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Next public event in re-segregation series to feature film screening, group discussion
Is racial concentration an issue in Bibb County Schools?
The conversation about school re-segregation will continue this Tuesday. Mercer University's Center for Collaborative Journalism, Georgia Public Broadcasting and The Telegraph are hosting a community event in Macon.
Attendees will watch the "Frontline" documentary "Separate and Unequal" and participate in small-group discussion. The film addresses the increasing racial divide in public schools in the United States and follows a group of white parents in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as they try to create a separate school district.
The free event will be at the East Macon Community Center, 3326 Ocmulgee East Blvd. Doors will open at 5:45, and the program will start at 6:15 p.m. Pizza and drinks will be available.
This will be the fifth public program in the ongoing collaborative project exploring re-segregation in today's schools. Stories in the series have addressed the increased racial concentration in Bibb County public schools and Macon's school integration history.
"With all the engagement projects, we've tried to do reporting on issues that are important to the community with hopes it might bring positive change or awareness of the issues. This project is more personal for people, and it's not a one-size-fits-all answer," said Debbie Blankenship, interim director for the CCJ. "It's an issue that communities all over the country are facing. It's an important conversation to have."
Tuesday's event will be an opportunity for candid discussions between community members about the problem and potential solutions, she said.
Andrea Honaker: 478-744-4382, @TelegraphAndrea


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Help young food businesses prosper in Newcastle by providing a commercial kitchen, lowering the barriers to entry into the market. A community resource that encourages participation and development.
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Ugly Duckling is a non-profit community interest company that wants to create a vibrant and ethical food hub in Newcastle that's waste free. The first chapter in doing this is recognising the need to help other grassroots food businesses prosper. Its initial focus is building an accessible, affordable commercial kitchen available for hire, a flexible working space and somewhere to sell local produce. Creating an adjoining flexible office/workshop/showcase space would allow the hub to offer a co-working/educational community space. The minimal space(s) can be transformed for superclubs, workshops and events for hub users. We also imagine it being used for monthly markets, school trips and collaborations with community groups. Ugly Duckling also recognises the value in using food as an engagement tool in a community and so part of the food hub will support and educate in the growth of a healthy, sustainable, inclusive food culture in the city, by the people, for the people.
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Since its inception, Ugly Duckling has borrowed kitchen spaces from other organisations which has hugely hindered progress but yet, we recognise we are the lucky ones as without our connections in the food industry we wouldn't have able to get to where we are now. We would like to create a high specification kitchen that is available for affordable hire to eliminate the huge capital costs associated with setting up a food business and allow small companies to prosper in a registered startup space alleviating financial and logistical problems from the outset. We believe in power of sharing resources, knowledge and skills to help others overcome the barriers but also want the space to become a community asset. Running alongside the kitchen will be a free creative workshop program. These will be diverse, exciting and inspiring, awakening untapped skills, strengths and aspirations of the attendees and providing volunteering & potential employment opportunities.
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There is nothing currently on offer like this in the North East and we want to use the hub to not only promote the development of small, independent business but promote sustainable catering practices within the hub, from increasing access to local resources, to minimising plastic use all embedded in a zero waste circular philosophy.
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Rather than providing a neutral public space for citizens to debate ideas, tech giants are now intervening to promote their own opinions and silence contrary voices. I rarely watch documentaries, but am looking forward to The Creepy Line, which examines their growing control of the public discourse. You can view The Creepy Line documentary at this link. (It's free for Prime members.)
Social media is a critical component of the democratic process. The major tech companies functioning as monopolies, so we really need to consider regulations to ensure equal access for all. Though with Big Business and Big Government being natural allies, it'll be a tough lift.
Ironically, the title of the documentary comes from a quote by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. According to Schmidt, Google's policy was "to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it." He was referring to intrusive, skeevy data practices. With Google now creating a censored search engine for the Chinese Communist Party, I'd say they've blown past the creepy line… (And let's not even discuss their defunct motto: "Don't Be Evil.")
Ponder for a moment that Google is working with the murderous, autocratic Chinese Communist Party, but refuses to work with the American military. That is about as hypocritical as it gets. The creepy line is no longer visible even in the rear-view mirror.
Peter Schweizer wrote the documentary script. He's president of the Government Accountability Institute and a former research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. More interestingly, it features Jordan Petersen, author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos. Peterson takes the documentary up a notch — he's one of the most provocative thinkers on the current intellectual scene and always entertaining.
The film debuted at Cannes this year and is getting a U.S. release on September 17.


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The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, and the Ultimate Bistro Experience
The Louvre
I've mentioned before I'm no art expert but I know what I like. While I appreciate the classical artists, I'm much more drawn (no pun intended) to the impressionists.
The Louvre is obviously one of the great museums in the world. If you've ever been to Paris, seen a travel show about Paris, or seen a movie about Paris (DaVinci Code anyone?), you've seen the Louvre and it's now famous Pyramid entrance.
Here is my dirty little secret...I'm not a fan of the Louvre. Don't get me wrong, I fully understand the significance of the art in the museum. I am just not a fan of the place. It's way too big. It's ridiculously crowded. You really can't appreciate any of the major works because there are so many people around each one talking, taking selfies, and getting in your way, that the entire experience is just unpleasant.
So I approach visiting the Louvre like a military operation. Get in, do what I need to do, and get out.
I do notice that the museum has added a new section on art from Asia, Africa, North, and South America. I make a note to check it out.
The famous paintings, sculptures and artifacts are everywhere. It truly is a spectacular collection. Again, it's the fact that you are looking directly at something that thousands and thousands of people have looked at and had their own ideas about that is so wonderful. I am pleasantly surprised with the art from beyond Europe. It's fascinating to me that the art is so similar despite the distance between the people who created it.
The key to enjoying the Louvre is doing lots of research before you get there, pick out the stuff you want to see, see those things and hit the road.
According to the dictionary, Impressionism is defined as, " A style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color," and, "A literary or artistic style that seeks to capture a feeling or experience rather than to achieve accurate depiction."
The impressionists broke away from the convention of what was considered "art" by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in France (who preferred paintings featuring historical or religious themes and figures). They wanted to paint out of doors, where the light changed the way they saw people and places. They wanted to paint landscapes and scenes of everyday life. Of course the Académie lost their collective minds, and the critics railed and mocked the new artists -- among them Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Paul Cézanne .
After years of being rejected by the Académie and banding together to show and promote their new style of art, the public began to realize that this new style was actually a legitimate form of art and embraced what the impressionists were doing.
Of course, today we look at these artists as masters and their works as masterpieces (to me even more so than the 'traditionalists" like David). I mean come on. Would you rather spend you time looking at paintings of some rich dude who could afford to have a famous artist paint his portrait or Monet's Impression, soleil levant? There is only one answer really.
The Musée d'Orsay, opened in 1986, houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist art in the world. I fell in love with this place when I was here in 2006 and if anything, my love has only gotten stronger. Unlike the Louvre, the d'Orsay is easily navigated. I could spend hours going from room to room. I'm fascinated by the impressionists and their work. The use of light, the individual brushstrokes, showing people living life. It speaks to me in a very deep, personal way.
The truth is if you're going to Paris you need to have a French Bistro experience. You need to go to a place that is busy, full of energy, noisy (but not loud), and serves outstanding, classic, rustic food. There is no better bistro experience in Paris than Bertrand Auboyneau's Bistro Paul Bert.
The menus are handwritten on chalkboards in French of course, and with a little help from my awesome server (he literally had half the restaurant, kept everything moving efficiently, joked with every table, and didn't forget a single thing), I settled on the house-made, rustic paté, the fried grouper cheeks, the peppercorn filet with a cognac cream sauce, and the Grand Marnier souffl. FYI, my mouth is watering remembering this meal.
The paté is delicious. It's perfectly spiced and the quality of the meat is outstanding. It's one of the things that separates Bistro Paul Bert from other bistros. They actually own farms in Normandy and Brittany where they source most of their ingredients.
The tempura fried grouper cheeks are light and crispy. The house made tartar sauce is creamy and compliments the fish perfectly. I adore grouper anyway and this is a new twist for me. If I lived in Paris I would eat this dish as often as I could.
Full disclosure, I'm not usually a filet fan. I've always thought it was an overpriced, under flavored, cut of beef. This filet showed me how wrong I was. I wish I could do the Vulcan mind meld trick from Star Trek because it's the only way I could adequately describe my experience. Perfectly cooked, butter soft, exploding with flavor. The peppercorns, cognac, and cream enveloped the filet in a sauce that I can only describe as otherworldly. This is what comes from using an outstanding product, and perfect preparation.
What really impressed me was the fact that this dish could have been mediocre. Bistro Paul Bert is FAMOUS for this dish, and they could have half-assed it knowing that they were going to continue to sell portion after portion regardless of the quality. But they didn't. I have no doubt that if I went back 100 times and ordered the filet it would be as amazing every single time.
The soufflé was light and eggy, with a perfect balance of sweet (but not too sweet) and boozy (but not too boozy). Heavenly.
For those of you thinking, "You had dessert?!", I reply, "How could I not?!" Yes I was full, yes it was over the top, yes my cardiologist would have slapped me around if he saw me, but come on! There was NO WAY I was going to miss out on the perfect ending to a perfect meal.
So I saw amazing art and fed not only my heart and mind, but at Bistro Paul Bert my body and soul as well. Needless to say I slept VERY well after my most Parisian of days.


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Here's the review I recently posted on Amazon for a wonderful new book developed at the New York Academy of Art, a degree-granting college that focuses on the figure and values formal anatomical skills, representation and a culture of mastery:
"A great resource for anyone interested in figurative art, especially for those creating it. Much of it reads like art history, yet for once it is art history written by people who actually paint and sculpt -- this gives it real authority in my view. Dense reading -- you often have to unpack phrase-by-phrase but you are always rewarded for it, unlike much of the dense but largely meaningless stuff inflicted on us in some of the art magazines or academic journals. Everyone here is connected to the New York Academy of Art, so the book occasionally acts a little bit like a 'day on campus' with detailed how-to technique bits sprinkled in among the essays. Mostly I appreciated reading thoughtful artist-professors discussing the subtle alchemy through which figurative art transforms from stale, old academic into vibrant contemporary art form. This is one I expect to read and re-read for years."


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One of the favorite comedies and of all time and one of the most beloved show of the 90s, Hum Paanch is returning on television. It will air again on Zee TV and this time it's called Hum Paanch Phir Se. The show's first season ran from 1995 to 1999 and the second season ran from 2005 to 2006.
The first season of the show featured today's stars like Vidya Balan. While the show was earlier produced by Ekta Kapoor's Balaji Telefilms and Zee Telefilms, this time it will be produced by Essel Vision Pvt. Ltd., the makers of Dance India Dance and other Zee shows.
A report about the return of the show quoted a source saying "We will retain all the intrinsic elements and the format, but will give it a modern spin. The production house is in the process of finalizing the cast, which will comprise new faces." There you have it. The classic comedy core will be the same, only the angle will be contemporary and the twists will be modern. One of the main reasons of the popularity of the show was its extremely relatable characters. Hopefully, when the show returns for its 3rd season, it will leave the same impact and the feeling of nostalgia to them when they grow old.
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As it is anticipated that the premise of the show will remain unaltered, let us enlighten you what this beloved comedy is all about. It is the story of a father and his five daughters, each with their unique and personality and traits, and how their fathers always lands up in trouble because of their daughters.
Cast & Timings
As mentioned earlier, an entire new cast will be roped in and is in the process of being finalized. We will update it shortly once the cast details are revealed. The show will air on Zee TV network, however, the timings haven't been officially announced as of yet.
For more details about this show and other Indian shows, stay in touch with us.


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The Keep - Adding Spell Checking Dictionaries
The Keep uses a spell checking system called 'hunspell'. This is the same spell checking system used by OpenOffice and FireFox. Because of this, the same spell-checking dictionaries used by those applications can also be used by The Keep.
To install a spell checking dictionary for a language other than English:
Go to OpenOffice's dictionary site:
Grab the dictionary files you want (note, you need the Hunspell dictionaries, not the Myspell dictionaries from older OpenOffice versions).
Place the .dic and .aff files into the Spelling/Dict/ directory, under the directory where The Keep is installed and restart The Keep.
The new dictionaries will be available as options in the Editor section of the General Options tab on the Program Preferences window (File - Program Preferences).
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Beverage Air BB72HC-1-F-B Refrigerated Food Rated Back Bar Storage Cabinet
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The worst part of service can be waiting for your drink; thanks to the Beverage Air BB72HC-1-F-B Refrigerated Food Rated Back Bar Storage Cabinet, your bartenders will be able to serve up quenching refreshments faster. This backbar storage cabinet is 34 inches tall, 72 inches wide, and 23.50 inches deep.
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Don't mess with Blac Chyna! The expectant mom hit back at haters who criticized her pregnancy weight gain on Instagram on Tuesday, May 17.
The former model, 28, who's pregnant with fiancé Rob Kardashian's baby, issued a blistering smackdown to body shamers who slammed her growing baby bump in the comments on a photo post on @thacelebriteanews account.
"To all you people out here with negative comments and insecure words (obviously because you have nothing else to do but criticize the next) I AM HAVING A BABY!" she wrote. "Exactly what do you expect to see?! If I walked out in makeup and heels everyday to be beautiful to you means I WOULD BE MISERABLE AND UNHAPPY which are two vibes I refuse to transfer to my little one."
"If I comment on y'all pics and go in on them tired ass weaves or unblended ass contours I'll be wrong right?" she continued. "It'll be tragic! So stop playing & Put Some Respeck on my name."
Us Weekly confirmed on May 6 that Kardashian, 29, and Chyna are expecting their first child together. She is already mom of son King Cairo, 3, with ex-fiancé Tyga (who split with Kardashian's half sister Kylie Jenner earlier this month).
The reality star is clearly a fan of his fiancée's pregnancy curves. On Tuesday he posted an Instagram photo of Chyna wearing a cutoff top that exposed her baby bump and captioned the snap, "My beautiful babies in Miami."
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Ok i admit it i have cats…there i got it out lets move on
Even though i do have cats i would say i am still a dog person. I love my cats don't get we wrong but who wouldn't…
I mean look at their faces…
But i would still say a 'strange' cat or dog give me a dog any day.
Overall though i just find that having any pet that you didn't train sometimes makes me a little uneasy but all in all i prefer dogs.
The smaller one is nano, she is a little hyper but she gets tired eventually and naps for ages. The bigger one is called caboose, i named him after caboose from the web series Red vs Blue. They are both good for each other as they keep each other company but they can getting into trouble some times by getting into draws etc.
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The year is 2010, and the airlines of Europe are suffering. Since this is a wine blog and not a travel blog, I will limit myself to mentioning the phrases "financial crisis" and "Eyjafjallajökull" (hint: it's an Icelandic name). In a situation such as this, the airlines should reasonably be expected to take care of the few remaining paying passengers they have. Let's just say that at the day in question, a certain airline's interpretation of the best way of doing so was to cancel the day's last flight from Brussels to Stockholm. Since we're fortunately not talking about a low-cost sorry Irish joke of an airline, at least an alternative offer for the same day was made, flying via Copenhagen. Ah – the fair and cheerful København! Who could mind making a visit there? Except, of course, those who actually wanted to go someplace else, those who prefer direct flights, those who don't really like to arrive delayed at their destination at around midnight, or those who think that Copenhagen airport actually isn't one bit more fair and cheerful than any other airport at light night a weekday, after most things at the airport are closed anyway. Well, despite all this, there was one positive effect of the delay: it gave me a little more than an hour extra to spend at Brussels airport when things at least were still open there. I used the time to visit the nice wine and tapas bar Beaudevin. So, yes, this complaining about airlines actually led up to something wine-related after all!
Beaudevin both has manual serving and two Enomatic machines (one for white and one for red) where the wines can be purchased in serving portions of 4 cl and upwards with a prepaid card, and where the wines are stored under inter gas (nitrogen, as far as I know). This clever invention surely deserves the distinction of being the most clever invention since… well, some other, more clever invention. Beaudevin is a nice place to spend some free time after one has managed to get through the security check at Brussels airport. The person responsible for the selection of the wines is Fiona Morrison M.W.. The selection is renewed regularly, but I have the impression that this only happens every few months or so. The range offered represents a certain price spread, and one time I even saw Château d'Yquem in the machine. And, by the way, this tasting actually happened quite some time ago, so the current offer could be different.
And now for the wines: three white and two red, of which one a non-Enomatic wine.
Trimbach Pinot Blanc 2007, Alsace
In the nose clearly perfumed, very much gives the impression of heavy-style ladies' perfume (lavender?) and some cinnamon roll dough on top of that. (Now, as "cinnamon roll" is a typically Swedish descriptor, we're talking about a slightly sweet dough that includes wheat, milk and yeast, and where the cinnamon actually sits in the sweet filling – I'm thinking of the aromas of this fermenting sweet dough rather than of the cinnamon flavour). On the palate slightly more than medium bodies, fruity flavour with pear, rather good acidity and a fruity aftertaste plus some hint of alcoholic bite. Nose and palate don't quite harmonise, and the nose is quite odd for a grape variety that tends to yield fairly neutral wines (for a possible explanation – see below; some similar notes turned up in several wines), but the aromas are basically "clean". Has some sort of surplus from the airport's perfume store found its way into the wine? 83-84 p. Fiona M.'s written opinion was that this wine should show blackcurrant, passion fruit, grapefruit and gooseberry – which I didn't find but which almost sounds like a description of Sauvignon Blanc, possibly with a slight touch of Riesling, rather than of any neutral variety. "Parker", i.e. Wine Advocate (or in this case actually David Schildknecht, a good and reliable man in Parker's team) rated it 85 p in spring 2010.
After having later tried a completely different wine (a red Bordeaux) from another Enomatic and detected "cinnamon roll dough" there as well, I'm fairly certain that this aroma is some kind of "reduction defect" from being too long under inert gas in the machine. Pinot Blanc is perhaps a wine that is not very fast-moving in the machine (doesn't it have a bit of a bland and boring reputation if it is known at all?) so I wouldn't be surprised if this bottle had been sitting there for some time. In this case, I couldn't say that the wine was "ruined", only that it was not typical on the nose, while the palate was quite credible for a Pinot Blanc. This does not explain the perfumed aromas, though.
A small comment on Alsace "Pinot Blanc" in general, while I'm at it. Surprisingly enough, this wine is allowed to include both genuine Pinot Blanc and Auxerrois, Pinot Gris and white ("blanc de noirs"-style) Pinot Noir in any proportion. This is in accordance with appellation regulations for AOC Alsace using the designation "Pinot Blanc". There is actually more Auxerrois than Pinot Blanc in the vineyards of Alsace – in 2007, all French vineyards combined had 2 330 ha of Auxerrois and 1 304 ha of Pinot Blanc, most of it Alsace. Pinot Blanc also goes into a lot of Crémant d'Alsace, so often there is more Auxerrois than Pinot Blanc in "Pinot Blanc". If this also is the case in wines from classical wine merchants such as Trimbach, I simply don't know. I don't think I've ever seen a single Alsace producer specify which blend they actually use for their "Pinot Blanc" – the only time you see Auxerrois mentioned is when someone produces a high-end varietal Auxerrois. So, the correct way of reading "Pinot Blanc" on a bottle of Alsace is as "Pinot (Blanc)", and in older days they were often designated Pinot d'Alsace. My personal opinion is that if Auxerrois is what's being grown, allow that designation to be put on the label of AOC Alsace wines, and require that something labelled "Pinot Blanc" is actually produced from the grape variety Pinot Blanc.
Château de Rochemorin Blanc 2007, Péssac-Léognan, Bordeaux (André Lurton)
I recently evaluated this very wine here on the blog, so this is a revisit.
In the nose overtly oak, buttery notes, yellow apples, lightly floral with notes of white flowers. On the palate, relatively full-bodied, decent acidity, some bitterness in the aftertaste. Perhaps a little more aromatic than when recently tasted from bottle, but the same lack of citrus notes and freshness compared to other vintages, even though it is very "foody", so it comes across very much in the same way. Same rating again, 85-86 p. As I noted then, most vintages of Rochemorin tend to be a little better than this.
Marchese di Barolo Gavi 2008, Piemonte
The name of the variety is Cortese, and the DOCG is Cortese di Gavi. Gavi is a place.
Rather sweetish nose of mature apples, some peach, a hint of honey. (First showed a little perfume – is this machine doubling as a perfume dispenser?) Very fresh taste with discrete fruit, some citrus, obvious acidity, very distinct mineral notes, cool mintiness. Quite elegant. 87-88 p. Have tasted Gavi wines sometime before, but I don't have a very clear memory of how it "should" be. Its aromas were almost like a discrete Riesling, but the overall impression is more of a very good Muscadet. It would make an excellent aperitif and match light and elegant seafood dishes.
Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Shiraz (usually the majority, some 2/3) and Cabernet from South Eastern Australia (a collective designation for the parts of Australia where most of its vineyards are actually located)
The wine belonged together with my tapas and was served directly from bottle, not from the Enomatic.
Purple colour. Sweet nose, blackberries, some chocolate, very New World/Australia style. On the palate clearly sweetish, generous, very fruity with dark berries (blackberries), clearly alcoholic, relatively tannic but of a friendly kind, some oak bitterness comes through, slightly alcohol-dominated aftertaste. Very easy to like – straight-forward and "a lot of wine for the money". Shiraz aromas a much more obvious than anything from the Cabernet, in my opinion. It comes across as very Australian, in an almost caricature New World way, which sometimes can bring the worst out of wine snobs and unrepentant francophiles. (What – moi ?) I'll try to resist going down that avenue and I rate it 84-85 p.
However, I can't resist thinking in these terms: what a fantastic wine this had been if it had had 1% less alcohol and less sweetness, if the fruit, concentration and tannin structure had stayed the same. Then this had been a wine of much better balance and poise, and had probably merited something like 88-90 p. It's supposed to have 13,5% alcohol, which isn't that much, but it's more than what is really good for the wine. Although I don't fully appreciate the style, there's no denying that anyone who likes it will find it a very good value for money! Probably a very good BBQ wine, and should work with BBQ dishes with rather sweet accompaniments.
"Parker", i.e. The Wine Advocate (in this case the somewhat inflation-prone Jay Miller) gave it 87 p at the end of 2009 and recommended drinking it 2009-2015. The suite of scores for the latest vintages is as follows: 2004 – 91 p (Parker himself), 2006 – 91 p (Jay Miller), 2007 – 88 p (Jay Miller) and 2008 – 87 p. At this occasion I didn't try the 2004 or 2006, but in this style and at this price level I'm surprised at a 90+ score, in particular when you consider what is typically required in Bordeaux for 90-91 p, and the pricing possibilities at 90+ p. It doesn't make me less surprised to read that Miller's recommended drinking window for the 2006 (as evaluated in 2007) was 2010-2022. OK, fruit-driven New World reds can often handle more time in the cellar than many think or practice, although not that much happen with them in the cellar other than some softening of tannings. So unless a wine of this style has tannins that are disturbingly present (which at least the 2008 didn't), I can't really see why a minimum of three years of cellaring would be recommended. In particular since The Wine Advocate's drinking recommendation are often seen by others as "shifted early". I would also not think that Penfolds' idea with this wine is to produce something that demands cellaring, because they actually write "Koonunga Hill's reputation has been built upon its affordable price, its approachability in its youth… [T]his wine [has] immediate current appeal and outstanding cellar-ability over the medium term." I would not consider "medium term" for "affordable wines" to be 16 years, it would rather be 5-8. Well, I guess I just have to chalk down another case of Jay Miller being a wine critic not to be depended upon. Considering other types of criticism that's also been levelled at him from several sources, I frankly can't see why Parker keeps him, because he seems to be undermining the reputation of The Wine Advocate.
Château Bernadotte 2006
Haut-Médoc in Bordeaux, this property is situated just outside the border of the Pauillac appellation, and Bernadotte often shows some of that appellation's character. Currently they have 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 44% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot in their vineyards.
Perfumed nose, dark berries with some oak and chocolate notes. Having smelled this wine, I'm afraid I'm certain that there is some sort of ladies' perfume in Beaudevin's Enomatic machines on this day! The wine has a strict palate with present and slightly aggressive tannins, blackcurrants, clear acidity. 87-88 p. Young, perhaps there is a risk that it soon will close down for a couple of years? If you buy this, perhaps a revisit in five years is more to recommend. Bernadotte has a reputation for producing traditionally styled Bordeaux that needs time, and this was my impression when I tried the 2001 (if memory serves me) some years ago. Compared to my memory of that vintage, I believe that this wine – although also classic/traditional – after all is more accessible young. I see from their website that they have chosen to increase the proportion of Merlot, which could be an explanation. Château Pichon Longueville Comtesse de Lalande bought them in 1997, and they are unusually fond of Merlot for their own wine for being a Pauillac estate. (Pichon Comtesse including Bernadotte was bought in 2007 by their current owner, Roederer.) When tasted next to Koonunga Hill – really two very different styles of reds, despite both being blends including Cabernet – it almost appears a little "mean" in character rather than elegant. But it's immediately recognisable as a wine style with a potential to develop with time.
Parker rated it 87 p early 2009 and recommended drinking it 2011-2026. I've noticed that it's common for me, as in this case, to agree more with Parker's score than with his recommended drinking window. I often prefer to delay the "drink after…" date, and don't mind drinking after the "drink before…" date. And when I write "Parker" I refer to Robert M. Parker, Jr., not to Jay Miller.
I was very surprised by the perfume aroma that I to varying extent found in all four Enomatic wines. It was possible to more or less get rid of by patient swirling of the glass, and I don't think it affected my scoring very much. But it was weird. I thought Enomatic machines used nitrogen as inert gas, and I don't quite understand how you would get perfume aromas into the pressure containers or tubing. If anyone else than me has encountered this phenomenon, I'd appreciate if you dropped me a line! I've visited Beaudevin before without getting this impression, and tried some other Enomatic-equipped places.
A small postscript for those who don't get a typical Belgian pun. The name Beaudevin is obviously meant to sound like that of the former King of the Belgians, Baudouin. Anyone wondering how -ouin so easily gets changed into -vin should now that his name in Dutch is Boudewijn, and the final -wijn is the Dutch word for – you guessed it – wine!
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From the Archive: Gottlieb in Paris, 1959
From The #Archive:
In 1959, #AdolphGottlieb has a solo show at Galerie Rive Droite in #Paris.
The #exhibition features eleven of Gottlieb's works.
The article shown here, published in "La Gazzette Lauzanne" and "Tribune de Lausanne" exclaims, "French painters, watch out! Gottlieb is here!"
Crimson Spinning (1959), pictured here, is currently on view at @SFMOMA.


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I found news about this website on the highly acclaimed Accentuate Writer Forum. The owner checks out every bit of info she posts for credibility. This revenue share site pays for all comments and views your articles get and the articles are really short as on Bubblews.
However, unlike on Bubblews, writing ability is important and if they find you writing incoherent English, you're out. Your intro itself serves as test. Minimum payout is $5. If you decide to join, I hope you will use my link. I am Sarandipity and I will take a look at your posts if you decide to join: <link snipped>
By the way, it's been a month since I hit redemption ($50) at Bubblews and each time I write to them, they tell me it will take more time. I'm not writing for them until I get paid.
Hope to see you there!
Thanks for posting this! I will check it out via your link.
It's amazing that they even respond to you. I too am a month overdue for payment. I have sent 4 emails and get silence in return. Not writing there anymore either.
I've got an overdue redemption as well. I'm beginning to think B has a cash flow problem, or has just flat run out of money.
That face lift did not happen for free. And if revenues are dropping because people are having trouble finding their friends and getting views etc... then they likely have a cash flow problem that they are correcting by ignoring their debts.
I knew that this was inevitable. So, I stopped putting in much time over there, and only visited with about 15-20 writers who were literate. Still it irritates me that they can't even respond to my inquiries.
Equally annoying are all of the little brown noses thanking them for posting links to support email addresses, where no customer support manifests itself.
Could you write the name of the site without a link? Your link got snipped.
A mod decided it was spam and removed it. Do you know the name of the site?
The link seems to be gone!
Is this site made by the same folks who put Triond together?
To be fair to Bubblews, I did get paid - although after a month. So I'll be back there. Persona Pages is too slow where making money is concerned.
Some writers I know tried it, from their experience Personna Paper will close your account if you don't log in frequently enough (like once a month) - AND they won't let you delete your content posted there if you want to take it elsewhere.
For those two reasons I'm definitely staying away.
I have just deleted one of my posts on Persona Paper, so I don't think they stop you from doing that.
Perhaps it depends on if they have closed your account for "inactivity" or not.
I just read their Terms of Use and their Acceptable Use policy and found no mention of either of the scenarios you related above. In fact, several of their legal statements and site policies put forth the exact opposite information that you have given.
Well, I have no personal experience there, just sharing what trusted writers I've known for year have had happen to them, and reported here:
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Personally, I am done with getting involved with any new writer, revenue-sharing sites. I've just had too many disappointing experiences.
Going forward, only HP and my own websites get my love.
I didn't say you were wrong.
Public bad mouthing of a company by cranky users is one thing, but public bad mouthing by cranky users because a company is taking actions that appear to blatantly contradict their posted rules and policies is much more serious.
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Economic Performance in the Americas
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INTRODUCTION Education is the largest non-market service sector in Brazil, Mexico and the USA. The important role of education stems from its fidfilment of at least five societal goals (Maddison, 1995a). Firstly, the accumulation of knowledge yields satisfaction throughout life and as such education is a means of personal development. Secondly, education is considered important to promote social continuity and cohesion. In the USA, and to a lesser extent in Brazil and Mexico, education has been used to build a homogeneous society from an immigrant population. However, after the education system has reached a certain level of development, education is no longer a source of cohesion, but a force producing unpredictable social change. Thirdly, free access to all levels of education promotes social mobility. Fourthly, education produces a greater equality of earnings, as the share of educated people increases and that of the less-educated decreases. This decreases the relative wages of the well-educated and increases the wages of the uneducated. Finally, education raises worker productivity and earnings.' Empirical research has confmed the positive contribution of education to economic growth in Brazil, Mexico and the USA.2 Investment in human capital occurs largely through the educational system, although other forms of learning also exist, such as training on the job. This chapter focuses on the educational system. In Mexico and the USA education is compulsory from the age of 6 and from 7 in Brazil. School attendance is obligatory until the age of 14 in Brazil and Mexico and 16 in the...
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CCGL9025 Global Issues
The Political Economy of Growth and Poverty in the World
CCGL9005 Poverty, Development, and the Next Generation: Challenges for a Global World
Course Description
This course studies how poor nations have alleviated poverty through economic growth and why inequality continues to persist in rich nations. We examine closely how empirical evidence is used to arrive at robust findings of falling inequality globally, but rising inequality within nations. Simple economic ideas on economic growth, international trade and investments are learned and used to explain why the spread of markets and economic globalization has fostered growth and reduced poverty in many poor nations. We also examine why some poor nations have failed to grow and remain mired in poverty. We also consider why poverty has not been eliminated in rich countries and why inequality has increased in recent decades. The role of human capital investments, technological advances, and political economy factors are introduced and used to investigate the experiences of the rich economies, including Hong Kong.
The course helps students to:
- gain an understanding of why some nations succeed to grow and others remain poor;
- learn why prosperity within and across nations is not equally shared;
- understand the interplay of the state and the market in affecting growth and poverty; and
- attain a critical appreciation of why different individuals and groups support or oppose globalization.
Students are introduced to examples of how political processes in one nation can impact development outcomes in another nation. They study how political processes interacting with economic processes at local, national, and global levels can lead to great variations in development outcomes.
Course Learning Outcomes
On completing the course, students will be able to:
- Understand and critically interpret key economic concepts and ideas through applying them to quantitative data on growth and poverty across the world and over time.
- Understand and critically interpret and reflect upon interacting economic and political dimensions of growth and poverty.
- Understand and critically interpret and reflect upon the outcomes for growth and poverty comparing socialist versus capitalist economies and open versus closed economies through the study of cases and examples in history.
- Understand and critically interpret and reflect upon the relationship between issues of growth and poverty and its broader relationship with human development.
Offer Semester and Day of Teaching
First semester (Sat)
Study Load
|Number of hours
|Reading / Self-study
|Preparation of case/data analysis for tutorials
|Assessment: Written paper
|Assessment: Examination
Assessment: 50% coursework; 50% examination
|Assessment Tasks
|Written paper
|Class participation
Required Reading
- Banerjee, A. V., & Duflo, E. (2011). Poor economics: A radical rethinking of the way to fight global poverty. New York: PublicAffairs.
- Chetty, R., Hendren, N., Kline, P., & Saez, E. (2014). Where is the land of opportunity? The geography of intergenerational mobility in the United States. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4), 1553-1623.
- Chetty, R., Hendren, N., Kline, P., Saez, E., & Turner, N. (2014, May). Is the United States still a land of opportunity? Recent trends in intergenerational mobility. American Economic Review, 104(5), 141-147.
- Collier, P. (2007). The bottom billion: Why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. [Chaps. 1-5]
- Cowen, T. (2014, July 19). Income inequality is not rising globally. It's falling. The New York Times.
- Cowen, T., & Tabarrok, A. (2013). Modern principles of economics (2nd ed.). New York: Worth Publishers. [Chaps. 24-26, pp. 461-541]
- De Soto, H. (1989). The other path: The invisible revolution in the third world. Harper & Row. [Chaps. 1, 3, 5, 6]
- Deaton, A. (2013). The great escape: Health, wealth, and the origins of inequality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- Easterly, W. (2008). Introduction: Can't Take It Anymore? In W. Easterly (Ed.), Reinventing foreign aid. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. [Chap. 1]
- Goldschein, E. (2012, January 31). These two neighbourhoods exemplify the growing divide in White America. Business Insider.
- Harford, T. (2006). The undercover economist. Little Brown. [Chaps. 8, 9]
- Lakner, C., & Milanovic, B. (2013, December). Global income distribution: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Great Recession. Policy Research Working Paper 6719. World Bank.
- McCloskey, D. N. (2010). Bourgeois dignity: Why economics can't explain the modern world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Murray, C. (2012, January). Belmont & Fishtown. The new criterion. (Adapted from Coming apart: The state of white America, 1960-2010, Crown Forum, 2012)
- Ravallion, M. (2011, February 14). Awareness of poverty over three centuries. From http://www.voxeu.org/article/poverty-enlightenment-awareness-poverty-over-three-centuries
- Rogoff, K. (2014, May 8). Where is the inequality problem. From https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/kenneth-rogoff-says-that-thomas-piketty-is-right-about-rich-countries–but-wrong-about-the-world?barrier=true
- Sala-i-Martin, X., & Pinkovskiy, M. (2009, October). Parametric estimations of the world distribution of income. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 15433.
- Summers, L. (2014, July 7). The economic challenge of the future: Jobs. The Wall Street Journal.
- Summers, L. (2014, Summer). The inequality puzzle. Democracy Journal, 33.
- Wheelan, C. (2010). Naked economics. New York: Norton. [Chaps. 12, 13]
- Wong, R. Y. C. (2014, August 6). Key to inequality is soaring home prices. South China Morning Post.
- Wong, R. Y. C. (2014, June 18). The high regulation cost of development: What Thomas Piketty's famous book really says. Hong Kong Economic Journal.
- Wong, R. Y. C. Notes on Gary Becker's Human capital theory of the personal distribution of income. Woytinsky Lecture, 1967.
Required Viewing
- McCloskey, D. What is the great enrichment? From http://www.iea.org.uk/multimedia/video/deirdre-mccloskey-on-the-great-enrichment
- Rodrik, D. (2000, Winter). How far will international economic integration go? Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(1), 177-186.
- Sala-i-Martin, X. (2011). Six common myths in the field of economic growth. From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i28cRfsKD-o
- Summers, L. (2014, May 27). Which type of capitalism works best to build economic and social value? Conference on Inclusive Capitalism, Mansion House and Guildhall, London. From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29bAmvfUxbE
Recommended Reading / Resources
- Bhagwati, J. (2005). In defense of globalization: It has a human face. The 2005 Angelo Costa Lecture, Rome, Italy.
- Chetty, R. (2014, June 20). Improving equality of opportunity in America: New evidence and policy lessons. Harvard University. (PowerPoint notes)
- Chetty, R. (2014, May 19). The determinants of social mobility: New evidence and policy lessons. Institute of Fiscal Studies Annual Lecture. From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEGS-yr_8HI&feature=youtu.be
- McCloskey, D. (2014, April 29). Why does 1% of history have 99% of the wealth? Learn Liberty. Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. From http://www.learnliberty.org/videos/why-does-1-of-history-have-99-of-the-wealth/
- Milanovic, B. (2014, July 1). Global income inequality: Current trends, issues of justice and politics. LIS Summer Lecture, Luxembourg. (PowerPoint notes)
- Rojas-Burke, J. (2014, May 7). A birth lottery still determines who gets to live longest, healthiest life. Association of Health Care Journalists.
- Sala-i-Martin, X. (2003). Growth and the world distribution of income. (PowerPoint notes)
- Sala-i-Martin, X. (2003). The world distribution of income. (PowerPoint notes)
- Wilcox, W. B. (2014, January 22). Family matters. Slate.
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This is a three hour workshop for the pitch side first aider, which aims to provide the participant with:
The course is open to all with an interest in improving their emergency aid skills. The qualification is valid for a period of three years.
The course will provide the learner with the knowledge and practical skills and an introduction to first aid that will enable them to attend a conscious or unconscious player, ensuring that appropriate care is given until the emergency medical services arrive and takeover, or until an alternative healthcare professional(s) assumes responsibility for the player.
On completion of the workshop, the learner will be able to:
Learners must be at least 16 years of age
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Pre and post course reading for development, inclusive of highly recommend e-learning modules to be completed ideally pre course:
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Catsfield WI: There will be no official meeting of the WI this month, but as usual in August there will be a Garden Party held on Thursday 20th at the home of Beryl our secretary from 2.30pm. So fingers crossed for the fine weather to continue and if any members require a lift or directions please contact a committee member for details.
Quiz Night: The latest fund-raising event for the parish church of St Laurence will take the form of the very popular Quiz Night. This will be held on Saturday 5th September at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. The tickets are on sale now in the Village Store or can be bought at the door and cost £5 per person. Liquid refreshments will be available but bring your own nibbles.
Sport and Farming News (thanks as usual to Ann): All our sports teams were in action last week, mostly to good effect. Stoolball news has been hard to get this season, but our mixed team played a league side at home last Tuesday and finished with a convincing win, followed by a win for the ladies team away to Robertsbridge on Thursday. Jo Richardson got several wickets on Tuesday following in the footsteps of her grandmother Norah Philcox, who regularly played for the village as a young woman, along with Gwen Taylor and Pam Gurr. As children we regularly went to watch, spending many a cold evening dodging the midges, which always seemed to be around.
The football team have started a round of pre-season friendlies and sadly they lost the first game, but remain enthusiastic.
The cricketers were away to Brightling Park on Sunday and it must have been hot and sunny down there in their intimate ground. We batted first and ended up 174 all out, highest scorers being Derek Fuller with 57 and David Taylor 38. After tea Brightling Park batted and Andy Williams finished with bowling figures of 3 for 40, Ed Malins (he of the wonderful catch last week) 2 for 30, A Jay 4 for 12 and Tom Hammick 1 for 23. We won by 31 runs. Sunday we are back at home again to play Newenden with a start time of 2pm, so do come and watch as the opposition usually field a very strong team.
Farming: You will have noticed trailer loads of straw coming through the village and guessed that the fine weather has enabled a good long run of wheat harvesting. Spare a thought for the many Hooe farmers who have had to contend with the top road to Pevensey Marshes being closed for several weeks, pushing all the traffic on to the bottom road making everyone's journey slow and difficult. Next it will be the field beans being cut and then the hurry to put in next year's rape and it all starts again.
Mobile Library: The Mobile Library will again be outside the Village Hall in Church Road in its usual place from 11.55am – 12.30pm next Friday 21st July.
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The literacy rate in Balochistan is low. The good quality of education will nearly destroy, if measures are not taken to improve it. The education system is totally destroyed as nobody taking measures to bring changes in education system. In Balochistan, there are more than 12,500 primary schools and among them 7,000 schools without classrooms and teachers, and no captivating actions are being taken by government.
There are ample of reasons due to which there are dismal conditions of education in Balochistan. Although, there are number of government educational institutes but these institutes are not managed properly. The government is not trying to ameliorate it. In Balochistan there are ghost teachers, these teachers are receiving their monthly wages but are not present and so no management is there. There are number of schools in which all students study in one, single room. Recently, it is estimated that more than 5000 ghost teachers are found, which are getting their wages but not teaching.
Recently, in Khuzdar, the deputy commissioner found that many school are non-functional and are closed. The teachers were absent. The schools premises had been turned into stores and livestock. These conditions are found because there is no good management of schools. There are educational crisis in Balochistan.
The tribal leaders, few of Nawab and Sardars are against education and they don't want their youth to study. They have this superstition that the youth will be aware of their basic human rights and will rebel against them. They don't want their people to develop, to stand with them. They want people to live under their rule. Another crux is that, as we know from centuries people of Balochistan lived a nomadic way of life and so population density in Balochistan is scattered. With this condition it is difficult to establish schools for every small village.
There in Balochistan, there is lack of political interest for the betterment of education system in Balochistan. The leadership in Balochistan claims to develop the education system, however no such results are observed. The children of Balochistan are deprived of good quality of education system. In this 21 century, in which world is developing in every sector, millions of children are illiterate and are not aware of their basic rights. Moreover the schools are deprived of basic needs and facilities. In schools no fresh water, electricity available for children.
All in All, today our nation is facing multiple problems in modern era and are deprived of real education system. The government should take urgent measures to eliminate this problem. This problem should be cured as soon as possible. The educational institutes should be cursory glimpsed so that no more ghost teacher could be found. There should be non-governmental organizations, which should provide free education.
Education is the first step to the line of development. To improve the standard of living, we should emphasize more on the education sector, as it is the basic right of every child to get an education.
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They lost everything they had worked for. They lost homes, businesses, and the storied neighborhoods in which they had grown up, the neighborhoods where they had built lives within the warmth of family, friends, and colleagues. Most tragically, they lost loved ones.
Descendants of Genocide survivors, they relived many of the horrors experienced by their grandparents and parents, as they were subjected to the renewed savagery of religious and political extremism.
And many became double refugees. After having fled to the safety of Syria years ago, they now had to escape the Syrian civil war, enduring the indignities of migration, poverty, and homelessness. Ironically, some ended up in refugee camps in Turkey. Others managed to move on, in desperate search of a light at the end of the tunnel that was the Syrian cataclysm.
For thousands of Syrian-Armenian refugees, that light at the end of the tunnel — or at least its promise — has come in the form of finding sanctuary in the Republic of Armenia. Moreover, what has been an ongoing and luminous phenomenon since 2010 is that, despite the immeasurable losses they have sustained, Syrian-Armenians arriving in Armenia lost absolutely no time to assume the gargantuan task of rebuilding their lives, one step at a time. All they needed, all they could ask for, was a little helping hand, extended to them with a little measure of moral support.
The story of the Syrian-Armenian tragedy is still being written, its harrowing particulars still being gauged. But there's no doubt that the miracle of the rebirth of the Syrian-Armenian community in Armenia is something the entire Armenian nation must take pride in — and give it everything it's got to further energize it and see it thrive.
The Armenian Redwood Project has been there since day one, determined to nurture that miracle at every step of the way. By raising worldwide public awareness of the plight of the refugees; by working toward a pan-Armenian alliance for meaningful and robust support; and by providing refugee families with urgently needed housing and social assistance, we strive not just to help Syrian-Armenians in Armenia get back on their feet, but give them back perhaps the most precious of survival tools: their dignity.
This year, thousands of Syrian-Armenian families in Armenia will gather around the Christmas table — to remember those who were taken away from them, to celebrate the gift of human fortitude, and even as an act of defiance. As for the rest of us, let us rediscover the spirit of giving in Christmas; let us give our Syrian-Armenian sisters and brothers the unflinching reassurance that they're not alone in their struggle.
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Who was the Field Act named after?
The Field Act, not to be confused with the Civic Center Act, was enacted on April 30, 1933, by Don Field 30 days following the 6.3 earthquake of Long Beach, California. The earthquake destroyed more than 230 school buildings. The Act was intended to make school buildings a safe place for students to learn inside of. Generally speaking, if a building is going to be entered by pupils or teachers, it must comply with the Field Act. The definition of a school building includes many things beyond a traditional building.
See Title 24, Part 1, Building Code Administrative Section 4-301 – this section defines what a school building is, including ball walls over 6 feet, fences over 6 feet, light poles, and other special building objects.
17281. This article, together with Article 6 (commencing with Section 17365), and Article 7 (commencing with Section 81130) of Chapter 1 of Part 49, shall be known and may be cited as the "Field Act."
This report http://www.seismic.ca.gov/pub/CSSC_2007-03_Field_Act_Report.pdf provides a thorough description of the Field Act and its impact on school building safety.


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The key advantage to 4G is speed. It offers far faster mobile network speeds for downloading music and video as well as uploading.
You may well hear 4G referred to as LTE. LTE, or Long Term Evolution, is simply the technical name for 4G services.
4G: Background
The networks we have at the moment use 3G/UMTS technology, which has been around since 2003. It isn't really fast enough for today's needs and especially for mobile broadband.
4G is designed from the ground up as a data network rather than a pipe for voice calls, so it uses the same TCP/IP protocols that power the internet.
While current HSPA+ can reach theoretical speeds of 21Mbps, 4G download speeds could exceed 100Mbps with upload rates of more than 50Mbps – although real world speeds will be a lot slower.
Everything Everywhere
Everything Everywhere, or EE, is launching its 4G network on 30 October.
If you're an Orange or T-Mobile customer, you might have already noticed EE appearing as the network carrier on your handset. That's because EE is the parent company of Orange and T-Mobile in the UK and the network is gradually using the new name.
The brand will officially be launched at the end of the month and the 4G service will be available in 10 cities on that date – London, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol and Birmingham.
The network says that Belfast, Derby, Hull, Nottingham, Newcastle and Southampton will also have the service by the end of 2012.
Upgrading to 4G
If you're on a 3G tariff with Orange or T-Mobile then you will be able to upgrade to a 4G deal providing you have a 4G enabled handset.
The iPhone 5 is already 4G capable, with the HTC One XL, Huawei Ascend P1 LTE and Samsung Galaxy S3 LTE also getting involved. For the latest on tariffs and prices, take a look at this article posted earlier today!
It's important to note that 4G networks in the UK will not be compatible with 4G networks in the US; they use a different waveband.
Will 4G be available for my network?
So what of the other networks? Three, O2 and Vodafone will definitely be joining the 4G movement by the end of next summer. The three networks were all rather annoyed that EE had been allowed by Ofcom to steal a march and launch early.
The networks now need to acquire some wavebands of their own to launch, which should happen in January. Three may well be first out of the blocks, as it has already acquired some of Orange's spectrum.
The bandwidth has, until recently, been used for TV services.
As we've heard, 4G will be available in the big cities first, but it won't be a huge amount of time before it reaches most urban area. Ofcom has previously said that it will need to reach 98% of the population and 95% of the country by the end of 2017.
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The History of the Chinese in Bakersfield as seen through the Choo Ly and Ng Hon Kim Families. Presented by Father Gregory Kimm a descendant of pioneer Chinese families.
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