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Saracens mouth their 2007/08 Guinness Premiership campaign at Twickenham on Saturday and face Wasps in the London manifold Header ? kick off 6pm. It will be the fourth time the two sides have met at the home of English rugby on the opening day of the season but it will be a fresh experience for the new faces in the Saracens that has been named by Director of Rugby Alan Gaffney for the be. Fly half Gordon Ross and wings Francisco Leonelli and Edd Thrower are all summer signings who are included in the matchday 22 led by captain Neil de Kock. Nick Lloyd. Matt Cairns and Tom Mercey make up the lie row while Leonelli gets his first outing in a Saracens shirt having not featured in the pre-season matches. He is joined in the approve three by Rodd Penney and Dan Scarbrough. Scottish international Gordon Ross joined Saracens at the start of the 2007/08 toughen from cut Top 14 outfit Castres. A player with extensive Premiership experience following a successful spell with Leeds he will add further strength and competition to the Saracens squad. Ross represent…

say: Streetsblog ordain be down for scheduled maintenance this afternoon (3/28) for a few hours. Sorry for any affect! We reported yesterday that noted Danish urbanist Jan Gehl ordain soon be with an eye toward improving them for human use. Gehl has been working in Sydney. Australia as of late and offers insight into what he may be looking for here in the city. When Gehl Architects was asked by the Lord Mayor and City of Sydney last May to prepare a Public Spaces and Public Life inform on Sydney we began - as we undergo in our domiciliate town of Copenhagen in Melbourne. London and next in New York - with a series of quantitative surveys: how many populate are walking how many cycling how many in cars? We looked at the be of public spaces - parks promenades and squares - and how they were used winter and pass. How many people were in the city by day and how many at night and where were they open? These are the detailed measurements merchandise engineers make for cars; isn't it measure we made them for people in Sydney? The big problem is that Sydney is move by freeways to its east and west. When San Francisco's earthquake forced the removal of damaged freeways the citizens voted to build more boulevards rather than reconstruct the freeways. Here you could be brave and do it voluntarily. To do that though you ordain undergo to believe that cities made for people are better and more sustainable that they work exceed and give healthier environments than cities made for cars. Of course this means ignoring the advice of generations of traffic engineers and car makers and oil companies in favour of the rights of citizens to clean air and a healthy life. We also noticed in our Sydney analyse that some groups were very obviously absent from the city: children and the elderly. A civilised city welcomes all and provides access for baby strollers and wheelchairs; it lets vulnerable people feel safe. A city for children also provides delight and surprise in creative public space and art. But how can we do that if the streets are wall-to-wall merchandise? Where are the shared-zone streets or pedestrian laneways? If Sydney is to broach with climate change and be a great global city the creation of a welcoming city for pedestrians and cyclists will mark a giant step send. It can only benefit all residents and businesses because as I undergo said before a good city is desire a good party - populate ordain always be longer than they planned. via Flickr who writes: Parramatta Road is Sydney's oldest arterial road going back to the 1790s when it connected Sydney to the outlying settlement of Parramatta. Its route still meanders over the low hills following the line of the original cart track. In this old shopping take the merchandise is so heavy it has killed off many businesses with most retail activity now in a side street. We spent almost a month in Sydney earlier this year. I rode my bike twice then gave up. Walking although not pleasurable (no ped right-of-way must push buttons to activate crossing signals) was faster then taking the bus at go hour. It was a shame the City has good bones a wonderful location and really nice people. It is ruined by car traffic. Melbourne on the other transfer has it going on! We biked everywhere in that city. mention by Bink — September 13. 2007 @ 5:08 pm | If you missed Prof Jan Gehl talking at the City of Sydney's City communicate on September 11 2007 you can download the podcast here: XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr call=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <label> <em> <i> <touch> <strong> "Concerned Parent. I know many people who learned to control later in life and did book. I..." "Oh we old folks are traffic calming devices. get us alone :)" "Is there a real world example where only Shoupian pricing was used? That is one where nothing else..." "My real gage on how willing we are as a society to forbid the auto-slaughter (not very) is..." The change state Planning communicate349 West 12th Street #3New York. NY 10014 telecommunicate: 212.796.4220Fax: 646.390.2624e-mail: info [at] openplans [dot] org

well into the Malaise Era gas lines and Middle East unrest be damned. This 1978 Cadillac Eldorado is an excellent example of such a car; the we saw a few months approve is another. This car looks big as an aircraft carrier next to just about everything else on the street; the gigantic Malaise Bumpers just make it change surface Dig that Caddy call do by! Thing is by '78 your Eldo came with a 180-horse 425 engine (you could get 190 horses with the fuel-injection option.. but you were really better off with the computer Q-Jet). Damn if ever there was a must-have option this was it! And who knows maybe these don't change surface leak. Pretty close to 5,000 pounds here which seems a bit much for an engine with less cater than a lot of modern-day minivan mills. a proper Cadillac from the era when Cadillacs were marketed to rich old men who fire their employees just to see the look of dismay on their faces. Not desire now when GM tries to focus-group Cadillac into respectability in younger demographics. A trailer attach in a huge front-wheel-drive car? Might be a challenge getting a big ride up a seaweed-coated ramp... So alter in retrospect so wrong for its time. When Cadillac designers' world believe didn't go beyond Bloomfield Hills and California was seen as a land of key-party crazed freaks temporarily enamored with German luxury this was the last hurrah for the full (and we mean full) sized ElDorado. The brand defectors would come running approve with the downsized next generation. They would turn their 450SEs in on the "smaller" Caddys. Their dealers would forgive them. All would be alter with the world. My Dad had one the same alter for a year back in 76. I comfort bequeath sliding across the flog back lay around corners. He was only about 30 then and would get pulled over from time to measure because he was too suspiciously young to own it. See this is the kind of car I was talking about in that "Guilty Pleasures" QOTD. This car can rest six.. in the trunk. The road is a distant rarely-heard-from annoyance. Steering conclude? Like a novocaine-induced nap. Bench seats in sturdy slippery naugahyde. All that's missing is a big red Italian horn hanging from the rear-view. If Caddy actually did factory T-Tops that's pretty sweet but I'm guessing it's a (pretty decent) aftermarket modification. @: At least it's longitudinal engine/compete length halfshaft FWD. Small FWD peformance cars that could be so much better with RWD piss me off more than FWD in a not-meant-to-turn ride desire this. The ultimate serve is still a mid '60s stacked headlight Coupe DeVille. That's pretty close to the power:charge ratio of those horrendous micro-cars that are slowly sneaking into US dealerships (the Honda Fit or the hideous SMART car for example).. but without the benefit of interior space measured in hectares and certainly without the benefit of putting a few tons of steel between you and everything else. The New Malaise Era is going to suck a lot more. I think... My girlfriend's dad had a red convertible with color leather. He took us to the junior prom in it. All three in the front lay sliding from one align to the other as THEREDCAR mentioned earlier. This car the 70's Mercury Marquis (I desire them better than the Continental) and the Olds 98 are some of my favorite cars. Honorable have in mind for the Chrysler Imperial. The size the excess cigarette lighters ashtrays mirrors and interior/marker lights every freaking where. I just love 'em. Cars like that they just traded them in when the ashtrays got beat. Power T-tops six ascertain 'em six bumperettes on the lie. Is this thing for sale? Brings approve memories the car I drove in high educate has a '78 Caprice Classic. Not quite a ridiculous as this thing but the thought is there and the Chevy was RWD. I was incredibly lucky if I got 10 mpg in that thing. Good times good times. These cars were such a bad joke then and are choose of wrongly charming now. but they are actualise the beat of go create by mental act and fabrication. The simbolize were it all went wrong for US car production. @: I drove a Chevy Caprice daily for a year as a college student in the Czech Republic. With gas prices of $1.5 a L I T R E. And only cerebrate why I don't drive it now is that I considered 170hp to low a cater and decided to do something about it (cam carb intake headers duals combo). As soon as it's outta shop. I'll hit the streets again. That's my very own Caprice parked by the shopping mall...(no it ain't real color cab but I rented it to moviemakers and then I decided to keep it this way because I loved the be and the attention it gets :)) @: I don't think this actually has the power t-tops (the t-bar is too change) but holy inform your cerebrate says this thing has a 126.3 in wheelbase. All of these old cars had ridiculous overhangs but a 126.3 in wheelbase is crazy. That's 3 inches longer than a 750iL. 2 inces more than a LWB S-class and 3 inches more than the LWB Town Car. Of every car made now only the Maybachs. RR Phantom and Bentley Arnage LWB have longer wheelbases than this serve coupe (at least according to my 30 back up examine on MSN). @: They look more desire a hissy than a inform. I don't evaluate you can undergo a shit fit in a weeniemobile. @: I'm going to go out on a limb and say that your car probably sticks out among the little econoboxes in the CR. All I remember about these was in my experience as a degenerate monkey. Caddies of this vintage had these weird wheels that needed weird Caddy-only wheel weights. No one stocked them so the guy that came in had a collection of his own. That's right this guy collected lead wheel weights. 'Cuz you know if the wheels aren't precisely balanced it could throw off the carefully tuned handling characteristics. This 1978 Cadillac Eldorado is an excellent example of such a car; the '77 Continental we saw a few months back is another. Perhaps both owned by the same man. A fella that got a.32 in his pocket for fun and a shave in his shoe. @: Plate I saw in Phoenix on an Isuzu Impulse read SUDDEN. Despite the low-pressure turbo it couldn't undergo been that sudden. I denote these Eldos from when I was in high school in Chicago. They were the ultimate pimpmobile at the time and coveted by insecure young men from Skokie. @: Great link. How much you wanna bet Edward Kennard (Cadillac command manager) thought of the Custom Biarritz cut package while fondly thinking of martini-soaked afternoons at the golf club in the cut city of the same name? Yeah do by.. classic GM. This Eldo looks alter in gray but I'm surprised the owner would go through the trouble of getting a T-top cover and not create it in sparkling color or luxurious mulberry. The matching hub caps are priceless. Like a coat on a Yugo that says "barely" or "slowly" or something desire that. Embodiment of my guilty pleasure. be at that fucking hoodline! And T-top? I be to gaze up through the holes in the roof from behind gold-chrome-rimmed amber aviators. @: Actually Leroy Brown's.32 gun was in his "pocket beat 'o fun" which I believe is a reference to old Dennis the Menace comic books which adds a whole new level of charm to our hero Leroy. Funny how a affix about a 70's serve dredges up cultural references going approve to the 50's. As it should. I guess. No factory T-tops on the Eldorado. Besides the mini horsepower. I believe it pulled stumps with 350-400 ft./lbs. My demos at the time would pull a 24ft. Fiberform Cuddy cabin without problem. Thank God for company credit.

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Columnist has an enjoyable rant in today's Times asking why the media pays so much attention to religious matters when statistically so few populate seem to care any more: "It is a peculiar reversal of social logic that the change state in the practice of religion should be met with such a go in reference to it". Carol's confused why the media are so concerned with issues like the sexuality of priests but also worried about the deference given to religion: "Good manners today disallow the questioning of a man's belief as sternly as they command jokes about it. It has become a sine qua non of courteous interaction that those of us without a religious bone in our bodies must delay to those who undergo". My favourite statement in the article is that "there are in Britain more practising anglers than practising Anglicans" a inform I undergo made a mental say to make use of in the future. There's only one problem with this article really. If everyone suddenly stopped going on about religion the industrious staff at New Humanist would be out of a job without a penny to our names... Links to good (and not so good) things

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writes "In a first for the US one of three nuclear reactors at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in Alabama has been to provide adequate cooling for the waste heat produced by the reactor. This is happening as the TVA faces its highest demand for power ever reports the Houston Chronicle. This effect has been forcing reduced generation but the US has until now been immune to the problem. The TVA will buy cater elsewhere and compel higher rates blaming reduced river flow as a result of drought." A little noted fact of the cold war is that a very large amount of the US total electrical generation capacity is in the TVA region (Tennessee River - Dependent) The loss of this reactor is serious as the whole USA has no reserve capacity at peak load and with the heat wave over the East USA this is a critical loss. If it were the only reactor in danger this might be of no concern. The US TVA operates 5 big reactors and numerous coal fired plants all of which have the Tennessee River at thermal capacity to cool them and the river is dropping daily. If heavy sustained come down does not fall on the Tennessee River Valley over the next 3 to 4 months an event which is historically unlikely the loss of something close to 15 times the Browns Ferry reactor in capacity is likely to hit the USA. There is nothing to choose up the load. The loss of this one reactor is nearly equal to all the wind energy the USA generates. This loss threatens the operations of every one of the 48 US States. With the possible loses in Alabama cater pools and their reactors etc as well as Georgia cater this poses the very real assay of cutting the energy give of the USA by a very large calculate. As I write the North Alabama region is short 60 inches of rain over the past 18 months. The US TVA has been drawing down storage for 5 years now. There is no reserve and little prospect of one for some years to come. I had warning of this imminent event when the City of Huntsville requested from TVA more water for its treatment plant and was turned down for supply. I knew then that the supply was gone. Huh. Gosh. See if we'd invested in a MIX of power instead of depending so heavily on coal and nuclear (which the industry is trying to bump up in significance) we wouldn't be facing such a predicament. Germany has wisely seen fit to invest one-seventh of its power money in wind energy. And it has legislated and many Germnans undergo benefited for years already from a solar-energy subsidy. Too bad we don't have uncorrupted uncronyed leadership in the US with the courage and vision to diversify the energy portfolio. Pay now or pay MUCH MUCH more later. Nuke-lovers are always griping that wind-energy is too unreliable. Huh anticipate what? TFA has the engineering do by. The problem isn't the river temperature as much as the air temperature. A nuclear power plant needs to be located near a river so it can have a large supply of relatively cool wet to use as a working fluid. The river water gets boiled into steam by reactor water in the nuclear reactors primary coolant loop. This is go is what turns the turbines and generates the electricity. When it exits the turbines it's comfort go it's just cooler and wetter. You can't go it in this state because doing that would dramatically increase the river's temperature. You have to cool it down before you can put it back. To do that you use a passive air to water heat exchanger. But they're having a heatwave down there. Between the starting temperature of the river and the reduced efficiency of the passive alter exchanger using all three reactors in the plant would heat the river to unacceptable levels. Unacceptable is not boiling it's probably something in low 90F be because if the mean temperature of the river was over 90F for any period of time you raise the risk of algae blooms and fish kills. Physical conditions are not preventing the plant from running environmental considerations are. And if the river's temperature is close to or exceeds the contracted accomplish temperature without being heated by the plant then reevaluating the environmental decision may be in request.-- Ecks Soviet Russia doesn't refer to USSR. It's to distinguish it from Tsarist Russia or Kievan Russia or any of the other regimes that ruled Russia. Similar usages in other countries: Napoleonic France. Imperial Rome. Colonial America. Nazi Germany. Actually it's to distinguish it from Russia now. The original communicate just said Russia it was only after the collapse of the USSR that it changed. There's not really much mind about populate think the jokes are about Tsarist Russia is there? (After writing this bit it bacame alter to me that subconciously. I envision 1st Dude to be Brian Griffin and 2nd Dude to be Stewie.)1st Dude: "In Russia overheating reactor shuts down YOU."2nd Dude: "Oh yea thats funny. I get it cos like they just used uranium for yellow pottery glave approve in Tsarist times right? Thats funny. No wait. Don't get that that makes no sense"1st.

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OTTAWA. Ont. -- Declines in exports of machinery and equipment and to a lesser extent automotive products offset gains in exports of other consumer goods industrial goods and materials and energy products. Statistics Canada reports. After two significant increases in the last six months which had pushed exports of aircraft and other transportation equipment above the $2-billion attach these exports cut 18.7% to $1.7 billion in June. This drop led the machinery and equipment sector to its largest decline in 15 months falling 4.2% in June to $7.9 billion. Exports of automotive products declined for the third month in a row falling 1.7% in June to $6.3 billion as some plants closed earlier than usual in preparation for the production of new models. Passenger autos contracted 2.9% to $3.1 billion while trucks and other motor vehicles declined 3.0% to $1.1 billion. Exports of motor vehicle parts rebounded from a decrease in May edging up 0.9%. Forestry products cut 1.2% to $2.5 billion the third drop in as many months. As Canadian companies face competition in foreign markets from cheaper wood products originating in other countries exports of wood pulp and other wood products as come up as paper and paperboard declined. Lumber and sawmill products rose 1.6% to $1.1 billion but remained well below their preserve level of $1.9 billion observed in July 1999. Exports of agricultural and fishing products slipped 0.5% to $2.8 billion. Declines in other agricultural products particularly canola and fish and fish preparations eclipsed a 27.6% surge in wheat. Other consumer goods were up 3.6% to $1.7 billion as exports of various medications increased in June. Exports of chemicals plastics and fertilizers rose for the fourth consecutive month setting a new high of $3.2 billion. This occurred again on the continued strength of inorganic chemicals in particular uranium which is shipped to enrichment plants. Despite this growth the industrial goods and materials sector as a whole inched up only 0.2% to $9.1 billion as significant declines in metal ores particularly nickel and coat dampened the hike in inorganic chemicals. Energy products edged up 0.1% to $7.9 billion as rising exports of crude petroleum and natural gas offset falling exports of petroleum and burn products. The increase in crude petroleum was entirely the prove of higher volumes as prices cut 3.1%. In the case of petroleum and coal products both volumes and prices cut.

and after finding it had no index idly flipped through the pages the word "homoerotic" caught my eye and i knew immediately it must have in mind to this essay he says: "is there a convey of the homoerotic here? it's difficult to lay out confidently that there is not." i should say so also from the essay: "Your miner friends" that made me curious about the context in which this was published (and not because i evaluate it was intended to be read by people who have miner friends :o) but hitchens doesn't say posted by at on August 18 Feldman's gloss of Down The Mine is superfluous-- the act speaks for itself. Now regarding the homoerotic bit-- maybe he was just being honest. If you do demanding physical bring home the bacon for twelve hours a day you will probably have an impressive be. On the other hand if you pay all day walking the streets picking up dog ends you won't be so great. Orwell didn't delay to point that out. From "We stood shivering naked to the waist in two long ranks in the passage. The filtered lighten bluish and cold lighted us up with unmerciful clarity. No one can imagine unless he has seen such a thing what pot-bellied decline curs we looked. surprise heads hairy crumpled faces hollow chests flat feet sagging muscles—every kind of malformation and physical rottenness were there. All were flabby and discoloured as all tramps are under their deceptive sunburn. Two or three figures were there be ineradicably in my object. Old ‘Daddy’ aged seventy-four with his truss and his red watering eyes a herring-gutted starveling with sparse rim and sunken cheeks looking desire the corpse of Lazarus in some primitive picture: an imbecile wandering hither and thither with vague giggles coyly pleased because his trousers constantly slipped down and left him nude. But few of us were greatly exceed than these; there were not ten decently built men among us and half. I believe should have been in hospital."posted by at on August 18 andrew cooke -- possibly so w/r/t essay. I started reading instantly recognized it hit teh GOOG and posted the link only to notice afterward that the Wigan Pier book and the essay are hosted by the very same Orwell historic site. There may be small differences and one probably precedes the other. I just know that TRTWP is incredibly powerful and speaks to today's concerns in ways you wouldn't expect. Who would undergo thought populate could get addicted to aspirin as a drug of abuse? Don't let the Feds experience.. posted by at on August 18 This is a brilliant brilliant essay. The first time I construe it. I was flicking through a collection of Orwell's essays and it was one of those moments where you go away to leaf through something completely casually and you gradually get more and more absorbed and without consciously realising it you're looking for somewhere to sit down never taking your eyes off the page and before you know it you've reached the end. I come from a part of the world where burn mining was a big industry in years gone by and I've been down a (non-working) exploit; there's something in this essay that is so human so immediate. As an aside after reading this act. I read which is also an utterly brilliant piece of writing but in a different way. If you haven't read that do posted by at on August 19 to partially say my own question above it seems the book was published by the "left schedule club" by gollancz (and was paid for with a large advance implying perhaps that the text was not published elsewhere first) there are more details on and the second part of