large scale centralised generation
feeding through a distribution network to users at the end of
the line. That will change in the future and we need to start
addressing what the infrastructure will look like when we have
far more, far smaller sources of generation distributed out in
the network. We will be moving away, to use an analogy, from what
used to be huge great mainframe computers operating centrally
to something which looks far more like the Internet, lots and
lots of small pockets of local generation. At the moment NETA
just does not address that. The thought process does not address
that. The culture does not address that. We need to start realising
the effects that that will bring in terms of the way in which
we think about using electricity in particular.
242. Just to follow on with these planning points,
why do you think wind farms are so unpopular?
(Dr Pitcher) I developed three wind farms in the early
1990s. Because we spent a lot of time talking to local communities
and planners and so on, all of those gained permission, and I
have seen that happen elsewhere. There has been development of
a group of individuals forming organisations which are well publicised
who do not like these on principle. I can only assume that there
is a media contact with that which is saying that one the one
hand these people say one thing and on the other hand someone
is saying something completely different. However, when it gets
down to local levels I have found a lot of support for these projects
and the independent surveys which have been carried out over the
last decade have confirmed that and the British Wind Energy web
site gives the precise details of that. What it is saying is that
there is a very small but vociferous minority of individuals who
oppose this type of development and would oppose, I suspect, a
lot of development per se. I think that is perhaps one
of the things which has been exaggerated to an extent but when
you get down to talking to local people about this and how it
works and how they can do their bit it is a completely different
(Mr Byers) The evidence suggests that there is a vociferous
aggression before they are built and then not much afterwards.
The very fact is that they tend to go in rather attractive places
in open countryside and they are about as popular as high voltage
wire pylons that the National Grid put up, but they are actually
beneficial and, as I say, once they are operating they do not
massacre the bird population and they are not noisy any more because
that technology has been solved. There is a natural resistance
to having metallic or concrete structures in our countryside.
(Mr Carcas) But if something better does come along
they are very easy to take down.
243. Can I go back to Dr Pitcher's point about
the communities that you have worked with who have had an acceptance
towards them and locally there being support for them? Why then
in your submission to us are you strongly urging a shift towards
regional decision making which takes decision and responsibility
further away from communities? I was struck by this community
regionalism which seems to me like an oxymoron.
(Mr Byers) I think the effort is to partly change
the culture and not by an obligation but to make regions accept
a joint responsibility for a share of an obligation that Britain
has taken on.
244. Ultimately though would you not agree that
it does not boil down to responsibility on a region? If you live
in north Kent and you want to put a wind farm in West Sussex,
is that a regional responsibility or is it going to impact on
the people in West Sussex? It really impacts very much on the
people whose communities are going to be visually or otherwise
impacted by these developments.
(Mr Byers) It is an attempt to model what Europe has
done. Rather like, if you were in north west Scotland or Wales,
Austria itself has something like 89 per cent renewable energy
because they happen to have mountains but, as part of Kyoto they
agreed to take their incremental share of reaching a European
target and, arguably, for Austria to go from 90 per cent to 93
per cent is phenomenally difficult but they have taken their proportionate
part of the bargain and, whilst not devolving down to parish levels,
we think, as the Government is doing, that some form of regional
contribution to an overall national target is a fair balance given
the nature of the geography that exists in different regions.
245. Mr Byers, we have got a division taking
place and my colleagues will want to go and vote. We have very
nearly reached the end, so I would rather not delay you and then
come back as it were, but Mr Owen Jones has just one brief question
that he would like to put and you can follow up any others in
writing if that is possible.
(Mr Byers) Certainly; thank you.
246. The DTI report that they published on 6
March, which has got targets for each of the regions that the
regions have ownership of, looking at some of them, they are quite
bewildering to me: the fact that there is such a huge variation
between the high level and the low level, the fact that some regions
put massive amounts of apparent faith in certain sorts of renewable
energy. The West of England, for example, puts huge faith in biomass
but other regions do not, and presumably they are all governed
by the same governmental system. Could you comment on that? Exactly
how do you see these regions being able to speed up the planning
process and having ownership of these commitments and, if you
can manage to get it in, how are you going to get some reasonable
degree of consistency between these different regions?
(Mr Byers) Regrettably your assumption is wrong that
they were given the same guidelines. The methodologies applied
to reach the various regional suggestions were completely different,
depending on the consultant that they hired to do it. It is an
excellent start. I commend the Government for its initiative but
unfortunately the comparability between regions defeats us because
the methodologies were entirely different.
Chairman: Thank you very much indeed for that
brief reply. I am sorry to curtail the questions but if there
is anything you would like to add to that perhaps you would let
us have a small note. Thank you very much indeed for your attendance.
I am sorry we have had to end so rapidly. We are very grateful
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The president of a soccer league where a Utah referee was allegedly punched by a teen player that resulted in a coma says the league will be hiring security for its games.
Mario Vasquez said La Liga Continental de Futbol will continue holding weekend games for children and teens at a middle-school field in suburban Salt Lake City. But he says off-duty police officers will watch over things.
Vasquez also said the team the 17-year-old, who allegedly punched the ref, played on has been kicked out of the league. The game had been the team's first in the league.
Meanwhile, doctors say 46-year-old Riccardo Portillo remains in a coma as they try to control swelling his brain and that his recovery is uncertain.
Police say the teen who punched Portillo in the head has been booked into juvenile detention on suspicion of aggravated assault.
A police report said the suspect was given a yellow card by Portillo after pushing an opposing team member, FOX 13 reported. The suspect argued with Portillo and then punched him in the face, a witness said.
The school district where the league plays has also issued a formal warning to Vasquez following the violent assault.
The Granite School District's letter says the league is in danger of having its rental agreement revoked citing the assault and previous complaints that the league didn't clean up trash and violated the ban on drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes.
Vasquez says the league was created in 2009 to provide a family-friendly place where the Hispanic community could play soccer, and the league has never seen anything this violent before.
Portillo's oldest daughter said this isn't the first time a soccer player has assaulted her father. Johana Portillo says the referee has had ribs and legs broken by players angry with his calls .
"He's fighting for his life and we're fighting with him too," Johana Portillo told FOX 13. "He's really stable right now and a few nights ago he wasn't."
Vasquez said the league will hold fundraisers to help Portillo's family.
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Washington Nationals postpone game after hours of uncertainty – The Post
More details about the Washington Nationals decision to postpone last night's game against the Atlanta Braves after the shooting at the Navy Yard yesterday.
District Mayor Vincent C. Gray said in a phone interview that he wasn't involved with every detail of the postponement, but that he wished the decision had been made earlier. He said he feared letting thousands of people near the area of an ongoing investigation.
Paul A. Quander Jr., deputy mayor for public safety and justice, said he first spoke with the Nationals at 1 p.m., and that the team initially wanted to play the game. Police were confident they could clear South Capitol Street and parts of M Street SE in time to accommodate stadium traffic. "We were going to make it work," he said.
But as the search for people of interest in the shooting continued, and Lanier warned people to stay away from the Navy Yard area, the Nationals contacted city officials about a possible postponement, Quander said. He said the Nationals informed him they would need the approval of Major League Baseball.
"It was a fluid situation," he said. "But I think they made the right call."
To me and seemingly every Nats fan I follow on twitter, postponing the game was the obvious call before 1 p.m. While it police may have been confident they could get M Street cleared before the game, was that the best use of District resources at the time? Additionally, with one of the parking areas being used as a gathering place for families, it seemed to me the Nats should have erred on the side of caution and of consideration for the families waiting in the parking area. Why potentially make it harder for them to arrive and depart?
Another factor to consider, the players on either team were not interested in playing the game last night.
Lastly, there are policies and procedures that need to be re-evaluated by both the District, the team and Major League Baseball. Since Nationals Park is owned by the District, though operated by the franchise, it should have the authority to shut down a game. The Nats should also be able to postpone a game due to unforeseen events and not have to get the backing of MLB or more likely, some old man in Milwaukee.
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A 110-year-old woman believed to be the oldest survivor of the Holocaust and who endured the ordeal partly through her passion for music, has died in London, her family said on Sunday. By Andrew Osborn.
Alice Herz-Sommer, who is said to have counted writer Franz Kafka among her family friends and is the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, was a Jewish pianist and musician from Prague in what is today the Czech Republic.
In 1943, the Nazis sent her and her young son to Theresienstadt concentration camp, where tens of thousands of people lost their lives.
Her husband Leopold and her mother Sofie were both killed in Auschwitz, but she and her son survived World War Two.
Her grandson, Ariel Sommer, confirmed her death in London on Sunday, saying: "Alice Sommer passed away peacefully this morning with her family by her bedside. Much has been written about her, but to those of us who knew her best, she was our dear 'Gigi'."
He added: "She loved us, laughed with us, and cherished music with us. She was an inspiration and our world will be significantly poorer without her by our side."
Herz-Sommer was born in Prague in 1903. She and her son Raphael were freed from Nazi captivity in 1945 when the Soviet Red Army liberated their camp, and emigrated to Israel before settling in Britain.
Raphael, an accomplished cellist and conductor, died in 2001.
A documentary film, "The Lady in Number 6", documents Herz-Sommer's life and has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Documentary at the forthcoming Oscars.
Herz-Sommer, who along with other musicians gave concerts in the concentration camp to keep up her spirits and those of people around her, said before she died that Beethoven was her religion and that music had saved her life and still saved her.
She famously said she bore no grudges and saw her life as a wonderful gift.
In a text about her on the website of Nick Reed, one of the producers of the documentary about her life, she was quoted before her death as saying she remained upbeat about life despite sensing she was coming to the end of it.
"I think I am in my last days but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life," she said. "I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times – including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.
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Kimberly Stewart has lavished praise on Benicio Del Toro for throwing himself into parenthood as he is "very involved" with his daughter Delilah.
Rod Stewart's socialite daughter gave birth to the baby in August (11) after conceiving during a short fling with the actor.
Stewart has now shown off Delilah in a new spread for Britain's Hello! magazine, and she has revealed Del Toro is playing a big part in the baby's life even though they are not a couple, and he was even in the delivery room as she gave birth
She tells the publication, "The whole family, including Benicio, was at the hospital and my mom and Benicio were in the delivery room with me. Benicio's very involved; he and Delilah have a very special bond."
Stewart also reveals she named the baby after Tom Jones' 1968 song Delilah, adding, "I named her after the Tom Jones song, as I'd always loved that. She definitely looks like her dad, but she has my legs and eye colour."


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But, there is a quick way to determine everyone who isn't one.
Just identify people that identify themselves as "experts."
It's absolutely impossible to be an expert in any emerging or rapidly changing field like social media or blogging or even the publishing industry. (It's particularly amusing to me that all these social media "experts" only have 900 or so Twitter followers. Wow, start taking your own expert advice, buddy.)
Thus, any one who says they are an expert is full of shit.
You can be an expert in Latin or the Civil War or Negro League baseball, sure. That shit isn't changing.
But, anything modern, anything that's still forming and developing and fluid...no experts exist in the entire world.
So, come to think of it, I actually am an expert in one thing:
Noticing all the experts that have no expertise.


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Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski fired back at Michael Caputo on Monday, dismissing the top Trump adviser as a mere volunteer who didn't contribute enough to the campaign to ever grab his attention.
"Michael Caputo is not a senior adviser," Lewandowski told CNN. "He has no formal role with the campaign."
The ousted campaign manager added: "I don't know what he does on the campaign."
Lewandowski's remarks came just hours after Caputo celebrated Lewandowski's firing on Twitter.
"Ding dong the witch is dead," Caputo tweeted immediately after news broke that Lewandowski had been terminated from the campaign.
Campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks told Business Insider on Monday afternoon that, after the tweet was published, Caputo resigned his position of director of communications for caucus operations at the GOP convention.
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Women's Tennis Heads to Pac-10 Tourney
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Pac-10 TournamentThe Arizona women's tennis team will head to Ojai, Calif.on April 24-27 to compete in the 103rd Ojai Valley Tournament, which coincides with the Pac-10 Tournament. Competing in main-draw singles for the Wildcats are graduate student Emilie Scribot, who will face Cal's Christina Fusano on Thursday in the round of 32, sophomore Maja Mlakar, who will face Washington's Claire Carter, sophomore Dianne Hollands, who will face Oregon's Daria Panova, and junior Debbie Larocque, who will face Stanford's Alice Barnes. In the Individual Pac-10 Women's Singles bracket, sophomore Kelly Perry will compete against Washington's Andrea Coulter on Thursday in the round of 32, along with the Wildcats' three freshmen. Arizona's Zorica Zasova will face off against Arizona State's Joslynn Burkette, Kelly Duncan will compete against Washington State's Nora Gaal, and Kristy Randono will face Oregon's Anna Leksinska. In the Women's Pac-10 Doubles main draw, held on Friday, Arizona's duo of Larocque and Randono will team up face Stanford's Alice Barnes and Erin Burdette in the round of 16. Also in the main draw, Mlakar and Scribot will face off against Oregon's Monika Gieczys and Jamie Marshall. In the Individual Pac-10 Women's Doubles bracket, also held Friday, Arizona's Duncan and Zasova will pair up to face Oregon's Ester Bak and Anna Leksinska. Hollands and Perry will advance to the quarterfinals of the bracket with a bye in the round of 16, where they will face the winner of the match between USC's Bernaditte Bayani and Melissa Esmero and Washington's Kathy Chi and Steph Svanfeldt.
Moving Up in the RankingsThe Wildcat women's tennis team ended the regular season ranked No. 21, and all three previously ranked singles players moved up in the standings. Emilie Scribot, formerly No 10, moved up to No. 6, while Maja Mlakar advanced to No. 39 and Dianne Hollands moved up to No. 49. The Wildcats' duo of Mlakar and Scribot also earned a ranking in the top 50 doubles teams at No. 48.
Upsetting the SundevilsAfter suffering a home loss to ASU earlier in the season in a match rescheduled because of rain, the Wildcat women's tennis team bounced back to upset the Sundevils on their own turf in Tempe. The Wildcats, then ranked No. 28, notched a 4-3 victory Saturday, April 19, over the then-No. 17 Sundevils. The Cats swept the doubles and tallied singles wins by Mlakar, Hollands, and Larocque in the second, third, and fourth spots to beat the Devils, splitting the matches on the season. The upset marked the second time in as many matches that the Cats toppled a higher-ranked team, the last versus then-No. 4 Cal on April 12.
Head Coach Vicky MaesIn her first year of coaching at theUA since graduating from Arizona in 1999 with a BS in business administration, Coach Maes brough the Arizona women's tennis team from an initial national ranking of 54, to the team's final ranking of 19. In her second year as head coach, Maes hopes to further advance the team's success. In fall play, Maes and the Wildcat women's tennis team recorded several wins, highlighted by a sweep of the singles and doubles titles at the Fall Desert Classic in Palm Springs, Calif. In the regular season, Maes has led the Wildcats to a record of 9-11, 3-5 in the Pac-10, and a final national ranking of 21.
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The stamps are from two of my favorite sets that I designed this year... Happy Place and Wonderful Marvelous. I colored the flowers with Copic markers, adding a little shadowing around the images to make them pop. Did the same thing with the happy and birthday sentiments, then matted with basic gray cardstock. The papers are from a big 12 x 12 paper pad I got for under $4 the last time I went to Michael's. I don't typically buy 12 x 12 paper any more, but the patterns were so soft and gorgeous I thought they would be great for doing some mixed-media canvases. Can't wait to try that out.
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GROW 2012: Here we grow again
Vancouver is becoming the new Waterloo – Canada's centre for tech innovation the must-be place for start-up companies hoping to make it big.
And the go-to event for the young and ambitious is GROW Vancouver, now in its third year and starting on Aug. 17.
Originally just a one day conference, GROW Vancouver has matured into a full week of tech events. It's also become a meeting place where Canadians talk shop and make deals with entrepreneurs and investors from Silicon Valley.
In its first two years GROW lured in executives from the likes of Zynga, Path, LinkedIn, Groupon, Facebook, Yelp and Google. This year's speakers include Eventbrite president Julia Hartz, Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh and Indiegogo founder Danae Ringelmann.
But the official events are almost relegate to the status of perks compared to what's happening in the hallways. As Tobias Lutke, CEO of the Ottawa-based e-commerce powerhouse Shopify explains, networking outside GROW talks can lead to important collaborations and investments.
"I go to hang out in the hallways," Lutke admits with a laugh. "It turns out that's where the heart of the conference is. That's where people talk about what their next big plans are."
Lutke says part of GROW's draw is its top-tier guest list.
"It's a great crowd," he says. "GROW has good coverage in the circle of people who are currently running companies. They take care to invite the best people, not just the most likely to come."
Last year Lutke met the founder of Food.ee, a Canadian catering company focusing on businesses, at lunch during GROW and later invested in the company.
Dave McClure, an American venture capitalist, similarly made an investment in UnBounce, a Vancouver-based software company, after meeting its co-founder at GROW.
McClure, who runs 500 Startups, an accelerator program for young tech businesses in Mountain View, California, says GROW has helped put Canadian startups like HighScore House and Storypanda on his radar.
"There's a lot of very geeky canucks—and I mean that in the best way," says McClure. "I've become a real fan of Canadian startups."
McClure says American interest in Canadian tech companies has increased in recent years, partly due to events like GROW.
"GROW has been an interesting way for us to find out about companies in Vancouver and in other places like Montreal," he says.
While the conference may be a hotbed for tech startups seeking advice and investment, GROW founder Deb Landa says the talks can help any business affected by the web — and that's every business, she says.
"The web has impacted how every single person lives and how everyone company is building their business," Landa says. "From startups to investors to private companies, executives, and large corporations — every one of them has been affected by it and they need to re-think how they build their businesses."
GROW Week starts with Startup Weekend, an around-the-clock workshop where teams of entrepreneurs build a product from concept to launch in just three days. That's followed by a tour of several startups in Vancouver's Gastown district and a series of dinner and parties.
Business talks will take place on August 22 and 23, covering everything from web design to crowd sourcing and venture capital.
The week culminates with outdoor activities led by locals on August 24. So if you've ever wanted to kite-board with the CEO of a tech company, this is your chance.
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1. O Christ, the heavens' eternal King,
Creator, unto Thee we sing,
With God the Father ever One,
Co-equal, co-eternal Son.
2. Thy hand, when the first the world began,
Made in Thine own pure image man,
And linked to fleshly form of earth
A living soul of heavenly birth.
3. And when the envious crafty foe
Had marred Thy noblest work below,
Thou didst our ruined state repair
By deigning flesh Thyself to wear.
4. Once of a virgin born to save,
And now new born from death's dark grave,
O Christ, Thou bidd'st us rise with Thee
From death to immortality.
5. Eternal Shepherd, Thou art wont
To cleanse Thy sheep within the font,
That mystic bath, that grave of sin,
Where ransomed souls new life begin.
6. Divine Redeemer, Thou didst deign
To bear for us the cross of pain,
And freely pay the precious price
Of all Thy blood in sacrifice.
7. Jesu, do Thou to every heart
Unceasing Paschal joy impart;
From death of sin and guilty strife
Set free the new born sons of life.
8. All praise be Thine, O risen Lord,
From death to endless life restored;
All praise to God the Father be
And Holy Ghost eternally.
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Sporting Highlights for 1862
Here are some of the sporting highlights in the world of sport for 1862. This was the year that the first soccer club was formed anywhere outside of England - the Oneida Football Club, Boston USA.
Below is a timeline of some significant results in the world of sport for the year 1862. OK, it is not much of a timeline with this many events, but not much was going on in world sports at this time.
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TIFF Offers Its Own Look at Booming Chinese Film Industry
Chinese film officials heralding a cinema revival not seen since the 1930s.
With Chinese film officials boasting that domestic ticket sales will overtake Japan's to make China the world's second-largest movie market in the next five years, moviemakers from the Middle Kingdom are flying their flag high at the Tokyo International Film Festival and its film market here this week.
Japan's total box office gross in 2009 was 206 billion yen ($2.54 billion), according to the Motion Picture Producers' Assn. of Japan, while China's Film Bureau tallied 2009 ticket receipts at 6.2 billion yuan ($910 million), a 44% year-on-year jump.
With two Chinese dramas in TIFF competition this week – Li Yu's "Buddha Mountain" and Zhang Meng's "The Piano in a Factory" – the question of what kind of movies will score in China's new marketplace was a hot topic.
With Hollywood tentpoles like "Avatar" and a raft of locally made films and Hong Kong co-productions of increasing quality lighting up China's theaters, Chinese ticket sales soared 86% in the first half of 2010. Now, official estimates show sales hitting $6 billion by 2015. (U.S. 2009 box office gross was more than $9 billion).
Despite the fact that Chinese films accounted for 56% of the box office gross last year, the two top-grossing movies of 2009 were U.S. studio pictures -- "2012" ($67.5 million) and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" ($63 million) -- followed by state propaganda pic "The Founding of a Republic" ($61 million).
Already the world's second-largest overall economy, having overtaken Japan earlier this year, China and its middle class are in the throes of a cinema revival not seen since the 1930s, a boom that is causing a rush to build more multiplexes and attracting the world's attention. And whereas Japan's market has long been saturated with state-of-the-art multiplexes, China will build another 1,500 cinema screens this year, raising the total to 6,000, then doubling it again to 12,000 by the end of 2015, according to the China Film Producers Assn.
Each of these new Chinese theaters means more tickets sold. "Avatar" jump-started the action for China's new exhibitors in 2010, grossing $204 million in China alone and helping to push box office receipts to $726 million in the first half of the year, up 86% from a year earlier, according to Tong Gang, director of the film bureau at the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television.
But all China's grosses are not entirely due to a swelling in the size of the audience, which analysts estimate remains steady at about 200 million filmgoers. Much of the growth comes from those filmgoers' getting richer and developing a cinema habit that's allowing exhibitors to hike the cost of tickets to offset the cost of building nearly three new screens a day, mostly in second- and third-tier cities.
A regular Chinese movie ticket averages 35 yuan ($5.26) but a 3D ticket can cost 80 yuan ($12) and an Imax film -- such as Feng Xiaogang's "Aftershock," the current all-time domestic box office champion, at over 660 million yuan ($99 million) -- can run as much as 150 yuan ($22.53) per head.
All this building suggests that Chinese movie ticket prices will only continue to climb. To fill those screens and meet the demand of China's consumers, 500 films will be made this year, up from 80 or fewer in 2002. Despite China's strong taste for the Hollywood films -- long viewed illegally on pirated DVDs and via Internet downloads -- Beijing caps the number of imported films allowed to share in a percentage of their own gross ticket sales to just 20 a year.
Officials at SARFT, which tracks the country's box office and monitors what's appropriate for Chinese audiences, say that homemade small- and medium-budget films are the answer to keeping the moviegoing going. Recently, Huaxia Film Distribution Co., a cousin of the CFG, agreed to distribute 18 homegrown films, including Zhang Yimou's "Under the Hawthorn Tree."
Beijing's calls for small films aside, Hong Kong co-productions are leading the Chinese-language charge to reach Mainland moviegoers, with films such as Huayi's "Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame" by Tsui Hark grossing 180 million yuan ($27 million) during the recent National Day holiday period. Tsui is now directing Jet Li in "The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate," a $35 million, 3D remake of a martial arts classic that began shooting outside Beijing this month.
Another Hong Konger who migrated north to seek his fortune is "Bodyguards and Assassins" producer Peter Chan, now directing the martial arts mystery "Wuxia" starring Donnie Yen in Yunnan Province. Chan and We Pictures will unveil first footage of the film, co-starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tang Wei, at the American Film Market in November.
With Hong Kongers firmly established in the mainland, Hollywood studios are homing in. Where 10 years ago it was Sony Pictures and five years ago it was Warner Bros. leading Hollywood's China charge, now it's Fox and Disney working on their co-production chops.
Fox International Prods. and partner Huayi Brothers Media grossed more than $19 million off the $2 million spring hit "Hot Summer Days." Now the U.S. studio's recruited "Bourne Identity" director and producer Doug Liman to help present Beijing-based director Wuershan's debut $1.5 million feature "The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman," due out Nov. 25.
Huayi also helped Disney produce a Chinese version of the hit franchise "High School Musical," transported to a Shanghai college. The film was Disney's third film in China in four years. Critics said Disney's attempt to make stars of an unknown cast flopped when a misdirected marketing campaign failed to raise interest among Chinese consumers demanding star power.
It's against this competitive backdrop of meteoric growth and Hollywood jockeying that France, New Zealand and Singapore all signed film treaties with Beijing in the last six months in moves to establish toeholds, too. Russia, Britain, India and Belgium are all also negotiating with Beijing.
The Holy Grail for producers from these smaller moviemaking countries would be a piece of something like John Woo's 2008 "Red Cliff," which the Hong Kong director with a decade of Hollywood credits co-produced with money from China, Japan, the U.S., Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The third-century war epic based on a story well-known across Northeast Asia, gross $47 million in China, $53 million in Japan and $9 million in South Korea.
But not every co-production can be a "Red Cliff" and Woo, who's about to start shooting his biggest picture yet, the Sino-US WWII buddy movie "Flying Tigers," says he can make the film with money from the CFG alone if no Hollywood studio wants to pony up. (Fox is making its own picture about the Flying Tigers' founder, U.S. Army Air Corps Lt. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault).
Like Woo, other Chinese film veterans are feeling new confidence. People such as Yu Dong, CEO of Beijing Poly Bona Film Distribution and its co-production arm, Bona International Film Group, are just as often reaching out to Asian neighbors as they are flying to L.A. In June, Yu signed a co-production agreement with Korean powerhouse CJ Entertainment, the company that in 1995 put $300 million into a revamped DreamWorks.
The first project Bona and CJ are working on together is a Chinese remake of a Hollywood picture, director Chen Daming's "What Women Want," starring Gong Li. And Bona's got its hand in another Hollywood remake, this time in English: hit maker Jan de Bont is directing Zhang Ziyi in the classic tale of Hua Mulan, made famous outside China by the 1998 Disney cartoon.
But since not every China co-production can be a "Karate Kid" -- in which Overbrook, Sony Pictures and CFG paired a big Chinese actor (Jackie Chan) with a cute American kid (Jayden Smith) against a Chinese backdrop (The Great Wall) -- the pressure is on to find stories that will appeal to China's audience. After all, "Karate Kid" was a near flop in China after censors muddled the story by cutting the Chinese bully kid characters and approving release for a weekend right before key Chinese school exams. Meanwhile, outside China, director Harald Zwart's $40 million picture has grossed $334 million worldwide, including $176 million in the U.S.
Since the U.S. market is still more competitive than China's, yet China is where the growth is, finding the right story for Chinese viewers is key, just as it is in Hollywood -- but the pressure to get that story right is even greater in China.
"The difference in China is that there's only the box office, no ancillary revenues," said Arnie Messer, president and COO of Phoenix Pictures, the U.S.-Sino co-production company he and "Shanghai" and "Shutter Island" producer Mike Medavoy founded in May with partner Jonathan Shen of Beijing-based Shinework with a view to co-producing. "This very much rewards good films," Messer said. "The explosive growth has drawn out a lot of investors who are now seeking a way to the right stories that will allow them to get a piece of this phenomenon."