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Minister Meets With Island’s Solar Installers

Earlier this month the Minister of Home Affairs Walter Roban met with the island’s solar installers to hear their thoughts on how to build a shared vision for Bermuda’s energy future. Attendees included representatives from the Department of Planning, Department of Energy, BE Solar, Greenlight Solar, AES, BEST and BAE. A Government spokesperson said, “The […]

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‘One-Time Withdrawal Of Up To $12,000'

“We will expand the scope of existing provisions for financial hardship to include a one-time withdrawal of up to $12,000, from person’s individual pension accounts,” Premier David Burt said. Speaking at last night’s [May 6] press briefing, Premier Burt said, “On Friday, the House of Assembly will meet to pass legislation that will provide further […]

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TABS Partners With Alshante Foggo For Mural

TABS has collaborated with local artist Alshanté Foggo to create an island-inspired mural at their flagship store on Reid Street. The mural doubles as a “selfie wall” where customers can take a memento photo of themselves against the brightly coloured backdrop. Rebecca Singleton, the owner and designer of TABS says: “We want to give our […]

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Column: Going Up Yonder With Toni Robinson

[Written by Dale Butler] The CD arrival of Bermuda’s “First Lady of Gospel” a few months ago was widely received and appreciated with the excellent selection of songs and their delivery. Long a staple at weddings, funerals and VIP events, Toni had also performed with excellence in numerous plays by Atlantic Publishing House and for […]

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Audio: Singer Celebrates Romance With Song

Local singer and songwriter Valerie Sherwood has recorded a new version of her song One Heart and One Mind, which she wrote in 1984 to perform at the wedding of her friends Alan and Ruth Marquardt, who are celebrating 35 years of marriage this year. The guitar ballad version of the song features music and […]

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Felix Tod Will No Longer Perform With Brannon

Noting his “unacceptable comments,“ Felix Tod said that he will no longer perform alongside Tony Brannon. Mr Tod said, “In light of Tony Brannon’s unacceptable comments, I have made the choice to no longer perform alongside him. For me, The Big Chill was not only about entertainment, but also about equality. “It has been a great […]

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Four Men Arrested In Connection With Shooting

Four men were arrested this afternoon [Sept 15] in connection with the shooting on Court Street last night, the police have confirmed. A police spokesperson said, “Detectives continue to investigate a confirmed firearm incident that occurred around 9:50pm Saturday, September 14th on Court Street in the City of Hamilton, near the junction with Elliot Street […]

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Police Appeal For Witnesses To Shooting

The police are appealing for witnesses to the shooting last night in the east end, which resulted in a 64-year-old man being shot in the shoulder. A police spokesperson said, “Detectives continue to investigate a confirmed firearm incident that occurred around 10:25pm Thursday, October 3rd in the Cashew City Road, St. George’s area where a […]

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17-Year-Old Arrested In Connection With Shooting

[Updated] A 17-year-old male was arrested last night in “relation to the attempted murder of a man on North Shore Road,” the police have confirmed. Detective Superintendent Nicholas Pedro said, “We arrested a 17-year-old male from Devonshire on Court Street last night in relation to the attempted murder of a man on North Shore Road […]

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Court: Man Accused Of Trespass With Machete

[Written by Don Burgess] A Sandys man will have to appear in Supreme Court after being accused of allegedly trespassing on a home in St George’s with a machete. Keith Smith, 51, did not have to enter a plea to a charge of entering a Mullet Bay Road home in February 2019, and causing actual […]

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Court: Man Charged With Multiple Sex Offences

[Written by Don Burgess] A man is facing multiple charges of sexual offences against two girls, with the offences allegedly occurring back in the 1990s. The offences allegedly took place from June 1992 to June 1997 against two girls who were under-14 at the time. The 55-year-old man, who cannot be named at this stage for […]

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Court: Man Charged With Threatening Father

[Written by Don Burgess] A 30-year-old man was charged with using threatening words against his father. Magistrates Court heard that in November 2019, Jared Gordon allegedly told his father, “I will bash your f****** face” after the two were involved in a heated argument in the home. Mr Gordon, who was found guilty earlier this year […]

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Playlist Partners With Atlanta-Based Studio 27

PlayList Management [PLM], a local talent management and development company, has joined forces with Studio 27, an Atlanta-based talent/development company. This partnership was created during PLM’s annual Developing Artists Program 2014, which was recently completed in Atlanta. A spokesperson said, “Studio27 Model and Talent, founded by director and owner Cheryl Harris, is a full artist […]

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Premier Wishes Troika Well With Latest Play

The Premier and Minister of National Security Michael Dunkley today [Aug 27] extended his support and well wishes to Troika Bermuda in advance of their upcoming production of Beauty and the Beast, which kicks off tomorrow evening [Aug 28]. Troika’s modern take on the Academy-Award winning animated classic will include all of the songs written […]

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New Play To Kick Off With Front Street Party

The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Bermuda is getting set to present “The Pirates Of Penzance!” from October 9 through October 18, 2014 at the Earl Cameron Theatre at City Hall, with a special “Pirate Happy Hour” to be held from 4.00pm through 6.00pm on October 4, 2014. A spokesperson said, “During the October 4 […]

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BSSF Hosts Drama Workshop With Sonnet Man

The Bermuda Shakespeare Schools Festival [BSSF] is getting set to host a drama workshop for Bermuda students beginning today [Feb 2] and running through February 5, 2015. The workshop will feature teacher and musician Devon Glover, also known as Sonnetman. A spokesperson said, “The Bermuda Shakespeare Schools Festival is excited about its drama workshop for […]

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RBR Recruits Get Their First Lesson With Rifles

The country’s newest soldiers got their first lesson with the Royal Bermuda Regiment’s SA-80 rifles. Recruit Camp soldiers were introduced to the standard issue weapon in a classroom – with a major emphasis on safety. Instructors explained the workings of the SA-80 and the rigorous safety procedures that need to be learned before they get […]

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RBR Medics Working With St John Ambulance

Medics from the Royal Bermuda Regiment are on standby to treat any injuries suffered by new soldiers at Recruit Camp. But they are also using some of their time to teach at St. John Ambulance to gain more qualifications as instructors through the medical charity. Lance Corporal Siva Senthanmaraikannan, 35, who qualified as an Emergency […]

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Covid-19: Soldiers Assist With Airport Arrivals

Soldiers from the Royal Bermuda Regiment have mobilised at the airport to help returned residents disembark and transport those who need quarantined outside their homes to special accommodation. Sergeant Giovanni Lema, a member of the RBR’s Motor Transport section, drove one of the buses used to ferry passengers off some of the last planes to […]

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Uncertainty With Future Of The America’s Cup

With Emirates Team New Zealand’s recent America’s Cup win, they are now in control of the tournament’s destiny; however, as the only non-signatory to the ‘framework agreement’ signed by the other five America’s Cup teams, there remains some uncertainty regarding the next iteration of the event. After the Kiwi’s stunning victory over Oracle Team USA, […]

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Multi-Strat Enters Agreement With Canopius

Multi-Strat Holdings said they are pleased to announce a majority acquisition of the company by Canopius Group Limited [Canopius]. “Canopius is a global specialty [re]insurer headquartered in London. One of the top five businesses at Lloyd’s, Canopius writes in excess of $2bn premium annually. The Group is domiciled in Jersey and operates in the UK, […]

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Court: 51-Year-Old Man Charged With Murder

A 51-year-old man has appeared at Magistrates’ Court in connection with the 2006 murder of Marcus Gibbings. Cleveland Rogers is charged with the premeditated murder of Mr Gibbings on or about October 25, 2006. Mr Rogers did not enter a plea to the charge because the matter can only be heard at Supreme Court. He […]

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Appeal For Witnesses: Murder Of Jahkoby Smith

This Sunday [July 29] marks the year anniversary of the murder of Jahkoby Smith and police have renewed their appeal for information, and have asked witnesses or anyone who may have any information to please contact them. A police spokesperson said, “Sunday July 29th marks the year anniversary of the death of Jahkoby Smith and […]

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Two Men Arrested In Connection With Murder

A 24-year-old man and a 25-year-old man were arrested today [Aug 28] “in connection with the murder of 25- year-old Danshun Swann,” the police have confirmed. Yesterday, the police confirmed that Mr Swann was stabbed during a “large fight involving a group of males outside Southampton Rangers Sports Club.” Video of the police press conference held […]

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Third Man Arrested In Connection With Murder

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of Ronniko Burchall, marking the third person following the fatal shooting in St David’s on December 29th, 2018. A police spokesperson said, “The Bermuda Police Service can confirm the arrest of a 23-year-old man in connection with the murder of Ronniko Burchall on 29th […]

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Witness Appeal: Murder Of Jahkoby Smith

The police are appealing for the public’s assistance with information that can help solve the murder of Jahkoby Smith, who was fatally stabbed two years ago on July 29, 2017, at the West End Sailboat Club in Sandys. A police spokesperson said, “Today, Monday 29th July 2019, marks the 2nd anniversary of the murder of […]

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Appeal For Witnesses: Murder Of Jason Mello

Three years later, the murder of Jason Mello remains unsolved, and police are renewing their appeal for witnesses or anyone who may have any information to come forward. A police spokesperson said, “Detectives are renewing their appeal for information in connection with the murder of Jason Mello. “Jason Mello was fatally shot around 7:35pm Friday […]

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Witness Appeal: Murder Of Danshun Swann

Today is the one year anniversary of the murder of Danshun Swann, and the police continue their investigation, with detectives renewing their appeal for witnesses to come forward. A police spokesperson said, “The 27th of August is the one year anniversary of the murder of Mr. Danshun Swann. “Danshun was stabbed to death on South Road […]

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Witness Appeal: Murder Of Ronniko Burchall

The police are renewing their appeal for information regarding the murder of Ronniko Burchall, who was fatally shot at the St. David’s Cricket Club in December of last year. A police spokesperson said, “The 29th December will mark the one-year anniversary of the murder of Mr. Ronniko Burchall. Mr. Burchall was at the St. David’s […]

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Man Arrested In Connection With Robbery

A 34-year-old man was arrested in connection with the armed robbery at Gold Standard and has subsequently been bailed. A police spokesperson said, “The Bermuda Police Service are still actively investigating the Gold Standard Robbery which occurred at approximately 9:30am on Wednesday January 29th 2020 in The Washington Mall. “On Friday the 28th of February […]

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Man Charged In Connection With Shooting

Following a shooting on Parsons Road in Pembroke , 20-year-old Kyari Flood was arrested and charged. A police spokesperson said, “As you recall, about 11:00 p.m. on Tuesday 24th March police responded to a report of a shooting that occurred on Parsons Road, Pembroke. “Officers found that a man had been shot in his arm […]

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Court: Two Charged With Breaching Regulations

Two people were charged in Court today with breaching the Stay in Shelter Curfew Regulations, with both pleading not guilty. A Government spokesperson confirmed that, “two defendants appeared in Plea Court as follows: “The Defendant Raoul Simons was charged with breaching the Stay in Shelter Curfew Regulations as well as the use of offensive words […]

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Technical Appendix to Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile

This technical appendix from the TRB Airport Cooperative Research Program, ACRP Web-Only Document 38: Technical Appendix to Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile , supplements ACRP Research Report 204: Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile with more detailed documentation of the research effort, including greater technical detail on the analytical models created for the research and their application.



  • http://www.trb.org/Resource.ashx?sn=cover_acrp_wod_38

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Assorted Calibers Podcast Ep 096: Weer’d Won’t Play Magic With Erin

Hello Internet! In This Episode: Erin and Weer’d talk about some of the latest restrictions due to the COVID-19 lockdown, and then discuss how it’s affected the latest Magic: the Gathering expansion; David talks about some of the challenges you … Continue reading




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Summer with Cessna

Reporting from Wichita is MSE junior Rachel who tells us about her summer internship working with Cessna Aircraft . I am doing a materials internship this summer in Wichita, Kansas at Cessna Aircraft (now part of Textron Aviation), in the metals group of the Materials and Processes Engineering division.  My internship requires me to inspect returned parts […]




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Tourism Outlook Forum Switched To Webinar

Tomorrow’s Tourism Outlook Forum examining 2020 challenges and opportunities “has been converted to a free, live webinar to satisfy public-health concerns around coronavirus.” The BTA said, “Although Bermuda has no confirmed cases of COVID-19 to date, the Bermuda government has urged the community to practise social distancing and avoid gatherings of more than 50 people. […]

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Fairmont Southampton Lights Up With Love

In light of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Fairmont Southampton has lit up select rooms across its property to form hearts in order to show support to all those affected. In an online post, the hotel said, “Fairmont Southampton loves you. Together we can overcome anything. Stay safe and be well.” As the island and world […]

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Video: Discussion With BTA’s Glenn Jones

Bermuda Tourism Authority Interim CEO Glenn Jones joined hosts Eron Hill and Ryan Robinson Perinchief for Bernews’ fifth episode in a special series about the Covid-19 pandemic. The BTA recently announced that the “Covid-19 crisis had a severe impact on Bermuda’s tourism industry in the first quarter of 2020, causing unprecedented declines in the island’s visitor […]

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National Politics With Ken Rudin

President Donald Trump maintained over the weekend that it’s safe for states to reopen during the pandemic and voiced support for anti-lockdown protesters that have rallied at statehouses in Ohio and Michigan. Former Vice President Joe Biden breaks weeks of silence and flatly denied the sexual assault allegation brought against him by former Senate aide Tara Reade, telling MSNBC “it never, never happened.”




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A Cool Idea to Catch Up With an Interstellar Visitor

Poor, dim-witted humanity. We used to think we were the center of everything. That wasn’t that long ago, and even though we’ve made tremendous advancements in our understanding of our situation here in space, we still have huge blind spots. For one, we’re only now waking up to the reality of interstellar objects passing through …

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Genetics Society of America honors outstanding contributions to genetics with 2020 GSA Awards

The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is pleased to announce the 2020 recipients of its annual awards for distinguished service in the field of genetics. The awardees were nominated and selected by their colleagues and will be recognized with presentations at The Allied Genetics Conference (TAGC), held April 22-26, 2020, in the metro Washington, DC area.




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UC San Diego Health Launches Drone Transport Program with UPS, Matternet

UC San Diego Health launches pilot project using drones to move medical samples, supplies and documents between Jacobs Medical Center, Moores Cancer Center and the Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine, speeding delivery of services and patient care currently managed through ground transport.




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Radiation: Spencer Stoner: going with the flow of slow TV

The beauty of slow TV, says Spencer Stoner, is that it’s different things to different people – a travelogue, an immersive experience, an awesome screensaver. After the success of last year’s Go South, Stoner has spent a month at sea filming Go Further South, a 12-hour journey from Bluff to Antarctica.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Go Further South is perfect for self-isolation.
It’s kind-of an unhappy accident. I’ve been in the final stage of editing and every day I feel like I’m sailing through the Ross Sea in Antarctica and it’s cool to think that…




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Radiation: 7 Minutes with Miss Fisher

Like everyone, the film and television industry is facing unprecedented impacts from the pandemic, with hundreds of productions suspended and thousands of workers unemployed. But I wonder if, for some of the big names, it’s a sneaky holiday, a time away from the relentless publicity hustle. 
Over the years doing entertainment interviews for the NZ Listener, time allowed with subjects became shorter and there was, invariably, a PR person policing the conversation. You might be one of 10 journos in a queue or required to take part in a shared interview; I was once on the line with David Attenborough…




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Your Pet Loss Diaries'Theresa, Zeus & Shimma'Another Year Without You Oct 2013 xxxxOct 27, 2013

Dear Shim Shim, I hate this month, it's so miserable and even more so cos you passed on Halloween eve. I remember it all so vividly, your loss and Zeusy's




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ComicLab Podcast with Gale Galligan

EPISODE SUMMARY Today's show is brought to you by Wacom — makers of the incredible Wacom One! This week, the ComicLab guys talk shop with Gale Galligan, creator of the bestselling Babysitter's Club graphic novels. See all of Gale's latest at Galesaur.com. EPISODE NOTES Today's show is brought to you by Wacom — makers of the incredible Wacom One! This week, the ComicLab guys talk shop with Gale Galligan, creator of the bestselling Babysitter's Club graphic novels.




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Ask A Librarian: What is the deal with “free” ebook sites?

It’s been an odd set of months. I got busy with Drop-In Time and then very un-busy. I’ve been keeping...




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Platform.sh + Lando: local dev in perfect sync with the cloud - platform.sh

Platform.sh removes a major pain point for developers: having to invest time in managing servers, virtual machines, or containers. Instead, Platform.sh enables developers to focus 100% of their time on their code. Since the beginning, Platform.sh has provided instant cloning capability, so dev teams can work on perfect copies of their production sites in the cloud for every Git branch. Now, in partnership with Lando, we’re extending that capability to the desktop.




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Switching phubb's HTTP client - Christian Weiske

phubb is a WebSub hub that notifies subscribers in realtime when your website is updated.

Up to this year, phubb sent HTTP requests (GET + POST) with file_get_contents() and a HTTP stream context - see my previous example.

But then I needed a 100% correct way of detecting a page's Hub URL, and copied the code from phinde, my blog search engine. With that I introduced a dependency to PEAR's good old HTTP_Request2 library and I decided to use that library for all requests.

Unfortunately, now the problems began: During development I got an error in about one of 10-20 requests on my machine and could not find the cause:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught HTTP_Request2_MessageException: Malformed response:  in HTTP/Request2/Adapter/Socket.php on line 1019

#0 HTTP/Request2/Adapter/Socket.php(1019): HTTP_Request2_Response->__construct('', true, Object(Net_URL2))
#1 HTTP/Request2/Adapter/Socket.php(136): HTTP_Request2_Adapter_Socket->readResponse()
#2 HTTP/Request2.php(946): HTTP_Request2_Adapter_Socket->sendRequest(Object(phubbHttpRequest))
#3 phubb/src/phubb/HttpRequest.php(22): HTTP_Request2->send()
#4 phubb/src/phubb/Task/Publish.php(283): phubbHttpRequest->send()
#5 phubb/src/phubb/Task/Publish.php(248): phubbTask_Publish->fetchTopic(Object(phubbModel_Topic))
#6 phubb/src/phubb/Task/Publish.php(77): phubbTask_Publish->checkTopicUpdate('http://push-tes...')
#7  in HTTP/Request2/Response.php on line 215

The socket adapter has this problem, and I did not want to try to debug that strange problem. (No idea if the cURL one has it; I do not want to rely on php-curl). Finding a new HTTP library was the only option.

New HTTP library

The PHP Framework Interop Group has several HTTP-related proposals; one of them PSR-18: HTTP Client. Now that we have a standardized way to send HTTP requests in 2020, I should use a library that implements it.

The psr-18 topic on Github listed some clients:

Symfony's HTTP client was among them, and it provides a mock client for unit tests! Unfortunately, it also introduces a million dependencies.

There were two others that looked ok-ish on first sight (diciotto and http-client-curl) but both of them had no mock client, and the latter was even curl only. Again nothing for me.

Then I found PHP-HTTP that promises a standard interface for HTTP clients in PHP, and it supports PSR-18! It even has a socket client that has nearly no dependencies, and a mock client for unit tests. I'll try that one for now.