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Episode-962- The Bug Out Bus with “stateofmind” (Paul) From the TSP Forum

The Bug Out Bus

The Bug Out Bus is a Canine Friendly Environment

Paul better known as “stateofmind” on the TSP Forum has had a huge hit with his thread entitled “Bug Out Bus“, which chronicles his multi-year journey of the transformation of a diesel powered Blue Bird School Bus into one hell of a kick ass RV and BOV.

Paul joins us today to discuss a variety of things, such as why he chose to customize a school bus vs. buying an RV.  How much work is required for a project like this and how making it a hobby and taking your time will be a huge help in getting it the way you want it in the end.

He also tells us what types of vehicles are good for projects like this based on what the builder is trying to achieve.  How to deal with power requirements including solar power installation and the role of a generator in this type of set up.  We also cover heating with a wood stove and how to do it safely but for operation and stowage during transport.   Of course he gives you some good ideas for where to find a project vehicle to start with.  This was a fun show and I think you guys will really enjoy it.

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  1. Hey all! Hope you enjoy today’s show. It was fun doing the interview with Jack. Take a look at the thread too and please feel free to fire away any questions, I’ll do my best to answer them. Take care. Paul

  2. I have not listened thus far but really looking forward to this episode. I have a 6acre plot in PA that at the moment I can not afford to build on but have been considering a small cargo van outfitted for short term camping so this episode is great timing.

    My thought was that making a short term camping van now and using it for recreation would be great as when the time comes to break ground on a structure I will have it available for use then.

    • That’s pretty much where my idea started. So far it has been BETTER than I had hoped. A Step van or similar vehicle is an excellent choice.

      • I also live just outside of Baltimore City and wanted something that would a)be easier to travel with then a full size bus and b)that I can use in the city if I find myself unable to drive after perhaps indulging in a beverage or two. Have to think ahead 🙂

  3. Travis Shute

    Looks amazing! Good interview as well. Listened while I mowed the grass. Awesome work on the solar setup.

  4. Paul,
    Right on, man. Way to represent Maine! I was just curious where you’re from & where in “northern Maine” your land is at. I’ve been hunting out of Northeast Carry since I was a kid. That’s “northern” to me. Are you in the County? Be only as specific as you’re comfortable being, as I’ll only be marking your location for SHTF> (that’s a joke)
    What an inspirational show. I’ve already hit up Ebay motors looking for my Blue Bird.

  5. Awesome Show, one of my favorites! I’ve always wanted to turn a bus into a RV or Camper.

  6. Glad you all liked the interview. It’s a fun project/hobby. Plan on a few years to accomplish it, even longer in my case. I still have another year or so to go… But to be honest, I’ll probably continue tweaking it as long as I have it. It’s a project that keeps on keeping on.

  7. Jack…..the gov is buying algie diesel at 25 bucks a gal.when you add in front money you closer to 35 a gal. If this kld is not blowing smoke then you should call for an investigation.


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John Paul Jones and |Jimmy Page were in both attendance at the sixth annual Marshall Classic Rock Roll Of Honour Awards staged at London’s Roundhouse last night.

Following sets by The Union and Alter Bridge (the latter featured guest guitarist Slash), the awards got underway with Alice Cooper as master of ceremonies along with co presenter Sarah Cawood.

Ronnie Wood accepted the Reissue of the Year award for The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street, Julian Temple made the evening’s longest speech in accepting the Best DVD/Film award for his Dr Feelgood documentary Oil City Confidential. It was good to see Glenn Hughes honoured with the Childline Rocks award.

In a poignant moment, tribute was paid to the late Ronnie James Dio with the Tommy Vance Inspiration award being accepted by his widow Wendy who made a moving speech.

Oher winners included The Union (Best New Band – ‘’I’m 50 years old and in the best new band!’’ laughed Luke Morley) Rick Wakeman (Spirit Of Prog), Journey Don’t Stop Believing (Event of the Year) Slash (Album of the Year)  AC/DC (Band of the Year), Geezer Butler (Metal Guru), Imelda May (Breakthrough Act), Roy Wood (Classic Songwriter),  Cheap Trick (Classic Album), Michael Schenker (Marshall 11 award)  John Jackson (VIP award) and Rush (Living Legends award accepted by Geddy Lee)

Before introducing Jimmy Page to the stage, Alice Cooper explained how he first met him when the Alice Cooper band had shared the bill with Jimmy’s band .’’The didn’t know who we were and we didn’t know who they were but the guitarist had been in the Yardbirds and we all loved them. The band were Led Zeppelin’’. Jimmy then took to the stage and gave a short speech about Jaz Coleman and Killing Joke before presenting their Innovator award.

‘’I was introduced to this guy by a mutual friend and he came round to my house and he immediately seemed a wacky eccentric guy. I’d go to see his band –  well THE band because everyone in it was well happening.  The guy I’m talking abut is Jaz Coleman and Geordie the guitar player had one of the most incredible guitar sounds of the 80s.  I’ve got to say that what they created with their band was running out of stream with all those keyboard bands that were taking over. They were doing some really intense and dense stuff. I’m pleased to give this award to some real innovators and it’s Killing Joke.’’

John Paul Jones appearance was preceded by an excellent compilation video clip compiled by Sam Rapallo of his life in music. The soundtrack included Donovan’s Mellow Yellow, Kashmir, No Quarter, REM’s Everybody Hurts cut to various footage from his early work through Zeppelin to Them Crooked Vultures.

Introduced by Alice Cooper as ‘’The indestructible John Paul Jones’’, John took to the stage to accept the Outstanding Contribution award to a tremendous reception.

”Thank you Classic Rock.  Great to see the new bands doing the old school stuff . The Union, Alter Bridge…re assuring to see nothing much has changed -no light on the bass player or the drummer (laughter and applause).

When I was a young boy of 14 and I was clambering to play bass guitar. I’d just heard Shakin’ All Over coming out of the seaside juke box and of course we all wanted to be Jet Harris in those days. I said to my dad who was a pianist  ”I really want to learn the bass guitar.’’

My father said to me ‘’Son, the bass guitar’s a novelty instrument – in two years time you’ll never hear of it. Take up the saxophone and you will always work.’’  Sorry Dad…

Of course you can’t do this  sort of thing alone espcially if you’re bass player… I’d just like to thank so many people. My wife of 45 years and my family (applause). All the band members, Jet Harris, Tony Meehan, Zeppelin, Jimmy, the other group I’ve just been playing around the world with the Vultures. I’d also like to say what an honour it was to be part of a John Bonham rhythm section – this is for him too.” (mass applause)

After the main presentations, Cheap Trick played a well received set. I had a quick chat with the ever affable Glenn Hughes who said he was very much looking forward to the Black Country Communion dates in late December. He also filled me in on the night’s Premier league football results  being slightly aggrieved that Wolves had slumped to a 2-0 defeat at home to Arsenal.

I also caught up with John who showed me the very grand looking Classic Rock Outstanding Contribution trophy.   ‘’Along with the Gold Badge award that’s two in a month’’ he laughed. He revealed that he has ambitious plans to write his own opera, a project that will unfold over the next year or so working in conjunction with theatre director Gerald Thomas.  John will also be contributing to the opera Anna Nicole which is being performed at the Royal Opera House next February. More on this in the next TBL magazine.

From Jet Harris to the Royal Opera House is some journey. In between there have been many moments of immense musical invention that has rightly earned John Paul Jones this Classic Rock Outstanding Contribution award.

It was an absolute privilege to be in attendance to see him receive it.

Dave Lewis – November 11th 2010

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  • John C said:

    A quiet unassuming wonderful guy, and one of the nicest guy’s I’ve ever met. Multi instrumentalist and the man who taught James Patrick Page how to play the “Black Dog” riff!! YOUR A LEGEND JONSEY – COME ON LIZ, OBE PLEASE – AT LEAST A CBE!

  • Will Cook said:

    Unless I’ve missed him saying he’s not interested…,just what part of the criteria for recognition under this country’s National Honours system has JPJ not yet met?

    C’mon… someone in the industry nominate him for goodness sake!

  • Lorraine Roberson said:

    JPJ is such a deserving recipient of this award and I’m so happy that you were there to see him receive it Dave…x

  • Tim Davies said:

    Could Jimmy be working with Jaz Coleman?
    …or is it just a coincidence that he presented him with this award ???

  • Tim Davies said:

    Sounds Fantastic…What an innovator John Paul is !
    I don’t suppose you had the chance to ask Jimmy what his future music plans are ?

  • Michael Brazee said:

    So deserved.

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When Telephony Gets Wet

By Richard Grigonis, Executive Editor, IP Communications Group

For some time now, Motorola, NEC, Toshiba and other companies have been working on how to provide more power to mobile handsets and laptops for longer periods of time. Conventional battery technology has just about been pushed to its limits – after all, if a chemical battery could somehow store a lot of power, it would probably be so unstable that at full charge it would be always be on the verge of exploding.

Most attempts at extending the operating time of mobile devices have centered on fuel cells, which convert hydrogen and oxygen into water, generating electricity in the process. Prototype fuel cells don’t actually use tanks of hydrogen. Instead small battery-sized cartridges of methanol are used. In such Direct-Methanol Fuel Cells (DMFC), methanol is oxidized on a catalyst layer to form carbon dioxide. Water is consumed at the anode and is produced at the cathode. Positive ions (H+) are transported across the proton exchange membrane to the cathode where they react with oxygen to produce water. Electrons are transported through an external circuit from anode to cathode, providing power to connected devices. Methanol is easier to store than hydrogen, which requires high pressures or low, cryogenic temperatures. Methanol is a liquid at room temperature, and its energy density (the amount of energy contained in a given volume) is an order of magnitude greater than even highly compressed hydrogen.
Companies such as Entegris (News - Alert) ( specialize in polymer material science and have expertise in providing advanced fuel cell materials, components, subassemblies and value-added services to fuel cell developers.

The only downside is that a fuel-cell powered phone would produce some carbon dioxide and water. Carrying around a cell phone capable of wetting your clothes sounds a bit disturbing, but there are various ways of capturing or causing the water to evaporate without creating a mess. Fuel cells would be quite “green” and environmentally friendly (if also a bit damp).
If you think a fuel cell telephone would be a bit too wet, you should have seen the “water-jet” transmitter (telephone) developed by Dr. Chichester A. Bell, cousin of Alexander Graham Bell. He based his invention of research which can be found in a paper he read before the British Royal Society in 1886. The phone is quite bizarre. By adding a bit of sulphuric acid to water (thus making it electrically conductive) Bell discovered that the electrical resistance of a jet of conducting fluid by mechanical (in this case, sound) vibrations.

A stream of water falls from a tube onto a platinum contact. When the water strikes the contact, the water sprays out horizontally in all directions and then strikes a platinum ring surrounding the contact. By passing an electrical current through the stray to the ring, Bell discovered that a tiny deflection of the jet caused a great variation in the current flowing through this “water circuit” (see the schematic). By deflecting the jet with sound waves, he could create electrical variations matching the sound and thus build a “Water-Jet Telephone” on this principle (see illustration).
The Water-Jet phone was about three feet high and mounted on a wall. A tank at the top of the phone held a water supply. At its base, a second tank stored the used water. Water could be recycled back up to the top tank by a lever-operated pump. A single movement of the lever filled the reservoir with enough water for a seven minute phone call. If the call took longer, the user could just pump again during the call.
Fuel cells don’t sound so bad now, do they?

Richard Grigonis is Executive Editor of TMC (News - Alert)’s IP Communications Group. To read more of Richard’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

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Broadcom Intros DOCSIS/Euro-DOCSIS 3.0-Based Chips for Next Gen CMTS

Broadcom has launched the industry's first DOCSIS 3.0/Euro-DOCSIS 3.0-based chipset with advanced line rate capabilities for next generation cable modem termination systems (CMTS).
Cisco Systems has already announced their plan to incorporate one of Broadcom's (News - Alert) newly announced solutions in their next generation CMTS equipment.

By working in conjunction with the recently launched Broadcom BCM3380 - the industry’s first fully integrated cable modem solution for DOCSIS 3.0/Euro-DOCSIS 3.0 applications, Broadcom’s new CMTS chipset provides the first end-to-end solution for enabling interactive services over broadband cable services, with reverse path speeds up to 160 Megabits per second (Mbps) and downstream speeds up to 400 Mbps.
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Leveraging reliable, symmetrical network services using equipment based on Broadcom's advanced DOCSIS 3.0-based CMTS chipset, cable operators can also successfully broaden their subscriber bases to include business customers.
Ernie Bahm, senior director, CMTS Product Marketing for Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group, explained that in conjunction with the BCM3380 cable modem solution, these products provide a complete end-to-end DOCSIS 3.0-based silicon solution with advanced capabilities. These help the cable operators to economically and reliably expand their broadband services to support high value interactive applications for both residential and commercial customers.
Broadcom made this announcement at 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show where the company also demonstrated alternative MAC and PHY (AMP) technology that enables Bluetooth to support data rates of up to 24 Megabits per second (Mbps) and a significant increase in range by using other wireless radio technologies, such as 802.11, as its transport medium.

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Tableau Software Raising the Bar for Big Data Analytics in Latin America

(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) SEATTLE, WA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/17/12 -- Tableau Software, a global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, is raising the bar for Big Data analytics in Latin America after announcing integration with Google BigQuery and SAP HANA. As part of its ongoing commitment to the market in Latin America, Tableau more than doubled the number of resources dedicated to Latin America during 2012. Tableau continues to add more local partners and training resources to complement its Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese product offerings.

Tableau integrates with virtually every platform and enterprise solution -- delivered via desktop, web and mobile devices -- with no programming required. Whether via native data connector or in-memory, Tableau is the data analysis software that allows you to work with your data no matter where it lives.

"Tableau is a new generation of business intelligence," said Miguel Nhuch, Vice-President for Latin America for Tableau. "Tableau is a second generation BI tool that is much easier to deploy, administer and scale and allows users of all levels to ask and answer questions -- in a matter of seconds. Tableau employs cutting-edge advances in computer science to accelerate analysis. The result is that whenever required, the business users can from any device access multiple data sources of any size, while at the same time, reducing the burden that traditional heavy business intelligence platforms place on IT." Nhuch, who is Brazilian and speaks seven languages fluently, has been spearheading the expansion efforts throughout Latin America since he came on board in April, 2012.

Earlier this quarter, Tableau announced its integration with Google BigQuery, a fully managed cloud-based service that enables businesses to interactively analyze enormous amounts of data in the cloud. Tableau's direct connection to BigQuery enables business users to easily visualize and analyze Big Data in just a few clicks.

Tableau also upped the ante when it announced it was offering direct connectivity to SAP HANA to bring big data to life. Tableau connects directly to SAP HANA in-memory computing platform, providing a fast connect-and-go experience to data, no matter how big or complex. Tableau's visual analytics software now includes a native direct and interactive connection to SAP HANA, allowing business users to easily tap into data and start visualizing and analyzing in real-time.

The Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese versions of Tableau 8.0 are fully aligned with the company's global expansion strategy. During 2012, Tableau has announced strategic partnerships with industry-leading IT consulting firms in Latin America, including: Brazil: CSC, PATH, Twice Software and Full Business Partner Chile: Solex, Cognus and Intellego Colombia: Procalidad Costa Rica: ITECSA Guatemala: Computing Resources Mexico: InfoMedia, Intellego, DataTeam Consulting and Data Discovery Peru: Gora Consulting Last year, Tableau announced major improvements to the Tableau Partner Program, making it easier for partners to help their customers and to grow their businesses.

Latin America ExpansionTableau announced its global expansion in Latin America and introduced Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese versions of its products in May. Since then, the company has been hosting educational events throughout the region to introduce new audiences to fast analytics, visualization and business intelligence in their native tongue. Tableau has already hosted events for clients and prospects in Mexico City, Monterrey, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Sao Paulo and Santiago, Chile.

About Tableau Software Tableau Software helps people see and understand data. Ranked by Gartner and IDC in 2011 as the world's fastest growing business intelligence company, Tableau helps anyone quickly analyze, visualize and share information. More than 10,000 companies get rapid results with Tableau in the office and on-the-go. And tens of thousands of people use Tableau Public to share data in their blogs and websites. See how Tableau can help you by downloading the free trial at

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Hitachi and Hitachi Plant Technologies initiate Joint Research with King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia on Water Quality Monitoring Technology
[December 27, 2012]

Hitachi and Hitachi Plant Technologies initiate Joint Research with King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia on Water Quality Monitoring Technology

(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 27 December 2012 Release date- 21122012 - Tokyo - On November 14, Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501) and Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd. signed an agreement with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz University for joint research on water quality monitoring technology to be used in seawater desalination facilities.

The joint research will focus on the demonstration and validation, evaluation, and improvement of water quality monitoring technology developed at Hitachi's Yokohama Research Laboratory (Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan) that will be used in Hitachi Plant Technologies' seawater desalination plant.

This work will be conducted over a nearly two-year period in cooperation with KAU's Center of Excellence in Desalination Technology (Executive Director Dr. Mohammed H. Albeirutty; hereinafter 'CEDT'), which is one of the most experienced organizations in this field in Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most important markets for seawater desalination plants.

Seawater reverse osmosis plants based on reverse osmosis (RO) membranes are widely used to obtain potable water and industrial water in regions such as the Middle East, which have a serious shortage of water resource. An important task in operating the Seawater reverse osmosis plants is preventing membrane fouling caused by the foulants included in the seawater. An accurate assessment of seawater properties based on its monitoring is essential for controlling fouling and ensuring stable operation of the plants because the operating parameters must be set in view of these properties.

The water quality monitoring technology developed at Hitachi's Yokohama Research Laboratory measures the very small amount of substances in seawater that cause RO membrane fouling using the quartz crystal microbalance method (QCM method). The QCM method measures the mass of minute quantities of substances adhering to a quartz oscillator by detecting changes in the oscillator's natural frequency induced by the mass increase. This approach has already been developed for film thickness sensors used in semiconductor production equipment and other applications.

Hitachi and Hitachi Plant Technologies have studied the relationship between RO membrane fouling and water quality monitoring data using the QCM method with view to controlling operations for minimize fouling and optimizing the cleaning and replacement intervals of RO membranes.

Using actual seawater from the Red Sea, the joint research with KAU's CEDT will demonstrate the performance of this system and accelerate its commercialization. The Hitachi Group plans to use the results of the joint research to expand business in engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of seawater desalinization plants and their operation and management business.

At the signing ceremony held on November 14 at KAU in Saudi Arabia, CEDT Executive Manager Dr. Mohammed H. Albeirutty expressed his hopes for the project, saying, 'This project is an opportunity to blaze a new trail in seawater desalinization plants by leveraging the advanced technology of Hitachi and Hitachi Plant Technologies.' Dr. Koichi Tsuzuki, Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi Plant Technologies, echoed Dr. Albeirutty's sentiment, saying, 'It is our hope that Hitachi's technologies, not limited to the fruits of this joint research project, will contribute to the further development of Saudi Arabia.' Hitachi and Hitachi Plant Technologies will continue to hold discussions with KAU on expanding their areas of cooperation.

In recent years, the Hitachi Group has strengthened its presence in Saudi Arabia. In October 2009, Hitachi opened a branch in the Saudi capital of Riyadh to serve as a base for its operations. Hitachi Plant Technologies became the first Japanese company to sign a corporate procurement agreement (CPA) to supply and service compressors for oil-and-gas plants with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) in June 2011 and in June 2012, established Hitachi Saihati Engineering Services Co., Ltd. to provide industrial equipment maintenance services.

In January 2013, Hitachi Plant Saudi Arabia Co., Ltd. (provisional name) will be established as a joint venture with the El Seif Group to provide social and industrial infrastructure construction and engineering business. The Hitachi Group considers this joint research agreement with KAU as an important milestone in building-up ties with Saudi Arabian research organizations for providing solutions to regional needs through locally-led initiatives research and development.

About Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 320,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2011 (ended March 31, 2012) consolidated revenues totaled 9,665 billion yen ($117.8 billion).

Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes information and telecommunication systems, power systems, industrial, transportation and urban development systems, as well as the sophisticated materials and key devices that support them. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at

Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd.

Hitachi Plant Technologies, Ltd. - Supporting Infrastructure with Environmental and Energy-Saving Technologies - is a member of the Hitachi Group. Harnessing its engineering capabilities, Monozukuri (manufacturing) skills and project expertise, Hitachi Plant Technologies offers total solutions for social and industrial infrastructures.

The core businesses of our group mainly comprise Social Infrastructure Systems (pumps, compressors and water treatment systems), Industrial Systems (mechatronics, and chemical and pharmaceutical plants), Air Conditioning Systems (industrial and building facilities) and Energy Systems (nuclear and thermal power plants construction). For more information on Hitachi Plant Technologies, please visit the company's website at

Contact: Hitachi, Ltd.

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New Boutique Business Consulting Firm Firebird International Sets To Become Leader In Digital Content Sales, PR and Marketing Solutions In Russia and C.I.S.
[January 21, 2013]

New Boutique Business Consulting Firm Firebird International Sets To Become Leader In Digital Content Sales, PR and Marketing Solutions In Russia and C.I.S.

(PR Web Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) New York, New York (PRWEB) January 21, 2013 Firebird International, which offers investment, sales, and expedited registration in addition to its core suite of services for companies expanding to Russia and the C.I.S. and., is actively seeking clients who produce high-quality generalized and niche content to sell for international broadcast and digital distribution. The company already represents studios, content provisoners, aggregators, and distributors and markets, for clients, 100,000 plus hours of films, tv shows, adult entertainment, and music from over 100 studios. It sells the content with and without associated technology products on behalf of its clients to Russia and C.I.S.-based partners including television and cable networks, IPTV services, telecoms, streaming media Web sites, and local media re-sellers.

Firebird, via its own studios in the region, provides same-day, inexpensive, professional content dubbing and closed-captioning services in Russian and all other regional languages as well as digital translation for interactive content and gaming platforms. Goldstein, who has been one of the first to facilitate the sale of media in the region for companies including Time Warner, Disney, MTV, Nickelodeon, Fox, National Geographic and more, wants to see Firebird become the top provider of easy-access digital content to Russia and the C.I.S. The company is currently developing an online B2B marketplace for real-time sales to registered buyers. "Many of the larger studios," says Goldstein, "have only recently begun to feel comfortable selling broadcast content in Russia. Now, all of a sudden, they need to be able to sell the content across several platforms, and in many countries, as, with the expansion of accessible technologies, the demand for content is exponentially increasing." Recent reports from Price Waterhouse Coopers note Russia's unprecedented recent jump in ranking among content buyers and predict it will be the third largest market in the world for content by 2015. "A lot of the content now being demanded," says Goldstein, "is digital content, purchased by streaming and gradual download Web sites, IPTV networks, and telecoms. However, as traditional, Russia and C.I.S. broadcast networks are converting to digital and trying to compete on the Internet, they too are scrambling for distribution rights and dubbed or close-captioned digital content. When original rights were given, rampant digital technology expansion across countries was not taken into account for, so we see a lot of studios left to sort out what content their partners do and do not have exclusive rights to. As the region has more and more entertainment hungry mouths, across eight time zones, to feed, every day, we are hoping that even companies with existing operations will come to us to let us help sort out legal parameters and market content for optimal sale in the most productive manner as we expand and ready for the launch of the on-line platform, that should help to once and for all simplify these transactions and allow for more steady, real-time fulfillment of market demand and provide steady revenues." Firebird, through its clients and partners, also has the ability to sell the content directly to consumers in Russia and the C.I.S. via iTunes and similar platforms and offers digital provisioning capabilities for companies that need them. "Essentially, we provide a very full service package for quality content providers of all sorts, with varying goals and interests, looking to gain and expand market presence." Firebird is dedicated to not only working with established brands but helping smaller producers get their products formatted, translated and monetized in the region. Goldstein says, "We are not only willing but very eager to represent promising new production companies, of all sizes, and help them build brands and make more money faster to build national operations. We have gone through this sort of scenario many times before, and it really makes a lot of sense. Why try and push your way into hugely saturated markets still dominated by the major studios when there are markets with equal to or more spending power, significantly higher demand, and less brand awareness Also, we can help make an unknown US or European brand into a Russia and C.I.S. sensation very quickly, allowing clients to gain added income from merchandising and co-branding agreements." For newer companies, and those just entering the market, Firebird provides turnkey local marketing and PR services to complement sales and a suite of other services, including brand registration and quick facilitation of intellectual property rights.

Please click on this link to see studios from which you may purchase digitized content available through Firebird. If you would like detailed, current lists of available content from any studio or if you or your company are interested in purchasing such content or are interested in selling through us, or being included in the several broadcasting systems and B2C sales platforms we represent, please write to contact(at)firebirdinternational(dot)com.

ABOUT FIREBIRD INTERNATIONAL Firebird International was founded in 2012 by a group of young business consultants specializing in media and technology across specialty markets. The company specializes in direct and indirect investment in US and European tech companies looking to launch regional operations, direct sales of content and technology to regional buyers, and fast-track help with registration, patenting, licensing, and obtainment of intellectual property rights. Other services include: 1. Political and Market Risk Analysis 2. Technology Patenting and Licensing 3. Trademark and Intellectual Property Registration 4. Customs' Registration and Facilitation 5. Marketing Adaptation and Execution 6. Direct Sales, Sales Support, Client Sourcing 7. Local HR, Staff Training 8. Local Technology Conversion and Support 9. Content Dubbing and Closed-Captioning in all Local Languages 10. Relationship Building with Local Governments 11. Registration of Local Affiliate 12. Additional legal support and accounting support services 13. Integration to local payment networks 14. Translation of Marketing and Sales Materials, Correspondence, Legal Materials, Standard, Digital and Audio 15. Real Estate Location and Evaluation 16. Creation of Local Partnership Networks 17. Localized PR 18. Technology R&D Services 19. Investment Guidance 20. Merchandising, Added-Value Co-branding, Events and Experiences 21. Guaranteed local integration in iTunes and other monetizable other content distribution systems.

22. Quantitative and Qualitative Market Analysis.

Please address press enquiries to Brian Hutchins at brian(at)firebirdinternational(dot)com.

If you are interested in becoming a client or investor, or would like detailed break-out lists of content on offer, please write to us

Contact Information US: 1-800-593-4346 UK: +442085880608 Read the full story at (c) 2013 PRWEB.COM Newswire

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Carbon Design Systems Posts Sixth Consecutive Year of Growth Fueled by Expanded Solutions Offerings
[January 22, 2013]

Carbon Design Systems Posts Sixth Consecutive Year of Growth Fueled by Expanded Solutions Offerings

(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ACTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/22/13 -- Carbon Design Systems™ ( announced today that it closed calendar year 2012, recording its sixth consecutive year of growth as more companies recognized the need for virtual prototypes with a path to accuracy.

The growth can be attributed to 14 new customers, fueled by the adoption of Carbon Performance Analysis Kits (CPAKs), pre-built, easily extensible virtual prototypes introduced in May, and a $4 million investment from Samsung in September.

"2012 was a breakout year for Carbon in multiple ways," comments Rick Lucier, Carbon's president and chief executive officer (CEO), who cites a number of factors, including Samsung's investment and partnership that enabled new technology developments. "Additionally, we've seen a strong uptick in demand from design teams seeking virtual prototypes with a connection to accuracy. Our 100% accurate models give us the unique capability to solve this growing demand, while also offering the capability to execute that same virtual prototype at the speeds needed by software developers." Samsung's strategic investment has been used as working capital and supports Carbon's ongoing development of leading tools in the electronic system level (ESL) design space, including its fast, accurate virtual prototypes.

CPAKs, packaged with bare-metal and O/S software to enable rapid user productivity, cut the time needed to be productive with virtual prototypes to minutes. More than 30 CPAKs are available from Carbon's IP Exchange web portal ( and feature intellectual property (IP) cores from Carbon partners ARM, Arteris, MIPS and Cadence.

About Carbon Design SystemsCarbon Design Systems offers the industry's only unified virtual prototype solution along with the only solution for accurate IP model creation. Carbon virtual prototypes can execute at hundreds of MIPS and with 100% accuracy to enable application software development, detailed architectural analysis and secure IP model distribution. Only Carbon provides a solution which delivers a trusted path to accuracy. Carbon's customers are systems, semiconductor, and IP companies that focus on wireless, networking, and consumer electronics. Carbon investors include Samsung Venture Investment Corporation and ARM Holdings. Carbon Design Systems is headquartered at 125 Nagog Park, Acton, Mass., 01720. Telephone: (978) 264-7300. Facsimile: (978) 264-9990. Email: Website:

Carbon Design Systems is a trademark of Carbon Design Systems Inc. Carbon acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services.

For more information, contact: Bill Neifert Vice President of Business Development Carbon Design Systems (978) 264-7302 Email Contact Nanette Collins Public Relations Carbon Design Systems (617) 437-1822 Email Contact Source: Carbon Design Systems

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Silver Spring Networks shares up sharply in first day of trading
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Silver Spring Networks shares up sharply in first day of trading

Mar 13, 2013 (San Jose Mercury News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- REDWOOD CITY -- Silver Spring Networks, one of the leading companies in the highly competitive "smart grid" space, celebrated its long-awaited IPO Wednesday.

CEO Scott Lang rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange, and shares of the company were up sharply in the first hours of trading.

The company, largely backed by Foundation Capital, announced late Tuesday that it was making 4.75 million shares available -- 1 million more than originally planned -- due to high demand from investors and an oversubscribed IPO. It priced the IPO at $17 a share, which means it raised $81 million.

"This was a really wonderful milestone," said Lang in an interview from New York. "Our investors see the size of this market." Lang said that there was a lot of "high quality" demand from investors, and the decision was made to make an additional 1 million shares available to satisfy "some of" that demand.

At 7:30 a.m. PST, shares of SSNI were trading at more than $21, up more than 23 percent.

The Redwood City-based company first filed for an IPO in July 2011, and as the months passed many questioned whether the company would be able to pull it off. The company had originally hoped to raise $150 million; in its Feb. 26 prospectus, the company said it would offer just 3.7 million shares and raise $63 million.

Silver Spring Networks was founded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 2002 and provides the hardware, software and services that allow the smart grid to function. It has inked deals with several leading utilities, including PG&E and Baltimore Gas & Electric. The smart grid market is booming internationally in Brazil, Germany, China, South Korea and elsewhere.

The Department of Energy and the nation's leading utilities are eager to make the electric grid more reliable, secure and efficient, from the power plant and transmission lines to homes and offices. Silicon Valley's telecommunications and software expertise have been key to these efforts. Other smart grid startups in the Valley have been acquired, including San Mateo-based eMeter, which was purchased by Siemens in 2011.

But the deployment of smart meters in the United States has slowed as federal stimulus dollars have dried up.

A small but vocal group of consumers in Northern California, Maine and elsewhere have voiced concerns about privacy and perceived health effects of smart meters, and in some jurisdictions have demanded the right to "opt-out" of having smartmeter devices installed at their homes.

In its early days, Silver Spring Networks tried to raise money from investors in the Midwest with no luck. That changed when its executives had a meeting with Foundation Capitol in Menlo Park, which was keen to invest in companies that were improving energy efficiency from the demand side.

Silver Spring Networks moved to Silicon Valley, and Foundation's Raj Vaswani became the company's chief technology officer. The company is also backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Northgate Capital Partners, and Google (GOOG) Ventures.

Contact Dana Hull at 408-920-2706. Follow her at

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BCE announces James Prentice resignation from its Board of Directors
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BCE announces James Prentice resignation from its Board of Directors

(Canada Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) MONTRÉAL, May 21, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ - BCE Inc. (TSX: BCE) (NYSE: BCE) today announced that the Honourable James Prentice, PC, QC, has resigned from the Boards of BCE and Bell Canada.

"On behalf of the Board of Directors, I sincerely thank Mr. Prentice for his invaluable service to our shareholders, customers and company," said Tom O'Neill, Chair of the Board.

Mr. Prentice was a Director of BCE and of Bell since July 2011 and most recently served on the Pension Fund Committee. His resignation follows the announcement that Mr. Prentice will seek the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta.

ABOUT BCEBCE is Canada's largest communications company, providing a comprehensive and innovative suite of broadband communication services to residential and business customers under the Bell and Bell Aliant brands. Bell Media is Canada's premier multimedia company with leading assets in television, radio and digital media, including CTV, Canada's #1 television network, and the country's most-watched specialty channels. To learn more, please visit

Bell Let's Talk is a national charitable and awareness program promoting Canadian mental health with national anti-stigma campaigns, like Clara's Big Ride for Bell Let's Talk and Bell Let's Talk Day, and significant Bell funding of community care and access, research, and workplace initiatives. To learn more, please visit

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The Elephant in the Room: What's the Scoop on Hadoop

By Paula Bernier, Executive Editor, TMC  |  October 15, 2012

This article originally appeared in the October 2012 issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY.

Big data is one of the hottest catch phrases in information technology today. The term expresses the existence of the large, and growing, collection of information amassed by many organizations. That may involve both structured and unstructured data.

Conventional wisdom would lead you to believe that the more data and data types are involved, the more expensive and complex it is to analyze data. But that’s not necessarily so, says Jack Norris, vice president of marketing at MapR.

In fact, he says, Google (News - Alert) is leading the way on new thinking that simple algorithms work better than more complex ones when you have lots of data.

To enable sophisticated but uncomplicated and relatively affordable data handling, and allow organizations to address unstructured data, which is growing faster than Moore’s Law, such leading companies as Amazon and Google are embracing Hadoop.

Hadoop is an open source technology that runs on commodity hardware, and allows users to do compute on disc instead of on network storage – and unnecessarily using lots of network processing, Norris explains, adding that both of these aspects of Hadoop make it more affordable than alternative solutions.

MapR offers an open, enterprise-grade version of the Hadoop distribution. The company has made Hadoop easier to develop, providing full dependability and performance, and also making it more open so you can use standard database files. Thousands of companies from the Internet, retail, financial services, oil and gas, telecom, media and other verticals use the company’s solutions to analyze data from a wide array of sources.

Hadoop and various tools designed to work with it can allow for sophisticated clustering, data mirroring and more. Such functionality can be used in a variety of applications. For example, some companies are using Hadoop to identify anomalies in credit card transactions to identify fraud.

Norris goes as far as to say that Hadoop is changing the face of analytics in organizations today.

Yahoo! and Google were among the early champions of Hadoop, a technology around which a variety of companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR have since built businesses.

Doug Cutting, former Yahoo! engineer and current Cloudera executive, led the Yahoo! work on Hadoop. In fact, Hadoop is named after Cutting’s son’s stuffed elephant.

Google pioneered the use of MapR’s MapReduce, which enabled the fledging search engine to go from nineteenth place in the market to No. 1 in just two years. Norris says Google understood that given the sheer size of content on the web, the company needed to take a different approach. So Google took the cheapest hardware it could find and put small pieces of information on various machines, giving each machine a share of the processing job.

MapReduce, which works on 50 to thousands of nodes, allows users to do massive analysis in parallel, and in the process hides that complexity from the developer, says Norris

All of that makes Hadoop an attractive candidate for cloud deployments. In fact, Amazon has extended its Elastic MapReduce service to include MapR’s Hadoop distribution, which is being offered, sold and supported as a service by Amazon to its customers. MapR will also make its distribution available on Google Compute Engine.

“Hadoop is now central to the big data strategies of enterprises, service providers and other organizations,” according a first quarter 2012 report from Forrest Research.

“Forrester regards Hadoop as the nucleus of the next-generation EDW in the cloud,” the firm added, noting that EMC (News - Alert) Greenplum, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle are all evolving their enterprise data warehousing solutions to Hadoop.

Moves to expand the use cases of what’s possible with Hadoop; allow people to use standard tools like file browers; offer standard database access; and view Hadoop as network storage, are expected to spur even more widespread uptake of this technology, says MapR’s Norris.

IDC (News - Alert) forecasts that the Hadoop ecosystem will be worth $800 million by 2016. Market Research Media Ltd./ says the market for Hadoop-MapReduce will reach $2.2 billion in 2018, becoming the de facto standard for gig data management and business intelligence.

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Bag handler arrest in LAX blasts; patrols continue

LOS ANGELES — Police at Los Angeles International Airport are continuing their stepped-up patrols the day after the arrest of a baggage handler in connection with a pair of small explosions.

No one was hurt when bottles packed with dry ice exploded in secured areas of the airport Sunday night. An unexploded bottle was found Monday.

On Tuesday, police arrested Dicarlo Bennett, a 28-year-old employee for the ground handling company Servisair. He was booked for possession of a destructive device near an aircraft and held on $1 million bail.

Los Angeles Airport Police spokeswoman Belinda Nettles says that the increased patrols will continue at least through today. The greater police presence includes both public areas at all terminals, as well as on the airfield itself.

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Former Cendant chairman gets 12 years, 7 months in prison

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Former Cendant Corp. Chairman Walter Forbes was sentenced today to 12 years and seven months in prison and ordered to pay $3.275 billion in restitution for leading the largest accounting fraud of the 1990s.

In October, a jury found Forbes guilty of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and two counts of making false statements in a massive fraud scheme that cost the travel and real estate company and its investors more than $3 billion. He was found not guilty of a fourth count, securities fraud.

The Cendant case was among the first in a series of corporate accounting scandals that sparked outrage from investors in recent years.

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Karolla Glass, 19, a leader of Brownie Troop 1340, lights the seventh candle, representing Imani, or 'faith,' during a Kwanzaa celebration for the Maumee Valley Girl Scout Council. The program last night at the Maureen Simmons Family Investment Center on Nebraska Avenue featured Girl Scout troops conducting activities based on the seven principles of Kwanzaa: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith. The event included African cuisine, dancing, and crafts.

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Grow Your Professional Network Quickly and Easily

grow your professional network quicklyKnowing how to grow your professional network is a skill that can help your career advance faster than just about anything else.

After all, your network is one of the most valuable assets you have for career success.

People from your network can help you with the challenges of your current job, they can help you to find leads for a new job, and they can help you develop skills and insights to grow as a professional.

Now, you can take steps to make your network even more powerful–for you, and for everyone in it.

The secret is hiding in plain sight. It will seem obvious once I point it out.

But you probably aren’t actively doing anything about it. Until today.

Let’s relate it to your individual value.

Your individual value

You might already realize that you are probably better off being good at a few different disciplines than really great at just one.

Because mixing skills often leads to more unique and powerful capabilities than deep expertise.

This doesn’t apply to all cases. If you’re a brain surgeon, you will be best off focusing deeply on that discipline.

But it does apply in many cases. Even in some that are surprising.

Who is more valuable to an organization? The great accountant with lots of deep expertise or the good accountant who is also a good marketer and a good project manager?

Even if they are not great at marketing, project management, or even accounting, they might be super valuable because that combination of skills is so strong when combined together. It’s also rare.

Now, let’s look at your network.

Your network value

If your network is a bunch of people in the same industry, the same job function, and the same geographic area, you will have great success in many ways.

But you will also be limited.

What if you expanded your network to include different groups of people?

Maybe you’re in IT and active in a related professional network. You could keep expanding your circle in that area.

Or you could join a group of marketers. With that one change you can now gain insight, perspective, and help from groups in very different disciplines.

You can also contribute a lot to each group by crossing paths in this way.

The IT expert can offer a lot of great insight and expertise to the marketing group. The marketing expert can offer a lot to an IT group.

A lot of value is added to both groups through your participation.

And it gets even better.

Professional network growth

Not only do the two very different networks benefit directly from your participation, but you also just linked the networks together.

By establishing connections into two different networks, you become able to connect more people from different disciplines. Eventually, they can connect with each other and strengthen the links between the networks.

If you do this just a few times, the value you create can become enormous.

Think about linking into three, four, five, or more different networks. What might that do to your ability to learn, leverage, and lead?

What might that do for many people in all of those different groups?

Probably a lot of good stuff.

Get out there, strategically

A strong professional network is a valuable asset. As you move through your career, you become able to lean on different people for help, insight, and professional connections of all sorts.

By taking some deliberate steps to link into a more diverse set of networks, you can exponentially increase both what you can offer to everyone and what you can gain. At the same time, you will be increasing the value to all of the networks themselves.

A little bit of initiative can go a long way. And it can pay dividends for many years.


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2018 Dog License Form

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Did you know that Toquerville Dogs are required to be licensed in the city?  Click to view form HERE

Here are the licensing fees:

DOG LICENSING FEES: No license shall be issued until payment of the following applicable annual license fee(s) with proof of current vaccinations:

First 2 dogs (each):

Female dog                                 $22.00

Male dog                                     $22.00

Spayed or neutered dog             $10.00

Third dog                                     $25.00

Fourth dog                                   $30.00

Late fee (in addition to above)     $20.00

Replacement of lost tags              $ 5.00

A. Required: All dogs must be licensed each year.

B. Time Limit To Obtain: Any person owning, possessing or harboring any dog shall obtain a license for such animal within thirty (30) days after the dog reaches the age of six (6) months, or in the case of a dog over six (6) months, within five (5) days of acquisition of the dog.

C. Application: License application must be submitted annually to the city office, utilizing a standard form which requests the name, address, telephone number of applicant; breed, sex, color and age of dog; and rabies information. The application shall be accompanied by the prescribed license fee and by current rabies vaccination certificate. Rabies vaccination shall be current and given by a licensed veterinarian.

D. Fees: License fees shall be due and payable at the time of submitting the license application required in this section. The fees shall be as established and may be amended from time to time by resolution of the city council.

E. Effective Date: The license shall be effective from the date of purchase through the end of December of the same calendar year. The new license must be purchased between January 1 and the end of February, after which a late fee shall be imposed.

F. Kennels: Any person owning, possessing, maintaining or caring for four (4) or more dogs and/or cats over the age of four (4) months shall constitute operation of a kennel and shall be required to pay the kennel license fee. Any person having two (2) or more dogs and/or cats for the purpose of breeding and selling pedigreed offspring shall constitute operating a kennel and shall pay the required kennel fee, which is as established and as may be amended from time to time by resolution of the city council. Any person having over five (5) dogs and/or cats shall constitute boarding and shall not be permitted in residential zones, nor within two hundred feet (200') of residential zones. (Ord. 2015.03, 6-11-2015)

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Posted on 24 January 2004  - 12:00

Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) Football Club is located in North London. The club is also known as Spurs. Tottenham's home ground is White Hart Lane. The club motto is Audere est Facere (To dare is to do).

Manchester City have lost one David and gained another but we won't face either of them on Sunday.

Instead, with recently recruited David James cup-tied after playing for West Ham in the competition, youngster Kevin Ellegaard (pictured below) is likely to be between the sticks for the fourth round clash - although City have also recently signed Arni Arason.

There is a little extra interest in Ellegaard because he was with us on trial in the summer of 2001.

Goalkeeping coach Hans recalled: "He was here but at that time he was only 18 and was going to cost us a lot of money. I wasn't impressed enough with him at the time to perhaps spend that money.

"He's still learning his trade, obviously as a youngester he will make mistakes and it's not been easy for him in a City side that has been struggling.

"He has also been thrown straight into the Premier League, so it's tough for him. We'll see how he copes on Sunday."

England number one James arrived in the transfer window following David Seaman's retirement.

Hans said: "He's the current England number one and for me, as a goalkeeper, he has everything.

"He's known for his decision-making where he's made one or two mistakes but, ability-wise, I think he's probably the best in the country.

"City made a great move to sign him from West Ham and at a great price as well.

"It's a bonus for City having lost someone like David Seaman to then go and get David James in, business-wise, they've done well."

As for Seaman, Hans added: "He's been my favourite goalkeeper for the last 15 years. Mr Consistency.

"He's a nice fella, I met him in the summer when we did a goalkeeping course together at Lilleshall for a week.

"You could see then he was laying the foundations for a career in goalkeeping coaching.

"It's happened a little earlier than expected but one or two injuries and he's decided to call it a day and perhaps concentrate on the coaching side.

"It will be quite hard for him - I can tell him that now. The change from playing to coaching is huge and takes some time to get used to. I took me a year to get used to it."

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Posted on 21 May 2004  - 12:00

Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) Football Club is located in North London. The club is also known as Spurs. Tottenham's home ground is White Hart Lane. The club motto is Audere est Facere (To dare is to do).

Frank Arnesen is looking forward to catching up again with our goalkeeping coach Hans Segers.

Hans started his career at PSV before moving to England but trained regularly with PSV in our close season.

Frank, our new Sporting Director, played for PSV before taking up roles as coach and then general manager.

"I never played with Hans, when I joined PSV he had already left for Nottingham Forest," recalled Frank, who joins us in July.

"But every time he had a break back in England he would come to PSV and train with the squad.

"I used to score loads of goals against him in training! It will be nice to see him again."

But there is s difference of opinion on that subject...

"Nah, you're kidding," laughed Hans. "He's having a laugh. I was always winding him up because he couldn't score. He's pulling your leg."


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Posted on 23 January 2001  - 12:00

Tottenham Hotspur (Spurs) Football Club is located in North London. The club is also known as Spurs. Tottenham's home ground is White Hart Lane. The club motto is Audere est Facere (To dare is to do).

David Pleat has scotched talk linking Tim Sherwood with a return to Blackburn Rovers.

The London Evening Standard ran the story as a back page lead on Monday and the Daily Star and Mail also carried reports on Tuesday.

It is suggested that the Lancashire club are prepared a £1m promotion bonus in a bid to lure Sherwood away from White Hart Lane and it is claimed that Rovers have already had a £3m bid rejected.

Rovers, third in the first division with a game in hand on second placed Bolton, were said to be willing to increase Sherwood’s salary by as much as £7,000-a-week.

But our director of football suspects that the forces of a larger-than-life agent are at work with this bout of speculation.

"We have had no contact at all from Blackburn Rovers," confirmed Pleat. "This looks like a case of a monster, monster agent trying to make monster, monster mischief."


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Most Woodstock residents would agree that we’ve had our fill of winter weather. We’re content to bunker down and enjoy the familiar warmer temperatures as we wait out the week’s dreary weather. But while we plan our trips to the carwash and worry about road salt rusting our paint, we should also take the opportunity to brush up on those winter driving tips we rarely need here in Georgia.

Stay Prepared for Unexpected Winter Weather

  • Keep an emergency roadside kit in your trunk
  • Always travel with snacks and bottled water
  • Stock your car with blankets
  • Keep your gas tank half full
  • Replace tires when the tread wears thin
  • Get your vehicle serviced regularly

Winter Driving Safety Tips

  • driving in winterIf the weather is bad, stay home whenever possible
  • If your vehicle breaks down, stay in the shelter of your car until help arrives
  • Turn on your lights to increase your visibility and make yourself visible to other drivers
  • Don’t use cruise control during inclement weather
  • If the roads are slick, leave an extra 2-3 car lengths between you and the car in front of you
  • Accelerate and decelerate slowly during rain, snow, or sleet
  • Pay close attention to surrounding cars for signs that drivers are losing control of their vehicles
  • Test your brakes before driving on hazardous roads
  • Don’t brake on a hill; if the roads are slick, you are more likely to spin out as you try to reaccelerate
  • Don’t accelerate on a hill, accelerate before reaching the hill and use the car’s momentum to carry you to the top
  • If you lose control of your vehicle, steer into the skid
  • If you get stuck, don’t spin your wheels; turn your wheels from left to right to clear a path and accelerate gently
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Stop by Towne Lake’s Carwash and Detail to wash away the grime, water spots, and road salt leftover from last week’s winter storm.

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Friday, August 31, 2012

Homemade Energy Bars

I've seen (and made) a couple of variations on this basic recipe and they all turned out great.  The main thing to remember is that it's very adaptable and you can add a little more honey or almond butter if it needs to be stickier, or add in some more puffed brown rice if it is too sticky.  You can play with the ingredients and amounts to get it where you need it to be.

  • The cherries are important as they are such a great recovery food for runners.  They add a wonderful sweetness to the energy bars.  Cherries are considered a "super food" because, like many red fruits, they are a good source of vitamins and minerals as well as anthocyanins. Anthocyanins are antioxidants that are responsible for giving fruits their bright red color.  (source) They are also believed to help reduce the oxidative damage that occurs in muscle tissue after a strenuous workout, thus enabling the tissue to recover more quickly. This, in turn, might allow athletes to perform at a higher and more consistent level.

  • Sunflower seeds are rich in vitamin E, which has an anti-inflammatory and cardiovascular benefit. Great fuel on the run.

  • Honey of course provides a natural source of energy.  The organic sugars, glucose and fructose, aid in preventing fatigue during athletic activities.

  • Coconut reduces inflammation and supports tissue healing and repair.

  • Puffed brown rice is rich in important B vitamins, as well as significant amounts of zinc, magnesium and phosphorus. It is an excellent source of the mineral manganese, which is involved in the metabolism of carbohydrates and protein and essential for a healthy nervous system

  • Nut butters provide healthy fat and various vitamins and minerals such as vitamin E, niacin, magnesium, iron, selenium and zinc.  The healthy fat gives me energy and keeps me full longer which is important in a long race.

Okay, so now that we've dissected some of the ingredients, here is the recipe.

  • 1 cup peanut butter, almond or cashew butter.
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup sunflower seeds
  • 2/3 cup dried cherries or 2/3 cup dried cranberries or 2/3 cup raisins or a combination. (I prefer just dried cherries)
  • 3 tablespoons sesame seeds
  • 1/3 cup shredded or flaked coconut
  • 3 cups puffed brown rice cereal
  • Olive oil spray, to grease pan (you can use coconut butter if you prefer)

Spray olive oil in an 8x8 pan to lightly coat, or rub coconut butter all over the pan.
In a large bowl, mix together the peanut butter, honey and vanilla extract until well-combined.
Add the sunflower seeds, dried fruit, sesame seeds and coconut and combine thoroughly with the peanut butter mixture.
Gradually add the puffed brown rice cereal to this.
Firmly press the mixture into the prepared 8x8 pan; you'll need to wet your hands slightly, otherwise the mixture just sticks to them.
Cover and refrigerate for a couple of hours, then cut serve or pack in individual saran wrap or plastic baggies. I wrap in saran wrap and pack in my backpack, running pack or drop bag.  These delicious little bars keeps me energized and feeling good while on a long run or out hiking.  Cut however small or large you like, but I prefer smaller sizes for easier handling.  (about 3in x 3in squares)

Monday, August 27, 2012

Peanut Butter Banana Time

I admit it..I am obsessed with peanut butter. Cashew butter. Almond butter. Sunflower butter.  All kind of nut butters.  I came across this slideshow of healthy ways to incorporate peanut butter (or any nut butter) in your diet and knowing how much runners like their peanut butter, thought I'd share.  Can't wait to try the tortilla, peanut butter, banana and sunflower seed one! I'm thinking this would be a great ultra snack. Easy to make ahead of time and stow in a drop bag or put in a ziploc bag and carry in my pack. I'll use salted instead of unsalted sunflower seeds and have the perfect snack!

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Ultra Training

Not much exciting going on here but thought I'd write a quick post about my training lately.  I feel like I'm just trying my hardest to maintain fitness and gradually up the mileage while trying to get through another record breaking hot summer.  I'm talkin', 85 degrees and humid at 5:30 am hot.  Blech.  So I've been getting up early or running late and have been hovering around 32 miles per week.  This week it goes up to 40 mpw and keeps increasing after that to a peak week of 56 mpw.  My training is focused on Whispering Pines 50K which is October 13th, and will then shift to Rocky Raccoon 50 mile in February.

Food is one of the most important components of training for me and I'm eating as many fresh, organic fruits and vegetables as I can get my hands on.  Still drinking a big green smoothie every morning for breakfast loaded with hemp & pea protein, greens, carrots and fruits along with some Matcha green tea powder, coconut flakes and chia seeds.  My recovery is definitely much quicker now that I've started incorporating the smoothies, maybe I wasn't getting enough of something before?  Lunch is typically leftovers from the night  before heated up (roasted chickpea tacos, black bean soft tacos, stuffed quinoa peppers etc) and dinner is often poached eggs with toast or an egg sandwich.  I also try to eat snack foods that are anti-inflammatory such as pineapple for the bromelain or cherries and a handful of nuts.

Next week I start boot camp and I've also begun doing lunges and squats along with some hand weights daily.  I love fall and all of the promise that it brings! Being so close to the fall season motivates me to get my butt out of bed and step up the training.  Not that I'm counting or anything--but the autumnal equinox just HAPPENS to be 38 days away...although Oklahoma weather seldom corresponds to dates and times much. BUT, it's coming.  :)

Now that I've started running ultras, for me the main thing is getting through the training still healthy and stronger.  It's so easy to burn yourself out or get injured during the long months of training and high mileage and I feel like I'm getting better with the balancing act but only by staying very in tune to my body and adjusting when I need to.

Would love to hear from other runners on what they do during training that helps them get stronger and keeps them healthier!

Friday, August 10, 2012

Oklahoma Wildfires And Clear Bay Trails

Oklahoma is struggling right now..struggling with record breaking heat, drought and wildfires.  Last week there was a devastating wildfire just east of where I live that destroyed many homes, killed one person and did a massive amount of damage both to property and to nature.

We were watching the news anxiously because the fires were so close to friends homes and to Clear Bay trails which is where I love to run more than anywhere else.  The heroic firefighters managed to save a number of homes that were in danger and they managed to save the Thunderbird Horse Stables as well as all of the Clear Bay area, including my trails.  The fire came right up to the edge of the trails on two sides and as much as I love that area out there, I will never take it for granted again!  When I was so worried that it might all burn I was thinking about what a precious resource it is and how long it would take to regenerate and regrow the area and knew it would take many many MANY years and so many wild animals would have been displaced.  It would of just added to the tragedy if such a great outdoor space had been lost.
Pyrocumulus cloud formed from all of the smoke

My brother was out fighting the fires there and he said that deer were running all over the area wild-eyed, not knowing which direction to go with all the of the fire and firefighters all over their home.  I'm happy that they still have the Clear Bay/Little River areas to live and that I still have a place to go to run and to see them...I see more deer out there than anywhere I've ever been, sometimes I see as many as up to 20 deer in one evening!

Dave and I drove as close as we could get to the fire and I wanted to share my pictures was horrific to see, knowing how much damage it was causing to all of the homes and lives out there.

Donations and volunteers at Noble Fire Department. Great community!

Pray for rain!   Earthquakes, wildfires, tornadoes, ice storms and blizzards...Oklahoman's are tough, but I wish we could have a mild year where we don't need to be tested quite so much.

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Final Pineville Light Rail Alignment Expected Soon
The Metropolitan Transit Commission is expected to choose a final alignment for the Charlotte-Pineville light rail line in the Spring. Three alignments are being considered in the immediate Pineville area. About 70 percent of the line north into Charlotte will follow the Norfolk Southern and former Southern Railway "OLD R Line" rights of way. The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) plans to build the $331 million line in 2003, with service beginning in 2005. Meanwhile, CATS will apply for federal funds in February for half of cost of buying land and preparing the final design for the line.

A decision is expected by April on fast tracking a regional rail transit line between Davidson and Charlotte on the Norfolk Southern rail line. If approved service would begin in 2003 when a major reconstruction of I-77 is underway in Northern Mecklenburg County.

Service would run between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m., and 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. weekdays. Major Investment Studies (MIS's) are continuing on four transit corridors in Charlotte. Alignments and modal selections (light rail, regional rail, busway) are expected by this Fall.

After being subjected to the "Rail is No Good" rhetoric of roads proponent Wendell Cox in 2000, the Charlotte area is now hearing from the other end of the spectrum. The local North Tryon Development Corporation is proposing heavy rail lines be built linking Charlotte with Gastonia, Concord, and Monroe at a cost of $100 million per mile. The NTDC says numerous neighborhood light rail lines, commuter rail lines and monorails for South Park and University City should be built be built in the Charlotte area over the next 50 years.

If you're interested in keeping up the fast and furious activity of late on transit in Charlotte log on to CATS web site or Citizens for Efficient Mass Transit website at

The trend toward increased rail and transit services continues to build. At Rail Volution in Denver last Fall Assistant Secretary of Transportation Eugene Conti updated attendees on conditions which continue to fuel the fire. Conti says 22 million new jobs have been created over the last decade , and budget surpluses have been experienced back to back in fiscal years 1999-2000. At the same time transit ridership nationally increased 25 percent from 1995 to 2000, and transit miles traveled are now growing faster than vehicle mile traveled (VMT's). 6 Billion dollars are in the nation's transit budget for fiscal year 2000-2001. Almost 2 billion dollars are expected to flexed from highway accounts.

February, 2001