"London phone booths find new life as charging stations" New York Times Syndicate October 04, 2014
An enabler if not criminal collaborator of organized crime when you think about it.
LONDON — They are much loved but little used these days, so Britain’s red telephone booths are often creatively repurposed — as tiny public libraries, art installations, shower stalls, places to keep defibrillators, elongated aquariums, and even the world’s smallest pub.
Now someone has come up with a reuse that actually involves phones, the mobile kind that helped make the venerable kiosks obsolete.
Two entrepreneurs are transforming decommissioned telephone booths (they call them boxes in Britain) into charging stations for mobile devices. The first one was unveiled in London this week, and five more are set to be operating in the city soon.
The booths, now painted green and named Solarboxes, can charge up to 100 phones or tablets a day, the entrepreneurs say. The service is free: The power comes from a 33-inch solar panel on the roof, and other costs are covered by advertising displayed on a screen inside while a device is charging.
Kirsty Kenney and Harold Craston, two geography graduates from the London School of Economics, are behind the initiative.
They won 5,000 pounds ($8,000) to finance the project this year in a Low Carbon Entrepreneur competition sponsored by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson....
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Also a major purveyor of crap I really don't care about these days, too.
The call out to France was not included in my printed paper.
NEXT DAY UPDATE:
The call from Russia made it through:
"Russian opposition figure asks for asylum in UK" Associated Press October 07, 2014
MOSCOW — Vladimir Ashurkov is the right-hand man of top Russian opposition leader and anticorruption blogger Alexei Navalny, who has been under house arrest since February. Ashurkov and several other people close to Navalny have come under increasing scrutiny in recent months and been the frequent subject of house searches.
The opposition movement has been growing in Russia, aimed at replacing President Vladimir Putin.
In other words, these are the US agents that will come to power in the event of a successful U.S. coup attempt. First China, and now talking Russia. What psychopathic idiots are our leaders.
Last week, another opposition leader, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, spoke in Washington before the advocacy group Freedom House, his first speech in the United States since being released from prison last year.
Part of the NED, which we now know from what is going on in Hong Kong is CIA. Look at the funders! NED = CIA, AID = CIA, BG = CIA.
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