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Thoughts On The Scottish Independence Referendum
Anyway who follows my maunderings on Facebook will know that I have quite definite views on politics, coming from a centre-left position (laced with some critical rationalist radicalisms). And of course, the Scottish independence referendum has exercised me considerably and increasingly over the last few weeks, such that here we are on the eve of poll, a true watershed in Scottish and UK-wide politics, and it seems appropriate for me to pass on some personal thoughts and conclusions.
Firstly, I will be voting NO later, this evening – this does not somehow make me a Union Jack-waving pro-faux-Britnat, nor does it make me a useful idiot for the establishment. Over the preceding months and years, since and before the Coalition took office, I have with increasing vitriol criticised and stamped on the various vicious stupidities which the Tories, aided by Nick Clegg, have heaped upon all the people of Britain. In all that time no-one has ever suggested that somehow I was a secret supporter of the status quo or a fan of Nigel 'Mine's a pint of smug' Farage – yet simply by opting to remain in the same political/cultural arena as all my friends and family in England and Wales etc, I have attracted a certain degree of opprobrium. Others have suffered a lot worse. Suffice to say, I was an anti-establishment gadfly before the referendum and shall continue to be one afterwards.
I`m voting NO because the real enemy does not sit in Westminster, but on the boards of directors of Goldman Sachs, RBS, PWC, Ernst & Young, McKinsey, Capita, Serco, and a whole horde of corporate predators, financial and otherwise, who never miss the opportunity to denigrate the state while sticking their snouts in the trough and guzzling round the clock. Also, these and other far less well known companies send forth their own employees to emplacements in government as offered by the party in power. They call it secondment but in actual fact its real name is corruption and governance-capture. The YES campaign have of course pointed all this out, highlighting such noxious behaviour as more than sufficient reason for Scotland to leave the union. Trouble is, if the parties and the financial sector and their corrupt ways are as bad as YES says they are, doesnt that mean that ordinary people in England, Wales and NIreland will still be at their mercy? Without Scotland's presence, its cultural and political weight and influence, as well as its actual House of Commons votes – wouldn't that absence actually strengthen the dark forces which threaten to overwhelm the last vestiges of social justice and authentic democracy?
People at the bottom of the ladder, the poor, the lowpaid and benefit claimants, both disabled and not, are already faced with a scarcely believable regime of deliberate stress, trauma and cruelty that has left almost a million people adrift and penniless and forced to go to foodbanks just to eat. This is taking place everywhere, not just in Scotland, and therefore the question of whether or not to leave the UK takes on a moral dimension because leaving the UK would also mean abandoning the fight against the Stupidest Coalition in British History and, more importantly, the struggle against their backers and donors, those City investors and traders and banks and hedge funds and corporate barons whose position would be strengthened by the departure of Scotland. We all know how these deracine elites think and work: while the politicians will be running around Westminster like headless recrimination chickens, the City elite – like dark lords of the Sith – will be cool, calm and collected and working out how to turn the upheavals to their advantage.
To my mind, the financial sector and the globalised pro-corporate institutions which try to browbeat entire nations into submission are the greatest threat to democracy the world has faced for well over a generation. And, of course, climate change is waiting in the wings to bring who knows what down upon us, and honestly, would anyone with a scrap of reason and compassion trust the obscenely rich elites to look out for the interests of ordinary people when extreme weather events really start to bite? Certainly not here in Britain, which is why I'll be voting NO because I want to be involved in the fight to kick the Coalition out, and then the fight to force the next government to do the right thing. Its bound to be hard, but we know what problems have to be fixed and we have a fairly good idea of how to fix them. Independence to my mind is a shadowy leap into the unknown which would rob the rest of the UK of the Scots' natural elan, creativity and stubbornness, and god knows the fight against the Ungodly needs all that and more.
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Thank you for that perspective, hadn't read that angle before. I think it's a valid argument if you take the position that the current system is changeable from within. If not, I think the argument for voting YES becomes that it upsets the status quo and increases the pressure within the broken system by making its faults more apparent, thereby hastening its downfall.
So I guess the main dividing lines seem to be in "the system can still be fixed from within, let's stay together and work on it" vs "this is broken, let's start something new and also set a precedent for starting over". As you said, the general problem of Big Money running amok is global.
Anyways, thanks again for your perspective and good luck no matter the result.
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STOCKHOLM - After some The Hives hype, Gyllene Tider reclaims the #1 spot with "Finn 5 fel!" (3x platinum) on the album charts, while "GT25!" (gold) falls to #6 and "Mazarin" (5x platinum) to #27, after merely 59 weeks on the charts. "Tuffa tider"/"En sten…" falls to #12, but has acheived gold status (15,000).
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Cucumber Buttermilk Soup
A refreshing soup for a hot day! And it's really easy. (And it's a really fast way to use up some of the million cucumbers you've got building up from your garden and your CSA box … ) I didn't totally make it up — there are lots of recipes like this out there with dill. Cucumber goes so well with herbs, though, that you could pretty much do it with any soft leafy herb — cilantro would be good, mint would be good …
Cucumber Buttermilk Soup
- 2 cucumbers, peeled and seeded (slice them in half lengthwise and scrape the seeds out with a spoon)
- buttermilk
- 2 cloves garlic
- about a quarter-cup of red onion
- a couple nice sprigs of basil
- ground coriander, salt, and pepper to taste
Roughly chop the cucumbers and toss them in a food processor. Add the garlic, red onion, and basil. Blitz 'em for a minute until you have smallish chunks, and then add some buttermilk and blend again, adding more buttermilk if necessary, until you get the texture you like. (Go easy to begin with– you can always add more buttermilk, but you can't take it out.) I like the soup right around the same consistency as applesauce. Season with coriander, salt, and pepper, and chill for a couple of hours to let the flavors blend. Serve cold!
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This sounds lovely! And I'm finally getting cucumbers and always have some buttermilk. I used to eat this in Sweden but I had forgotten about it – thank you! I bet the basil, garlic and onion would be yummy in there. If you add oregano that would make it a little Greek, too. I bet it would be nice to personalize with fresh herbs!
Oh, yeah. (: I think just about any green leafy herb would be nice. Maybe add a little jalapeño if you go with cilantro — mm yummy! Of course, you can always make gazpacho too … I'm up to my ears in both cucumbers and tomatoes right now, so I might be doing that soon.


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5: The Tomz Incident
August 07, 2012 16:17
April 2002, before the site was called DMI and was only accessed by ip address (220.127.116.11), I had several regulars that hung out in the chat room. One day, some kid shows up and starts chatting, sounding really interested in the page and several of the features. His name was Tomz.
I don't remember if Tomz initially said he was older, indicated that he was older, or never said, but the implication I got was that he was tying to sound several years older than he was, only it became more and more obvious that he was only about 14. Never the less, I never have discriminated against people due to their age unless they comitted a pretty serious faux pas. None the less, he was pretty annoying. His favorite thing to do was to brag, extensively, about his internet connection, which was a OLL (Optimum Online) cable connection that provided 10mbps downstream and 1mpbs upstream. At the time, that was a pretty decent internet connection, particually for a consumer grade ISP. Anyhow, he thought it was necessary to rub everyone's noses in this fact, which was annoying, but not particually depressing. We all have our advantages, so if that was his one shiny penny that he could boast about, fine. Let him have it.
After a couple of weeks of talking to him, one night he's asking a lot of questions about my shoutcast (or possibly icecast, not sure which I was usuing at the time) connection. Being patient, I spent quite a bit of time explaining how to install and configure the software and the plugins, etc, but he was obviously having trouble with it. Eventually he complains that he's going to have to go to bed soon because he has to go to his grandmother's funeral the next day. He then proceeds to say something really horrible about his recently deceased grandmother. I don't remember the exact words, but it was something to the effect that he didn't want to have to go, didn't want to waste the time, wish they'd just flush her down the toilet and be done with it.
I decided that I had had enough of him, told him I don't think I liked him anymore, and banned him from the chatroom. I would have banned him from the site as well, but at the time, I didn't have the easy blocking methods set up that I do now. The only way I could really ban him was to block him in .htaccess, but that took some time to take effect, so he was able to spend the next several minutes sending me messages from the site. At first he was just pleading to be let back in. Eventually he resorted to threats that he was going to "ping flood me off the internet" and so on. The full log is available here.
Best I can figure, he starts flooding me, although not very well. If his statements are accurate, he was pinging me with packets far too small and too slowly to be of any signficant impact to the connection I had, despite the fact his connection was faster. Besides, worst case, his upstream didn't exceed my downstream, so there wasn't much he could really do by himself. He didn't think that though, and spent more time boasting. Apparently, he figured that I would eventaully attempt to retailliate the same way, so he started monitoring his connection, watching all of the packets looking for something suspicious. He found something: a large amount of data coming from my ip address to his, and he assumed that this was an attack on my part. The problem is, he didn't bother to filter out traffic that he should have been expecting.
At the time this was happening, tomz was flooding me with pings, which by the very nature of the protocol returned a response packet. He was viewing my webcam, which sent a constantly updating stream of new images, automatically. He was listening to my live audio stream, which was a consantly updating set of packets. Also, my page had other dynamic features on it, like updating the lightbulb icons to indicate the status of the lamps. This too also generated a stream of data. Point is, my network was sending him a TON of traffic, on several different ports and protocols, all of which were responses to requests he made from his computer. Tomz, however, didn't understand this, and assumed that ANY traffic a traffic monitor showed was traffic that was not authorized.
Anyway, while this was going on, he first boasted about how laggy my internet connection must be by now (it wasn't). After he discovered the "illicit" traffic from my site, he starting complaining about it. Best I can figure, he was recording a full log of all data received for some reason (possibly as evidence) and those files were likely getting pretty large as a result. Knowing full well that I wasn't attempting any abuse, I realized that all data he was receiving from me was legitimate traffic and if he stopped accessing my site and stopped pinging me, he wouldn't get any more responses. I tried explaining this to him several times, including repeated demands to get off of my site, all of which he responded to by not understanding the issue, and refused to leave.
Knowing he was still listening, and figuring I could just scare him off, I looked up contact information for his ISP and started making some phone calls to report the abuse (so he could hear me doing it). His last few comments indicated that he probably heard what I was doing, and he quickly departed. I figured he was gone, finished up the call, and decided that was it for that adventure. However, within a few minutes, I started getting a LOT of traffic to the site. I looked up where it was coming from and discovered a link on dslreports.com where he had started a forum post complaining about being flooded and recruiting others to join him in flooding me back (the whole time neglecting to mention that he started the whole mess and I wasn't flooding him at all). About the same time I started reading this, someone sent me a message asking why I was flooding Tomz. Realizing this might get out of hand, I quickly copy/pasted all of his messages to a text file and linked to it at the top of the page, along with a message that I wasn't flooding anyone, then I continued reading the thread. Once I got caught up with that, I posted my own reply to the thread explaining the situation, and pretty much everyone involved sided with me, although Tomz was apparently gone for the day at that point. I figured it was all done now, or so I thought.
The next day, Tomz posts yet another thread complaining about the flooding and trying to defend his position, i.e., that I started flooding him for no reason and he only flooded me back as a defense measure, once again leaving out the fact that he actually did it first, and I never did it at all. Several people in the thread were aware of this fact, but never the less attempted to help him figure out the issue from his end. They eventually convince him to post a log of the flooding that I was doing and it clearly showed a list of packets, from my ip address on tcp port 80, which he claimed was proof of flooding. This was very quickly explained to him that tcp packets on port 80 were web server RESPONSES, and not attacks. It took several more rounds of explaining things before Tomz finally came to the realization that I wasn't flooding him back, but even then, he still figured that the problem was some type of error on how my system was configured, as to why he was getting all of these packets.
Lost in the whole mess, somehow, was the simple fact that had he not attacked me in the first place, he never would have felt the need to monitor his traffic, and never would have noticed the "self-inflicted webcam connections". Thankfully, the whole issue blew over in a couple of days. What was sad is how many people were very quick to jump to conclusions based on what he said, without having any supporting evidence. I really wish that dlsr didn't support the editing of comments after they were posted. You'll notice reading through it, how many people retracted their comments after they figured out what actually happened. Some 14 year old kid, who was known to have no credibility whatsoever, was instantly believed by everyone when a call went out to join a mob and attack someone.
On the other hand, however, this was greatly amusing. Someone annoying came along. I was as nice to him as I could be until he pushed it too far, and upon removing him, he tried to shame me, but it backfired horribly and my site became more popular as a result of that backfiring. Well, at least it amuses me.


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Meet the Chef - Stephen Harman
PUBLISHED: 09:00 19 February 2014
Head chef at The Shire Horse in Edlaston
How did you get into cooking?
My Nan inspired me. I remember watching her whilst sitting at the kitchen table, when I would taste all the pies and pastries she was making. She would use her Mrs Beeton's cookbook for reference, with her own added notes stuffed inside on scraps of paper. The smell was fantastic. I now have that cookbook on my bookshelf in the kitchen at The Shire Horse.
What was your first experience of cooking food professionally?
I did two weeks of work experience at a large London hotel, peeling and cooking roast potatoes for the Christmas period. It didn't put me off – we all have to start somewhere.
Do you have a signature dish?
Signature dishes should be seasonal in my mind, so I think chefs should have more than one to match the time of year. At The Shire Horse, I have a roast breast of locally sourced pheasant wrapped in home-cured bacon on a pâté croûte, served with parnsip crisps, creamy mashed potato and a port wine jus.
Which ingredients could you not do without?
Seasonings, both dried and fresh herbs, and spices are great for enhancing or giving a twist to the dish you're preparing, especially at this time of year with winter comfort food.
Who are your preferred suppliers?
Owen Taylor & Sons of Leabrooks supplies quality meat and poultry that is sourced from reputable local farms at a good price. We also use M&J seafood for its large range of good quality fresh wet fish and shellfish.
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Bible Ballistics: "BBs" #61 Seeking What?????
There are so many people around us searching for so many things. Fame, money, popularity, power, knowledge, influence. There is nothing wrong with any of these things; in and of themselves, but when they are our primary focus there is trouble. We all think that we are to be independent and providing for ourselves—especially Americans (well, some Americans)—but is that the right thing to seek for? Let's see what we can find in God's Word.
Wise men came to Jerusalem seeking a newborn king, and stirred up confusion.
Matthew 2:2, " Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."
These men had one thing on their minds, to find the newborn king they had been 'seeking'. Yet not one person followed them to Bethlehem to see if they found him. Why not? They apparently weren't 'seeking' the Messiah.
John 12:20-21, "And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: 21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus."
A group of Greek men had come to Jerusalem and having heard about Jesus, came 'seeking' to worship HIM. Why? The religious leaders weren't seeking to worship him, but to kill Him. Why were these men seeking Jesus? We're not told the details but one thing speaks for itself, these who had come to Judaism to worship the true God, recognized the Messiah more readily than His own people.
John 1:10-11, "He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not…"
What are you seeking today? Jesus and His will for your life? Or are you going along to get along? Are you standing for the KING of Kings, even when He is being maligned or ridiculed? Or are you so open-minded that you have no real thought for the Lord Jesus or His kingdom? Jesus himself gave us our marching orders—consider this, and we will see more next time.
Matthew 6:33, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
So?? Here's our shot for today??? What or whom are you 'seeking'? It's a question with eternal import. Consider your answer and take it to the Lord, and ask Him if your 'answer' needs some attention.


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You Do Football, I'll Do Me-Time
For some wives, and some husbands, football season means temporarily losing their spouses to the gridiron. It happens.
Take, for example, Noel Bosco, a copywriter in Chicago who doesn't see her husband Sylas Bailey on game days, except when he emerges for more beer or more snacks. While Bailey watches every Nebraska Cornhuskers game because they're his favorite team, Bosco avoids the TV as soon as helmets appear.
Other spouses shared similar experiences — and for the most part, they embrace the solo life that football season brings. Sure, there may be more yelling and less companionship at home, but they also have more time for their hobbies and friends.
Carol Gee, an author from Atlanta, uses her husband's love of football to write new books in a separate part of the house. Gee also catches up on all the DIY and craft projects she puts off the rest of the year.
"My husband lives and breathes football. Over the past 45 years of marriage, I have learned to adapt," Gee says.
Loving Your Alone Time
Although it bothered her at first, now Bosco uses her solo time to plow through a pile of books and lose herself in folklore stories filled with trolls and fairies.
"I'm a freelance copywriter, so I move around my work to make it line up with his football schedule. It works out perfectly since I can tell my husband I can't watch any of the games because of my deadlines. He has no idea if I'm actually working or reading another book about trolls," Bosco shares.
After 10 years of marriage, Micaela Heights, a business coach in American Canyon, California, prefers to think of football season as "me" time. She doesn't mind exploring a new trail on a hike by herself or shopping for hours without her husband. While he yells at every football game on the TV, she schedules a relaxing spa day alone.
Bosco, Heights, and Gee say there's surprisingly little strife in their marriages over football. Each of their husbands is a dedicated fan who doesn't miss a single game, but the wives don't watch or attend any.
"He always has his own space, a spare bedroom, to enjoy them alone," Gee notes.
By doing their own thing instead of complaining about their husbands being glued to the TV, they avoid arguments, celebrate each other's individuality, and keep their relationships strong.
Finding Comfort In Friends
All three women tried to like football at the beginning of their marriages, but they just couldn't find the passion their husbands had. Their spouses understood. Over the years, the women have also found like-minded friends to help them get through the season.
Recently, Bosco became friends with another woman widowed by the game. They get coffee and commiserate.
"While our spouses and everyone else are watching football, we can go anywhere. There are no lines or wait time. It's heaven," she tells.
Heights also plans her brunches with friends to coincide with local NFL games. Her husband doesn't notice when she leaves the house, and she prefers it that way. The fridge is filled with beer and food before leaving, and she can spend hours chatting with friends.
The women all believe that doing their own thing while a game is on is healthier for their relationships because it prevents arguments about why they don't love football as much as their husbands.
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Jiggle, wiggle; move along the floor.
Jiggle, wiggle; eat.
It's a strange thing, to be. One moment, nothing matters but moving on to the next meal. The next, things flow through, like a warm thing that hangs on the wall.
It's odd; the ability to use 'I'. I am not used to it, not will I ever be used to it. Things flow through me, more than food. Ideas, thoughts; these things are strange and not edible. But, they help me feed so they are good.
Eating is good, eating is life; anything that helps eating is thus good. Thoughts help, so they are good.
Things to eat are everywhere here, so it is a nice place. The . . . floor is always covered in little rough things that float down from the air. I like to go where there are no other . . . mes to so I can eat more.
Thoughts help me . . . learn things as well. I can remember the places that are best to eat; the best places are covered in other things. These other things expand like me, but do not feed like we do. They are different, so I can eat them. There are places covered in special floaty material which is long, small, and thin. It floats off the bigger things.
I can eat most things in this place, with a few exceptions: the shiny thing at the bottom, the little thing that moves above, the two bigger things, and the bigger me. I can hear them, feel them; they are like me and the other mes somehow.
The shiny thing is . . . worrisome. Fear is new too, something that comes with thoughts. I am me, but I am not like the other mes. The shiny thing controls the other mes, or is the other mes. It isn't always the other mes, but it can when it wants to be. I used to be like that too. I remember my orders.
Many of the other mes are different now: bigger, better, stronger. I remember when all the mes were the same. I was . . . special though. I was used for the thing that moves above my head. It rested on me; I wasn't allowed to eat it. I had another me before me, but that one became bigger and live in one place now. It can't leave, but it doesn't want to leave. That other is . . . not content; it has no thoughts of anything else.
I don't want that. I don't know why, but I fear joining back to the shiny thing. That would make me be not me. So I learn to avoid it.
Some places are strange; they change everywhere, and all the slimes dissolve when it does. I avoid those places. The best places stay the same, with a big me at the last spot.
The best things to eat are hard to catch.
[thump, thump]
I feel some coming. These things are the best to eat, but they are hard to eat. They stab and do other things that hurt. I had to learn to eat them better.
These things are very different from me. They are taller and do things I can't do. But, I can still eat them.
The noise they make tells me where they are coming from. I know what to do to eat them.
I move up the side floors and to the above floor. There are small indentions in the above floor I can hide in. I wait, feeling the yummy things slowly pass below me. From my lessons, I know it is safer to eat the ones at the back first.
When I feel the noises almost finish passing below, I let go of the above floor and fall down. I land perfectly on the top of the yummy thing. I quickly cover the smaller round part of the thing so it stops making noise. Sometimes, that noise hurts.
Some of the other mes are attacking from the front, drawing the attention of the yummy things holding the stabby things. I knew they were going to; I can feel what the shiny thing tells them to do. The yummy thing I'm eating is trying to make noise, but I don't let it. I eat it, and it falls down.
I know not to do much more; I'm not strong like the other mes. I leave the rest of the yummy thing behind and hide. I'll come out and eat more if the stronger mes kill the rest of the yummy things.
This is my . . .existence. Thoughts are strange things. I sometimes hear the shiny thing and the thing moving above think to each other. I learn from them; their thoughts and their words. I am more now than I was.
I want to eat; more and more and more. There is nothing else worth existing for. To eat is to live.
At least, that's what I used to think. More things matter to me now, as I watch my brethren get slaughtered by the yummy things. The yummy things are leaking liquid at the yummy thing I ate. I don't understand.
I once wanted to eat. It was all that mattered to me.
Now, I want to devour more than meals. I want to . . .understand, learn, and do more. I want . . . everything.
I concentrate, and a small, red ball of warmth appears in front of me. It is joined by other small balls of things.
If I use these, can I kill the yummy things better? I want to know.
I leap at my prey.
Nothing will stop me from knowing.
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A former resident of Pittsburgh-based Corner View Nursing and Rehabilitation Center was cremated without his family's knowledge or consent after the facility allegedly failed to notify next of kin of his death, according to NBC affiliate WPXI.
Paul Tyler's family learned of his death when his granddaughter, Danielle Miller, called the nursing home to plan a Christmas visit and was told he had died months before.
Mr. Tyler died Oct. 30, 2019, and was taken to the medical examiner's office as an unclaimed individual. The office said it was unable to locate next of kin and, when no one claimed the body, sent it for cremation, per procedure.
In January, Prestige Healthcare Group took over management of the facility and told Ms. Miller they didn't have contact information for the family. Ms. Miller told WPXI she was the primary contact who had placed Mr. Tyler in the facility seven years ago.
Ms. Miller said Corner View would not return her calls, so she filed complaints with the Pennsylvania attorney general and Department of Health.
Rodney Brooks, the administrator of Corner View at the time of Mr. Tyler's death, contended that the facility had improved under his leadership and said there was a policy for notifying family when a resident dies, according to WPXI. However, Mr. Brooks could not explain why Mr. Tyler's family was not notified of his death.
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LOS ANGELES (WFAN/AP) — The sixth inning has been Dillon Gee's undoing.
The Los Angeles Dodgers scored five runs off the right-hander in that inning on their way to a 6-0 victory over the Mets on Thursday night that snapped a five-game losing skid.
In his previous start, Gee gave up four runs in the sixth to the New York Yankees and lost 4-0.
"It's disappointing that two games in a row I've had one big inning that really killed me," he said.
Gee (8-3) gave up five hits and six runs — five earned — struck out two and walked one. He didn't get a lot of help from the defense — the Mets had three errors on the game.
"There's no question, we can't make mistakes," said manager Terry Collins. "We can't throw the ball around, kick the ball around and expect to win. It's just not the kind of club we have."
Clayton Kershaw (9-4) got out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth by striking out Ronny Paulino to end the inning after getting a visit from manager Don Mattingly.
"When we had the bases loaded, he threw me a filthy curveball on a 2-2 count after throwing me four fastballs about 94-95," Paulino said. "He's a power pitcher and he knows how to pitch in and out and use his changeup and curve when he has to, even behind in the count. He's tough to guess against, so you have to focus on getting good pitches to hit and hope he'll make a mistake that you can take advantage of."
The Mets loaded the bases again in the ninth against Kenley Jansen before Hong-Chih Kuo got the final two outs.
Mets shortstop Jose Reyes went on the 15-day disabled list Thursday with a strained left hamstring that will cause him to sit out the All-Star game, although he will still attend. Collins hopes Reyes can return by July 22, when the Mets open a series at Florida.
"We came in here and had a very, very good series without Jose, and we've got to move forward," Collins said. "We've got our work cut out for us."
Kershaw scattered five hits over eight innings and the Dodgers parlayed extra-base hits by Matt Kemp, Juan Uribe, Aaron Miles and Dioner Navarro into that big inning to stop the Mets' four-game winning streak and keep them from sweeping the Dodgers for the first time in four games at Chavez Ravine.
Kershaw (9-4) struck out nine and walked two in his last start before the All-Star break. The left-hander, who will pitch in his first All-Star game next week in Phoenix, came within one strikeout of his fourth straight double-digit game, something that hadn't been done by a Dodgers pitcher since Hideo Nomo in1995.
"Clayton pitched very, very good. The guys were saying his fastball was really on top of them," Collins said. "Jason Bay said it was like hitting a shot put because it was heavy. They needed a start like that out of their ace and they got it. But we didn't help Dillon by the way we played. That's not characteristic of the way we've been playing."
After scoring just five runs in losing the first three games of the series, the Dodgers went on a roll in the sixth inning, sending nine men to the plate.
Tony Gwynn Jr. singled to lead off, stole second and continued to third on a throwing error by catcher Paulino. After Jamey Carroll grounded out, Andre Ethier walked. Gwynn and Ethier scored on Kemp's RBI double to left field.
"The key point in that inning was leaving the changeup up to Kemp. It was just a bad pitch, it kind of got away from me and he made me pay for it," Gee said. "We had him where we wanted him at that point. I was kind of on the fence about what I wanted to throw. Obviously, the changeup is my best pitch, but it's one of those things where you don't want to go to it too much."
Gee got two strikes on Kemp in the at-bat.
"It's the second time in that inning that he lost command of his stuff and his concentration was broken," Collins said. "It's something we've certainly got to fix."
Uribe's ground-rule double scored Kemp before Miles' RBI double brought Uribe home. Navarro's triple into the right field corner scored Miles.
The Dodgers took a 1-0 lead on Miles' sacrifice fly in the second. Uribe was hit in the left elbow by a pitch with one out. Gee knocked down James Loney's comebacker, tried for the force at second and made a throwing error that allowed Uribe to take third.
Uribe and the throw from left fielder Bay got to the plate at the same time and umpire Greg Gibson called Uribe safe, even though the TV replays showed Paulino tagged Uribe's right knee before his leg touched the plate. Collins vehemently argued with Gibson to no avail.
"It's a tough call because it was a bang-bang play," Paulino said. "I moved right in front of the plate when the ball got to me, but he must have thought that I was behind the plate and that he touched the plate first."
Gibson was involved in a blown call at first base on Wednesday night. Ethier hit an opposite-field RBI single through the left side and Kemp followed with what appeared to be a double-play grounder to shortstop. But Gibson ruled Kemp beat the relay, bringing Collins out of the dugout for a brief argument.
TV replays also showed Gibson got that one wrong. Carroll took third on the fielder's choice grounder and scored on Uribe's sacrifice fly — which would have been the third out.
NOTES: Mets RF Carlos Beltran's 11-game hitting streak ended after he went 0 for 3. … Mets 2B Justin Turner failed to reach base for the first time in 29 games. … The Mets fell to 11-3 in Gee's 14 starts this season. … The Dodgers honored Hall of Famer Dick Williams with a moment of silence before the game. Williams, who died Thursday at 82, broke into the major leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers. … Ethier teamed with his father Byron for the first pitch, with Byron throwing and his son catching on Ethier's bobblehead night. The giveaway helped attract an announced crowd of 56,000, just the third sellout of the season.
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Forest Hill Road Homepage
Forest Hill Road
Letter to Bibb Commissioners - January 2012
Macon, Ga
Bibb County's - "Roads Improvement Program"
Re: Ken Sheets, the Bibb County Engineer -
slandered a citizen at a public meeting on 1-17-2012, and he
continues to mislead the Bibb Commissioners about a multimillion
dollar road project in the Macon-Bibb Road Improvement Projects
(RIP) list.
video of the event
|To: Bibb County
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:26
| Re: Ken Sheets, the Bibb County Engineer -
slandered a citizen at a public meeting on 1-17-2012, and
he continues to mislead the Bibb Commissioners about a
multimillion dollar road project in the Macon-Bibb Road
Improvement Projects (RIP) list.
Dear Sirs:
Your employee, the Bibb County Engineer, Ken Sheets slandered me at a public meeting, and he continues to mislead the Bibb Commissioners by misrepresenting the facts concerning the Forest Hill Road project.
At the regular meeting of the Bibb County Commissioners on Tuesday evening, January 17, 2012, the Bibb Chairman, Sam Hart told me that one of the reasons he is disinclined to help the Forest Hill Road neighbors to get a better designed road is because he (Hart) understands that compromises have already been given to the neighborhood concerning the road's design.
I stated that no substantive changes have been made to the Forest Hill Road design since the 1st public meeting in 2001. I stated that Macon-Bibb P&Zoning Director, Jim Thomas had recently confirmed this in an email to me.
I further stated that the only reason the Commissioners feel that reasonable compromises have been rendered to the citizens is because the Commissioners have been repeatedly misinformed about this situation from Moreland-Altobelli (M-A) as repeated to them (Commissioners) by the Bibb County Engineer, Mr Ken Sheets.
At this time, Mr Sheets blurted out to say that "Doc, you should have to be 'under oath' to talk to the Commissioners" implying that I was a liar, and that I was misleading the Commissioners about the road design having no changes since 2001. Mr Sheet's statement was slanderous, and it was publicly insulting and demeaning to me; as it was spoken in front of dozens of people attending the meeting. The people at the meeting included a Telegraph reporter, Mike Stucka who reported this fiasco in the paper on page 4B on Saturday 1-21-12. Other witnesses at the meeting were delegations from two large constituencies: retired Bibb Sheriff's Department personnel and humane-animal-shelter proponents.
I demand a written apology from Mr Sheets, or else an enumeration of any facts I might have misstated. Engineering documentation should be included as to the validity or veracity of Mr Sheet's opinion(s) concerning those facts.
I will publicly apologize to Mr Sheets and to the entire Bibb Commission if I am given documentation that the road design has been substantively modified to accommodate the citizens since the 1st public meeting in 2001. Otherwise The Bibb Commission will be proven to be a part of the obfuscations and misrepresentations promulgated by M-A to confuse the Bibb County citizens concerning a very expensive and costly part of the 1994 SPLOST Road Improvement Program.
I have documentation that the northern section of Forest Hill Road has actually been enlarged by at least 5 feet of pavement since the 1st public meeting in 2001. This is contrary to any claims by Sheets and M-A that citizens requests for downsizing have been accommodated.
Mr Sheets needs to explain why he has failed to get the facts straight about the size of this project in the six years since it was brought to his attention at the Bibb Commission meeting of Oct 3, 2006. He has continued to mislead the Commission in this regard for 6 years.
Mr Sheets needs to admit in writing that the major length of the FHR project; that is the northern section; that is scheduled for construction later this year -- That this northern section is planned to have at least 5 more feet of pavement than the design that was shown on the plans at the first public meeting in 2001. Mr Sheets must admit that this project has become wider despite the overwhelming sentiment from the public that the project needs to be downsized. This is what I keep telling the Bibb Commission and this is what Mr Sheets keeps denying. Mr Sheets is wrong and he needs to admit it to the public.
- Lindsay D Holliday
| Some Documentation:
At meeting of Commission on 1-17-12, San Hart asked when mediation started and stopped.
See Telegraph article on Aug 20, 2008.
Mediation Plans ( here)
Notes of First Day of Mediation (here _2-28-08)
But at a (10-3-06) Bibb Commission meeting, Chairman Bishop and County Engineer, Ken Sheets, wrongly declared this project has been "Downsized". If that were true, then it has also been "Supersized" for a net gain of at least 5 feet of sidewalk.
excerpt of Bibb Minutes of October 3, 2006
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Chairman Bishop responded that this project was one of the first projects or one of the
projects voted on when the one cent sales tax was passed. He stated that this was done
a long time before he became a commissioner and before any of the current members of
the Board were commissioners. He stated that it was listed as an initial project on a
East-West Connector. He then asked if this was the East-West Connector that's slated
to run from Northside Drive all the way to Eisenhower Parkway. He pointed out that
Tucker Road was another connector. He stated that it was slated to be four-laned or
five-laned for the entire route initially, as I understand it. He then asked if it was four-lane
with a turn lane or four lanes.
Ken Sheets stated that he thinks it was four lanes with a turning lane, initially.
Chairman Bishop added that it was to go all the way out to Northside Drive where it
terminates. He stated that the other end of Forest Hill Road has already been widened.
Ken Sheets stated that both sides of Northside Drive have been done.
Chairman Bishop continued that former Commissioner Calder Clay was instrumental in
getting some revision made to the original plan. He stated that the problem is that the
downsizing only took affect from the intersection of Wimbish Road out. He stated that
there were some questions at the time and whether or not it should have been fourlaned
completely all the way out. He stated that at that point, Calder was effective in
getting it downsized to what it is now. He stated that he doesn't know about the trees
and how they've been marked, adding that he heard this morning that they had marked
a bunch of trees between Wimbish and Forest Hill, where is slated to be four lanes.
Chairman Bishop advised Mr. and Mrs. Boyd that in their particular area, it was
downsized and in the area above them where Calder lives, they kept it four lanes with a
turn lane.
Mrs. Boyd added, with a median. She then asked why was it necessary to have a
median when they are going to cut down all of those gorgeous trees.
Chairman Bishop responded that, if he was not mistaken, the median was a result of one
of the designers that went out there after one of the neighborhood meetings.
Ken Sheets confirmed this.
Chairman Bishop continued that when Calder got them to downsize it to the three lanes
from four, at that time, it was their understanding that they'd accomplish something and
that they'd done something to help those people out there. He stated that it was against
the advice of the people that were working on the design of the road. He stated that they
still recommended the four lanes all the way.
Doc Holliday chimed in that, "Ya'll need to get this straight." He stated that it was three
lanes with one sidewalk at the vote in 1994. He stated that he has the documents. He
then said, "Ken Sheets, you know that's true; you've got the documents too." He then
asked Ken if it was or was not true. Ken Sheets responded, "I don't have any idea, Doc
Holliday." Doc Holliday then stated the project was not downsized. Chairman Bishop
said that it was downsized. Doc Holliday stated there were three lanes and one
sidewalk, and now it's three lanes and two sidewalks. He also stated that it's wider now
Page 21 of 22
than when the vote was taken and nobody has downsized it and that it is larger. He
added that he wanted to get that fact straight.
Chairman Bishop then stated that, according to some people on Forest Hill Road, they
do have a problem getting out of their driveway, particularly in the morning when the
school buses are there. He added that the problems they are faced with as County
Commissioners is that they have to rely on the expertise of Georgia DOT and engineers.
He stated that they were engineers themselves. He stated that he's tried to do what he
thinks is best for everybody. He stated that it has gotten to point now that they have
spent all of the money they had in this road program or overspent trying to downsize,
contrary to what Doc Holliday said. He stated that they spent $1 million over trying to
redesign that road to try to appease different people. He stated that he was only going
by what he knows has happened since he has been on the Board. He further stated that
he thinks have been as good of stewards as they can in this situation. He stated that
DOT has the money to acquire right of way. Chairman Bishop stated that he doesn't
understand if there's somebody with a house and the porch is gone, that it was not
coshure. He stated that there is some recourse in that situation.
Chairman Bishop continued that as they listened to everybody, trying to satisfy
everybody; everybody has got a different concern and there's a lot of people living in that
area that don't live on the road that travel that road. He stated that while the Board cares
what they think, there's only so much they can do in a situation like this. He then nixed
the notion that this has anything to do with Bass Pro Shops because Bass Pro wasn't a
figment of anybody's imagination at the time that road design was done. He stated, too,
that he doesn't know what the answer is but all they can do was rely on the engineers.
Commissioner Richardson stated that he has heard a couple of references to marking
trees back to 77' from the centerline of the road. He stated that he doesn't know why, but
he will certainly be glad to look into that to find out why that has been done. He stated
that he travels Forest Hill Road quite extensively, quite a lot because his office is out on
Riverside Drive. He stated that he comes up Hall Road to Forest Hill Road and follow
Forest Hill Road all the way to Vineville Avenue when he's going to the Vineville
Avenue/Forsyth Road area. And he added that he travels it at different times of the day.
He stated that the traffic does vary, adding that between 9:30 - 11:00, there's very little
traffic on the road. He further stated that earlier than that there's extensive traffic on the
road, say 7:15 – 9:00, there's a lot of traffic on that road. He added that about 4:00,
traffic does start picking up until about 6:30, so there is a lot of traffic during that period
of time.
Commissioner Richardson stated that if you say you only travel Forest Hill Road to go to
Vineville Avenue, that's wrong because there are a lot of people out in the Riverside
area that are coming up Hall Road and up Forest Hill to get to the Vineville/Forsyth Road
area. He stated that it is used quite extensively.
Chairman Bishop stated that he doesn't see this project being stopped at this point in
time and that he was being as honest as he could. He added that he doesn't think they
have the votes to stop it.
The final speaker of the evening was Doc Holliday but he agreed to defer his comments
until the next meeting but he advised the Board that at that time, he them to be ready to
play a two-minute DVD on Roundabouts from the National Institute on Highway Safety.
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS – None.
NEW BUSINESS – None.
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 8:25 p.m.
Shelia Thurmond, Clerk of the Board
Bibb County responds on 2-16-2012
From: "Baxter Pratt" <email@example.com>
To: <email@example.com>
Cc: <firstname.lastname@example.com>,
Subject: Correspondence to Dr. Holliday
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:15
Dr. Holliday:
Please see attached correspondence from Virgil Adams.
Baxter Pratt
Assistant to Virgil L. Adams
Adams & Jordan, P.C.
Fickling & Co. Building, Suite 1250
577 Mulberry Street
Post Office Box 928
Macon, Georgia 31202-0928
(478) 743-2159
From: "James P. Thomas" <email@example.com>
To: 'Holliday Dental' <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:36
Subject: Forest Hill Rd.
I got your voice mail about your desire to come and show me a video of the first public meeting for Forest Hill Road. There's no need because you were right. After we talked I reviewed the files and confirmed that the concept presented at the first public meeting was indeed a three lane section from Wimbish to Northside. What I was remembering was the debate about the project as the scope was being developed before a concept was presented to the public. Bob Fountain originally thought a five lane section was necessary but others including P&Z and FHWA were of the opinion that 5 lanes weren't warranted.
James P. Thomas
Executive Director
Macon-Bibb County Planning & Zoning Commission
Suite 1000
682 Cherry Street
Macon, Georgia 31201
Political Notebook:
p4B Saturday, 1-21-2012
Forest Hill Road revisited
Lindsay "Doc" Holliday brought a revitalized push for reconsideration of Forest Hill Road work to commissioners, citing an earlier Telegraph item about his previous talk. The widening of the northern portion, from Wimbish Road to Northside Drive, could start as early as this summer. The northern segment is slated to become three lanes. The southern portion, to Vineville Avenue, is planned to become four lanes, but construction on that segment isn't imminent.
Holliday said it isn't too late to change the plans. Then he said a majority of commissioners owed their fleeting power to the work of Martin Luther King Jr., who listened to people. Holliday said the county hasn't listened to residents.
Commissioner Bert Bivins interrupted: "I don't need your lectures about Martin Luther King, and I don't need your lectures about being fair and equitable." Bivins went on to say that he'd pushed for people to listen to Holliday -- but Holliday needs to listen back.
"That calls for both sides being willing to listen to each other, and I really haven't seen that," Bivins said.
Holliday called again for the county to bring down a consulting engineer to help with mediation talks that were called off years ago. He said the county hasn't changed its Forest Hill Road plans since it began.
County Engineer Ken Sheets said Holliday needed to be under oath when he made such claims: "Doc, you mislead the commissioners when you come in here. You tell about that much of the truth."
The next morning, Holliday demanded a written apology from Sheets, saying his comment "was slanderous, and it was publicly insulting and demeaning to me."
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Frozen is an example of so-called "survival horror", though it's a weird genre, since there aren't so many contenders. But what else could it be called? It has all the characteristics of a horror movie, only without the monsters or killers. Well, except for the wolves, but that's my least favorite part of the movie anyway. It's really effective in making you scared and wanting to look away, which is what a good horror movie should do. The story of three people trapped on a ski lift is inherently scary, especially because the movie makes the situation plausible. You keep wondering how they will get out and for the most part they don't even act too stupid. The dialogue at times is pretty lame and none of the characters is really sympathetic, but the movie works anyway. And despite the wolves. The problem with the wolves is that they add drama and stakes to a situation that already is as dangerous and scary as possible. They seem perfunctory. The movie would have worked without them and they also seem implausible (even they maybe are not). Anyway, the movie is good enough, I guess, despite its flaws, just because it frightens you so much and that makes it hard to forget it. You don't remember the flaws as much as the panic of wondering if it's a good idea to jump off a ski lift.
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Having just played Don't Get Locked In's The Secret Hut we went straight into their second offering: The Rock. A prison themed escape room inspired by Alcatraz, the iconic penitentiary in the San Fransisco bay.
Prior to entering the room we were invited to watch an engaging video introduction then swiftly escorted to the game area in an apropos, novel way.
The room began extremely linear and depending on your positioning, found some players with initially very little to do. Whilst we appreciate this is likely a conscious decision in order to make those first few tasks more challenging, it sadly translated for us to be a frustrating start by leaving players excluded.
As the game progressed the space opened up giving us an equal opportunity to all be involved again, although sadly this only proved to test our frustration further.
The search aspect of the space offered little to no flow and whilst there was plenty to explore and examine - which is usually a positive for us - it was presented in such a way that meant there was no obvious sequence or start point to complete its puzzles.
After a tedious hunt throughout the space, we found a number of puzzles to be nothing more than laborious time consumers. The unfulfilling monotony of finding their resolves provided no real sense of achievement or offered any rewarding fun. Due to there being no obvious measure of progression, it was also difficult to assess whenever we were making good use of time.
Another disappointing aspect was the time spent on two puzzles that both ultimately lead to the same resolve. In our opinion we don't feel that including two tasks (or at the very least having them available simultaneously) leading to the same singular outcome is overall good practice in escape rooms.
One excellent inclusion however, was Don't Get Locked Ins' Kudos Challenge. Your need for clue assistance within the game adjusts the level of difficulty accordingly and rewards those who sail through afterwards with a well-deserved bottle of fizz. This is a smart additional incentive that runs alongside the generic clue system and one we highly commend.
...But perhaps this was also our downfall.
Being in triple figures of escape games played and quietly confident in our abilities, maybe we were too reluctant in asking for clues when we needed them. And judging by the number of "we got locked in" player photographs to be found across social media, it looks like we weren't the only ones.
Whilst escape rooms should offer varied mental challenges, we feel it's equally as important to find the balance of keeping them rewarding and fun to complete too.
Having spoken with the owner it's clear that they have a great passion for what they are doing, but openly informed us they had only played a few rooms before launching their own.
Don't Get Locked In has great potential and our GM couldn't have been anymore welcoming or perfect in their role. But perhaps investing time playing escape rooms outside of their own prior to their next build will avert any risk of creating a repeat offender of The Rock.


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Snap Inc. could be launching a new gaming platform in April, if rumours are to be believed. Originally reported by Cheddar, the Snapchat maker has been working on a mobile gaming platform codenamed "Project Cognac", which will feature mobile games that run in Snapchat.
According to someone familiar with the matter, Snap will likely present its mobile gaming ambitions at an upcoming summit in LA on April 4. In addition to mobile games, the company is likely to announce new video additions.
Given that Snap acquired Australian games studio Prettygreat for $8.6 million in 2018, the launch may not come as a complete surprise. At a similar time, the company also bought PlayCanvas, the web-based gaming engine start-up.
There had also been previous reports by The Information last summer that Snap could launch a gaming platform the same year.
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Who Shares a Couple Ring with G-Dragon?
G-Dragon (of BIGBANG) was recently caught on camera sporting a couple ring.
Comedian Jung Hyung Don and G-Dragon have been receiving a lot of attention for their superb chemistry and exciting push-and-pull relationship on MBC's "Infinity Challenge Freeway Music Festival" special episodes.
Netizens recently began talking about Jung Hyung Don's and G-Dragon's couple rings on an online community forum.
The couple rings first appeared on the October 12 broadcast of the "Infinity Challenge Music Festival." Jung Hyung Don and G-Dragon had gone shopping for performance outfits at Dongmyo Market. The two were seen purchasing couple rings of the same design together at the market, and at some point, both were seen sporting the rings.
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The US Department of Defense is currently pursuing the most comprehensive transformation of its forces since the early years of WWII. This transformation is a holistic approach to update both the equipment that the forces will fight its conflicts with and the way in which they will fight. This transformation relies heavily on fully networked air, ground and space based platforms. While many experts agree that in the course of the next 10 years communications equipment will emerge to support the networking of these systems, there remains much uncertainty on how operations will be effected if the technology does not mature enough to meet expectations. This research shows that even a 25 percent degradation in communications range could pose significant challenges for this Future Force. Additionally, even small delays (latencies greater than one minute) and constraints on network throughput can increase the Future Force casualties and the duration of battle. While the end result in all analysis shows that the Future Force is a superior element with the same battle end state-victory, the cost of that victory depends significantly on effective communications.
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Azuga's flagship service is its fleet tracking solution. The full-stack platform offers self-installable hardware and dedicated tablets powered by a software that aims to offer a safer and driver-centric approach to fleet tracking and management. It all comes at a low price, to boot. Azuga can track any fleet internationally and prices are below average.
In this review:
- Azuga Pricing
- Azuga Software Core Features
- Azuga Hardware: GPS OBD-II Device
- Azuga e-Logs for ELD Mandate Compliance
- Azuga Set Up and Customer Support
- Azuga Asset Tracking
- The Verdict
Azuga offers a vehicle tracking service that includes the main features found in most fleet management system solutions. Azuga offers both software and hardware that serves any size of business.
Software: The software includes a driver app that all drivers can use to access their vehicle records, safety data, and more, as well as a centralized dashboard that the fleet managers can use to view even more data across the entire fleet.
Hardware: Azuga offers plug-and-play hardware units as well as dedicated, ruggedized eight-inch tablets for drivers to operate their driver app while on the job.
Pricing: Azuga offers hardware for free with its $28/month bundle plan, or charges $99.99 per unit with a $22/month flex plan. As with any great FMS or comprehensive vehicle tracking service, Azuga's solution saves money in a variety of ways, from improved overall customer service to reduced fuel spend from inefficencies or idling to insurance savings. Azuga's pricing can be compared against other industry-leading FMS vendors through this personalized quotes form. For any fleet, no matter how small, Azuga should quickly pay for itself.
Top Features: Azuga's specialty lies in its safety features, which offer a streamlined version of all the benefits found in the typical FMS — safety alerts, event history, vehicle status tracking, driver score cards — and adds a new feature, the ability to award the safest drivers with gift cards. It creates a rewards-based system that, as Azuga puts it, sidesteps the "gotcha" culture and replaces it with a "great job" culture.
Integrations: Azuga offers an entire app marketplace that makes third-party services accessible within Azuga's interface. Some of the most popular options include DashCam, Fleetio, Milsoft, Salesforce, AEMP compliance, Wex, Papco, EFS, and Comdata.
Ease of Use: Azuga's website and software interface are both fairly user-friendly. While their software is not a stand-out example of simple or intuitive design, it will get the job done.
Read on for our review, which lists the core features to expect from Azuga fleet tracking, as well as the customer support options and information on the pricing offered by this fleet management provider.
Azuga Pricing
Azuga doesn't list their price plans or their feature sets on their website. However, they do include a few price explanations: You won't need to be charged any upfront costs for the hardware units, which can be leased. In addition, installation is free, since Azuga's plug-and-play devices can be self-installed easily to a vehicle's OBD-II port.
Based on our research, we think you can expect to pay $28/month when leasing hardware units for free or $22/month when buying the hardware units outright for $99.99 per unit. You should also expect a 36-month-long contract.
This aligns with one public detail Azuga offers about their pricing plans: You can expect to pay under $0.85 per day per vehicle — a cost that definitely undercuts most of Azuga's competitors in the FMS industry. Azuga offers free trials, but with a catch: They're only for fleets with thirty or more vehicles.
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Great routing and dispatch features
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|No free trials unless fleet has 30+ vehicles
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The best way to get an accurate assessment of what an Azuga plan will cost for your own fleet is to contact Azuga for a personalized quote. With a quote in hand, your next move should be to compare it to the industry average quote. Thankfully, that's a simple task: Just fill out Tech.co's quick vehicle tracking quote comparison form.
Azuga Software Core Features
The Azuga FMS tracks drivers' safety scores, updating their rankings in real time. Managers will be able to view driver safety histories and averages, and will receive alert notifications triggered by events including speeding, hard braking, hard acceleration, idling and other safety indicators.
One FMS safety feature completely unique to Azuga: The ability to reward the highest performing drivers with gift cards to locations including Amazon, Walmart and Domino's pizza. If used properly by a dedicated manager, Azuga's safety features have the potential to create an entire fleet culture centered on friendly competition for stronger driver safety — and on the upped insurance and maintenance savings that come with it.
Two-Way Messaging
Drivers can contact managers and vice versa, allowing jobs to be dispatched easily and any changes quickly conveyed. In addition, drivers can message other drivers if needed, or use the mobile app to access forms, such as time cards, mapping tools, and customized form templates.
Regulation Compliance
Through the Azuga driver app, drivers can ensure compliance with all the main FMS regulations: The ELD mandate, digital HOS, DVIR reporting, and IFTA fuel tracking can all be logged and updated easily. Azuga eLogs is also considered one of the best ELD solutions.
Service reminders for your fleet can be tied to three parameters: Engine hours, mileage, and days. Once set, a custom reminder notification will be triggered at a certain number of days prior to a service date, at a certain number of miles before the mileage exceeds a set number, or at a certain number of hours before the engine hours exceed a set number. Or whichever comes first of any combination of the three parameters.
It doesn't need to come to notifications though, of course: A Maintenance Dashboard gives managers a snapshot view of all upcoming or overdue service needs. All service histories are tracked, and can be compiled into reports.
Azuga Hardware: GPS OBD-II Device
Azuga sells a plug-and-play GPS device that can be installed into a vehicle's standard OBD-II port within seconds. The Azuga device is very compact, at just two inches wide and 1.1 ounces in weight. It has an internal antennae and can remain safely in operation at any temperature between -40º C and +85º C. It's a simple and reliable hardware unit that will work in sync with Azuga's software to help managers track their entire fleet in near real-time.
Azuga doesn't offer any hardwired units, just plug-and-play.
Azuga e-Logs for ELD Mandate Compliance
The Azuga e-Logs software helps fleet stay in compliance with the ELD mandate, a recent U.S. labor regulation that applies to almost all commercial motor vehicles in the nation.
With the software Drivers can easily log their hours of service in an app, which automatically completes their DVIR to make sure they stay ELD compliant. The app works on Android and iOS, and supports languages including English, French Canadian, and Spanish.
As a result, the fleet stays in compliance at all times and duty statuses are always accurate, while office administrators can follow along thanks to the reports generated by the software. Paperwork is kept to a minimum, but all the data is easy to find when you need it.
Azuga e-Logs can be used separately or easily paired with the Azuga Fleet Tracking software as an add-on.
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Watch this three-and-a-half-minute clip for a look at Azuga's software and hardware from the driver's perspective. It's useful both to give you a picture of what the software looks like in action, as well as to offer more detail behind how Azuga's eLogs can help guide drivers through their daily data logging process and ensure they stay in compliance with all regulations.
Azuga Set Up and Customer Support
Resources to help guide users can be viewed or downloaded on the Azuga website: Product information datasheets and videos are available as well as a host of customer success stories. More explainers and webinars are hosted on Azuga's YouTube page.
A helpdesk is available to Azuga subscribers, who can use the platform to either submit a support ticket for their specific problem or check the online FAQ database to see if a solution to their issue is already available. Azuga's support team can also be reached over the phone at any time, 24/7.
Azuga's hardware units are easy to install: Managers can simply plug them into each vehicle's OBD-II port in a process that should take just 30 seconds from start to finish.
Support & Training
Support options
- Phone: 1-888-790-0715
- Phone hours: 24/7
- Online support ticket
Training options
- Product Guides
- Webinars
Azuga Asset Tracking
With the Azuga asset tracking feature, fleet managers can add all their assets to the same dashboard they view their fleet on, consolidating all the business assets that need their attention.
Powered assets can be tracked with rechargeable devices, which run six months on a single charge, while non-powered assets can be tracked with Azuga's five-year-battery-powered asset tracking hardware.
The Verdict
Azuga's abilities and service are solid, with a few features that stand out above the rest and a cost-effective price for everything. Phone support hours are 24/7, with live chat and email options also available. Azuga is a recommended FMS, and should prove particularly useful for fleet managers with a strong focus on safety, given Azuga's unique gamification approach to driver safety standards.
- Good data reporting functionality
- Streamlined communication
- Strong support
- 36-month contract periods
- ELD compliance costs extra, through eLogs add-on
- No free trials unless fleet has 30+ vehicles
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