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Subsidy not enough, Delhi must rethink its appetite for power
Delhi's struggle for power, it is hard to find the key differentiators. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began spadework for the next elections with the announcement of a `260-crore subsidy for the low and mid-segment power consumers in the Delhi Budget presented in Lok Sabha last week.columns Updated: Jul 21, 2014 13:28 IST
Delhi's struggle for power, it is hard to find the key differentiators. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began spadework for the next elections with the announcement of a `260-crore subsidy for the low and mid-segment power consumers in the Delhi Budget presented in Lok Sabha last week.
Both BJP and AAP had promised slashing of power bills by 30% and 50%, respectively, in their 2013 election manifestos. AAP enforced it almost as soon as it came to power. But the subsidy expired in less than two months after the Arvind Kejriwal government resigned.
A day before the Budget, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission raised the tariff last week but offset the increase by withdrawing the fuel surcharge till November this year. The subsidy brought down the bills by 29% for those consuming up to 200 units and 13% for those consuming 200-400 units.
The down-and-out Congress found reasons to feel smug because the power subsidy announced by the Centre was nothing but a continuation of what Sheila Dikshit had put in place in 2013. Now, who would take the credit for the slashed power bills is anybody's guess. But in the politics over power bills, Delhi tends to gloss over its insatiable hunger for power.
At 1,651 KWh, Delhi's per capita electricity consumption is among the highest in the country and more than double the national average of 778 KWh. Last year, around three million units of ACs were sold across India. Delhi accounted for 10-15% of this market (Business Standard, 2013) . Using even one AC causes total consumption to scale 400 units and pushes a large section of this middle-class out of the subsidy bracket, albeit seasonally.
Last Tuesday, the power demand in the Capital touched 5,925 MW, twice the demand in Mumbai (3,400 MW) and thrice that in Kolkata (2,100 MW). According to the 17th Electric Power Survey, by 2021, the city's power demand would soar to 12,000 MW, which equals the present power supply to Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and Uttarkhand combined.
Delhi couldn't build new plants because getting gas linkage has been next to impossible. Coal-fired plants are environmentally hazardous. So the allocation from the central pool has more than doubled in a decade. As the cost of purchasing power will only grow, what Delhi needs urgently is demand-side management.
The suggestions to allow the time-of-the-day tariff found no takers among the residents who did not want to shift their usage from peak to off-peak hours. Even the commercial and industrial sectors were not keen on ToD metering.
Offices didn't want to switch off their ACs in the afternoon. No factory owner wanted to run his facility at night. World over, ToD metering is linked to renewable energy sources, such as solar power that can be tapped and used during the peak hours when power is the costliest.
According to a Greenpeace report released last year, Delhi can produce 45% (2,557 MWs) of its electricity demand by tapping only 4.42 % of the available rooftop area.
A study by TERI calculated that just by opting for energy efficient bulbs and switching usage of geyser from peak to non-peak hours, a household could save 6-15% on its monthly bill. For the entire city, the corresponding impact would be a saving of 650 MWs of power if replicated in all households.
While linking solar energy sources to the grid, the government needs to provide incentives to homeowners and businesses to make efficiency improvements. Though CFLs are subsidised, experts say the government's focus should now shift to the LED lights. According to the US Department of Energy, widespread use of LEDs could save about 348 TWh (terawatt hours) — compared to no LED use — by 2027.
In the Budget, the BJP proposed to develop the New Delhi Municipal Council area as a solar city. AAP promised to meet 20% of Delhi's power requirement through solar energy in 10 years. Congress also made a similar commitment.
But it will require political resolve to translate such promises into action because unlike subsidies, these don't make happy headlines.
First Published: Jul 21, 2014 13:13 IST


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World Baseball Classic Preview – United States Roster
Team United States
Updating our World Baseball Classic 2009 Preview, today we examine the United States. No nation garnered more attention for their performance in the 2006 Classic than Team USA as the nation exited the tournament surprisingly early, eliminated when it lost to Mexico in the second round. This was after a first round loss to Canada and a second round loss to South Korea. Despite those defeats, the country still controlled its own destiny when it faced Mexico, with a spot in the semifinals up for grabs. However, a loss to Mexico eliminated the team and left the overall record at a disappointing 3-3. Officially the team finished 8th overall.
This year provides an opportunity for redemption, and the U.S. roster will again be stacked withstar power. Every country runs into problems about fielding their best players, but withthe U.S. squad the issue is largely moot. There is so much depth that the absence of one or two big names will not really be noticed. For example, at second base the U.S. can choose from Chase Utley, Brian Roberts, or Dustin Pedroia. If Utley doesn't play, Roberts or Pedroiaare fine alternatives. Meanwhile a country like Canada is simply hoping for Pete Orr to fill the position. That's not exactly the same kind of player. This depth keeps expectations high, but allows for a better on-field squad.
The national team is managed by Davey Johnson.
Catcher – Joe Mauer, Minnesota Twins
First Base – Mark Teixeira, New York Yankees
Second Base – Chase Utley, Philadelphia Phillies
Shortstop – Jimmy Rollins, Philadelphia Phillies
Third Base – David Wright, New York Mets
Rightfield – Carlos Quentin, Chicago White Sox
Centerfield – Grady Sizemore, Cleveland Indians
Leftfield – Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers
Designated Hitter – Lance Berkman, Houston Astros
Bench: C Brain McCann, Atlanta Braves; 1B Ryan Howard, Philadelphia Phillies; 2B Dustin Pedroia, Boston Red Sox; 2B Brian Roberts, Baltimore Orioles; SS Derek Jeter, New York Yankees; SS Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado Rockies; 3B Evan Longoria, Tampa Bay Rays; 3B/OF Chipper Jones; OF Josh Hamilton, Texas Rangers; OF Vernon Wells, Toronto Blue Jays; OF Matt Holliday, Oakland A's, OF Nick Markakis, Baltimore Orioles, OF B.J. Upton, Tampa Bay Rays.
Mauer was going to accept an invitation, but has pulled out due to kidney surgery. McCann is a fine fill-in, but Mauer would have been the top choice behind the plate. At first there's are plenty of options between all-stars like Teixeira, Berkman, and Ryan Howard. Can't really go wrong there. The only position where the team might be considered thin is at shortstop where Derek Jeter and Jimmy Rollins remain the best options. Still a big name, Jeter has never been a strong defensive player and his once top notch offensive game has begun to slip. Rollins is the 2007 NL MVP, but he's not quite to the level of elite shortstops like Hanley Ramirez or Jose Reyes. Still, he's a fine option in the hole. Another option would be someone like Troy Tulowitzki, an excellent glove man who regressed on offense in 2008.
The outfield has plenty of choices as well. Sizemore is one of the game's best players, and Quentin and Braun were MVP candidates last season. Quentin might have won the hardware had he not gotten injured. It's hard to leave a bat like Josh Hamilton out of the starting line-up, but I don't see him as better option in center than Sizemore. He'd be a fine choice in left or right, if you're willing to play him slightly out of position. I wouldn't argue that strategy. Matt Holliday and Nick Markakis are also very strong bets to play in the outfield, and B.J. Upton can basically act as a utility man of a team like this.
Starter – C.C. Sabathia, New York Yankees
Starter – Jake Peavy, San Diego Padres
Starter – Brandon Webb, Arizona Diamondbacks
Starter – Tim Lincecum, San Francisco Giants
Set-Up Man – Jonathan Papelbon, Boston Red Sox
Closer – Joe Nathan, Minnesota Twins
Bullpen: Cole Hamels, Philadelphia Phillies; Scott Kazmir, Tampa Bay Rays; Cliff Lee, Cleveland Indians; Roy Oswalt, Houston Astros; Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers; Zack Greinke, Kansas City Royal; Dan Haren, Arizona Diamondacks; B.J. Ryan, Toronto Blue Jays; Jonathan Broxton, Los Angeles Dodgers; Bobby Jenks, Chicago White Sox; Brad Lidge, Philadelphia Phillies; Joba Chamberlain, New York Yankees.
The starting rotation has simply way too many options, and I've selected what I view as the top four candidates. That includes the last three NL Cy Young winners plus C.C. Sabathia, who won the AL Cy Young the year before last. All are aces of their respective club teams. That leaves plenty of big names for the bullpen. And while there are some great natural relievers to choose from, starters are generally the better pitchers. Allowing a guy like Scott Kazmir or Cole Hamels to come out of the bullpen only makes the team that much better.
As for true relievers, the two best options are Nathan and Papelbon. I've listed Papelbon as the set-up man, as I like his ability to go more than one inning if needed. Both are among the best closers in baseball. Chamberlain has been excellent in relief and is another useful arm, with guys like Bobby Jenks and B.J. Ryan providing depth.
Outlook: Anything less than a championship will be viewed as a disappointment. That's understandable given the considerable talent on the U.S. team, but it's a bit of an unfair expectation in a short tournament with single elimination involved. Baseball's not the kind of sport where the best teams dominate. At the Major League level, winning sixty percent of your games makes you pretty good. So the chances of losing one of the final games remains strong, particularly against top nations like the Dominican or Venezuela. Still, the United States is the odds on favorite to capture the championship in 2009.

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WASHINGTON – Congressional aides, the people who really keep Congress running, are almost never recognized.
Until Wednesday.
House members spent about an hour Wednesday honoring Gabe Zimmerman, the aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords who was slain in the Jan. 8 shooting spree in Tucson. He was the first congressional staffer killed in the line of duty in the 222-year history of the Congress.
"Congressional offices wouldn't be able to function without people like Gabe, and yet they rarely receive the credit they deserve," said Rep. Ben Quayle, R-Phoenix, on the House floor Wednesday. "Gabe's life was cut too short, but he will be forever honored."
He will be honored by having his name attached to a popular meeting room, HVC 215, in the new Capitol Visitors Center. A resolution naming the room in his honor is expected to win easy passage, as more than 400 members of the House have signed on as co-sponsors. The measure does not need Senate or presidential approval.
"Naming something as simple as the room will never be enough, for his sacrifice, but it is the right thing to do," said Rep. David Schweikert, R-Scottsdale, in support of the resolution.
In an hour of sometimes emotional statements Wednesday, representatives honored Zimmerman, and their own staffers, and the contributions they make to democracy.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., began to choke up on the floor as she thanked the many lawmakers who signed on to the resolution and asked them to step up their efforts in working with the public.
"This is a very challenging and difficult time for our nation … it's my hope that as hard as it is, and has hard as it has become for us to engage in civil discourse that we really all redouble our efforts," she said.
"In doing so, we will honor Gabe's memory, honor the service of our colleague and friend Gabrielle Giffords and know that Gabriel Zimmerman did not die in vain," Wasserman Schultz said.
Zimmerman was one of the first staffers hired by Giffords, a Tucson Democrat. Zimmerman, 30 and engaged to be married, was Giffords' community outreach director, in charge of planning "Congress on Your Corner" events designed to help Giffords connect with her constituents.
It was at one such event on Jan. 8 in Tucson when a gunman opened fire, killing Zimmerman and five other people and wounding 13, including Giffords, who suffered a gunshot to the head.
Giffords, who is still recovering from her injuries, was not present for debate on the Zimmerman resolution but her office announced Wednesday that there will be a formal dedication of the "Gabriel Zimmerman Meeting Room" and unveiling of the plaque in early 2012.
In a statement released through Giffords' office, Zimmerman's brother Ben said the Zimmermans "deeply appreciate this show of support by the House of Representatives. This is a wonderful way to memorialize my brother, Gabe."
Seventeen members spoke, including all of Arizona's House members, and many others offered written statements of support for the resolution, and gratitude for Zimmerman's sacrifice.
"This is a symbol not only for Gabe but it's a symbol for all the people that every day work in these offices, work in the congressional offices, and serve the public on a daily basis," said Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Tucson.
Wasserman Schultz made a point of thanking Schweikert and fellow Arizona Republican Reps. Trent Franks and Jeff Flake for working "passionately" to gain as many co-sponsors as possible.
"The loss of Gabe Zimmerman affected this body deeply, we all know staffers like Gabe. Tireless public servants who work long hours and weekends for modest pay," Quayle said.
Wasserman Schultz remembered Zimmerman as a "profoundly nice person" who was nicknamed Prince Charming by coworkers because of his tendency to go above and beyond what was expected.
"Gabe would often put in extra hours and was known to pay out of his own pockets for constituents' bus fare, whatever he could do," Wasserman Schultz said on the house floor.
Zimmerman was a native of Tucson. He earned a bachelors degree in sociology from the University of California Santa Cruz and a masters in social work from Arizona State University.
"This is a small token of what we can exemplify in what is so good about Gabe Zimmerman and what our staff means to us," said Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Flagstaff.


text: Wrap magazine Print day April 12, 2015 As some of you may know I share a studio with expert commercial screen printer Get Casual. Over the last ten years I have collaborated with Get Casual on a variety of projects, from art prints, products and packaging. Hayley, the founder of Get Casual, has been running the print works for fifteen years, and spotted a trend for customers who wanted to print limited runs of their own designs. In response she has set up one day courses where 'students' can print small runs of T-shirts, posters, bags or tea towels. We thought it was time to get our hands dirty! I have been a fan of Wrap magazine for a number of years, acting as a contributors as well as designing for their card and wrapping paper ranges. The one day screen print workshop was a unique opportunity to talk with founders Chris and Polly while working on a new collaborative print. Marcus explains: "As designers in a digital world it is easy to forget the joys of the analogue process; mixing inks, printing by hand and manually registering each screened layer. I feel lucky that my creative process involves plenty of hands on work, from drawing out ideas, creating collage artwork or printing. For me the computer is often the end point, the tool I use to finish the job." Hayley explained each stage of the print process, from preparing and coating our screens, to exposing the artwork. We decided to print on tea towels and each produced a short run before over-printing on top of each other's patterns. As with all experimental artworks that unknown element adds an extra dimension; water based inks create new colours as they overlap, and new positive and negative spaces result in new shapes. We ended the day energised and full of ideas as to how the process might translate into new work and possible collaborations – Watch this space.Get Casual Screen printers are based in Stroud, Gloucestershire, (only 1.5 hrs. from London!) One day print workshops start from £75 including lunch and are held on Friday's and Saturdays throughout the year. Go to www.getcasual.com for more information and booking.


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I believe in a dream. . .
I believe that one of the worst things you can do to someone is to take away someone's dream, because that may be all they have to hold on to. When taking away someone's dream and downsizing their dream you are killing someone's internal beliefs and taking their inner pride that can possibly make that dream into reality. The most successful people in the world started with a dream. It is no telling where we would be today if Martin Luther King JR. and Gandhi never had a dream.
I believe when you tear someone's dream apart you are playing with God, because one person has the ability to change the whole nation or even the world and you are depriving them and maybe even others as well. We must be careful what words we allow to come out of our mouths; because information is easily misinterpreted we must not be quick to discourage others from their right to seek their dream. That is why it is bad to be judgmental towards people's choices, something in their spirit whether right or wrong may have led them to their choice.
Dreams are like drugs except dreams are more positive. Once a person has a dream there is a vision that shows what the outcome will be when you achieve the goals and make all the right choices to complete that dream. Some people serve their whole life longing for this. Like an addiction where you chase that first high you chase the outcome of that one only dream so that you can see and feel the reality and the beauty of that dream in real life.
I know many people who say that they have no dream, or act as if they do not have any and that is sad. I wonder sometimes, did they ever have one. A lot of them seem so lost, hard to figure out and very unpredictable. Their choices are not based on what they feel is right are wrong they act more on their emotions or what will better satisfy them at that moment not in the long run. These types of people scare me because having a dream gives support it signifies and justifies decisions that individual may choose to make. It helps to better plan success and make a difference amongst others.
I am glad to say that I have a dream and many people have criticized it over and over, I don't let others discourage me. I stay positive and continue my struggle to get to where I am headed. Hopefully others who have dreams will learn to continue their struggle to make a difference as well and don't let others discourage them. Those who have a dream should make sure to stay focused on their goals to reach that dream. It mustn't be forgotten or second guessed because it was meant to be achieved.
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It's been awhile since I've done a birthday card stamp-a-stack and I realized I was running out of kids cards. This week I spent some time creating a few birthday cards using the stamp set Animal Stories. The coordinating 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper matches perfectly!
November 7, 2009
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Amy, I really like these birthday cards! They are so cute and I am thinking I might need to add this set to my collection! :)
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The STAR Award, presented by the Bangor Area High School Alumni Association, recognizes classroom achievement and/or contributions to the school district or society that go above and beyond the classroom.
The STAR Award, presented by the Bangor Area High School Alumni Association, recognizes classroom achievement and/or contributions to the school district or society that go above and beyond the classroom.
The recipient may be someone who succeeds in an area outside of school or who goes beyond the realm of what is expected in school. The students, who are nominated by their teachers, administrators, coaches, or other interested parties, are chosen by a committee of alumni.
The award was first given in 2004 and has been given to at least one student every year since then.
A second award was added in 2011 to honor Dr. Bert Horvath and his wife, Betty, both Bangor graduates who have distinguished themselves in the field of science research.
The Horvath Science Award recognizes an outstanding high school science student in the hopes of inspiring the recipient to continue to pursue a career in that field.
Recipients were honored during a reception held recently in the Slater Conference Room of the BAHS Administration Building.
Jadelyn Fleischer - Grade 6: Fleischer, with her mother's help, planned a fund raiser that raised $600 for the DeFranco School end-of-the-year raffle. She is seen by her teachers to be a positive role model and a well-rounded, conscientious student.
Liane Makatura - Grade 12: Makatura is the number one student in her class and has taken a difficult course load full of advanced placement and honors courses in all four years of high school.
She does an exceptional amount of volunteer work, participates in numerous activities in which she holds officer positions, and is a member of the girls' tennis team, where she has participated in district playoffs for the last three years.
Nick Tudge - Grade 11: Tudge was involved in an unfortunate accident while riding his dirt bike in 2010 and had to have his right leg amputated below the kneecap. He continued to play football with a prosthetic leg, and was determined to succeed. His coaches are very impressed by the strides he has made and they say his positive attitude and determination, coupled with the fact that he never complains, makes him a role model for the entire team.
Elizabeth Bina - Grade 11: Bina is a junior who has a strong grasp of complex biological processes and has maintained outstanding scores in advanced placement biology. Her teachers say that she has an admirable work ethic and has produced excellent lab work, accompanied by the ability to clearly explain the implications of the data she collects.


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Finally… the second commission is done. This was so much fun. It's got layer upon layer of love. Using gesso board I started by using crumpled tissue and then washing it with color. after I had the sky and the ground defined I added texture to the background with crackle medium, flocking material, black lava, and more. I used a brick patterned stencil for the foreground and used texture flakes on the bricks. I painted them with 2 shades of red and sponged some black in to finish them off. I used acrylic fibers for the grass and some jute for the flowers, topping them with pearl embellishments and mini beads. The houses are made from wooden shapes covered with a variety of collaging paper and topped with window dressing. I added butterflies and applied sparkle glaze over the top of them and then used mini Scrabble tiles to complete the painting.
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Think Labour Day is for celebrating workers? Think again!
May 1st, also known as May Day, is recognized internationally as the Day of the Worker. Celebrations across the globe happen on this day to celebrate the working class.
The WLC in partnership with Mayworks will be hosting a celebration for all workers of all walks of life to join in.
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(Romance & Reincarnation Novella 2)
Contemporary Romance with a time-slip Regency romance twist.
Past lives & destiny, or mistaken identity?
Free spirit Rosalie believes in past lives, eternal love, and fate. She knows she's found her partner from another life, her soul mate, the moment she finds him unconscious at the ruins of an old manor.
But Lane has no recollection of a past life and doesn't do relationships.
Rosalie's determined to make him feel the past's gravitational pull, but is rapidly getting nowhere. Then she discovers Lane had an identical twin who died sixteen years ago.
Has she been casting her romantic expectations at the wrong man?
Is her reincarnated soul mate already dead?
Chapter 1
Shivering and puffing out fog, Rosalie, blue woolen cap pulled low over her ears, huddled in her warmest coat. Polly's thick dog jacket glistened with damp from the ghostly mist enveloping Twickham Manor's crumbling remains.
Sunlight streamed through empty windows and over ragged walls to highlight rubble and grasses desperately trying to grow in spite of the cold. The air—fresh, crisp, and clean, filled Rosalie's lungs with countryside fragrances. Sheep and several new lambs huddled together in the lee of the Manor's remnant north and west walls. Others bleated in the nearby meadow.
Polly ran around the ancient fountain's pond, stopped, and barked.
"Come away, Polly." Other than the sheep, only a starving creature foraging for food would be out on this cold afternoon.
Polly barked again. "Geez, Polly, leave it alone. It's been a big day on the farm, and I want to get home before I lose my fingers and toes." With visions of a cozy fire and hot chocolate, Rosalie stomped her half-frozen feet toward what her pug found exciting.
"Bloody 'ell."
A tall, lean man lay sprawled behind the pond's rock wall. She hurried to his side and squatted to peer at his face. A trickle of blood began near his temple and ran into his hair.
"Holy shit, Sherlock." She gasped as she bent, tore off her gloves, and pushed up his right sleeve, hunting for a pulse. A small, dark object fell out of his hand. Rosalie peered at the not-quite-round piece of metal and dismissed it.
She put her fingers on his wrist and found no pulse. Her own pulse thudding in her ears, and with nursing skills on short supply, she tested several areas on his wide wrist before she at last felt a solid beat. She closed her eyes briefly and blew out a breath she hadn't realized she'd held.
"He's alive, Polly." She fumbled under her jacket for her cell phone and dialed emergency.
The man lay awkwardly, but she wasn't game to move him, since she might worsen some unknown injury.
Luckily Twickham Manor wasn't too far from the lane for the emergency guys.
"Polly, come away from the man." Polly ran over and did a stiff-legged little dance to show her appreciation for being patted. Rosalie spun Polly's collar and, with a click, attached the matching red leash she usually carried, just in case. Then she slid her gloves back on and adjusted her thick scarf before calling her mother.
"I'll be a while, I figure. Pile wood on the fireplace so it's roaring when we get home. Oh, and have warm drinks ready and waiting, we're going to need them." She disconnected and sat on the pond's stone wall near the still-unconscious man and waited.
Polly snuggled between Rosalie's legs, surrounding herself in the warm wool of the coat. Time passed and the mist thickened. Rosalie shivered. Great, more bone-deep damp adding to the miserable cold. Rosalie hunched, stuffing her hands into her pockets and stamping her feet to keep them from getting too cold. With the mist embracing the Manor and its hill, she could only see a few feet around her, but she could still clearly see the side of the man's pale face.
He had a good profile. The highest cheekbones she'd ever seen went with a clean jawline, full lips, and a straight nose. In his early thirties, his pale gold hair looked long enough to probably touch his shoulders…and somehow he seemed vaguely familiar.
He wasn't from the village. She knew everyone, their children, and their dogs and cats' names. Small villages were like that, though Rosalie figured she knew even more than most. The owner of a small business, the member of the sustainable living association and several garden clubs, and working as a volunteer at the animal shelter, meant, basically, if she didn't know them, they didn't live around town, or they'd been dead for over thirty years.
Her teeth started to chatter and she could feel Polly shivering. What was taking the ambulance so long? Emergency would find Polly reduced to a furry icicle, and both she and the man would be frozen, blue-skinned, purple-lipped corpses by the time they finally arrived.
At least their deaths would provide fresh news for the local paper. These days the Twicksley Weekly was reduced to four pages and full of such thrilling anecdotes as how to make Mrs. Graham's family secret piccalilli, or how Mr. Braxen's Yorkshire Bran once again won at the local show.
A bone-chilling millennium later, she heard the emergency van's siren, then the siren being shut down not too far away. Rosalie bravely removed her hand to dig out her phone. She almost cried. Fifteen minutes had passed since she called emergency. The cold made it seem an eon longer.
She looked between her legs at Polly shivering in her woolen cave. "Guess time passes slowly when you're in the Arctic." Polly just shivered and stared at Rosalie with her protruding dark eyes, pleading for mercy and her snug bed in front of a hot fire.
Through the mist, Rosalie watched the lights of the ambulance, the only part visible, slowly bounce over the rough meadow until the van pulled up about a hundred feet away. Too many half-walls, tumbled rocks, and heather clumps lay around the area for the vehicle to risk coming closer.
She glanced at the prostrate man and stood. "We're near the old fountain," she called out, so the emergency crew could get a bead on her through the mist. All the noise had the sheep and lambs huddled into a tighter mob, but they hadn't moved from their protected corner.
Her father's old friend Rowan hurried over to her with a bag in his hand. Behind him followed one of Rosalie's old classmates, Jacqueline.
"Bloody cold, and the fog's a stinker. Thanks for staying with the guy, Rosalie. Has anything changed since you called?" Rowan asked.
"No. He hasn't moved, and I haven't budged him. He appears to be breathing fine, but it looks like he's hit his head pretty hard on this wall and knocked himself out."
"Head injury, for sure. How did you find him?"
"I didn't. I'd turned ready to head home when Polly found him, so he's lucky."
"Considering they've forecast snow for tonight, I wouldn't have liked his chances of survival."
"Crap. Really? Damn long winter it's been." Her teeth chattered. She couldn't wait to hit home so she could crawl inside the fire, not just warm her feet. The calendar said spring, but Yorkshire's winter, like a drunk at a party, wouldn't crawl home.
Another two guys arrived, and she stayed while they cared for her nameless charge. Once they secured a brace around his neck, they rolled and lifted him onto a portable stretcher.
Then Rosalie caught sight of his full face and nearly fell backward into the filthy, half-frozen slime water of the old fountain pond.
She'd never seen him before…in this life. But if she were right, she'd just found Dane, her soul mate.
Chapter 2
She'd wanted to travel in the ambulance with Dane, but knew she wouldn't be allowed. And not just because of Polly. She wasn't related. Didn't even know his name, except it used to be Dane–in his last life.
Rules, rules, stupid rules!
Telling them he was the reincarnation of a man she'd loved over six lives, one where they'd shared a happy life in the past at Twickham Manor, would probably give her a ride, all right. Just not a ride with Dane, and not to his destination.
The nearest psych ward was several towns away.
Dane sure had taken his time before finally turning up in this life. She'd been looking for him since she turned twelve and her mother used hypnosis to regress her to previous lives.
Her mother guided her through six lives. Some were not exactly memorable, but in all six there had been a constant. Her partner in every life was the unconscious man she'd found at the Manor.
She couldn't wait to drive to the hospital and visit him. To make sure he'd be okay, but also so she could watch his face while he recognized who she was, and who she would be to him.
A reunion of soul mates. If she weren't so impatient she'd call Martin, who ran the Twicksley Weekly, and ask him to take pictures.
Anticipation and contentment bubbled up and plastered a big smile on her face.
In their ancient stone kitchen, she sipped her hot chocolate and scooped up some scrambled eggs, while her mother churned the old milk separator. Built earlier than anyone could remember, the kitchen had exposed beams, a flagstone floor, and happy, lime-washed walls. The ancient inglenook hearth housed two different stoves—one gas and the other wood-heated—as well as a good-sized woodpile. Both stoves adequately warmed them, their house, and their water.
"Taffy's done us proud with her early in the season heifer calf. Poor mite is enjoying the fire pit your father built in the barn."
"Dad always did everything he could to make the animals happy. At least there wasn't much snow last night, though it's so cold I thought someone had put my sheepskin slippers in the freezer."
"You heading to the hospital this morning to see if this fellow is your Dane?"
"Yep. You know, when we were icing my birthday cake two months ago, I figured I'd missed out. Thirty-two, and destined not to find Dane in this life. I started to eye Cawley Becker as a backup."
Her mother snorted. "Cawley's a nice lad, but he wouldn't know what to do with some of your ways. You'd be best with someone who understands you. Exeter Freedman, now, not only is he good-looking, but he's got money, and believes in our alternative ways."
"For one, his name is Exeter, and he has an IQ of two. I do prefer men who can do more than look pretty and grunt. And he only approves of our self-sufficient ways because he has enough money he doesn't have to make the effort himself."
"Even hypocrites can be good-looking. But I guess you want more in a life partner."
"A lot more. Besides, I don't need Cawley or Exeter. I have Dane."
Her mother kept turning the handle. "Chickens and hatching eggs, Rosalie."
"It's him. I know it." Her heart trailed off into an upbeat tempo of happiness.
"Mmm," her mom said, making Rosalie poke out her tongue and hurry to finish her breakfast. Food gone, she smiled at a snoring Polly, who'd curled up in her kitchen basket only two feet from the fire. Polly and their cat Denny appreciated living the life of pets doted on by two single women.
Soon to be two women and a man.
"Did you see the new antique baby rattle I got in the post from the online auction yesterday?" she asked her mom.
"I did. It's a nice one. Makes four now. Almost a collection."
"Not sure four's a collection, but they look nice with the other baby items."
Her mother nodded and gave Rosalie a cheeky wink. "Biological clocks. Good thing this young man has turned up finally."
"For goodness sake, collecting baby stuff doesn't make me clucky."
"Sure. And I'm not ready to be a grandma, either."
The chill added a fresh glow to Rosalie's cheeks, but she wished her nose wouldn't try to outshine her siren-red lipstick when she wanted to look her best for her Dane. Under her thick purple and red woolen coat, she wore her favorite purple, red, and yellow Gypsy dress.
Shivering and shuddering with inevitable hypothermia, she opened the tiny local medical center and hospital's entrance door. "Ahh, blessed warmth." Her old Ford's temperamental heater had decided, since the temperature had fallen into the freeze-your-bum-to-the-seat zone, to take a holiday.
"Close the door, Rosalie. It's a bit brisk this morning. No need to waste the heat."
"Hey, Auntie Joan." Rosalie hurried over to lean on the counter where her aunt, also the ward nurse and medical center's receptionist, sat working at her desk.
"A man came in last night. Found at Twickham Manor. What can you tell me?" Rosalie bounced on her toes.
"Are you his next of kin?" her aunt asked in her best fake prim voice.
Rosalie stared at her aunt. "Auntie Joan." She moaned.
"The gentleman regained consciousness not long after the ambulance rescued him. He has a small skull fracture and received twenty stitches for a gash. He hasn't done any real harm to himself, though I'd say he'll have a doozy of a headache for a few days."
"Oh, that's fantastic—that he'll mend, not that he'll have a headache."
"I sort of caught that part. Good-looking fellow. Artistic-looking, reminds me of a young Michael York."
"Michael York?" Did he live around the area?
"Oh, you're too young, I guess. He's an actor, look him up."
"Sure. So can I see him?" She gave the hall leading to the two wards a longing look.
"We can't contact his next of kin."
Was her Aunt being deliberately obtuse? "Wife, girlfriend, boyfriend?"
"Hasn't mentioned anyone. His next of kin is his mother, who's on holiday in Greece. Lucky duck."
Not being married helped, since Rosalie was sure he'd take one look at her and sweep her into his arms.
"Sad he's here with no one to visit him. I guess I'll pop down and say hello to the poor man." She gave her aunt her most soulful, pleading look. She wanted to make his day, give him hope for the future. She put her hand on her chest, amazed at how her heart tripped and raced. Heck, she hadn't stopped grinning from the first second she bounced out of bed. Finding your one true love truly did give your day—even a freezing one—a rosy glow.
"Getting so lonely you have to hunt down the injured?"
"Well, there they are, lying down and helpless. Seems like fair game." She gave her aunt a remember-I'm-your-niece wink. "Have you seen the single guys in town under forty and over twenty-five?" She held up four fingers. "There are four of them. Four. Besides, I found him, and you know what they say, finders keepers."
"You can travel farther than Twicksley to meet men, you know, but fair enough. Just tell anyone else you met him the other day. Oh, and his name is Lane Beckhampton. He's thirty-three and, going by the receipt for rent, just moved into Londsville House."
Rosalie mulled over the information. "Lane—mmm, nice and modern. Londsville House seems a bit large for a single person." But at least he'd moved into the village. Much easier for them to get to know each other, though hopefully the lease was for the short-term, so he could move in with her.
"If you want to rent a house around here, you'd be hard-pressed to find much."
Rosalie nodded. Old Mrs. Frankstone came in with a bag smelling of good, wholesome things to eat. She would be visiting her husband of sixty years. Mr. Frankstone, the old grouch, refused to eat anything unless his wife cooked it. Bent with osteoporosis, and her hands knobby with arthritis, the old woman couldn't catch a break, even while her bastard of a husband got over his latest bout of gout.
Rosalie left her aunt fussing around Mrs. Frankstone and then headed to one of four doors on the ward. Luckily Lane hadn't been transferred to a hospital with much better, bigger facilities. Another indication he wasn't badly injured.
At the second door she stepped inside. Four narrow beds, with four old armchairs at their sides, filled the small room. Painted a sunny yellow, the room had a large window overlooking the old market square.
She walked past Mr. Frankstone and gave him an airy wave hello, secretly smirking at his glower. Mr. Frankstone hated everyone. But hippies, which is what he considered Rosalie and her mother, he hated more the most. And people of different political views, dogs, younger folk, foreigners and…anyone breathing. He did, however, love his cat.
Rosalie went to stand beside the bed closest to the window. "Good morning," she said in her cheeriest voice, keeping her voice modulated only to Lane's hearing range.
Mr. Frankstone liked to gossip as much as he whined.
Lane turned. A deep purple bruise marred the left side of his high forehead, and his hair stuck up in odd angles around a taped area she assumed covered the stitches. Besides broad, high cheekbones, his eyes were as she knew they would be, almond-shaped, a light sky blue, expressive, and gentle. His lips were broad, full, and defined, his straight nose had the tiniest kink in it, as if he'd broken it once, and flaring nostrils. He didn't look exactly the same as he did in his two most recent lives, but very similar.
In fact, he seemed handsomer in each life, as if each birth refined his features, just like they added height.
She gave him a bright grin, ready and waiting for the light of recognition to ignite in his gaze. "'Tis a lovely morning, isn't it?"
He touched his temple. "Could be if they'd let me go home." His voice was educated London, with a smidgen of France. Such a combination should sound stuck-up, but instead came across as smooth, and staggeringly seductive. Life was looking up.
"I'm sure the doctor will come around later and check to see if you can. But you did have a nasty accident. I thought you were dead at first, gave me a real shock."
His glance met and held hers for a second. "You found me?"
She nodded, ran her hand over the edge of the bed's coverlet, and then smoothed it taut. "Yes. Lucky, wasn't it?" She was so excited she could barely stand still.
"From what I heard about last night's weather, I'd say more than lucky." He looked back out the window. "Thanks for calling for help. If I froze to death my mother would kick my ass."
She rang her tongue over the inside of her cheek, and scratched the side of her nose. Someone ramped up the temperature on her inner sauna, and a full-on blush steamed her cheeks.
They'd found each other, and he dismissed her. Turned away. Man might as well have told her to piss off.
She swallowed, forcing down her disbelief, plugging the hole in her leaking balloon of hope. "Don't I look familiar?"
He turned back to face her, squinted in appraisal of her features, and rubbed at his temple gently. "No, sorry. I was totally out. Didn't even know I fell. I don't remember a thing."
"Oh." Her mother had warned her. Yet she'd been sure he would have at least an inkling she would be significant to him. He didn't even sound interested, just bored, and like he'd rather she left him alone. And she did need to go open up her shop.
She pulled out a business card, Alternative Thinking & Drinking. "This is my store. It's on the main street, between the post office and bakery. When you're discharged from here, come by and we can grab a tea and chat." When he didn't reach out to take it, she dug out a pen from her bag and wrote her cell number on the back. "Or call me on this number any time."
He took the card, read it, and smiled. The smile lit up his face. "Crystals and tarot readings? Really?" He didn't roll his eyes, but she had a feeling he wanted to. He put the card on the stainless steel bedside table.
"Thanks." And then, he rolled his head toward the window and closed his eyes.
She'd been discharged, dismissed, disowned. In a stunned haze of disappointment, she turned to leave and heard him mutter, "Tarot. Jesus."
This was her soul mate? What sort of love match was this? She wanted to bend closer and touch her mouth to his, see if such a touch would spark recognition. Though had a stronger urge to poke him and say, "Oi, deadshit, don't be rude."
Obviously finding the love of her life a seventh time with Dane, or Lane, was going to be a tough task.
She'd do it, of course. Six lives together, at least, meant they were destined. Whether Lane wanted their destiny or not.
Rosalie lifted her chin, and squared her shoulders. She'd win him over. Life meant hope. Her grandma always said, "Love's a hard road." So Rosalie Touchstone had best put on her best walking shoes.


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Photos by David Trappett
Maintaining this standard was no problem for the two youngest groups, Poco Voci and Stella Voce, who delighted the audience with their vocally strong performances and endless supply of cuteness. Stella Voce truly charmed the audience with their use of colourful hand-held lanterns and Kazoos.
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The rise of Donald Trump in American politics is not much of a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. He is the perfect political representation of American capitalism in crisis. His base of support is largely made up of rural, suburban, white members of the middle class who have grown tired of the establishment Republican Party and the hold "reasonable" right wing capitalists have had on the GOP. In their eyes these establishment types are preventing them from taking the extreme measures we have seen during the Obama era to their logical conclusion, with Tea Party Republicans ready and willing to drive the country and the economy off a cliff by shutting down and threatening the very credit of the U.S. government; something no capitalist, highly dependent on the largesse of the state, wants to see occur. Then there are the attacks on immigrants, another incredible important asset to capitalism in terms of cheap labor. Instead of a unified capitalist class putting all its energy behind two middle of the road corporatists in each political party we have a series of spectacularly wealthy individual billionaires distorting the traditional influence over the managed capitalist democracy of America, providing ample resources through dark money sources to candidates like Trump, Cruz, Carson, etc.
The most reactionary segments of the capitalist class are pouring enormous sums of money into the campaigns of candidates like Trump all across the country in a desperate attempt to restore profitability through austerity, eliminating the welfare states, unions, environmental, health and financial regulations, lowering taxes on the rich, driving down wages, expanding private access to public funds and so on. There is no middle road with these people. The only solution to capitalism in crisis is the total destruction of the 20th Century welfare state. Other factions of the capitalist class are more "reasonable" wanting to only "reform" the welfare state, not eliminate it outright. The reactionary segments of the middle class in America, largely confined to the states in the south, see in Trump an anti-establishment, ant-politician, anti-intellectual, everyman, all in spite of his family name, multi-million dollar inheritance, and the numerous times his companies have filed for bankruptcy. In Trump they see someone who has stuck it to the system and survived. Over the last four decades economic insecurity has crept closer and closer to the middle classes, slowly swallowing one family here, one family there, down into the abyss, and there has been no substantial leftist opposition to the appeals of right wing movements.
In America, class and race are greatly intertwined. As long as there are minority communities that the racist sections of the middle class can see being super-exploited then they are willing to take their licks and keep quiet. However, as the demographic trends of this country overtake this community they are going to lash out in increasingly outlandish and radical ways. The fact that the capitalist establishment is just as willing to exploit white people, as it is brown and black people has come as quite a shock. The lack of a mass mobilization of the working class by the Left in America has forced the middle class to look elsewhere for targets of their rage. Rather than target the capitalist class they cling to more tangible communities: gays, blacks, immigrants, Muslims, etc. In many ways the period through which we are living is very similar to the inter-war period of the 1930's. Right wing political parties have emerged across Europe as viable electoral entities. Given the nature of American democracy, a bicameral, non-parliamentarian government, there is very little chance that a third party could develop that could challenge the two major parties. Instead, the Republican Party has built its electoral success through integrating some of the vilest sections of the ideological descendants of the southern confederacy.
Now it has become fashionable on the Left to just come out and label Trump and the Republican base fascist. Even I have resorted to this lazy kind of analysis. While there are many elements of fascist ideology in the modern Republican Party, such as the radical support of extremist capitalist ruling class economic policy, and the nativist, nationalist, xenophobia of the regressive factions of the middle classes, there is very little evidence of any real attempt to seize political power outside legal, electoral, means. Of course, even the Nazis were elected to the parliament before seizing power. But in the preceding years there were hundreds of political murders. Labor leaders, progressive politicians, artists, intellectuals, scientists, anyone with sufficient popular support to challenge fascism were eliminated. This is not to argue that fascism cannot take hold in America. It surely can. Were it to seize power it would do so hiding behind a love of the constitution and waving the American flag.
Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, the American working class is so utterly depoliticized that there is no need for a true fascist movement in America. The German capitalist class turned to the fascists because they were terrified of a communist revolution. Millions of German citizens had joined the Social Democratic and Communist parties in the aftermath of World War One. Revolution was sweeping across Europe, toppling governments and threatening to overthrow capitalism itself. While there are many elements that are reminiscent of the inter-war period there are also a great many significant differences. Americans have been propagandized for more than a half century that to organize collectively to change the world is something inherently dangerous. The kind of psychological repression unleashed on the populace during the Cold War to imbue a sense of unbreakable patriotic fervor that translates into a love of, in particular, the militarist capitalist state, with the anti-collective, individualism of the post Cold War period wherein everyone is supposed to screw or be screwed, has turned politics into something antithetical to being an American.
Include in that the fact that working people are desperate not for a living wage but to simply keep the jobs they already have it is no surprise that Americans have little time for politics. As far as many of them know politics has only ever harmed them. Americans turn inward, blaming themselves and look for personal solutions, moving from one city to another, going back to school to earn a new degree, etc. Politics as the solution to this crisis is dirty. This level of apathy cannot even be considered within the realm of Marx's concept of false consciousness. Talking to the average person one gets the sense that they share a general recognition that something is wrong beyond themselves as an individual, but it is such an abstraction, an incomprehensible, almost platonic ideal, that it might as well not even exist at all. Is it any wonder that recent years have seen the upsurge in popularity of zombie movies and television shows? The Walking Dead is so popular it almost acts as a kind of sublimation of the social, economic, and political impotence of the American working class.
There does not seem to be a working class movement on the horizon. The Left is so mired in identity politics and electoral reformism that there seems very little chance a genuine revolutionary movement could take shape without running out of steam as the Occupy Movement did, or being snuffed out by the Democratic Party. Black Lives Matter is the most recent incarnation of liberalism's frustration with the status quo. They appear to be more sophisticated than Occupy, though that should come as no surprise. The African American community in America has historically been among the most progressive, radical, well organized, and focused political communities. Unlike Occupy they have specific demands, a variety of tactics and strategies for attaining the realization of their demands, have targeted specific, vulnerable, members of the police state, and have seized on modern communications technology to spark popular outrage. However, they have no class analysis or structural framework for explaining the origins of oppression, exploitation, and white supremacy. Without this kind of analysis this movement will not offer any solutions beyond the electoral, beyond electing "better" politicians.
Ultimately our goal should be to build a working class, militant, socialist party where there is none. Splintering off into factions whereby we fight for our narrow interests has been a tremendous failure. The rejection of class politics by the Left in the post-war period has accomplished nothing other than constantly giving ground to our enemies. While they have been on the offensives for decades we have been back on our heels for decades. Instead of building a genuine revolutionary movement we subsume ourselves into political parties. While there is nothing wrong with attempting to reform the most obscene aspects of capitalism we should not relegate ourselves to merely that. Until the Left has a legitimate political program for how to build a class based socialist party in America, out of American traditions that can appeal to working class Americans we are going to accomplish nothing more than applying the breaks on a system catapulting itself toward self-destruction.


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- Once in the cargobob flee in the direction of Sandy Shores Airfield.
- After stealing the Cargobob, an enemy chopper (Buzzard) will chase the player and attack him using rockets. A good method to get rid of it is to exit the Cargobob right after entering it, then use Trevor's special ability of invincibility and shoot down the chopper with a Grenade Launcher or an RPG. However, you have to realize that even if Trevor is practically invincible while on rage mode, the rockets will still keep flying him away and practically he won't be able to stand up once he gets hit and until the ragemeter is depleted.
- To avoid this situation, it's safer to fly the Cargobob right outside the base and then hit the chopper with your own RPG or shooting the pilot. This way is a lot safer than doing it inside the base where the soldiers will swarm you and the chopper shoots missiles more often.
- The fastest, easiest and safest way to avoid the Buzzard, is to either run over its pilot with your car when you enter the base, or get a grenade and blow up the chopper.
- An easier and faster way to reach the cargobob is by using a helicopter. The helicopter obtained in Three's Company is recommended. This way the player will avoid a slower drive and damage from soldiers they can sustain traveling by land which can sometimes waste the player if they are not careful.
Video Walkthroughs
- This mission is similar to Black Project in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, as both require infiltrating a military base and stealing flyable military equipment for another job, the Jetpack in San Andreas for the mission Green Goo and the Cargobob in this mission for The Merryweather Heist.
- One Buzzard Attack Chopper will follow the Cargobob if it is not destroyed, unless the player destroys the Buzzard that spawns near the last hangar. To identify it, the player must aboard the Cargobob and all red dots disappear (but not the real enemies), except one that later becomes a big red dot. Technically, it is the pilot aboard the Buzzard.
- Heat-seeking SAM will not attack the player if a sky route is chosen to enter the base.
- Fort Zancudo will be significantly easier to infiltrate in this mission as the soldiers do not drive the Rhino and less soldiers are found near the base. In a way this mission could be used as an chance to explore the base when most enemies are cleared out. This was made obviously for gameplay balance, as in normal gameplay, it would be nearly impossible to get out by air in a large helicopter.
- During this mission, the Cargobob can be obtained and saved on Trevor's helipad. The player has to land it on Sandy Shores Airfield's helipad instead of the yellow marker. Then exit the helicopter and run away. This will cause the mission to fail, which is when the player should refuse to retry. The player, as Trevor, will now be spawned near to one of the entrances to Fort Zancudo and after returning to the airfield, the Cargobob will be still saved on the helipad.
- This will be in a TPE livery, the same goes for completing the mission before the Merryweather Heist is completed because it stays there.
- During the mission, the soldiers will not respawn.
- Unlike the normal gameplay, where only an alarm is present when invading the base, in this mission the same alarm is present, but similarly to Area 69 during Black Project, there will be an unique loudspeaker telling the soldiers to defend the base.
- Interesting enough, in the online mission Base Invaders, the players are tasked with stealing a Cargobob and to deliver it to Trevor. It is unknown why Trevor didn't use the Cargobob that the online player stole for him in the heist.
- After the mission, there will be a Sandking XL parked close to the hangar for the player to take, even though it does not serve as a special reward.


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Frank Lloyd Wright once said the future of cities depends on the race between the elevator and the automobile, and that anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.
America's love-hate affair with the motorcar has never been a secret. How could it be in a country where the cloverleaf has become the national flower? It is also no secret that car designers from Detroit to Dallas are parading automotive Rube Goldbergs that will run on everything from solar energy to kitchen scraps.
Almost weekly it seems another inventor comes up with a new arrangement of wheels, springs, and knobs, and calls it the "car of the future." So when I arrived recently at the "unveiling of the electric car of the future," I naturally shared the skepticism of the reporter next to me who groaned: "This is the fourth unveiling of the 'car of the future' that I've covered in the last three years."
This electric car could be different.
First, the Exar-1, as it is called, bears no resemblance to those gussied-up golf carts and jerry-built compacts that usually pass for electric cars. It has the sleek lines of a Porsche and carries five passengers. In the face of countless skeptics, the makers of the Exar-1 claim that when it is produced, the car will do 85 mph and a snappy 0-60 mph in 12 seconds. It will go from 75-100 miles on a single overnight charge, and operating costs will be a fraction of those for conventional cars, the makers claim.
Pietro Frua, the famous Italian car designer who created for BMW, Maserati, and Lamborghini, postponed his retirement to design the Exar-1, which would be one of the most aerodynamic automobiles on the road. British race car driver Stirling Moss took one look at the Exar-1 prototype and said he would junk the 19-horsepower General Electric motor, replace it with a 3,000-cc engine, and take it on the race track.
While it may look like a sports car, the Exar-1 has more in common with a computer than with the internal combustion engine. It runs on 24 six-volt batteries, is as quiet as a sewing machine, and as a longer life expectancy than your refrigerator. Projected cost: $9,000.
At the press conference last month here in Berkeley, Mayor Gus Newport introduced the Exar-1 as the "world's first realm electric car" and announced that the first Exar-1 plant would be build in Berkeley. In as short a time as 18 months, he said, some 10,000 of these electric commuter cars would begin rolling off the assembly line every year. Dallas- based American Ecological Transport (American), which developed this electric vehicle, has already attracted several hundred investors, including such Hollywood celebrities as singer Pat Boone (who has dubbed the car "The Liberator"), Donna Douglas (Elly Mae Clampett of the Beverley Hillbillies), and Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek's Lieutenant Uhura).
The man behind the Exar-1 is Amectran president Edmond X. Ramirez Sr. The son of a Mexican immigrant, Mr. Ramirez is a shrewd, garrulous computer specialist who wears tailored suits, carries a gold pocket watch, and sports a well-coiffed beard. Mr. Ramirez has had his bankruptcies and scrapes with the law, but he claims to have surmounted them. He has invested $3 million and the last seven years in a vehicle which he hopes will make him the Henry Ford of the electric car industry.
"This is no puddle jumper," he says, gesturing to the sporty blue prototype parked nearby. "It is stylish, economical, ecological, and is going to revolutionize the automobile industry."
At the moment no production model of the Exar-1 exists, only the 11-gauge steel prototype which, with a test driver, weighs 4,915 pounds. Ramirez says the final production model will weigh around 3,000 pounds. The body of the actual car will be built of acrylic-reinforced Kevlar, a DuPont material which is said to be stronger and lighter than fiberglass and is used in bulletproof vests.
The Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy will not test the Exar-1 until it rolls off the assembly line. Last July, however, Berkeley city officials put the prototpe through a three-day road test at the Ontario Motor Speedway 30 miles east of Los Angeles. They say the car passed the test with flying colors, and they project from the test results that the lighter and better-equipped production car will "approach if not exceed" Amectan's claims for the car. Mr. Ramirez is keeping the test results secret for fear his competitors would learn too much from them. Numerous critics of the car say that Mr. Ramirez is exaggerating the performance potential of his product.
But Amectran corporate secretary Betty Guffie says she can make a believer of any doubter. She offers to take them for a ride in Amectran's S/T, precursor to the Exar-1. "I tell them to come down to Dallas. I pick them up at the airport and take them for a spin at 85 m.p.h. When they begin to cluth their seat, I ask, "Do you want me to put it into fifth?"
According to Mr. Ramirez, the operating cost of the Exar- 1 is less than 15 percent of that of a conventional automobile. Amectran figures that after some 20,000 miles the electric car will have paid for itself. Mr. Ramirez says overall driving expenses for the Exar-1 will average about 80 cents pr 100 miles , compared with $6 to $8 per 100 miles for the average car on the road. The Exar-1 can be plugged into standard household outlets and charged overnight in five to eight hours (depending on whether the voltage is 110 or 220).
The Exar-1, like any electric car, has a fraction of the parts contained in a standard car; maintenance is negligible, he claims. "GE says all you have to do is change the brushes on the motor every 8 to 16 years," Mr. Ramirez says. "The body of the car will last 40 to 50 years, but you'll probably get bored with if before them."
Gus Pelize, vice-president of Amectran, who learned Italian to work with Frua in Italy on the design of the Exar-1 says: "I've got an older car, and things are always going wrong with it. We keep waiting for something to go wrong with the electric car, but it never happens."
The lead-acid batteries must be replaced every 50,000-70,000 miles at a cost of approximately $1,400. But like a flashlight, electric cars will improve as better batteries are invented, Mr. Ramirez explains.
Much of the secret of the car lies in a cornflake-size microprocessor that determines the optimum flow of electricity to send from the batteries to the engine, flashes reminders of important dates, and even determines whether the drives is sober enough to drive by making him repeat a random six- digit number before the car can be started. In winter, if you like, the computer will turn on the car heater a few minutes before you leave the house. Conversely, an air-conditioned car awaits you in summer.
One other technological twist in the Exar-1 is the sound it emits. Mr. Ramirez discovered his car was "too quiet" for pedestrians who listen, rather than look, when they cross the street. So at speeds of less than 27 m.p.h., the car is programmed to broadcast the soft whine of a sewing machine. (Above 27 m.p.h. it makes enough noise by itself.)
Ever since he began his electric-car business, says the builder, he and his product have met tremendous resistance, primarily from Detroit and various government agencies he thinks are trying to "squelch" the new car. "We propose quite a change to American industry. A lot of people would prefer we not succeed."
Mr. Ramirez says his detractors have become "personal and vicious" by focusing on his admittedly clouded past. In his early 20s he was convicted of bank robbery and passing bad checks. He served four years of a 16-year sentence and was later pardoned by Texas Gov. Preston Smith. He has also been criticized for having gone bankrupt twice. This spring he field for a third time.
His repsonse: "My past has never been a secret. I committed those crimes 20 years ago. Sometimes I think I could get more publicity if I had promoted the [ Exar-1] by announcing: 'Ex-con develops world's first electric car.' As for bankruptcy, if my history serves me right, Henry Ford filed for bankruptcy before he finally made it."
The city of Berkeley claims it has thoroughly investigated Ramirez's background. Walter Toney, assistant city manger, says, "We are satisfied the man is not a crook. We think people can reform."
Despite Mr. Ramirez's efforts to keep the results secret, partial statistics from the July road test have leaked out. Wallace Rippel, who attended the first day of the test, is on the technical staff of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasedena where he is developing new electric motors and lead-acid batteries. Mr. rippel says the prototype reached a top speed of 66.3 m.p.h., acceleratated from 0-30 m.p.h. in "an excellent" 6.6 seconds, but took 37 seconds to accelerate from 0-60. The prototype "performed very well relative to existing electric cars," according to Mr. Rippel.
Although he says the test results fell short of Americtran's claims for the production model, he says if the company could trim the production model weight down to 3,000 pounds the lighter car could do 0-60 in 17 seconds, have a range of 90 miles, and "approach" 85 m.p.h. Lightening the Exar-1 while keeping the body strong enough to pass federal safety standards might be a problem, says Mr. Rippel, though he admits he's not a structural expert.
Mr. Ramirez dismisses Rippel's figures as "totally false." Rippel was present only for the "demostration day" and witnessed none of the final two "testing days," says Ramirez. As for getting the car's weight down to 3,000 pounds the Texas businessman says "that is no problem."
According to Dr. Carl Clark, an official in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in order to be marketable, a car should be able to go faster than 55 m.p.h., accelerate from 0-30 in 9 seconds or less have an "emerging time" from 25-55 m.p.h. of 18 seconds or less, and have a range of 21 miles or more (the Deparment of Transportation has found that 92 percent of all American automobile trips are less than 21 miles).
Before the road test, Dr. clark stressed that the performance of the prototype would be "expectedly less than the performance we can expect of the production car, because the prototype is 1,800 pounds overweight, not properly tuned, and has neither the electric motor, transmission, bearings, brakes, nor batteries that will be used in the actual production model." Ramirez "is being asked to test a car not designed for testing," said Dr. Clark. Berkeley officials also pointed out that the car was using "weak Italian batteries" and was not running on the new Goodyear low-resistance tries, which the maker claims can cut rolling friction by 40 percent. Even so, they say, the Exar-1 passed the road test standards "with ease" and "far exceeded our expectations."
Mr. Rippel says JPL is now testing two other electric cars: General Electric's ETV-1 and the ETV-2 designed by Garrett Air Research. The Department of Energy has invested some $8 million in each of these projects. According to mr. Rippel, the ETV-1, a sporty, four-seater compact weighing 3,200 ponds, will accelerate 0-30 in 8.5 seconds, and has a range "less than the Exar-1." By 1984, says Dr. Clark, General Motors will have a two-passenger electric car on the road which will have a top speed of 55 m.p.h., a range of 75 miles, and cost about $11,000. GM estimates that by 1990, 10 percent of the vehicles on the road in America will be electricpowered.
Tom Mitchell is a Hollywood talent manager who helped set up the California Electric Car Company, which bought the rights to manufacture the Exar-1 last year. "A year ago I was trying to sell stock for $10 a share" he says, "and nobody would touch it. Now they're offering me $36 a share and I'm saying it's not available . . . Six years ago the government gave Chrysler and GE millions to come up with an electric car. when Ramirez offered to come up with a prototype in 120 days, the government said to him, 'No, you're just a poor Mexican.' Well, we'll show the skeptics. There's a guy in Santa Barbara who is now selling (electric) converted Volkswagen Rabbits for $14,000. They go 50 m.p.h. for only 60 miles, and he can't sell them fast enough.
"Wait till ours hits the market!" since January 1979 the city of Berkeley had been aggressively pursuing ramizrez in hope of convincing him to locate the first Exar-1 plant here. Berkeley has been steadily losing its labor-intensive industry and tax base. Compounding this problem was the negative business image the community had developed during its political activism in the 1960s.
California Electric Car liked the idea of moving to Berkeley but told the city it would take $8 million to open a factory that would run on double shifts and produce 10,000 Exar-1s a year. The city offered to help the company get a $ 5 million loan from local banks and a $1.5 million long-term, low-interest loan from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
In return, California Electric Car would put up $1.3 million, give the city 12 1/2 percent of the factory's pre-tax profits, and guarantee that at least 320 of the factory's 420 jobs would be offered to unemployed Berkeley residents. The deal was completed this summer.
The Berkeley "unveiling" of the Exar-1 came one foggy morning in September. Mr. Ramirez chaufferred Berkeley Mayor Gus Newport to the Lawrence Hall of Science, high in the Berkeley Hills. Mayor Newport, tall enough to play forward for the Boston Celtics, stepped from the auto at the top of the hill and quipped "The city's budget will be $9,000 bigger next year. I want one of these.
New port then gave the Texas businessman a key to the city and pronounced it "Edmond X. Ramirez Day." The Exar-1 was paraded through downtown, led by a 28 -piece Sixth Army marching band, a 1905 Model F Ford, a family circus of jugglers and clowns, and a troupe of tap dancers who dressed like pickles and called themselves the "Dancing Dills." At the end of the parade was a convertible Lincoln continental from which Ramirez, his wife, and three sons waved like a homecoming king and his court.
Not everyone in Berkeley boarded the bandwagon. rollin Armer is an electric car specialist who works as a mechanical engineer at the highly respected Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. For the last 10 years Armer has driven to work a 1,600-pound electric car which he designed. The body is made of douglas fir plywood with mahogany veneer. From the inside it looks more like a cabin cruiser than a motorcar. The car will do 55 m.p.h. but is most efficient around 35 m.p.h.
"An electric car has no business on the highway. It's for around town. In making a high-performance electric car, he [Ramirez] is selling down the river the only advantage of the electric car, which is low energy consumption," Mr. Armer says. He has just finished writing a book called "Understanding the Electric Car."
Mr. Armer doesn't doubt that the car can go as fast as 85 m.p.h. or that it has a range of 100 miles on a single charge. In 1915, the "Babcock Electric Roadster" traveled 100 miles on a single charge while averaging 17 m.p.h. In 1904, an electric car was clocked at 121 m.p.h., a record which was improved upon by California's Roger Hedlund at the Bonneville Salt Falts several years ago. His electric vehicle reached a speed of 174.92 m.p.h.
The range and speed Ramirez claims for his Exar-1 are entirely possible, says Mr. Armer. "But his car won't do everything he claims at the same time.m You can't drive it fast and far, and expect to recharge it for a low prices."
Finally, Mr. Armer questions the production cost of the car. "It makes perfect sense that an elctric car should come out of a small corporation rather than be developed in Detroit, but I figure the tooling for an electric car plant would cost about $2 billion. Someone once offered me $11 million to produce the electric car I invented. I had to say no. For $11 million I couldn't provide enough tooling for the horn buttons and hub caps. I don't know how he [Ramirez] can set up a whole plant for $8 million and make any money."
One of Mayor Newport's aides said, "With all the criticism it would be politically easy to bail out on the Exar-1, but we won't do that. It may be harder now to get the HUD money and financial backing." He added that they city would probably conduct additional tests to "end all doubts about the car."
"Ed Ramirez has a car that works" says Dick Jenner, head of Berkeley's Business Incentive Program. "Sure, he has a lot of warts. We pardoned Nixon, and what revolutionary new technology did he come up with? Ramirez has a big ego, he's larger than life, he promotes hard. and that sort of personality upsets some people. He went to prison and worked his way back up. He's been through bankruptcy, too. Years ago we would have said he was an entrepreneur. It's those aggressive qualities that Ramirez possesses which were necessary to push through the obstacles that faced him."
Yet there are other skeptics to convert, notably those holding the purse strings. The California Electric Car Company has yet to nail down the $5 million loan, and Berkeley has not yet filed its $1.5 million federal loan application.
In an age of hype many are leery of the type of supersell Ramirez and the city of Berkely are using to push "the world's first realm electric car." But then, who would have invested in the shenaingans of those two bycycle mechanics down on the beach at Kitty Hawk?


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The Resurrection in Prophecy
An event clearly foreseen by both Jesus and the Hebrew prophets.
by Dr. David R. Reagan
The resurrection of the Messiah was well established in the Hebrew prophetic scriptures long before the death and resurrection of Jesus.
The most straight forward and best known of the resurrection prophecies is the one penned by David in Psalm 16:10, written a thousand years before the birth of Jesus: "For Thou wilt not abandon my soul to Sheol; neither wilt Thou allow Thy Holy One to undergo decay."
On the Day of Pentecost, when Peter preached the first Gospel sermon, he boldly asserted that God had raised Jesus from the dead (Acts 2:24). He then explained that God had performed this miraculous deed in fulfillment of David's prophecy in Psalm 16. In fact, he quoted the words of David in detail as contained in Psalm 16:8-11. Years later, Paul did the same thing when he spoke to the Jews of Antioch in Pisidia. Like Peter, he declared that God had raised Jesus from the dead in fulfillment of Psalm 16:10 (Acts 13: 33-35).
The resurrection of the Messiah is strongly inferred in another of David's psalms — namely Psalm 22. The first eighteen verses of this incredible psalm describe the suffering of the Messiah in vivid detail, even mentioning the nature of His death: "They pierced my hands and my feet" (Psalm 22:16). Then, in verses 19-21, the suffering Savior prays for deliverance "from the lion's mouth" (a metaphor for Satan). This desperate prayer is then followed immediately in verses 22-24 by a hymn of praise in which the Messiah thanks God for hearing His prayer and delivering Him. The resurrection of the Messiah is clearly inferred between the ending of the prayer in verse 21 and the beginning of the praise song in verse 22.
The resurrection is spoken of more pointedly in Isaiah's famous "Suffering Savior" passage in Isaiah 53. After prophesying that the Savior would suffer for our sins and then be "cut off out of the land of the living," Isaiah states that He "will see His offspring" and that God the Father will "prolong His days" (Isaiah 53:5, 8 & 10). Isaiah proceeds to reaffirm the promise of the resurrection in different words: "As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see light and be satisfied..." (Isaiah 53:11).
But prophecies of the resurrection are not confined to the Old Testament. The New Testament contains many of them in the teachings of Jesus. Perhaps the earliest one is recorded in John 2 which tells the story of Jesus' first visit to Jerusalem after the inauguration of His ministry. The Jews asked Him for a sign to prove that He was the Messiah. Jesus responded with a startling statement: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up" (John 2:19). The Jews thought He was talking about Herod's Temple, but John says, "He was speaking of the temple of His body" (John 2:21). And John adds an interesting observation: "When therefore He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken" (John 2:22).
Later, in His Good Shepherd discourse recorded in John 10, Jesus stated that the day would come when He would lay down His life on His own initiative. But, He immediately asserted that just as He would lay down His life on His own authority, He had the authority to "take it up again" (John 10:17-18).
At the tomb of Lazarus, right before Jesus demonstrated His power over death by raising Lazarus from the dead, Jesus said to Martha: "I am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me shall live even if he dies" (John 11:25).
Many times throughout His ministry, Jesus spoke privately to His disciples about His death and resurrection. For example, right after Peter's famous confession of Jesus as the Son of God, we are told that "from that time, Jesus Christ began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day" (Matthew 16:21 and Mark 8:31).
In Matthew's gospel it is revealed that immediately after His Transfiguration, Jesus told His disciples that they should not share the experience with anyone until after He was raised from the dead (Matthew 17:9). Mark relates the same story in his gospel, but he adds that the disciples "seized upon that statement [that He would be raised from the dead], discussing with one another what rising from the dead might mean" (Mark 9:9-10). It appears that the disciples never fully comprehended the meaning of Jesus' prophecies about His resurrection until after the resurrection had actually occurred.
Even though the disciples always seemed to be bewildered by statements about His resurrection, Jesus continued to make the claim to them that He would be killed and then resurrected on the third day (Matthew 17:22-23; 20:18-19; 26:31-32; Mark 10:32-34; and Luke 18:31-33).
In speaking of His resurrection, Jesus often resorted to the use of a powerful symbolic prophecy. He called it the "sign of Jonah." When the Jews would ask Him for a sign (that is, a miracle) to prove that He was the Messiah, he would respond by saying, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah" (Matthew 16:4). On at least one occasion, He defined exactly what he meant by this rather enigmatic expression: "Just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" (Matthew 12:40).
The resurrection is also symbolically portrayed in the life of Joseph. His brothers betrayed him just as Jesus was betrayed by His Jewish brethren. Joseph's brothers then threw him in a pit and told his father that he was dead. Jesus actually died at the hands of His brethren. But Joseph was rescued from the pit in a symbolic resurrection that pointed to the actual resurrection of the Messiah. Later, Joseph presented himself to his brothers, and they received him as their savior, just as Jesus will one day reappear when the Jewish people are willing to look upon Him who they have pierced and cry out, "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!" (Zechariah 12:10 and Matthew 22:39).
One of the most beautiful and moving portrayals of the resurrection in symbolic prophecy can be found in the life of Abraham when he was told by God to sacrifice his precious son, Isaac. As Abraham was ready to plunge the knife into his son, an angel restrained him, and his son's life was given back to him as a symbol of the Messiah's resurrection. The writer of Hebrews recognized the symbolism of this story when he wrote: "He [Abraham] considered that God is able to raise men even from the dead; from which he also received him [Isaac] back as a type" (Hebrews 11:19).
These prophecies were fulfilled when Jesus of Nazareth was raised from the dead. His triumph over the grave certifies that He was who He said He was — namely, the Son of God (Acts 13:33).
Jesus has overcome death, the great enemy that is feared by all mankind (Hebrews 2:15). He has therefore been given authority over both death (the body) and Hades (the spirit). Jesus Himself proclaimed this great truth to John on the island of Patmos: "Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades" (Revelation 1:17-18).
One day soon Jesus will appear in the heavens. He will bring with Him the spirits of those who have died with their faith placed in Him. He will resurrect their bodies in a great miracle of restoration, and then He will reunite their spirits with their bodies, giving them glorified bodies that will be perfect and immortal (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, 51-54).
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