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Before continuing: Samsung was quick to point out that the version of the Note 8 on display at the show is the European version—the tablet is coming to the US, but features like voice calling might not make it to the US depending on the carriers, for example. Samsung would neither confirm nor deny that any particular feature wouldn't make the jump, but it's something to keep in mind.

In use, the Note 8.0's hardware is more akin to the Note 10.1, but in design it actually shares more with Samsung's Android phones. Like the phones, the Note 8.0 uses a hardware home button that is flanked by capacitive menu and back buttons, which (along with the speaker above the screen) make the tablet look very much like an oversized Galaxy S III. The Note 8 also uses thinner bezels on the long sides of the screen, a strategy Apple also employed when it shrank its flagship tablet down to this size.

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On the inside, the international version of the tablet looks very much like both the Note 10.Stock up now and start saving on smartcard at Dollar Days.1 and Note II. They all use a quad-core Exynos 4 SoC (here clocked at 1.6GHz, a bit faster than the 1.4GHz in the Note 10.1) and 2GB of RAM drive the action, and the capacitive touchscreen also includes a digitizer for use with the included S Pen (which is housed in the lower-right corner of the tablet when not in use). One welcome change from the Note II is that the menu and back buttons in the Note 8.0 can both be pressed using the stylus—in the Note II, they were capacitive only, so heavy stylus users would have to tap them with their fingers to get them to do anything.

The Note 8.0 features either 16 or 32GB of storage that's expandable via a microSD card slot on the device's side; it also includes a 5MP rear-facing camera and an IR blaster used for controlling TVs and set-top boxes. The tablet features a reasonably sizable 4600mAh battery, and fits it all into a package that weights 11.9 ounces and is 0.31" thick—thinner than some of the smartphones we've seen on the show floor. The tablet is pretty easy to hold with one hand, which we consider a must especially in these smaller tablets.

As we've mentioned, this version of the tablet can also make voice calls, and to that end there's a small speaker grille above the screen,Universal solarstreetlight are useful for any project. similar to the one in the Asus FonePad—again, you'll probably just look silly holding this thing up to your ear, but if you do most of your talking via a headset or speakerphone, it'll be a welcome feature for those who only occasionally use their phones as phones.

Note 10.1 owners will already be familiar with some of the advancements on display in the Note 8.0, since they came down in that tablet's Jelly Bean update. In particular, the Multi-View mode that allows you to run two applications side by side has been updated to permit those applications to be resizable—for example, instead of having one's Twitter client and Web browser each take up half of the screen, you could resize the apps so that your browser takes up 80 percent of the space and your Twitter stream just takes up 20 percent. Third-party applications still have to be modified to support this feature, but Samsung seems to have enabled most of the important ones since last we looked at a Note tablet—Twitter, Facebook, Chrome, Google Maps, and other convenient apps can now make use of the feature.

Aside from the note-taking and drawing apps that remain the Note series' bread-and-butter (and the general TouchWiz interface flourishes that are part of every recent Samsung device), a mix of hardware and software optimizations also allow the pen to be used as a mouse—hovering over the screen will interact with menus and other elements in the same way that rolling over them with a mouse would, while tapping elements on the screen still serves as a "click" or finger tap.

Obviously, in our small amount of controlled hands-on time with the device, we can't really speak to the software's long-term speed and stability, but we didn't experience much by way of slowdowns or application crashes on the device while we used it. We did have one or two gestures that were interpreted incorrectly, but we'd be hard pressed to name a multitouch device that didn't have this problem at least every once in a while. Overall, the lineup seems to have benefited from the enhancements brought on by Jelly Bean (and Samsung's own tweaks and additions), though we'd like to log a bit more time with device before saying this definitively.

Are mobile phones poised to replace credit cards?

The payments body, which monitors how cash is spent in the UK, predicts that more and more of us will use mobile phones to make payments in the coming years. The council suggest that by 2021 fewer of us will be using plastic to make purchases.

Adrian Kamellard, Chief Executive of the Payments Council said: “We scarcely notice the steady changes in the way we pay, yet someone in their thirties today will see more change in their lifetime than in the entire history of money.

“Even recent innovations such as payment via a mobile phone, which ten years ago some felt to be science fiction, will soon be commonplace. The 2000s were the decade of the debit card. The 2010s are likely to be the decade of the mobile phone.

“Just as we can’t imagine how we ever did without the internet, many people will soon wonder how we used to be so dependent on cash and cheque. Twenty years from now even cards may seem archaic.”

Smartphones are quickly becoming a must have personal item. Not only are they fully functioning phones, cameras and portable music devices, but they can also allow you access to the internet and serve a range of functions from online banking to social networking, as well as acting as a replacement wallet.

Payment by mobile phone is still in the early stages, but the technology for contactless payment and phones is currently in development, with most bank account holders set to be able to pay by phone within a year or so.

Last year leading high street bank, Barclays, launched a scheme called "pingit" which enables people to pay another person via their phone.

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“The next ten years will see even faster change. It’s easy to imagine a future where we merely pat our pockets for our keys and phone. The wallet could become a historical curiosity.”

The way we pay for goods and services has drastically changed over the last ten years, a report by the Payment Council revealed. Cheque usage continues to fall, halving every five years along with cash exchanges for regular payments and high value spontaneous payments.

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The latest figures show that a massive ￡58bn was spent on entertainment over the last decade, which is 60% more than we spent in restaurants and cafes in 2001. The Way We Pay report reveals that despite the economic doom and gloom, Brits are spending more than ever and having a lot more fun than a decade ago.

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The Payment Council found that supermarkets take 58p of every pound spent in retail, which is up from 46p just 10 years ago. This trend comes as supermarkets expand their range of product choices to include garden furniture to financial services and more. Not everyone is a winner though as spending in hardware and DIY stores has fallen by almost half over the last ten years half. And while spending may have increased, prices have too. Pubs and bars have lost out in real terms, as spending on drinks has risen by less than the rate of inflation.

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However, the sale of tickets for the Test match was not all that encouraging and is expected to pick up on the first day of the match depending on the team batting first.
The Cricket Australia officials, including security manager Franc Dimasui, and BCCI officials visited the stadium and gave instructions for additional security measures. They also urged for extra exit points in case of any emergency.

On Tuesday, top police officials inspected the stadium and were engaged in a series of discussions with the HCA to evolve a comprehensive, fool-proof security plan for the match.

A former Test cricketer, who is now in HCA administration, said the entire area would be cordoned off and no one would be allowed into the stadium without a valid identity card. “No mobile phones will be allowed inside the stadium at any cost,” he said.

All vendors have been given clear instructions to sell eatables and refreshments only in plastic disposables, and no loose serving of the eatables and beverages from any large containers will be allowed.

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Betty and Jay returned from a post-surgery doctor visit on Monday, the day of the mighty rushing winds, to find a broken pecan tree. You might remember those mighty holes dug with mighty equipment in order to add the pecans a few years back. Jay fears they will lose all those pecans to the drought, even after all the water he has trucked in each week during the summers of water restriction.

If the pipe-burst was intentional, the valve should have been closed. KWA employees who undertake the monitoring of the valves say that the possibility for this is nil as it is a time consuming exercise and can't be completed without being noticed.

In the pipe-line that starts from Aruvikkara to Peroorkada, there are 19 air-valves and around 10 butterfly valves which regulate the water-flow. Five of these valves are gear-operated while the rest are opened using pipe-range. All these valves are installed in special chambers and only designated employees of KWA are allowed to open the chambers.

A team of six employees constantly keep a watch on these chambers. On the day before the Attukal Pongala, the team was even more vigilant and they were on 24-hour patrolling.

The first thing the officials did soon after the pipe-burst was to check whether any of the valves had been closed. All the valves were perfectly intact which ruled out any possibility of the valves being closed by an outsider.

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Normally, such a burst happens due to mounting pressure. The valve is closed abruptly and the water-flow is checked and the water charges back as waves which confront with the inflow eventually building up into a huge wave strong enough to burst open the pipe. "For this to occur, the valve should be opened instantaneously. Considering the weight of the valve, it is not possible," said a source.

The date inscribed on one of the broken pipes shows that the pipeline was laid way back in 1995. Officials admit that the maximum life-span of such concrete pipe is 15 years, which means the pipeline ought to have been replaced in 2010. "The pipeline is three years past its expiry date and there is nothing unusual in a burst," another official said.

What prompted the authorities to support the sabotage argument was the serial burst, which is unheard of in the recent history of KWA. But, it can also happen, says an official. "Once the burst happens in a place, the pressure is vented out and this could trigger similar bursts," he said.

Is education policy increasing inequality?

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The family's clothes — half a dozen faded outfits — hang from a steel pipe overhead that doubles as the center roof beam. Next to the front door, which leads to the gutter, a shower caddy nailed to the concrete holds four toothbrushes and a tube of toothpaste. In another corner, plastic jars hold a dusting of flour and foodstuffs next to a two-burner stove.

“I'm a casual worker at a thread factory nearby,” says Babli's mother, Santosha, the family breadwinner. She has been forced to stay home today, without pay, because the factory where she works in violation of India's labor laws is undergoing a government inspection. “I make 150 rupees ($3) a day,” she says, “working seven days a week, from nine in the morning to nine, ten, or sometimes eleven at night.”

Santosha, the family, and everybody crowded into the tiny room hope that Babli will fight her way out of this place to a better life.

As part of an experiment conceived by activist-educator Anouradha Bakshi, who runs a non-profit called Project Why, Babli attends an elite, English-language boarding school on the outskirts of the city instead of her area's government-run, Hindi-language school. By every available measure, that gives her a much better chance at breaking out of the slum. And it makes her a kind of advanced case study for a potentially revolutionary Indian government program designed to offer millions of poor families the chance to send their kids to private schools. For the lucky ones, it's like winning the lottery.

But even Bakshi herself, who fought school authorities and dipped into her own pocket to get eight slum kids into posh boarding schools, remains deeply worried that for the majority of the population the creeping privatization of India's education system will only increase inequality further.

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In 2009, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's United Progressive Alliance government pushed through a new law enshrining education as a fundamental right and guaranteeing free, compulsory education for every Indian up to age 14. The law sets requirements for schools — many of which lack basic facilities such as toilets. It prohibits schools from holding back or expelling students.The term 'streetlight control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. It requires that surveys be conducted periodically to measure the school-age population of every neighborhood and make sure every child has a school to attend. It calls for the setup of school management committees — where 50 percent of the members are parents — to ensure schools are performing.

By the Gini coefficient that economists use to measure inequality, India is a more egalitarian society than China, Mexico, Thailand or the US. But a walk through New Delhi is proof enough that where the gap lies is at least as important as how wide it is.

Some 400 million Indians like Babli's family are fighting to survive on less than $1.25 a day, and despite the government's good intentions, they can't count on the state for low-cost housing, clean water, reliable public transport or much of anything at all.

Meanwhile, across town from Babli's slum, at the DLF Emporio luxury mall, every minute or so a Mercedes-Benz E-class sedan glides to a stop in front of the massive hoardings for Louis Vuitton and Dior. Valet parking runs 200 rupees ($4, a third more than Babli's mother, Santosha, earns in a day). At the busy atrium cafe inside, a cappuccino costs 310 rupees ($6). In the Gucci store, one of Delhi's top earners picks up a belt for 16,000 rupees ($300).

“Our constitution says that the income gap should be reduced, but it has not happened and it is not happening,” said Delhi High Court advocate Ashok Agarwal, whose organization, Social Jurists,Researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed an buymosaic. has fought harder than anybody to get poor children into the country's private schools.

On the contrary, the gulf between rich and poor is getting wider. The gap between the incomes of the top and bottom tenths of India's population has doubled over the past 20 years, since India liberalized its economy in 1991. According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) 2011 study, “Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising,” India's top 10 percent of wage earners now make 12 times more than the bottom 10 percent, up from a ratio of six in the 1990s.

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It's too dark. I lean closer and shine my cell phone light on her. Finally, I see her take a breath. Her chest, under her pink and blue quilt, moves slowly up and then down. Realizing that I have been holding my breath, I join her in her next breath. Air in, and then out.

For another minute or so I just watch and breathe. Then I turn around and as quietly as I can walk back to my room, take off my glasses, set down my phone, slide off my slippers and gingerly slide back under the covers. The husband is still snoring, the dog is still dreaming (he's moved from dream barking to dream running), the clock glows 2:21. I know that I can close my eyes and sleep now.

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I must have dozed off at some point only to wake to silence. Silence, soothing her cough so she could sleep, had of course been the goal. But her silence woke me. What if she can't breathe? What if I gave her the wrong dose of cold medicine? What if? What if?

Thirteen years later, and I still get up in the night to watch her breathe. As an infant, she was healthy and slept well, but in the middle of so many quiet nights, like tonight, I had to go see for myself. I'd go into her room, stand over her crib, and watch her breathe. In and out. In and out.

Her younger brother was not healthy and did not sleep well as an infant. For the first 17 months of his life he didn't sleep for more than 20 minutes at a time. Finally, his illness was diagnosed and medicine prescribed. A week later, I woke in the middle of the night in a panic.

I practically jumped out of bed and ran to his room, switching on lights as I went. There he was, so small and vulnerable and asleep. He had been asleep for four hours. Crying, I turned the lights back off and went back to bed. Over the next four hours, I got up four more times to check on him. He was still asleep. Still breathing.

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Started as a joint venture with his dad, a 30-year veteran in the tire business, Bates opened Used Tire Warehouse to sell tires and offer customers full service replacement and repair.

But as the business grew, Bates found he was hampered by the amount of space he had available to work on customers' cars.

"Our biggest issue, that I saw, was the way customers would have to wait, because we had a limited space to work on vehicles," he said.

So, in 2012, Bates made the decision to invest more heavily in his operation and, in January of this year, he purchased an industrial building that offers triple the space he had on County Road.

Area brokers say businesses like Used Tire Warehouse that are taking the step to become building owners are a bright spot in the local commercial real estate market. Like residential real estate, commercial conditions slowly improved in 2012, a trend, many say, appears to be continuing into 2013.

"The primary driver right now is owner-user kinds of people," said John Shields, principal at Cape Cod-based Realty Advisory Inc. about market conditions. "They can own things for cheaper than they can lease it."

Commercial sales were up in 2012 and expected to continue to improve in 2013, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Nationally, sales hit $283 billion in 2012, the highest amount since 2008, said George Ratiu, NAR manager of quantitative and commercial research. And much of that activity, $98 billion worth, happened in the final quarter of the year.

Overall, just about every measure has increased, said Ratiu. Prices are up, rents are up, and absorption rates for office space, industrial, retail and multi-family properties are up.

But while national markets are seeing a rebound, secondary and tertiary markets haven't necessarily been having the same experience. Secondary real estate markets include metro areas such as Atlanta and Baltimore, according to Real Capital Analytics, a global research and consulting firm with an office in New York City. All other states, not included in major metro areas or secondary markets, are considered tertiary markets.

Ratiu said real estate data is typically tracked for property sales of $2.5 million and above. But most NAR members, about 60 to 70 percent of sales agents, sell properties that fall below the $2 million mark. And many of them are reporting that conditions are improving much more slowly.

Don Hasson guides family business through multiple expansions

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“It was like walking back in time,” Hasson said. “It had five great big freight elevators with those wooden doors that hurl you up and down. It had an old round chute that carried boxes from the top floor down to the basement.”

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“When I was a kid, I loved to go over there and hang out and play and ride the elevator,” Hasson said.

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“After my dad got tired of me getting in everybody’s way, he decided the best thing for me was to put bicycles together,” Don Hasson said.

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And the fun now comes from each chance to add to this hardware empire, Hasson said. He keeps a list of 12 companies House-Hasson has either bought outright or acquired the business and sales staff from after they closed. The chance to land a major account or to pick up the pieces when a competitor comes apart and use them to build your business is exciting, Hasson said.

“Every couple of years we get bored just doing the same thing, so we go try to stir up something new and different,” he said.

Hasson focused on building a sales territory in northern Georgia, but when Sam House retired in 1926, Hasson came back to Knoxville to become president. Hasson served until his son J.W. “Jack” Hasson took over as president in 1950. By 1954, House-Hasson Hardware had 35 salespeople and operated in seven states.

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I’ve found that the standard advice to make eye contact with drivers (for example when they are turning through a crosswalk) often backfires. When drivers see me watching them, they sometimes take this as license to inch into the crosswalk directly toward me in an attempt to time their crossing with mine, passing only a foot or two behind me.

A modified version of the eye contact strategy seems to produce better results: After seeing that a driver has noticed me, I keep my head facing forward and watch the car from my peripheral vision. I know that the driver has seen me, but he or she might not be sure if I see him or her. This often seems to bring out drivers’ better nature, and they leave me plenty of space to cross to avoid startling me.

Wahl stresses the practical advice that makes urban travel not only survivable but also a good experience. This advice acknowledges realities of urban life without being timid about travel. More people should adopt the attitude, as well as the advice.

Stressful intersections tend to have common characteristics. Traffic can come at you from several directions, traffic volume may be heavy, the walk sign may be short, or you may have to cross multiple lanes with no traffic signal at all.

Drivers analyze their commuting routes. They learn where they might face a difficult left turn or an intersection where they have a stop sign, but the cross traffic is heavy and free-flowing. They figure out ways to avoid the difficult maneuvers.

A walking commuter should be making the same calculations, to limit stress and improve personal safety. The shortest route between two points isn’t necessarily the best.

I particularly admire Wahl for thinking through the “eye contact” strategy. While safety experts urge both drivers and pedestrians to make eye contact, many people who walk in congested areas challenge me when I repeat that advice.

They make solid arguments, based on experience. They often note that a driver who appears to be looking at them may actually be staring into windshield glare that obscures the walker’s location. Others know that drivers are often looking solely for other drivers, and may stare right through a pedestrian. Or if making a left turn, their entire focus may be directed at oncoming traffic and not at the crosswalk they are about to turn into.

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“The birds wear a ring around their neck that prevents them swallowing the larger fish,” explained my guide, Lisa. “Then the fisherman rewards them with small fry.”

Most of China’s Bai people live in and around the city of Dali, squeezed between the lake and the Cangshan Mountains. The city lies about six hours from the industrial sprawl of Kunming, reached on a drive through fields of rice and tobacco, and hamlets where long strands of corn cobs and scarlet chillies hang like bunting from the houses. In the fields, farmers toil with pitchforks and wooden shares, and spread corn in the streets to be threshed by passing vehicles.

Over the next 10 days, as we drove through the snow-capped mountains and valleys into ever-remoter areas of Yunnan Province, the 21st century would recede even further until we reached our destination: a land dubbed by the Chinese, keen to promote the region, as a location for the fabled Shangri-La.

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Of more authentic appeal is the nearby town of Xizhou, whose weekly market attracts a colourful mix of minority peoples: the “white” Bai, whose marriageable girls wear colourful aprons and elaborate headdresses with long white tassels, the Muslim Hui, and the exotically attired Yi, who descend from the mountains on horseback.

Here, along with pigs’ snouts, ducks’ heads and chickens’ feet, you can find a bewildering array of vegetables and fungi, live lake fish, sackloads of salted shrimp, blocks of dry bean jelly, cones of cane sugar, dates and rape seed oil pressed on site.

Passing “Yellow Tooth City” – so called for the sulphur springs from which the locals drink – along the Old Tibet Road, we arrived in Shaxi, a market town of renown since the third century BC, and one which – thanks to sensitive restoration – has retained the charm of its Ming Dynasty heritage. Around its large central cobbled square stands the 1415 Xingjiao Temple, which once catered equally for Bai, Taoists, Buddhists and visiting Muslim merchants. Beautiful multi-eaved courtyard houses of wood and adobe washed with lime abound, a rock at their entrance indicating that these were once caravan guesthouses,The 3rd International Conference on custombobbleheads and Indoor Navigation. while the defaced decoration on the outer walls is testament to the Red Army’s long reach.

I wished I’d had longer in Shaxi to explore an ancient Tea Horse trail to the old customs post of Mapingguan, famous for its nearby salt wells, and to ride into Yi mountain villages – and perhaps a little less in the more famous town of Lijiang, my next stop.

Lijiang is a Unesco World Heritage Site surrounded by lakes and orchards of apples and winter peaches. But unlike its quiet neighbouring villages – Yufu, with its clip-clopping horses and rough stone houses protected by clay rooftop cats; and Baisha, where I had the frescoes of Dabaoji Temple to myself – Lijiang itself is overrun by visitors. More than eight million, in the first half of last year, came to marvel at the Old Town’s quaint canals, spanned by 300 bridges and bordered by weeping willows and “old” wooden houses (actually rebuilt after the devastating earthquake of 1996). The commercialism is relentless – even the Naxi horsemen, parading in shaggy jackets, and women in traditional embroidered sheepskin capes, have been summoned to entertain the crowds. But venture beyond the shops and bars into the local market, and real life reasserts itself, among vendors of copperware and pu’er teas, and birdmen trading falcons and fearsome golden eagles.

The old road that snakes along the Yangtze River and through the mountains to Shangri-La was an unforgettable highlight. Passing the first bend of the Yangtze where, in 1252, Kublai Khan’s Mongol army crossed to defeat the Dali Kingdom, and pausing to admire the churning waters of Tiger Leaping Gorge (3,000 visitors a day), we soon entered an enchanted world.

Climbing high above the silvery river and into the forested Habashan Mountains, each curve revealed a breathtaking vista of yellows, greens and oranges against the purple mountains. We passed remote Yi villages, stopped to buy bags of pears and walnuts at roadside stalls, and climbed to Baishui Tai – an astonishing series of white limestone pools of turquoise water that cascade like a sculpture down the mountain. Sacred to the Naxi, and said to be the birthplace of the Dongba religion, it is a site we shared with a solitary Naxi family, their young daughter cloaked in traditional finery.

With a kaleidoscopic shift, we were suddenly in “Little Tibet”, emerging from pine forests onto a high plateau and the “county” of Shangri-La, whose population is 82 per cent Tibetan. Distinctive Tibetan farmhouses appeared, with sloping walls, elaborately painted beams and shingle roofs weighed down by stones, where families live above their livestock. In the golden fields, barley and turnips dried on distinctive wooden racks and women balanced large wicker threshing baskets on their heads.

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The Fredericton Playhouse probably won't be refurbished or replaced for at least three years, according to the assistant city administrator.

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Jamer said he expects a new theatre would also require funding partners, such as the other levels of government, as well as charitable donations.

On Tuesday, the city issued a statement saying it would save more money by replacing the 50-year-old theatre than upgrading the 50-year-old building.

A report by R.V. Anderson and Associates found it would cost $16.1 million to build a new 24,000-square-foot facility, slightly more than the $12.3-million capital cost associated with a refurbishment, said Jamer.

But the real savings of a new building would be in the operating and maintenance costs over a 50-year period, he said.

The engineering report found it would cost a total of $30.1 million, about $4.59 million less than an upgrade to the existing building.

Jamer says the old building has some mechanical and electrical system problems — "the things that you don't see behind the scenes."

"You can maintain it for a while, but there comes a point where you either get a new car, or you put some serious dollars into the old car," he said.

The City and Playhouse board will be conducting a joint feasibility study to determine how a performing arts centre fits in with the city's other priorities and what the community wants or needs in such a centre, said Jamer.

The study would also explore whether a new theatre would be built in the same location and what would happen to performers who currently use the theatre during any renovations or construction, he said.

It's "all about gathering information so that when it comes time to make those big decisions, when it comes time to discuss those priorities, the decision makers will just have the best information possible."

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Haiflow SAL trains more professionals

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The training was aimed at educating the artisans to acquire the appropriate technical knowledge on how to install, repair and use their new products in accordance with international best practices.

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Speaking at the training, Mr. Karim Ghazale, General Manager of Haiflow SAL, disclosed that the training will offer a high level of pre and post-sale services, as well as technical support to customers in the West African market.

“This training will be of much benefit to the end users of our products and also become very familiar with it and at the long run benefit highly as partners,” he said.

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But the order also did not hide its intention to protect the car companies here. They were all foreign companies, by the way, claiming to employ thousands of Filipino workers.

Let me quote the order: “to accelerate the sound development of the motor vehicle industry in the Philippines, the government has declared (as a policy) … to ban the importation of all types of used motor vehicles and parts and components, except those that may be allowed under certain conditions.”

There—the government simply wanted to protect the motor industry against competition from cheaper second-hand cars from abroad. It so happened, at that time, the car companies were claiming massive smuggling of used vehicles into the country. They claimed that the importation of used vehicles—second-hand cars, in particular—could kill them.

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The art of life

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Ernestine Hayes, UAS assistant professor of English, organizes the series. She said a big challenge she is seeking to address in the series is that western-based cultures have made art a discipline, rather than an incorporated natural element in our daily lives.

"We're schooled to think of art with a capital 'A,' as something else," Hayes said. "Arts is over here, and storytelling is over here, and cooking is here and gathering is there. Everything is in its own school and discipline. There's a taxonomy. But if we look at it from a more human perspective we see that they're not separated, they're blended: our spirituality,Creative glass tile and solarlamp tile for your distinctive kitchen and bath. our art, the way we speak, dress. It's all part of everything else. It's the art of life."

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"When I first learned, my husband's uncle taught me how to harvest herring eggs at low tide," Littlefield said. "Now we have to go out in a boat to find the herring."

She explained that there is a two-week period when the herring runs spawn on the shores, and timing is critical.

"You can't do it too early or too late; you have to be prepared," Littlefield said.

She said she takes her boat out to watch for the schooling fish with bundles of hemlock branches, which she places in the water. She returns the following day, and, if she's hit the run well, the branches are full of herring roe.

"They're heavy, very, very heavy," Littlefield said. "You can't pick it up on your own when it's covered in roe. It feels like Easter. We joke about it, 'It's Easter egg time,' as its right around Easter."

Littlefield said that the roe are about half the size of a large grain of rice. She then cuts the branches into smaller pieces and places them into gallon-sized Ziploc bags, and places them into chest freezers.

"If you don't kill the herring they come back every year," Littlefield said. "But when they're harvested commercially, for their roe, they're killed at four or five years. The reproductive cycle has been impacted terribly by the commercial overharvesting."

Typically, Littlefield said, she scalds the branches for a few seconds, pulls them out, places them into a strainer and peels off chucks of roe. Though some people enjoy them fresh, raw from the ocean, they are often served blanched and dipped into butter or seal oil.

"Some people like to add soy sauce to the butter or oil," Littlefield said, "Although it's already very salty."

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"Each year I try to take a different stance, occupy a different prospective, take another look at our art, at our place," Hayes said.

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Outside of the grassy arena where the “Paint Our Gardens” workshop was held in conjunction with the NTBG ‘Ohana Day, visitors worked around the downed pole beans, toppled by the gusty trades, in the center’s vegetable garden.

But the tents, anchored by strong webbing, kept its occupants seated, the abundance of blue tape punctuating the collection of art supplies lining the tables where students worked.

Joining Taboniar, who offered watercolor painting instruction for tropical flowers, Dawn Lundquist led a group on Plein Air Oil and Patrice Pendarvis anchored her own tent with instruction on watercolor landscapes.

Simple Measures to Promote Sleep Can Reduce Delirium

A hospital is not the best place to get a good night’s sleep, especially in a noisy intensive care unit. It’s a cause for concern because studies have shown that a lack of sleep can cause patients to experience delirium—an altered mental state that may delay their recovery and lead to short and long-term confusion and memory problems.

A team of doctors, nurses, psychologists and pharmacists in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) at The Johns Hopkins Hospital implemented a project to see if by taking simple steps to reduce nighttime noise, light,and staff interruptions, as well as stopping certain medications for insomnia, they could reduce delirium and improve patient perceptions about the quality of their sleep. Their findings are described in an article posted online by Critical Care Medicine that will be printed in the journal's March issue.Massive selection of gorgeous earcap.

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Three sets of interventions were introduced in stages. The first was a 10-item environmental checklist that included turning off televisions, room and hallway lights, safely consolidating the number of staff visits to patient rooms overnight for drawing blood and giving medications to reduce interruptions, reducing overhead pages and minimizing unnecessary equipment alarms.

In the second stage, patients also were offered eye masks, ear plugs and tranquil music. In the final stage, a new medication guideline was introduced that discouraged giving patients certain commonly prescribed drugs for sleep, such as benzodiazepines, that are known to cause delirium.

Before all of the interventions had been instituted, the researchers did a baseline assessment of 122 patients in the intensive care unit over an eight-week period. After all of the measures were in place, another 178 patients were evaluated.

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The researchers also measured patient perception of their sleep quality with a questionnaire given to each patient by MICU nurses every morning. While there were positive findings in that measure, the improvement overall was not statistically significant.

“This is a unique study in terms of the number of patients involved and the three stages of interventions,” says Dale M.Needham, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins who is the senior author of the study article.

“Delirium is a syndrome of confused thinking and lack of attention. It typically comes on quickly with illness, and it’s a marker for the health of the brain,” says Needham. “We put together a common-sense approach to change how care is provided to see if by improving sleep, we could reduce patients’ confused thinking, and it was effective.”

Needham also says that physical rehabilitation is important for the recovery of intensive care patients, and if they’re sleepy or delirious during the day, they can’t appropriately participate in their therapy.

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The intervention was conducted before The Johns Hopkins Hospital opened a new building with 560 spacious, all-private patient rooms, including a new MICU and other intensive care units. Clinical areas throughout the new building have sound-absorbing features to reduce noise, and there is a new nurse call system that replaces overhead paging.

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My experience with N.E.R.O. was not a fluke, either. The rest of the booths, which included staff from Cosmic Comics, the Elite Vegas Paranormal Society, and L33T Ladies, were just as willing to converse with the masses. Product was strewn near and far and came in the form of plastic creations known as Perler Pixel Pals to somewhat pricey, albeit unique, posters for “The Walking Dead” and other nerd-related mediums. In a separate set up for table and card games, guests could pick up any range of table-top fare, including the “Resident Evil” Deck Building Game and an assortment of individual cards for games like “Yu-Gi-Oh!”. On one table, a sextet of young men were engaged in a rousing game of “Metal Gear Solid” Risk, proving that any game can be played in any atmosphere.

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The cream of the crop of LVL UP Expo wasn’t the tournaments or the available merchandise, though. It was the sheer level of interactivity between local and out of town influences in the gaming industry. Meet and Greets for the cast of the local production of “Evil Dead The Musical 4D” and the internet radio comedy show “Jim and Them” were good ways to pass the time and get to know the people behind the personas. Indy game developer, Lukewarm Games, also held a panel discussion regarding game development, ensuring that at least some portion of this entertaining event was interestingly education.

What there is to complain about is minimal. As mentioned previously, the event space is somewhat cramped. It was difficult to move in-between booths, and oftentimes I questioned whether or not I should be stepping over the slew of wires on the floor. Booth variety would also be a welcomed plus, as there seemed to be three or four booths selling the Perler Pixel Palls. Other local talents brought to the table merchandise such as white tile painted with gaming’s favorite characters, but overall, there wasn’t a whole lot to browse through.

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Tiepolo and the Art of Perfection

On the eve of his departure from Venice for the royal court in Spain in 1762, at the age of 66, Giambattista Tiepolo told a reporter from a local newspaper, the Nuova Veneta Gazzetta: “Painters should strive to succeed in creating great works, that is those that can please noble lords and the rich — because these make the fortunes of masters — and not other people, who cannot buy pictures of great value. So the painter’s mind must always aim at the sublime, the heroic and for perfection.”

This was a rare spoken record of Tiepolo’s artistic credo, but it was one that had guided his whole life and made it possible for him to realize masterpieces on a stupendous scale.

Much earlier in his long and amazingly industrious career, he had given visual expression to his grand ambitions — and not without a disarming dash of wit and self-deprecation — in a memorable painting: In “Alexander and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles” of 1725-27, Tiepolo cast himself as the most famous artist in antiquity in the act of painting the portrait of Alexander’s mistress, the beautiful Campaspe.

According to the story, so pleased was the world-conquering hero with the painted nude that he rewarded the artist with the gift of the model, with whom Apelles had fallen in love. In his playful illustration of the legend, Tiepolo’s young wife, Cecilia Guardi, posed as Campaspe (Apelles-Tiepolo gazing on her with mesmerized, pop-eyed concentration), while placed behind Apelles’s easel for good measure, advertising his wares, are two of Tiepolo’s own canvases, one on a classical and another on a religious theme. Thus did the artist declare his abiding intention to emulate the most famous painters of the past and to find patrons among the great.

“Alexander and Campaspe,” on loan from Montreal, is the first painting in a remarkable gathering at Villa Manin in Passariano of 125 paintings, drawings and prints from more than 40 collections — the works span the artist’s production from his first commissions to his last canvases in Spain — for “Giambattista Tiepolo,” curated by Giuseppe Bergamini, Alberto Craievich and Filippo Pedrocco.

Villa Manin is near Udine, where Tiepolo found the noble patron for his first great cycle of frescoes in the Patriarch’s (now Archbishop’s) Palazzo and today home of the Diocesan Museum. Udine is also the venue for a second, smaller but revealing study exhibition, “Giambattista Tiepolo and Paolo Veronese,” at the city’s Castello.

Tiepolo was born in Venice in 1696 and studied under Gregorio Lazzarini, the most respected teacher of the day. He was accepted into the confraternity of artists in 1717 and rapidly made a name for himself. His early works manifest the influence of the dark “tenebrist” chiaroscuros of the older local artists Piazzetta, Bencovich, Pittoni and Giulia Lama,Cheaper For bulk buying drycabinet prices. and of a common inspiration to them all, Tintoretto.

But by the time Tiepolo went to Udine in 1725, he had fallen under the spell of another 16th-century Venetian artist, Paolo Veronese. The noble, colorful, luminous world of Veronese, with its dramatic illusionistic effects, was the ideal model for Tiepolo’s frescoes, commissioned by the Venetian patriarch Dionisio Dolfin for his official residence. The reputation of Veronese was probably higher among Venetian connoisseurs than that even of Titian, and Tiepolo’s references to this earlier master would have been appreciated by Dolfin. The evocation of Veronese’s paintings also pleasingly conjured up images of the era when Venice was at the height of its power and glory.

The principal figures of these frescoes are the Old Testament patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the divinely appointed forerunners of Dolfin, whose appointment as patriarch was under attack, so their depiction, affirming his credentials as it were, carried aAll smartcardfactory comes with 5 Years Local Agent Warranty ! strong political message of topical relevance. But in the long term, the most striking aspect of the cycle was that it contained all the fertile imagination, mastery of light and color,Researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed an buymosaic. theatrical panache and bravura skill in composition and execution that was to characterize Tiepolo’s subsequent oeuvre.

Tiepolo was not the only artist at this time to return to Veronese as a source of inspiration, but while others imitated, Tiepolo absorbed his lessons, integrating them into his own artistic vision.

Despite the importance of the earlier master in Tiepolo’s development, “Giambattista Tiepolo and Paolo Veronese,” curated by Linda Borean and William L. Barcham at Udine’s Castello, is the first exhibition to investigate this fascinating and complex relationship, brought alive by an absorbing line-up of 40 paintings, drawings and engravings by the two artists. The centerpiece of the show is Tiepolo’s “Finding of Moses,” from Edinburgh, temporarily reunited with a sizable section of the picture sliced off nearly two centuries ago and now in Turin, shown here together with Veronese’s version of the subject, from Dijon.

In the Villa Manin exhibition, after the first room on an upper floor displaying “Alexander and Campaspe,” six rooms are devoted to a number of oil sketches and a wide and varied selection — from figures, drapery and portraits to vases, trees and farm buildings — of the some 2,000 surviving drawings by Tiepolo’s virtuoso hand.

The spacious,Product information for Avery Dennison smartcard products. high-ceilinged rooms on Villa Manin’s ground floor provide an ideal setting for the canvases, some of large proportions, and many of them treasured masterpieces, loaned from both sides of the Atlantic.

In 1715-16, the artist received his first significant commission to paint a series of apostles and prophets on canvases to be placed over the high arches within the Ospedaletto Church in Venice. All but one were saved from a fire in 2010 with only superficial damage and were then removed for cleaning. In their usual position at a height of around eight meters,Looking for the Best iphoneheadset? or more than 25 feet, above the ground, they are hard to see in detail, so this temporary showing offers a welcome opportunity to study at close quarters these images justly praised at the time for being “all spirit and fire.”

The artist’s glorious airborne allegories are represented by such compositions as “Time Discovers Truth” from Vicenza and “Zephyr and Flora” from Venice. But here are also some of his most serious and powerful religious works, such as “The Communion of St. Lucy” and “Agar and Ishmael,” with its pathetic depiction of the seemingly dead child Ishmael.

One of most entertaining pieces is “Danae,” taken to Stockholm by Carl Gustaf Tessin in 1736 after he had failed to persuade Tiepolo to travel to Sweden to work for his royal master. In this irreverent version, Danae is depicted as a sleepy, overweight courtesan, being pimped by Cupid, who lifts her dress to display “the goods,” as her minuscule lap dog rushes yapping at Zeus’s eagle.

In the Villa’s ballroom is the gigantic canvas of “St. Tecla Liberates Este from the Plague” (along with the original oil sketch for it from New York), temporarily removed for conservation work while building repairs are carried out on Este’s duomo. This astonishing late work, completed in 1759, depicts a moving scene of devastation on the ground with an exhilarating vision of God descending with angels from the heavens to banish the pestilence at the entreaty of the kneeling saint.

I see Mrs Vince Cable as a title

If cows can be considered to have a casting vote, then Hopeful and Caramel have done their bit to make sure Rachel Smith sees more of her husband in the future. The wife of the business secretary, Vince Cable, is a farmer with a dwindling beef herd in the middle of the New Forest. For months she has been trying to get these two Dexters in calf. The bull has visited; the artificial insemination man has been summoned with his catheter, but the two ladies remain resolutely and mystifyingly barren.

“Mrs Vince”, as people tend to call her, is loosening some of her country ties so she can spend more time in London, or wherever her husband’s frantic round of party political campaigning takes him now that the Eastleigh by-election has been called and local elections are not far off. She also wants to be free to travel to Cambridge, where she is a trustee of the friends of the university’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Vince’s family home in his Twickenham constituency will make an ideal staging post. But what to do about the cows? And when to do it? As followers of the cinematically famous “Moo Man” of East Sussex know,This frameless rectangle features a silk screened fused glass replica in a parkingsystem tile and floral motif. you can get very attached to your bovine moneymakers.

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It’s dusk on a bitter winter day and the isolated moorland farm, fringed by the skeletons of trees, is flooded with last light. This ancient freehold pasture, surrounded by national parkland, has been farmed since Saxon times and is listed in Domesday. The cows in question are huddled together as if they know their companionship is on a short lease.

Down a track, its basement sunk into the field, hunkers the modest brick cottage that Mr and Mrs Vince have shared since Rachel moved out of the main farmhouse in favour of her son, Dylan, who now manages the estate alongside his full-time job running yacht harbours. Comfortable old chairs, a woodburner, colourful rugs, pictures from their separate pasts: a cosy retreat where a high-profile politician might shuffle off the cares of the Westminster week.

She looks too slight for the muscular work of managing cattle, but not all the tactics are physical. “You have to put up with a certain amount of bovine obstinacy. It helps to learn to think a little bit more like a cow.” There’s a scar on her upper lip where she was once flattened by a beast that fell off a ramp, trapping her, as it was being loaded into a truck. She was concussed. Two ambulances arrived. “I was very bashed up,” she smiles, “but nothing very serious.”

No farmer is a sentimentalist. As a beef farmer surrounded by wild New Forest ponies (some of which are exported for the meat trade), she has a robust way of looking at the horse meat scandal. “Apart from keeping out of the food chain animals which have had medication recently – we all sign forms to this effect – this is more about food taboos than food safety,” she says.

When she lived in Holland, where her first husband was working in the early Seventies, she tried horse meat. “Horses are extremely clean feeders and their meat is lean. I found it rather dense and flavourless. Here, most horses are eaten by dogs, either raw or cooked and canned. However, my old riding pony was buried in our bluebell wood with a tree planted over her. Ditto my old border collie. My last cat has daffodils on top. It is a matter of pets versus livestock.

The crux of the matter, she argues, is that food products should be properly labelled: “Banning imports is not helpful.” As it happens, Vince’s 10-year-old grandson, Ayrton, is the poster boy for a Compassion in World Farming campaign to require all meat products to be labelled to say how the animal was reared.

Independent businesswoman that she is, Mrs Vince has not been impressed by the logistics of trying to be a supportive political wife. To be with her husband on foreign trips, she either has to pay business class (ouch) or sit in the back of the plane. “And I am supposed to be doing this to be with him?” she asks, eyebrows raised. His rapid elevation to Cabinet minister demanded a rethink.

“I thought when Vince got this job [as business secretary] in 2010, that I would really have to change my style and we’d be together at the weekend wherever he happened to be. But he doesn’t get weekends. This weekend, he went back at 9am on Sunday and we won’t have a full weekend until after the local elections in May. What I didn’t grasp when he became business secretary is that midweek would be so pressured.

“At times he is more exhausted than he’d like people to know, but he is psychologically incredibly resilient.Natural lasermarker add a level of design sophistication to each of Jeffrey Court's natural stone chapters. He’ll say, 'I’m feeling dreadful,’ and three hours later he’s forgotten he ever told me he wasn’t OK. He does set a pace.”

Their late-flowering romance astonished them both. They met, prosaically,Shop the web's best selection of precious gemstones and bobbleheads at wholesale prices. when Cable was guest speaker at a meeting of the New Forest branch of the United Nations Association in 2001. His wife, Olympia, whom he had nursed for many months, had not long since died of breast cancer and his way of dealing with grief was to keep himself busy. A middle-aged woman in the front row (whom he noticed had excellent legs) challenged him at question time on his free-trade approach to agriculture.

Later, when Rachel Wenban Smith was delegated to give him a lift back to the train station, they realised they had met as students at Cambridge. “The unresolved debate about trade and agriculture,” he recalled, “led to an agreement to return to the New Forest and visit her farm.” When he did, trade policy was not uppermost in their minds.

Rachel, now 67, was divorced and had been farming alone since her husband left her for another woman after more than 30 years of marriage. Her confidence was low. “I was dumbfounded,” she says of the break-up. “We had had bumps but I thought we had worked out what the light and shade in the marriage was. I think it was the most difficult thing that has ever happened to me – including the day our previous house burned down around us. I don’t know how you deal with it. One is off one’s head with rage. I do remember that.” In extremis, she admits throwing a pot of jam at his lover’s door.

Adieu,gallery; hello, Greece

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Today is the last time you will be able to walk into Brad Cooper Gallery in Ybor City. From noon to 7 p.m. art will be sold at discount prices — some up to 50 percent off. After that, the doors will close permanently.

For 28 years, Brad Cooper Gallery has been known for having exceptional exhibits of contemporary art by international and local artists.

Its closing will leave a void in Tampa's art community. It was at Brad Cooper Gallery that I met international American artists Yvonne Petkus and William Pachner, and Russian artist Peter Mitchev. And it's where I first heard of the tiny Greek island called Naxos.

That's where owner Brad Cooper and his wife, Elizabeth, will head after the closing.

"This will be our fifth season in Naxos," Brad Cooper said in a telephone interview. "We open there from Easter through the beginning of October. That's the season for the Europeans to go on vacation, and the weather is very nice there."

The couple own a shop there where Elizabeth sells her handcrafted jewelry and Brad sells "a little art" to their mostly European customers.

For those who know Cooper, the decision to close is not a sudden one.

"We've been kind of planning this for a while, but you have to do it one step at a time," he said. "We feel we've reached a certain limit of what we can achieve here, and we want to pursue other creative paths."

"I think we did a lot of exciting exhibitions over the years," he said. "We did drawing exhibitions before anybody in the city showed drawings. We had international juried shows and brought artists from other parts of the country and included local artists in the exhibit to show that artists here are just as good as the international ones. It was good to create something that wasn't here before and offer it to the community. … And meeting so many great artists has been a good experience."

But he found that the art scene in Ybor City changed dramatically through the years.

"When we first opened here, we would pull in over 1,000 people at an opening. Now we get maybe 50 people," he said.

Cooper always has championed the idea of making Ybor City the arts district for Tampa, an idea that never really got off the ground.

"It was difficult to get the cooperation needed from the cultural institutions and from the city for a sustainable arts community in Ybor," Cooper said. "I don't know if it was the density of the population or what, but it never seemed to gel. I often felt that we were in competition rather than collaboration with the other institutions."

"When there's an adverse impact from a nightclub on the store next door, that store will leave," he said. Cooper was able to stay because he owned his building.

"And because we are located in the center of the national historic district. Everyone who comes here will pass by your door. So all you have to do is have something they will want to buy."

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"The collector base in Tampa didn't really develop," he said. "That's because there wasn't a real interface between the galleries and the cultural institutions."

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"It's the expression of the artist's experience," he said. "Through art,You can werkzeugbaus Moon yarns and fibers right here as instock. we develop consciousness. The work in the gallery was work that wasn't necessarily popular at the time, but it was always oriented toward the human condition."

Once in Naxos, the Coopers look forward to being surrounded by ancient architectural wonders in a great climate while developing their individual artistic talents.

Conservationists and shooting enthusiasts – often unfairly blamed for the poisonings – also lined up to condemn the crime as the maps revealed the number and location of confirmed poisonings of birds of prey between 2007 and 2011. Six incidents in the South West, from Land’s End in Cornwall to Somerset,A collection of natural parkingsensor offering polished or tumbled finishes and a choice of sizes. were among those identified.

Across Britin there were 19 incidents in 2011 alone. A total of 30 birds of prey were poisoned, bringing the total number of confirmed cases over five years to 101.

But wildlife charity the RSPB warned the confirmed incidents were the tip of a much bigger iceberg, as many cases were discovered by chance.

It was also revealed that the majority of poisonings were carried out using the chemicals carbofuran or aldicarb, pesticides which have been banned in the UK and can be dangerous to humans.

The partnership said the maps showed that the problem of illegal poisoning continued to be a real threat to wildlife, particularly birds of prey.

It also said there was no reason of anyone to have chemicals such as carbofuran, which were not approved for use in England and Wales, and putting substances dangerous to both animals and humans into the environment was totally irresponsible.

It alleged birds of prey continue to be persecuted because they are predators of game birds, with some species such as hen harriers teetering on the brink of extinction.

Bob Elliot, RSPB head of investigations, said the maps illustrated the problems faced by birds of prey.

“We need to remember, however, that these dots represent the tip of a much bigger iceberg as these criminal offences are often discovered by pure chance.”

“These aren’t just points on a map. Each dot represents a crime where a bird of prey has been killed in a calculated way.

“Birds of prey have suffered centuries of persecution, and these maps prove those attitudes still prevail today,” he said, adding the RSPB would work in partnership to bear down on the acceptable crimes.

Glynn Evans, head of game and gamekeeping at the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), said: “The use of illegal poisons to kill birds of prey has no place in modern land and wildlife management.

“BASC welcomes the publication of these incident maps which will be valuable tools in combating those who persist with this unacceptable practice.”

Last October, the Environmental Audit Committee said hundreds of birds of prey had been killed because the Government had failed to fully implement laws designed to protect them.

Rules brought in in 2006 made it an offence to possess poisons used to kill birds of prey, but an order listing which poisons it was illegal to have was not introduced.

The Government should criminalise possession of carbofuran and other similar substances which have no legal use in the UK, the EAC urged.