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With the iOSphere's spring warming trend come swarms of Chinese worker bees, presaging the start of iPhone 6 production.
Unless of course there are delays. And woe is us: it looks like every new Apple mobile product - except possibly updated earbuds and colored Lightening-USB cables - is being delayed. All those worker bees may end up just standing around, reading iPhone rumor sites to know what's going on.
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Also this week: newly recirculated rumors about the iPhone 6 fab phablet and the magic of more megapixels.
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iPhone 5 will be announced soon, because Foxconn is hiring more Chinese assembly line workers
Both Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal are reporting that Foxconn, which assembles iPhones for Apple, has started hiring additional assembly line workers, as it prepares to start production of the Next iPhone.
According to many in the iOSphere, this means that the iPhone 5S or 6 or something will be announced soon. Even though no one really defines what "soon" means, and almost no one has any idea of the time it takes for an electronics company to move from hiring new workers to shipping pallets of new smartphones to warehouses in the U.S.
Foxconn is the trade name for Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., which announced that since the last week of March, it has been adding about 10,000 line workers each week at its Zhengzhou, China, facility, a major iPhone product site, according to the Journal.
According to the Journal: "'We have been very busy recently as we will start mass-producing the new iPhone soon,' said a Zhengzhou-based Foxconn executive with direct knowledge of production plans."
Bloomberg filed a very similar story, citing a "person familiar with the plans" at Zhengzhou, who could be the same person who talked to the Journal for all we know. "The extra workers will assemble the new [iPhone] device as well as existing models and have been added at Apple's request to boost capacity, the person said," according to Bloomberg.
TechnoBuffalo didn't hesitate to fill in the blanks left by the lamestream media. "iPhone 5S production is expected to begin this quarter and Apple will likely launch the phone later this summer," Todd Haselton assured readers. "However, a recent report suggests that manufacturing issues may cause some delays."
So, iPhone 5S will likely launch later this summer. Unless it's delayed. Then it will be, you know, later.
iPhone 6, iPhone 5S and iPhone iCheapo are all delayed
Speaking of delay, or more accurately of delays, plural ... CNET's Dara Kerr warns that, while its rivals "forge ahead" with mobile device, "Apple could be experiencing production delays across the board."
Apple's vaunted well-oiled supply chain "could be" buckling, skewing, grinding to a halt. Across the board.
The source for the news of this dramatic breakdown is a StreetInsider.com story based on a report by Jefferies stock analyst Peter Misek, "who recently visited Apple's Asian suppliers." Misek concludes that the "rumored iPhone 5S will most likely be delayed" from an expected July date for start of sales. "Misek also said that the possible low-cost iPhone launch could be pushed to this year's fourth quarter and an iPhone 6 probably wouldn't come out until 2014."
The 5S delay is caused by unidentified "preproduction issues" and "mass production [is] at least a month or more away." And let's not forget the "publicly discussed delay of iOS 7," according to CNET's Kerr. That might sound as if Apple has been talking about this, but she's actually referring to a recent online discussion by several tech bloggers and Apple watchers, some of whom said they've heard that iOS 7 is "behind schedule," a terms which means something different from "delay." (More on this distinction later.)
In any case, the preproduction issues and the iOS delay "puts a July availability at risk," according to Misek. Finally, Misek, using what's called the "Royal We," concludes, "We continue to believe there is almost no chance the iPhone 6 launches in CY13 [calendar year 2013] due to supply chain issues."
But the bad news doesn't stop there. Because "the iPhone 5S delay is expected to affect production of other Apple products too," according to CNET's Kerr. "Misek said the iPad Mini refresh will also be pushed back and that he didn't see any evidence of a possible iWatch in production. The iPad 5 refresh could happen, said Misek, but he believes the volumes will be low. Finally, he said that an iTV for 2013 is unlikely."
Kerr doesn't pull any punches. "If Misek's calculations are correct, there's most likely some gnashing of teeth in Cupertino as Apple works to get a new product in the pipeline as soon as possible," she writes.
No kidding. At this rate, Apple will be left announcing updates to its Apple EarPods with Remote and Mic or color versions of its Lightning-to-USB cable.
The StreetInsider version carries a very few additional details, including this also unsupported statement by Misek: "Apple seems to be facing material technology risk with its screen [technology] transitions causing yield issues and its app processor transition facing possible ramp issues at TSMC."
This statement refers to two still-unsubstantiated claims, or fears or hopes, depending on your viewpoint. First, that Apple is making a major shift in its screen technology for the next phone and tablet products, and that manufacturers are having trouble hitting production targets for the new displays. Second, that Apple's transition to designing its own processor cores, instead of licensing those provided by ARM, is having similar problems because it's shifting processor manufacturing from Samsung to rival TSMC and the latter is, again, having manufacturing problems.
The issues that Misek raises are real ones, in the sense that all companies like Apple face the challenge of managing a group of suppliers and manufacturers, especially during technology transitions. But there are two frustrating problems in trying to evaluate his claims.
First is their lack of detail. Was Misek talking with companies that actually are part of Apple's chain of suppliers? What actually are the "preproduction" issues that are causing the alleged delay of the Next iPhones? It would also help if Misek added more context. For example, many of these same Apple supply chain companies also supply rival smartphone makers, such as Samsung, Nokia, HTC. Are any of them being affected by supply chain issues, or are these issues unique to Apple?
Second is the idea of "delay." Presumably Apple, or any company, has a schedule for bringing a new product to market. But if new technologies are involved and changes to manufacturing lines, the schedule has to be flexible. Apple, like most other companies, has never announced a target date for unveiling or releasing a product. They may not even have a hard target date, but rather a time frame or window, in which they expect to launch the product, assuming that all the complex issues are resolved in bringing a product to that point.
A schedule, which in a case like this is really a schedule of many individual schedules, can be adjusted: more resources or expertise brought to bear on a specific issue or area, accelerating other areas, and so on. Some parts of the product development cycle can fall "behind schedule" but the product can still end up "on time."
iPhone 6 will be a 4.8-inch phablet without a home button
Misek's few comments about the iPhone 6 apparently were the basis for Intentional Business Times' astoundingly speculative (even by IBT's standards) post by Erik Pineda, which went far beyond anything Misek said.
Here's how Pineda started: "Apple will not compete in the phablet arena this year, a new report said, which means the much-speculated 4.8-inch iPhone 6 will see its release date next year, likely on June 2014."
According to Pineda, "the iPhone 6 is considered as representative of Apple's radical device revisions." For the iPhone 6, Apple "will dump its resolve of sticking to the 4-inch screen size." This conclusion seems to be based on, well, nothing except months-old reasoning that concludes larger-than-4-inch-screen smartphones are what most buyers want and therefore Apple has to come up with one. [This the argument of CNET's Dan Farber, for example.]
Second, iPhone 6 "could see the retirement of the tech titan's iconic Home button."
His basis for the second conclusion? "Numerous iPhone 6 renders have shown that its profile will boasts of a bezel-free form on four edges, thus eliminating the need for a capacitive key on the phone's front portion." Meaning, fan art of what the iPhone 6 might look like reveals ... what it will look like. Presumably, Apple's designers are trolling the fan sites' "concept art" looking for ideas.
Third and last, iPhone 6 "is also widely believed to carry the A7 [Apple-designed chip] 64-bit computing technology." This, conclusion, too, seems to be based on very little.
AnandTech's Anand Lal Shimpi has an overview, from October 2012, of ARM's 64-bit development (ARM being the basis for the Apple-designed A series processors used in the iPhone and iPad). His post jumped off from AMD's announcement to introduce in 2014 new processors based on the ARM 64-bit cores.
Whether or how that fits in with Apple's processor plans, and schedule, is pure speculation. So far, the company is still using two-core 32-bit processors, while some high-end rival smartphones tout four-core chips, but the difference hasn't resulted in a perception that the iPhone under-performs. To fully exploit the performance-tuning and power-saving benefits of multiple 64-bit cores, there's a lot of operating system work that needs to done, and some software developer education would benefit app performance.
iPhone 5S will have 12-megapixel camera
The Vietnamese-language site Tinhte.vn -- initially picked up picked up by the iPhone in Canada blog -- the Next iPhone will move up to 12 megapixels, with improved "high dynamic range," and nighttime shooting, according to MacRumors' Juli Clover.
High-dynamic-range imaging is a "set of methods used in imaging and photography to capture a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging methods or photographic methods," according to the Wikipedia entry. In practice, that means being able to "capture more accurately the range of intensity levels found in real scenes, from direct sunlight to faint starlight, and is often captured by way of a plurality of differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter."
Currently, iPhone 5 has the same 8-megapixel rear camera, with an f2.4 aperture, first found in the iPhone 4S. One change with the iPhone 5: a hard, scratch-resistant sapphire crystal over the actual camera lens.
As Clover notes, "An improved camera has been a long rumored feature of the iPhone 5S, but there are few specifics available." The "12MP" qualifies as a specific. Or at least a specific rumor.
The new camera module, according to the Vietnamese website, will be provided by Vietnam's Wonderful Saigon Electrics, about which you can learn more from the company's helpful, English-language YouTube video.
How reliable is the rumor? "Tinte has had access to prototype and pre-release iOS hardware in the past, though there doesn't appear to be any hardware in any hands at this point, so it shouldn't be considered anything more than a rumor," writes iMore Editor-in-Chief Rene Ritchie.
He adds some sensible context, which actually applies to a range of phone hardware specifications.
"I've only heard that there'll be a 'better camera,' not that there'd be a higher megapixel camera," Ritchie writes. "Personally, I hope that's the case. Apple doesn't [need to] chase the megapixels this time around. The iPhone 5 megapixel count is fine. What we need next are things like sensors with bigger microns, and optical stabilization, and anything that helps take in more photons so we get better images in a wider variety of conditions, from low light to high motion."
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It is very distracting. I'd rather he just stick with his original accent all the time than the occasional switch back and forth. When it happens I end up thinking more about his accent than what he's saying.
Wait, that's how you pronounce Kitai? I thought his name was basically "kitty rage" and found it hilarious. Now the movie doesn't even have unintentional hilarity going for it.
Aside from that, the movies trailer was too dumb for me to go see it. "Everything on this planet evolved to kill humans" No, Will Smith, they fucking didn't. Humanity left. Why on earth would creatures evolve to kill something which doesn't even live on the fucking planet anymore? That makes zero sense.
That is how I feel as well, I dont like bostonian accents, but I could get used to one or the other, but going back and forth is far too jaring when I am trying to pay attention.
Given that Cypher Raige (hee hee) has the ability to supress his fear, doesn't it make sense that he's not as emotional as a normal person?
Would this movie be better as a fantasy? A magic stick/sword thing, magic potions instead of science potions, magic suit etc? Everything that seems kinda stupid could be easily explained via magic.
One day I will manage a boston accent, it's like the one accent I can't frigging manage.
Keeps coming out Polish ¬_¬
I was hoping this would be good. I felt the concept was pretty solid, or at least very interesting. I guess I can't force my girlfriend to sit through now, especially since I probably won't enjoy it.
Seconded. ESPECIALLY considering how crap the movie is, we don't need the ads telling us about the 2 or 3 good ratings out of a gabillion it got.
I also thought of Space Mutiny BTW. Kind of hard NOT to with a name like Cypher Raige...though for some reason I also had a reference to Cypher 9 pop into my head.
Cypher Raige... Rob Liefeld came up with better names.
There's also Yahtzee's names from CoD:BlOps, after he pointed out the fact that "Alex Mason" is very similar to the "Alec Mason" from Red Faction: Guerrilla:
Gabriel Stone
I'm so glad Smith turned down Django. Jamie Fox is a much better actor.
That's not why he turned it down. He turned it down because Django's role wasn't big enough for him, and Tarantino refused to make it bigger.
That's the twist.
But no, it's logical that it's something producers want to hide at this point.
I love his accent. It's so nice to hear entertainers without generic "Middle American" or "British" accents. It gives his reviews more colour, I find.
im sorry i can't get over the fact that the alien monsters can only find you if you're afraid of them?
that's even dumber than the signs aliens, or even killer pollen. what were the aliens going to do if humanity started using unmanned vehicles to fight them? or androids? or Buddhist monks? or soldiers on Prozac? or soldiers that have had lobotomies? or Space Marines? (they do not feel fear for they are fear incarnate)
Actually i kind of like the androids idea: In a world where monsters hunt us using our own emotions, man kind's last hope if a force of android guardians. But what will happen when one of those androids learns to love?
you could get that girl from twilight to play the android since she'll never have show any emotions anyway. throw in a Data style longing to be human sub plot, some outsider observations on the fallen state of humanity, emo meta commentary on how no one understands her and lots of fighting scenes and bam good movie.
I think that we shouldn't judge Jaden Smith too harshly by this movies. M. Knight Shamalamadingdong has proven to be incredibly talented at making even great actors seem like they dropped out of drama school. Look at your fellow Bostonian Mark Walberg. Nominated for 2 Oscars, 2 Golden Globes and, 3 SAG Awards. The man is a very good actor. Now go watch The Happening. I rest my case and think that if anyone is at fault here it's Will Smith for allowing his son's first real lead to be at the hands of this idiot.
And I am fully behind your tearful plea at the beginning that Shamalan stop making movies.
I like how there was an ad for this movie right next to the video as I was watching it! XD
But yeah, I like Will Smith, but it's not like he hasn't made some bad decisions over time... And yeah, that plot synopsis sounds pretty egotistical of Mr. Smith.
But as for the review, this feels like a really unique review by MovieBob... It's interesting when he adds new stuff to the mix in his reviews, though they usually seem to only be present in movies he REALLY doesn't like.
BTW, I also like the Karate Kid remake.
Wait, where's this news of grumpy cat is getting it's own movie?
Moviebob's right about one thing - that premise and structure COULD make for an interesting setup of a survival/exploration game.
Hey, I can't wait to see Garfield's in-all-but-name reboot.
I bet you right now the movie is going to have a carefree-but-oblivious owner, a bat-shit dog that's borderline psychotic, a neighbor kitten whose sole trait is "I'm cute," and grumpy cat will spend the entire movie making sarcastic one liners, delivering poorly timed jokes and mugging for the camera.
Man for a bit I actually thought shamalan might do a not-shit movie for a change but I guess the poor man is gonna die having his lifetime accomplishment be the 6th sense. sad. I agree with bob he should seriously consider another career.
Has anyone other than Bob, actually seen this movie?
So are all of Bob's reviews this summer going to include a jab at Star Trek Into Darkness? Because it looks like he may be headed that way.
Just let it go, Bob. You didn't like the movie; most people did like it. Just like The Amazing Spider-Man.
Also, why spend so much time on making fun of the name "Cypher Raige"? I get it, it's a stupid name for a character, but surely there are better things to spend time on in your review.
Well, guys, it's HAPPENING. I saw the SIGNS. I have a SIXTH SENSE about these type of things. And even an actor like Will Smith with a near-UNBREAKABLE track record couldn't save this mess. M. Night Shyamalan must have made a deal with the DEVIL to keep his job. Either that or Hollywood is run by THE VILLAGE idiot. Let's face it; he's as washed up as an old LADY IN THE WATER. Let's hope this movie is his LAST......... Airbender.
Agreed. It's a good bet that anything with Shyamalan will be bad since at this point, he's basically the Village idiot of Hollywood.
I think ShamaLama must have scene the MST3K of Space Mutiny, but thought it was actually the brilliant directors commentary.
So there was no TWEEST? That's too bad. I was hoping it was really BEFORE Earth, or something. Though at this point, I suppose no tweest is the real tweest.
[sigh] Well, nuts. I was hoping this one would be somewhat watchable, but then I heard today that M. Night Shayamamlan directed, and my hopes were dashed. Been a while since Will Smith was in a summer blockbuster that wasn't a MIB flick.
YES! Thank you! I was waiting for those to pop up again.
Actually, the way the movie bills it, "This is Earth" is supposed to be the twist. An early-movie twist, sure, but the script does everything it can to not tell us where they're crashing, just that Cypher is both shocked and horrified at the odds of ending-up where they did. Basically, it does the Terminator: Salvation thing of putting the twist in all of the promo material, then playing it straight-faced like we're not supposed to see it coming; maybe even throwing-in a few "but wait" moments to try and get us thinking about what's coming... except we already know.
I was able to see a pre-screening of the movie on Wednesday, and oh my god... I just couldn't stay in it. The plot was just terrible, and the desperate attempt to make their names sound all sci-fi ended-up making it hard to remember what their names were from the few times they were mentioned to the point where I just called them "Will" and "Jayden" because it was the best I could work with. Of course, then the movie ended and there it was: "Directed by M. Night Shyamalan". They had effectively tricked me into going to an M. Night movie, though I don't really blame them for keeping his name out of the promo material. Still, it really makes you think: When a director has such a bad reputation for putting together terrible movies to the point where you need to hide the director's name from your audience... why did you hire him in the first place?
When I first saw the trailer in the theater I was thinking "Will Smith and son trapped on hostile alien planet, battle for survival?" Ok, a bit unimaginative and by-the-numbers but hey maybe they can do something with it.
But every single thing I found out about it since has made it LESS appealing, not more. It's frickin' EARTH? Will is out of the action the whole time? His frickin' name? Shayamalanananana? Oh GOD make it stop.
Yeah... I think most of us saw this one coming. I didn't know M. Night was involved, but it still fits my expectations.
Yeah I have a sixth sense about this kind of thing.
anyhoo, I'm sad that my fears about this film were right, I like the hell out of Will Smith but haven't actually enjoyed him in a film since 'I, Robot' and the whole setup for this film seemed clustered and disorganised from the beginning.
Oh and also; Cypher Raige? Realy? Name sounds like it was stolen from Farcry 3: Blood Dragon...
It's played up. That much is obvious. Just like the feigned bemusement that lingered through the intro of this review, and was peppered throughout.
You know what's nice about Yahtzee, is that he doesn't need to play the dancing pig routine to solicit laughs. Bob has been trying too hard lately, and unfortunately it makes the series difficult to watch.
He got jammed up on Katniss Everdeen as well, which in retrospect is a damn fine moniker compared to Cypher Raige. Honestly that name is something a nerd comes up in high school while taking his first swing at Sci-Fi writing.
see there it is again..
I've felt iffy on this movie and I'd hate to think Bob's review is what is gonna make me go "skip!" sense i generally don't agree with a damn thing he ever says....
but the alternative is watching this lol. Truth be told I didn't even know about the aliens and yes it sounds like a bummer their just back ground. See there it is... Bob sounds 100 percent right.. only i haven't seen the movie and this is the guy who'd have trouble steering a car of a cliff.
I'm gonna pass... only cause we both know this movie will be tnt 2 years from now maybe 3.. i'll be flipping channels... and I might give this movie it's due.
and yes I know Movie bobs boston accent to. It's fun at times.
hay bob i hate you alot.. like alot, alot. That said fuck any of your fans who don't like who you are or how you really sound.
be you.
I wish escapist would use video formats that work on my phone. Was looking forward to this
On the other hand, M Night brought out two of the best performances that Bruce Willis has done and one of Mel Gibbson's best in years.
He'll die one day? painfully? He's funny that's it LOL. He has no other quality than he's funny. don't get me wrong that's alot... It's why i put up with him...
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On a recent flight from Amsterdam to Houston, I turned on the "moving-map system" in the in-seat entertainment system and was surprised to see that though we were halfway through the 10-hour flight, the map made it look like we were minutes from landing in Texas. Sure, I had dozed the delightful doze of the jet lagged international flight, but had I actually passed out? Or had time slipped by that quickly? Shouldn't we be somewhere over Greenland? That looks about halfway.
Then I realized that it was the map itself that was to blame. The arc was being true to the plane's path across the map, but with a map as distorted as this one, it was bound to be confusing.
Like most cool things, this gets nerdy quick. See, when you try and take something that's pretty much a sphere (the Earth) and fit it to a rectangle (the in-flight entertainment screen) you're going to run into some deformation. There are many, many ways to crack this mathematical nut (the awesome site Radical Cartography lists 30) and each optimizes some things at the costs of others.
The designer of this system had chosen to use the familiar Plate Carrée projection of the Earth. It's ancient, and quite familiar to travelers. It's used everywhere. So certainly, it optimizes for initial use. At a simple glance, the traveler knows what he's looking at.
But this projection, in forcing the longitude and latitude lines into tidy squares, severely squashes areas that are closer to the poles. The result is that—unless you're traveling from one point on the equator to another—an actual straight line across the surface of the planet will appear on this map as oddly arced. What's worse is that the arc won't mean the same thing across its length. Nearer the poles it will be stretched and closer to the equator it will be squished, resulting in the weird, jarring experience of watching the plane zip to Ontario, and then crawl to the Gulf Coast.
For a passenger on a plane this might not matter that much. But in more mission-critical operations (military, air flight control) this could mean costly mistakes in estimating time and space. As a designer, I couldn't help but try solving it. What display would be less jarring? Thinking about my colleague Stefan Klocek's Hierarchy of Effort, we can start with simple surface changes.
Mark time
The simplest visual improvement would be to put tick marks along the arc that indicate hours. They would still be squished near Amsterdam, but it would communicate the time/distance discrepancy of the current projection. The system wouldn't need a lot of fundamental restructuring, and it would provide a cue to the traveler about the weird inconsistency.
Change the projection
Another, deeper, solution would be to use a different projection. As mentioned, there are lots of projections available. One that optimizes for keeping these "great circles" as straight lines on a map is called the "Space-oblique Mercator projection," or SOM. Created in 1976, it's a relatively new projection that uses some tricky math to ensure that the distance and the time remain consistent for the line between any two points. It looks unfamiliar at first, but provides a consistent time/space relationship, while maintaining the context of the whole world.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find an online way to make a custom SOM map from Amsterdam to Houston, so I couldn't comp it up for you, but here's an image showing the great circle along the Prime Meridian projected as an SOM.
SOM projections are certainly unfamiliar to most travelers, but it's perfect if you want to keep the mental model of time and space being constant between departure and arrival destinations, all while showing a complete picture of the earth. There's a slight problem if the plane is not traveling in a straight line, or deviates from a straight line, but minor deviations suffer negligible distortions.
The main risk to using a map like this is blowing people's minds with the unfamiliarity of it. "What is this map?" they might think, "It looks like Earth, only it's not." (Only it is.)
Remove the deformation
If more fundamental changes were possible, showing a 3D globe would mean you wouldn't even have the deformation problem at all. You could show it from a floating-overhead-camera point of view or a zenith-looking-down point of view.
This floating-overhead-camera perspective uses a deeply familiar distortion, i.e. single-point perspective, similar to what people experience on a road or a sidewalk. The distortion isn't removed, but is aligned so as to utilize the distortion of perspective. Much of the traveler's prior experience directly maps to this view, and really only shows what's of immediate interest: What am I seeing out the windows, and how much more time is left in the flight?
The zenith-looking-down perspective shows both the departure city and the arrival city while acting as a progress indicator with a familiar kind of distortion, a simple sphere. 3D views calculated in real time require more powerful processing and more fundamental restructuring of the system, but many commercial moving map systems have real-time 3D rendering (Airshow 4000, JetMap, iXPLOR, Niceview, see below) already.
Or all of them
My experience tells me it's time to abandon the Plate Carrée projection, but there's a cost of familiarity. Many of these in-flight map systems cycle between different views, so new views could be included along with the more familiar ones, cycling in a loop that keeps the familiar map with its weird distortions while including these more informative and direct views as well. You could even include the SOM and label the various projections to encourage people to learn more about them, if they wanted.
A lot of the work of interaction design is about shrinking feedback loops, removing layers of interpretation that are unnecessary or distracting, letting more fundamental or reliable mental systems do the work. This is one example that at least for us travelers, stares us right in the face. Positive first impression through familiarity should not be the sole measurement of success, particularly on a system where the user has several hours to become familiar with it. Understanding a thing across the full spectrum of its use is often more important, and more critical.
Related Reading
- Read more on the many types of projections http://egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/MapProjections/projections.html
- West Wing clip "Why are we changing maps?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM
- More about the strange and delightful SOM projection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-oblique_Mercator_projection


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There are plenty of people ready to be cynical about lifestyle SUVs and the Crossover models that copy them but reality is that without these kinds of cars, the 4x4 market would have petered out here long ago. With the X1, BMW looked carefully at the most affordable end of this sector and produced a product carefully designed to suit, a more sophisticated design of higher quality in the post-2012 facelifted first generation guise we're looking at here. Inevitably, the Munich maker wanted premium prices for this car, but it still remained a relatively affordable way into BMW's SUV family and provided most of what was offered in the brand's more conventional 3 Series Touring estate - for a lot less money. Plus of course it handled better than a car of this kind had any right to do. Mind you, any company capable of turning something Range Rover-sized into a sportscar was hardly going to struggle with something this small. This X1 even boasts a set of economy and environmental figures strong enough to silence the green lobby. It is in short, like it or not, a car of our times. Let's see how these later first generation models stack up as a used buy.
In first generation form, launched back in 2009, BMW's X1 was a car provided to get customers onto the first rung of a ladder that the Bavarians hoped would then lead on to ownership of larger and faster X3, X5 or even X6 models. But it was also there to give BMW a foothold in the growing market for so-called 'Crossovers', essentially family hatchbacks like Nissan's Qashqai or Peugeot's 3008, cars offering a 4x4's look and feel without its weight or high running costs. This segment, along with that for RAV4-style soft roading SUVs, tends to steal sales away from conventional compact lifestyle estate cars like BMW's own 3 Series Touring. Many buyers of the Bavarian brand who might have been tempted off in such directions were kept loyal by the X1, but in its early years, this model was rather less successful in enabling the marque to garner conquest sales from the small SUVs and Crossovers it was targeted against. Many felt it lacked the premium feel of direct rivals like Audi's Q3 and by 2012, even mainstream brand products were starting to shade it in terms of technology and running cost efficiency. Hence the need for the much improved version launched in the early Summer of 2012 - the car we're going to examine here as a used proposition. With a smarter look, a much higher quality cabin, a more powerful range-topping twin-turbo diesel, lower running costs across the board and the most sophisticated auto gearbox in the sector, it gave BMW a much stronger premium compact crossover segment offering through to the launch of the second generation X1 model in the Autumn of 2015.
What You Get
Though few would see the X1 as beautiful, it has all the high-sided big-wheeled butchness necessary in this part of the market, with a shape that's pretty much as you would expect a compact BMW SUV to look. Though the name - and the size, significantly smaller than a RAV4 or Freelander - suggests a 1 Series platform, there's a 3 Series Touring estate chassis underneath flowing curves and bulges that with this first generation X1 model, seem more appealing and more cohesively combined than before. That's less because the shape was substantially altered in this mid-term facelift - it wasn't - but more because when it came to this revision, the stylists spent more time getting those all-important details right. So there's less cheap-looking grey plastic and more painted metal on show. The indicators are integrated into the wing mirrors. There are redesigned headlamps too, with distinctive white LED corona rings and so-called 'active eyebrows' when they're specified in xenon form. At the rear, larger painted areas echo the frontal treatment and there's a more prominent underguard that's supposed to reinforce the sporty, off-road appearance. It's at the wheel though, where the biggest changes were made with this updated MK1 model. While the original version of his car used soft-touch plastics and materials in the areas you commonly touched, you didn't have to look much further beyond these to discover more down-market cabin finishes. Which wasn't good enough if this car was really going to tempt customers who'd just test driven, say, an Audi Q3. So the re-designed centre console of this improved X1 is completely covered in a much higher quality surface material, while the panel for the sound system and the climate control is finished in high gloss black to match the air vent surrounds. There's also smarter trim around the gearlever, the cupholder and the headlamp switch. Build quality from the Leipzig factory was improved strong too. Collectively, it's still wasn't enough to make this X1's cabin the plushest in the class, but it's certainly represented a very big improvement, with showroom appeal, as usual with BMWs, enhanced by an excellent driving position and a simple, clear and uncluttered instrument layout. All-round visibility is generally good, though the shallow rear window doesn't help when reversing. Rear seat accommodation will be fine for two adults once they've entered through the rather narrow door apertures and provided that they're under six feet tall. On shorter trips, you can squash up to provide space for a third middle seat occupant, provided they're not the whinging sort likely to object to the bulky central transmission tunnel. For longer journeys, the seat backs also recline for greater comfort, though that does of course have an impact on the luggage space you get behind them. Ah yes - luggage space. Though this car may share many of its underpinnings with a 3 Series Touring estate, it's also significantly shorter than one of those, so the bootspace - quoted at 420-litres - is around 20% less. And around 30% less than the 550-litres you'd get in an X3. We mentioned earlier that this is of course affected by the angle at which you pitch the rear backrest. If your back seat passengers don't mind a very upright position, it can be as much as 480-litres: if, on the other hand, they prefer to lounge backwards, it can fall to as little as 360-litres. Still, either way, you'll be able to accommodate most typical loads: say a couple of 46-inch golf bags stowed width-ways. Or, if you fold down the centre part of the 40:20:40 split-rear bench, you could pitch them length-ways. With this section down, you could also accommodate, say, a couple of snowboards or up to four pairs of skis. Fold all three of the rear backrest elements flat and there's a potential loading capacity of up to 1,350-litres.
What to Look For
BMW's reliability is such that there should be no major problems with the X1 and if any major work is needed or has been done to a certain car, it's probably not been looked after - walk away. Make sure that servicing has been correctly carried out at a BMW main dealer. Given this X1's 'crossover' rather than full-SUV status, it's unlikely than any given car will have been subjected to any off-road heroics, but check around the sills just in case. Kerbed alloy wheels and signs of interior child damage are much more likely. Use these as negotiating points with the seller.
Replacement Parts
[based on 2012 model year X1 sDrive 16d - parts prices from rexbo.eu] It's relatively easy to find affordable parts prices on the internet. We found that online, you could expect to pay around £10 for an air filter, around £13 for a brake pad set, from around £85 for a starter motor and around £336 for an alternator. Obviously, the cost of parts at a BMW franchised dealer will be higher. You'll pay, as ever, for that peace of mind.
On the Road
So, on the move: what's it like? Well, the driving position mirrors the drive itself: somewhere between a family hatchback and a proper SUV. Grasping the chunky wheel and peering down the sculptured bonnet, you sit higher than you would in a 1 Series or 3 Series, but it's not like being in a conventional RAV4-like soft roader - or indeed BMW's larger X3. Which is no bad thing when it comes to throwing the car through a set of twisting corners. BMW claims this car provides 'supreme agility' in its class (whatever 'class' that is) and, true enough the experience, though a little soul-less, is more accomplished than that of most other Crossover or small SUV models we've driven. There's a slick 6-speed manual gearbox and remarkably little bodyroll, despite the substantial 1.6-tonnes of weight this car must carry around. It's certainly more 'chuckable' than an X3. More justification for purchase of this car comes with the ride quality. Courtesy of the multi-link rear suspension set-up, it really is particularly good - better even than the 3 Series Touring estate the X1 is based on - making light work of even badly rutted tracks, though the steering is a little heavier than buyers of compact BMWs will normally be used to. Assuming that they haven't chosen the minority interest 184bhp 2.0i petrol model, those people will also notice a little more road noise from the familiar 2.0-litre diesel engines that all other X1 versions must have. Whether those variants be sDrive rear wheel drive models or xDrive 4WD variants. X1 diesel drivers certainly aren't short of choice, for this familiar common rail four cylinder turbo unit is supplied in five main states of tune: 116bhp in the X1 16d, 143bhp in the X1 18d, 163bhp in the 20d 'EfficientDynamics' variant, 184bhp in the 20d and 215bhp in the twin-turbocharged 25d variant. All are pretty rapid, with even the 16d making 62mph from rest in 11.5s en route to 118mph. At the other end of the scale, the 25d model manages the same sprint in 6.8s on the way to 142mph, courtesy of 450NM of torque. We're struggling to think of many SUVs of any kind under £50,000 that are quicker than that. The 25d version comes only with the 'intelligent' four-wheel drive system that's optional with every engine, bar the entry-level diesel unit. The 'intelligent' tag refers to the fact that, like most other such systems in this class of car, it's able to automatically vary the torque distributed to either front or rear axles depending on your driving requirements and the amount of traction available. At the same time, when extra grip is needed, all of the traction, stability and safety systems are optimised into 4WD mode. The whole thing's done seamlessly, with no unfamiliar knobs or turn or buttons to press, but it's very much geared towards slippery on-road conditions rather than off piste antics. Even if you didn't already know that, you could easily guess as much from one glance at the limited ground clearance, tarmac tyres and lack of any kind of under-body protection, issues which, to be fair, are shared by most of this car's competitors. All of which may lead you to conclude that four-wheel drive, though nice to have in a snowy snap, may not be worth the marginal loses in economy and performance that you'll have to put up with for the rest of the year. For most buyers, a better use of the premium required for the xDrive layout would be to invest in BMW's Performance Control system which more accurately distributes power between the rear wheels. Or perhaps the 8-speed automatic gearbox which, with both paddleshift and 'Sport' settings, is easily the most sophisticated auto transmission on offer in this market segment.
To buy the X1 in its original form - the car produced between 2009 and 2012 - you needed to be sold on the idea of a BMW and be possessed of a budget not quite generous enough to get yourself the kind of larger X3 model you'd ideally have chosen. In this improved first generation guise though, this car set its sights a little higher, so makes a much better used buy as a result. Yes, there are smarter and more purposeful-looking SUVs and Crossovers you could choose for the same kind of money, but against those, this BMW offers a range of unique selling points. It's alone in this segment in offering the option of a rewarding rear-wheel drive layout. And a far smoother and more sophisticated 8-speed automatic gearbox. Plus you get ride quality that's arguably best in class. You'll also be tempted by the badge equity of course, which in this revised MK1 model is properly supported by the premium feeling you'll get behind the wheel or when the car's in your driveway. Add in running costs that are difficult to beat in this segment and you've a proposition that at last is good enough to reach out beyond the BMW faithful. Especially to buyers well-heeled enough to consider the top 25d variant. After all, 215bhp and over 50mpg aren't usually figures you see together in the same sentence. It all adds up to a car very well worth short-listing if you're looking for a satisfying ownership proposition amongst the many compact SUVs and Crossovers now on sale. It still isn't an obvious choice. But now, it's one you might just enjoy making.
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Kansas City police have confirmed the death of a 4-year-old girl who was shot by another child in her home Jan. 10.
Police said Trinity Ross was declared brain dead after the shooting in her house in the 10500 block of Monroe Avenue four days after her fourth birthday. She was taken off life-support machines a week later.
Investigators said that the woman watching Ross and two other young children briefly left the room. One of the other children picked up a handgun that had been left in his reach and fired a shot, hitting Ross.
Police said when they found the gun in the house, it had four additional unspent rounds in it.
"Why was the gun sitting out?" said neighbor Misty Honnold. "I'm sure those are only questions the parents can answer, and how did the child get access to the guns? Those are things that traumatize all of us."
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Playing Dark Souls now if a very different experience from when it first came out. The game is far more frustrating because of the lack of help, and the black phantom population punishes you for even trying.
I don't understand the comments about "requiring/needing" help from players/AI.I beat both Demons and Dark Souls by myself with no help from either other users or AI summons.


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Monday Night Combat Preview: It's Like Team Fortress 2 and DotA Made a Baby
You wouldn't know it by looking at the game, but Monday Night Combat--a team-centr
Uber Entertainment, the studio behind MNC, is staffed by some Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander veterans from Gas Powered Games. But just because it's a shooter doesn't mean they've forgotten their roots.
Monday Night Combat packs a significant amount of strategy just under its cartoony, Team Fortess 2-esque exterior. You've got six unique player classes, each one with a variety of carefully balanced skills that can be upgraded mid-match as you earn cash.
Crossfire, the mode that was on display at PAX East, sees twelve players--six on each side--attempting to take down their opponent's "money ball" while defending their own. The more damage you do to either opponents or their money ball, the more cash you get. Trust me, you want all the cash you can get, since upgrades reset after every round.
Fortunately, each teach gets some help in the form of the computer-controlled breach bots, which is where the Defense of the Ancients (DotA) influence becomes apparent. These breach bots periodically spawn and try to fight their way to the opposing base, often clashing against opposing breach bots towards the center of the map.
Similar to DotA and offshoots like League of Legends and Heroes of Newerth, you'll want to have at least some of your team clearing the way for your breach bots, fighting against those of the enemy and trying to take down the turrets near the enemy's base.
If that sounds complicated or overwhelming, well, it can be, especially at first. Fortunately, the third-person shooting provides newcomers with something to fall back on if it gets to be too much. After all, you really can't go wrong with mowing down your opponents, even if they happen to be upgraded out the wazoo and able to hover in mid-air.
Once you get it down, it's an addictive blend of action and strategy. While waiting in line to play Monday Night Combat on Sunday (the last day of PAX East) I inadvertently cut in front of a gentleman. He told me it wasn't a big deal--he'd been playing all weekend.
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Wait, there's more--far, far more. In addition to Crossfire, you've got Blitz, in which up to four players cooperate to protect their money ball from wave after wave of robots. And tying all of this together is a career "meta-game" that, over time, unlocks / enhances abilities, skills and the such when used in conjunction with the create-a-class option.
Furthermore, Uber Entertainment suggests this is only the beginning--additional modes are likely on the way, though this probably depends on the game's reception.
But after seeing and playing Monday Night Combat at PAX East, I don't think reception is going to be a problem. The booth was always crowded, and almost everyone I talked to asked if I'd had a chance to check it out. Provided that the download hits Xbox 360 at the right time (the target's summer) and at the right price (something that isn't being discussed yet), Monday Night Combat looks to be the start of something big.
Oh, and if you don't have an Xbox 360, don't fret. Though Uber has yet to confirm Monday Night Combat is coming to PC, they've hinted so strongly that it seems a safe bet.


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"a new take on The Fantasticks for 21st century audiences." - Jill Kyle-Keith, DC Theatre Scene
Full Review: https://dctheatrescene.com/2019/07/04/review-the-fantasticks-gets-some-new-tech-but-its-still-the-music-that-youll-remember/
THE FANTASTICKS – DC Theatre Scene
"a new take on The Fantasticks for 21st century audiences." - Jill Kyle-Keith, DC Theatre Scene Full Review: https://dctheatrescene.com/2019/07/04/review-the-fantasticks-gets-some-new-tech-but-its-still-the-music-that-youll-remember/
MURDER FOR TWO – TheatreBloom
"..the pair possess extraordinary pianist skills, showing off with flashy moves throughout the performance, which only serve to heighten the entertainment and oft times the…
A CLOSER WALK WITH PATSY CLINE – DC Theatre Scene
"Stracko's voice is smooth, emotional, tense, guttural...She's got the soul of Patsy and incredible stamina to be able to sing her songs, and to sing…
GODSPELL – DC Metro Theatre Arts
"This Godspell has one of the most cohesive ensembles I've heard in awhile. Each voice, individually, stands out for solos, sure, and we'll get to…
GODSPELL – DC Theatre Scene
"...Ostroff's Jesus is a stand-out. Kyle Hines, a tall, strapping bearded actor with a strong, clear voice, provides the calm, warm central performance Godspell requires.…
GODSPELL – TheatreBloom
"...It's genius. So genius, in fact, it's nearly impossible to believe that it hasn't been done before...making this conceptual vision practically flawless." - Amanda Gunther,…
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET – Baltimore Sun
"Rounding out the quartet with a breakout performance is J.P. Coletta as loose-cannon [Jerry Lee] Lewis...the young actor kicks so forcefully into high gear you…
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"Explosively vibrant and entertainingly informative, Infinity Theatre's Million Dollar Quartet is a toe-tapping, euphonious extravaganza and will surely appeal to any music fan who wants…
ALMOST HEAVEN – TheatreBloom
"Sensational show filled to the very brim with heart and soul that triumphantly calls through the hills of Colorado all the way down to the…
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"Denver fans can certainly get their fill from the greatest-hits fest, delivered by a personable, versatile ensemble that breathes life into the material" - Baltimore…
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Ring Of Fire – Baltimore Sun
Heading Infinity's production as Johnny Cash, Hope meets all acting and singing requirements, with the added attraction of good looks and ingratiating charm, and enough…
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She Loves Me – DC Metro Theatre Arts
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Always Patsy Cline – Baltimore Sun
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
The flapping of a butterfly's wings over Bermuda causes a rainstorm in Texas. Two sticks start side by side on the surface of a brook, only to follow divergent paths downstream. Both are examples of the phenomenon of chaos, characterized by a widely sensitive dependence of the future on slight changes in a system's initial conditions. This unit explores the mathematics of chaos, which involves the discovery of structure in what initially appears to be randomness, and imposes limits on predictability.
Most of us learned at an early age how an apple falling from a tree... inspired Isaac Newton to describe how the universe behaves by certain predictable rules. But what about when the universe doesn't behave so... predictably? Can mathematics explain the often unpredictable behavior of the physical world?
The real world is one in which small differences in the initial circumstances of a sequence of events can indeed have a significant effect on the final outcome. The mathematical tools that we need to understand this sort of real-world phenomenology come from the realm of chaos theory.
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D10: Leibowitz Says FTC May Oppose Patent Injunctions
Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Jon Leibowitz said at this morning's All Things D conference that the commission is opposed to many of the injunctions against importing products due to potential patent violations. He also reinforced the commission's commitment to enforcing privacy and gave some perspective on potential antitrust actions against Google.
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Leibowitz agreed that Washington is a fairly dysfunctional place these days, but said the FTC is "about as bipartisan as you can get."
Pressed by conference host Walt Mossberg on privacy policies, he agreed there is no overarching privacy statute in the United States, but said the FTC represents the interests of consumers under its goal of preventing "unfair or deceptive acts and practices."
The commission has brought more than 100 spam and spyware cases, more than 30 cases against companies for data launch, cases against Google for Buzz, and a case against Facebook. "The Facebook and Google cases together have protected the privacy of more than a billion people around the world," he said.
As an example, he said, if Facebook changes its privacy polices going forward, it must make consumers opt-in, and if they leave Facebook, they can take their information with them. Likewise, for Google. He went out of his way to say, "These companies have brought tremendous benefits to consumers," and these orders let them move on, while protecting privacy.
Overall, Leibowitz advocated for privacy by design, simpler privacy policies, and giving consumers more choice over how their data is used, including Do Not Track by third party cookies.
He said Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple all agreed to configure their browsers in ways to accept the Do Not Track header, that the digital advertising alliance (which represents about 90 percent of the audience) is generally in agreement, and that the W3C is working on standards. He is in favor of the companies not collecting any information (with a few exceptions) if consumers don't want them to.
When asked about potential antitrust actions against Google, he acknowledged the commission is in the process of collecting information about the search market, but said he couldn't discuss the details. There are allegations that Google changed its search rankings in ways that were anti-competitive, but the commission is still trying to figure out if the evidence is there to bring a case.
The commission is trying to understand the markets of the biggest platform companies, including Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft. He said the FTC isn't a regulatory agency, but it looks for people who have crossed the line, talking about a case it had brought against Intel a few years that was settled in a way that benefitted consumers.
Sometimes it isn't the companies as much as it is the practices, he said. The commission is very interested in essential patents for standards, particularly the so-called fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory (FRAND) patents. It's also particularly concerned about injunctions based on such patents, which he doesn't think makes sense. The FTC is considering a filing with the International Trade Commission to express its opinion.
Responding to an audience question about the COPA regulations on Internet usage by minors, Leibowitz said the commission has proposed a number of changes to COPA, including requiring an opt-in from parents before they can track kids or use GPS.
He agreed that there are many users under 13 on sites like Facebook and, in some cases, the parents permit it. It's a complicated situation, he said, but at least parents and children are having a discussion.


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In These Sorrow Filled Eyes
By Amanda Tse
By Amanda Tse
Under the silver light of the moon, all the sorrow that's been building up inside me comes out in a long, broken howl. I throw my head up and sing the sorrow out of my heart, my two beating hearts. Others of my kind join in and before I know it, we are creating a symphony of haunting, sorrow filled music in the air. This is for her, for Grace, my Grace. I know I'm losing myself. I'm moving deeper and deeper into the woods. I'd forget hours, sometimes even days but not Grace. Not ever. I remember everything about her. Her violet eyes, artwork, golden smile, everything. Even now, as I wake up in the woods behind her house, my thoughts instantly drift towards her. She has stolen my heart.
I look into the sky as the stars call to me. They've been pulling me further and further away from her. They're not the only things that call me though. The moon's mystical pull, wind that rushes through my fur as I run, the soothing sound of the water running through the stream, and Grace. Grace calls me too. I can hear her even now. She calls my name, Daniel I think it was. Close, yet so far away.
I listen to her, loving the sound of her voice but sticking to the shadows as to not hurt her. I'm stuck in this body of an animal I am all too familiar with. The body of an animal, of a beast, the body of a wolf white as snow. As much as I hate to admit it, I kind of like being a wolf. Being one with nature, feeling so free, it's so beautiful. It's like breathing in the sweet fresh air of spring time. It's like waking up warm after a long nap in the sun. It's like being at total peace. I can feel my wolf instincts taking over, driving me further away from the humans, from Grace.
My fur stands on end as I sense the presence of another animal. I hear a rustle in the leaves, a change in the wind, and know they're after me. I can feel it in an animal instinct that is unexplainable even to me. In an instant, I'm running, running away from Grace, from the only real home I've ever known. I will lead them away from her, as far away as possible until I reach the clearing. The wind is frigid against my fur and for once, I don't feel the caress of the wind in my ears. No, I hear my two hearts beating away like drums in battle.
I can hear them, they're catching up fast. I can feel their breath running down my spine and taste the hatred in the air, but I don't see them. Trees pass by in a blur as the clearing comes into view. A low growl comes from my left and from my right, a flash of black darker than night itself. In an instant, he's on me, spitting with hatred. He's one of my father's warriors sent to kill me. I bare my teeth and snap at him yet he does not yield. We wrestle in the mud snapping and clawing at one another. There is a sickening crack and the growling from the black wolf subsides into soft whimpers. I know this is my chance to kill him but I can't bring myself to do it, to take another innocent man's life. I slowly back away from the wounded wolf when I hear a twig snap. Whirling around I see the violet eyes I dream of so often, but something's off. They are cold, colder than I have ever seen them before, but there is something else too. A touch of madness contaminates the otherwise breathtaking eyes. It is then that I look into the face of the cold violet eyes and see Jude is standing in front of me. I let out a sigh of relief thinking Grace is still safe in bed when I realize he's holding a pistol.
"I'm sorry Daniel but what the boss says goes," he whispers in a voice so quiet it gets carried away with the wind, "goodbye my dear friend."
I close my eyes and think of the future that should have been. A strange wetness makes a river down to my nose.
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As a legal stoush between two gym owners heads to the High Court today, one of the men involved has pleaded with members to wait for the "full story" to come out in court.
Stuart Holder, who owned three Club Physical gym franchises in Auckland, suddenly rebranded the clubs as "Jolt Fitness" without warning on February 8.
Staff at those locations were fitted with new uniforms, new classes were put in place, and instructors arriving up to take their regular classes were turned away.
Many members have been left confused and angry that the gym they signed up for no longer exists. Those wishing to cancel their memberships, now with Jolt Fitness, are being dealt with "on a case by case basis", the owners said.
Club Physical owner Paul Richards alleges Holder has breached franchise agreements that have "years to run on them" and the matter is being brought before the High Court at Auckland today.
In a statement to Jolt Fitness members last night, Holder hit out at Club Physical for spreading "malicious and untrue information designed to undermine our business by claiming we are in breach of the Fair Trading Act".
"I want to assure you that we have been advised throughout this process by a legal team and do not accept any of the accusations made by Club Physical that our actions have caused any breach of the Fair Trading Act."
Holder said he was forced to end the franchise agreements with Club Physical in Westgate, Botany and Three Kings because Richards had not been meeting his obligations and this was putting the clubs' futures in jeopardy.
"Tomorrow we will be going to court in what will be the next step in trying to resolve this issue," he continued.
"During the hearing, the judge will hear not only about how the franchisor failed to meet its obligations with our clubs, but also from other previous franchisees who faced similar issues."
"We ask that you allow the full story to come out through the courts rather than listening to the misinformation that is currently being spread by Club Physical."
Club Physical, owned by parent company Health Club Brands Limited, goes to the High Court today seeking an injunction to block Jolt Fitness from trading.
At the same time, Colven Botany Limited & Ors, trading as Jolt Fitness, seeks a counter injunction against Club Physical to stop it accessing its member database.
During the weekend, about 40 angry Club Physical members turned out to protest against the rebrand at Jolt Fitness in Westgate, holding placards which read "Uphold Franchise Law" and "Support Club Physical".
Club Physical has told members who want to keep working out at Club Physical they can transfer to another branch at no cost while legal proceedings are underway.
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Data from Bloomberg Reveals that 71% of Tar Sands Production Owned by Foreign Interests
May 10, 2012, 12:57 ET
New briefing report by ForestEthics Advocacy questions who is really benefitting from Harper's pro-oil policies.
TORONTO, May 10, 2012 /CNW/ - An in-depth review of shareholder information from Bloomberg shows that 71 per cent of all tar sands production is owned by non-Canadian shareholders. Supposedly Canadian companies (with Canadian headquarters and accounting practices who trade on our stock exchanges) are largely owned by foreign interests, including Suncor (56.8%), Canadian Oil Sands (56.8%), Nexen (69.9%), and Husky Energy (90.9%).
"What foreign funding should Canadians be worried about?", asks Tzeporah Berman Co-founder of ForestEthics. "With the majority of profits from tar sands operations flowing to foreign companies, we need to ask in whose interest is the Government of Canada under Prime Minister Harper serving?"
According to Statistics Canada, the report briefing points out that the oil and gas sector in Canada has nearly two times the amount of foreign investment compared to the Canadian average. Over half (51.1%) of all oil and gas operating revenue in Canada goes to foreign entities compared to the national average of 28.5%.
"For who's benefit is the Harper regime governing?", asked Clayton Ruby, Director of ForestEthics Advocacy. "We need foreign investment and shareholders, but not at the cost of democracy, our economy, our environment and future generations."
The briefing report, Who benefits? An investigation of foreign investment in the tarsands, also highlights that despite Canada producing 2.8 million barrels of oil per day (2010), more than enough oil to meet Canada's oil demand, Canada imports 43% of the crude oil used in the country, mostly from Algeria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Venezuela, the UK and Norway. This is because Canada exports 1.1 million barrels of oil per day to the United States (2010).
"The Conservative Harper government's cut, gut and shut-up approach to environmental reviews and fisheries legislation is fueled entirely by oil," said Nikki Skuce, Energy Campaigner with ForestEthics Advocacy. "This federal government is increasingly ruling in favour of oil companies and foreign interests instead of Canadians."
To download a copy of the full report see http://forestethics.org/downloads/FEA_Tar_Sands_funding_briefing.pdf.
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Rita Ora plans to soak up Cannes
British singer Rita Ora has been to Cannes before, but she can't tell you much about it because it felt like a blur.
"I've never been to Cannes properly. I've been one time to perform, and then I left, so I never really experienced it," she said.
The 23-year-old was back to perform last night for an intimate party thrown by Belvedere Vodka. But this time she was hoping to get a chance to enjoy more of the Riviera.
"I want to enjoy myself. We're going to kind of get down, because we're in Cannes," she said before performing a selection of her hits including Hot Right Now.
The British singer has branched out into acting with a role in the movie Fifty Shades Of Grey which is due out next year.
"I'll definitely be here next year. I think Cannes is a door that I think some people should always open. I think it's full of opportunities and you meet so many different people and you kind of get to get the vibe of it," she said.
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Esther Stanford (community law educational practitioner consultant and scholar activist in jurisprudence) and Dorothy Kuya (co-opted trustee of National Museums Liverpool and member of the International Slavery Museum council) lead a lively public debate about reparations to the continent of Africa and the African diaspora.24.4MB, 42.56 mins
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Professor Marcus Rediker from the University of Pittsburg and author of 'The Slave Ship: A Human History', gives a fascinating talk on the horrors and realities of life and death on a transatlantic slave ship.31.9MB, 67.57 mins
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In the first of our public discussions around the themes of the new Museum of Liverpool, Adrian Jarvis, Robert Lee and Ken Pye look at Liverpool as a port city.22.87MB, 49.47 mins
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Dr Paul O'Keeffe delivers a gallery talk on James Ensor's painting 'Old Lady with Masks'.13.9MB, 29.27 mins
Dr Paul O'Keeffe provides a guided tour of the Walker Art Gallery exhibition 'Out of this world: the art of Josh Kirby'.24.7MB, 53.37 mins
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Dr Paul O'Keeffe recreates William Morris's lecture 'Art, Wealth and Riches' at the Lady Lever Art Gallery.31.2MB, 66.29 mins
Dr Paul O'Keeffe delivers a painting of the month talk on Arthur Hacker's 'Pelagia and Philammon' at the Walker Art Gallery.15.1MB, 32.12 mins
Photographer Bernard Fallon gives a guided tour of his exhibition at the National Conservation Centre of images of Liverpool from the 1960s and 1970s.18.3MB, 39.11 mins
Contemporary art, Photography, Temporary exhibitions
Dr Paul O'Keeffe delivers an object of the month talk on 'Lutyen's Cathedral' at the Walker Art Gallery.17.2MB, 37.46 mins
Decorative arts, Urban/social history
Keeper of Art Galleries Julian Treuherz delivers a picture of the month talk on 'The Last Muster' by Herkomer at the Lady Lever Art Gallery.14.9MB, 32.49 mins
Sandra Penketh gives a gallery talk on the 'The Decameron' and 'The Enchanted Garden' at the Lady Lever Art Gallery. A transcript of the talk is available.13.8MB, 29.27 mins
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Sure to be one of this summer's best reads, "& SONS" by David Gilbert is a rich, moving, funny, razor-sharp look at family, friendships, the ties that bind, and so much more. If you want to stimulate your mind, laugh out loud, and feel wrenches of recognition in your heart, this is the book to buy now. Just reading about "pittypattying" will put a guaranteed smile on your face....
Opening at a funeral on the Upper East Side sits Andrew Newbold Dyer, an iconic, reclusive, Salinger-esque writer preparing to give a eulogy for his best friend Charlie Topping. Undone by his friend's death, A.N. Dyer gathers his three sons for the first time in many years to confront his own legacy, both literary and familial. So begins a wild, transformative, and heartbreaking week as witnessed by Philip Topping, who, like his late father, finds himself caught up in the drama of the Dyer clan, including first-born son Richard, a struggling screenwriter, returns to New York from California, middle child Jamie, who has spent twenty years making documentaries about human suffering, culminating in a project focusing on an ex-girlfriend that may have finally gone too far, and Andy, the half brother whose mysterious birth tore Andrew and Isabel Dyer's marriage apart seventeen years ago.
Author David Gilbert was once at a dinner in which his father—a rather impressive man who possesses a natural authority—gave a speech. Midway through the speech, an old friend of his father's leaned over and told Gilbert how it always amazed him to see his father so at ease in front of people considering how shy he was as a teenager. The contrast between the confident, reserved man he had always known and the shy boy the friend described made Gilbert curious about how much our impressions of our parents would change if we could somehow meet them during the awkward height of their adolescence. This concept of father as myth, coupled with Gilbert's own experience as a parent, marked the genesis of "& SONS."
Early glowing reviews are already in from no less than John Irving and Fran Leibovitz:
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Hollywood has been trying to bring the saga of Russ Meyer on the big screen. Way back in 2011, David O. Russell was planning a Russ Meyer biopic, written by Lovelace screenwriter Merritt Johnson, but that seems to have disappeared.