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The Nepalese Mountain Lobuche peak which lies close to the Khumbu glacier. There are mainly two peaks, Lobuche far easr & Lobuche east. At 6145 Meters, Lobuche East is 26 meters higher than another. Between the two peaks is a long deeply notched ridge. The first records ascent of Lobuche was in 25 April 1984. Fee Structure for Group:

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Itinerary Outline:

Day 01:- Arrival in Kathmandu transfer to Hotel- 1350m
Day 02:- Full day Kathmandu valley sightseeing-1350m
Day 03:- Kathmandu to Lukla by flight& Trek to Phakading-2610m
Day 04:- Phakding to Namche Bazar- 3440m
Day 05:- Rest/acclimatize day in Namche Bazar-3440m
Day 06:- Namche Bazar to Tengboche-3860m
Day 07:- Tengboche to Dingboche- 4410m
Day 08:  Rest/Acclimatize day in Dingboche-4410m
Day 09:- Dingboche to Phiriche-4240m
Day 10:- Phiriche to Lobuche-4910m
Day 11:- Lobuche Rest/acclimatize day- 4910m
Day 12:- Loboche to Base camp-5290m.
Day 13:- Rest/Acclimatize day- 5290m.
Day 14:- Lobuche Base camp to High camp-5430m
Day 15:- Summit to Lobuche 6119m. & Back to Base camp- 5290m.
Day 16:- Base camp to Phiriche-4240m
Day 17:- Pheriche to Tengboche-3860m
Day 18:- Tengboche to Jorsalle-2830m
Day 19:- Jorsale to Lukla-2840m
Day 20:- Lukla to Kathmandu fly out-1350m
Day 21:- Rest day in Kathmandu -1350m
Day 22:- Final departure from Kathmandu.

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ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Canada’s public safety minister says the federal government is anxious to legalize marijuana by next summer despite police services saying there’s zero chance they’ll be ready.

Ralph Goodale said Wednesday the Liberals just announced $274 million over the next five years to help with police training and fight the involvement of organized crime.

On Tuesday, police from Ontario, Saskatoon and the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police told the Commons health committee that they need more time. They say they require an extra six months to a year for proper police training and public education — without which organized crime will flourish.

Goodale said Wednesday the government will listen to that feedback but has set out a timetable that he says is reasonable. The Liberals have pledged pot will be legal in Canada by the summer of 2018.

“This is a large transformative initiative. When you bring forward that kind of measure obviously it challenges people to meet the objectives but the timeframe is a solid one. The deadline is 10 months away or 11 months away. There’s time there to move forward,” he said as he headed into the final meeting of a two-day federal cabinet retreat in St. John’s, N.L.

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The police officials told the committee they need more time to properly train officers about the new laws and more than double the number of police officers who are certified to conduct roadside drug impaired driving testing. There also needs to be more time for public education, the police said.

Rick Barnum, the OPP’s deputy commissioner for investigations and organized crime, said the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police officially wrote to the government this week to request a delay.

“If legislation is ready to go July 2018, policing will not be ready to go August 1,” Barnum told the committee, which is meeting this week to study the federal marijuana legislation. “It’s impossible. The time, the damage that can be done between the time of new legislation and police officers ready to enforce the law in six months or a year can make it very, very hard to ever regain that foothold.”

The police also want Ottawa to reconsider allowing individuals to grow up to four of their own marijuana plants because it will be difficult and expensive to enforce and provide an additional way for young people to get access to pot.

“Obviously we will take all of the testimony that will be offered to the parliamentary committee into consideration. That’s what the hearings are for,” Goodale said Wednesday. “We’ll listen very carefully to what all of the expert advice has to say. But the government has put some very substantial resources on the table to make sure the goals can be reached.”

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The modern Kabbalafornia is filled with degenerates who generally have the misplaced belief that they live at the epicenter of “innovation,” when in reality they are part of the world’s leading perversion incubator. One of the more recent mass derangements to gain popularity has been gender confusion, though it is more commonly referred to by the jewish-run media as “transsexualism” or “gender fluidity.” In healthier times, this condition was called insanity if self-inflicted, and child abuse if encouraged among the young.  redictably, the transition of this disgusting practice from being widely acknowledged as an abomination, to publicly celebrated was pioneered by the jews; (((Magnus Hirschfeld))) was an aggressive advocate of legalizing all sorts of abhorrent sexual behavior, and conducted early sex reassignment surgeries in Weimar-era Germany.  The kosher campaign to normalize this practice has accelerated in recent days, with California beginning to offer “camps” where children as young as four years old can be sent for indoctrination and brainwashing about how they should make permanent, life-destroying decisions to change their sex, and resign themselves to a lifetime of dependency, despondency, and crippling mental and physical mutilations.

In some ways, the Rainbow Day Camp is very ordinary… At check-in each day, campers make a nametag with their pronoun of choice… Some change their names or pronouns daily, to see what feels right.”

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The camp in the San Francisco Bay Area city of El Cerrito caters to transgender and “gender fluid” children ages 4 to 12, making it one of the only camps of its kind in the world open to preschoolers, experts say.”

Healthy societies do not have “gender fluid” camps for four-year-olds. There used to be serious consequences for corrupting the youth, purportedly involving cups of hemlock. This is an ancient tradition that, in light of current events, may need to be revisited.

A decade ago, this camp wouldn’t have existed. Eventually, I do believe, it won’t be so innovative,” camp founder Sandra Collins said. “I didn’t know you could be transgender at a very young age. But my daughter knew for sure at 2.”

Even as recently as a decade ago, what passes for “people” in California had not lost their collective minds to the point of tolerating a transsexual indoctrination camp for children. If the nation-wreckers have their way, the next unthinkable perversion they’re going to foist on a society that has no soul will be so “innovative” that teaching four-year-olds to have sex changes will look downright normal. In fact, the detestable camp founder provides us with a hint about the dark future that awaits with her belief that a two-year-old has the requisite life experience, mental development, and cognitive capability to make the informed decision to be a transsexual. Moral bankruptcy, debauchery, and idiocy: the consequences of trusting the rabbinical nonsense about gender mutability, despite overwhelming empirical evidence to the contrary.

The favored protocol today is known as the “gender affirmative” approach, which focuses on identifying and helping transgender children to “socially transition” – to live as the gender they identify with rather than the one they were born with until they’re old enough to decide on medical options like puberty blockers and later, hormone treatments.”

The favored protocol is to brainwash the most vulnerable members of society, young children and shockingly gullible low-IQ parents, into believing that biological realities can be subordinated to deranged fantasies. The insane plan is to dress a child up as the opposite sex, repeatedly tell the child that they are of the opposite sex, feign surprise and outrage when any and all sane people notice that there’s something dreadfully wrong, and then use the fact that healthy people won’t accept the disgusting deviancy that has been perpetrated upon the child as a pretext for “medical options” down the line.

The entire revolting transgender movement and these camps in particular bring to mind a different, though likely closely related (((protocol))).  Protocol Number 9 states, “We have fooled, bemused and corrupted the youth of the goyim by rearing them in principles and theories which are known to us to be false although it is by us that they have been inculcated.” We must be ever vigilant against the pernicious, corrupting influence of the jew and the false doctrines he peddles upon his naïve and unsuspecting victims. California failed to do so, and now has a generation of children being taught that trannies are worthy of celebration, and that it is a heroic good to have your reproductive organs excised in exchange for a lifetime of hormone pills and suicide prevention counseling. We must fight the jewish plans to degenerate our race. We must resist White genocide.

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The madness started in San Francisco while I lived there with Heavy Metal Rock´ and its accompanying drug-culture. EVERY member of the bandBig Brother and the Holding Compàny´, founded by a Jew who went under the name of Harvey Noticeable. died no later than age 35 of overdosis of sex, drugs and alcohol. The sex frequently had homosuexual/transsexual overtones such as the `singer´ Janice Joplin who fucked herself to death at age 28 displayed. I KNOW through my then girl friend Serena. whose best friend, became the transsexual lover of a bunch of sado-masochistic scum bags, including… Read more »


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The Hour of Your Death

A new film plays with an idea of life in which humans have a clock on their arm with the time they have left to live decreasing by the passing moment. This is science fiction but it is possible for any individual person to have extensive DNA testing to reveal a picture of likely long term outcomes. For example it is possible to find out whether you have the mutation gene that will mean you will probably develop Parkinson’s disease, as one CEO of a medical technology company discovered. When asked if he would have preferred not to have known he argued that he still felt it was worth it, not least because he discovered other things that were important for his children to know, that might mean they could avoid some dangers.

If we were asked, would we prefer to know the moment of our death, how would we answer? Would that knowledge enable us to live life better in the meantime or would we be unable to enjoy the moments we had? Perhaps the Church pews, synagogue and other places of worship would be fuller as a result.

It could be argued that we live in an imaginative space. In that space we pretend we are immortal, that we can never die and that life will go on indefinitely. Is this unreasonable? Surely we cannot live life while constantly thinking about the end of days. We must attend to the experience of life that we have. However, do we kid ourselves we will never die, and hide away from that reality?

Religions have sometimes been accused of feeding a pretence, with the promise of eternal life, heaven or rebirth. But that is not a full picture. Religion is full of reflections on the harder experiences of life. In Buddhism, for example, the recognition of impermanence, suffering and death, and the exercise of detachment are seen as necessary stages of development. In the Hebrew scriptures (the Christian Old Testament) a glance at the psalms show reflections of a much more realistic encounter with the realities of life (for instance see Psalm 17 or 140). Here we hear the prayers of the ancient Israelites, much read throughout the ages, perhaps because they seem to capture the experience of the struggle of life, as well as hopes for the future. These sources provide consolation, say the things we may find hard to say, and perhaps offer some hope to face the impossible challenges life may present us.

What all of the religions point to is a need to prepare spiritually to face the ultimate questions life throws at us, but also to be mindful and attentive to the present moment. In Buddhism this is captured by the idea of mindfulness. In Christianity there is a sense of the importance and sanctity of each moment of life that we have. Somehow a balance must be struck between living life to the full and preparing to meet the challenges of life and the transition to whatever there might be after this life.

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FORT COLLINS -- Colorado State's volleyball team was picked second in preseason polling of Mountain West coaches, placing right behind San Diego State.

The two teams shared the conference title a year ago, but while the Rams lost four starters from that squad, the Aztecs return all-conference setter and preseason player of the year Johanna Fouch, along with another preseason pick, outside hitter Raegan Shelton.

Colorado State setter Deedra Foss was also named to the preseason all-conference team.

Rams head coach Tom Hilbert said the selection, which came with two first-place votes, speaks to the tradition of the program. This is the 15th year of play for the Mountain West, and the Rams have won 10 of the 14 titles and have now received a first-place vote in each of the preseason polls.

San Diego State received nine, but Hilbert said in a release he feels there are five legitimate contenders for the crown. The voting backs him as the four teams behind the two favorites -- UNLV, newcomer Utah State, New Mexico and Fresno State -- were all separated by five points, totaling 70 to 65.

Hilbert feels every match will be a battle, and for Colorado State to win a fifth straight title, they'll have to sweep at Moby Arena and at least split on the road.

"With our history, we bring out the best in every team, and it may be even more so this year because they're going to see our vulnerabilities," Hilbert said in a release. "Our team has to step up and win our home games, and at least half of our road games if we're going to win the conference. That will be challenging."

Boise State, San Jose State, Air Force and Nevada rounded out the voting, in order. Also named to the preseason all-MW team were Korrin Wild of FSU, Chantale Riddle and Miquella Lovato of New Mexico and Madeline Westman of UNLV.

Colorado State opens the season Aug. 30 at Moby Arena against Baylor at 6 p.m.


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REPS produces many performances each year in the style and tradition of vintage radio theater for the enjoyment of  audiences at REPS  programs along with productions designed for other venues.  These productions feature talented individuals who step before the microphone and bring radio drama alive. Have you ever wanted to play a part in your favorite radio show?  Do you have aspirations to play The Shadow, or recreate the War of The Worlds, Suspense or The Whistler? Or perhaps your interest is more along the lines of Our Miss Brooks, The Great Gildersleeve or another all time great comedy show.
old time radio comedy suspense mysteryIf this sounds exciting to you, you may consider hooking up with the REPS Radio Artists.  The Radio Artists are organized to produce live radio performances for REPS audiences and also for other venues as part of the  REPS Outreach Program.  Combined with music and sound effects, these live performances have been a treat at REPS for many years.
Programs, performed at community venues, have been well received and introduce old time radio and REPS to the general public.  REPS produces a weekly program of old time radio shows on the Radio Theater Channel  called REPS Presents.  On occasion the old time radio offerings will be preempted to allow for the airing of a REPS production. This is always a thrill for everyone involved.
If you have interest in radio acting and sound effects you will have a great time with the REPS Radio Artists.   All are welcome. The Artists are comprised of individuals with varying levels of experience and are organized into three separate production groups ( The Blue, The Red and the Gold ). This approach provides more opportunities for participation and allows for REPS to better serve different types of requests and venues.    The three groups are described below.

The BLUE NETWORK is open to REPS Members who are interested in participating in live performances in the style and tradition of vintage radio theater.  Blue Network Artists are not required to be professional actors and participants come from all walks of life primarily for the fun of participating.  Regardless of skill all are encouraged to participate. Currently the Blue Network is scheduled to perform twice a year for the REPS audience at the St. John United Lutheran Church.

There are other performance opportunities as well, as  occasionally, The Blue Network will perform for small community events or retirement communities.

Of the Three Radio Artists groups, The Blue Network is the only one that meets regularly outside of rehearsals to read scripts which they propose for performance .  In general,  the group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month from 6:30 pm to 8:30 PM. However, dates and times are subject to change so always be certain to check the calendar to receive the most up to date information.

THE RED NETWORK is the main group of Artists utilized for most REPS productions and consists of seasoned stage performers.  The Red network Artists will generally perform quite a  few times a year at highly promoted REPS events and occasionally at larger events in the community. Directors of each production are the ones who select the cast based on Artist availability and also suitability for the role in question.   Red Network Artists are not required to be REPS Members, however, Red Network Artists who are members may receive  preference from the Directors when casting.

Some Red network Artists (who are interested and available)  may also on occasion be asked to lead the Blue Network in an upcoming production.    It should also be noted that there will also be opportunities for individuals in the Blue Network to participate  with the Red Network team.  We like to encourage plenty of crossover when the situation permits.

THE GOLD NETWORK  is not really a separate group of Artists but is the designation given to performers who worked primarily in the Golden Age of Radio but can also include performers who have experience in TV and Stage who generally have an IMDb page, or  are a longtime member of the SAG-AFTRA unions.

Gold performers are the special marquee or featured performers who appear in main-stage performances at REPS Showcase and who may also appear on occasion as special guests at highly promoted and unique REPS events.

  • Appearing most often at REPS SHOWCASE
  • May also be one of the featured performers headlining a Red Network production.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Long-Distance vMotion: Updates

This is an update to the Long-Distance vMotion series I did earlier this year. If you wish to read it all, start with Long-Distance vMotion: Part 1.

The problem with blogging about technology, techniques and architectures is they change. Sometimes that change is rapid, sometimes it takes time over major releases. In a more converged world where multiple components play, they can change quite rapidly.

Since writing my Long-Distance vMotion (LDVM) series, there have been some changes. Here in lies the dilemma, do I go back and change the old articles, or do I post an update like this new entry. I could add a section to the blog with the latest analysis, called Long-Distance vMotion. Part of me feels I should leave old posts unchanged (except correcting typos and erroneous information). The other approach would be changing the old articles preserving search engine entry points that are currently sending people into the articles – they wouldn’t have to go to another place in the blog for the latest updates. I can post-date new entries, I can’t post-date new information. Which is the best approach? Let me know what you think.

Monday, August 29, 2011

vBlocks and FlexPods: is this Coke v Pepsi?

When Cisco came out with their UCS servers, I was impressed. They took the Nexus FCoE switches and modified them into a whole new thing, the UCS: with FCoE, service profiles and an expandable distributed blade server model. What really makes sense is the bottom line, you can save real money by deploying them over traditional blade or standalone servers. They save money with price per port and not having to buy additional switches for every 14-16 servers in a traditional blade enclosure. They simplify rapid deployment of servers. They allow moving workload to new blades without having to rebuild them.

Converged networks suddenly start to make sense with the Cisco UCS. You begin to see Cisco’s master plan in action. It’s not just FCoE in a switch, but a whole system built around best practices: FCoE, boot from SAN, etc. The biggest gain immediately obvious are the service profiles: VMware abstracts servers, service profiles are somewhere in between virtualizing the hardware the VMware is built upon. Firmware, UUIDs, WWPNs, MAC addresses, everything is abstracted. It took things one step farther than HP virtual connect.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Cloud #fail

This is a very brief post on the cloud computing failure of today. I hope to have a guest writer post something better, more lengthy in the future.

I’ve been partaking in some discussions among peers on today’s Amazon EC2 cloud outage – again. I’ve been listening to people say the cloud isn’t ready or is a bad idea. The cloud is the cloud, and continues to be a great decision for a lot of people where it makes sense. The failure people make is in abandoning IT best practices when going to the cloud and going with a single system or provider.

When we design for disaster recovery or business continuity, we usually design in redundant, diverse data paths to the secondary data center with carrier diversity (meaning more than one carrier). When going to the cloud, if you’ve decided to outsource everything, you should continue that diversity with multiple cloud providers and the resiliency to be able to use either. Failure to provide cloud diversity is the same as having one datacenter, you’ve got all your eggs (IT) in one basket.

When going to the cloud, you should either have a hybrid private/public cloud with redundancy, or two public cloud providers with diversity. Those that stray from IT best practices will pay the price – on twitter you’ll get the dreaded #fail associated with your name.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Long-Distance vMotion: Part 3

This is the third part in a multi-part series on the topic of Long-Distance vMotion. Part 1 introduced us to disaster recovery as practiced today and laid the foundation to build upon. Part 2 built out the Long-Distance vMotion architecture with a few different approaches.

There are some limitations and challenges that we must consider when designing LDVM or other workload mobility technologies. If it were too easy, everyone would be doing it. The first area we’ll address is commonly referred to as the traffic trombone.

Traffic Trombone

Understanding what I mean by a traffic trombone requires a bit of visualization. When we have one site, everything is local. My storage is connected within my datacenter, my other subnets are routed by a local router. The path to these devices is very short, measured in meters, so latency is very small. As we migrate VMs to another datacenter, the VMs have moved, but the network traffic and storage traffic continue to go back to their original router and storage controllers, if we don’t add a little extra prevention. When we send a packet or a read/write, it goes back to the original datacenter, gets serviced, then returns back to our new datacenter where we’re now running. That backing and forthing is what we refer to as tromboning, hence the traffic trombone. (My PowerPoint presentation drives this home.) I’ll address this in two parts: network and storage.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Long-Distance vMotion: Part 2

This is a rapidly changing field and there have been new updates. Please see Long-Distance vMotion: Updates for the latest changes.

This is the second part in a multi-part series on the topic of Long-Distance vMotion. Part 1 introduced us to disaster recovery as practiced today and laid the foundation to build upon.

When building out Long Distance vMotion (LDVM), we still need to focus on the same components we focused upon building out disaster recovery. We will take the leap from our recovery time taking 5 minutes to a continuous non-disruptive operation. We’ll need to change our network from two different subnets in two different datacenters, to one stretched subnet. We’ll need to take our mirrored storage and create what I call a single shared storage image. Last, we’ll get rid of Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and replace it with a VMware vSphere split cluster.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Long-Distance vMotion: Part 1

This is the first part in a multi-part series on the topic of Long-Distance vMotion. I am currently architecting and building this out for a few of my customers.

Long-Distance vMotion (LDVM) is the holy grail of business continuity – the ability to migrate workloads across data centers or in and out of clouds with no disruption of service and zero downtime. When I started consulting in the 1990s, after my several years as a software developer, I was a high availability clustering consultant, among other things. Later I architected geographic clusters, but one thing was certain, it was very expensive, complex in architecture and difficult to manage.

Long-Distance vMotion attempts to tackle one issue, that of business continuity. Let’s face it, disasters are rare. I know there are earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, floods and other bad things that happen. In my many years of consulting, these have rarely happened to my customers. I have two customers that have had their storage ruined, each by their own fire suppression system failing and pouring water onto their equipment. These disasters, although rare, do happen. They must be planned for. It’s risk mitigation; a business decision that doesn’t come for free.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

The Empire Strikes Back

I was getting ready to write EMC off, at least in the mid-tier. The Clariion was old-tech, and an old way of doing things. They screamed unified, but it didn’t feel that way. Celerra in the NS/NX felt like a bolt-on. They were expensive, fragmented and difficult to work with.

EMC had been making a number of good buys over the past couple of years. RSA, VMware, Kashya and Data Domain come to mind. Avamar and YottaYotta were lesser-known pieces. When it came to primary storage, however it seemed stale. Then they started showing the cards they were holding.

First came VMAX. They refreshed the Symmetrix line with a modular, scalable architecture. It could grow from something small to something big. But the real changes starting coming with FAST and FAST VP.

Monday, January 17, 2011

I’ve Got The Remote Replication, Single-Storage Image MPIO Blues

There are not a lot of customers I meet that don’t want some form of replication to a disaster recovery/colocation facility. What used to be financially unreachable has come down over 10-15 years to be affordable for most businesses. Remote replication, coupled with VMware or one of the other hypervisors providing server virtualization has made recovery quick, easy and within budget.

So as I look at some of the new storage systems being released lately, I’m scratching my head. Why would an affordable small to medium business mid-tier storage system provide only FibreChannel-based replication – today?

Monday, January 10, 2011

The Storage Evolution Part 2: Deduplication

This is part 2 in the Storage Evolution series.

When we created SANs we stored more and more data retrieved at higher and higher speeds, and it was good. Then we added advanced functionality like creating copies (clones, snapshots, etc.) quickly, and it was good. Then development wanted to have 6 copies of that production database, one for each developer, also test, QA and staging. We needed a daily clone for the data warehouse and business intelligence. We virtualized our servers, we booted from SAN, some of us ditched the desktops and workstations opting for Citrix and VDI. We were making copies of the same data, over and over and over again. And at the 11th hour of the second half of the day, we backed it all up.

And it just got worse.

The Tale of Tape

We had a love/hate relationship with tape. We loved it’s density, it’s streaming speed, we hated its bulk, daily off-site management, library management and load and seek time. But it was cheap, alternatives expensive.


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The main themes for this new work are about light, looking and being seen. It will be developed with a group of performers and a visual describer. I have just made a performance (YAYAYA AYAYAY) about darkness, so this new work is a continuation of that process. For the RDF residency I will develop my practice of glitching through movement and song, to time travel in between visible and invisible worlds and atmospheres. I will bring in a plethora of messy ideas that may or may not belong together; exploring light and its therapeutic qualities, mild tear drops and expansive doom dancing. I will be playing peekaboo with the studio and look at robotic malfunctions. I’m a Libra so I want to work with justice and balancing within the body. I want to work with my gut feelings and to use the mind-gut connection as a creative decision making tool inspired by all that exists but isn’t visible to the open eye, such as hallucinations, dreams and delusions.

 Materials: SAD light, eyes, probiotics, stains, cello.

Artist biography

Louise Ahl is a Glasgow-based artist originally from Sweden, making experimental and choreographic performance work. She creates both solo and collaborative multi-art-form pieces. In 2010 she began making work with her performance persona Ultimate Dancer, who was born as a half-joke/half-critical/wholly-serious attempt to explode and lovingly re-manifest the art form of dance.

Louise’s work exists at the edges of choreography, performance and visual art, working away from narrative based performances, instead making ambitious and detailed thematic concepts for the work to exist in, using movement, voice, light, sonics and language.


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Policy, Federalism, and Regulating Broadband Internet Access

Mar 1, 2001 | Timothy J. Brennan

Following recent telecommunications mergers, local (mostly municipal and county) governments and the federal government are fighting over who should determine whether cable television systems must make their facilities available to unaffiliated providers of high-speed (“broadband”) Internet service. This intergovernmental dispute is only the latest in a series of such clashes regarding competition and communications policy. A brief review of the policy suggests that substantively, local open-access requirements are not yet warranted. However, the economics of federalism, primarily that the relevant markets are local, indicates that local governments should have the right to choose these policies, perhaps erroneously. Federal preemption could prevent learning from multiple independent local “experiments.” The best case for limiting local authority is if it is only the exploitation of opportunistic ability to extract nationwide rents in exchange for approving transfer of the incumbent’s cable franchise to an acquiring firm.Key Words: Federalism, Internet, regulation, vertical integrationJEL Classification Numbers: H1, L5, L1 We find that the welfare change from increasing NHS output could easily be negative, particularly when extra spending is financed by distortionary taxes. In contrast, expanding private health care is always efficiency-improving in our simulations. In our central estimates, increasing private health care by a pound’s worth of output produces an efficiency gain of 55 pence, but increasing national health output produces a net efficiency loss of 32 pence per pound! One reason for these results is that increasing the output of rationed health care has ambiguous effects on the total deadweight losses from waiting costs, but these costs unambiguously fall when the private health sector expands. Financing policies by user fees avoids the efficiency costs of raising distortionary taxes, and it also produces efficiency gains by reducing waiting lists. In fact, increasing national health care output produces an overall efficiency gain in most of our simulations, rather than an efficiency loss, when the policy is financed by higher user fees rather than by distortionary taxes. Still, the policy is generally less efficient than a user fee–financed increase in private health care.


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Welcome To East Devon Riding Academy

Ethical Riding and Horsemanship

info@ridingacademy.co.uk    07771 903220

 Putting Horses and Safety First

We are a pioneering riding school offering a unique approach and ethical learning.

We understand that quite rightly, the demands for better animal welfare are constantly increasing. Outdated teaching methods can be very punishing on the horses, which leaves horse lovers feeling uncomfortable and unfulfilled. Now the world knows so much more about how horses think, feel and learn, this highlights some pitfalls of traditional tuition.

There are an increasing number of people who don't want to kick or hit horses to make them move. Crude communication such as pulling on the reins doesn't help the rider work in a harmonious partnership with the horse and this can lead them to feel like a bully, yearning for a better relationship. When the foundations of skill and knowledge are skipped in favour of ticking off milestones, the near misses and falls increase and confidence gets knocked as safety diminishes.

We offer a choice to people who want to enjoy their hobby without it being at the expense of the horse's welfare. We provide a safer, supportive environment for people to progress and feel happy that they are working together with the horse.

"We pay huge attention to detail in how we care for our horses. Meeting their needs, respecting their individuality and protecting them from harm are at the forefront of our ethos."

We value our clients too and we are happy to work with you to achieve your goals safely and with confidence. We will help you understand how to communicate with the horses kindly and effectively, so you can enjoy your hobby and succeed with your riding, handling or horsemanship. Our services offer you value for money and piece of mind.

We begun offering the opportunity for children to join us for the morning back in 2011. Our many years of experience in the industry helped us to define our Pony Mornings so we could offer children enjoyable, active and educational activities whilst providing parents with value for money and the peace of mind that we would strive to keep their children happy, engaged and most importantly, safe. Our reputation for hosting high quality Pony Mornings rapidly grew, we started with just two for the whole summer holidays and we now run two for every week of every school holiday and half term. Each year we welcome new children but we also have many returning customers, several who are local and some who just visit us once a year when they are on holiday. Some of the children who attend our pony mornings are regular riders and some have never ridden before- all are welcome as we split the group according to experience if necessary.

Some Of Our Services...

Pony Playgroup

"The parent and toddler group in the countryside"

Suitable from walking to four years of age, our renowned Pony Playgroup introduces little ones to the world of horses and the countryside. They have the opportunity to groom a pony, feed the goats, engage and discover in our fields. There is also an option to ride, as we are a rare riding school that accepts small children. If you are looking for an outdoor playgroup in Devon, click

Courses and Workshops

We host several events throughout the year to help adults with different aspects of horsemanship and riding. Our events are here to help horse owners, riders, handlers and horse lovers improve their relationships with their equine partners.

We host leading experts in the fields of training, equine behaviour and modern horsemanship.

Riding Lessons For Adults & Children

"Far more than just following the bum in front"

We specialise in individual lessons or very small groups of family or friends. Rather than a one size fits all approach, our aim is to provide bespoke, high quality tuition that offers our clients safe, enjoyable progression. Sessions can be based on riding, groundwork or horse management. Lessons are also available for children and adults on their own horses.

Firstly, we understand children. We teach 1000’s of them every year! Our teaching methods follow an active learning approach, which keeps children involved by learning through doing, rather than the traditional but less effective way of just telling them what to do. All of our sessions are delivered through age appropriate activities, which enable children to succeed and learn whilst they are having fun. We guide the Pony Morning where appropriate, however we also encourage the children to be part of the decision making and empower them to have the freedom to discover and explore.
Secondly, we understand horses. We spend 1000’s of hours with them every year! The welfare of our animals is a huge passion of ours and we work very hard to look after our horses to a very high standard. This ensures that their health and well being is optimised and they are happy in their jobs, as after all, a happy horse is a safer horse. Our teaching methods do not involve bullying or forceful communication, such as encouraging children to kick or whip animals to make them do what they want. Instead the children are taught humane, respectful handling and riding techniques which keeps them safer and protects the horses from physical and psychological harm. Children absolutely love our kind methods and the harmony and success that they bring.
Thirdly, we understand what parents want. As parents ourselves, we appreciate that safety is a top priority and we structure our activities to minimise the risks involved with being around animals. We offer close supervision, well planned activities and high quality instruction with well maintained, purpose built facilities. We know that you want your children to enjoy their time with us, so we try our best to make this happen and give them a positive experience with lasting, happy memories. Our high standards, ethical horsemanship, fantastic resources and excellent supervision also give superb value for money.

Pony Mornings

Pony Mornings at East Devon Riding Academy are a fun, educational and active experience. For boys and girls, aged from 4-12 years old. All levels of experience welcome as groups are split according to age and ability if required. Children are left with us from 10am-1pm so they can immerse themselves in helping to look after the horses, playing games, grooming and riding.

From complete beginners to horse owners, toddlers to adults-

We can help you with ethical riding and horsemanship.

We offer lessons, school holiday activities, adult workshops and courses.

 On the ground and in the saddle.

Our horses and ponies are much loved and valued members of our team. They live outside in small herds, where they are free to fulfil their innate needs such as grazing, rolling, browsing and socialising. They are fed a natural diet suited to their digestive system, helping them to stay healthy and void of undesirable behaviours caused by inappropriate nutrition.

Their work is strictly limited and varied so that their psychological welfare is optimised. The horses are tacked up immediately before each session and they are never left tied up waiting for long periods. To protect them from discomfort they wear bitless bridles and quality, well fitting saddles. Water is available in the arena at all times and they are allowed to drink whenever they need to during a lesson. We have a team of farriers and vets that support us with their care when required, such as regular dentistry and foot trimming.

Want to book a school holiday activity, course or event?

We Offer The Following Benefits-

  • High Animal Welfare. We care deeply about our horses and strive to offer them the best possible standards of care so they are happy and healthy.
  • Excellent Safety Record. Our high standards of horse care and tuition enhance your safety and we work hard to maintain our excellent safety record.
  • Enjoyment. We aim to help you get the most from your hobby with our beautiful environment, high quality tuition and happy horses.
  • 5* Reviews. We have many 5* reviews on Facebook and Trip Advisor.
  • Purpose Built Facilities. We have a view across the fields to the sea on the Jurassic Coast at Branscombe beach.

Book Now

For riding lessons and pony parties, please contact Natalie for a time and date before proceeding with payment below.

Pony Playgroup, Pony Mornings, courses and workshops can all be booked directly below by selecting the associated date.

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Yacht Club Soda is Still Popping After a Century in Business

With its distinct personality and creative concoctions, the family-owned business is holding its own against the soda giants.
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Photography by Chris Vaccaro

Back in the olden days, Yacht Club Soda, located in North Providence’s Centredale neighborhood, was the obvious pit stop for families before they hit the beach or went to a backyard barbecue on a hot summer’s day. They’d pick up a couple of bottles, put them in a cooler and head to their destination. More than 100 years later, history is repeating itself.

John Sgambato, who is president of Yacht Club Soda and runs the show with his brother and vice president, Michael, says the company has new faces stopping by to grab the sodas. This younger generation is driven by nostalgia for old-fashioned soda pop and the desire to shop small. But while Yacht Club Soda is seeing an uptick in new fans of their fizzy drinks, many may not know that Rhode Island’s official soda is produced in an unassuming building at the furthermost corner of Mineral Spring Avenue, and that it has been bottling bubbly goodness since 1915.

Today, North Providence is a suburban haven of residential homes, restaurants, offices and beyond. Mineral Spring Avenue, named after the natural springs underneath Yacht Club Soda, is bustling with passing cars trying to get to their next stop. It’s hard to imagine what the area around Yacht Club Soda looked like decades back, but Michael paints a vivid picture of Centredale’s not-so-distant past based on his own childhood and tales from his father.

“My father used to tell me about the different shops and attractions they had back in the day in Centredale,” he says. “There used to be a theater, a hardware store, and I even remember buying my Christmas trees here when I was a little boy. You could get anything right here in Centredale. Everything changes, sometimes not for the better.”

While mom and pop stores were once abundant in North Providence, over time, they disappeared. But all is not lost. Michael says more local shops are slowly coming back, pumping life back into the once
vibrant neighborhood. North Providence overall is becoming a “small business hub,” he says.

Yacht Club Soda, meanwhile, has in many ways stayed the same amidst its ever-changing landscape. It was founded in 1915 by a British man named Harry Sharp, who brought the company name from England to Centredale. John and Michael’s grandfather, John Sr., worked for Sharp until he purchased the operations from him in the 1930s. Since then, the family business has been run by three generations of Sgambatos.

Surrounded by an assembly of machines, all from the 1950s, John is where the magic happens. He points to each machine and recites its individual purpose, detailing the intricate process. While the antiques are intriguing, John confesses, and Michael agrees, that this is the biggest challenge they face day-to-day: keeping old machinery running the way it is supposed to. Luckily, they are phasing in newer equipment in the upcoming months.

Twice a week, they start up the old machinery and fill as many as 12,000 bottles each day, which they then distribute to local vendors, specialty grocers and small restaurants throughout Rhode Island. And last November, they formed a partnership with mega-company, McLaughlin Moran, to extend their reach even further throughout the state. But the soda also makes its way beyond Rhode Island’s borders, to the Boston area and even across the country in Oklahoma, California and other states.

With Rhode Islanders swinging by to pick up a pack, and with fans nationwide, what is it that differentiates Yacht Club Soda beverages from your typical Coca-Cola or Pepsi products?

“All of our syrups are made right here with pure cane sugar and natural artesian water from our well that’s underneath the factory floor,” John says.

You will never find any caffeine or high-fructose corn syrup listed in Yacht Club Soda’s ingredients. The highly processed sugar substitute is ubiquitous in the food and beverage industry because it’s much cheaper and sweeter than natural sugars. John also explains that natural mineral water allows for carbonation without cooling towers, which can have negative impacts on Mother Nature.

“Not only is it better for you and better tasting, but it’s better for the environment,” he says.

Currently, they offer twenty different soda flavors and a variety of seltzers and diet sodas, as well as classics like root beer and pale dry ginger ale. But the brothers admit they enjoy getting creative with the mixtures, releasing a new flavor every year: think Yacht Up (lemon lime), quinine tonic, grapefruit and a recent concoction of orange cream. To keep the Rhode Island connection, each bottle and flavor has a corresponding location in the state.

“Every flavor represents a different place. Rhode Island is rich with landmarks and people don’t even realize it,” John says.

There are familiar places like the Cliff Walk on the cola and Watch Hill on the pale dry ginger ale. But it’s also surprising how many are unfamiliar, which proves John’s point.

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Scenes from Yacht Club Soda’s North Providence production facility. Owner Bill and sons Michael and John Sgambato. Photography by Chris Vaccaro.

During the election last year, John was watching the news when he got an idea that would take Yacht Club Soda beyond Rhode Island: He decided to match candidates running for president with the funky flavors. The so-called soda pop poll featured various candidates on the labels. The poll garnered national attention, with many news outlets across the country reporting about the small Rhode Island company.

“We had a lot of success with that, so we’re probably going to do that every election season to keep people involved,” John says.

It is this creativity that keeps the beverage business going, when so many other independent soda bottlers have gone out of business. In 1925, two years after Yacht Club Soda’s current facilities were built, there were seventy-five soda businesses in Rhode Island. Today, only two remain: Yacht Club Soda and Empire Bottling Works in Bristol. Yacht Club was named Rhode Island’s official soda by state legislature in the early 2000s and had its centennial anniversary in 2015.

And Yacht Club doesn’t plan on going anywhere thanks to the current trend of local, local, local.

“More people want to buy quality items that are locally made,” Michael says. “They’re realizing that it’s better for the economy, better for everyone. We’re seeing more young families come in that are happy to talk to somebody that’s actually involved in the process.”

This is not the only change occurring for the company. John walks into the front of the facilities, where customers pick up their bottles, and shows off its makeover. The walls are now made up of crates, and the countertops are formed from a colorful array of bottle caps, some of which are as old as the company. Along one wall are all thirty of Yacht Club Soda’s beverages, illuminating the room with their vibrant hues. John made these changes to the building last year, and hopes to add a few more renovations in 2018.

“This was an idea I had to show off some of our history, and put little permanent pieces of us into the place,” he says.

After all, Yacht Club Soda has proven to be an anchor in the North Providence community, as well as all of Rhode Island, resisting the perils of stormy times by remaining true to itself, stable and strong.

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