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Rattlesnake in garage gives Brighton man a scare
The venomous eastern massasauga rattlesnake is a rare sight for most residents, but one was found in a man's garage.
Rattlesnake in garage gives Brighton man a scare The venomous eastern massasauga rattlesnake is a rare sight for most residents, but one was found in a man's garage. Check out this story on livingstondaily.com: http://ldpaa.com/2wPZt8K
Laura Colvin, Livingston Daily Published 5:41 p.m. ET Aug. 11, 2017 | Updated 5:43 p.m. ET Aug. 11, 2017
Bob Kakaley of Brighton Township found what's believed to be an eastern massasauga rattlesnake in his garage Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017.(Photo: Jennifer Kakaley)
A Brighton Township man said he "screamed like a little girl" when he encountered what he believes was an eastern massasauga rattlesnake in his garage.
On Wednesday, Bob Kakaley came home from work about 3:30 p.m. As usual, he opened the garage door and walked through to enter the house, which is on Aberdeen Lane, just east of U.S.-23.
A few minutes later, he left the garage door open and headed to Kroger to fill a honey-do list for his wife, Carolyn.
When he returned and began stacking the pop he'd purchased in its usual place in the garage, he was greeted by the snake.
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“All of a sudden, this thing started rattling at me,” Kakaley said, noting the snake was coiled about six inches from his hand with its head raised “like a cobra would.”
“I screamed like a little girl and ran to the front door and started pounding on it,” he said. “My wife inside, she thought I fell or something because she heard me scream."
"Yeah, I don’t like snakes," he laughed.
The couple went inside and quickly looked online for some direction, then decided to call 9-1-1.
Michigan State Police Trooper Christopher McIntosh scoops what's believed to be an eastern massasauga rattlesnake into a box at a Brighton Township home Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. (Photo: Jennifer Kakaley)
Michigan State Police Trooper Christopher McIntosh responded to the call and, after making a few phone calls, decided he'd have to take matters into his own hands.
McIntosh could not immediately be reached for comment, but Kakaley said the trooper used an old weed whacker box to push the snake against the wall and into the box, then pulled a pillowcase over the top to keep the snake inside.
Kakaley said the trooper told him he would release the snake away from the residential area. A marshy area, prime massasauga habitat, separates Kakaley's property from U.S.-23.
"He asked me if I wanted my box or my pillow case back," Kakaley said. "I said 'Nope, you can keep them.'"
"He was an awesome cop," Kakaley added. "He handled the situation quite well."
Hannah Schauer, a communications coordinator for the DNR's wildlife division, said the photo provided by Kakaley to the Livingston Daily appears to be an eastern massasauga rattlesnake.
"I can't say for certain because I cannot see the head or the tail, but the markings on the body do look consistent with a massasauga rattlesnake," Schauer said, noting while no other species of rattlesnakes inhabit Michigan, other snakes can mimic a rattlesnake.
"Other snakes will wiggle or vibrate the tips of the tail....to scare away potential predators, but it will not have the distinctive rattle," she said.
According to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources website, the eastern massasauga, Michigan's only venomous snake, can be found throughout the lower peninsula, but tend to avoid confrontation with humans and are thus a rare sight for most residents.
The snakes possess a potent venom and can easily puncture skin with their short fangs, but are not prone to strike unless confronted by a potential predator.
In September 2016, the eastern massasauga rattlesnake received federal protection as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
Contact reporter Laura Colvin at 517-552-2848 or lcolvin@livingstondaily.com or follow her on Twitter: @LauraColvin22
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Ex-beauty queen under fire for claims big game hunting helps conservation
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A big game hunter and former beauty queen is facing backlash after she claimed in a television interview that hunting helps with anti-poaching and conservation efforts.
Oliva Nalos Opre, who won the title of Mrs. Nebraska in 2003, spoke about her hobby on the U.K.-based show “This Morning” via satellite Wednesday from her home in Montana.
The mother of four told hosts Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby she’s killed about 100 species of animals in six different continents.
Her Facebook bio says she’s hunted in Benin, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Argentina, Mongolia, France, Spain, Romania, New Zealand, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States.
She also discussed her belief that “hunters are the ones that are giving so much back to preserving the wild species.”
“No photographer is going to go to Liberia to take a photograph. But hunters have that desire to see new areas, and as a result of these hunters coming in, they’re creating jobs, they’re helping to drill wells and take animal censuses, and what’s most important is the anti-poaching efforts,” Opre said. “There are biologists that have been paid for by hunters’ trophy dollars that go in and take censuses,” she added.
Opre also claimed that organizations like Safari Club International do research in hunting areas in order to make sure the “numbers are sustainable.”
Big game hunters such as Opre often receive harsh backlash, especially online, when they share images of their “trophies.”
Earlier this week, a fellow big game hunter and friend of Opre’s, Brittany Longoria, was shamed online for killing a leopard in Namibia.
The photo of Longoria holding the carcass of the big cat went viral after it was posted on Instagram by David Bonnouvrier, co-founder of “Knot on my Planet,” an organization that works to end elephant ivory poaching.
It was later shared by many others, including celebrities like Naomi Campbell, Doutzen Kroes and Kyle Richards, all of whom expressed their disapproval of Longoria’s hobby.
Opre has also been the focus of social media backlash, with commenters calling her “vile” and “evil,” among other insults.
“There’s a huge difference between hunting and poaching, and what hunters are doing is legal. So when you have death threats on somebody who has done something legal, it’s extremely frustrating,” she said.
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Current: Birds in Art Subsequent Touring Exhibition
Following the close of the annual Birds in Art exhibition at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum each fall, 60 of the 100+ artworks embark on a national tour; click here for the list of venues. The annual Birds in Art touring exhibition and other touring exhibitions drawn from the Woodson Art Museum’s collection, focused on art of the natural world, are available for presentation at other venues.
Download Birds in Art Touring Exhibition Sheet
Number of works: 50 paintings and works on paper; 10 sculptures
Running feet: 250-350
Insurance: Provided by Woodson Art Museum
Exhibition period: eight weeks/longer periods available on a prorated basis
Fee: $7500 (includes 100 fully illustrated catalogues), prorated shipping
Availability: Following each fall Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum venue, the exhibition is available from December through the following fall.
The feather forecast is always favorable when Birds in Art is on view. Whether the subjects are backyard feeder favorites or exotic species from around the world, an international cast of artists interprets avian themes and habitats employing diverse styles and mediums. Art lovers and bird lovers alike always find something to crow about as they discover the harmony and serenity or the power and tension that infuse these artworks.
For additional information or to schedule an exhibition, connect with Allison Slavick or call her at 715.798.2477.
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Microeconomics in Modules
Fourth Edition| ©2019 Paul Krugman; Robin Wells
When it comes to explaining fundamental economic principles by drawing on current economic issues and events, there are no authors more effective than Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and co-author, Robin Wells. Here, Krugman and Wells’ signature storytelling style
When it comes to explaining fundamental economic principles by drawing on current economic issues and events, there are no authors more effective than Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and co-author, Robin Wells. Here, Krugman and Wells’ signature storytelling style and uncanny eye for revealing examples come together in an accessible, modular format to help readers understand how economic concepts play out in our world. Instead of having chapters of traditional length, this version covers the core concepts of economics in a series of brief modules, each focused on one topic and designed to assigned in any order and read comfortably in one sitting.
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A modular version of Krugman and Wells -- more accessible than ever. The modular version of Krugman/Wells has always been easy to use and easy to teach. The new edition is more accessible than ever with streamlined modules, clarified explanations, and a focus on the most important concepts.
New Discovering Data activities help students interpret, analyze, share, and report on data. Students develop data literacy by completing these new Interactive Activities—step-by-step problems that have students use up-to-the-minute FRED data.
New online feature, News Analysis, adds to the book’s exceptional currency. Their new online feature pairs journalistic takes on pressing issues with questions based on Bloom’s taxonomy. This complements the unparalleled coverage of current topics including sustainability, the economic impact of technology, pressing policy debates, and much more.
A richer commitment to broadening students’ understanding of the global economy. With unparalleled insight and clarity, the authors use their hallmark narrative approach to take students outside of the classroom and into our global world. Starting with a new opening story on the economic transformation in China’s Pearl River Delta, the global focus is carried throughout with more on the ascendance of China’s economy, the Euro and events in Europe (including Brexit), and post-recession economies around the globe.
Thoroughly updated throughout. The fifth edition has been updated to reflect our always changing world. Along with updated graphs and changes in every chapter in the text, the new edition features 8 new chapter-opening stories, 8 new business cases, and 26 new Economics in Action Applications.
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"I teach at a community college. One of my primary goals is to teach students how to learn and study so that they can be successful in future courses. Economics in Modules is the perfect textbook for my students who are new to the learning process. Economics in Modules breaks the curriculum down into bite sized pieces for students. A chapter of a "traditional" textbook can be daunting for students. However, each module in Economics in Modules is only 3 to 7 pages. It "seems" shorter to students, even if it is the same length as the material covered in other textbooks. Microeconomics in Modules allows me to cover one module per class; students know exactly what is going to be covered in each class. Since each section is broken down into digestible pieces, students learn how to study a bit each day and preview the textbook before class."
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"My impression of the Mods text is that by dividing the material in modules, which are smaller than chapters, students feel the material is more manageable. This format also benefits the instructor, because it's easier to exclude a segment of a chapter this way (by excluding just one module or more). I haven't used it yet--I will start using Mods this fall. So far though, I already like to authors and I like the format. The rest seems pretty standard, so I haven't found anything I dislike."
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Section 1: Basic Economic Concepts
Module 1: The Study of Economics
Module 2: Models and the Production Possibility Frontier
Module 3: Comparative Advantage and Trade
Module 4: The Circular Flow Diagram
Section 1A: Graphing Appendix
Section 2: Supply and Demand
Module 5: Demand
Module 6: Supply and Equilibrium
Module 7: Changes in Equilibrium
Section 3: Market Efficiency and Government Policy
Module 8: Consumer and Producer Surplus
Module 9: Efficiency and Markets
Module 10: Price Controls (Ceilings and Floors)
Section 4: Elasticity and Law of Demand
Module 11: Defining and Measuring Elasticity
Module 12: Interpreting Price Elasticity of Demand
Module 13: Other Elasticities
Module 14: The Benefits and Costs of Taxation
Section 5: International Trade
Module 15: Gains from Trade
Module 16: Supply, Demand, and International Trade
Section 6: Economics and Decision Making
Module 17: Making Decisions
Module 18: Behavioral Economics
Module 19: Maximizing Utility
Section 7: Production and Costs
Module 20: The Production Function
Module 21: Firm Costs
Module 22: Long-Run Costs and Economies of Scale
Section 8: Market Structure and Perfect Competition
Module 23: Introduction to Market Structure
Module 24: Perfect Competition
Module 25: Graphing Perfect Competition
Module 26: Long-Run Outcomes in Perfect Competition
Section 9: Monopoly
Module 27: Monopoly in Practice
Module 28: Monopoly and Public Policy
Module 29: Price Discrimination
Section 10: Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
Module 30: Oligopoly
Module 31: Game Theory
Module 32: Monopolistic Competition
Module 33: Product Differentiation and Advertising
Section 11: Market Failure and the Role of Government
Module 34: Externalities
Module 35: Externalities and Public Policy
Module 36: Public Goods and Common Resources
Section 12: Factor Markets and the Distribution of Income
Module 37: The Economics of Information
Module 38: Factor Markets
Module 39: Marginal Productivity Theory
Module 40: The Market for Labor
Module 41: The Economics of the Welfare State
Paul Krugman, recipient of the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, taught at Princeton University for 14 years. In 2015, he joined the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, associated with the Luxembourg Income Study, which tracks and analyzes income inequality around the world. He received his BA from Yale and his PhD from MIT. Before Princeton, he taught at Yale, Stanford, and MIT. He also spent a year on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisers in 1982–1983. His research has included trailblazing work on international trade, economic geography, and currency crises. In 1991, Krugman received the American Economic Association’s John Bates Clark medal. In addition to his teaching and academic research, Krugman writes extensively for nontechnical audiences. He is a regular op-ed columnist for the New York Times. His best-selling trade books include End This Depression Now!, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, a history of recent economic troubles and their implications for economic policy, and The Conscience of a Liberal, a study of the political economy of economic inequality and its relationship with political polarization from the Gilded Age to the present. His earlier books, Peddling Prosperity and The Age of Diminished Expectations, have become modern classics.
Robin Wells was a lecturer and researcher in Economics at Princeton University, where she has taught undergraduate courses. She received her BA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley; she then did her postdoctoral work at MIT. She has taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Southhampton (United Kingdom), Stanford, and MIT.
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A 2019 iPhone wish list
A mostly reality-based look at what we could see from Apple next week.
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iPhone increments
Photos are always the attraction
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The cycle continues
We’re less than a week away from Apple’s latest fall media event, and that means it’s the last opportunity for us all to straddle the worlds of cold, hard reality and the fantastic scenarios where everything we dream about Apple releasing could still happen.
I generally prefer to dwell in reality, but I accept that sometimes my hopes get the best of me and a little bit of wish-casting sneaks into my cold, hard analysis. Admitting that is probably the first step on a long road to recovery. In the meantime, however, here’s a mostly reality-based look at what I’m hoping to see from Apple next week.
The star of every fall Apple media event is the iPhone, given how it’s by far Apple’s biggest and most popular product. And yet this year promises to be a little lackluster in this regard, mostly because all signs point to this being the third version of the phone design that began with the iPhone X, as well as the second version of the iPhone XR. Or to put it another way, for the first time since 2016, there won’t be a shiny new iPhone model that’s unlike anything we’ve seen before.
Still, Apple plays the incremental update game better than anyone, and while the general public may find another same-looking iPhone uninteresting, these iterative designs sometimes show Apple at its creative best, forced to generate selling features without the star power of a newly redesigned case.
Nobody ever lost money betting on upgraded photography features in a new smartphone. Yes, our phones are our connection to a wider world and that’s why we carry them, but the second most important thing they are is cameras that we can use to document our lives. Apple has always made sure that new iPhones have camera upgrades, and this year’s models seem to be no different.
Rumor has it that the follow-up to the iPhone XR will add a second rear camera, an upgrade from the single camera.
The rumors have it that the iPhone XR’s successor will add a second rear camera, which is excellent. I love the iPhone XR, but the single feature that I miss the most that’s on the iPhone XS is that second camera. I don’t miss Portrait Mode as much as I miss the ability to zoom in without losing quality. I use the 2x lens on my iPhone XS all the time, and adding that feature to the XR’s successor will make that already-appealing model even better.
On the high-end phones, the rumors is that they’ll be adding a third camera, this one a wide-angle lens. Sounds good—I was just hiking on a National Seashore and had to keep taking panoramas to really give my photos a sense of the grandeur. But the real story here is that on smartphones, it’s easier to add more cameras than it is to offer a single camera that can zoom in and out—and that’s all due to the physics of ultra-thin smartphones and camera optics.
The trick is how to knit these different cameras together in a way that makes it feel like a single camera experience, and that comes down to software. Apple has generally excelled in this area—the transition between the 1x and 2x lenses as you zoom in the Camera app is seamless. If Apple can use some of its sophisticated machine-learning algorithms to do things that are rumored, like using data from the wide-angle camera to give you the option to reveal imagery beyond the edge of your initial photograph, that would seem like magic—and it’s preferable to letting users get bogged down in the details of which lens to use when they’re just trying to capture a precious moment.
Likewise, Apple would be well served by getting its low-light photography game in order. Google and other smartphone companies have recently emphasized new “night modes” where a combination of long exposures and machine-learning algorithms can capture dark scenes with remarkable clarity. Apple has avoided playing this game thus far, perhaps because of its philosophy to reflect reality as much as possible in photographs, but the Google Pixel’s Night Mode can generate some incredible photographs. Apple needs to get in the game.
I’d like to pretend that the 2018 iPhone naming cycle didn’t happen. iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max? Mixing a letter that should be pronounced like a roman numeral with a letter that should be pronounced like a letter, and then following that up with “Max”… no, thank you.
The "X" nomenclature for the iPhone could end next week.
Apple has the opportunity to simplify its iPhone marketing this year, and I hope it goes all the way. Making the iPhone XR’s successor the iPhone 11 not only provides a huge amount of naming clarity, but positions that phone as the base-model iPhone. It’s such a good mix of price and features that I think it can hold down the iPhone name quite well on its own.
That frees the more expensive phones to be tagged with a name that calls out that fact—presumably iPhone 11 Pro. Why wouldn’t you name your high-end phone something that singles out it’s the high-end model? It’s time.
I’m also a believer that the iPhone 11 Pro should follow in the footsteps of literally every other Apple product, and stop naming products entirely based on screen size. The 15-inch MacBook Pro isn’t the MacBook Pro Max, nor is the 12.9-inch iPad Pro the iPad Pro Max. So the larger iPhone should just be the 6.5-inch iPhone Pro.
The iPhone XR brought color back to the iPhone product line, with six different shades—okay, four bright colors plus black and white. I sure hope that trend continues. Apple can offer new colors every year, which has proven to be a successful way to keep selling Apple Watch bands. I wish the high-end phones would also gain some color, too, but Apple thus far seems committed to the silver-gray-gold trio as more befitting an iPhone Pro.
On September 10, we’ll get our answer. There will be new iPhones, welcomed by some and shunned by others. As iterations of existing products, close phone watchers will probably be bored by them. But the fact is, smartphone buying is a multi-year cycle these days. Somewhere, out there, there’s the user of an iPhone 6S who is ready to upgrade. And they’ll be looking at all of these phones carefully. So it goes. Today’s new iPhone is tomorrow’s sparkling opportunity to trade in for an upgrade.
Jason was lead editor at Macworld for more than a decade and now writes about Apple at Six Colors and podcasts at Relay FM and The Incomparable.
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Home Class Ae 8/14 Double Electric Locomotive
Serie Ae 8/14, SBB | Gauge H0 - Article No. 37595
Class Ae 8/14 Double Electric Locomotive
Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) class Ae 8/14 double electric locomotive. Fir green basic paint scheme. Version with 2 pantographs. Older design buffers with rectangular buffer plates. Locomotive road number 11801. The locomotive looks as it did after 1964.
Mechanisms for raising and lowering both pantographs in digital control are included for the first time.
Lighting in each cab can be controlled separately in digital operation.
An mfx+ World of Operation digital decoder and a variety of operation and sound functions included.
Model: This locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive light and sound functions. Controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel is in each locomotive half. 2 axles powered in each locomotive half. Traction tires. The triple headlights and 1 white marker light change over with the direction of travel, will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The white marker light can be changed to 1 red marker light when the locomotive is running "light.” The...
Model: This locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive light and sound functions. Controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel is in each locomotive half. 2 axles powered in each locomotive half. Traction tires. The triple headlights and 1 white marker light change over with the direction of travel, will work in conventional operation and can be controlled digitally. The white marker light can be changed to 1 red marker light when the locomotive is running "light.” The headlights at Locomotive Ends 2 and 1 can be turned off separately in digital operation. When the headlights are off at both ends, the double "A" lights are on at both ends. The cab lighting for each locomotive half can be controlled separately in digital operation. Maintenance-free warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting. There are mechanisms to raise and lower both pantographs, which can be controlled separately in digital operation. On both ends there are prototypical imprinted chalkboards on the sheet metal frame of the buffer beams. A booklet about the history of the locomotive is included. Length over the buffers 39.1 cm / 15-3/8".
Prototype information
37595 – SBB Ae 8/14 11801 The growing requirements for power and speed, the growth in traffic on the Gotthard, and the provision of motive power for the grades on the Gotthard and on the Monte Ceneri led to the construction of two double locomotives at the start of 1930. These units, road numbers Ae 8/14 11801 and 11851, were placed into service by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in the years 1931 and 1932. They were capable of 100 km/h / 63 mph and pulled 600 metric ton passenger trains at 62...
37595 – SBB Ae 8/14 11801 The growing requirements for power and speed, the growth in traffic on the Gotthard, and the provision of motive power for the grades on the Gotthard and on the Monte Ceneri led to the construction of two double locomotives at the start of 1930. These units, road numbers Ae 8/14 11801 and 11851, were placed into service by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in the years 1931 and 1932. They were capable of 100 km/h / 63 mph and pulled 600 metric ton passenger trains at 62 km/h / 39 mph and 750 metric ton freight trains at 50 km/h / 31 mph up 2.7% grades. Externally, both units were mostly identical with their wheel arrangement (2A)A2A(A2)+(2A)A2A(A2). Where they differed considerably was in their propulsion concepts. Road number 11801 realized as a model had a Buchli drive per powered wheel set that was almost identical to the Ae 4/7. This produced 5,514 kilowatts / 7,391 horsepower of performance. The two outer powered wheel sets for each locomotive half were put together with the end wheel sets to form a truck in the running gear. Since the middle wheel sets had side play, each locomotive half was guided merely by the centering of the trucks. These units could thus negotiate curves of 100 meters / 325 feet radius. The main frame of each locomotive half was suspended at four main support points, whereby the suspension springs for all the powered wheel sets and the middle non-powered wheel set were connected by equalization levers. A new feature was the relief of the strain on the middle wheel sets for each locomotive half for difficult startups by increasing the pressure on the powered wheel sets. The latter went from around 20 to about 21.5 metric tons and thereby increased the adhesion weight from 160 to 172 metric tons. Also new was the voltage and speed control on the high voltage side of the transformer with a high voltage control with 28 speed levels. Road number Ae 8/14 11801 was available for the SBB starting in December of 1931 and was assigned to the Erstfeld Depot. Naturally, the locomotive was tested intensively and numerous partially stubborn teething problems were repaired. It was used on the Gotthard and on the approach lines whereby it came to Lucerne and Zürich with passenger trains. It was in heavy freight train service however that the Ae 8/14 designated by locomotive crews as "The Big One" could really show what it had. The handwriting was not on the wall for this double locomotive until the Re 6/6 was first put into service. It was retired in 1977 after over 5,800,000 km / 3,620,000 miles of operation. It was overhauled and made operational again for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Gotthard in 1981. In 1984, it went as an historic locomotive into the SBB's museum roster and it has since been maintained by the workers at the Erstfeld Depot in operational condition.
) Metal frame and locomotive body.
P Triple headlights and a white marker light that change over with the direction of travel.
O Triple headlights and a red marker light that change over with the direction of travel.
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Engineer’s cab lighting
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Operating sounds
Brake Compressor
Letting off Air
Headlight(s): Cab2 End
Conductor's Whistle
Stat. Announce. - Swiss
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World shares fall after Democrats turn up heat on Trump
BANGKOK (AP) — Global stocks skidded Wednesday after Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said they intended to launch an impeachment probe of President Donald Trump. The losses followed declines overnight as investors' attention swung from headlines on trade to data showing a drop in U.S. consumer confidence.
An investor drinks from a cap while monitoring stock prices at a brokerage in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Stocks skidded in Asia on Wednesday after Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said they were considered launching an impeachment probe of President Donald Trump.
An investor digs his ear while monitoring stock prices at a brokerage in Beijing on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Stocks skidded in Asia on Wednesday after Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said they were considered launching an impeachment probe of President Donald Trump.
An investor rests while monitoring stock prices at a brokerage in Beijing Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Stocks skidded in Asia on Wednesday after Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said they were considered launching an impeachment probe of President Donald Trump.
A man uses his mobile phone while monitoring stock prices at a brokerage in Beijing on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Stocks skidded in Asia on Wednesday after Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives said they were considered launching an impeachment probe of President Donald Trump.
Germany's DAX sank 1.2% to 12,165 and the CAC 40 in Paris lost 1.5% to 5,542. Britain's FTSE 100 lost 1.1% to 7,214. Wall Street was also set for losses, with the future contracts for the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 down 0.1% and 0.2%.
Lawmakers in Britain were returning to the House of Commons following a Supreme Court ruling that Prime Minister Boris Johnson had acted illegally by suspending Parliament. Johnson was rushing back to London, cutting short a trip to the U.N. General Assembly, amid demands for his resignation from furious opposition parties.
Johnson was due to address Parliament on Wednesday as he fights to extract Britain from the EU on Oct. 31 even if the two sides do not reach a "divorce" deal. In the U.S., the announcement by Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House, about a possible impeachment inquiry came after markets closed Tuesday though news the Democrats were considering a probe broke earlier in the day.
On Twitter, Trump described the possible impeachment inquiry as a "total Witch Hunt." History shows the impeachment of a president doesn't necessarily mean disaster for the stock market, but the impeachment issue adds to the uncertainties already overhanging markets, including strife in the Middle East and Britain's troubled exit from the European Union as well as trade frictions.
"It would be difficult for the market to ascertain how long this matter will drag and the concurrent impact upon U.S.-China trade, which is the bigger worry at present," Jingyi Pan of IG said in a commentary.
Asian markets tracked Wall Street losses, with Japan's Nikkei 225 index losing 0.4% to 22,020.15. The Shanghai Composite gave up 1.0% to 2,955.43 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong lost 1.3% to 25,948.33.
The S&P ASX 200 in Sydney slid 0.6% to 6,710.20. Shares also fell in India, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Investors are also looking ahead to trade talks between the U.S. and China. Tensions in the tariffs war between the two biggest economies had recently eased somewhat, prompting speculation that the next round of negotiations, in October, might at least yield an interim deal on trade.
But Trump dampened optimism with remarks before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday about the need for a "fair" trade pact. He also threatened more tariffs. Bonds rose and pushed yields lower, suggesting renewed caution among investors.
In energy markets, the benchmark crude oil contract fell 83 cents to $56.46 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It tumbled $1.35 a barrel on Tuesday. Brent crude oil, the international standard, gave up 96 cents to $61.16 per barrel. It dropped $1.61 in London the previous day.
The dollar rose to 107.33 Japanese yen from 107.09 yen on Tuesday. The euro fell to $1.0992 from $1.1020.
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The district initiative mirrors similar initiatives in other districts throughout the state seeking additional personnel for security purposes now that the State of New Jersey approved the use of a new Class III armed officer for the purposes of educational settings. The school district continues to implement various security measures, including visitor management system, security vestibules, and other physical and systematic improvements. Following various high profile school security events throughout the country and the district’s community security symposium on March 5, 2018, the Board of Education sought input from the school community and local law enforcement to address the community’s concerns. The outcome was the approval of the 2018/19 budget with a voter proposal question for an additional $400,000. Should the question be approved by the voters on November 6th, the school district would communicate the need for the additional personnel and the local police departments would post for the new positions. Subject to the hiring process, the district and police departments would identify an implementation timeline for the onboarding of the new police officers. The $400,000 would be certified as additional tax revenue to be raised by households in the Township of Aberdeen and the Borough of Matawan. Additional information on the budget and the voter proposal question may be found on the district’s website by visiting www.marsd.org.
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Pain Education May Help Patients Recover Better and Save More Money
Posted by Nick Ng | Oct 3, 2015 | Massage | 0 |
Last year, an American study published in Spine — led by Dr. Adriaan Louw from the International Spine and Pain Institute — showed that patients who received pain education with a physical therapist before they undergo lumbar radiculopathy surgery had better expectations and recovery than those who received no such education.(1) Patients who were eligible for the study were randomly assigned to an experimental group that included pain education with the standard consultation with their surgeon and a control group that received no pain education. All patients filled out surveys that measure their satisfaction, beliefs, and outcomes of the procedure. They were followed up in 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after the surgery in regards to their leg pain, low back pain, and disability.
While the pain education group had lower pain scores than the non-educated group during the 1-, 3-, 6-, and 9-month follow-ups, both groups scored almost the same after a year post-op — except for the leg pain score where the educated group scored higher. However, the cost of tests, treatments, and follow-ups in the pain education group is about 45 percent less — about $2,600 on average in savings per patient — than the non-educated group. The former group had less imaging and diagnostic tests and less visits to their physician, physical therapist, and/or chiropractor.
A previous study by Morris et al. that was also published in Spine also examined whether if patient education about pain can affect outcomes of spine surgery. (2) However, the content of the education is quite different. While the Morris pain education package is mostly based on anatomy, biomechanics, and pathology (based on the biomedical model), Louw’s pain education focuses on neurobiology and neurophysiology.
“If patients in the NE group in our trial did indeed view their pain and disability as being less about persistent tissue pathology and more about persistent nerve sensitivity, it may account for the observed decrease in health care utilization after their surgery,” Louw et al. wrote. (1)
Limitations and Considerations
Like almost all research, there are potential limitations that could affect the study’s results and outcome. First, the sample population only has lumbar radiculopathy and may not extrapolate to other types of lower back pain or pain in other body parts. The pain education itself was delivered in a single session without any future reinforcement to see if each patient had retained any of the information he or she had learned. (1) Also, there was no control of frequency, duration, and type of therapy the patients sought after their surgery.
However, Dr. Louw has further prospects for this study. “We published our data following one-year follow up. We are actually in the process of preparing for publication the three-year data,” Louw explained in an online interview with Massage & Fitness Magazine. “We tracked the patients three-years out (novel/uncommon in rehabilitation) and although we’re still working all the stats out, it seems our one-year findings get even better. At one-year post-surgery patients who received preop pain education spent 45 percent less on healthcare and had a superior surgical experience. Both of these extend to three years and seem to get even better. For example, healthcare savings are over 50 percent compared to people who did not get pain neuroscience education.”
Louw and his team went back to the patients who had received pre-op pain education and analyzed which pain messages or stories help them the most. Currently these new findings have been submitted and accepted in the European Spine Journal, according to Louw.
Why Was This Study Done?
“First and foremost, I personally was surrounded by some of the leading thinkers in this regard for the past 15 years (Gifford, Butler and Moseley) who heavily influenced my thinking,” Louw lauded. “Over time I became increasingly aware that any injury or tissue issue in high-anxiety states (i.e., trauma, surgery, war) lead to increased rates of persistent pain and disability. Clinically, I worked with a plethora of postoperative spine surgery patients and felt that by the time we saw them a lot of issues were entrenched. For my Master’s degree we designed a study where I interviewed patients after surgery to find out about their surgical experience and, along with other studies, found out they had poor beliefs, scared to death, and got very little information. At the same time early research showed that in other complex spine patients (chronic back pain), [pain education] was able to produce significant meaningful changes. We then devised (for my PhD) a series of questions we had to try and answer, culminating in the present study we published:
1. What do lumbar surgery lumbar surgery (LS) patients want?
2. What constitutes “usual” preoperative LS education?
3. What does the general population think about LS?
4. Is there any effective preoperative strategy that can be borrowed?
5. Is there any other effective strategy that can be borrowed for complex back patients?
6. What happens when a “surgical” brain understands more?
7. Can we develop a LS program using all of this information?
8. Does such a LS program produce superior results?
“Out of this we wanted to see if we developed a pain-specific pain education program if we could change post-surgical patient’s lives for the better.”
Spine surgery in the US is five times the rates of the UK and twice that of Canada, Australia and the Scandinavian countries, according to Louw. “One in three people after lumbar surgery have the same or more pain and disability than before surgery. Postoperative rehabilitation has some efficacy but patients are often not referred to physical therapy. The surgical experience and pain cause increased fear and anxiety.”
Can Massage Therapists Apply This Into Their Practice?
“Yes. All healthcare providers can learn pain neuroscience and share that with their patient,” Louw explained. “Pain neuroscience education’s key tenant is to take the complex pain material and get it on a level that they get it. You do have to, however, be ‘smarter than their patient’ so [therapists] need to study, learn, and know the material well. Remember, a little knowledge can be dangerous. We are now studying all kinds of parameters on ‘learning about pain’ and spreading it to parents, caregivers, kids, the elderly, etc.
“Pain education alone is helpful, but not as much when combined with movement and touch. In all the studies we analyzed, the pain education sessions that added some form of movement or touch had far superior outcomes in regards to pain relief versus pain education alone. So? Pain science is hands-on, not hands-off, which is good news for those using their hands.”
Armed with the principles of modern pain explanation, massage therapists can also contribute to patients’ or clients’ pain relief in addition to their hands-on work. While we may not need to go into too much details in neuroscience, how we communicate the information to the person lying on the table can affect the quality of our hands-on work.
1. Louw A, Diener I, Landers MR, Puentedura EJ. Preoperative pain neuroscience education for lumbar radiculopathy: a multicenter randomized controlled trial with 1-year follow-up. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2014 Aug 15;39(18):1449-57. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000444.
2. Morris S. et al. Function after spinal treatment, exercise, and rehabilitation: cost-effectiveness analysis based on a randomized controlled trial. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2011 Oct 1;36(21):1807-14. doi: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31821cba1f.
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FIFA Ban Samson Siasia From Every Sport Activities For Life - SEE REASON
by Okoye Patrick on Friday, August 16, 2019 in SPORT
Former Super Eagles player and coach, Samson Siasia, has been given a life ban by the world football governing body, FIFA. For bribing and match fixing for the purpose of betting.
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee of the world football body found Siasia to be guilty of having accepted that he would receive bribes in relation to the manipulation of matches in violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
According to the statement on the FIFA website, a wide-scale investigation was carried out on Siasia before the landmark judgment was delivered.
The statement read: "The formal ethics proceedings against Mr Siasia were initiated on 11 February 2019 and stem from an extensive investigation into matches that Mr Wilson Raj Perumal attempted to manipulate for betting purposes.
“This large-scale investigation was conducted by FIFA via its competent departments and in cooperation with the relevant stakeholders and authorities.
In its decision, the adjudicatory chamber found that Mr Siasia had breached art. 11 (Bribery) of the 2009 edition of the FIFA Code of Ethics and banned him for life from all football-related activities (administrative, sports or any other) at both national and international level.
In addition, a fine in the amount of CHF 50,000 has been imposed on Mr Siasia.
The decision was notified to Mr Siasia today, the date on which the ban comes into force"
Siasia played 51 international matches for Nigeria, in which he scored 13 goals. He was part of the team that participated in the 1994 FIFA World Cup and won the 1994 African Nations Cup.
He was also a member of the Nigerian team that won bronze at 1992 African Nations Cup in Senegal.
He participated in the National Team over a period of 11 years.
In 2005, Siasia coached the Under-20 team (Flying Eagles), taking them to the final of both the 2005 Under-20 World Cup and the U-20 African Youth Championship.
He won the African Youth Championship and advanced all the way to the world final – before losing to Argentina 2–1. He also assisted Augustine Eguavoen in coaching the national team.
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Low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for patients with aphasia after stoke: A meta-analysis
Yi Li, MD, Yun Qu, MD, Mengwei Yuan, MD and Tianhui Du, MD
From the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, West China Hospital, and Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Rehabilitation Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
OBJECTIVE: To perform a meta-analysis of studies investigating the effects of low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on post-stroke aphasia.
DATA SOURCES: Studies were identified by performing a search of electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), and Web of Knowledge) for articles published until June 2014.
STUDY SELECTION: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) reporting treatments with low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with post-stroke aphasia were included. The outcomes included naming, repetition, comprehension, changes in brain excitability, and adverse events.
DATA EXTRACTION: Two independent reviewers extracted the data. Study quality was evaluated with the PEDro scale.
Data analysis: Of the 879 articles identified, 4 RCTs were included in the final analysis. Data synthesis showed that low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation was beneficial for post-stroke patients in terms of naming (standard mean difference (SMD) 0.51; 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 0.16–0.86) and changes in brain excitability (7.6 ± 33.55; 95% CI –10.7–26.20). However, the changes in repetition (SMD 0.31; 95% CI –0.04–0.65) and comprehension (SMD 0.31; 95% CI –0.14–0.75) after stimulation were not significant. No adverse effects were reported. The included studies were of high methodological quality.
CONCLUSION: These findings indicate that low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation is an effective treatment for recovery of naming. In addition, this treatment favours reorganization of the left-hemispheric language networks.
Key words: transcranial magnetic stimulation; stroke; aphasia; meta-analysis.
Correspondence address: Yun Qu, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, West China Hospital., Sichuan Provincial Key Laboratory of Rehabilitation Medicine, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China, 610041 Chengdu, China. E-mail: quyben@126.com
Accepted Apr 24, 2015; Epub ahead of print Jul 15, 2015
With an ageing population worldwide, ischaemic stroke has emerged as a leading cause of disability, representing a significant healthcare burden. It has been conservatively estimated that there will be a marked increase in the incidence of stroke to 9 million people annually, particularly in individuals over 65 years of age (1). Post-stroke aphasia, which is a frequent sequela of stroke, occurs in approximately 30% of stroke victims, substantially affecting patients’ quality of life, with significant impairment of both mental and physical components (2). However, compared with spontaneous motor recovery, spontaneous aphasia recovery occurs at a slower rate and over a longer period of time (3). Speech and language therapy (SLT) has been reported to improve various aspects of aphasia, in a study focusing on early intervention as well as training intensity and duration (4). However, the few studies that have evaluated drug therapies have reported limited effects (5). Accordingly, the development of a new treatment option is crucial for patients with post-stroke aphasia.
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), which is a non-invasive and well-tolerated brain stimulation method that acts on the cerebral cortex, may be effective for the treatment of aphasia (6, 7). rTMS induces a magnetic field followed by an electromotive force after penetrating the brain tissue, resulting in changes in cerebral cortex excitability (8). Usually the boundary between inhibitory and excitatory stimulation is set at 4–5 Hz. Lower frequencies can inhibit cortical excitability, whereas higher frequencies have the opposite effect. Under normal physiological conditions, the language centre is located in the dominant hemisphere. However, when aphasic patients perform language tasks, the perilesional areas in the left hemispheric and contralateral homotopic regions show abnormal excitability. This activity is thought to hinder language recovery (9). Therefore, the goals of aphasic recovery are to balance bilateral hemispheric excitability and to reorganize the language network. Other studies have suggested that reducing the excitability of the non-dominant hemisphere with low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (LF-rTMS) and subsequently relieving the inhibition of the dominant hemisphere could promote a restorative process (10, 11). However, the findings with regard to the effects of LF-rTMS have hitherto been controversial.
Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of LF-rTMS in post-stroke aphasia via a systematic review and a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
Search strategy and selection criteria
Four online databases (MEDLINE, Embase, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) and the Web of Knowledge) were searched for articles published until June 2014 using the following search terms: (transcranial magnetic stimulation or repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS or rTMS) AND (aphasia or language disorders or speech disorders or anomia or aphasi$ or dysphasi$ or anomic).The search was limited to RCTs. The reference lists of the relevant studies were also carefully reviewed to identify additional studies for inclusion.
Studies were included if they met the following criteria: (i) the design was an RCT or a randomized controlled crossover trial and, for the latter, only the first period in the parallel group design was included in the analysis; and (ii) the patients were at least 18 years old; (iii) the experimental group underwent LF-rTMS alone or LF-rTMS plus SLT or any other approach for improving aphasia, and the control group underwent sham LF-rTMS alone or sham LF-rTMS plus SLT or any other approach or no intervention; (iv) the articles were published in peer-reviewed journals in English. The exclusion criteria included: (i) quasi-RCTs; (ii) with several articles from the same study, only the one with the most patients and the latest and most complete data was chosen; (iii) articles presented at international meetings with no specific data provided, even after contacting the author.
Data extraction and quality assessment
In accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines for systematic reviews, 2 independent reviewers (YL and MY) performed the literature search. A third independent reviewer (TD) determined study eligibility when there was a discrepancy. Two investigators (YL and MY) extracted the data pertaining to the patient numbers and characteristics, intervention strategies, mean outcomes and standard deviations of the outcomes as well as the adverse events.
Quality assessments were evaluated with the PEDro scale, which assigns a score from 0 to 10, with a higher score indicating greater quality (12), as follows: 9–10: excellent; 6–8: very good; 4–5: good; < 4: poor (13).
Data synthesis and analysis
Surrogate parameters for language disorders, including naming, repetition and comprehension, were considered our primary outcomes. Secondary outcomes included changes in brain excitability and adverse events.
Data on naming, repetition and comprehension were determined from various aphasia assessment outcomes. Data on excitability changes were derived from the language activation H2O (15) positron emission tomography (PET) study, which consisted of consecutive measurements of relative cerebral blood flow (CBF) in 3-dimensional mode with a verb-generation task. Activation volumes indices (AVI) or laterality indices (LI) were used to evaluate the changes with specific formulas. When using LI, data collection started when the number of true counts was above the baseline level for > 5 kcounts and continued for 45 s. When using AVI, the activation volumes were calculated using all suprathreshold voxels (the Z-score represented the threshold that was transformed from the relative cerebral blood flow changes with a range of greater than 2 for each hemisphere on the PET images) (14). Positive values of LI and AVI deduced from the respective formulas indicated left-hemispheric dominance.
Review Manager software (version 5.3) was used for all statistical analyses. Forest plots were constructed to display the results that were separately summarized with meta-analysis techniques for each end-point. p < 0.05 was considered significant. I2 statistics were used to estimate the statistical heterogeneity among studies (15). When I2 was less than 50%, fixed-effects models were used; otherwise, random-effects models were employed. The summary effect size (SES) was estimated by calculating the standard mean difference (SMD) and 95% confidence interval (CI) derived from the mean and standard deviations of each follow-up value. Effect sizes were classified as small (< 0.2), medium (0.2–0.8) or large (> 0.8). Sensitivity analysis was conducted to verify the stability of the study.
Selected studies and characteristics
A total of 879 articles was identified in the initial search. After excluding duplicates as well as screening the titles and abstracts, 29 studies remained for further assessment. After evaluating the full texts for more details, 12 RCTs satisfied the inclusion criteria. However, after excluding 8 studies (16–23) with duplicate publication (19–23) and no response to the request for data (16–18), 4 RCTs (24–27) with a total of 132 patients were included in the analyses. A flow chart of the structured review is shown in Fig. 1. All the included studies were RCTs. All the interventions except 1 were combined with SLT (27). The mean time post-stroke ranged from 36.7 days to 3.48 years. With the exception of 2 studies (24, 27) that focused on patients with non-fluent aphasia, the remainder included all types of aphasia patients. All the stimulation sites were over the right pars triangularis (PTr). The key features of the included studies are summarized in Table I.
Fig. 1. Studies included in the review.
Table I. Characteristics of included studies
n (E/C)
(right-handedness)
Aphasia type
Mean age, years
Mean time post-stroke
Site of stimulation
Treatment intensity
With SLT (yes/no)
Outcome measurement
Seniow et al., 2013 (26)
15 sessions protocol of 30 min 1Hz 90% rMT 1800 pulses
Heiss et al., 2013 (25)
10 sessions protocol of 20 min 1 Hz 90% rMT
AAT, AVI
Tsai et al., 2014 (24)
Non-fluent
18.1 months
10 sessions protocol of 10 min 1 Hz 90% rMT 600 pulses
PNT, CCAT
Barwood et al., 2013 (20)
10 sessions protocol of 20 min 1 Hz 90% rMT 1,200 pulses
BADE, BNT
SLT: speech and language therapy; PTr: right pars triangularis; AAT: Aachen Aphasia Test; AVI: Activation Volume Indices; BADE: Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination; BNT: Boston Naming Test; CCAT: Concise Chinese Aphasia Test; PNT: Picture Naming Test; E/C: experimental/control groups; RCT: randomized controlled trial; PTr: right pars triangularis.
The PEDro scores of the included studies ranged from 7 to 9. Concealed allocation was mentioned in 2 articles (24, 26). Assessors and subjects were blinded in all studies, while the administration of LF-rTMS could only be performed with single blinding (Table II).
Table II. PEDro assessment quality results of included studies
Tsai et al., 2014
PEDro assessment
Eligibility criteria (not included in total score)
Random allocation
Concealed allocation
Similar groups at baseline
Blinding subjects
Blinding therapists
Blinding assessors
Outcome obtained in more than 85% of the subjects
Intention-to-treat analysis
Between-group statistical comparison
Point estimates and measures of variability
Primary outcome
Naming. All 4 included articles (n = 132) provided complete data pertaining to naming (24–27). The Picture Naming Test (PNT), the Boston Naming Test (BNT), the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination (BADE) and the Aachen Aphasia Test (AAT) were used to evaluate naming. Because the data were homogeneous (I2 = 0%, Fig. 2) across the studies, the fixed-effects model was chosen. Meta-analysis showed a significant medium SES with an SMD of 0.51, a 95% CI of 0.16–0.86, and p = 0.004.
Fig. 2. Summary effect size for naming. SD: standard deviation; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval; Std. mean difference: standard mean difference; IV: in figure caption means inverse variance.
Repetition. All 4 included articles (n = 132) reported data pertaining to repetition (24–27). The Concise Chinese Aphasia Test (CCAT), BADE and AAT were used to evaluate repetition. Because the data were homogeneous (I2 = 0%, Fig. 3) across the studies, the fixed-effects model was chosen. Meta-analysis showed a significant medium SES with an SMD of 0.31, a 95% CI of –0.04–0.65, and p = 0.08.
Fig. 3. Summary effect size for repetition. SD: standard deviation; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval; Std. mean difference: standard mean difference; IV: in figure caption means inverse variance.
Of the 4 included articles, 3 (n = 79) reported data pertaining to comprehension (25–27). BADE and AAT were used to evaluate comprehension. Because the data were homogeneous (I2 = 0%, Fig. 4) across the studies, the fixed-effects model was chosen. No treatment effect was found according to meta-analysis with an SMD of 0.31, a 95% CI of –0.14–0.75, and p = 0.18.
Fig. 4. Summary effect size for comprehension. SD: standard deviation; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval; Std. mean difference: standard mean difference; IV: in figure caption means inverse variance.
Changes in brain excitability. Of the 4 articles, only 1 (25) (n = 29) provided complete data pertaining to changes in brain excitability. AVI was used for assessment. There was a significant difference in AVI between the sham (–16.9 ± 42.81) and rTMS groups (7.6 ± 33.55) after treatment (p = 0.023).
Adverse events. None of the included studies reported any adverse events in response to the treatments.
The fixed-effects model was replaced with the random-effects model to test the SES. No differences were found after changing the method, demonstrating the high quality of the data.
No publication bias in naming, repetition or comprehension identified by Begg’s funnel plot and Egger’s line regression test (Begg’s test: p = 0.308, p = 0.308, p = 1, respectively, and Egger’s test: p = 0.823, p = 0.721, p = 0.989, respectively). Funnel plots are shown in Fig. 5.
Fig. 5. Funnel plot for the evaluation of publication bias. (a) Naming; (b) repetition; (c) comprehension.
This systematic review and meta-analysis summarized the current RCTs, investigating the efficacy and safety of LF-rTMS in post-stroke aphasia. Overall, data synthesis showed that LF-rTMS was beneficial for post-stroke patients with regard to naming (SMD 0.51; 95% CI, 0.16–0.86) and changes in brain excitability (7.6 ± 33.55; 95% CI, –10.7–26.20). However, the changes in repetition (SMD 0.31; 95% CI, –0.04–0.65) and comprehension (SMD 0.31; 95% CI, –0.14–0.75) after stimulation were not significant. No adverse effects were observed due to the intervention.
The relative balance between the 2 cerebral hemispheres is typically preserved by collateral (ipsilateral perilesional area) and transcallosal (contralateral homotopic area) inhibition (28, 29). When a patient has an acute stroke, this balance is disrupted, and the undamaged hemisphere and ipsilateral perilesional regions are released from interacting with each other. This phenomenon has been demonstrated by functional neuroimaging in post-stroke aphasic patients (30). For small lesions outside of the primary language region, a procedure called intrahemispheric compensation is activated, resulting in the activation of the ipsilateral perilesional area (31). For large lesions, procedures are more frequently aimed at reducing transcallosal inhibition rather than targeting intrahemispheric compensation, resulting in the activation of contralateral homotopic areas (28). However, favourable clinical outcomes may be observed following either activation in uninjured brains or reintegration of the left perilesional area by suppressing the overactive right homotopic language area with LF-rTMS (32, 33). Our analysis of changes in brain excitability corroborated the latter explanation. Neuroplastic changes within the cortical and subcortical language network play important roles in aphasia recovery. Several studies have reported that the activation patterns of network activity are concentrated in the non-dominant hemisphere prior to treatment (30, 31). However, this situation has been demonstrated to be completely reversed after treatment, with experimental groups showing shifts in network activity toward the left hemisphere. Nevertheless, only 1 study (23) has reported a moderate relationship between changes in brain excitability and clinical outcomes. Whether these changes in shift are associated with improvements in overall speech and language functions requires further investigation. The promotion of the right homotopic language area has been attributed to aphasia recovery in a growing number of studies, particularly when large parts of the left hemisphere are injured (34). More RCTs are needed to verify which part of the right homotopic language area undertake is involved in recovery.
Our findings are in agreement with the results reported by Barwood et al. (19), who observed improvements in naming after applying LF-rTMS over the PTr in chronic non-fluent aphasic patients. In contrast, Waldowski et al. (21) reported only slight, non-significant differences between experimental and control groups. The reason for the variance may be that the stimulated site in the latter study focused on both the PTr and pars opercularis (POr) rather than on the PTr alone. In general, these 2 regions form the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) (35). One study (36) reported that over-reaction of the PTr is detrimental to aphasic recovery due to response inhibition. Application of LF-rTMS to this region could reduce the negative impact on the primary language centre in the dominant hemisphere, thus accelerating the recovery process. Moreover, the POr is partially linked to the temporo-parietal cortex and premotor area through the superior longitudinal fasciculus following impairment of the primary language centre, promoting contact among bilateral circuits (37). However, hyperactivity of the PTr could impede this contact until localized inhibitory rTMS is applied, resulting in greater involvement of this region. In addition, the lesion site is a crucial factor. Martin et al. (32) found that, after undergoing rTMS, 1 patient with chronic, non-fluent aphasia exhibited enhanced naming ability, while another did not. The reason for this difference was mainly because the latter patient had a lesion that extended into the IFG, including the left motor cortex, dorsal premotor cortex, the deep white matter adjacent to the left supplementary motor area and the posterior middle frontal gyrus, which is an area that is vital for naming (38). Consequently, structural integrity of the cerebral cortex is a prerequisite for efficacy. Comprehension, which is mainly modulated by the temporal lobe, may not have been affected by LF-rTMS treatment of the conventional stimulation site. Finally, because the target was focused on the unaffected hemisphere, which was located far from the peri-infarct tissue, the risk of seizures was minimized.
There were also some limitations of our analyses. First, we could not eliminate the possibility that some studies, such as those published in a language other than English, were omitted. Secondly, because we were unable to obtain specific data from some of the authors, the results might have been biased. Thirdly, although the included studies were largely of moderate or high quality, the lack of concealed allocation and unmasking of the therapists administering rTMS could have biased the results. Ultimately, due to the limited number of included studies, as well as the small sample sizes, the statistical power was moderate.
In conclusion, LF-rTMS is a relatively safe and effective treatment for post-stroke aphasic patients in terms of naming. In addition, this treatment favours the reorganization of the left-hemispheric language networks. Although rTMS is considered a promising therapy, the specific mechanism underlying its success is unknown. Further investigations should aim to evaluate the different types and phases of aphasia. Greater attention should be paid to exploring other potentially effective stimulation sites and optimal parameters for this type of treatment, not only in the dominant hemisphere but also the right hemisphere, with the aid of imaging and neuronavigational methods for precise localization.
The authors would like to thank Dengying Kang from the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China, for his valuable statistical insights.
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Victoza (Liraglutide) is a derivative of the hormone incretin and is used to treat type 2 diabetes.
Lawsuits against Victoza manufactures are alleging that taking the drug may cause pancreatic cancer. Several similar incretin drugs have also been linked to pancreatic cancer, and manufacturers Novo Nordisk, Merck, Eli Lilly, and others now face multidistrict litigation in Southern California with over 700 combined lawsuits.
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Can Victoza Cause Pancreatic Cancer?
Victoza and other incretin-like drugs can regulate the release of insulin in the body. Victoza, in particular, does this by mimicking a hormone called Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1).
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But as the research continues, complaints from patients taking Victoza continue to mount. Over 2,500 Victoza patients have complained about pancreatic side effects to the FDA.
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High rates of fever, headache, and acute confusional states were observed in the CNS infection group, being seen in 96.8%, 89.5%, and 51.6%, respectively. Those patients also had more severe intracranial hypertension (>300 mmH2O) and had higher polymorphonuclear (PMN) leukocyte counts, while CSF protein levels were markedly elevated (2.13 vs 0.64 g/L, P<0.001) and glucose levels were lower (2 vs 3.3 mmol/L, P<0.001).
The most common pathogens identified were Listeria monocytogenes, Nocardia asteroides, and staphylococci, with additional cases of cryptococcal and mycobacterial infections.
Thirty patients in the infection group died, with 26 of the deaths occurring within a year from respiratory failure or cerebral hernia. In contrast, only 14 patients in the neuropsychiatric lupus group died during follow-up.
A multivariate analysis identified several factors that distinguished CNS infections:
SLE disease duration longer than 1 year (OR 5.2, 95% CI 1.1-24.5, P<0.05)
Fever (OR 34.3, 95% CI 5.2-226.7, P<0.001)
CSF glucose less than 2.2 mmol/L (OR 13.7, 95% CI 2.1-85.8, P<0.01)
CSF PMN leukocytosis (OR 1.10, 95% CI 1-1.19, P<0.05)
In contrast, CNS infections were less often associated with hypocomplementemia (OR 0.08, 95% CI 0.02-0.41, P<0.01).
The multidisciplinary team of researchers then added critical factors including intracranial pressure, white blood cell counts, and PMN ratios in CSF, to construct an 8-item simplified scoring system. Each of the following was given a score of 1: disease duration longer than 12 months, fever, intracranial pressure of 300 mmH2O or higher, white blood cell count in CSF of 20/µL or more, PMN ratio in CSF of 0.5% or higher, protein level in CSF of 0.905 g/L or higher, glucose level in CSF of 2.2 mmol/L or lower, and absence of hypocomplementemia, for a possible total score of 8.
The chosen cutoff of 4 points was subsequently validated in two additional cohorts of patients, including a group of 22 who were admitted to the Peking hospital after January 2018.
The underlying pathophysiology of CNS infections in SLE is "complicated and multifactorial," according to the authors. One major contributory factor is likely to be the long-term treatment with immunosuppressants, and in addition, the aberrant immune system may have diminished surveillance ability.
"This underscores the need for more intense monitoring of the primary disease during treatment and meticulous balance of the intensity of lupus treatment to minimize the risk of severe infection," Zhang and colleagues stated, adding that CSF analysis is particularly crucial.
A limitation of the study was its single-center design.
The study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Academy of Medical Science Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences, the National Key Research and Development Program, Precise Medical Research, the Natural Science Foundation of Beijing, and the PUMC Hospital Fund.
The authors reported no financial conflicts.
Arthritis Research & Therapy
Source Reference: Jiang M, et al "Clinical features of central nervous system infections and experience in differential diagnosis from neuropsychiatric lupus erythematosus in a cohort of 8491 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus" Arthritis Res Ther 2019; DOI: 10.1186/s13075-019-1971-2.
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Scarlett de Bease helps women elevate their personal brands by teaching them to dress in a way that is authentic to them and flatters their unique bodies.
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You probably judge yourself constantly every time you look in the mirror, right? But here’s the good news: you are your own biggest critic.
What Scarlett de Bease loves to do is help women feel absolutely amazing about how they look. When you can show up authentically and feel confident enough to really stand out, it’s a total game changer.
Scarlett is an image consultant. She helps women elevate their personal brands by showing them how to dress in a way that is authentic to them and flatters their unique bodies. She specializes in working with women who are tired of stressing about dressing; who want to be sure to make that all important first impression a great one.
Scarlett began her career in cosmetics. She quickly moved up the ranks to become an account executive with a company car. But after her boss and mentor, who was over 50, was fired and 23 year old Scarlett was promoted to replace her, she became disillusioned with the industry and chose to move on. She went to work in the garment industry for several years before she took time off to start a family. After her second child was born, she decided to get back into cosmetics as a freelancer. She started doing women’s make up for special occasions, such as weddings and bat mitzvahs.
However, her whole perspective changed when a friend, who didn’t want to go alone, dragged Scarlett along to see an image consultant with her. The experience was transformational. The consultant was able to explain what clothing worked for Scarlett and why. It opened a whole new world to her. Later, when a colleague asked Scarlett to run her image consulting business while she was out of the country, Scarlett eventually came to realize that she could run a business of her own.
She was in her her late 40s.
In 2012, Westchester NY Magazine named Scarlett the “Red Hot Image Maker.” She is known as the Wardrobe Stylist who gives women the ability to look and feel confident.
Scarlett is not a fashionista or trend fanatic. But she does get excited about turning boring outfits into “Oh hell yeah, look at me!” outfits, while making her clients feel great about themselves.
Scarlett knows that when you have a personal style that suits you and makes you feel amazing about how you look, you’ll be confident in putting yourself forward to be noticed. It changes the game in your business and personal life.
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A metal roof is simply a roofing system made using metal pieces, tiles, or panels. A metal roof is a part of the roofing envelope which is the physical separator between the inside and outside of the building and is designed to provide resistance to air, water, heat and sound. The roof also contributes to structural support and is a significant contributor to the overall aesthetic appearance of a building.
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Longer life span, improved energy efficiency and a reduced environmental impact are just a few of the key benefits homeowners consider when choosing a metal roof.
The initial cost is often more than a traditional asphalt roof; however, that cost is more than offset by its increased lifespan. Metal roofs can last 40 to 60 years saving significant money (and hassle of replacement) over the long-term. Besides longevity, metal roofing typically uses a reflective solar coating designed to minimize heat buildup and reduce air conditioning costs.
An if all of that isn't enough, metal weighs less and installs more quickly than traditional shingle products. And for homeowners tired of constant asphalt shingle replacement, metal can often be installed over existing shingles which saves the cost/labor of shingle tear off as well as disposal/landfill fees.
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Metal Roofs are not noisy when it rains.
If you have ever been in a metal-clad pole barn, garage or even a picnic shelter in the rain, you undoubtedly remember that loud pinging noise as the rain hit the metal roof. On a residential home, layers of building materials like the roof deck, insulation, and drywall between the metal roof and living area reduce the sound of rain. In fact, the rain noise from a metal roof is similar to conventional shingles. Check out this video to see and hear for yourself.
Metal roofing lowers utility expenses.
Metal roofing actually reflects much of the sun’s heat and energy. While conventional shingles absorb much of the sun’s heat, metal roofing can actually reduce cooling energy costs by as much as 20%. That’s because the coating used on modern metal roof panels incorporates special pigments that reflect the sun’s energy and release heat that is absorbed throughout the day.
Metal roofs add beauty to any home!
Residential metal roofing is available in a variety of aesthetically pleasing designs that can heighten the curb appeal of any home. In addition to conventional panels, there are several styles that are virtually indistinguishable from conventional tile and shingles. Metal roofing is available in a wide array of colors as well, making it easy to find an option that best suits any style of residential home.
Metal roofing does not increase the risk of lightning strikes.
The odds of a lightning strike hitting a metal roof are the same as any other roof, regardless of material. In the event that there is a lightning strike, however, metal roofing will not ignite and catch fire since it is not combustible.
Metal roofing is hail resistant.
Studies conducted by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) have found that metal roofing is far less likely to be punctured by hail than conventional asphalt shingles.
Metal roofing stands toe-to-toe against Mother Nature.
Metal roofing consistently outperforms shingles when it comes to resisting harsh elements. In addition to being fire and hail resistant, metal roofs are also effective against extreme winds. Many insurance companies recognize the durability of metal roofing, offering discounts for structures with metal roofs.
Is metal roofing a better long-term value than shingles?
While the upfront costs of installing a metal roof are often higher than shingles, a metal roof lasts longer and will be replaced or repaired far less frequently. A typical shingle roof lasts anywhere from 12 to 20 years, depending upon how well it’s maintained and weather elements it may encounter. Metal roofs, on the other hand, can last between 40 and 60 years while also requiring less maintenance, making them a more cost-effective choice over the lifespan of the roof.
A metal roof could be the last roof you ever need to buy.
Unlike asphalt shingles, which need to be replaced every 12-20 years, metal roofing can last up to 60 years with very little need for maintenance. For many homeowners, a metal roof is a true “one and done” solution they won’t have to worry about replacing in the future.
A metal roof can actually lower your energy costs.
Thanks to a combination of ASV (Above Sheathing Ventilation) and special coating designed to reflect the sun’s energy and release absorbed heat, metal roof panels can reduce energy costs by as much as 20% compared to asphalt shingles.
A metal roof can increase your home’s curb appeal.
Modern metal roofing is available in a wide range of appealing designs, including panels that mimic the look and style of conventional tiles and shingles. Metal roofing panels can be purchased in a wide variety of colors as well.
A metal roof provides better weather protection than other materials.
Compared to shingles and clay tile, metal roofing holds up better against hail and extreme winds in addition to being fire resistant. In fact, many insurance companies offer discounted rates to homes with metal roofs because they’re more likely to hold up under harsh conditions.
A metal roof is quiet when it rains
Compared to traditional roofing materials like asphalt shingles or clay tile, residential metal roof panels aren’t any noisier when it rains. That’s because most of the noise is absorbed by the many layers of building materials between the roof and the living area inside the home.
A metal roof will last longer and add resale value to your home.
With a lifespan of up to 60 years, a metal roof is an ideal long-term solution for residential roofing. Homeowners can rest easy knowing that they won’t need to replace the roof before selling their house or shortly after purchasing a new home.
Are metal roofs noisy when it rains?
While it may be true that metal roofs on buildings like garages and pole barns intensify the sound of falling rain, this is primarily caused by the lack of a roof deck, insulation, and underlayment. On a residential home, layers of building materials between the metal roof and the living area reduce the noise significantly, making metal roofs as quiet as any other roofing material when it rains. Check out this video to see and hear for yourself.
Do metal roofs attract heat and increase energy costs?
Isn't metal roofing ugly?
Does metal roofing attract lightning strikes?
Is metal roofing more prone to hail damage?
Far from it. Studies conducted by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) have found that metal roofing is far less likely to be punctured by hail than conventional asphalt shingles, withstanding even golf ball-sized hailstones with only cosmetic damage.
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Definitely not! Like most building materials, metal roofing is available in varying levels of quality. Homeowners should be sure to ask their contractor or supplier what substrate and paint coating they are recommending for their home. Galvalume steel substrates and Kynar 500® (PVDF) coatings provide the best long-term peformance. Click here for facts about substrates and coatings.
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You literally can’t tell that our roof isn’t regular shingles from the road. In fact, our neighbors are all shocked to find out our new roof is metal.
Several of the neighbors have commented how much they like it too. But they were concerned that it would be noisy when it rained. I tell them it’s not like one of my uninsulated sheds at the farm. Once you have the plywood deck and insulation, there’s no more noise than a traditional asphalt shingle roof.
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Gig Review: Skeletonwitch / Mantar / Deathrite – The Dome, London (5th December 2018)
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Tonight was the second of the only two UK shows in Skeletonwitch and Mantar’s 23-date co-headline European tour. I saw both bands for the first time in Norway this summer at Tons of Rock festival and was very pleased indeed when this tour was announced, as I really enjoyed watching both of their sets and was keen for more!
Deathrite (c) Katie Frost
Unfortunately Hanno (vocalist / guitarist of Mantar) has been struggling with his health on this tour, and just a three hours before doors were due to open, it was announced that Mantar would not be able to play tonight. The band posted the following statement on the Facebook event page:
Things ain’t getting better so far, so with a heavy heart, we also have to announce that we won’t be able to perform in London and Colmar, France. We are sure you will understand. We discussed things back and forth but out of respect for US and YOU we decided that we don’t wanna play half-ass. That’s not us. Never been, never will. We rather come back some other time and play with full power like we usually do. It would just feel wrong to play these shows, that we have been looking forward to so much, without the devotion they deserve.
Right now we are trying everything to be be back on track for the weekend in Paris, Wiesbaden and Rotterdam. If you wanna hang, come say hi! Erinc still will be at the merch booth and will be up for beers and hi fives. (The HARDEST currency). MANTAR.
They also had to pull out of the Manchester show last night. We wish Hanno all the best for a speedy recovery, and look forward to Mantar returning to London to melt our faces in the near future!
Despite Mantar having to miss the show, Deathrite and Skeletonwitch were still able to perform, so with some slightly adjusted set-times everything else continued as planned. First to take to the stage at around 8pm were German death metallers Deathrite who released their fourth album Nightmares Reign at the beginning of November.
As there had been an hour to wait between doors opening and Deathrite taking to the stage, everyone was quite dispersed around the 500-capacity room, but as soon as the band started playing it was as if some sort of magnetic field had been turned on, and everyone gravitated towards the stage to check them out. We were all very glad that we did because they put on an excellent show; full of energy from the very start. Definitely a band I would check out again next time they are in London.
Skeletonwitch (c) Katie Frost
Headlining tonight were Skeletonwitch, who brought their black and wicked thrash metal all the way from Ohio. They opened their high-energy set with “Fen of Shadows” from their latest album Devouring Radiant Light which was released in July of this year. Adam delivered his vocals with intensity and passion and every single band-member was a joy to watch as they looked like they were having a brilliant time.
The band have great stage presence and the crowd were really into their sound and moshed along to their fierce performance. At one point during one of the first three songs I turned around and found myself on the edge of a mosh-pit – not an ideal place to be with heavy and expensive camera gear held up to your face, but fun nevertheless, especially on a Wednesday night!
As well as tracks from Devouring Radiant Light, Skeletonwitch also treated the crowd to tracks from their back-catalogue, including “Submit to the Suffering” from their 2009 album Breathing The Fire, and “I Am of Death (Hell Has Arrived)” from their 2013 album Serpents Unleashed.
Whilst it was a shame that Mantar were not able to perform, Deathrite and Skeletonwitch made it more than worth the effort to head to Tufnell Park for what turned out to be a wonderful night of metal!
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Chairman confirms determination to compete
Lions chairman John Berylson re-stated his commitment to bringing in new faces on Kenny Jackett's wish list.
"We were all very disappointed that Chris Wood went to Leicester because we met the asking price which was well into seven figures and were also very generous with the personal terms.
We know we need to replace him and Aaron Mclean was on our radar, but now we are competing at the top end of the Championship and I wonder whether Hull weren't happier for him to go to Ipswich rather than come to us.
We know the squad is stretched at the moment and we will bring people in."
Lions boss Kenny Jackett added: "Signing players is easy, signing the right players is more difficult. I would like have signings lined up for Monday, but that's not likely to happen.
I may have to be patient to sign the personnel who will improve the squad."
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Clark Burger
When the Senator Theatre changed hands a while back, we were promised an expansion and a restaurant. The expansion added three smaller screening rooms without changing the size of the main room, allowing the theatre to show multiple features simultaneously. A welcome addition to our movie-viewing pleasure. But the small space in the front of the building, once a dry cleaner, stayed empty for well over a year. The story was that a burger joint would be opening in that space, which, considering its petite size, was probably all that would fit comfortably. And that the owners would be Canadian. And they would serve poutine. We waited impatiently.
Not that there isn't plenty of terrific pre- and post-movie eats available just around the corner at the Belvedere Square Market, and at Sofi's Crepes across the street. But we wanted gravy smothered fries topped with cheese curds. Who doesn't? (Shaddup, vegans.)
Clark Burger opened in January 2015, with the promised poutine. But we didn't get an opportunity to dine there until the summer, when the big front windows were open up to the fresh air, making the small restaurant seem a little bit bigger. And, well, kinda too warm. (Ugh. Hate summer.)
Before a screening of Ant Man, Mr Minx, MinxBro, and I sampled three of their burgers and an order of poutine. My brother had the "Wake N Bacon," topped with a fried egg, Tillamook cheddar, fried onion, srirachi aioli, and of course, bacon. I had the Clark Burger, with cheddar, bacon, lettuce, pickle, and CB sauce, hold the sliced onion. Mr Minx had the Barque Burger (shown above) with Montreal-style smoked brisket, minced onion, dill pickle, and spicy mustard.
The burgers are good. The patties are thin, so you won't find too much pink inside, but the chuck blend they use is flavorful. Even more flavorful is the bacon they top their burgers with - it's lean and thick cut and pretty perfect, at least to my tastes. And no, it's not "Canadian" bacon. One can also concoct one's own combo of burger toppings/sauces. If you choose this option, do make sure you add bacon.
The poutine was delish. The house-made gravy is thick and rich and there were ample cheese curds. They have several versions beyond the classic version we tried, including ones with smoked meat, bacon and fried egg, or chili and bacon. As long as there's bacon, I'm there.
I also enjoyed the smoked meat. I wish they served it as its own sandwich, rather than merely as a burger or poutine topping. It's good, pastrami-esque, and deserves to be showcased.
Burger joints are popping up all over the place these days. I'm glad some of them, like Clark Burger, are worth a visit.
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LG G3 Review: Possibly the best smartphone of 2014
by Stewart Haston on July 24, 2014
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Today we bring you an in-depth review of the latest smartphone offering from Korean manufacturer LG, and this time around the company has truly outdone itself, devising a top Android smartphone that in many respects kicks the competition into the dust. Want to know how they did it? Read on, and check out the full and detailed LG G3 review from Mobile Geeks.
We managed to get an early sample of the LG G3 from South Korea, such was our desire to get hands on with the device. The version we acquired was technically known as the LG U + F400L, it is the top-end model that supports up to 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. The LG U + differs from the version that will land Europe and the US in two ways. Firstly, in terms of Bloatware – the LG U + offers several questionable pre-installed apps that we would almost certainly not need, especially as they were designed with Korean customers in mind. Secondly, the inclusion of a T-DMB TV receiver which includes an antenna optimized for use with Korean networks.
Since launch however, we have also acquired the final model that is prepped for Western markets, which has a more standard smartphone configuration of 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. We first started using the LG G3 during Computex 2014, and right from the off, we were plenty impressed with LG’s new flagship offering. Of course there are a few shortcomings, which we will deal with later, but the general feeling was that this is top, top device that was going to compete with the very best.
Don’t forget to check out this full and detailed video review of the LG G3 from my buddy Roland:
With the LG G3 we are looking at high-end expensive components that set it aside as a top device. As we mentioned, there are two variants, each with different memory and storage capacities. The 3GB RAM size in the Korean model is the one we would like to call standard. For most users in everyday life it might not mean a great deal of difference, but for Geeks like us, if there is the option to have more RAM we are going to take it. Under the hood you are also getting the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 MSM8974AC with his four 2.47GHz cores offering the best mobile processor performance on the market. It is the same processor used in several other flagship-class devices.
Despite the LG G3 being a larger device – a 5.5 inch display compared to 5.2 inches, the LG G3 is actually powered by the same 3,00mAh battery we saw on the LG G2. Which brings us to the area where the LG G3 really excels, the display, and the camera.
LG is amongst the first major manufacturers to employ a Quad HD (QHD) display with a resolution of 2560 × 1440 pixels. It looks stunning and frankly puts Full HD displays in the shade. The era of Full HD is over, long live the era of QHD.
The camera is also breaking new ground, building on what we had with the LG G2 – a good 13MP rear facing sensor, debuting laser auto-focus which ensures that the camera focuses faster than any other smartphone camera- even when focusing in the dark.
Two LG Models
When it comes down to the two models that LG are offering, it it depends on whether or not you feel you really need the extra RAM and storage, and whether you are willing to pay an additional 50 Euros for the pleasure. In terms of memory, there are less convincing arguments to be made – you will get a bump in performance, but nothing that most users will notice.
The choice of 32GB may attract many users, especially those who enjoy using their high-end smartphone for serious gaming. Modern games take up plenty of space and 16GB will not really do the job when one game like Anomaly 2 alone can take up well over 1GB. This is especially true now that Android 4.4.x Kit Kat which will not allow app installation on to the microSD card. Interestingly, the new Moto E manages to completely remove this issue – we had hoped others would follow suit.
Of the 14.93GB of actual memory installed on the 16GB device, only around 10GB are actually available to the user – Android and basic bundled apps commanding the rest. Even though the 32GB version we had from Korea was filled with unwanted bloatware, it still managed to offer 22GB of usable storage for the end user. I would certainly recommend the 32GB version of the LG G3, especially as the devices 13MP cam is capable of taking some very high resolution pics, plus there is also 4K video to deal with. For me a 32GB internal storage install should now be standard on devices that claim to be ‘flagship’.
The 5.5 inch 2560 x 1440 display on the LG G3 is a real stunner and utterly dominates the front face of the device. There is very little going on at the front of the device which is not screen, with 1.15mm bezels around the edge and minimal space wasted at the top and bottom. In fact these are some of the slimmest bezels we have ever seen.
One concern that may arise is whether or not these ultra thin bezels have any eventual effect on how the touchscreen behaves; is it possible for your hand to accidentally interfere along the edge of the touchscreen panel, say for example when you stretch across with your thumb? The answer is no. The LG responds only to your fingertips. The thin bezels do nothing to impair touchscreen performance.
The lower chrome colored section of the front face contains a discreet embossed LG logo. The upper section contains a standard looking ear-piece speaker, sensors and front facing camera on a matte black surround that also encompasses the display’s bezel. The front face of the device looks very modern and attractive.
In terms of navigation the LG G3 uses exclusively on-screen buttons, lacking placement of hardware buttons either side of the logo. This is a trend that continues to grow, but I cannot help feeling that LG could be offering both. The recently reviewed OnePlus One manages to slickly flip from on-screen to hardware buttons without skipping a beat. It allows you to go for the maximum possible screen viewing area and enjoy the old fashioned hardware button usage that I still prefer to be honest. If it is physically possible to add the buttons, why not?
The LG G3 is similar in many way to the OnePlus One in that it squeezes a 5.5 inch display inside a frame that feels only a touch larger than the Nexus 5, which is a 5 inch device. Much of this is achieved with both devices sporting the thinnest bezels we have ever come across. This is evident when you first start to use the device, especially when reaching up for the notification bar at the top edge. The rounded sleek design means it’s actually still doable – a remarkable fact for a device that flirts with true phablet proportions.
The LG G3 feels good in the hand, employing a “floating curve” design that offers a gently sloping curve from center to edge. At its thickest in the center, the LG G3 is 9.1mm thick. While it might not win any awards for thinness (consider the Gionee Elife S5.5 at a mere 5.5 inches), the G3 does not feel at all thick with the curved back (which not as steep as with the more bullet-like HTC One M8) feeling very comfortable in the hand. The overall impression is one of really good ergonomics and class. No cheap plastic finish.
Unlike the HTC One M8, the G3 opts for plastic, not metal however. We had pondered if LG would follow a more recent emergence of uni-body design, but they opted instead for a plastic that has a brushed aluminum look that is pretty convincing until you get hands on. It appears that LG is using a plastic polymer that also contains fragments of metal. LG will also retail a selection of covers that include premium leather finish options in colors that include black, dark brown, light brown and orange.
The back panel is removable (as is the 3,00mAh battery) offering access to the microSD and SIM slot. It’s good to see the LG G3 also incorporates Qi-standard wireless charging, which is a great thing to see. Too many high-end smartphones skip this feature for my liking.
The LG G3 does not attract fingerprints, or least on the white and black versions that we have tested. The back is not glossy and feels more solid than many plastic housing we have seen on flagship devices from Samsung for example. Plastic also has advantages in that it is lightweight, allowing the G3 to weigh in at a mere 150 grams, an incredible feat for a 5.5 inch device. Take out the battery and you will soon realize that much of the devices’ weight is in fact the battery. The phone itself is as light as a feather.
The LG G3 continues the companies bold trend of using ‘rear keys’ for the standby button and volume rocker on the back of the handset, just below the camera. It kind of takes a bit of getting used to at first – you will inevitably and instinctively reach for the sides of the device – but in a matter of hours you will appreciate its advantages and appreciate also not having to stretch as you once did. It is a bold move from LG to continue with this design philosophy, but one that is ergonomically a winner on a device this size. The power button feels sturdier than on previous implementations from LG, but the overall longer stroke involved is better in terms of responsiveness and tactile feedback.
If you wanted to make a strong argument in the case of the LG G3 against the current crop of really high-end smartphone devices, you would undoubtedly head straight for the topic of display. The G3 packs a 5.5-inch panel with a screen resolution of 2560 × 1440. This works out at a pixel density of 538 PPI – way ahead of every other 5 inch smartphone currently available in Western markets. This level of pixel density has only been seen before on the Oppo Find 7, a phone that remains elusive and difficult to get hold of outside of China.
The high pixel-per-inch count certainly looks good, offering a natural sharpness that you really can detect with the naked eye. Fonts look perfectly smooth, icons looks more crisply outlined and high-res images jump out at you, such is the clarity on offer here. A side by side comparison with a 1080p resolution screen that we are used to certainly seeing reveals a clear difference.
The brightness of the display on the LG G3 according to our measurements comes in at more than 390 Lumens. A pretty decent value, but no world record – the HTC One M8 for example weighs in with 480 Lumens, while the Galaxy S5 in automatic mode outdoors reaches beyond the 600 Lumen mark. The early sample we had showed brightness dropping off around the edges of the screen, but never below 300 Lumens. Our second 16GB retail sample had a slightly lower overall brightness of around 385 Lumens. The display is coated with a non-reflective layer which also helps the device deal with bright outdoor conditions. In terms of brightness, the LG G3 performs very well.
Compared to some of the warmer displays we have seen, the LG G3 has a slightly blue-ish hue, but in terms of color pre-production, the G3 is accurate, certainly better than several competing devices we have seen. With such a high-pixel density and the use of IPS LCD technology, we also see a very high and impressive contrast ratio of 1:800. In terms of sheer brightness levels however, devices with AMOLED screens still rule the roost. The G3 will not outshine current Samsung or Nokia smartphones. Then again Super AMOLED remains largely at Full HD resolutions only, it remains to be seen how bright that technology will remain an QHD resolutions. Viewing angles are also good, with very little image degradation as you tilt the screen.
The panel of the LG G3 is an impressive piece of technology for sure, but you would have to weigh it up against the competition to gauge just how much better the higher resolution screen really is. Basically I would prefer this panel to an identical 5.5 inch in Full HD, simply because the image quality is much better. The only real disadvantage to having this many pixels, is that it could possibly impact battery life, especially if you spend a lot of time surfing the web. Indeed, jumping from 2.0 million pixels to around 3.7 million pixels could have a significant impact on power draw and battery life. More on that later.
How do apps deal with the additional on screen real estate? There are some apparent issues. The majority of the apps that we find in Android 4.2.2 have been optimized for a 1080p screen so occasionally we find that a QHD screen can end up making some apps seem a little pixelated when the app tries to scale up. One example was the thumbnails in the YouTube app. Other apps fail to scale at all, for example the Emoticons in Skype can seem incredibly small and under-sized. Having said all this however, the QHD screen is still a preferable experience in general. The Android OS itself looks incredibly sharp and crisp at this resolution. Google are clearly aware of the next step in display resolutions and have done their homework, some of the apps however will need to address these minor issues, but I’m sure this is just a matter of time before QHD is widely and full optimized.
With the G3, LG are offering one of the best smartphone cameras currently available on the market. Fact. It is not entirely flawless, perhaps a caveat we should expect from any camera installed on a phone, but it is without doubt industry-leading. With good lighting you can take some astounding photos, even at the default settings of 10 mega-pixels in 16:19 format, the images look very impressive. If you manually select a maximum resolution of 13MP, the aspect ratio will be changed to 4:3. LG’s software at times can try to improve picture quality, often resulting in supersaturated and somewhat unnatural images. Many users however may prefer these to the alternative ‘grey reality’. HDR mode provides really stunning images in the right circumstances with shadows and darker areas really coming to light.
When it comes to low light photography however, the G3 is somewhat similar to all other smartphone cameras. As light levels decrease, you will experience rapid reduction in the quality of the images produced. But the great news is that LG have a few tricks up their sleeve which greatly reduce the effects of low light; top of the list is laser auto-focus.
Most phones rely on contrast detection to help align auto-focusing, but the LG G3 is the first to use lasers to help detect contrast levels of several points in a very quick and effective way and is particularly effective in low light conditions. The laser transmitter is positioned just to the left of the camera sensor, with a more familiar looking dual LED on the right side.
The laser emits several laser beams to on multiple target areas to assess the contrast levels need for the shot, and the results speak for themselves with reasonably sharp photos possible in difficult conditions.
The LG software has also been tuned with some pretty aggressive noise suppression algorithms that does not always get it right. You can at times end up with slight “oil painting” effect, similar to what can happen in low lights conditions with the Samsung Galaxy S5. In bright environments the colors can look too strong while darker colors kind of feel a touch pale. The LG also has its problems with light sources and can be guilty of overexposure as the software tries to squeeze as much as it can from lousy light.
When it comes to the software app that LG have installed on the G3, we see their ‘Simple is Smart’ marketing has been implemented on a literal level. On previous LG G Flex and LG G Pro 2 phones the company decided to offer a broad and comprehensive selection of settings options and features. On the LG G3 the app is a much simpler affair with a basic and minimalistic interface that certainly make things easier to understand.
The are a choice of four modes; Auto focus, Magic focus, Panorama and Dual modes but unfortunately you have zero control over ISO, shutter speed and other basic settings that we are used to seeing on a high-end camera. The camera app can be simplified further if you desire by configuring the app to just show a viewfinder and snap button.
Having said that, perhaps LG are of the opinion that users would prefer to have a well tuned camera sensor that works optimally without needing access to the full array of possible settings. But I am inclined to think that the inclusion of the laser auto-focus and very effective image stabilization means that you are getting one of the best camera experiences we have seen. The laser measures the distance from the camera to the subject, allowing the camera to easily find its target, even in the dark.
LG G3: Camera Shot Gallery
Once you get used to using the camera on the LG G3, it becomes easy to see that laser auto-focus is not something you are going to want to miss out on in future. Wicked fast auto-focusing with clarity this good is something we could all get very used to. Likewise the Optical Image Stabilization is also crucial to the G3 camera’s success in terms of video, out performing most other competing efforts from top brands. The Sony Xperia Z2 was probably considered top dog in OIS terms, and I think that LG have something that competes on that level. One noticeable thing is that the G3 tends to get quite warm during 4K video recording, but it does also provide crisp, clear video. We have seen the Z2 and others also get very warm with prolonged 4K shooting, so its not an issues we level at LG alone.
LG has incorporated no dedicated hardware camera button into the G3 (a la Nokia/Sony), probably because this would interfere with their Rear-key concept. You can however use the volume keys on the back for a quick start into the camera app and as a snap trigger that can be used for continuous shooting.
Overall the camera of the LG G3 is one of the best we have ever used on a smartphone. Most of that is related to the excellent performance of the laser auto-focus which combines with great image stabilization, solid dual flash LEDs and a simple easy to use interface. What’s not to like?
The front camera also deserves a mention. The 2.1MP sensor is backed by a “pseudo-flash” in which the preview image is surrounded by a wide light frame to lighten the face of selfie shot. There is also gesture control which is triggered by a closing your hand into a fist which begins a short countdown to the release of the shutter. The selfie mode can also be activated by voice commands such cheese, kimchi… all useful so that you don’t have to reach around the back to the selfie trigger.
The LG G3 has single speaker located in the lower left area of the devices back panel, and can be identified by small gridded slit. Of course after taking off the back cover and taking one look at the speaker, it’s clear that you are not getting anything remotely close to the BoomSound speaker system that we have seen on HTC’s flagship One series. Having said that, the speakers on the LG G3 are significantly louder than most competing devices while also remaining clear and distortion free, even on full blast.
We not sure how accurate LG’s marketing is, but the company claim to have included a 1-watt speaker accompanied by a boost amp. Regardless, the audio playback via headphones is a cleaner audio experience than most offerings. Unlike so many competing devices the QuadBeat headphones that are included are also of a very decent quality and really bring out the best of the device. They offer a great balance of treble, mids and bass and do a great job for an in-ear headset. I would liked to have seen a bit more bass, but then again this is possible via the included equalizer app. Overall you are getting an exemplary audio experience.
It is only really when playing games that the LG G3 seems to under-perform somewhat, and this is most because of the location of the speaker which tends to get covered by your fingers way too easily when playing games in landscape mode. The device is loud, but as soon as the fingers close over the space on the back where the sound comes out, the volume drops off considerably to the detriment of the game experience as a whole. One other gripe is that although the music app is useful and offers custom equalization options, it lacks a set of per-defined settings. Album covers appear on your lock screen providing you have the right image files of course.
Overall the LG G3 offers an audio experience that sits very close to the top of what is available today in the high-end smartphone segment. There are a few small blemishes, but overall most users are going to be very impressed.
The current flagship processor of choice, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 is provided here in the LG G3, with all versions clocked at the same speed of 2.47GHz. The four Krait cores are complimented with an Adreno 330 graphics unit which means that in general you are getting a flawless and fluent user experience. To be fair however, performance is also seriously needed on this new breed of LG flagship, because you have many more pixels to manipulate.
Regardless of the 2560 x 1440 resolution there is very little stuttering within the GUI and the games we tested run almost invariably without stuttering, even if you notch up the resolution, graphics details and all other display settings to the absolute maximum. The Qualcomm quad-core is apparently able to deliver in all situations, despite the high resolution display. In our gaming test, it was only in one game where we encountered a little trouble in Grand Theft Auto 3 when densely developed areas of the screen saw slight lagginess when scrolling. A minor flaw in our eyes, and one that would not make the game unplayable.
Check out our LG G3 Gaming Test video below:
In our benchmark testing, the LG G3 was tested in both its 2GB and 3GB configurations with the 3GB version showing a slight lead in almost all benchmarks. Although the there is a clear (if marginal) advantage with 3GB, in general both LG G3 models offer what we would expect of a flagship device in terms of raw performance. AnTuTu revealed scores of around the 36,000 point mark; Quadrant scored around 24,000 points. Other benchmarks include 3DMark, GFXBench, Geekbench, SunSpider 1.0.2 Octane 2.0. You can catch the side by side 2GB vs 3GB comparison video below as well as a full table which shows the scores. Compared to the Galaxy S5 and the HTC One M8, the G3 showed some very competitive scores, at times coming up with almost identical values – such as we expected because they’re using the same Qualcomm platform.
But all this raw performance does leave its mark where heat is concerned, with a noticeable peak in chassis and general handset temperatures when playing games, running benchmarks, and as we mentioned earlier, 4K video camera mode. The rear mounted buttons are clearly made of some kind of metal alloy and do indeed prove to be very effective conductors of heat, getting very warm during the intensive tasks mentioned above. We measured peak values of 48° C under load, which is pretty high and not at all comfortable, although we must re-iterate that the area affected is limited to the general camera and buttons area on the rear. The temperature does fall rapidly once the device is returned to idle.
Here you watch a side by side comparison video, running several benchmarks on both the 2GB and 3GB memory versions of the LG G3:
Of course heat is the enemy of performance and we did notice that the Snapdragon 801 processor would in fact throttle during intensive benchmark sessions. In high temperature environments, we do live in Taipei so temps beyond 30° C are standard from May until September, the LG will actually throttle the QHD display’s back-light in an apparent attempt to protect the device from damage and also to reduce power draw. All those pixels will draw a lot of power and could become an issue for battery life as we describe below.
The LG G3 follows its predecessor with an identical 3,00mAh removable battery, or at least that is what the spec sheet will tell you. The battery life of the LG G2 was pretty good so we would welcome the same here on the G3. The possible snag would be that we would expect the larger 5.5 inch display to consume more power, especially since the exceptionally high resolution 2560 x 1440 panel is packing considerably more pixels than the standard Full HD display on the G2. More pixels should mean more power draw. What we see however, is something very close to the impressive G2 battery life, this is in part of the fantastic work LG and Qualcomm have done to make sure the processor can reach down to some really low power draw idle states without affecting responsiveness.
It is also possible because the dynamic back-light LED driver is capable of automatically adjusting the display’s brightness levels to maximize power efficiency. The driver has been configured to intuitively reduce screen brightness to levels which positively impact battery life without being too noticeable to the naked eye.
A high intensity battery life test that includes almost full brightness display settings playing video games and running several benchmarks continuously, the G3 was capable of just over 4 hours. This is pretty impressive for a device that has a comparatively large 2K resolution display. Our more everyday testing includes three hours of ‘display-on-time’, a few phone calls totaling one hour, an hour use of apps with 3G web connectivity including the browser, Facebook, Skype and Google Maps with some sporadic Wi-Fi connectivity. Even though I used automatic brightness controls, I also have a tendency to brighten things up a bit. I also leave email, message and notification synced, but Bluetooth and NFC off. We found that under these circumstances the LG G3 would have you covered a whole day, or about 14 hours.
The LaptopMag Battery Test 2.3 with the brightness cranked up to maximum settings revealed around 5 hours of running time – a fairly low run time that doubtless indicates just how much drain the 5.5 inch QHD display can have when set to full brightness.
The only real battery life issues you are likely to face are from situations that really max out the four Krait cores of the Snapdragon 801 processor, which can really suck down some juice. The camera app when 4K video recording and of course 3D gaming are the ancestral enemies of the battery life, these tasks take a lot of system memory and can run down a battery in no time. However, left on standby mode with just 3G/2G/WLAN connectivity, the G3 will retain power for over a week. Moderate use including just a few hours of activity, the G3 should last around two days.
One interesting thing was that we found the battery really benefited from some training. After two regular charging cycles (complete drain, followed by a full charge), the device really seemed to reach its full potential.
Unlike headline offerings from Samsung, HTC and Sony, LG have not implemented an advanced power saving mode. We have seen several improvements with modes that either offer more sophisticated ways to extend overall battery life, or implement extreme power saving with very little remaining battery life. In the latter category, we found the Samsung Galaxy S5 really excelled. LG instead have Battery Saver, a feature which kicks in once the G3 is below 30% charge. It reduces brightness and caps radio connections. Power saver can also be switched on via the quick settings menu.
The LG G3 runs an in-house developed custom version of Android Kit Kat 4.4.2 that looks very modern and well designed. Like most recent UIs from Samsung and HTC for example, the option from LG to go with ‘Flat’ icons and widgets instead of the more life-like, skeuomorphic design they previously used. I personally believe that there will always be a degree of ‘fashion’ involved when it comes to GUI design, and I certainly don’t have strong feelings towards either round or flat icons. However, the interface from LG looks attractive, with a very simplified approach that includes basic looking geometric shapes instead of detailed icons. Many of the pre-installed apps also look very simple with mono colors schemes that are also used in the status bar above. LG should applauded for making a very harmonious and consistent user experience.
The G3’s large display means the device can also offer some unprecedented customization options that not only let you modify the order and the color of the standard Android buttons, but also allow you to integrate additional buttons in the toolbar. The notification bar can have extra buttons too with a choice of QSlide, QuickMemo, multi-window mode, and more with a total of five button slots available. One handed use of the G3 is also enhanced by the fact that you can dock the onscreen keyboard on one side of the screen, making it easier for thumb use.
The keyboard LG have implemented by default is also impressive in a number of ways. You can change the overall height of keyboard for better access when needed. The user can decide to move the keyboard to the left or right of the screen. You can also customize space bar keys as well as frequently used characters such as commas, parentheses, or other. There are options to select quick buttons for character recognition and voice input, plus up to three customizable quick buttons.
Another important point to mention is the intelligent way that the LG keyboard learns which mistakes and miss hits you are making most. This allows the keyboard to intuit better corrections. I have a habit of hitting ‘V’ instead of space bar – after a while the LG keyboard had figured this out and was able to make better corrections. Impressive. It’s also useful to see the typed words displayed above the keyboard, so that you don’t have to keep looking up the actual field you typing in.
Overall the keyboard experience from LG is second to none, and a solid alternative to the standard Android keyboard. Other manufacturers take note.
In other respects LG have done an excellent of creating a clean, uncluttered user interface. One that is superior to many Android UI implementations. The design ethos is implemented consistently throughout the UI. It’s also great to see that LG has implemented a series of tabs for the full settings menu list with a very sensible layout and distinctive icons for each. You can of course also access a more familiar long list of options on the far right tab. The menu system feels very well thought out and is very easy to use.
There are a few other useful features that I would also care to mention, including the addition of floating windows which are used when receiving messages for example. A small windows or icon will appear in the app you currently have open, floating above it so you can quickly switch to the messaging without having to return to the home screen and open manually. In everyday life I found this to be a useful way to present messaging notifications. But if you do feel that it simply interferes you can also disable it along with many of LG’s other special implementations.
In the case of QSlide however, I am less enthusiastic, this is one feature that I did indeed end up disabling. The notification center can also be customized. The quick settings too can be extended to include a choice of many other settings and options, or indeed to can reduced to more bare minimum flavor if you prefer. As for the apps that LG bundles with the device, one has to wonder once again just how useful many of them really are. The fitness software may well be useful to some users, those who want to measure step and assess calories burned using the gyroscope sensors built in to the device – I personally have not tried it however.
There are also smart tips and a guide to Google Now, which are not too dissimilar to new system hints and tips. Most of these simply show obvious operating instructions and perhaps cause more trouble than they are worth. Perhaps new users to LG phones, or people who want to explore all possible functions of every app will find these useful, but I kind of felt them to be overbearing and even a pest at times. One useful, functional app however was the system cleaner which allows for easy deletion of temporary data that has been accumulated over time.
As with many other smartphones recently, the LG G3 has implemented so-called knock codes that allow the phone to be opened by tapping a self selected pattern on the off screen. However, I found that in practice even a simple double tap can be replicated by a contact with my thigh while resided in my pocket, something that happened several times. I think I prefer the traditional lock pattern or PIN code.
One feature that I cannot praise LG enough for, is the ability to hide the on screen buttons in certain apps where they are redundant, allowing the every pixel of the 5.5 inch QHD screen to utilized. This is great for games for example, which look stunning on this display, but even more so if you remove the button strip from the edge. Swiping from the edge, will bring back the buttons, should you wish to close the app. I think this is a fantastic feature that the Koreans should be praised for.
Overall LG should indeed receive praise for the entire UI, even if there are still plenty of us out there who would prefer a simple Google Play Edition or Nexus experience. The software offers a wide range of meaningful and sometimes even innovative customization options. It runs largely smooth as silk, looks appealing and feels really slick. LG customers in Korea may not be as fortunate as us Europeans as the Korean retail version we have suffered more in terms of bloatware, similar stuff to what many service providers typically serve up. The European version we have here is fairly lightweight in terms of annoying, unnecessary apps, with the overall base install taking more room on the Korean device and also creating a larger memory footprint. Perhaps that is why the larger 3GB RAM/32GB storage version has been released there first.
In terms of additional and less relevant functions the LG G3 fares quite well, but we don’t get any heart rate monitoring, fingerprint readers or other more gimmicky features that Samsung have been guilty of recently for example. LG has made minor additions that make meaningful improvements in key areas. The TV receiver on the Korean model is absent however, seeing DBM-T broadcasting is largely restricted to Korea only. At the upper end of the device we do however get an IR blaster which, as with other smartphones that include this feature, gets most use from being used as a TV controller. Unfortunately the performance of the IR Blaster tends to be inconsistent and even trying to changing channels can become a chore. This may be due to the insufficient power of the IR blaster, a problem previously found with the previous G2 also.
Check out our unboxing of the full LG G3 retail package in the video below:
In terms of call quality, and reception capabilities, the LG G3 performs well enough but nothing spectacular. The earpiece delivers decent quality audio, but it can be rather loud at times, even to the point where you could dispense with the speakerphone. But the good news is you can make clear calls in almost any environment, even extremely loud ones. In terms of reception, we encountered no issues due to the receiver placement or the plastic chassis.
The appeal of features like water and dust resistance and USB 3.0 compatibility will of course simply come down to the personal tastes of the customer. Water-proof metal housing would have been cool, but we won’t get upset with LG for not providing it. The feature set and overall appeal of the hardware included in this device is certainly comparable to flagship devices from Sony and Samsung.
The LG G3 is a damn good smartphone, one in which the manufacturer has made significant leaps, which for example has not been the case with for example, with Samsung. Sure, the G2 was also a really good phone, but the successor is a substantial improvement. The display is indeed not as bright as many competitors, but the resolution actually provides more focus and does not appear to negatively affect battery life in any way. The panel is in fact a huge credit to LG’s engineers. The design of the device is astounding, and despite the use of plastic for the back panel, it feels really pleasant to the touch. One thing to mention however is the back panel is not in fact scratch proof and could be improved with the same self-healing coating as the G Flex.
Also, maximizing the efficiency of the 5.5 inch display with very thin bezels also adds a lot to the appeal of the device. Likewise the laser auto-focus is for me a killer feature as are the various customization options and really smart menu and toolbar layouts. In terms of pure performance the G3 does not disappoint, but the QHD display does get a little warm at times compared to regular Full HD alternatives.
Overall the new flagship from LG is a damn good smartphone is almost all respects, and is therefore my choice for the current No.1 smartphone on the market right now. This is despite the massive certainty that it will never sell as well as Samsung’s equivalent offerings in Europe, a fact borne out by the massive disparity in the two company’s marketing muscle.
LG does however have one more very convincing argument to make in its favor and that is in the area of price. If we stick to Euros for a second, the LG G3 in its basic 2GB/16GB configuration can be had for €549, which is decent value, even standing next to the recently reduced Galaxy S5. Arguably, devices like the G3 are in fact part of the reason for Samsung’s recent price revisions. An extra €50 gets you a 3GB/32GB which puts it in real flagship territory, but I think anyone who enjoyed the G2 will be prepared to stump up the extra for what I believe is the best smartphone on the market right now.
If you are looking for the best, we believe we have found it. We therefore heartily recommend the LG G3.
Written by Roland Quandt, translated and edited by Stewart Haston
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Recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Anuradhapura's city ruins are one of South Asia's most evocative sites and contain a rich collection of crumbling temples, vast monasteries and elaborate palaces. Marvel at the sacred Bodhi tree, the oldest authenticated tree in the world. Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant before travelling east to Passikudah.
Passikudah
Today has been left at leisure for you to relax and enjoy Passikudah's powder-white sands and emerald-blue waters on Sri Lanka's laid-back, less-visited east coast.
Passikudah to Dambulla
This morning, journey to Sri Lanka's second ancient city. Scattered over gently undulating woodland, explore the monumental ruins of the ancient garden city of Polonnaruwa. Afterwards, continue on to the scenic town of Dambulla where you will spend the next two nights.
Dambulla and Sigiriya
Undoubtedly a highlight of the tour is today's excursion to the awe inspiring Sigiriya rock fortress. The ancient city of Sigiriya is a World Heritage Site and the city ruins lie on the slopes and summit of the imposing granite peak, towering above the jungle below. Climb up steps carved into the rock face to see the fortified palace and brilliant frescoes or enjoy the spectacular views of ancient citadel and jungle from the lily-pad-covered moats that surround the rock. Return to your hotel for lunch and to enjoy the rest of the day at leisure. Please note: photography is prohibited in parts of the Sigiriya Rock Fortress. Prohibited areas will be clearly signposted.
Dambulla to Kandy
After breakfast, visit the Dambulla Rock Temple, where the impressive caves contain over 2000 square metres of painted walls and ceilings which were once gilded by the ancient King to mark his place of worship. After some time to explore here, a stop will be made at a typical Sri Lankan spice garden to observe how a variety of spices are grown. You will arrive into Kandy this afternoon and head to the famous Temple of the Sacred Tooth. The golden-roofed temple houses Sri Lanka's most important Buddhist relic - a tooth of Buddha; you will arrive in time for 'pooja' when the heavily guarded room housing the relic is open to both pilgrims and travellers alike.
Cradled amongst misty hills, the small city of Kandy exudes history, culture and beauty with its calm centrepiece lake surrounded by rolling forested landscapes and colourful houses. Explore the famous botanical gardens of Peradeniya, full of exotic palms, colourful orchids and home to over four thousand species of trees and plants. Then enjoy a tour of the city followed by a day at leisure.
Kandy to Nuwara Eliya
This morning you will journey to Nuwara Eliya, often referred to as 'Little England' due to its plethora of colonial bungalows, well-tended hedgerows and pretty rose gardens. The picturesque mountain town is blessed with a salubrious climate and breathtaking views over the surrounding valleys, meadows and peaks. Sri Lanka is one of the world's largest exporters of tea and Nuwara Eliya has been the capital of this industry since the 19th century. En route to your hotel, you will make a stop at a tea plantation to observe the rich traditional process and inhale the heavenly scent of the prestigious Ceylon tea brand.
Nuwara Eliya to Udawalawe
A morning tour of Nuwara Eliya begins today, driving through the lush green tea plantations dotted with the colourful saris of the women working in them. Lunch will be served in a local village, Ella, with far reaching views over the misty landscapes beyond before continuing to Udawalawe.
Udawalawe to Tissamaharama
Udawalawe national park is renowned for its elephant viewing opportunities against the stunning backdrop of the surrounding hills. Rising early this morning, embark on a jeep safari to witness these majestic creatures in their natural habitat. As well as being home to over 250 elephants, deer, water buffalo, monkeys and a variety of bird species can also be found in the park. Just outside the park is the Elephant Transit Home, an inspirational project started to rehabilitate orphaned elephants. After this visit, depart for Tissamaharama to enjoy lunch and the rest of day at leisure.
Tissamaharama and Yala National Park
After some free time this morning, a jeep safari in the nearby Yala national park awaits. Covering a vast 1200 square kilometres, Yala is Sri Lanka's largest national park boasting a uniquely stunning ocean front setting. Journey through the heartland of wildlife, home to elephants, sloths, deer and, with the highest density of leopards in the world, you may even be lucky enough to spot one of these beautifully elusive animals.
Tissamaharama to Mirissa
Departing Tissamaharama, you will travel to the sleepy coastal resort of Mirissa. The idyllic crescent of beach, fringed with coconut palms is the perfect place to crack open a coconut and relax on the soft golden sands by the calm turquoise waters.
Mirissa and Galle
This morning will be at leisure for you to further relax or choose an optional whale watching excursion. The south coast of Sri Lanka is arguably the best place in the world to see planet earth's largest ever creatures, the Blue Whale. Alternatively, visit the nearby Hikkaduwa preschool to see a charity project funded and supported by Mercury Holidays. Late this morning you will travel to Galle, a fort area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This national treasure has been inhabited by the Portuguese, Dutch and British, all of whom left their distinctive marks visible in the walled Galle Fort and through the sleepy streets strewn with colonial buildings, restaurants and small boutique shops.
Mirissa to UK
After breakfast transfer to Colombo airport for your flight back to the UK.
Sri Lanka to the Maldives
Transfer from the Club Palm Bay Hotel in Marawila to the Airport for your flight to the Maldives. Upon arrival transfer to the Adaaran Club Rannalhi.
Relax at the Adaaran Club Rannalhi which occupies an idyllic location on its own 12 acre island.
The Maldives to the UK
Transfer to the airport for flight back to the UK.
An Electronic Travel Authority (ETA) is required for travel to Sri Lanka and must be obtained prior to arrival. It is an electronic authorisation issued by the Sri Lankan Government that is the equivalent of a visa, however, no label or stamp is placed in the passport. The ETA is valid for 6 months from the date of issue and for a stay of up to 30 days.
There is a non-refundable processing fee for some categories of the ETA, and people intending to visit Sri Lanka should visit the nearest Embassy or Consulate regarding visa requirements. More information can also be found at www.eta.gov.lk.
You must obtain suitable travel insurance prior to departure. Mercury Direct is partnered with Holiday Extras which offer insurance at the following prices:
Up to 17 days cover ?39 ?75 ?129
For all persons 86 years and over, please contact us for insurance prices. Please ensure you provide us with the name of your insurer, policy number and their 24 hour emergency contact number as soon as possible. Mercury Direct will not be liable for any costs incurred by you due to your failure to take out suitable travel insurance from the date of booking.
All flights are operated by Sri Lankan Airlines. Each passenger is entitled to 20kg of hold luggage & hand luggage of 5kg not exceeding 56cm x 36cm x 23cm in size. Flight times are for guidance only & subject to change. These timings are for the Jewels of Sri Lanka tour only and may vary. If you have booked an optional add on please contact our reservations department for more information.
It is your responsibility to check any health and vaccination requirements applicable to your booked arrangements. We can only provide general information about this. Health and hygiene facilities and disease risks vary from country to country. You should take health advice about your own needs as early as possible and in good time before your departure. Sources of information include; www.fco.gov.uk, http://travelhealthpro.org.uk/, www.hpa.org.uk, your General Practitioner or a specialist clinic.
This tour is accessible to most people with an average level of fitness and normal mobility. It involves full days of sightseeing, often on foot, and includes some climbing of stairs and getting on and off coaches. Please note there are approximately 1,300 steps to Sigiriya Rock Fortress. This tour is not suitable for anyone with walking difficulties.
There is no minimum number of travellers for this extension however the main tour passenger numbers will apply for the main part of the tour. If in the unlikely event there are less than the required number of people booked on your main tour date then you may be asked to change to a different date. A full refund will be made available to you should this alternative not be suitable.
This is a fully escorted tour with local guides throughout ensuring that you have first-hand knowledge at all times.
The currency in Sri Lanka is the Sri Lankan Rupee (LKR). The Rupee is a closed currency and officially you are not allowed to take any cash out of Sri Lanka. US Dollars and GBP are also widely accepted in these destinations, should you wish to keep an alternative currency on you. Therefore, it is very important that you budget carefully.
The currency in the Maldives is the Maldivian Rufiya. The Maldivian Rufiya is a closed currency and officially you are not allowed to take any cash out of the Maldives. US Dollars are also widely accepted in these destinations, should you wish to keep an alternative currency on you. Therefore, it is very important that you budget carefully.
You will need to take some extra money with you to cover any personal purchases, such as souvenirs, laundry and extra drinks and snacks. Approximately $200 - $400 will be sufficient for the duration of the tour, depending on how much of a bargain-hunter you are!
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Travelling Alone?
We have 2 rooms available on every tour date for single occupancy use, however a single supplement must be paid for the add-on part of the tour.
Average Flying time
Min/Max temperature
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Sinhala, Tamil, English
Weather can vary quite considerably throughout the year, so please familiarise yourself with the climate charts below.
Nilaveli
Sunscreen and hat in summer
Loo paper for public WCs
Leave plenty of space in your case for shopping!
Long Trousers and a top with sleeves is required when entering any religious sites
Colombo Extension
Extend your tour with a Sri Lanka Beach Stay
Extend your tour with a Kerala Beach Stay
Extend your trip with a Maldives Beach Stay
See the Highlights of Kerala
Ramada Colombo
Hotel Palm Garden Village
The Calm Resort
Amaya Lake
Amaya Hills
Araliya Green Hills
The Grand Udawalawe Safari Hotel
Mandara Rosen
Mandara Resort
Tour Route
Explore this fascinating city at your own pace. Colombo is the commercial capital of the island. Its streets are alive with colourful shops and markets, while temples and mosques reflect its multicultural heritage.
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Sri Lanka Beach Stay
Extend your stay with an extension to the wonderful beach resort of Kalutara on the north west coast of the country. Indulge in a calming massage or relax by the beach before returning to the UK. Choose a hotel from our handpicked options or speak to our reservations team about our entire range of hotels available.
Extend your tour with a relaxing beach stay in the Indian State of Kerala. Relax in the popular resort of Kovalam, known locally as the paradise of the south, amongst the coconut groves for which the town is famous.
Why not continue your trip beyond Sri Lanka with a mini tour of the beautiful Indian state of Kerala from 359pp. This 4 night extension includes a tour of Cochin, one of India's major ports and trading centres and an overnight trip on an authentic Keralan Houseboat.
Essence of North India
Travelling from Delhi to Agra, then Jaipur, this 10-day, 8-night tour of the Golden Triangle and the exotic Ranthambore National Park takes you through India's most famous sights.
Beyond India's Golden Triangle
Experience the marble memorials, gilded domes and elegant minarets of India's lavish Mughal-era architecture as you explore the ancient palaces and forts of the north.
Beyond India's Golden Triangle for Solo Travellers
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Flood warnings in force for England.
Updated 12:52 (UTC) on Mon 20 Jan 2020
London & South East England weather forecast
Monday 20 Jan -
Cold but fine with some sunshine.
Fine and frosty to start, with some areas of fog and freezing fog. The fog should gradually clear during the morning, to reveal a cold but dry day, with plenty of sunshine and light winds. Maximum temperature 8 °C.
Dry during the evening and overnight, with winds remaining light. Clear spells should allow temperatures to dip once again, leading to frost and areas of fog or freezing fog. Minimum temperature -5 °C.
Another cold day, especially at first in areas of fog and freezing fog that may be slow to clear. Otherwise, fine with plenty of sunshine and light winds once again. Maximum temperature 7 °C.
Outlook for Wednesday to Friday:
Remaining mainly dry during this period. Some clear or sunny spells are still likely, but on the whole it should become cloudier and a little less cold, with limited frost.
UK long range weather forecast
Friday 24 Jan -
Sunday 2 Feb
Into the weekend, it will be staying cloudy for most with a risk of light rain or drizzle at times. However, it is expected to be largely dry and settled with bright spells and light winds. This will continue for the south further into the following week, whilst the north could be wetter and windier at times. Later on in this period, some rain may briefly spread further southeast across the UK, although the most unsettled weather is likely to remain in the north and northwest, where some hill snow is possible. Further southeast drier spells will be accompanied by the best of any brightness, along with the greatest risk of fog and frost. Temperatures will generally be near average, although a little below at times in the north.
Sunday 2 Feb -
Sunday 16 Feb
Through the first half of February, we are likely to see a north/south split continuing; with the north being more unsettled than the south. The heaviest of the rainfall and strongest winds are likely to be seen across the northwest. The south is more likely to see drier, brighter conditions with light winds. There is potentially a greater risk of frost and fog patches developing towards the south. During colder, showery interludes, any snow will most likely be over higher ground in the north, but it could fall to lower levels at times. Temperatures will remain close to or above average through the period, though will likely fluctuate as frontal systems pass through, especially in the north.
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Australian football legend Tim Cahill to add to children’s book series
by Tom Clayton
Tim Cahill: making nice children’s books, probably not thinking about Brexit (Camw, CC BY-SA 3.0 )
OK, I’ll level with you. Every week, we go through the books news looking for the most vital, interesting, controversial and otherwise blog-worthy stories. It’s fun! And the past couple of weeks have been bejewelled with absolute doozies: The Nobel Prize for Literature, The Booker Prize, Super Thursday, Frankfurt Book Fair, er, David Cameron’s autobiography, etc. etc.
All excellent blog subjects. But one thing has been buzzing away in the background of the UK for years now, providing the doom-laden background music to all of those subjects, a black hole into which every conversation inevitably falls, regardless of where it began: Brexit.
What’s happening today? We ask each other. “I have no idea!” we all say, for the millionth time. “No one does!”
Yet, as the buzz builds to a roar for the second time this year, the UK finds itself in a strange state of ultra-limbo: the news is now literally changing from minute to minute, and along with it, our emotions, our hopes, our fears … frankly, I’m tired. We’re all tired. I’m desperate to think something that isn’t about sodding Brexit. Although it appears I have been. Sorry.
Anyway, in the spirit of writing something hopeful, and well-meaning, and kind (and crucially, not about leaving the European Union), let’s talk about Australian footballer Tim Cahill and his series of children’ books instead.
Cahill is a certified superstar Down Under: he is his country’s highest scorer at international level and at the World Cup (with five goals over three tournaments). His sparkling international career has seen him play the game on four continents—including spells with UK clubs Millwall and Everton, in the US with New York Red Bulls, as well as seasons in China, Australia and India.
He announced his retirement last year, and this week told an interview with Australian channel 7 News he was using his profile to continue the work of Football for Schools, recently launching a pilot branch in the Lebanon. The scheme, he says, will “give 11 million footballs to these kids, and it’s about education, values, lifestyle, and what we can teach them.”
He also looks set to add to his children’s book series Tiny Timmy, which currently stands at eight volumes. In his 7 News interview, he explains how he drew on his own story as inspiration for the books:
“My kids are in it, my daughter’s one of the main characters … All of these stories are all part of my life, and I can tell my story through the books.”
Cahill is not the first footballer to go into children’s books: former England midfielder Frank Lampard launched his Frankie’s Magic Football series in 2013, which now stands at 20 volumes. And Alex Morgan, last seen winning the World Cup with the US womens’ team, also has a series, The Kicks, which she launched in 2012.
It seems children’s publishing is becoming an increasingly viable career for footballers, both current and retired. And it’s another example of how the sport can be a force for good—remember “good”?—in these worrying times.
Tom Clayton is publishing executive at Melville House UK.
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The Story About Very Unusual Gulf Livery 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe
This is the story about the Beau Mikelthun’s 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe. Beau always had been a car enthusiast, but he isn’t considering himself as a Mustang enthusiast, although this is his second Mustang. His first car was a ‘81 Fox Body Mustang with a straight six-cylinder engine under the hood, but his passion and love for a car’s doesn’t end there.
He bought this Mustang in pretty bad condition, which originally had a straight six engine under the hood. Beau had an unusual idea for this Mustang, he wanted more horsepower, but also he doesn’t wanted to install a Ford 302 V8 engine, but rather something more original. He came with an idea to install a Japanese 2.3 liter Toyota Turbo engine, but sadly he blow that engine.
He wanted reliability, drivability and more horsepower, and after some research he decided to install a Toyota straight 6-cylinder 2JZ-GTE, which was originally installed in a fourth-gen Supra. Beau had finished his 1968 Ford Mustang Coupe body in Gulf Racing colors, which was inspired by a Le Mans Gulf Livery Ford GT. Also, he upgraded the suspension, braking system with rotors on all four wheels and set of new BFgoodrich Radial T/A tires.
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'Senna’ Writer's Feature Film ‘Heroes’ Set For Worldwide release
'Senna’ Writer's Feature Film ‘Heroes’ Set For Worldwide release product 2020-01-16 16:00:00 https://www.motor1.com/news/393243/heroes-motorsport-network-worldwide-release/ Motor1 Announcements
Four legends of motorsport share their love of four wheels growing up, their successes, failures, personal struggles, and life-threatening accidents
Motorsport Network is pleased to announce that Manish Pandey’s feature-length motorsport epic movie ‘Heroes’ is to be released for a global audience on Motorsport.tv from 16 January 2020.
Heroes, which is Motorsport Network’s first film commission, brings together legendary drivers from F1, Le Mans 24 Hours and rallying who share never-before-heard stories of triumph and tragedy. The film will be available to view on an SVOD basis on Motorsport Network’s OTT platform Motorsport.tv.
Gallery: Heroes on Motorsport.tv
Written and directed by Manish Pandey, who wrote the multi award-winning Senna movie, the 111-minute film features two-time Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen, former Ferrari grand prix ace Felipe Massa, nine-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen and Michele Mouton, still the only woman to have won World Championship rallies. All four also share their intimate memories of competing alongside Seven-times Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher, whose story is also told.
Across ten chapters the interweaving narratives of the motorsport stars are featured with both archive and first-hand testimony. One of the underlying narratives is the human fragility of drivers and Heroes has officially partnered with the Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (ICM), one of the world’s leading brain and spine research institutes, which has enjoyed an enduring relationship with Formula 1.
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James Allen, Motorsport Network President said, “The response to Heroes has been overwhelmingly positive and through watching Mika, Felipe, Michele, and Tom share their big breaks, successes, failures, personal struggles and life-threatening accidents you cannot help but be moved. Manish’s skill as a writer and director really has crafted something special and we look forward to sharing our film with motorsport and non-motorsport enthusiasts alike.”
Manish Pandey, writer and director said, “As a filmmaker, of course, you dream of creating something very special. And ‘Heroes’ is very special, quite unlike any documentary, out there. But you also want to reach as many people as you can - and with the powerhouse of Motorsport Network speaking to motor racing fans this a dream for any filmmaker.”
To watch Heroes on or after 16 January, subscribe to Motorsport.tv from $4.99/€4.50/£3.99 a month.
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DVD/Blu-ray/Digital Reviews - 8 August 2016-08-08
Posted on Saturday, August 6th, 2016 at 12:24 pm. Written by Steve
Nathan Phillips and Jessica De Gouw in These Final Hours
These Final Hours (The Works, cert 18)
A “last day of the world” film like we used to get around the turn of the millennium. It’s made on the cheap but with lots of skill and attitude, the attitude being largely borrowed from Mad Max. Actually, it’s about three genres in one and they successfully fold together as we follow James (Nathan Phillips of Wolf Creek) who is on a coming-of-age road trip on the very last day of the world’s existence. The question the film poses, and James asks of himself eventually when he’s got his priorities straight, is: am I going to be an asshole right to the end? Trying to pick the meat of this from the bones of a plot that makes a good fist of keeping us off balance – Who’s this girl Zoe who James is shagging early on, if not his girlfriend? If Zoe is his girlfriend, why is he leaving her and heading off to a grungy party somewhere else? If Vicky, the girl there, is in fact his real girlfriend, why’s he having flashbacks to Zoe? Who’s the little girl at the party James decides to take under his wing, and why so protective all of a sudden – the world’s about to end, isn’t it? All is eventually revealed, and satisfyingly, to a soundtrack of party-animal music, to drugs that “take the edge off, mate” – taking the edge off being one of the things the film ponders – while a very up-close camera and some clever work in the edit suite makes very much of very little. Although essentially focused on Phillips, Jessica De Gouw as Zoe, Kathryn Beck as Vicky and Angourie Rice as the little mite Rose, Zak Hilditch’s film is more of an ensemble piece than at first seems the case, and it’s noticeable how often a little look from a character at the fringe of a scene either confirms or disturbs the mood. The only real question to be asked about this excellent bijou thriller is – how come it’s taken three years to get a home-ent release in the UK?
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Eddie the Eagle (Lionsgate, cert PG)
Two things are going on in this knockabout biopic about Eddie the Eagle, the useless British skijumper who won people’s hearts at the 1988 Olympics, much as the Jamaican bobsleigh team did at the same Games (and immortalised in the film Cool Runnings). The first is the resurrection of a familiar British comedy type. George Formby and Norman Wisdom are both early iterations of Eddie: the good-natured gump whose pluck, decency and vim – and other qualities exemplified by other old-fashioned words – trump the current top attributes of brawn, hotness, smarts and cool. The other is that director Dexter Fletcher has decided to use the film as a Hollywood calling card. Don’t expect edge, in other words. Those two boulder-sized caveats to one side, this is a very standard “triumph of the nerd” following the serially challenged Eddie Edwards from childhood to manhood – though puberty doesn’t seem to have overly intruded – his burning urge to be an Olympian never once dimming as he tries a succession of sports, landing on ski-jumping because here, in the UK at least, there is literally no competition. And I mean not a single person. Taron Egerton plays Eddie, proving he’s better than he appeared to be in the woeful Kingsman, though it’s essentially the same role, the same film – gimp makes good. And it’s in the actors where this film’s heart, and any claims to averageness, lie. Hugh Jackman, even playing the boozy former-somebody loser who reluctantly agrees to be Edwards’s coach, is about as potent a raw infusion of star quality as any film could hope for, and there’s nice homegrown Coronation Street-style to-and-fro between Kevin Allen and Jo Hartley as Eddie’s entirely divided parents. She’s all for the “follow your dream” stuff; he’s more “What? Even if you’re shit?” Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Deacon Blue, Hall and Oates are on the soundtrack, the naff end of 1980s music being about right, and Christopher Walken gets a walk-on so brief he hasn’t got time even for a shuffle or to pull a watch out of his back passage. Though director Fletcher does give us a sense of the sheer awesomeness of skijumping, this is in almost every respect a very prosaic, a very earthbound film.
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Tale of Tales (Curzon, cert 15)
Like something from the 1960s, a compendium of 17th-century fairytales by Giambattista Basile firmly in the European tradition– dark, disturbed and not necessarily all “happy ever after” – with the likes of Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones and John C Reilly to help international buyers take an interest. Pasolini and Fellini are invoked immediately in the opening sequence as we follow a troupe of jugglers into the first story, about a king (Reilly) and his barren wife (Hayek) who manage to make a baby by some magical jiggery-pokery involving a virgin, a sea monster and the eating of its heart. Cut to Jones as a king of a different kingdom, and his neglectful relationship with his own daughter, his majesty preferring instead the company of a pet flea, who grows large and fat on his indulgence. Cut to another King (Cassel), a debaucher who falls for the singing voice of an old crone (Hayley Carmichael) believing her to be a soft-skinned virgin, which she eventually, magically becomes. Lust, envy, covetousness, selfishness, trickery, ugliness – it’s hardly Disney, unless you’re talking about Snow White and Pinocchio. The tales work towards finger-wagging conclusions and punishment is meted out according to the crime in a world whose nearest reference point would be the 1960s East German TV series The Singing Ringing Tree if it weren’t for director Matteo Garrone’s stunning locations, all in Italy, apparently, though heavy with the dust and monumentalism of North Africa (Pasolini again). The stories do not hang together, nor do they pretend to, and there are some genuinely ugly moments of gore, such as when the sister (Shirley Henderson) of the rejuvenated woman (Nymphomania’s Stacy Martin) has the skin flayed from her body hoping it will make her young too. It’s not edge-of-seat stuff, though never less than fascinating, not least because we’re watching a genre long presumed dead live again.
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Holding the Man (Peccadillo, cert 15)
Neil Armfield’s last feature film was 2006’s Candy, which put us inside the druggy relationship between Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish. Holding the Man is a better, more subtle film, if less full of fireworks, and tells the story of a couple of guys who meet at school, become lovers and – it being the 1970s when it all kicks off – eventually meet the Grim Reaper in the shape of Aids. We’ll gloss over the fact that both Ryan Corr (flamboyant Tim) and Craig Scott (quieter, more masculine John) are too old to be playing teens, because the main bulk of the film takes place later on. It’s a tale not just of an enduring relationship but of changing times, and of the relationship within those changing times – the basic plot of the romantic war movie (a searing relationship set against a turbulent backdrop etc etc) – and dropping in an out of the picture are a host of famous Aussie faces showing faith with Armfield. Guy Pearce and Kerry Fox are Tim’s parents, horrified but accepting of their son’s “persuasion”. Anthony LaPaglia is John’s angry, never accepting dad, Geoffrey Rush blurs on – as he did in Candy – to steal a scene as Tim’s drama teacher, suggesting in the smallest of speeches and a turning on and off of gay tics that a man can comport himself as a slab of beef if the situation so demands, even if he is in fact a bag of mince. Romantic early sex (done in suggestion rather than full-frontal show-and-tell) gives way to bathhouse debauchery, the 1970s become the 80s and eventually the 1990s and though the arc is familiar, the nuance is not. Armfield (working off Tim Conigrave’s memoir) pointing out that, yes, Australia is militantly heterosexist, but not uniformly so. In fact, where we least expect it, at the Jesuit school where Tim and John first hook up, there is a rough, bantering acceptance of Tim’s entirely open sexuality. We’ve all been to school. We all know this does happen. Being gay isn’t the crime here, it’s being a pansy. Very Aussie.
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The Brand New Testament (Metrodome, cert 15)
God resides in Brussels in this smart Belgian farce always balancing on whimsy’s rim and actually focusing on His daughter – who escapes to Earth to set about gathering disciples about her, much as her brother Jesus did. Once she’s escaped the drab bedsitter conformity of Paradise, off Ea (Pili Groyne) goes on a road movie of sorts, collecting her followers, having first told everyone on Earth the exact date of their death, nice touch. Don’t worry, the God angle is a feint and the film is really a gentle instructive on living lives to the full – as we meet each of Ea’s chosen six (12 is too unwieldy, Jesus has told his sister), they’re all people coming to terms with some obstruction, often self-imposed. Aurélie (Laura Verlinden) is a hot babe with a false arm and low self-esteem, Jean-Claude (Didier De Neck) has spent his entire life in a boring job, Marc (Serfe Larivière) is sex-obsessed, François (François Damiens) is death obsessed, Martine (Catherine Deneuve) is so depressed she doesn’t know what to do, Willy (Romain Gelin) has been progressively poisoned by his parents and now in his own end of days he’s decided he wants to become a girl. A fairly representative bunch, then. Deneuve’s name stands out, of course, and is worth an extra mention because she gets a scene in bed with a gorilla. And there’s surely a constituency for that. But you come to this film because, once its got its shaky opening scenes out of the way, it keeps delivering twists of a life-affirming sort. It’s bitty but they’re good bits, kitsch but not lazy kitsch and it has a refreshing take on God (Benoît Poelvoorde), who visits tribulations on humanity not because he’s a vengeful deity, it’s more because he’s just a bit bored and, like many a middle-aged man, has gone a bit sour. Yolande Moreau – of course it’s her – plays God’s wife (I don’t remember God having a wife in the Bible, but nor did he get stuck inside a laundromat washing machine), and there’s a lot of sousaphone-style comedy music recalling charmless 1970s films. Yes, it does all sound dreadful, doesn’t it, but trust me it’s not. Vaguely a visual take on the Eric Bazilian song made famous by Joan Osborne What If God Was One of Us (you know – “Just a slob like one of us”), it knows what whimsy is and it rushes towards it, headlong, puppy style and shakes it nearly to death.
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The Hard Stop (Metrodome, cert 18)
A “hard stop” happens when the police hit you with a guns-cocked-no-discussion arrest. They performed one of these on Mark Duggan in Tottenham in 2011. In the fray, Duggan was killed, the media duly reporting that he’d fired a gun at police. This turned out not to be true, though a firearm was found some feet away from his body. Riots broke out in Tottenham and erupted elsewhere in the country. £200 million of damage was caused in London alone. That’s the background to this documentary following two guys heavily involved in the riots – Marcus Knox Howe and Kurtis Henville. In fact as we meet Marcus he’s waiting to see what sentence he’s going to get for his involvement. Somewhere round here I wrote in my notes “a portrait of two guys, as a way of explaining the riots? Really?” And this is exactly what George Amponsah’s documentary is, for good and ill. Marcus is the more eloquent of the two, filling us in on details about local grievances, that the police are anti-black essentially, and have been on vengeance jag ever since the death of PC Keith Blakelock on the Broadwater Farm estate in 1985 – exactly the same area. It was then and is now “an oppressive racist police force,” as one activist describes it, before going on to opine that “… we gave them a bloody good hiding.” Kurtis, meanwhile, is the under-educated, over-cocky black man of stereotype, trying to get a job and getting knocked back, trying to hold a family together, but finding that having to work so far from home in the job he eventually does get adds an extra burden most of us wouldn’t tolerate. It’s a portrait, not so much of the Duggan case and the riots, but of the dry tinder that needs only a spark to ignite – under-educated people with low expectations, finding drug dealing one of the few lucrative opportunities on offer, and then bridling when even that is taken from them. In its equation of crime with lack of opportunity, there are remarkable similarities with the recent US doc on life on an American Indian reservation, Seventh Fire. And like Seventh Fire, it’s not a breezy ride. Would you want to live on Broadwater Farm? I wouldn’t, and I live in an area once dubbed the Murder Mile.
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Southbound (StudioCanal, cert 18)
V/H/S, Phobia, the ABCs of Death – the compendium horror movie walks among us again, as it did in the 1960s. But there is more of a point to it in the age of home-consumed entertainment, when the break between each tale allows pizza to be hoisted to face and the bong to be relit. This Carpenter/Corman-inflected anthology makes a token attempt to link all four tales together, and starts with a pair of guys out in the desert being menaced by hovering creatures yet seemingly incapable of escaping the flyblown town they’re in. This leads into tale the second, about a VW camper (how 1970s) of girls who break down, are picked up by a nice couple, who are too nice by half, of course. And, after a lot of Tupperware set design, the action shifts to a deserted hospital where things get genuinely unpleasant and the pizza probably sits hovering in mid-air for a few minutes. Hold that skunk! And then we’re into another story set in a bar and loosely modelled on From Dusk Till Dawn, before we’re into a home-invasion horror finale that lifts the magician’s hat to reveal – ta daa – a link to the first story. Southbound has the good sense to keep moving, understands the importance of production design, and that John Carpenter’s synth noodles were an inspired way to soundtrack a horror movie. The film’s unifying theme appears to be people who never quite appreciate just how fucked they are – we can all buy into that, right? – and if there’s a slight variation in quality (in other words the hospital bit is so scary it throws the rest into the shade) that is something you might well be thankful for.
Southbound – Watch it/buy it at Amazon
© 2016 Steve Morrissey
Tags: Eddie the Eagle, Holding the Man, Southbound, Tale of Tales, The Brand New Testament, The Hard Stop, These Final Hours
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Cochran Promoted To CEO At WOW!
Abdoulah Stays On As Chairman, Kuo Moves Up To COO From CMO
Kent Gibbons
WideOpenWest (WOW!) announced that Steven Cochran is being promoted to chief executive officer from president, and that current chairwoman and CEO Colleen Abdoulah will transition into solely being chairman, effective April 1.
Related to that, Cathy Kuo, the chief marketing officer, will move up to chief operating officer at the competitive triple-play provider, privately owned by Avista Capital Partners. WOW! has 800,000 customers, ranking eighth among U.S. cable operators.
Abdoulah, a former Tele-Communications Inc. and AT&T Broadband executive, has headed WOW! since 2002, successfully leading the sale process to Avista Capital Partners in 2006. She also has earned plaudits for establishing a corporate culture of employee satisfaction and for the company's financial performance. As board chair she will continue to provide strategic leadership, executive coaching and development, and serve on the board compensation committee, the company said She will also continue as chair of the American Cable Association, where she has been a prominent spokesman for cable-industry issues in Washington, D.C., and beyond.
Cochran began his career with WOW! as CFO in 2002; he was promoted to COO/CFO in 2008 and to president in 2010. He was the architect of several critical acquisitions starting in 2006. In addition to becoming CEO, he will join the board of directors.
Kuo's leadership has helped WOW! quadruple its customer base since joining WOW! in 2001, the company said. She has led the company's strategic plans for pricing and product management, branding, programming and ad sales.
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Veteran cable investor cites a customer-service focus as key to success
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Exec Adds Daily Oversight over Multiple Disciplines, Retains CMO Position
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Garbage! Yankees’ minor league team jabs cheating Astros
Richmond County Bank Ballpark hosts the Staten Island Yankees. (Staten Island Advance)
By Brendan Kuty | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
That’s trash.
A Yankees minor-league team took a shot at the cheating Astros with a promotion Tuesday.
The Staten Island Yankees will give mini garbage cans to the first 500 fans to show up to a game at Richmond County Bank Ballpark on Sept. 3.
The move was a direct jab at Houston, who suffered severe punishment via Major League Baseball on Monday for illegally using electronics to steal signs during the 2017 season.
The Astros used a live video feed to decipher catcher signals before relaying them to hitters. They placed a TV monitor near their dugout, and when players decoded the signs, they would bang on a trash can — hence the promotion — nearby to signal to hitters what was coming. For example, one bang might mean a breaking ball, two might mean a fastball.
After a long investigation, MLB suspended manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow for the 2020 season, and then Houston owner Jim Crane fired them.
MLB also fined Houston $5 million and forced them to forfeit their first- and second-round picks in 2020 and 2021.
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Below, read the Yankees’ press release on restructuring their training staff:
The New York Yankees today announced that they have restructured their Player Health and Performance staff, which will be led by new Director of Player Health and Performance Eric Cressey. Also joining the organization are Assistant Director of Player Health and Performance Donovan Santas and Major League Strength and Conditioning Coach Brett McCabe. Assuming new roles in 2020 are Director of Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation (ATC/PT) Michael Schuk, Head Athletic Trainer Tim Lentych, and Director of Medical ServicesSteve Donohue.
“After a long and thorough review process, we’re proud to welcome Eric Cressey to the New York Yankees to oversee our player health and performance team. Eric is a highly accomplished coach in the fitness world and has a strong reputation in the baseball industry in regards to athlete training, performance, and player care. Among his responsibilities, Eric will have a large hand in staffing, assessments, facility enhancements, equipment, continuing education, and technology. We’re excited to have Eric join the Yankees to best serve our players across the organization,” said Yankees Senior Vice President and General Manager Brian Cashman.
Brendan Kuty may be reached at bkuty@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @BrendanKutyNJ. Find NJ.com Yankees on Facebook.
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Home Tech & New Products
Maximum Motorsports K-Members Offer A Myriad Of Engine Options
Posted By: Steve Baur December 5, 2019
There is no lack of aftermarket options when it comes to tubular front K-members for your late-model Mustang, and sorting out the differences and fitments can be a long, tedious process involving hours of Internet searches, phone calls and more. Maximum Motorsports has been in the late-model Mustang game since it began and the company’s high quality of research, design, and manufacturing has created a reputation for strong parts that work and that fit as expected. It should come as no surprise then that the company has expanded its tubular K-member product line to include the surge in popularity of engine swaps, be it the Coyote 5.0 in the Fox Body Mustang, or the push rod-based small-block Ford engine into the newer, formerly Modular-powered Mustang bodies such as those from 1996-2004.
Maximum Motorsports sells its K-members as individual items or as kits that include everything you need to not only revamp your aging Mustang’s front suspension, but also allow for popular engine swaps.
The Maximum Motorsports K-member for engine swaps in 1979-1995 Mustangs is a bolt-in piece that has the engine mounting pads and steering rack location to allow fitment of 5.0L Coyote (2011-2014 and 2015+), 4.6L/5.4L Modular, 3.8L V-6s, and even LSX engines.
Weight savings has probably been the number one factor for swapping out the stamped steel stock K-member in a Mustang and the Maximum Motorsports offerings weigh just 39 lbs, which according to Maximum Motorsports is 22 percent lighter than the OEM K-member. Its design was recently updated for better fitment with 2015+ Coyote engines (All MMKM-2.1 K-members shipped after 8/1/18 are of the new design).
With every engine swap, there are almost always a number of challenges to getting it to fit into its new home. Maximum Motorsports looked at all of the challenges that Coyote, Modular, and LSX swappers face, some of which might include oil pan and exhaust header clearance. Aftermarket turbo kits have also become quite popular, and Maximum has some experience with those as well.
While weight saving is a great benefit of a tubular K-member, Maximum Motorsports’ focus on designing an aftermarket one has largely been aimed at optimizing the suspension geometry to increase cornering grip and produce a better-handling Mustang. While suspension geometry and pickup points are an important parts of the equation, making sure the suspension is bolted to a sturdy and stiff chassis allows the suspension to be more effective in its function and Maximum Motorsports incorporated advanced cross-bracing and triangulation of tube intersections to ensure the strength and durability for just this reason. Thicker-gauge metal is used, as are larger-sized tubes, both of which ensure the K-members can handle the harshest road course and drag strip situations.
On the top side of the engine bay, engine swappers often have to consider what intake manifold to use. Going to an aftermarket piece like this Ford Racing intake, or something from Holley or another manufacturer, may dictate where the engine sits in the chassis.
What might be surprising to most enthusiasts who are taking a look at the Maximum Motorsports K-member and associated components are the amount of details the company offers in regard to options and fitment. The company has obviously done a lot of research during product development to ensure the accuracy of its information.
And even with all of the work put in during the initial development phase of the product line, Maximum Motorsports continues to review its product design and make changes on the fly to provide additional and/or better fitment. A perfect example of this is the change Maximum made as a result of the 2015 Coyote engines and the Charge Motion Control Valves located at the back of the intake manifold. They interfered with the Fox-Body firewall, and since this would be the Coyote 5.0 engine going forward, the company made changes to its K-member to re-position the engine forward. This, in turn, necessitated another change to allow clearance for the engine’s oil pan since it would be moving forward as well.
As Maximum Motorsports largely focused on improving the handling of the Mustang platform with all of its suspension components, it’s no surprise to see two different control arm mounting points. Something else that’s very evident in this K-member is the beefy construction—despite its stout design, the Maximum Motorsports Mustang K-member is still considerably lighter than the stock unit.
In addition to fitting a variety of engines, the Maximum Motorsports K-members are available with a variety of engine mount and control arm options, as well as control arm mounting locations, to dial in the suspension setup just the way you need it to be. There are three different control arm options for the Fox-Body platform and two for the SN95 platform.
A couple of other things to note about these K-members is that Maximum designed them for easier steering rack removal, and there are precisely located holes to hang plumb bobs from to ensure the K-member is square in the chassis.
In addition to doing its homework before producing the K-members, Maximum Motorsports also put them in a bunch of American Iron road-racing cars to make sure they can hold up against the harshest of situations. Once that was completed, it was time to manufacture—which is done right at the company’s San Luis Obispo, California, facility.
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UPDATE: Little potash spilled after derailment in B.C. lake: government spokesman
No one was injured, there were no fires and no railcars carrying dangerous goods were involved
Two rail cars containing potash have been removed from Moose Lake in eastern British Columbia after a Canadian National train derailed Thursday.
A spokesman with the B.C. Ministry of Environment says one car was fully submerged in the lake and the second was partially underwater.
The spokesman says the ministry has been told that both cars were able to contain most of the potash inside with very little entering the lake.
CN says 26 cars derailed about 30 kilometres east of Mount Robson, not far from the Alberta boundary.
A company statement says a cause for the derailment hasn’t been determined and experts and government authorities are assessing any possible impacts to the environment.
It says CN expects to open the south track by Friday and is working on the north track to allow rail traffic through.
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New England Aviation History
from author and historian Jim Ignasher
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New England Air Fields As Of 1934
The following information was gathered from a publication distributed by the Unites States Department of Commerce – Bureau of Air Commerce, titled, “Descriptions of Airports and Landing Fields in the Unites States”, Airway Bulletin #2, dated September 1, 1934. Some of the air fields listed here are still in operation, others are not. It’s possible that this list is not complete.
Linen Post Card Brainard Field, Connecticut
Bridgeport – Mollison Airport, commercial. Located 3 mi. SE of Bridgeport, and 1.5 miles S of Stratford. Altitude 10 ft. Two gravel runways, 2,800 ft. N/S, and 2,600 ft. E/W. Remainder of field not developed. Hangars and buildings to the north. “Bridgeport Airport” on hangar roof. 24 inch rotating beacon. 24-hour facilities for servicing aircraft. Seaplane anchorage and service facilities on Housatonic River adjacent to airport. Airport was dedicated July 5-6, 1929
Bristol – Stephenson Field, commercial. Located 1.5 miles SE of city. Altitude 240 ft. 30 acres. Two runways measuring 1,475, and 1,380 feet. Hangar, minor repairs, aviation fuel, day only.
Canaan – Canaan Airport, municipal. Located 1.25 miles north of Canaan on Federal Route No. 7. Altitude 690-699 feet. Three runways, each measuring 1,700, 2,400, and 2,000 feet. Hangar and office building. Aviation fuel, days only.
Danbury – Danbury Airport, municipal. 2 miles SW of Danbury center. Altitude 440 feet. Two runways, measuring 1,950 and 1,600 feet. Hangar building, repairs, fuel, days only.
Essex – Doane Airport, commercial. Located 1.4 miles west of Essex. Altitude, 15, feet. “Essex” embedded on field. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Groton – Trumbull Field, state owned. Located three miles south-east of New London. Three runways, measuring 1,500, 1,400, and 1,000 feet. 24-inch rotating beacon, clear, with clear auxiliary code flashing “G”, (- – .) 24-hour aircraft service facilities. Seaplane base with natural hard sand beach and ramp to the south-east.
Hamden – Hamden Airport, commercial. Located within city limits, one block east of Dixwell Avenue. Altitude, 50 feet. “Hamden Airport” on hangar. Hangar and repair shop on south side of field, Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Hartford – Brainard Field, municipal. Located within city limits, borders west bank of Connecticut River. Altitude, 26 feet. Three runways, two measuring 3,600, feet, and the third measuring 2,800 feet. “Hartford” on hangar roof and embedded in field. 24-hours aircraft service facilities. This airport is used as the operational base for the Connecticut National Guard. Low powered radio station, WWIC, for point to point and communication with aircraft, operating frequency, 278 kc. 24-inch green rotating beacon that flashes “H”, (. . . . ).
Madison – Griswold Airport, commercial. Located one mile NE of city. Altitude, 20 ft. Sod field. Two runways, measuring 1,800, and 1,400 feet. Hangar and aviation fuel, days only.
Meriden – Meriden Airport, municipal. Located 2.5 miles SW of city, just south of a large pond; .5 mile east of large reservoir. Altitude 74 feet. One landing strip, 3,500 feet long. Buildings in NE corner of field. “Meriden” on hangar roof. Lighted beacon, green, flashing characteristic “U” (..-). 24 hr. facilities for service.
New Canaan – Moller Airport, auxiliary. Located 1.5 miles south of New Canaan, monastery 1 mile south, Altitude, 200 ft. Two runways, 1,800 feet long. No service facilities.
Early Post Card View Of New Haven Airport
New Haven – New Haven Airport, municipal. Located 3.5 miles south-east of city. Altitude, 4 feet. “New Haven” embedded in field. Buildings and beacon tower, and landing area flood lights. Beacon showing green, flashing code (-., …) on Administration building. Beacons operated from sunset to sunrise. Boundary and obstruction lights kept burning every night from sunset to 9:30 p.m., but could be turned on by watchman at any time upon advance notice or circling the field. 24-hour facilities for serving aircraft. Airport equipped with teletypewriter. Airport was dedicated August 29, 1931.
New Haven – New Haven Seaplane Base, commercial. Located in New Haven Harbor, north of Sandy Point. Landing area 2,640 feet except at low tide. “West Haven” on hangar. Ramp facilities. Aviation fuel and repairs, days only.
Niantic – State Camp Field, owned by the sate. Located immediately north of Niantic on west bank of the Niantic River, 6 miles south-west of New London. Altitude, 6 feet. Beacon, clear flashing, operating during the summer months only. No servicing facilities.
Norwalk – Norwalk Airport, auxiliary. Located 1 mile north of center of city of West Rocks Road. Altitude, 400 feet. One runway, 1,400 feet. “Norwalk Airport” on hangar. Facilities for servicing aircraft – day only.
Putnam – Dept. of Commerce intermediate field, site 14B New York-Boston Airways. Located 1.5 miles south-west of Putnam. Altitude, 455 feet. Two runways, 2,200 and 1,950 feet. Power shed marked “14 NY-B”. Two acetylene blinkers flashing green at ends of runway. No servicing facilities. Marker beacon, nondirective indentifying signal “S” (…) operating frequency 266 kcs. Airport had a Teletypewriter.
Torrington – Cary Field, municipal. Located 3 miles north-east of city, .4 mile south of steepled church; .5 mile north of four-strip concrete highway. Altitude 1,040 feet. Three landing strips measuring 1,000, 1,500, and 1,600 feet. “Torrington” on hangar roof. Service facilities – days only.
Wallingford – Wallingford Airport – municipal. Located one mile south-west, altitude, 50 feet. Two runways measuring 2,500 and 1,00 feet. Service facilities – days only. (Dedicated November 11, 1927.)
Old postcard view of Bangor Airport, Bangor, Maine.
Andover – Andover Airport, auxiliary. Located 2 miles south on main highway. Ellis River to the east, Lone Mountain to the west. Altitude, 641 feet. “Andover” embedded in field. No service facilities.
Auburn – Greenlaw Airport, auxiliary. Located 2 miles west of Auburn, .5 mile south of Taylor Pond. Altitude, 238 feet. One runway, 1,200 feet long. Small hangar. No servicing facilities.
Augusta – Agusta Airport, State-Municipal. Adjoins city on west, one mile from center. Altitude, 350 feet. Three hard surfaced runways measuring 2,800, 2,000, and 1,700 feet. “Augusta Airport” on one building. Flag pole 800 feet from SE corner, obstruction lighted. Beacon, 24-inch rotating, clear. 24-hour aviation fuel.
Bangor – Godfrey Field, commercial. Located 2.5 miles west of city on Hammond Street. Altitude 150 feet. Three gravel runways, measuring 1,600, 1,400, and 1,000 feet. Aviation fuel and hangar, day only.
Bar Harbor – Bar Harbor Airport, municipal. Located in the town of Trenton, 12 miles north of Bar harbor, 8 miles south of Elsworth. Altitude, 67 feet. One gravel runway, 1,200 feet long. Buildings to the west, Jordon River to the east. No servicing facilities. Field still under construction.
Bethel – Bennett’s Flying Field, auxiliary. Located 3.5 miles west of Bethel, on State Highway, directly south of West Bethel. Altitude, 750 feet. Two runways measuring 1,500 feet and 1,200 feet. “W. B.” embedded in center of field. Hangar on north side of field. Aircraft service facilities during the day only.
Brownville – Prairie Airport, commercial. Located 5 miles north of Brownville Junction, directly north of highway. Altitude, 400 feet. Two runways, 5,280, and 2,300 feet. “Brownville” on pavilion roof. Mountains to the north, lake on the east. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Calais – St. Croix Airport, auxiliary. Altitude, sea level. Sod field. No service facilities.
Vintage Post Card View Of The Municipal Airport.
Caribou, Maine
Caribou – Caribou Airport, municipal. (Temporary Airport Of Entry.) Located 1/3 mile north on U. S. Highway No. 1. Altitude, 650 feet. Three runways, 3,300, 2,000, and 800 feet. “Caribou” on hangar. Service facilities – day only.
East Millinocket – East Millinocket Airport, municipal. Located half-mile north-east of town, two mill smokestacks in town. Altitude, 800 feet. Two runways, 1,200 and 700 feet long. Water tower at north-west end of field. Two hangars. Service facilities – day only.
Jackman – Newton Field, auxiliary. Located .25 mile east of Jackman. Altitude, 1,175 feet. Aviation fuel and minor repairs may be obtained in town.
Millinocket – Millinocket Airport, municipal. Located one mile south-east of town on east side of State Highway 157. Altitude, 405 feet. One runway, 1,850 feet long. No service facilities.
Old Town – Jordan Field, auxiliary. Located east of city, bounded by river on west. Altitude, 94 feet. Two barns and a house. No service facilities.
Portland – Portland Yacht Service Seaplane Base, auxiliary. Located half-mile south-east of Portland on south shore of Portland Harbor. Sea level. Good shelter and storage facilities in Portland Yacht Service basin, 600 by 250 feet. “Sea Planes” on shed roof at end of dock. Service facilities – day only.
Post Card View Of Portland, Maine,
Municipal Airport
Portland – (Scarboro) – Portland Airport, commercial. Located seven miles south-west of the city, just off main highway. Altitude, 22 feet. Three runways measuring 3,200 feet and one 1,500 feet. “Portland Airport” on hangar. Beacon, 24-inch, rotating, clear. 24-hour service facilities.
Portland – Stroudwater Field, commercial. Located one mile west of Union Station; two miles west of center of city. Altitude, 22 feet. Two runways, 2,000, and 1,200 feet long. Airport presently under construction and not usable.
Presque Isle – Presque Isle Airport, commercial. located one mile west from center of town; half-mile west of fairgrounds. Altitude, 450 feet. Two runways, 2,000 feet and 1,700 feet long.
Rockland – Rockland Airport, commercial. Located half-mile south-west of center of city. Altitude, 14 feet. One gravel runway, 2,300 feet long with taxi strip to hangar. “Curtis-Wright, Rockland, Maine” on hangar. Low buildings to the north-east. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Sanford – Sanford Airport, commercial. Located four miles south-east of city, south of the Mousan River, on highway leading to Wells, Me. Altitude, 200 feet. Three runways, 3,000, 2,100, and 1,600 feet long. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Skowhegan – Whittemore Field, auxiliary. Located one and 4/10 miles north-east from town, Kennebec River to the south-west. Sawmill to the west. Aviation fuel, day only.
Waterville – Waterville Airport, municipal. Located 1.5 miles south-west, on west side of Kennebec River. Altitude, 300 feet. Two gravel runways, 2,000 long. “Waterville” on Hangar roof. Aircraft servicing facilities – day only.
Wells – Libby’s Field, auxiliary. Located 2.5 miles north-east of Wells on east side of State Highway No. 1, south-west of Branch River. Altitude, 30 feet. Entire field available for take off and landings, but terrain is rough. Building to north-west side of field. No service facilities.
West Baldwin – Mayne Field, auxiliary. Located 32 miles north-west from Portland, Maine, 1/4 mile from Cornish Village. Altitude, 290 feet.
York – Ernst Field, auxiliary. located 12 miles form Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 35 miles from Portland Airport at Scarboro; 1 mile from York Harbor, NW; 3 miles from York Beach. Altitude, 13 feet. Two runways, 1,000 and 500 feet long. Stone walls surround field, orchard on South-east. No aircraft service facilities.
Aircraft Navigational Beacon and Tower on display at the New England Air Museum
Agawam – see Springfield – Bowels-Agawam Airport.
Athol – Orange and Athol Airport, commercial. Located two miles south-east of Orange, 2.5 miles south-west of Athol. Altitude, 550 feet. Four runways, two of them measuring 3,000 feet, and the other two, 2,500 and 2,000 feet respectively. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Beverly, Beverly Airport, municipal. Located two miles north-west of center of town. Two runways, measuring 1,850 and 1,450 feet. “Beverly” on hangar roof. Hangar and field buildings to the south-east. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Boston – Boston Airport, municipal. Located 1.5 miles east of the Customhouse tower in center of business district; adjacent to harbor and docks. Altitude, 12 feet. Four runways, one 3,700 feet, the other three, 2,500 feet. 24-inch rotating beacon rotating clear with green auxiliary code beacon, operates all night. 24-hour aircraft service facilities. Seaplane ramp on south-west end of field. Airport is used as the operating base by the Massachusetts National Guard Air Corps Reserves.
Boston – (North Quincy) – Dennison Airport, commercial. Located at the north-east edge of North Quincy, 4 miles airline south of Customhouse Tower in Boston. Altitude, 14 feet. Three runways, 2,030, 1,900, and 1,410 feet in length. “Dennison Airport” on hangar roof. Aircraft service facilities – days only.
Brockton – Brockton Airport, commercial. Located two miles south of center of Brockton on main highway. Altitude, 128 feet. Two gravel runways, 1,00 and 1,400 feet long. Runways are only safe landing area in early spring or exceptionally wet or rainy weather. “Brockton” on hangar roof. Aircraft service facilities – days only.
Brookfield – Brookfield Airport, auxiliary. Located 7/8 of a mile west of Brookfield, 1/4 mile west of cemetery, across street from large barn, state road on north. Altitude, 740 feet. Railroad to the south. No service facilities.
Vintage Post Card View Of
Martha’s Vineyard Airport
Edgartown – Marthas Vineyard Airport, commercial. Located 1.5 miles south of city. Water tower, 100 feet high between city and field. Altitude, 5 feet. “Curtis Wright”, and “Edgartown” on hangars. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Fairhaven – New Bedford-Fairhaven Airport, commercial. Located 2.5 miles north-east of center, on east bank of Acushnet River; three miles east of New Bedford; three miles north-east of Buzzard’s Bay. Altitude, 17, feet. “Fairhaven-New Bedford” on hangar. 200 foot water tower 3/4 mile to the west. Aircraft service facilities – day only. Airport was dedicated April 19, 1930.
Falmouth – Falmouth Airport, municipal. located three miles east of North Falmouth, five miles east of Buzzard’s Bay; six miles north of Falmouth center. Altitude, 100 feet. “Falmouth, Mass” on hangar roof. Facilities for servicing aircraft day and night during the summer. Coonamessett Lake 1.5 miles to the south of field available for seaplanes in emergency, with gas and oil.
Fitchburg – Fitchburg-Leominster Airport, commercial. Located two miles south-east of Fitchburg; two miles north of Leominster in valley. Altitude, 300 feet. Three runways, measuring 2,800, 2,600, and 1,700, feet. “Fitchburg-Leominster” on hangar roof. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Framingham – Framingham Airport, commercial. located on eastern side of railroad, one mile south of Framingham. Altitude, 199 feet. Three runways, measuring 2,800, 2,000, and 1,900 feet. “Framingham Airport” on hangar. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Great Barrington – Berkshire Airways Airport, commercial. located two miles west of town. Altitude, 726 feet. Two runways, measuring 2,000, and 1,700 feet. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Greenfield – Greenfield Airport, commercial. Located three miles north of Greenfield, railroad to west, Highway No. 5 to the north-east. Altitude, 450 feet. Two runways, measuring 2,200, and 1,700 feet. “Airport” on hangar roof. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Hanover – Clark Airport, commercial. Located two miles west of city, two miles south-east of Rockland. Altitude, 74 feet. Four runways, measuring 2,100, 1,160, feet, and two at 1,400 feet. Aircraft service facilities – days only.
Haverhill – Haverhill Airport, commercial. Located two miles north-east of Haverhill business district, near Lake Kenosa. Altitude, 125 feet. Aviation fuel available, day only.
Holyoke – see Westfield, Barnes Field.
Vintage Post Card View Of Hyannis Airport
Hyannis, Massachusetts – Cape Cod
Hyannis – Hyannis Airport, commercial. Located half-mile north of post office. Altitude, 15 feet. “Hyannis Airport” on hangar. High tension line, buildings, hangar, and grandstand on east side of field. 24-inch rotating beacon, flashing green and white, operated June 15 to September 15, from sunset to midnight. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Lowell – Lowell Airport, commercial. Located two miles south-east of center of city, on east bank of the Concord River. Altitude, 100 feet. 38 acres in use. “Lowell” on water tower. Tower and building to the south-east. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Mansfield – Boltz Field, commercial. Located 1.5 miles south of Mansfield. Altitude, 140 feet. Two runways, measuring 1,200 feet. “Mansfield” on barn roof. no service facilities.
Marlboro – Marlboro Airport, commercial. located two miles east of Marlboro; 1/4 mile north of Reservoir No. 5. Altitude, 255 feet. Two runways, measuring 1,650 and 1,350 feet. “Marlboro” on hangar roof. Greenhouses and scattered buildings to the west. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Medfield – Fairacres Field, auxiliary. Located one mile south-east of Medfield on north side of railroad. Altitude, 160 feet. Four runways, measuring two at 2,100 feet, and the others at 1,100 and 1,000 feet. Orchard to the west. Two radio towers 2.5 miles north-west. No aircraft service facilities.
Mendon – Mendon Airport, commercial. Located 3 mils south-west of Milford; 4 miles north-east of Uxbridge; 10 miles north of Woonsocket, R. I.; Lake Nipmuck 1/2 mile south-west of field. Altitude, 450 feet. Three runways, measuring 1,880, 1,700, and 1,500 feet. “Mendon” embedded in field. Arrow pointing north. 36 inch red and clear rotating beacon. 24 hour aircraft service facilities.
Nantucket – Nobadeer Airport, auxiliary. Located 2.5 miles south-east of Nantucket. Altitude, 15 feet. Two runways, measuring 2,200 and 1,600 feet. Aviation fuel – day only.
Natick – Natick-Wellesley Airport, commercial. Located about 1.2 miles north of Natick. Altitude, 200 feet. Three runways, measuring 2,100, 1,900, and 1,550 feet. Hangars and administration building to the south of field. Aircraft facilities – day only.
North Adams – North Adams Airport, auxiliary. Located 2.5 miles west of North Adams, .5 mile north-west of reservoir, south of state road, railroad, and river. Altitude, 750 feet. No service facilities. Filed soft in spring after heavy rain.
North Hampton – La Fleur Airport, commercial. Located .8 of a mile north-east of city. Altitude, 120 feet. “La Fleur Airport” on side of building.
North Grafton – Grafton Airport, municipal. Located to the south of North Grafton; five miles south-east of Worcester. Altitude, 450 feet. Four runways, measuring 3,000, 2,450, 1,800, and 1,600 feet. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Norwood – Canton – Boston Metropolitan Airport, commercial. Located two miles east of Norwood, and one mile west of Canton. Altitude, 51 feet. Four gravel runways, two measuring 2,500 feet, and the other two measuring 2,000 feet. “Norwood-Canton” on hangar roof. “Metropolitan Airport” across front of hangar. Flashing amber beacon located 1/2 mile to the north-east of airfield on Gliders Hill, operated from dusk to midnight. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Pittsfield – Department of Commerce Intermediate Field (day field) Site 3, Albany-New York Airways. Located one mile south of Pittsfield center. Altitude, 1,130 feet. Two runways, 2,600 and 1,800 feet long. Aviation fuel available. Airport was dedicated June 6, 1931.
Revere – Muller Field, commercial. Located one mile north-west of Revere, six miles north-east of Boston post office. Altitude, 30 feet. Two runways, 2,500 and 1,500 feet long. “Muller Field” on hangar. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Southbridge – Southbridge Field, auxiliary. Located one mile north of town center. Altitude, 50 feet. Two runways, measuring 1,500 and 850 feet. Trees to the east. No service facilities.
South Dartmouth – Round Hill Airport, privately owned. Located three miles south of city on Buzzard’s Bay; six miles from New Bedford Mass. Altitude, 12 feet. “Round Hill Airport” on airship dock. Windmill to the north; 150 ft. radio towers to the north-east; water tower to the south-east; 135 foot radio towers to the south; swamp, and airship dock to the west. Lighthouse 1/3 mile south-east of field. 24-inch green and white rotating beacon, flashing code “D”, (- . . ), also a 20-inch green and white rotating beacon flashing “RH” (. – . ….). 24-hour aircraft service facilities. seaplane anchorage available on south side of field.
Springfield – Bowles-Agawam Airport, commercial. Located five miles south-west of city, about 1.25 miles south-west of Agawam. Altitude, 200 feet. Four runways, measuring 1,000 feet, surrounded by a 2,500 ft. taxi circle, asphalt paved. “Bowles-Agawam, Mass.” neon sign on hangar. Scattered woods and buildings around field, a 1,000 foot hill to the south-west. 24-inch green rotating beacon flashing “BA”, (- … .-) 24-hour hangars, aviation fuel and accomodations.
Springfield – Springfield Airport, commercial. Located 2.5 miles north-east of city. Altitude, 200 feet. “Springfield, Mass. Airport” on hangar, illuminated. Hangars and houses to the north-east. Boundary lights and flood lights. 24-inch clear and green rotating beacon flashing “SA” (. . . .-). 24-hour aircraft service facilities. Radio receiving equipment.
Squantum NAS Seaplanes – 1949
Squantum – Naval Reserve Aviation Base, U.S. Navy owned. Located four miles south-east of Boston on edge of harbor. Altitude, sea level. Two runways measuring 1,600 and 1,300 feet. Large buildings to the east. Tower four miles to the north-west, lighted by revolving beacon. radio tower 1/2 mile to the east – lighted. Seaplane facilities in Dorchester Bay. Small boats ramp and hangar available. Aircraft service facilities available for government planes only, daytime hour only. Naval radio station NAG, operating frequency 545 kc.
Taunton – King Field, commercial. Located four miles east of city; south of river; east of two large mills. Altitude, 45 feet. One runway, 3, 650 feet long. 24-hour aircraft service facilities.
Turners Falls – Franklin Airport, commercial. 1.75 miles south-east, on the east bank of the Connecticut River; 3.5 miles east of greenfield, Mass. Altitude, 345 feet. “Franklin Airport” on hangar. Aviation fuel in summer only.
West Barnstable – Cape Cod Airport, commercial. Located two miles south-west of town center. Altitude, 100 feet. Facilities for servicing aircraft – day only.
Westboro – Turnpike Airport, commercial. Located two miles north-west of Westboro; 7.5 miles east of Worcester; five miles south-west of Marlboro. Altitude, 310 feet. Pond to the south. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Westfield-Holyoke – Barnes Airport, municipal. Located two miles north-east of Westfield, 4 miles south-west of Holyoke. Altitude, 280 feet. Facilities for aircraft service – day only.
Westwood – Westwood Airport, commercial. located 1.5 miles south-west of Westwood; two miles north-west of Norwood; five miles south-west of Dedham. Altitude, 190 feet. Three runways, measuring 1,400, 1,200, and 1,230 feet. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Winchendon – Winchendon Airport, auxiliary. located five miles south-west of Winchendon; on east side of Route No. 32. Altitude, 860 feet. Two runways, measuring 1,650, and 1,450 feet. Hangar and aviation fuel – day only.
1930s Post Card View Of The
Claremont, New Hampshire, Airport.
Berlin – Berlin Airport, municipal owned. Located four miles north of Berlin. Altitude, 1,100 feet. One runway, 2,000 feet long. One hangar. Aviation fuel – day only.
Claremont – Claremont Airport, municipal owned. Located one mile due west of Claremont. Altitude, 520 feet. “Claremont Airport” on hangar roof. Ski jump tower to the east of field. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Concord – Concord Airport, municipal owned. Located one mile east of Concord. Altitude, 335 feet. “Concord Airport Corporation” on hangar. 24-hour aircraft service facilities.
Conway – Conway Airport, auxiliary. Located 1/4 mile north of Conway, on Highway No. 18. Altitude, 500 feet. Aviation fuel and minor repairs – day only – only during the summer months.
Deerfield – Hilton Field, auxiliary. Located one mile north-west of Pautuckaway Mountains, 2 miles south of Deerfield post office. Altitude, 575 feet. Buildings to the west, brush to the north and east, garden to the south. No service facilities.
Freedom – Freedom Field, auxiliary. Located .5 mile south-west from center of town. Altitude, 600 feet. “freedom” on nearby building. Stone wall on west and north side of field,; barn and rocks to the north-east. No service facilities.
Gorham – Gorham Field, auxiliary. Located three miles north on west bank of Andrascoggin River. Altitude, 830 feet. Hangars. No service facilities.
Keene – Keene Airport, commercial. Located 2.5 miles north-west of center of keene. Altitude, 500 feet. Two runways, 2,000 and 1,200 feet long. “Keene” on hangar roof. Hill to south-east. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Lisbon – Corbleigh Airport, auxiliary. Located one mile north-east of Lisbon on cement highway. Altitude. 600 feet. Aviation fuel only.
1930s Post Card View Of
Concord, New Hampshire, Airport.
Manchester – Manchester Airport, municipal. Located four miles south-east of center of city. Altitude, 220 feet. Three runways, 2,500 and 2,000 feet long. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Marlow – Keith Flying Field, privately owned. Located three miles north-west of Marlow between two ponds; midway between Keene and Claremont, and Keene and Newport. Altitude, 1,500 feet. One runway, 1,500 feet long. Stone walls to the north and south of field. No service facilities.
Newport – Albert N. Parlin Field, auxiliary. Located 1.5 miles north of Newport center on east bank of Sugar River, and west of Colt Mountain. Altitude, 800 feet. Two runways, measuring 3,000 and 1,800 feet. “Newport, N.H.” on hangar roof. Hangar mechanic and aviation fuel, days only.
North Conway – White Mountain Airport, commercial. Located three miles north of town center between highway and railroad. Altitude, 500 feet. One runway, 1,800 feet long. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Plymouth – Plymouth Airport, commercial. Located three miles south-east of city, just east of Pemigewasset River. Altitude, 470 feet. Aviation fuel – day only.
Portsmouth – Lafayette Airport, commercial. located 1.4 miles south-west of city on Lafayette Road. Altitude, 25 feet. Hangar building. Marsh and creek to the east. Aircraft service facilities – days only.
Twin Mountain – Twin Mountain Airport, auxiliary. Within city limits, .5 mile south of post office on U. S. highway No. 3. Altitude, 1,495 feet. One runway, 2,000 feet long. Mechanic, aviation fuel – day only.
Whitefield – Whitefield Airport, auxiliary. Located 2.5 miles east of town center. Altitude, 1,000 feet. No services.
Winchester – Winchester Airport, auxiliary. Located one mile south-east of city; five miles east of Connecticut River. Altitude, 490 feet. One runway, 1,900 feet long. No aircraft facilities.
Vintage Hillsgrove Airport Postcard.
Today known as T.F. Green State Airport – Warwick, R.I.
Middletown/Newport – Newport Airport, commercial. Located 3.3 miles north of city. Altitude, 85 feet. “Newport Airport” on hangar. Limited repair facilities, aviation fuel – day only. (Airport is actually located in Middletown, R.I.)
Newport – Seaplane base, U. S. Naval Air Depot. Located 2 miles west of Newport Airport, on Gould Island in Narragansett Bay. Runway available for taxing amphibians to ramp. Buoy available for mooring seaplanes. Magazine on east side of island filled with high explosives. Aviation fuel and service on emergency basis only.
North Smithfield – Montgomery Field. Located off Mendon Road near the Woonsocket city line. Altitude, 162 feet. Two runways, measuring 1,700 feet, and 1,400 feet. “Woonsocket” on hangar roof, but airport was in town of North Smithfield. Hangar measured 50 by 60 feet. Aviation fuel, oil, repairs, and telephone available.
Pawtucket – What Cheer Airport, commercial. Located 5.5 miles north of the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Providence, on land between Manton St. and Newport Avenue in the city of Pawtucket, extending into the neighboring city of East Providence. Three runways, measuring 3,200, 3,000, and 2,600 feet. 60 by 60 ft. hangar, with name of airport illuminated on front. (What Cheer Airport closed in 1934.)
Providence – Providence Airport, commercial. Located six miles south-east from center of city. (Airport was actually located in the town of Seekonk, Massachusetts.) Altitude, 25, feet. “Providence Airport” on hangar. Aircraft service facilities – days only.
South Kingstown/Quonset Point – State Camp grounds, auxiliary. Located 3.5 miles from village of Wickford, R.I.. Altitude, 10 feet. No service facilities. Became a major naval base during WWII.
The original hangar at the Smithfield R.I. Airport which opened in 1932. Bryant University now occupies this land.
Smithfield – Smithfield Airport, commercial. Was located in the area where the football stadium is at present-day Bryant University. Two runways, 2,000 and 1,500 feet long. “Smithfield Airport” on hangar. Aircraft service facilities – day only. Altitude, 580 feet.
Tiverton – Miltex Field, privately owned. Located two miles south-east of Fall River, Mass. Altitude, 250 feet. Landing area flood lights. Hangar and fuel open during the day.
Warwick – Buttonwoods Field, auxiliary. Located on Greenwich Bay in Buttonwoods section of the city. Altitude, 10 feet. Open for seaplanes. No service facilities.
Warwick – Hillsgrove Airport – owned by state of R.I. Is today known as T.F. Green Airport. (The main airport in the state.)
Westerly – Atlantic Airport, commercial. Located 9 miles east of downtown Westerly. Name and wind-cone on 40 by 60 foot hangar. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Woonsocket – Woonsocket Airport, auxiliary. Located 2 miles north-east of center of downtown Woonsocket. Altitude, 400 feet. Four runways, measuring 2,400, 2,000, 1,800, and 1,500 feet long. “Woonsocket Airport” on hangar. No aircraft service facilities.
Old Postcard View Of Burlington Airport
Burlington – Burlington Airport, municipal. “Burlington” on hangar. Two runways, both 4,000 feet long. 24-hour aircraft service facilities.
Forth Ethan Allen – Fort Ethan Allen Field, owned by U. S. Army. Located five miles north-east of Burlington. Altitude, 200 feet. “Fort Ethan Allen” on roof of building. Radio towers to the north-east and buildings around field. No aircraft service facilities. Radio communication station operated by the army, WUX, operating on frequency of 200kc.
Manchester – Equinox Airport, commercial. Located one mile east; and .5 mile north of lumber mill; 1/4 mile east of Rutland Railroad and Battenki River; east of Equinox Mountain. Altitude, 700 feet. One runway, 1,600 feet long. “Manchester Airport” on field. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Middlebury – Middlebury Airport, auxiliary. Located 2.5 miles south-east of town center. Altitude, 336 feet. One runway, 1,750 feet long. No aircraft service facilities.
Milton – Schill Airport, commercial. Located 2 miles south-west of center of town. Two runways, measuring 1,600 and 1,550 feet. “Schill Airport” on hangar. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Montpelier – Barre-Montpelier Airport, commercial. Located four miles south of Montpelier; three miles west of Barre. Altitude, 1,100 feet. “Barre-Montpelier” on hangar roof. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
Rutland – Rutland City Airport, commercial. Located 3/4 of a mile south-west of city; Otter Creek to the east. Altitude, 600 feet. Two grass runways, measuring 1,600 and 1,500 feet. “Rutland City Airport” on building. Hangar and aviation fuel – day only.
Springfield – Hartness Airport, municipal. Located four miles north-west of North Springfield, and half-way on compass course between Boston, mass., and Burlington, Vermont. Altitude, 600 feet. Five runways, measuring 1,660, 1,170, 1,616, 1,325, and 1,200 feet. “Springfield, Vermont” on hangar. Hangar and aviation fuel – day only.
Swanton – Missiquoi Airport, municipal. (Temporary air port of entry) Located one and one-eighth miles north-east of Swanton. Altitude, 300 feet. Two gravel runways, each measuring 2,000 feet long. “M” embedded in circle on field. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
White River Junction – Twin State Airport, commercial. Located one mile south-west of White River Junction. Altitude, 400 feet. Two runways, measuring 2,000 and 1,500 feet. “Twin State Airport” on hangar roof. Aircraft service facilities – day only.
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New Jersey DWI Lawyer Blog
Published By The Law Offices of Jonathan F. Marshall
New Jersey Woman’s Body Jewelry Interferes with Morris County Drunken Driving Case
by Jonathan F. Marshall
It’s not every day that one can say that a piece of clothing or jewelry helped them get out of a tight legal spot, but that was the gist of a case against a New Jersey woman, who is now able to say her tongue stud helped her out in a Morris County courtroom earlier this year. As New Jersey drunk driving defense attorneys, I and my colleagues are dedicated to helping those Garden State motorists who have been accused of DWI, drug DUI, breath test refusal and other drunken driving-related offenses.
In the aforementioned case, the motorist’s DWI lawyer was able to use the law to his client’s advantage and reduce the potential penalties she was facing if convicted of the initial charge of driving while intoxicated. Although this may not be cause for drivers to get their own body modifications, it certainly points up the importance of having a qualified DWI defense lawyer at one’s side; surely it is an example of why it’s always a good idea to consult with a legal professional prior to walking into a courtroom to defend oneself against a DWI or drug DUI charge.
According to news articles, 29-year-old Kara Nelson was stopped by police along a stretch of Rte 46 for an apparent routine traffic offense earlier this year. Police reports indicated that Nelson was pulled over around 2am on January 14. During the traffic stop the patrolman in charge, Officer P. Ottavinia, must have noticed signs of intoxication and requested Nelson to perform a number of standardized field sobriety tests, which apparently indicated that the driver was impaired to some degree.
Based on police reports, Nelson was taken into custody and subjected to a breathalyzer test in order to determine her level of intoxication. According to police, the woman registered a 0.21 percent blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) after taking the breath test. For reference, the legal limit in New Jersey, as well as many other states, is 0.08 percent.
Months later, Nelson went to court to defend herself against the charges, which could have meant a mandatory fine of $300 plus court costs, as well as a 7-month suspension of Nelson’s driver’s license. The twist in this case came when it was revealed that Nelson was wearing a tongue stud, a piece of body jewelry. Because of this, Nelson’s lawyer argued that breath test itself was invalid because the law requires that a breathalyzer subject have “no foreign materials” in their mouth at the time of the test.
Although Ms. Nelson did plead guilty to the charge of drunken driving, the municipal prosecutor recommended to the presiding judge that the 0.21 percent BAC reading be thrown out and not used to determine the penalties for the defendant. It’s is important, at this juncture, to remind readers that even in the absence of a valid and properly administered BAC test, a judge can still find a person guilty of drunk driving based on various other factors. In this particular case, the defendant’s apparent failure of the field sobriety tests was evidence enough to support the charges.
Having pled guilty, Nelson was ordered by the court to pay minimum fine of $256, as well as a $200 surcharge and other costs. The defendant’s license was indeed suspended, but only for three months versus the possible seven. As of this particular case, New Jersey authorities stated that no previous defendants had ever claimed a tongue stud or other mouth piercing was sufficient grounds to invalidate a breathalyzer test.
Tongue stud helps woman reduce drunk-driving charge in Mount Olive, NewJerseyHills.com, April 30, 2012
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The Masked Stranger
On the hunt for the iconic Mearns quail in southwestern New Mexico.
by Lauren Villagran
Above: Hunting for Mearns quail in the Black Range. Photographs by Jen Judge.
A MASTER OF DISGUISE, the Mearns wears black feathers on his face like a mask of Zorro and spotted cloak. It is the Southwest’s smallest quail, fitting in the palm of a hand. He nests in brush and lives as a recluse with his covey, rarely seen. He keeps numerous aliases attuned to his strange features and personality: harlequin quail, masked quail, Montezuma quail; crazy, fool, silly, and squat quail.
The bird “is seldom hunted, because it is so seldom seen,” wrote Leonard Lee Rue in his 1973 book Game Birds of North America.
Ray Trejo, a Deming hunter and wildlife conservationist, has a checkered history with the bird. More than once, the Mearns has given him a run for his money, left him empty-handed on a hunt. On a crisp January morning, he is gearing up to seek out one of southern New Mexico’s most iconic birds in the foothills of the Black Range.
He loads his bird-hunting dogs, Kaibab and Gila—a German shorthaired pointer and English pointer named after national forests—into his charcoal-gray F-250 and issues numerous disclaimers to hunting buddies Angel Peña and Gabe Vasquez. The chances of finding a Mearns quail today are slim, Trejo says.
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“They’re a mysterious bird,” he says. “If there is no dog, you can’t find them. They’re kind of, I don’t know … They’re real unique. They’re dumb but they’re smart as hell. Angel, have you ever hunted Mearns?”
“Successfully? No. Last time I tried was two years ago.”
“Most people think they are really dumb birds because they’ll just stand there,” Trejo says.
“They won’t fly.”
“But it doesn’t make it easy,” Peña says.
The Mearns quail is unique among the American quail—such as the much more common Gambel’s or scaled quail—in conduct, home range, and ways of procuring food, according to New Mexico Birds and Where to Find Them, a 1961 encyclopedia by J. Stokley Ligon, published by the University of New Mexico Press.
“When in danger, the Harlequin Quail rely for protection on inaction and on simulating surroundings by ‘freezing’ to the ground rather than by seeking cover as do other quail,” Ligon wrote. “Although appearing awkward in taking wing, they are strong, swift fliers.”
Above: Bird-hunting dogs are essential to a quail hunt.
The men pack their guns into the back, and Trejo tucks a lunch bag of breakfast burritos into the front cab. The truck is pulling a six-person ATV on a trailer. Peña and Vasquez climb into the back and Trejo pulls out of Deming, headed northeast toward Lake Valley.
Trejo, a former public schools educator, now works for the New Mexico Wildlife Federation, a nonprofit that promotes conservation and responsible hunting. He speaks with a twang native to Deming, where he was raised, and he has been hunting the region since he was a boy.
“When you see the covey rise, it blows your mind,” he says. “You just can’t predict when they are going to flush. And they’ll scare the hell out of you every time.”
THE RAILROAD AND NM 26 CUT PARALLEL SCARS through the golden grasslands north of Deming, running past hills that look covered in crushed velvet, the color of a brown calf. This is ranch country; there are wind farms and solar, too.
The hills rise and fall like the sound wave of a whisper as the road twists past the ghost town of Lake Valley and its peach-crayon-colored school building.
Cody Jinks sings “Must Be the Whiskey,” and the men jabber about quail, about how Trejo’s very first hunt with his grandfather was in these hills 40 years ago, when he was 10 years old. They talk about the petroglyphs Trejo discovered in this valley five years ago.
“I’ve been up and down that arroyo hundreds of times and never saw that stuff,” he says.
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Like the petroglyphs, the Mearns quail hides in these hills and inspires similar awe when discovered. They’re not easy to find—not just because of their mysterious nature but because there are likely fewer birds than there used to be. It’s hard to know for sure; the Mearns has rarely let biologists study it very closely.
In the wild, the Cyrtonyx montezumae “is all but a rank stranger even to the majority of orinthologists,” according to Ligon.
But habitat degradation due to overgrazing by ranch cattle has put the little bird at risk. The Mearns quail has the largest and heaviest beak, legs, feet, and claws of its family, in order to feed on the roots of its food plants, which it gets to by scratching three or four inches into packed ground, according to Rue.
“There has got to be good habitat,” Trejo says. “For Mearns quail, hawks are the biggest threat. The predator just hammers them. The quail don’t have nowhere to hide because the grass is all beaten down.”
Above: The hunters follow their dogs—hot on the trail.
Climate change is also testing the birds’ adaptability.
“The rains have to come at the right time,” Trejo explains. “Earlier rains are better for them. Because if the monsoon is in July, a lot of times they’ll wipe out the birds—their nests, their eggs, everything. It’s just real critical, the timing.”
Trejo wears a gold-and-garnet class ring on his right hand and an auburn silk cowboy scarf around his neck. Randy Rogers is singing “Like It Used to Be.”
He says it again.
“The chances of getting quail are really slim.”
THE ATV RUMBLES DOWN ROCKY ranch roads over a hill and into an arroyo, where a creek runs in the rainy season. In January, the basin is dry but for a puddle here and there. Trejo’s pointers—trained to bird-hunt—are wearing radio collars. He sets them loose and they bound over the rocky slopes, sniffing for quail.
“Ándale, cabrones,” Trejo says, egging them on.
Shotguns slung over their shoulders, the men troop after the dogs padding down into the dry creek bed. “There should be birds in here,” Trejo says.
“Easy,” he calls to the dogs. “Look good, easy.”
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“He’s getting birdy,” Vasquez says, watching Gila sniff the ground and freeze, his tail outstretched. The men hold their rifles in front. But nothing moves in the brush.
“Sure as shit they were in there,” Trejo said. “This is the cool thing about Mearns quail hunting. You just have to let the dogs work. You aren’t going to find them yourself.”
Nearly an hour into the hunt, in the birdless stillness, the conversation turns to the habitat, how environmental degradation has made it even harder to find the hard-to-find Mearns quail. “We have to look at the land differently,” says Vasquez, who grew up in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso and now serves as a Las Cruces city councilor. “We need to see wildlife as a resource, not a nuisance to ranching and agriculture.
A flutter of wings, a trill. A flapping, chuck chuck chuck. A bird lifts low into the air, flies like a major league curveball and dives so fast none of the men take a shot or know quite where it lands. It’s 11:15 a.m.
Above: A Mearns quail, the elusive Zorro of birds.
The dogs follow the sight line. The hunters cat-step in the same direction, their guns at the ready. Another two birds lift almost from underfoot and fly in the same direction—another surprise, no successful shot. It’s 11:53 a.m.
Five minutes later, Vasquez is explaining how the birds “will sit and hunker down” when two more Mearns quail flap an arc upslope. He and Trejo take shots and miss.
“If that is not a case study in how tight they hold, I don’t know what,” Vasquez says.
Trejo surveys the landscape. He says, “Let’s swing over, hit the arroyo. Y’all good with that?”
At 12:15 p.m. a bird flushes. Three shots are fired. Peña wings the bird, and it appears to go down. But where? The dogs and men spend a good 20 minutes looking for it—although Kaibab and Gila are doing most of the work. The hills are bare but for the occasional ponderosa, cedar, or juniper; landmarks are few and far between.
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“We’ll typically walk one mile to their 10 miles,” Trejo says. “They live to get a bird in their mouth.”
Gila—the younger of the two dogs—points her tail in the air. She sniffs and comes out with a bird with the bark-brown feathers and subtle markings of a female Mearns quail. It’s Peña’s first, ever.
“It feels good!” he says.
The men tramp through the canyon bottom, in the dry creek bed, hoping to find Mearns in pockets of moist feeding ground. At 1:14 p.m., three birds flush in all directions, and Trejo shoots one. Gila comes back with the male Mearns in her mouth, the bird’s tiny head wearing the mask of Zorro.
“See why they call them harlequin?” he says. “Damn, these are beautiful birds.”
Above: The crew celebrates a successful day.
Fifteen minutes later, another bird takes flight and the men are talking about the beauty of the silence here and no one shoots. By the end of the hunt, Vasquez and Peña and Trejo will take four birds altogether—and at least twice as many will have eluded them.
“That’s a cool ending,” Trejo says. “There are still birds in here.”
THE LAST SHOT FIRED is rarely the end of the hunt. The men and dogs climb up out of the arroyo back to the ATV, where a cooler of bread and sandwich meat and beer is waiting.
The sun is high and the dogs are tired. The men slather mustard and mayonnaise on bread, munch on chips, and debate the merits of tequila and mezcal versus whiskey. A fifth of mezcal from Oaxaca, a state in southern Mexico, gets passed around for a taste test.
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Their guns put away, the men and dogs head back into the landscape, down into another arroyo. This one is narrow and lined with huge boulders at the bottom. A thin path follows the dry creek bed. Trejo is looking for the petroglyphs.
They aren’t easy to spot. But he finds them. A deer. A twin-headed symbol of the Mimbres people who once hunted these grounds.
And quail, etched immortal in the rock.
QUAIL HUNTING—NOT THAT EASY!
For more information about quail hunting in New Mexico, contact the New Mexico Wildlife Federation. Jumping-off points for exploring quail country include Silver City, Deming, and Lordsburg. Bureau of Land Management parcels in Luna, Sierra, Grant, and Hidalgo Counties are open to exploration and hunting for those with a state hunting license. But good luck finding a Mearns quail without a trained upland bird dog.
Categories: October 2019, Features, Lifestyle
Tags: Quail, Hunting, Quail Hunting, Outdoors
Author: Lauren Villagran
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USA v. Edward and Linda Mangano, Part II
Linda and Edward Mangano arrive at federal court in Central Islip on May 30. Credit: James Carbone
Updated August 8, 2018 10:33 PM
The United States of America against Edward and Linda Mangano — the reboot — kicked off Wednesday with a superseding indictment against the couple, who returned to the same 9th-floor courtroom in U.S. District Court in Central Islip, where they entered not guilty pleas before the same judge who, in May, had declared a mistrial.
The allegations in the new indictment against Edward Mangano, Nassau’s former county executive, and Linda Mangano, his wife, remain the same.
Edward Mangano is again facing seven counts, including bribery, extortion and conspiracy to obstruct justice; Linda Mangano still is facing five, including conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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But the indictment also includes new information.
The document notes, for example, on the first page, that the Town of Oyster Bay — home of Harendra Singh, the Manganos' former friend who is expected to testify once the second trial begins in October — has 18 villages and 18 hamlets.
During the first trial, the geography of Nassau County and Oyster Bay became a side issue, as prosecutors, defense attorneys, and the occasional witness, found themselves either having to detail — or answer questions — about the layout of the land for the benefit of jurors unfamiliar with the oft-confusing political and topographical terrain.
The document also notes, on a cover sheet, that a new prosecutor, Christopher C. Caffarone, has been added to the government team of Assistant U.S. Attorneys Lara Treinis Gatz and Catherine M. Mirabile.
Caffarone, who secured the convictions of the late body armor magnate David Brooks and the leaders of multimillion dollar Ponzi schemes, last year was named deputy chief of the Long Island Criminal Division of the Eastern District of New York’s branch of the U.S. attorney’s office.
But perhaps the biggest change in the new indictment was the detailed list of 11 allegedly false statements that Linda Mangano gave to FBI agents during multiple interviews.
During the trial, one part of the defense put up by Linda Mangano’s attorney, John Carman of Garden City, was that the government — before that trial — never specified which of his client's statements allegedly were false.
The issue first came up during Carman’s opening statement, when Carman told jurors that the government had not provided him with Linda Mangano’s allegedly false statements. Carman would go on to make the assertion time and time again during cross examination of witnesses, including an FBI agent tasked with taking notes on government interviews with Linda Mangano, and again in his closing statement.
The government addressed the issue itself in its summations, with Mirabile at one point telling jurors, “John Carman had 34 pages of notes . . . and his fake pretending that he didn’t is a bad act.”
But some members of the jury, in interviews with Newsday after U.S. District Court Judge Joan Azrack declared a mistrial, said they found Carman’s assertions compelling enough to consider acquitting Linda Mangano.
With the listing in the superseding indictment, that portion of Carman’s defense presumably goes away. “I guess they learned their lesson that it was a bad strategy not to identify the false statements,” Carman said in an interview Wednesday.
The second trial will show which tack the defense — for both Edward and Linda Mangano — will take against the government’s reconfigured prosecution team.
Azrack set jury selection to begin on Oct. 11.
Feds file new indictment against ManganosFederal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment against the former Nassau County executive and his wife, adding specific details of lies that Linda Mangano allegedly told investigators. Prosecutors intend to retry Mangano caseThe U.S. Attorney's Office will once again prosecute former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and ... Judge declares mistrial in Mangano caseA mistrial has been declared in the federal corruption trial of former Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano and his wife, Linda, after a jury failed to come to a consensus on the charges. The judge set a June 28 status conference to schedule a new trial.
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By Cynthia M. Allen, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Panhandlers near? First acknowledge their humanity
D. Rogers, a homeless man, panhandles for change in Portland, Maine, on May 10, 2017. Credit: AP / Robert F. Bukaty
Nearly every Sunday after mass, my family encounters a homeless woman on the walk to our car.
She sits on a park bench between the church and the parking lot and asks conscience-laden churchgoers passing by for money.
Were I suddenly to find myself in a difficult personal situation, my church community - any faith community for that matter - is one place to which I would turn, too. Studies confirm that people of faith are significantly more charitable than secular or non-religious people.
But charity doesn’t always take the form of dollars and cents.
When asked during an interview this year about what our response should be to beggars, Pope Francis replied, “Help is always right.”
It certainly is.
But this woman’s perennial presence on that park bench suggests her situation is not temporary, is not improving and that monetary handouts from churchgoers isn’t providing the real help she needs.
Like many cities, Fort Worth, where I live, has grappled with how - and if - to regulate panhandling.
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Earlier this year, the city council banned “aggressive panhandling” and even briefly considered ticketing people who give money to beggars.
The latter measure was withdrawn from consideration, as it raised constitutional concerns about limits on personal monetary decisions, but it provoked other important questions about our moral responsibility to the people we encounter on the street.
While there are some beggars who are overly aggressive, exploitative and whose tales of woe are transparently false, we can assume that many people asking for money are, in fact, desperate and authentically in need of assistance.
But in such cases, is giving money to a panhandler helpful or harmful? Does it satisfy a moral good?
We’ve all heard the stories of panhandlers who have used their street earnings to feed an addiction.
Several years ago, I encountered a woman whose alcoholism rendered her homeless for a lengthy period of her life. After years of begging, she recovered, no thanks to the money she acquired on the street, which she insisted only fueled her drinking. “I went straight to the liquor store every time,” she said.
A priest I know, who is a former social worker, once chastised a congregant for giving cash to a panhandler when they were at lunch one afternoon. “Don’t do that. It won’t help,” he warned, speaking from his experience working with the poor for years in New York City.
For many of us, a street handout is an easy way to satisfy our conscience.
Still, it’s legitimate, even necessary, to wonder if our charity is ignoring or contributing to a larger problem.
If our consciences dictate that we must help, there are many ways to do it, some of which do not involve cash at all.
Most people on the street ask for money, but many of them have other basic needs that are easy to satisfy.
It’s sometimes as simple as directing them to a charity or organization you support that can connect them with services they need.
You could carry cards with the address and phone number for Catholic Charities or any of the numerous providers whose mission is to help people get back on their feet.
Offering necessities like sunscreen, toothpaste, wet wipes and even some nonperishable food items should be welcomed by a person in true need.
If carrying such items isn’t practical, carrying gift cards to grocery stores or restaurants is. Giving them out in lieu of money is one way of helping to ensure your donation is put to good use.
If time is not an issue, offering to purchase a meal for someone is a way to help, and it provides the opportunity to talk with and listen to the person.
Many times, listening and empathy is as needed as the meal itself.
How best to provide “help” is personal decision, one that need never involve money, but one that should always be performed in a way preserves the dignity of the person being helped. That means, engaging them, asking their name, and looking them in the eye - even if they’ve asked you for money most Sundays for the last year.
Cynthia M. Allen is a columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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Austin Romine hits tiebreaking homer as Yankees beat Mariners
SEATTLE, WA - SEPTEMBER 8: Austin Romine #28 of the New York Yankees smiles as he rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run off of relief pitcher Nick Vincent #50 of the Seattle Mariners during the seventh inning of a game at Safeco Field on September 8, 2018 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Stephen Brashear/Getty Images) Credit: Getty Images/Stephen Brashear
By Erik Boland erik.boland@newsday.com @eboland11 Updated September 9, 2018 2:06 AM
SEATTLE — Austin Romine has never set the bar particularly high for himself at the plate.
Behind the plate, yes.
Standing next to it, bat in hand? Not so much.
“I know why I’m in there,” Romine has said many times, referencing his defensive abilities.
But he also accepted a challenge thrown his way during spring training by new manager Aaron Boone, who essentially said this: Don’t be an automatic out. Romine has been anything but in what has been a breakout season offensively.
Romine slugged a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning in the Yankees’ 4-2 victory over the Mariners on Saturday night in front of 38,733 at Safeco Field. The game ended when Dellin Betances wriggled out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the ninth without allowing a run.
“I’ve sold out for my approach from the beginning and it seems to be working,” Romine said. “So if something’s not broke, don’t fix it.”
It’s an approach, he said, that has him keeping things simple: “Staying up the middle the other way, making sure I’m swinging at good pitches.”
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That showed in the seventh when Romine stepped in against righthander Nick Vincent with one out and drove a 2-and-2 fastball the other way to right for a 3-2 lead. He became the 10th Yankee to hit the 10-homer plateau this season. Previously, the most homers for Romine in a big-league season was four.
“That at-bat he had, it’s one thing to go opposite-field with a home run, but what was just as exciting to me was getting to that pitch,” Boone said. “Some of the pitches he was able to lay off and spoil. The quality of that at-bat got him, finally, to a pitch he could drive, and he didn’t miss it.”
The Yankees (89-53) climbed within 7½ games of the AL East-leading Red Sox and stayed 3 ½ games ahead of the A’s for the top wild-card slot. They moved 11 games ahead of Seattle for the second wild card and lowered their magic number for clinching a postseason berth to 10.
Andrew McCutchen, off to a 1-for-17 start in his Yankees career before homering Friday night, led off Saturday night’s game by driving a 1-and-2 changeup from Felix Hernandez down the leftfield line for a home run. Hernandez, who came in 8-13 with a 5.55 ERA, left the game with tightness in his right hamstring after back-to-back walks to start the fifth. The former Cy Young Award winner allowed two runs (one earned) and six hits in four innings-plus.
Lance Lynn, who had allowed 19 earned runs in 18 2⁄3 innings in his previous four starts, pitched well, allowing two runs and three hits in six innings. Mike Zunino led off the third with his 19th homer to tie it at 1-1 and Dee Gordon blooped a two-out RBI single to left in the fifth to tie it at 2-2.
“The homer was really the only bad pitch I made all night,” Lynn said of the first-pitch fastball Zunino hit out. “Other than that, can’t complain.”
Zach Britton struck out one in a perfect seventh and David Robertson struck out the side in a perfect eighth. After Gleyber Torres’ sacrifice fly in the ninth made it 4-2, Betances — who again saw a slow-healing cut on the ring finger of his pitching hand open up and pour blood — escaped big trouble in the bottom of the inning.
The Mariners loaded the bases with one out on a leadoff double by Mitch Haniger, a hit batsman and a walk, but Betances struck out Denard Span and Kyle Seager to preserve the victory. The righthander, who extended his AL-record streak for a reliever to 38 straight games with at least one strikeout, had fanned Jean Segura earlier in the inning.
Betances called the bleeding “annoying” but not something that affects his pitching. “Once I got bases loaded,” he said, “I just tried to bear down and make pitches.”
By Erik Boland erik.boland@newsday.com @eboland11
Erik Boland started in Newsday's sports department in 2002. He covered high school and college sports, then shifted to the Jets beat. He has covered the Yankees since 2009.
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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. – Todd Bowles thinks everyone should slow down on Sam Darnold.
Bowles believes in Darnold and is confident he will continue to get better. But Bowles is not ready to anoint the rookie a superstar or induct him in Canton just yet.
“It’s only been one game,” Bowles said after practice Wednesday. “To sit here and say whether he’s great or whether he’s trash or whether he’s anything else, it’s way too early for that. He’s played one game. He’s got a lot of years to go and he’ll build it as he goes.
“It’s going to take more than a game to say he’s really good.”
Bowles wasn’t trying to kill Jets fans’ buzz. He was just trying to put things in perspective.
The hype machine, which has been running pretty high since the Jets drafted Darnold, was on full blast after Monday night’s 48-17 win in Detroit.
Darnold threw a pick-six on his first pass, but then he settled in to complete 16 of his last 20 attempts for 198 yards and two touchdowns.
It ended up being a terrific performance. Darnold completed 76.2 percent of his passes, led six scoring drives and had a 116.8 rating. But Bowles said to hold off on saying the Jets have their franchise quarterback.
“We won one game,” he said. “I can tell you after about 100 more whether we have one. Right now, it’s too early.”
When a reporter said that the people in that room might not be here in 100 games, Bowles quipped, “That makes all of us.”
If Darnold develops into a franchise quarterback, and quickly, it could help Bowles’ staying power. He will coach his 50th game with the Jets when they play their home opener Sunday against the Dolphins. Bowles is 21-28.
Jets CEO Christopher Johnson said Wednesday that he wouldn’t evaluate Bowles and general manager Mike Maccagnan on the record this season, but on progress. The Jets have a rookie quarterback, so you have to expect bumps before things smooth out.
Darnold is only 21, but he appears to have the talent to be the real deal, and the mental attitude not to let all the attention go to his head. Jets fans are understandably excited, but Darnold's only concern is improving.
“I haven’t been paying that much attention,” Darnold said. “I’m sure people have been talking about how good they expect our team to be in the next few years and all that. I’m just going to continue to focus on the next game. That’s all I can control. That’s how I’m going to be every single week.”
But Darnold is happy to have gotten all of the firsts out of the way – interception, touchdown and victory.
“It’s a nice feeling to be able to get my first win under my belt,” he said. “That’s a really good feeling more than anything. Being able to win a game in the NFL, knowing I could do it. Even though I did know I could do it, it’s just a nice feeling to go out there and execute with my teammates, especially the way that we did.”
It was a big step for Darnold, especially to show the mettle he did after the inauspicious start. Bowles knew Darnold could, but it’s just the beginning.
“He can play the position,” Bowles said. “He’s got to go through some things. Every week will be different for him. He’ll grow at the position. But he’s not green. He’s very sharp. He handles himself very well and I trust him to make adjustments every game.”
Notes & quotes: Darnold on what he could have done differently on the first play Monday: "Not throw it." … WR Jermaine Kearse, slowed by an abdominal injury for a few weeks, was a full participant in practice. He’s trending toward playing Sunday … S Marcus Maye (foot) and LB Josh Martin, who has yet to be cleared from concussion protocol, remained out of practice … LB Neville Hewitt (knee) didn’t practice … The Jets activated LB Kevin Pierre-Louis from the suspended list and waived OL Ben Braden.
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One thing overlooked …
North Carolina’s governor Pat McCrory has called for the legislature to return to Raleigh for a special session to deal with two bills he vetoed, one a discriminatory demand that some welfare applicants be tested for drugs and the other an immigration bill that he said would make it easier for farmers to hire illegal workers.
It’s not that McCrory really wants the legislature to come back and try to override his vetoes: he’s obligated to invite them to do so, though he’s on the record as hoping they’ll decline the special session and save the issues for when they reconvene next May.
They need to return, though, because they forgot something. In a blitzkrieg attack on any signs of progressivism, the legislature overturned years of Democratic educational and social advances in a single session, as if trying to undo everything the Democrats ever did.
But they forgot the lottery.
When the deceitfully-named “North Carolina Education Lottery” was first approved in 2005, it was pushed largely by Democrats, something I believed (and still believe) was a major mistake. Many Republicans decried the bill as immoral based on their conservative religious convictions, and religious moderates and liberals with a social conscience opposed it because it clearly targets the poor.
The lottery is, on the face of it, a socially regressive, if voluntary, tax on poor and middle class citizens. It sells hope to profit the state, ostensibly to support education but in reality giving lawmakers the chance to cut other education funding and shift it to more favored programs.
So, while the Republican super-majority was busy dismantling the house that Democrats built, why did they leave the lottery standing tall?
Could it be that the allure of free money from poorer people — that makes it easier to cut taxes for the wealthy — has a stronger appeal than something like, say, religious conviction or social concern?
If the folks who currently run the show in Raleigh want anyone to believe there’s an ounce of religious reasoning behind their deconstruction of what previous administrations had done, they need to show a little consistency, and get North Carolina out of the gambling business.
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The Problem of Changing Food Habits: Report of the Committee on Food Habits 1941-1943 (1943)
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SOCIAL PROCESS AND DIETARY CHANGE * HERBERT PASSIN arid JOHN W. BENNETT Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago In an earlier paper describing the general results of the Southern Illinois Foodways Studv,2 it was explained that the purposes of the project were two- fold: ~ ~ to effect a preliminary isolation of certain general propositions con- cerning the integration of food habits with culture, and ~) to evolve a set of procedures for the modification of food habits in the particular rural area studied.! This combined theoretical and practical approach has led to an analytical focus upon the critical problem of dietary change as related to culture change. In this paper we propose to summarize our materials relating to this problem. I THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS Since there are so many differellt foods used by any group of people, so many different dietary patterns and cooking practices in their cultural in- ventory, a simple catalogue would serve little purpose in an understanding of pattern. For example, while both beef and pork may be ire use, there is a patent difference between the regular, universal use of pork meat, and the infrequent, episodic occurrence of beef in the diet. Such differences in the place of food in diet have led us to see a gradient of relative dietary impor- tance in the food habits of the area. Those foods which are universal, regular, staple, important, and consistent in the form of use, we have, following Linton,3 called the "core diet." When a food is widely used, but not universal (i.e., segmental), more variable in use and form, and less emotionally im- portant, we use the tem1 "secondary core." For while these foods are char- acteristically part of the diet, they do not have the fundamental, traditional force of the core foods. (They correspond to flat Linton has called "specialties.") Finally, we leave reserved the term "peripheral foods" for those Chicle are least common, most infrequent in occurrence, and those which are not characteristic of groups, but rather of individuals. (This roughly cor- responds to Linton's "alternatives.") From a practical point of view, the distinctions seem of considerable value for they enable us to state that greatest emotional resistance to dietary change is encountered in reference to the core items, less in the secondary core, and the greatest ease and fluidity of change in the peripheral zone. * Provision for the compilation of material relevant to the National Nutrition Campaign was made by the Committee on Food Habits. iThis paper will provide further exposition of some of the results of the Southern Illinois Foodways Study, a project sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and the University of Chicago.2 2 The present article represents an extreme condensa- tion of a study to appear in the near future. For reasons of space limitation, it was found necessary to exclude consideration of the Negro area. 8 II3
I 14 Me Proble,;: of Changing Food Habits The terms are not absolute ire their reference and depend to a large extent upon the unit that is being considered. Thus, if the entire area encompassed in the study is considered as a unit, the core diet or the most common foods- tends to be less than the core diet characteristic of each subunit.* Similarly, when the segments (classes, status groups, etc.) of the subunits are con-' sidered, the core diet will tend to be larger than that of the subunit as a whole. Thus the ' core or universal and staple common elements is quan- titatively less in an ascending scale from segment to subunit to area as a whole. From a large historic view, it will be seen that one of the characteristics of culture change, with its attendant differentiation is the re(ll1ction of the aren1 , _ core in a quantitative 'sense, and the relative increase of the subunit and especially the segmental cores. That is, historically, the culture of food was snore universal in the earlier periods, and progressively more differentiated as social changes alter the picture of a homogeneous area. The general factors guiding acceptance or rejection of foods seems to lie the degree of urbanization and the economic condition of the individual. If urbanization is high and economic condition' favorable, foods of urban provenience are more readily acceptable. In the high urbanization, poor eco- nomic condition group, desire is present, but actual diet depends upon what can be manipulated within the straitened economic circumstances. Where urbanization is low and economic conditions favorable, the diet tends to be traditional, resistant to change, and fairly ample with new items as a sec- ondary core or periphery. Finally, with low urbanization and poor economic conditions, the diet is resistant to change, meager, and virtually without in- ~ovation. Core elell~erlts may be dropped, but only because they' cannot be produced or afforded. The level of aspiration is still else historic core. II THE HISTORIC DIET The basic historical division was between Americans arid Germs (also Negroes, who are not, however, considered ire the present report). ~4. The Old Eric an Diet Food habits in the "old days" in else Old An~ericar~ areas were charac- t'eristically linked to the general regional folk pattern of mutual aid and col- lective action. Swapping and bartering of fang products was condor; beef and pork "rings" operated, in which each farmer killed an animal and 'dis- tributed the-meat to the other members of the ring. The diet itself contained more of the staples that have long since been regarded as cash crop items: beef, corn and wheat flour. In the "old days," cattle, corn, and wheat were raised and consumed locally, the grains being ground by local mills which *The areas considered here are: Stringtown, the Bottoms, the Lower Hills, and the German Hills. The reader nest be referred for details to the earlier report.2 ~ For materials on the Negroes, see 2.
Social Process and Dietary Change ~5 demanded a share of the flour as payment. Other foods that were important in this period but have since almost disappeared, were: fish, turkey, mutton, molasses, wild game, and wild greens. The latter two were exceptionally im- portant in the bottoms, because that area was so fertile in flora and fauna. The emphasis upon self-support was marked, and it took its form not only from the home use of crops and domesticated animals, but from a fuller utilization of environmental resources. In general, this pattern of self-support is perhaps the most prominent feature of this early period. In the words of an old resident, "We et ever' thing we could catch or kill except a turkey buzzard." From extensive field materials, we can reconstruct the following basic dietary pattern for the early period: Beef, mutton, pork. Wild game:.turkey, squirrel, rabbit, opossum, raccoon, deer, fish, turtle. Vegetable: onions, carrots, peas (except green peas), beans of all kinds, okra, pumpkin, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, corn, cucumbers. Chickens, ducks, geese. Wheat and corn flour, locally produced (white bread and corn bread). Milk and butter. Sorghum molasses. Fruits: blackberries, peaches, apples, melons. Wild greens: poke, murdock of various kinds, mustard, dandelion. Sugar, coffee, salt. Preparations: certain old dishes, like beef stew, hog jowl with wild greens. Also pies, jams, jellies, etc. General characteristics: I. Less variety in the diet; consistent ways of preparing foods that rarely varied. a. A more abundant diet, greater in quantity than the present. 3. Closer functional dependence upon environment; more hunting and collecting of natural foods. 4. Greater reliance upon home produced foods. Within the historic diet can be distinguished several levels. First, we can segregate the "core," which contained, according to the values of the times, the most "necessary" foods for sustaining human life. These were: meat, particularly pork; potatoes; whole grain and corn bread; beans of all kinds; sorghum molasses; coffee; sugar; and salt. Second, we find a secondary core, which includes everything except the elements listed in the core. This secondary core constituted a nutritionally important aspect of the diet, and was ' by no means slighted by the people of the period. In terms of cultural values, however, it was accessory to the staple core. In other words, any of the auxiliary foods would be given up before the staple articles. This is borne out by the descriptions of the diet during past periods of economic pressure: the bare minimum was usually the staple core plus whatever secondary foods could be hunted or grown. Third, we can distinguish a preparation core, composed of a series of recipes and dishes, like stews, roasts, use of pork fat for cooking vegetables, extensive use of grease gravy, fruit preserves, and several others. The most consistent elements of the preparation core were those involving foods in the staple core.
I I 6 The Problem of Changing Food Habits B. The Old German Diet* In the upland prairie and parkland of the Ozark spur lives a large block of population of German descent. In the area, the distinction between German and American is still retained and serves to indicate a major social differen- tiation. Coming over with a tradition of small-scale, intensive agriculture, the Germans settled in the area in large numbers from ~858 onwards. They brought with them such distinctive traits as two-story houses; cellars; large, well-built and well-tended barns; t and intensive farming plus a resolute ideal of household self-sufficiency. By contrast with the Old American groups, German agriculture was more intense, diversified, and had greater variety ire crops. While the soil was in- ferior to the richer flatlands and bottoms, it was free of the hazard of flood, and by care and devoted attention was kept up and even improved in the course of time. All around, however, erosion and soil exhaustion exacted their harsh tribute. The Germans brought with them not only their language, agricultural prac- tices, and ideals, but also their homeland food habits. The core of these was the same pork-bears-potatoes triad found among the Americans, but the char- acteristic preparations varied considerably. Concordance with environmental availability was extensive enough to enable them to carry over much of the traditional elements into the new situation. The food habits that distinguished them from their neighbors may be summarized as follows: i: Greater use of heavy soups. Preparation of various sausages: liver, pork, flour, head, frankfurters, bologna, salami, sausage balls, etc. Boiled potatoes and potato salad. Extensive use of rye-in bread, etc. Use of barley. Use of pickling preservative processes (with fruit acid and vinegar, salt, etc.) for meats and vegetables, rather than canning: thus, pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, turnips, kraut, etc. Smoking of foods: smoked hams, smoked sausages, etc. Preserved backbone and ribs. Storage in subterranean cellars. Head cheese. Pickled pigs' feet. Blood pudding. Absence of cheese, except clabbered cheese. Relative absence of sweet puddings and desserts. Fruit orchards. Wines from grape arbors. Lesser use of grease in cooking. The core food practices incorporated many of these and some newer ele- ments that they learned from the Americans and found convenient in the new The authors are indebted to their co-worker, Lt. Harvey L. Smith, U.S.A., for the field materials on the Germans. In the division of labor in the field, this was his specialty. t It was often reported that the Germans built their barns before they built their houses. ~ The present itemization and those that follow are, of course, not exhaustive. They would require too much space, These are given only as important and characteristic.
Social Process and Dietary - Change ~7 setting. By the time the community really took shape, the composite core, drawn from both German and American sources, was well entrenched. The historic core may be characterized as follows: Ideal of self-sufficiency. Basic use of hog meats in all forms. Beans. Sausage preparations (see above). Head cheese. Use of cellars for storage. Boiled potatoes and potato salad. Light bread. Preserved backbone and ribs. Cottage cheese. Abundant fruit orchards. Bacon and hamfat. Intensive gardening. lIeavy soups: potato, barley, vegetable. Barley. Blood pudding. Smoking of food. Pickling preservative processes. Corn bread. Pickled pigs' feet. Cereals. Extensive use of dairy products. Sorghum molasses. In general, the historic core contains most of the traditional elements plus accretions of related American elements that were easily adoptable. The secondary core is much smaller and contains elements that were em- ployed by a large number of persons but were not universal: Cheeses. Fried chicken. Kafekuchen. Wines. Pies arid other desserts. Hominy and other corn products. Sugar. Fried potatoes. Use of beef and mutton products. Rye bread. Manufacture of beer. Sweet potatoes. Coffee. Canning. Use of wild game and plants. In the peripheral zone, there was much variability and individuation and relative infrequence of occurrence. The elements of this sphere were imported from the American farmers and adventitiously brought in from the outside. They include: Store foods of all kinds. Biscuits and gravy for breakfast. ~ . cream gravies. Salads fruit and vegetable. Rice. Store flour. Heavy use of grease. Tropical fruits. Exotics, such as oysters, cream pies, etc. In the old days the core was very extensive. It included a large number of foods, processes, and practices, and it embraced virtually all of the com- munity. The elements were in part of traditional derivation, in part adopted from the surrounding Americans, and showed a good environmental fit. While the secondary core was likewise extensive, the variation in usage corresponded to differences in social experience. Thus the older people clung with fervor to the old country traditions in the face of change and difficulties. The closer the families lived to the Old Americans, the greater was the approximation to their dietary styles. As we move to the heart of the German area, we find that the American practices tend to diminish except for those incorporated in the core diet. Also, store foods were resorted to by more urbanized folk, while the more rural retained the goal of self-sufficiency. The same considera- tions apply in more extreme form to the peripheral zone.
I I 8 The Problem of Changing Food Habits III THE CONTEMPORARY DIET At. Stringtozon and the Lower Hills The course of historic change in Stringtown has resulted from the twin impact of commercialization and urbanization.4, 5 The gradual economic changes before World War I, which did not affect the basic economy, brought about the substitution of some store-purchased foods for home-produced items like flour, molasses, etc., plus a few novelties that were recommended by their convenience or taste. After the first World War, the basic economic structure changed in tile direction of extreme dependence upon the outside and tenancy. The initial adjustment was to a moonshining economy which brought in money on a large scale and the virtual disappearance of gardening among the moon- shiners. In this period, most food was purchased in stores, and urban food types and values became paramount. Most recently, with the abolition of moonshining, the community adjusted to a new type of existence. The originally homogeneous farmer community became transformed into a segmented community where, while there is still considerable uniformity in foodways, significant differences of emphasis, aspiration, and actual diet can be found. We may describe these groups and their characteristic dietary patterns as briefly as possible. A statistical analysis of foods consumed over a sample period of time yields the following breakdown of core, secondary, and peripheral elements for the entire community: CORE Coffee. Meat (especially pork in various forms). Gravy (milk and grease) . Biscuits. Butter. Jelly. CORE Meat (pork varieties ) . Irish potatoes. Coffee. Beans (all varieties ~ . White bread. Vegetables (in season ) . Sweet potatoes. Pies. BREA KFAST SECONDARY Rolled oats. Eggs. Milk. White bread. Packaged cereals. SECONDARY Butter. Corn bread. Gravy. Apples. Cake. Pickles. Fruit. DIN NER PERIPHERAL Toast. Syrup. Fruit. Potatoes. Kraut. Onions. Cocoa. PERIPHERAL Prunes. Chicken. Pancakes. r Biscuits. Spaghetti. Iced tea (summer) . Banana pudding. Cheese. Milk. Chocolate milk. Jelly. Chicken soup. Potato salad. Catsup. Graham crackers. Fried pumpkin.
Social Process and Dietary Change SUPPER CORE White bread. Butter. Irish potatoes. Pork. Colt. SECONDARY Beans. Tomatoes. Sweet potatoes. Pie. Jelly. Sandwiches. Corn. Gravy. Milk. Ii ruit. Characteristics: Use of leftovers, extrt+.me variability, I I 9 PERIPHERAL Biscuits. Cake. Cookies. Kraut. Peas. Pickles. Graham crackers. Spaghetti. Chocolate milk. Cheese. Chicken soup. Pumpkin pie. Turnip greens. Salmon. Lettuce. Sardines. rags. Tomato juice. relatively light Neal, I~eriphera]ity of ve,,etal~lcs. When the distinct segments are considered, important variations of emphasis appear. I. The well-to-do farmers. The general pattern for this group is very similar to the areal core, but all the items are nave abundant. The majority of them are home-produced where economically possible, and minimal empha- sis proportionately is placed upon store-purchase. Thus in the breakfast core, the meat is more likely to be from their own smokehouses than from the stores. While it is true that proportionately the store purchase is low, in abso- lute terms it is high. There is both more self-sufficiency and an ampler diet. Characteristically, they do a great deal of home canning and slaughtering of meat, and thus tend to have meat and home vegetables the year round. Most of the store purchases, aside from such staples as flour, salt, sugar, and coffee, are simply status indulgences or are used to fill in seasonal gaps. 2. Poor farmers and sharecroppers. In this group, the pattern is distorted by extreme paucity of all items. They are very dependent upon store pur- chase to fill seasonal gaps and the lack of ample gardens, chickens for home use, etc. The money purchase in this group is smaller than in group I, but it is proportionately higher in their total food consumption. On the whole they aspire for ampler home-grown foods, like the wealthier farmers, but the desire for more store-purchased items is of greater importance. 3. Urbanized, casual labor, WPA and factory workers. In this sector is found virtually complete store dependence. The chief ambition is to eat like "city folks" and get away from the rural milieu. Dietary changes have been greatest here because of the absence of gardens and their dependence on money income. Variability is greater than for the other segments. The Lower Hills subarea, while recognized as separate from Stringtown, exhibits a similar course of development. The primary difference lies in the fact that the Lower Hills is more "upper class." The majority of the upper group in the Lower Hills must be classified with Stringtown Group I. The minority of approximately one-third must be classified with Stringtown Group a. The same considerations as outlined above apply in these instances. B. Dietary Change in the Bottoms We will analyze changes in the Bottoms in terms of alterations in the his- toric core diet down to the present. During the earliest period, Bottoms cul
I20 The Problem of Changing Food Habits ture and food habits were substantially identical with those of other American subareas. At an early date, however, Bottoms land was divided into a number of large estates that were operated as a large-scale tenancy system. The former farm-owners were absorbed into the tenancy system, as were a large number of new families that removed into the area. The economic change occurred in the Bottoms earlier than in any other subarea, resulting in modifications that anticipated later types of "urbanization" elsewhere. With the more concentrated effort required for raising cash crops, and the necessary use of all land both a result of tenancy there was less time to devote to gardening, hunting, and raising stock for home-consumption. The diet therefore began to change in the direction of more reliance upon the newly-introduced stores; molasses and flour, for example, began to be purchased. Other new urban foods began to appear: oranges and bananas were purchased as special treats; new varieties of spices; and the first proc- essed foods. As tenancy developed, the most important feature of culture change in regard to diet was the familial differentiation within the total group. No single family can be taken as representative of all, as could be done for the pre-tenancy period. It is necessary to distinguish subgroupings of families which correlate with dietary differences. Between the early periods and the present, arbors foods svere continually entering the diet, and the old staple core became merged with some of the old secondary core foods to produce a traditional, "old-time farm-grub" concept. For our analysis of the contemporary period, we will call this new type of core, the "traditional core;" the new foods plus the older foods which are no longer in the core, the "secondary core," or the "peripheral diet," depending upon their type of integration within the diet. The social system of the modern Bottoms consists of a series of rank-order positions based upon socio-economic status. At the top are the tenant farmers; below them the sharecroppers; * then a middle group: riverbank squatters, farm laborers, WPA workers; at the bottom, riverbank and shantyboat fishermen. Food has become attached to this status system) in that the tenant diet constitutes the dietary goal for all subordinate families, and that foods attached to the river people's (fishermen, primarily) diet have become of low-prestige.t The Tenant Diet Tenants are able to raise adequate gardens and have enough cash on hand to buy store foods both as luxuries or in the event of garden or stock failure. They have an essential choice in diet that is lacking in the lower status posi * Sharecroppers differ from tenants in size of land, or are in a relation of subtenancy with tenants. iThe shantyboat-dweller diet will not be discussed here for lack of space. It does show interesting divergencies from the land diet, as a result of diverse culture contact. As fisherman become riverbank squatters, their diet tends toward the agricultural type, however.
Social Process and Dietary Change 121 lions. The diet contains the largest proportion of both old foods and the newer alternatives. Traditional core. Contains basic triad of old staple core (beans, potatoes, pork). Also shows integration of old secondary foods, and preparation core items. Secondary core. Consists of some old secondary foods that have failed to enter traditional core (turnips, chicken); some foods and variations of old staple core (corn bread, cracklings); and a group of urban foods that entered some time ago (cereals, canned vegetables). Peripheral. Consists of a few foods from old secondary core; a number of "luxury" items (tinned meats, grapefruit); and very recent urbanisms. Individual families vary from this ideal type in terms of their degree of mobility and contact they have had with other, usually urban, cultures. The Sharecropper Diet Although the sharecropper keenly aspires to the tenant diet, his diet actu- ally differs from that type in the following ways: I. Almost no variability around traditional core. These foods constitute major diet. a. Secondary core foods are almost exclusively the old secondary core garden products urban foods are relatively rare. 3. Peripheral foods rare, but when they do occur they are usually foods typical of the secondary core in the tenant diet- like canned vegetables. The whole picture is that of a diet held close to the traditional core because of economic limitation the sharecropper lacks time and money for production and purchase of tenant-type diet. The desire of sharecroppers (and other non-tenant people) to "eat like the tenants" means that the diet is held to a conservative level because they wish to achieve the traditional core goal; on the other hand, this desire pro- motes change in that the sharecropper also wishes to secure the newer urban foods associated with the tenant diet. Riverbank-FarYn Laborer Diet; This is an attenuation of the sharecropper type, expectable from the lower economic status, but it also contains some urban exotics, like oysters, cake, and wieners, that reflect the wishful thinking, urban aspirations of these highly mobile. acculturated people. A higher reliance 1lnon sheen runners ~O ~ ~ ~ . . . _ vegetables IS also present. In general, the traditional core is penetrated by unbalanced secondary and peripheral items. WP~4 Diet It is in this diet that the most striking cultural changes are reflected. The departure from a farming economy is displayed in the formation of a totally new core diet: many of the older foods that can be grown in small gardens, plus a host of urbanisms like bologna, cookies, soft drinks, and the like. These are a direct result of the increased reliance upon a cash economy plus
I22 The Problem of Changing Food Habits the influence of a cold-lunch pattern. Here the old staple core triad (beans, potatoes, pork) are all purchased. C. The Contemporary German Diet The passage of time has brought many changes in the German diet. Funda- mentally, the changes may be attributed to the differentiating social processes which have acted upon the community. In summary form, these are three: commercialization, contact with Old American culture and partial accultura- tion to American culture modes, and urbanization. We may examine the consequences of these trends in terms of their effects upon food habits. I. The commercialization of the area, which was relatively sloes and reached its fullest development shortly after World War I, resulted in a greater reli- ance on cash crops, a corresponding lessening of household self-sufficiency, and increased familiarity with the ways of markets and towns. The decline of self-sufficiencyr and the devotion of more energy to the pro- duction of cash crops vitally affected dietary custom. It was found necessary to supplement deficiencies in home-production by some store-purchase. While this process never went quite so far as it did in the other areas, it is nonethe- less significant. It was necessary to buy food occasionally; and to buy food one had to have money. Thus the two processes supported one another. Store-purchased foods, which had formerly been in the periphery, began to appear in the core. Flour, cornmeal, canned fruits, and vegetables all became more important. Also it became easier to purchase sausages and other foods that took too mucl, time in arduous preparation. Grumble though the old-timers naight, the core was subtly changed to include packaged cereals, macaroni, and some canned goods. 2. As the Germans came to share more of the way of life of their Ameri- can neighbors, many of the older foods began to be replaced by items that were more convenient. Housewives became more familiar with new foods and modes of preparation and adopted suitable ones from among those they came in contact with such as canning. Gradually they dropped those taking much time. The latter began to drop from the core and enter the secondary core.* Many persons also began to respond to the evaluations and taboos of their neighbors and attempted to conform. Thus, several German foods were re- garded with extreme distaste by the Americans, and they began to drop to the periphery. They became symbols of a different status group, and from the point of view of the Americans, a lower status. Blood puddings are one of the most important items. Through the response to negative evaluation, many Germans eliminated such items or else used them rarely. In general, the pat- terning of responses to these low-prestige foods was similar to those found in the Bottoms in connection with the river-people's diet. Finally, it is found that the younger people have an increasingly common world of understandings, goals, and ambitions with their age-mates of Old American descent. This situation is reflected in their lack of taste for the old German foods. * It may be pointed out that the diffusion was not all in one direction; a few German items made their way into the American diet.
Social Process and Dietary Change 123 3. The protean impact of urbanism has further altered the historic core in the direction of conformity with the surrounding area. German families have developed considerable contact with relatives and friends in nearby towns, including intermarriage. From these they acquire near food habits and standards. The trend toward secondary school education for the girls has taken future homemakers outside the community, where they acquire new foodways. The press and radio, playing upon receptive social areas, have had their effects. Three groupings result from these processes: I. The traditional group, which consists of older persons and others who value the past, is the most self-sufficient in the area. Most of the historic core is retained, with the addition of a few store-purchases plus certain easily adaptable American foodways, such as a greater variety of pork preparations. Canning, oldish promotes self-sufficiency, is prevalent. a. In the group relatively acculturated to American standards, the core is similar to the American core, particularly the "upper-class" Americans. Most traditional foods have been dropped, especially those with low-prestige, like blood pudding and head cheese. This group still lives "out of the farm," rather than "out of the store," exceeding in this respect most of the American groups, save possibly the Lower Hills people with whom they associate. 3. A small constant core is found in the most highly urbanized group, for here the disposition to accept outside foods is limited only by individual taste, finances, and knowledge of foods. The garden is less important; home production is drastically reduced. Store purchase increases, and the diet, with its "delicacies," etc., more nearly approaches urban standards. Change is rapid. IV SUM MARY The historic and contemporary diets of the area of Stringtown, Illinois, were analyzed in terms of the concept of core, secondary core, and alternative. The changes were seen to result from commercialization, urbanization, and contact between groups (Germans and Old Americans). As a consequence of the social change, in the present we find differing segments instead of a fairly homogeneous farmer population. Differences in food habits, as well as differences in resistivity to change in food habits were seen to be closely related to the contemporary social structure. BIBLIOGRAPHY I. Bennett, John W. Food and social status in a riverbottom society. Am. Soc. Rev., October ~943. a. Bennett, John W., Smith, Harvey L., and Passin, Herbert. Food and culture in Southern Illinois. A preliminary report. Am. Soc. Rev., 7: 645-660, ~942. Linton, Ralph. The study of man, an introduction. New York, D. Appleton-Century, ~936. 5~3 P. 4. Passin, Herbert. Preliminary report of a field survey of culture change in the region of Unionville, Illinois. New York, Social Science Research Council, ~94~. Mimeographed. 5. Passin, Herbert. Culture change in Southern Illinois. Rural Sociology, 7:303-3~y, in.
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Front Matter 1–2
Preface 3–4
Contents 5–6
Part I--Introduction 7–8
History of the Committee on Food Habits 9–19
The Problem of Changing Food Habits 20–32
Part II--Demonstration and Research Conducted Under Committee Auspices 33–34
Forces Behind Food Habits and Methods of Change 35–65
Adjustment to Dietary Changes in Various Somatic Disorders 66–73
A Study of the Use of the Friendship Pattern in Nutrition Education 74–81
A Study of the Effect of Odd-Shifts Upon the Food Habits of War Workers 82–84
A Summary of an Exploratory Study in Federal Employee Turnover in Washington with Special Attention to Living Habits 85
Qualitative Attitude Analysis--A Technique for the Study of Verbal Behavior 86–94
Summary of Methods of a Field Work Class Cooperating with the Committee on Food Habits 95–96
Food Habits of Selected Subcultures in the United States 97–103
Tests of Acceptability of Emergency Rations 104
A Summary of a Study of Some Personality Factors in Block 105–106
Part III--Related Research 107–108
Outline of Studies on Food Habits in the Rural Southeast 109–112
Social Process and Dietary Change 113–123
Part IV--Summaries of Committee Conferences 125–126
Research in the Field of Food Habits, May 23-24, 1941 127–140
Contributions from the Field of Market Research, June 27, 1941 141–148
Contributions from the Field of Child Development, June 28, 1941 149–157
The Wartime Roles of the Nutritionist: Supplementing the Role of the Nutritionist at the Household Level, April 26, 1942 and June 16, 1942 158
Local Food Sufficiency, September 26, 1942 and November 21, 1942 159
Rationing and Morale, November 21, 1942 160–161
Feeding Liberated Countries and Nutrition Education, January 23, 1943 162–164
Problems of Food Supply, Food Habits, and Nutrition in China, February 11, 1943 165–167
Impact of the War on Local Food Habits, March 27, 1943 168–169
Special Social Surveys in Great Britain, April 15, 1943 170–172
Publications of Committee on Food Habits 173–174
Index 175–177
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PRRS Risk Assessment Tool measures the level of risk that a PRRS outbreak will occur and provides a complete database featuring benchmarking and analysis.
While several methods have eliminated porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) virus, success in applying biosecurity measures to keep the virus out following elimination has been inconsistent and unpredictable.
What is hoped, however, is that the PRRS Risk Assessment Tool program coordinated by Derald Holtkamp, DVM, Iowa State University (ISU), will distill down the increasing list of biosecurity practices into a handful that are truly significant for producers and veterinarians to focus on.
From trailer baking to work on insects, fomites and air filtration systems on hog barns, the pork industry has been prolific in turning out new biosecurity research for the industry to consider adding to its arsenal of tools to stop PRRS transmission.
But the challenge now is to eventually focus on what's really significant to stopping the spread of the PRRS virus. “This program is really about applying epidemiology to swine production and identifying the risk factors that contribute to PRRS breaks on hog farms,” he adds.
A pilot study using the PRRS Risk Assessment Tool “was very encouraging,” Holtkamp says. Farms that had a high risk of introduction of virus from an external source broke early with PRRS, while farms with low external risk stayed naïve for PRRS a lot longer.
Four PRRS Studies
That has led to four studies being funded to use the PRRS Risk Assessment tool to more accurately pinpoint the most important biosecurity risks for PRRS infection:
Quantifying risk and evaluating the relationship between risk score and PRRS-negative herd survival, as part of the USDA-funded PRRS Coordinated Agricultural Project, coordinated by researchers from Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota.
An industry education study for understanding the risk factors associated with PRRS virus breaks in negative or naïve breeding herds funded by the National Pork Board and coordinated by researchers from Iowa State University and the University of Minnesota.
“Those two studies are basically survival analysis pig studies,” Holtkamp explains. “How long do negative or naïve herds survive without PRRS breaks?”
A cross-sectional study of PRRS virus positive swine breeding herd sites to evaluate associations between risk factors and a case definition-based number and severity of clinical PRRS episodes, funded by Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc (BIVI), led by Holtkamp.
This third study seeks to help improve our understanding of what factors and conditions contribute to some farms having a large number of severe PRRS breaks while others have few, and therefore, provide insights on how to better manage and control PRRS, he says.
Developing PRRS control strategies by understanding how the virus is changing and moving in Ontario, funded by the Ontario Pork Industry Council. This study expands on earlier research on a PRRS regional eradication project started in the province.
Value of Biosecurity
“Biosecurity is more significant in trying to deal with PRRS than it has been for other diseases,” Holtkamp suggests. “The tools we have right now for biosecurity have got to be a big part of the arsenal if we decide to eradicate the disease.”
So far the risk assessment tool has focused on biosecurity for the breeding herd. In the future, its use will be expanded to other production phases and other diseases.
Use of the tool is limited to veterinarians who are members of the American Association of Swine Veterinarians (AASV) and who have successfully completed a training session. To date, 92 AASV members have been trained to use the tool and 454 breeding herd assessments have been completed.
The risk assessment is currently an Excel spreadsheet-based tool. A web-based version is expected to launch later this summer, says Holtkamp. The web-based version will provide risk benchmarking reports to veterinarians.
Development, Rollout
The risk assessment tool was developed by BIVI in mid-2003. In March 2005, BIVI offered to gift the tool to the AASV. In March 2006, the AASV, with support from the National Pork Board and USDA, accepted the gift. BIVI continues to provide in-kind support.
In September 2006, ISU's College of Veterinary Medicine entered into an agreement with AASV to establish a Disease Risk Assessment Program to develop, manage and promote disease risk assessment tools and databases of completed risk assessments held by AASV.
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The Wars to Come
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Robert Mueller on Capitol Hill, June 20, 2017 (Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein)
It feels like things are coming to a head in the Trump-Mueller showdown.
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Dear Reader: The quickening is upon us. What I mean is that, while few people really have any clue what is going on, many are certain that It’s About to Go Down.
And so the Great Loin-Girding has begun.
In Green Rooms, in Editorial Rooms, in Conference Rooms of every hue and shape, and even in bathrooms where stewed bowels are uncorked like a confused drunk opening the emergency exit at 35,000 feet, people are preparing for what can only be described as the Mother of All Shinola Shows, only it won’t be shinola on the main stage. Reporters are rereading ten-year-old New Yorker profiles of bit players just so they can be ready to drop an obscure reference about a Russian oligarch. A striver at Breitbart is researching Robert Mueller’s family tree going back to the Duchy of Pomeria. Behind the scenes at Fox & Friends, things are more somber: There are a lot of prayer circles and quiet moments of solitude, as various hosts and producers stare out the window onto Sixth Avenue and ask themselves if they are ready for what is to come.
Over at Morning Joe, the preparations are more animated, as they contemplate the prospect of entering Cable-News Valhalla.
On the Hill, House Democrats, flush with the stench of midterm victory in their nostrils, are storming the vacated bunkers of the former majority, like Vikings sweeping into an unprotected English village or the caddies into the Bushwood pool on Caddy Day. The walls are being covered with photos of Trump and his associates, each held up by a pushpin and tied by red string to another pushpin holding up another photo and another, until a batwing-shaped web connects Trump to Vladimir Putin, the Saudi crown prince, Roy Cohn, and, thanks to Senator Cruz, both the Zodiac Killer and the real culprits in the Kennedy assassination.
Over on the Senate side, Chuck Schumer walks into a conference room and spots a fresh-out-of-Harvard self-styled freedom fighter, hunched over next to an oil-drum fire, sharpening pencils with the blade of a pair of child-safety scissors.
“All that hate’s gonna burn you up kid,” Schumer says.
“It keeps me warm,” replies the former senior-class president, as he throws an 8-by-10 glossy of Roger Stone into the fire.
Meanwhile, Republicans across the Hill are grabbing everything they can to bunker-in and target-harden. Book cases full of the proceedings of the Senate? Slide those mofos in front of the doors! Studies showing the scope of the fiscal crisis ahead of us? We may need that for toilet paper. Hapless tourists from Osh Kosh or Eugene visiting the rotunda are knocked over and shoved aside, their selfie-sticks clanging on the cold marble, their Smithsonian shopping bags full of astronaut ice cream and miniature Washington Monuments sent flying, as young Republicans roll giant water-cooler bottles down the hallway to prepare for the siege. “Sorry, ma’am, I don’t think you want to be here,” one of the more polite kids from Orrin Hatch’s office yells as they barrel past. “This is going to be bad.”
For reasons no one knows, but everyone understands, an old lady is standing outside the gallery shouting, “Flores! Flores para los muertos!”
Meanwhile, over at the White House, everyone is sweating like they ate gas-station sushi an hour ago and don’t have any change left for the coin-operated bathroom stall. You can’t even make a Downfall video joke without John Kelly screaming, “Stow that crap soldier!” Cigarette burns mar every desk and carpet, the smoke blending in with the stench of panic and intern urine. In the hallway, Mike Pence barges past a meeting trying to catch a chicken. No one bothers even to ask why.
Stephen Miller hasn’t been seen for days, but staffers hear the familiar rapid-fire sound — whock-whock-whock-OW! — emanating from his office as he plays Mumblety-peg with the pointy-end of a Statue of Liberty paperweight.
And then there’s the Oval Office, where the president keeps re-watching DVR’d episodes of Lou Dobbs, pausing every 15 seconds to growl at Rudy Giuliani: “See! Lou gets it! Why can’t you say something like that!? I should make him attorney general.”
Rudy’s constant, uncontrolled, and unprovoked laugher, punctuated by broad flashes of his new teeth, is as disorienting as it is hypnotic. “It’s all going great!” Rudy says with an enormous smile, tears streaming down his face.
“It’s all fine . . . this is fine.”
Two and Half Cheers for the Sidelines
Okay, I exaggerate — a little.
But the truth is that it really does feel like things are coming to a head.
I have no idea what Mueller will reveal, and I have no idea what Trump will do in response. But I am sure that we’re going to hear a lot of “Whose Side Are You On?” once Mueller walks to the cameras in his Grim Reaper’s cloak and swings his scythe.
For me, the answer is simple: I’m on nobody’s side. I don’t have a dog in this fight. To mix metaphors like a special blender for metaphors, I’m going to play the ball, not the man — or men. What I mean by that is that if the truth or facts or evidence is on Trump’s side, I’ll defend that. If it’s not on his side, I won’t be either.
That’s not going to be true for a lot of people who, for one reason or another, have invested way too much in Donald Trump and in the idea that he deserves their loyalty. That ain’t me.
I’ve spent the last couple years perhaps a bit too vexed by some of those people. I’ve finally figured out a way to make peace, in my own mind, with at least some of their behavior.
In print and in podcast, I’ve been talking a lot about how the two parties are shells of what they once were and how outside groups and institutions have filled the voids left behind by their shrinkage. The parties used to choose candidates and issues. Parties educated voters. Over the last 50 years, that function has essentially been outsourced to interest groups, media outlets, think tanks, etc. As a result, the dividers between different lanes shrunk or vanished. Writers and intellectuals on the left and the right became de facto political consultants and party activists. Many political consultants acted like public intellectuals or pundits. Intellectuals became entertainers and entertainers pretended to be intellectuals. Politicians quit their jobs to be TV talking heads, and TV talking heads run for office.
I look back on the last two decades, and, in hindsight, it’s easy for me to see all of it now, not just in others but in myself. Back in 2016, I didn’t understand how so many people, who had basically the same job description as I did, could reach such wildly different conclusions. Now, I feel like I understand it better. In this business, people like me wear a lot of different hats, figuratively speaking. Among the hats we wear: journalist, writer, author, TV pundit, intellectual, partisan, etc. In those roles, one can sometimes be a critic or a cheerleader for a party or a politician or a policy.
The point is that most of the time, it’s pretty easy to switch out one hat for another without feeling conflicted. Making the Republican case and the conservative case often seems — or seemed — like the same thing. In hindsight, I think I was too much of a partisan during the Iraq War, but it didn’t feel like I was being partisan at the time. I just thought the party and the president deserved defending from their critics on the left.
Lots of people have argued that the rise of Donald Trump was a stress test for various institutions, and I think that’s right. But whereas I once thought a lot of people failed the test, I see it a little differently now.
The rise of Trumpism demanded that everybody decide which hat they were going to wear. Or to put it a little differently, they had to decide which hats were they willing to take off when push came to shove. For some people, the party hat (I don’t mean the type that kids wear at birthday parties) was the one hat that they wouldn’t take off. For others, it wasn’t so much a GOP thing as it was a populist thing. They hated the “establishment” — especially the Republican establishment — and because “Donald Trump” popped into someone’s head when Gozer demanded, “Choose the Form of the Destructor,” they went with him even though many might have preferred a different vessel. For many religious and social conservatives, they had to discard the Public Scold Hat (or at least the Credible and Morally Consistent Public Scold Hat). When you believe all of that “It’s War” crap, the only hat you’re supposed to wear is a helmet. And a lot of people, strapped one on for the cause.
For others, including self-described “Never Trumpers,” they — we — chose to discard the party hat and the populist hat. I don’t know the right label for the one I’m stuck with, in part because they all sound pretentious: intellectual, journalist, conservative, whatever.
I don’t know if thinking about it this way is helpful for anybody but me, but I find it clarifying and a bit reassuring. We all have lots of different roles or identities in us, and when a test comes, some people will choose one identity over another. I’m not going to lie, some people have disgusted me in how they’ve made “Trump-loyalist” their primary identity, jettisoning principles, reputation, and rationality in order to nimbly defend the guy. But a lot of people haven’t done that. They’ve simply tried to make the best out of a difficult situation.
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There’s a reason why the Kavanaugh spectacle was the only time the broader American Right has unified during Trump’s presidency; it was because Donald Trump wasn’t the issue, even if he at times tried to make it about him. It was the one-time moment when all of the hats could converge or overlap each other.
There are those on the right who very much want the coming donnybrook to be like that again. It’s possible it will. It’s possible the Democrats will overreach or that Mueller will live down to the slanders grifters on the right have concocted about him. But I doubt it will happen. This will be about Trump. And while impeachment may not be warranted, he will not look good in this fight, because his true nature — and the nature of the creatures he surrounds himself with — will once again be exposed.
I’m not going to the mattresses in any of this, because I see no reason to give the president — or many of his most rabid opponents — the benefit of the doubt, never mind loyalty. The only major player here who deserves the benefit of the doubt right now is Robert Mueller. Because while we may learn that he made mistakes or overstepped, as of now, the one thing I know he cares about is the facts. About his slander-spewing right-wing critics — and to some extent his left-wing sanctifiers — I know no such thing.
Various & Sundry
Update: All of the above was written on Friday, in drips and drabs, as I wended my way from Syracuse to Chicago to home. Amidst all that, I tweeted an NPR story about Donald Trump Jr. that turned out to be wrong. Some Trump defenders pounced. That’s fine. The only thing remarkable about it was that many people seemed to think that I had some deep investment in the story or that I had egg on my face for tweeting a link to a news story. I just don’t see it that way, for several reasons. The first reason, you can find above; whatever the truth turns out to be is fine by me. Second, it was an entirely plausible story. If you don’t think it’s possible that Donald Trump Jr. might lie to Congress — you’ve been watching a different show than me.
But since we’re on the subject: There is this fascinating tendency among Trump’s praetorians to seize on every false or flawed news story — and there have certainly been many — as if it proves all of the stories about Trump are false. They simply aren’t. But, more to the point, some of these praetorians make it sound like they care very, very, very much about telling the truth. And yet there is precious little, if any criticism, about the president when he lies. And he lies very often. Then — when Trump lies — we get a lot of treacle about how “the American people knew what they were getting” or “he’s a disruptor” or “that’s just his style.” I concede that it’s a little bit apples and oranges. The press is supposed to be dedicated to reporting facts, and when journalists get it wrong, they should be held accountable. But the president should be held accountable too, particularly by people who are also in the press. If you only object to untruths when they are inconvenient to the president, you don’t actually care about the truth. You just want to use it to protect someone who doesn’t care about it either.
Canine Update: Something very strange is going on that may have reverberations in the Goldberg family for years to come. For as long as we’ve had her, Zoë has not cared much or at all about chasing tennis balls. Even after we got Pippa, Zoë didn’t get what the big deal is. Then, this week, Zoë decided that she had had enough.
The question is: “Enough of what?” Enough attention being heaped on Pippa? Enough with the incessant barking and bouncing? We don’t know. But Zoë’s suddenly interested in the tennis ball.
Just today, Kirsten (our invaluable dogwalker) took them out with the pack. She texted this (light typo fixes notwithstanding):
This is Zoë’s face after she grabbed the ball from Obi, Sampson and Pippa then danced around with it for 3 minutes THEN she proceeded to bury it, and as we were walking away Pippa ran back but Zoë beat her to it and laid down on top of where she put it making stinky faces. I finally dug it up and confiscated it, and this is her at the empty burial site. She is perplexed to say the least.
There’s even some late breaking video.
This report suggests to me that dog economics has finally kicked in. As Megan McCardle and I once discussed on The Remnant, dogs are deeply invested in the concept of the positional good. A stick only has value because other dogs want it. That’s why, at the dog park, you’ll see a long train of dogs chasing whoever has “The Stick,” even though there are more than enough sticks for everybody. What matters is to have The Stick — or in this case The Ball — that the other doggers want.
Now, it’s possible that this is just Zoë being a jerk. That wouldn’t be unprecedented. She’s a bit of a kick-down, kiss-up kind of gal. But that doesn’t explain another monumental development. On Thursday, Zoë let Pippa think that she was the “predator” in a grand game of dog-zoomie-hide-and-seek (over 77,000 views so far).
We think she may be having a midlife crisis or maybe some kind of epiphany. I just hope Pippa can cope.
Oh, and if you wanted to hear a genuine Carolina dog “arrooo,” this is it. Apparently, it can be triggering to other dogs, so play it in private (or send me video of them responding).
ICYMI . . .
The previous G-File
My C-SPAN Book TV interview
An AOC Theory
The pre-Thanksgiving Remnant, with James Kirchick
The poison of “stolen election” narratives
Trump’s odd definition of “America First”
A conflict of visions
The perils of symbolic nationalism
In re: Max Boot
Hillary Clinton almost has a point
The racist orcs are back!
The latest Remnant, with Mike Gallagher (and a bonus Jack Butler solo performance at the end)
America’s history of rejecting identity politics
And now, the weird stuff.
Debby’s Thanksgiving links
Dart farts
Bear propaganda
Drunk curlers
Exorcise more
Strangely satisfying
The ocean’s Twilight Zone
LEGO digestion
A good dog
Avoid NYC subways
Another good dog
A piece of musical history
Good dogs
The origin of the sloppy joe
Florida Men — 1 Disguised in Bull Costume – Allegedly Tried to Burn Down Ex-Boyfriend’s Home With Spaghetti Sauce
Bee closeups
Bob Seger says goodbye
I’m not crying, you’re crying
Jonah Goldberg is a National Review contributing editor. @JonahDispatch
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Nick Lachey & Vanessa Minnillo Wed!
By Access Hollywood • Published at 7:02 pm on July 15, 2011
Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo have wed.
"For us, this is just a stepping stone to do what we ultimately want and that's to start a family together," the newly named "Wipeout" TV host said in a statement to People, which first reported the news of the couple's nuptials.
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Around 35 friends and family of the singer – who donned a Dolce & Gabbana suit — and his TV host bride – dressed in a lace Monique Lhuillierr detailed gown — watched the pair marry on Friday evening on an undisclosed tropical island, their reps confirmed to the mag.
Vanessa told the mag that they managed to keep the details surrounding their wedding a secret – even from their guests.
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"Nobody knew where they were going," she said.
Nick noted that they gave people "wedding invitations were in the form of a plane ticket."
He added that the dress code was "'island chic.' It was all very vague."
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The couple taped their ceremony for a reality TV special, which will air later this month on TLC.
Nick held his bachelor party in Las Vegas a little over a week ago.
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When Nick, 37, visited Access Hollywood Live in December 2010, he told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover that he loved his relationship with Vanessa.
"I think that we have a great relationship. The good thing about our situation is that we kind of took our time with it. We've been together four and half years," Nick said at the time.
Just last month, he said he was ready for more.
"I'm at a point in my life where I'm ready to start another chapter. Having kids is a big part of that," Nick told Parade magazine in an interview, which ran in their June 12 issue. "I'm excited for what comes next. Life is a journey, and I'm certainly ready to close this chapter and move on to the next."
"Nick & Vanessa's Dream Wedding" will air on TLC on July 30 at 9 PM ET/PT.
Copyright 2011 by NBC Universal, Inc. All rights reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Tyler Drops an “Idol” F-Bomb, Contestant Kisses J-Lo
Tells Casey Abrams "You are so f---ing great"
By Greg Wilson • Published at 7:32 am on April 21, 2011
Steven Tyler just can't edit himself.
The Aerosmith singer and "American Idol" judge dropped an f-bomb on the hit show, telling Casey Abrams he makes people jealous because "You're so f---ing great." The audiece was aghast, according to The Hollywood Reporter, but producer Nigel Lythgoe laughed it off, making his way to the stage and jokingly putting tape over Tyler's mouth.
Meanwhile, the comment from Tyler wasn't the only sign Abrams stole the show. After singing Maroon 5’s “Harder to Breathe,” he planted a kiss on Jennifer Lopez's cheek, and the diva later complimented his "soft lips."
"I kissed Jennifer Lopez and made Steven Tyler swear," Abrams boasted later.
Someone faces elimination tonight, but James Durbin seemed to keep himself alive with a stirring version of Muse’s “Uprising” and Haley Reinhart appeared to score with Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep.”
Selected Reading: The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly, E! Online.
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Rough, Tough Girls on Skates
Do we need to say more?
By Fatimah Zulkifli • Published at 5:32 pm on March 25, 2010
Big girls don't cry.
Especially if you're in the LA Derby Dolls league, where more than 150 skaters participate in this sexy rough and tumble sport.
"You definitely have to like to get hit and you have to have the aggression, but most of these girls are the sweetest women you'll ever meet in you life," said "Long Island Lolita," a skater on the all-star Ri-Ettes team and captain of the Varisty Brawlers.
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Run entirely by volunteers with the support of their fans and community, said "Long Island Lolita."
"We are an all female, do-it-yourself, banked-track roller derby league. Nothing is scripted; what you see is real and the bumps and bruises really hurt," she said.
Besides competing, the derby dolls give back to the community.
"Next to skating, community service is really important to us. Right now, we currently operate a junior roller derby league... we not only teach them the sport, we teach them to be leaders and that anything is possible," said "Long Island Lolita."
"Hot Wheels," "Ghetto Stilleto" and "Gori Spelling" are nicknames that adds fun to the sport.
"It's a chance to create this alternative, crazy, sexy, bold character. It's almost like a superhero identity...That's who you are and that's who you become and that's what you're known as," said "Long Island Lolita."
The sport welcomes anyone.
"We have lawyers, hair stylists, teachers, full-time moms and it's just a way we come together, put on our roller-skates and we all take our aggression. We have fun," said "Long Island Lolita."
The LA Ri-Ettes will face Team Legit on March 27 at the Doll Factory.
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School district rescinds job offer for fired cafeteria worker after student's parents accuse her of cover-up
The New Hampshire district says it has “commissioned an independent administrative review of all facts and circumstances surrounding this incident.”
Bonnie Kimball, a lunch lady in New Hampshire, was fired after giving a student lunch when he was unable to pay.NBC Boston
May 22, 2019, 8:57 PM UTC
By Minyvonne Burke
A New Hampshire school district said it no longer wants a fired high school cafeteria worker to get her job back after a student's parent said she tried to cover-up giving the boy free food.
The lunchroom worker, Bonnie Kimball, said she was fired in March by Cafe Services — a food vendor under contract with Mascoma Valley Regional School District — because she gave a Mascoma Valley Regional High School student free lunch when he did not have money to pay for food.
After Kimball's firing gained national attention last week, Mascoma Valley Regional School District demanded that Cafe Services re-hire her and give her back pay for time lost.
The story, however, took a surprising turn when the president of Fresh Picks Cafe, the division of Cafe Services that managed Kimball, accused her of being "dishonest." Brian Stone said she let the student take a la cart items without paying, which goes against school policy, and also said the student had not been charged for food in the past three months.
Now, the student's mother is weighing in on the controversy and told the New Hampshire Union Leader that Kimball sent her son Facebook messages trying to cover-up her giving him the free food.
In a March 28 message, Kimball allegedly told the teenager to pay his lunch tab because her manager saw her give the student food and would be there again the next day.
“We will prolly get written up, but we can make it look good. Lol,” Kimball allegedly wrote in the message.
In another message after she was fired, Kimball allegedly asked the student if he and his classmates could contact a reporter. A recent message showed that Kimball allegedly bragged to the student about going on a television program and meeting famous people.
NBC News has not been able to verify the authenticity of the Facebook messages, and attempts to reach Kimball were not successful.
The student's mother also said the perception of Kimball acting charitably towards a child in need was incorrect, saying her son is well taken care of and was supposed to pack his own lunch for school. “She did not get fired for feeding a hungry child,” the mother told the New Hampshire Union Leader.
In a statement on Tuesday, Mascoma Valley Regional School District superintendent Amanda Isabelle said in light of the mother's claims "the school district is rescinding its demand that the employee be rehired."
"The district has commissioned an independent administrative review of all facts and circumstances surrounding this incident, with a report to be furnished to the superintendent, provided to the school board and ultimately released to the public," the statement added.
Stone also issued a statement on Tuesday saying he appreciates the student's mother coming forward and the school district rescinding its call for Kimball to be rehired.
“It was clear the employee violated the existing policies of the school and Café Services and we will continue to work with Superintendent Isabelle, the school administration and the auditor on policies to be sure this doesn’t happen again," he said.
Minyvonne Burke
Minyvonne Burke is a breaking news reporter for NBC News.
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Arch Intern Med. 2005 Apr 11;165(7):749-55.
Management of aortic disease in Marfan Syndrome: a decision analysis.
Kim SY1, Martin N, Hsia EC, Pyeritz RE, Albert DA.
Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
Marfan syndrome is a relatively common heritable disorder of connective tissue that affects numerous organ systems, but the most severe complication is aortic aneurysm and dissection. A variety of medical and surgical approaches are available for managing the cardiovascular complications. Our objective was to compare elective composite graft surgery, elective valve-sparing surgery, and medical management for patients with both Marfan syndrome and thoracic aortic disease on the basis of life expectancy with differing diameters of the aortic root and rate of increase in the aortic root size.
A Markov decision analysis model was constructed to compare the 2 surgical options with watchful waiting with medical therapy.
For our base-case analysis of a 20-year-old patient with Marfan syndrome and thoracic aortic aneurysm, the aortic valve-sparing option was preferred. It extended life expectancy to 73.8 years compared with the medical treatment option (71.4 years) and with the composite graft surgery (72.7 years). Our results show that there is a better outcome for a patient with an aortic root diameter between 3.0 and 3.5 cm with early prophylactic surgery than with deferred or emergency surgery. Medical treatment was preferred when the aortic root diameter was smaller than 3.0 cm.
Although long-term follow-up data are not yet available, it appears that advances in the technique of valve-sparing surgery have made it the preferred option to composite graft, primarily to avoid the complications of anticoagulation. Our study indicates that patients who have an aortic root diameter of larger than 3.0 cm should be considered for prophylactic aortic surgery.
10.1001/archinte.165.7.749
Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/etiology*
Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/pathology
Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic/therapy*
Aortic Valve/surgery
Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation
Decision Support Techniques*
Life Expectancy*
Marfan Syndrome/complications*
Marfan syndrome - Genetic Alliance
Marfan Syndrome - MedlinePlus Health Information
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Regulation of calcium-sensing-receptor trafficking and cell-surface expression by GPCRs and RAMPs.
Bouschet T1, Martin S, Henley JM.
Department of Anatomy, Medical Research Council Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol, UK.
The calcium-sensing (CaS) receptor is a G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that is of fundamental importance for extracellular calcium signalling and calcium homeostasis. The CaS receptor detects changes in free, ionized extracellular calcium concentration and initiates pathways that constantly re-adjust levels of circulating calcium. In addition, the CaS receptor is involved in processes such as stem-cell homing and regulation of neuronal-process outgrowth. To perform these functions, the CaS receptor must be appropriately targeted to the plasma membrane so that its large N-terminal calcium-sensing domain is positioned in the extracellular environment to detect dynamic changes in ionic calcium concentration. Here, we provide an overview of the molecular determinants controlling CaS receptor forward traffic and highlight the roles of CaS receptor interactors such as receptor-activity-modifying proteins and subunits of other class C GPCRs in this process.
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Model of CaS receptor sorting traffic. During synthesis the polypeptide, together with the ribosome, is targeted to the rough ER due to the presence of the signal sequence (co-translational transport). Upon completion of synthesis, the receptor becomes anchored in the ER membrane in an orientation maintained throughout the secretory pathway. In the ER, CaS receptor monomers assemble as homodimers, which are retained (stop sign) and are core glycosylated. CaS receptor dimers in association with RAMP1 or RAMP3 bypass the ER retention and reach the Golgi apparatus where they are terminally glycosylated before being delivered to the plasma membrane (PM). For clarity, additional proteins modulating CaS receptor traffic such as GABAB1 and GABAB2 are not indicated. The stoichiometry between RAMP and the CaS receptor is not known but, for simplicity, we depict one RAMP per CaS receptor homodimer. Figure adapted and reproduced, with permission of the Company of Biologists, from Ref. [].
Regulation of calcium-sensing-receptor trafficking and cell-surface expression by GPCRs and RAMPs
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Super-eclipitic pHluorin-tagged CaS receptor (SEP–CaS-receptor), a tool to track CaS receptor cell-surface expression and traffic. (a) Theoretical levels of SEP–CaS-receptor fluorescence at different pH levels in the compartments of the sorting pathway. Tagging with SEP enables real-time visualization of bulk endocytosis and exocytosis by measuring changes in fluorescence at the plasma membrane (PM). (b) Images obtained during live confocal imaging revealing the distribution of SEP–CaS-receptor fluorescence in two cultured HEK293 cells transfected with SEP–CaS-receptor. Note, the fluorescence is mainly visible at the plasma membrane (indicated by arrowheads) at an extracellular pH 7.4. At pH 6, a decrease in fluorescence is observed as surface SEP–CaS-receptor is eclipsed. By contrast, application of a solution at pH 7.4 containing NH4Cl (50 mM), which rapidly equilibrates intracellular pH levels, causes a sharp increase as all the SEP–CaS-receptor fluorescence in the cell (marked by asterisks) is revealed. (c) SEP–CaS-receptor is absent from the surface of transfected COS7 cells. A transmitted light image shows the location of the plasma membrane. Figure adapted and reproduced, with permission of the Company of Biologists, from Ref. []. Abbreviations: CaSR, CaS receptor.
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By John Ericson On 08/29/14 at 6:43 AM EDT
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North Korea's foremost trade debt to the western world is bizarre even by North Korean standards. Each time the administration misses a payment, as it has done every year for the past 40 years, we are reminded of one of the most unexpected political twists of the last century: Kim Il-sung scamming Sweden out of 1,000 Volvo 144 sedans.
It is a story that is just as strange as it sounds – and, in 2014, it shows how North Korea's grand aspirations and increasingly bellicose rhetoric may founder on a chronic inability to assess its own financial ability. Judging by emerging tourist footage and rogue documentaries, it may also be an unexpected testament to the durability of Swedish engineering.
To say that incumbent Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un has carried on papa Jong-il's legacy of insularity and geopolitical horseplay would be an understatement: the 31-year-old has been at the helm for less than three years, but he has already galvanised international media with "preemptive" nuclear strike plans, the surprise execution of his own uncle, and a burgeoning bromance with former NBA star Dennis Rodman. With these incidents already on record, few things should surprise the outside world – but in July, the North Korean administration once again drew gasps from human rights organisations when it announced that its severely impoverished population would soon witness the construction of a grand national project: a new "tourist city" in Wonsan, complete with an underwater hotel and villa district.
The announcement is another indicator of North Korea's presence on international businessmen's radars, where it has been visible since American investor Jim Rogers delivered the presentation "Why Invest in North Korea" at the Asian Leadership Conference in March.
But those who fear that dreams of tourism and economic expansion will cloud the region's crippling social issues may be pleased to know that many investors will think twice about committing capital under the Kim regime. Part of the reason is to be found in the Supreme Leader's national balance sheet, where a strange external debt has quietly ballooned to the size of a small hedge fund.
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Each fiscal year, the Swedish Export Credits Guarantee Board calculates interest on a single debt that accounts for more than half of all its political claims. It's been a tradition since 1974, when the government agency was advised to insure Volvo, Atlas Copco, Kockum, and other Swedish companies' exports to an entirely new buyer: Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung. For nearly half a century, the Board has been in charge of the Sisyphean task of coaxing €300m from a nation that thinks international law is an elaborate gambit designed by capitalist pig-dogs.
"We semi-annually advise when payments fall due," Stefan Karlsson, the board's head of risk advisory, tells Newsweek. "However, as is well known, North Korea does not fulfil their part of the agreement." Sweden being Sweden and North Korea being North Korea, that's about as hardball as it gets.
The story began shortly after the Korean armistice of 1953. As the line dividing north from south grew firmer, other borders became more porous, drawing the attention of many neutral European countries. The Iron Curtain rose on an entirely new part of the tumultuous era's geopolitical zoo: a tiny, ebullient state marked by military posturing and dreams of self-reliance, running an impressive surplus and recording a mind-blowing economic growth of 25% in the face of US opposition.
Sweden was one of the first to seize on the opportunity. The Stockholm and Pyongyang ties in the early 1970s arose out of a rare convergence of leftist and industrialist interest: local socialist groups wanted Sweden to formally recognise the new communist state, and businessmen wanted to exploit the region's nascent mining industry.
For Kim Il-sung and comrades, the western initiative represented an important step towards North Korea's fulfillment as a global force to be reckoned with. It was no coincidence that journalist Lovisa Lamm Nordenskiöld and former diplomat Erik Cornell, two of the main chroniclers of the short-lived trade adventure, both settled on the word "paradise" when describing North Korea's self-image during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Given the nation's success, that was simply the only word that would do, according to the propaganda machine.
Lamm Nordenskiöld suggests that the nation soon felt compelled to legitimise this edenic self-image with grand industrial projects and architectural marvels, often with little regard for the costs. "There's this disconnect between reality and the North Korean imagination," she says.
Small wonder that a regime so impressed with itself soon developed expensive taste. "Inside the 144 GL you sit on leather," reads the unambiguous 1970s marketing material that Volvo likely sent its North Korean buyers. Together with contemporary industry giants Atlas Copco and Kockums, Volvo was one of the first European companies to foray into the North Korean market, and promptly received an order for 1,000 vehicles, the first of which were delivered in 1974. But less than a year later, the venture blew up at a Swedish-Korean industrial trade fair in Pyongyang, where it suddenly became clear that the Kim regime wasn't actually paying for the goods it was importing – not even the machines it ordered for the expo. The bills were simply piling up.
Exporters realised that the venture had gone horribly wrong. But for the past few years, Sweden had had North Korea fever, with countless hours and funds spent on diplomatic and industrial ties. Acquiescing in a massive failure was not easy. "Many had been blinded by North Korea's impressive economic growth – people had raced to get there first," Lamm Nordenskiöld says. "Sweden was supposed to be the first country to unlock this new market."
While many companies pressed on with payment negotiations in an effort to save face, Swedish media was having a blast unraveling one of the most bizarre trade debacles in recent memory. In an indignant spread featuring a photo of the supreme leader with the caption "Kim Il-sung – Broke Communist," Åge Ramsby of the newspaper Expressen in 1976 went all out listing reports of other debts the Kim regime shirked, including a cool €5m to Swiss Rolex, from whom it had allegedly ordered 2,000 wristwatches with the engraving "donated by Kim Il-sung".
"North Korea had expected to pay their foreign debts with deliveries of copper and zinc," the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter wrote in 1976, referring to the reserves the imported mining equipment was supposed to unlock. "But the North Korean economists had been too optimistic in their calculations, and the international market price for these ores had also dropped catastrophically."
Fair enough – but two things suggest that botched calculations and sheer lack of funds only partially explain North Korea's failure to pay up. First, it is widely accepted among biographers and manufacturers that the Kim regime conducted extensive industrial espionage during the trade fair. Colluding to cop specs from technology you're paying for would be weird even by Kim's standards.
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More importantly, Erik Cornell, a diplomat and former Swedish ambassador to North Korea, recalls in his book North Korea: Emissary to Paradise a widespread local belief that the Western world had finally "seen the light" in the global struggle against the American imperialist – that Europe had recognised its duty to assist the brave People's Republic, and that quibbles regarding who owed whom money would soon dissolve in grand efforts to crush capitalism as a whole.
Adjusted for interest and inflation, the debt to the Swedish state now exceeds three billion Swedish kronor, or €300m. It is an astronomical claim, particularly on capital that has depreciated to a fraction of its original value.
If Kim Jong-un and his officers rounded up all 1,000 vehicles and sold each of them at the current book value of about €2,000, they would raise 0.6% of the debt.
That, however, doesn't mean all that is solid has melted into air: in a contemporary twist to the story, the emergence of rogue filmmaking and documentary footage from the region has revealed that the green fleet of Volvos is still a prominent feature of Pyongyang's otherwise drab cityscape. And they look great.
Bronze statues of former leaders Kim Il-Sung and his son Kim Jong-Il, Pyongyang, North Korea, 2014. Rex Features/IBL
"Many of the Volvos were put to serve in the small but very present taxi fleet in Pyongyang," says Tor Rauden Källstigen, a Swedish photographer and entrepreneur who travelled to the North Korean capital with his startup Noko Jeans in 2008. When their appointed driver overslept one morning, they got a chance to ride like locals.
"I think I've never been inside such an old car even back home in Sweden. This taxi was very well maintained too, close to mint condition it seemed."
As of 2008, the North Korean regime considered Sweden a mendacious US pawn, manipulated beyond recognition by the imperialists. But indignation pays no bills. Before Kim Jong-un starts drawing up prospectuses for water parks and shoreside bungalows, he should take a look in daddy's garage.
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Bail Reform Tops Governor Cuomo’s 2017 Agenda
In an op-ed published in the New York Times this week, Governor Cuomo continued a fight for criminal justice system reform by pledging to propose a bill to the State Legislature focusing on bail reform, discovery reform, and changes to how cases are scheduled.
Despite the fact that most people arrested are released on their own recognizance, many who are charged with nonviolent crimes are required to obtain bail to avoid pretrial detention. “As a result,” said the Governor, “our jails are filled with people who have yet to be proved guilty of any crime, and the system today has developed into one with two tiers: if you can make bail, you are set free; if you are too poor to make bail, you are punished.”
Governor Cuomo’s bail reform bill will propose that anyone facing misdemeanor or nonviolent felony charges be released without bail. “Those who pose a current danger to a person or persons or pose a risk of flight can still be held in detention, with due process, but no longer will people go to jail for the crime of being poor,” said Gov. Cuomo.
A justification for the current bail system has been that it ensures appearance at court appearances. However, despite the fact that the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution guarantees criminal defendants a quick and speedy trial, Governor Cuomo, an attorney himself, admitted “no one can look at the operations of our court system and conclude that speediness is anyone’s priority.”
The bill also aims at changing procedures that currently allow defense attorneys to postpone court appearances; many times without the approval of their clients. Specifically, Governor Cuomo proposed that “any waiver to a speedy trial be put in writing and signed by the defendant.”
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Every time Rick Santorum speaks, a secular democrat gets his wings.
Yes, I know there are three other GOP candidates in the race, but as a theological writer also interested in politics, there is none more fascinating than Santorum.
A lifelong Catholic, the senator has only come into his theocratic, social conservative voice in recent years. His parents raised their kids in the church, but they also were big fans of John F Kennedy. They even kept a picture of the first-ever Catholic president hanging on the wall. Santorum obviously drifted right of most positions JFK would have advocated, though earlier on, it was not as evident as today.
In his earlier political days, Santorum actually avoided hot-button issues like abortion, gay marriage and birth control, opting instead for the mantas of small government and state autonomy. It wasn’t until his priest urged him to prayerfully consider imbuing his political life more thoroughly with the teachings of his faith that he experienced what most protestant Christians would call a “born again” moment.
After that, he began speaking out about the polarizing social issues you hear in his stump speeches today. He’s claimed that birth control goes against God’s plan for creation. He believes our nation is firmly in the grip of Satan. He think that women’s roles in areas such as the military should be scaled back. He feels that same-sex marriage rights present an attack on the divinely ordained institution of marriage, and he has argued that there is a secular attack, bent on driving faith out of the public square.
I have written pieces previously both about the dynamics of fear and anger, and also of nostalgia in the GOP rhetoric. Santorum is the embodiment of all of these traits on this season’s campaign trail. But the effect of his approach is something that many on the left, particularly those who appreciate a fortified wall of separation between church and state, should celebrate.
For starters, the majority of Americans agree that there should be limits on the influence of faith in the political forum. But what Santorum has done is take a historic debate about Jeffersonian democracy and turned it into the fuel for rhetoric about a culture war. Forces of godlessness want to snatch your faith from you, burying it deep in the recesses of American life. Though this is not at all the case for Jeffersonian church-an-state advocates, the effect of his words is to paint an unappealing picture for a majority of Americans of what faith in political life looks like.
So while Senator Santorum may galvanize a minority base for himself, the net result will be broader push-back against the influence of faith in politics, particularly if his brand of it is what people expect from the rest of Christian leadership.
Second, Santorum has succeeded in co-opting the entire republican platform of talking points for weeks, if not months. The GOP and their presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney, knew that their fate hung on their ability to frame the debate in economic terms. Never mind if the current economic crisis has its roots in at least two presidents before this one; the economy is anemic and Americans want that to change. Whoever they believe can best deliver on that promise is likely to get the moderate vote.
But Santorum would rather talk about birth control, abortion and gay marriage. Aside from this serving as a distraction from the strategy the GOP would need to try and win, it also has caused Romney to shift even further right, away from his previously more moderate positions on social matters.
Had the GOP been able to present a candidate with strong business experience and a moderate social record to pit against Obama, the election would have largely swung based on the state of the economy at the time. But instead, Romney (once he finally wins the nomination, because he will win) either will have to reverse his current positions that he adopted to woo the conservative base, or he’ll have to embrace a social platform that polls show a majority of Americans simply cannot stomach.
Every day that Santorum remains in the race represents a victory both for progressives and secularists. Perhaps their surest strategy for a win come November is to find a way to keep Santorum talking all the way up to election day.
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Julia Lewis spends much of her time looking at scratches on items discarded hundreds of years ago by New Zealand’s first settlers.
Her passion for her topic has carried her through an honours degree majoring in archaeology, and now on to a Master’s degree, with a PhD likely in her future.
“I’ve wanted to be an archaeologist since I was a teenager (in Wellington) – I was told Otago was the place to go, and here I am.”
Julia’s previous research was into a midden, or rubbish pile, left behind at Wairau Bar; now she is studying the tools produced at the site, about 700 years ago.
“For my honours' dissertation, I looked at the material left over from a single feast event– the rubbish found in a massive earth oven about five to six metres in diameter – I took a sample of bones from it.
From bones to tools
“The bones ranged from moa to elephant seal and dog, and my research looked into the modifications made to the bones by hunting, butchering, cooking, consumption and disposal practices, which were mostly in the form of cut marks, breakage, and burn marks.”
For her Master’s research, Julia has continued to look at the same site, but she is now considering the varying stone tools that can be found there, and the waste flakes from the production of adzes (a tool similar to an axe).
“We’re trying to understand the role Wairau Bar played in adze production.”
Julia has a long term plan to work as an archaeologist in New Zealand and is enjoying the transition from undergraduate to postgraduate study along the way.
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Home » Magazine » National » BJP » Pilgrim's Regress
Pilgrim's Regress
Uma Bharati, spurned by the BJP, hits the road. But Ayodhya is a vanvas with faint hope of a comeback. Updates
Saba Naqvi 12 December 2005
Vivek Pateria
Saba Naqvi December 12, 2005 00:00 IST Pilgrim's Regress
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There is an OBC in the chair in Bhopal. Shivraj Singh Chauhan, the new CM of Madhya Pradesh, is technically a 'backward'. But with none of the flamboyance and charisma that made Uma Bharati one of the most spectacular performers of the Hindu right. He is dull, stable and can easily be ignored in a room full of saffron leaders. Certainly, easy for the party high command to handle. But he is no natural born leader and crowd-puller like Uma Bharati.
The sanyasin may be cornered following her suspension from the BJP. "Usko mara aur rone bhi nahin diya (they beat her and didn't even let her cry)," says K. Govindacharya. But hard as it may try, the BJP will discover that it is not easy to reduce someone like Uma Bharati to a cipher. The manner in which she has hit the streets in the course of her padayatra to Ayodhya is evidence of her energy and resolve. "I am the real BJP," she thunders. "I want to warn Atal and Advani that the aircraft has been hijacked by a gang."
This could well be Uma's final exit from the BJP. In a sense, it marks the changing face of a party that will soon celebrate its 25th anniversary. K. Govindacharya and Uma were the original pair that planned and rode on Advani's rath in the early '90s. Govind, the brain behind the social engineering project designed to counter Mandal, and Uma, the best campaigner that the saffron party produced, are now outsiders in a BJP being run by new-age netas like Arun Jaitley and Pramod Mahajan.
Although Uma appears to have suddenly softened her stand, this is not in order to crawl back into the party but to increase sympathy for herself. Sources close to her say she has little hopes of returning to the BJP, where she knows she will have to work on terms dictated by others. Says one of her close advisors, "For a year now, it's been clear that she has two choices. Gradual political annihilation if she submits to the will of those who manage things in Delhi. Or else she must be prepared to face the music when she is thrown into the wilderness."
The plan, sources say, is to exploit the faultlines within the larger Sangh parivar. She is headed to Ayodhya not because she believes that this is the time to raise the Ram temple issue. But to harp on an ideological core and stress that the party has lost it. Amidst slogans like "Sajao thali, karo aarti/ aati hain Uma Bharati", she is currently ploughing her path through MP. The threat of disciplinary action may have kept BJP workers away from the yatra but Bajrang Dal and VHP activists are making up their numbers.
Yet the resignation of former Union minister Prahlad Patel from the party (he too was suspended with Uma) can be a pointer of things to come. Even as he sent in his resignation and continued with Uma's padayatra, Patel said: "It is better to be out of the party and speak about it rather than remain inside and cause it harm." Another close sympathiser says: "There is a simmering in the RSS too. Many believe that the true nationalist moorings of the Sangh, such as swadeshi, swaraj and swabhimaan are being lost. If not today, tomorrow she can be a force who will get their backing."
It is not clear how far the Uma tactic of trying to divide the RSS will succeed. Being a true child of the parivar, she undoubtedly has sympathisers. But at a time of crisis for both the BJP and RSS it is debatable whether many of them will be ready to stick their necks out for her.
A footnote to the Uma story is the partnership between old foes Arun Jaitley and Pramod Mahajan. The 'oust Uma' campaign was smartly orchestrated in Bhopal by two of the cleverest minds in the BJP. The two appear to have taken it upon themselves to manage the party in the face of the paralysis of the old guard, A.B. Vajpayee and L. K. Advani.
This tactic appears to have paid off. Pleased to see known rivals working together, the RSS is said to be shedding its misgivings about Mahajan. The manner in which he has put his head down and just gone about working for the party has impressed the Sangh old-timers. Jaitley never had an image problem vis-a-vis the Sangh but was hamstrung that so many of his colleagues had reservations about him. Still, his success rate in managing campaigns has certainly earned him brownie points. Besides, Jaitley's links in the media and industry make him a strong contender for the presidentship. Although Rajnath Singh and Sushma Swaraj were seen as the frontrunners, Jaitley and Mahajan too have now entered the fray.
But there is a dummy card being played by some of the second-rung. Aware that they may not immediately succeed Advani, some are suggesting that Venkaiah Naidu be given charge of the party for a year, after which the "real" leader would be picked. By mid-December the picture should become clearer. What's certain is that Uma Bharati will not join the BJP's year-end bash in Mumbai when Advani is slated to step down from the presidentship, truly signalling the passing of an era.
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Club Statement
Oldham Athletic would like to provide an important update in terms of matchday access at Boundary Park.
The safety certificate holder of the football club has an absolute responsibility to ensure compliance with all safety legislation.
Supporters will hopefully understand that Oldham Athletic has a duty of care in this respect.
At the latest Council Safety Advisory Group meeting a number of issues were raised in respect of the Oldham Event Centre (OEC) and the clubs responsibilities to ensure that area complied in every aspect with safety and security legislation. The Oldham Event Centre has not been compliant in some areas which has raised these levels of concern.
The club has received authority to carry out a number of changes to its matchday operation insofar as entry into the OEC is concerned.
These are as follows:
Entry via the turnstiles is unaffected and fans will continue to be able to utilise the lower kiosks if they choose to take refreshments.
Entry to the stadium via the front door of the Oldham Event Centre will be via Season Ticket or by production of a pre-purchased matchday ticket.
This can be for any part of the ground and supporters visiting the bar area upon leaving the Joe Royle Stand will be able to go to their preferred choice of venue. No cash admission will be allowed at this point. Fans should be aware that the provision of refreshment in the OEC bar is ancillary to the specific event (the match) and the control of such entry rests with the club with everyone's welfare in mind.
These provisions will be reviewed over a period if necessary and the same ticketing rules on a matchday apply for the Roger Palmer Fans Bar.
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Millard United Elite edges Vegas Vipers in seven-inning thriller
By Connor Wiggins
So far in the Slumpbuster, it has been a rarity for a game to go the full seven innings without reaching the time limit, but that’s exactly what Millard United Elite and Vegas Vipers did on Wednesday afternoon.
Millard started the top of the first inning with a double from Nick Venteicher, but nothing else was going for them in the inning.
Their defense didn’t start very clean either, as Evan Festa of Vegas reached on an error by Millard first baseman Drew Lodice on the first at-bat of the bottom of the first inning. Vegas scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning to put some early pressure on Millard.
The top of the second inning didn’t go as planned for Millard either, as they started with a leadoff single and got another hit as well, but nothing was going as the Vegas defense continued to step up.
Millard’s defense still was not up to par in the bottom of the second inning as they had another error and were called for a balk, but the Millard pitcher was able to get out of the inning without letting another run by after a lineout and flyout.
In the top of the third inning, Millard managed to get two more hits, but still couldn’t get in the scoring column.
The Millard defense started to get into rhythm in the bottom of the third inning with a quick two outs, but after a hit batter, Michael Gibson of Vegas capitalized and drove in the hit batter with an RBI double. The lead was extended to three.
Millard’s bats got going in the top of the fourth inning as they got in the hitting column four more times and in the scoring column five times to take their first lead of the game.
But Vegas responded quickly by scoring four more runs in the bottom of the inning thanks to a grand slam from Alex Rhymes. The lead was taken back by Vegas and the deficit was two runs.
Brady Dallimore stepped onto the mound in the top of the fifth inning and looked impressive with a 1-2-3 inning and a strikeout to halt Millard’s hot bats for the time being.
Vegas didn’t manage to plate any more runs in the bottom of the inning, as they started with two singles, but grounded into a 5-3 double play. Dallimore flew out to center field to end the inning.
Millard did the rest of their damage on offense for the afternoon in the top of the sixth inning as they scored five more runs on six hits, one of the hits being a 2-run home run from catcher Logan Woolfork. “My approach at the plate was to just put it in play and hit it hard somewhere,” Woolfork said. “I had a feeling it was going to clear the fence,” he said.
Things went south for Millard in the bottom of the inning as Harrison Hart entered the game to pitch. Hart started the inning by getting a ground ball and retiring the first batter of the inning, but just six pitches into his outing, he took a line drive off of his right hand and had to exit the game.
J.D. Moffett came in to pitch for the injured Hart and gave up a single in the inning, but managed to get out of trouble and keep Millard out of the scoring column.
The score remained 10-7 after the top of the seventh inning thanks to two strike outs and a fly out in a quick 1-2-3 inning.
Vegas made things interesting in the bottom of the seventh inning with a leadoff single and a walk to follow. They drove in runs on a groundout that scored a runner from third and a dropped fly ball from the Millard right fielder, but J.D. Moffett got out of the inning and ended the game for his team despite giving up two runs.
“I just thought about getting ahead, throwing the next strike, and not worrying about any of the runners,” Moffett said.
Head Coach of Millard United Elite, Chris Veintecher, was happy with the way his players responded after Hart’s injury. “I’m just proud of the way we came out and adjusted and made some plays at the end and got some key base hits in both games to seal off the victories,” he said.
Millard United Elite finishes pool play with two wins and a loss. Bracket play begins Friday.
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Cambridge United v Plymouth Argyle - the build up + Q&A
by Site Manager
Ground guide
The countdown to Cambridge
Michael Salisbury is the referee for the game, he has issued 39 yellow cards and seven reds in 16 games this season. He was last in charge of an Argyle game in September 2018 for the 0-0 draw at Bristol Rovers.
His father, Graham, is also an EFL referee. Salisbury will be assisted on Saturday by Dan Cook and Stephen Brown while the fourth official is Oliver Brown.
Argyle have played Cambridge 12 times at the Abbey Stadium, winning two games, drawing four and losing six.
The U's occupy 13th place in League Two on 24 points, winning three, drawing three and losing three of their nine home games. The game against Argyle will be the first home league for Cambridge since 2 November.
They have won just two games from the last 15 in all competitions.
According to Sky Bet Cambridge are favourites to win with odds of 7/5, an Argyle win is placed at 9/5 and the draw is on offer at 9/4.
Pay on the day is available with a £2 increase on each ticket; an adult ticket will cost £22 on Saturday. Seating is unreserved.
The U's announce plans for a new 12,000 capacity stadium .... Cambridge club website
As of 12.30PM today Argyle fans have snapped 800 tickets.
Cambridge United fan Owen Mizon from @YABATVcufc has kindly agreed to give Pasoti users an insight into his club with a Q & A, also thanks to Ollie.
Q: What are your thoughts on your season so far?
A: It’s been an extremely contrasting season for United so far. The inability to show some consistency and kill off teams has proved frustrating, and it’s exactly why we sit where we do - mid-table. There has been some extremely positive results for the team, we’ve gone to Crewe and Mansfield and won 3-2 and 4-0 respectively. We hit four again when Exeter visited The Abbey in October, which I’m sure Argyle were no doubt pleased to hear. But like I’ve stated, there’s been a plethora of games where we should have got something out of it, which no doubt would have catapulted us to play-off flirtation. Oldham and Grimsby at home springs to mind. Nevertheless, it’s an improvement on last season. But still not as pleasing on the eye as we would like.
Q: What are your views on Head Coach Colin Calderwood?
A: Colin Calderwood was brought into the club last December to steer the ship for the remainder of the campaign, if you like. He achieved what was no doubt the aim when it got to March time - avoiding relegation. In the summer, he, along with the staff, made some impressive signings, adding further depth to the squad and providing competition in all areas. Being plagued by injuries to key men hasn’t helped, but overall he’s done a satisfactory job so far. Is he the man to take this club forward? That question has come under fire the precious few weeks, which is understandable as the performances aren’t pretty. There’s very few shots on target in games and the United faithful aren’t being entertained. As we know, football can change so quickly, so a few positive or negative results now during this busy Christmas schedule could prove make or break.
Q: Given the recent financial problems and ownership issues of lower league clubs are Cambridge in a stable state at the moment?
A: Relatively stable. Financial readings for the past few seasons have been poor, to say the least. We’re said to have a “competitive budget,” which is obviously music to the United faithfuls ears. But it’s hard to tell just how truthful that really is. A lot has been discussed on that matter of late, we are open for further backing and further investment, but as we’ve learnt so well over the past year, it could be a lot worse. Still, we remain cautious.
Q: What are your expectations and predicted finishing position in League Two for Cambridge this season?
A: Before the season, when you put into account the calibre of players we signed, mid-table was the absolute minimum. Which would be a vast improvement compared to last season. However, ever since we were promoted back to this league in 2014, we haven’t shown too many signs of improvement being completely honest. We’re yet to take it to the next level, which is a shame. I’d be more than content with 12th, personally, and then hopefully kick on next season. Whether that will happen, or if we’ll regress like we have a tendency to do, is hard to predict as of yet. But like many other fans, we want to be entertained. That’s a major starting point.
Q: Without giving too much away what style of football and formation are Cambridge likely to use against Argyle?
A: Although it’s stirred up some debate over the past few weeks, it’s looking extremely likely that we’ll play with 5 at the back. Something which Colin Calderwood has come accustomed to thus far this season. Has it proved effective as we initially thought it would? Unfortunately not. We’re still prone to silly errors at the back and seem to be isolated up too, despite the efforts of loan striker Sam Smith, a shining beacon so far this season. We do have some bite and creativity in the middle of the park, especially in the likes of tricky loan midfielder Jack Roles and the energetic Luke Hannant, who you could play anywhere and he’d put in a shift. Let’s hope we utilise that.
Q: Looking from afar what are your views on Plymouth Argyle?
A: I like Plymouth. They’ve got a good manager in Ryan Lowe, he knows the division extremely well now. As do his players, which I think is invaluable. Despite a relatively shaky start, you look to be on your way now to where you should be. It’s always refreshing seeing a team play out from the back, and now you’re starting to take more of these chances and dealing better with crosses into the box than what you previously were, I see a good second half of the campaign. Danny Mayor and Antoni Sarcevic are fantastic players to have in the squad, I like the look of Josh Grant too.
Q: And finally do you have a prediction for the game?
A: Form favours Argyle, no doubt about that. It’s been a month since United last graced The Abbey, so I’m hoping that will fire them up to perform. For our sake! The betting man in me says 2-0 Plymouth, but the optimistic one says it’ll be 1-1.
Cambridge manager Colin Calderwood spoke about playing against Argyle ...
Inside Cambridge
Cambridge injury news - midfielder Samir Carruthers is expected to return from injury and play against Argyle ... Cambridgeshire Live
Argyle keeper Alex Palmer talks about current form and looks ahead to the game ... club website
We know that Cambridge away from home will be a tough game, but we also know that if we play as well as we can, we can get a result. I played them last year when I made my debut for Oldham. They are a good team and have good players, but it is about us.”
Cambridge manager Colin Calderwood spoke about the game ...
“There’s a number of players that obviously came from Bury and are down there. It’s no surprise that the club is edging towards the top at the minute and seem to be leading the way.
“They are probably the ones that everyone had picked out for promotion, maybe with one or two others.
“We’ve got a tough test on our hands. It’s a team in good form against a team who everyone says are not in good form. "Hopefully, Plymouth will find a team in good spirits and aggressively trying to win the game.”
“We have to win to keep the gap between ourselves and the bottom of the play-off teams as close as possible.
“Because Plymouth is above us, there’s an advantage in doing it to them.”
The trip to Cambridge is the 8th longest of the season at 566 miles, there and back.
A guide to Cambridge .... club website and Cambridge stats .... club website
What's On Guide.... CU club website
Cambridge haven't played for 14 days and are refreshed and ready to go ..... Cambridgeshire Live
Around 900 away tickets have been sold.
A sneak peek at the matchday programme ....
CU club website
Steve Schumacher looks ahead to the game ... club website
Re: Cambridge United v Plymouth Argyle - the build up
by Martyn
As per what Lundan Cabbie, said last week, why is it necessary to put how many red/yellow cards, the referee has issued so far. It is total irrelevant.
Some games it is not necessary to issue cards for control and discipline, but it is not said, how many games he has NOT issued cards.
It is the players that fall foul of the laws, which lead to cards being issued.
Location: NEWQUAY
by Quintrell_Green
Martyn wrote: As per what Lundan Cabbie, said last week, why is it necessary to put how many red/yellow cards, the referee has issued so far. It is total irrelevant.
Can we also have a report on the quality of the referee's subjective judgement before he blows his whistle?
by Penlee
I find it interesting - generally a good ref issues less cards because they are fully in control (imho)
Furnell Hore & Burrows, Saxton Delve & Green, Randell Johnson & McCauley, Mariner Rafferty is our team
by AdelaideGreen
I disagree. For a single match the number of cards don't mean much, but over a season it can tell you how "card happy" a ref is. A good ref can control players excesses by judicious and authoratative warnings, and cards only where necessary - and hopefully single yellows rather than double. Yes, its the individual players who foul who get the cards, but the larger statistic is still valid.
Mind you, what we do with information I am not too sure.
by Voice_of_Reason
I find it informative.
To say it doesn't reflect on a referee is completely ridiculous. Just look at the Premier League, the biggest two referees in terms of high profile games are probably Martin Atkinson and Mike Dean, they referee the game completely differently and statistics back that up as far back as you want to look. Atkinson will try and control a game without using cards, Dean sees it differently. I'm not to say who is right and who is wrong, but as a fan watching, i know to expect a degree of leniency with Atkinson, where as Dean will happily show 4-5 yellow cards in the first half if he feels it warrants it.
I aslo want to know if someone like Charlie Brakspear is in charge so i can take my blood pressure pills before i go (71 Y and 9 R in 14 games).
Anyway back to the case in point, my first game for a while due to a desperate bout of Sciatica, i think we've only got a point from my 4 visits there, so hoping for a change of luck.
Penlee wrote:
That is totally inaccurate
by Mark58
I always like to take a peek at the opposition fans' forum for forthcoming matches on the basis of 'how the other half lives' so, as usual, I followed the very useful posted link. Instead of immediately entering the forum page like all the others I have viewed, the Cambridge United forum required me to 'login' or 'register' before being allowed access. 'Not used to this' I thought, but 'in for a penny, in for a pound'. I was then asked to enter my e-mail address (fair enough) followed by my full name, date of birth, gender (?!) and a very specific password configuration. All that seemed to be missing on the required information was my inside leg measurement, a sample of DNA, my religion and details of my political affiliation.
I do appreciate that certain websites, such as Government departments, will require a considerable amount of information for specific safeguarding measures but Cambridge-flipping-United Fans' Forum? 'Aving a laugh springs to mind. I can only imagine that the pickiness of entry qualifications to their nearby elitist University is rubbing off on the local football followers. I wonder what the Oxford United fans' forum is like?
Joined: 15:40 14 Oct 2015
by Welwyn Pilgrim
Off to this one but normally drive the hour journey but a couple weeks before Christmas will mean absolute grid lock around Cambridge with traffic as it’s bad enough on a normal Saturday. Therefore train best option although 25-30 min walk each way.......
by HC Green
Welwyn Pilgrim wrote: Off to this one but normally drive the hour journey but a couple weeks before Christmas will mean absolute grid lock around Cambridge with traffic as it’s bad enough on a normal Saturday. Therefore train best option although 25-30 min walk each way.......
There is a bus from the station that goes to the ground, the Citi 3 service. Just add Plusbus to your train ticket.
Location: A Golf Course somewhere.
by IJN
Mark58 wrote: I always like to take a peek at the opposition fans' forum for forthcoming matches on the basis of 'how the other half lives' so, as usual, I followed the very useful posted link. Instead of immediately entering the forum page like all the others I have viewed, the Cambridge United forum required me to 'login' or 'register' before being allowed access. 'Not used to this' I thought, but 'in for a penny, in for a pound'. I was then asked to enter my e-mail address (fair enough) followed by my full name, date of birth, gender (?!) and a very specific password configuration. All that seemed to be missing on the required information was my inside leg measurement, a sample of DNA, my religion and details of my political affiliation.
I once thought this was the way to go as you can control the people that come on and therefore allows you to filter the trolls and the like.
However, as you (and I) have proved, it simply stops people viewing your website doesn't it?
I'm not going to this one, it's an awful long trip and it's a ground I don't warm to. It certainly has a FGR feeling to it. I felt like asking 'why are this lot of the football league' when I went there on the last few occasions. I know I'm a football snob but I can't help it.
Wednesday 22nd July 2019 - 138 yards on the 5th hole Boringdon Estuary Course.
IJN wrote:
The away end is one of the better ones in the league, it is a bit like Dagenham in that they give the away fans the best part of the stadium.
HC Green wrote:
Good call thanks ..
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by Steve Brown Topics: human resources, compliance
Summary: The Department of Labor recently scrapped a more rigid 7-prong test that guided whether interns could work for free. We provide you with the specifics for the new test.
Summer is a time of sunshine, fun and travel for nearly everyone. This summer, CompareCards research finds: 98% of people are considering taking a summer vacation, 75% say credit card rewards affect summer vacation plans and 20% say rewards points will pay for at least 50% of their summer travel bills. Have fun out there.
When it comes to summer, community banks often look to hire interns for summer positions. In so doing, be mindful that the US Department of Labor (DOL) recently changed the criteria to determine if an internship must be paid. Generally, for-profit companies must pay employees for their work, but there are certain exceptions for interns and students.
Last year, the DOL scrapped a more rigid 7-prong test that guided whether interns could work for free. The new 7-prong test is more flexible, allowing the final decision to be case-specific. The analysis now turns on whether the intern or the hosting business is the "primary beneficiary" of the relationship and is based on these factors:
Extent to which the intern and employer clearly understand that there is no expectation of compensation. Any promise of compensation, express or implied, suggests the intern is an employee - and vice versa.
Extent to which the internship provides training similar to what would be given in an educational environment.
Extent to which the internship is tied to the intern's formal education program by integrated coursework or the receipt of academic credit.
Extent to which the internship accommodates the intern's academic commitments by corresponding to the academic calendar.
Extent to which the internship's duration is limited to the period in which the internship provides the intern with beneficial learning.
Extent to which the intern's work complements, rather than displaces, the work of paid employees while providing significant educational benefits to the intern.
Extent to which the intern and the employer understand that the internship is conducted without entitlement to a paid job at the conclusion of the internship.
Importantly, interns who are deemed employees are eligible for minimum wage and overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. What's more, banks should investigate state and local laws to see what, if any, impact they may have on internship programs. Some state and local laws may impose additional requirements on internship programs outside the DOL guidance.
Internships are beneficial for both employer and intern. Community banks can offer internships to provide valuable experience to students and young community members interested in the industry. Expectations should be set at the beginning however and communication on the goals of the internship should be clear. Knowing the labor rules is key for your bank, of course. If you have legal questions about all this, contact your legal counsel. In the meantime, we hope we have helped to provide you with an abbreviated update on this, as you start your day.
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Thyagaraja’s compositions treasures for music world: Venkaiah
Thanjavur, Jan 11 : Vice-President M.Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday said saint composer Sri Thyagaraja’s compositions are truly treasures for the world of Music and will live in our hearts forever.
Inaugurating the 173rd annual Aradhana Festival of Thyagaraja at Thiruvaiyaru here, he said saint Thyagaraja was, beyond any doubt, a stalwart, one of the tallest figures in the world of music. As we pay tributes to one of the greatest music maestros of contemporary India, we celebrate his life, his compositions and his unparalleled legacy.
The contributions of saint Thyagaraja to the enrichment of our cultural heritage cannot be quantified or estimated. It is infinite in its resonance. His compositions which have been cherished over centuries will continue to be treasured by the young and the old for all time to come, the Vice President said.
It is heartening to note that this tradition (Aradhana festival) has been maintained for 173 years and year after year, there is growing interest and participation in the festival that pays tributes to saint Thyagaraja. Mr Naidu complimented the Thyagabrahma Mahotsava Sabha for maintaining the tradition of conducting annual Aradhana festivals. (UNI)
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Kristen Bell Shared a Tiny Update on the Frozen Sequel — Hey, At Least It's Something!
Kristen Bell Talking About Frozen 2 on The Ellen Show Video
April 10, 2018 by Kelsey Garcia First Published: April 5, 2018
It's been a while since we last heard how things are going over in Arendelle. We know Disney is currently working on the sequel to its hugely successful Frozen, however, there haven't been many updates on how the movie is coming along. That's why we were especially excited when Ellen DeGeneres recently prodded Kristen Bell about Frozen 2, and though the actress wasn't able to disclose too much, at least it was something!
"Well, you know I can't say a lot 'cause Disney has people everywhere," Bell said, "but I have recorded the movie." Yep, it seems like Frozen 2 is already moving steadily ahead into the post-production phase. Bell added, "There will be edits before it's finished, but I know the songs, I know the story, it's very good. I can't say much more than that or I'll get in trouble!"
So, while the actress behind Anna can't reveal much about the movie, at least she can confirm that it's going to be another crowd-pleaser. In the meantime, mark your calendars: Frozen 2 is coming Nov. 27, 2019 — yes, you guessed it, just in time for Winter.
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Ah the glories of summer. Though lots has been happening behind the scenes at Philosophy Talk -- much of which you will hear about very soon -- not a lot has been happening on this blog of late. But now that our summer more or less hiatus draws to a close, we will be in the studio more often, producing more live shows. That should mean more blogging too.
I can't honestly say that today's show is about an age-old philosophical question. In fact, as a philosophical topic, flrting is, like, so last second. As far as I can tell, it was put on the map by today's guest, Carrie Jenkins, and her mate Daniel Nolan in a pair of dualing articles. You can download Carrie's by clicking here and Daniel's by clicking here. Also, be sure to check out Carrie's blog Long Words Bother Me, where she mostly doesn't flirt, but does serious philosophy.
I don't profess to have a well worked-out theory of flirting. In my youth, before I settled down, I was nothing like a master flirt, though I tried hard. So I don't even speak from rich experience. But I'll offer a few quick takes just to get the juices going before this morning's show. I'm sure Carrie's thinking will be much more sophisticated than my own feeble attempts.
I start out thinking that flirting probably has a sort of "Gricean" structure. By that I mean a couple of things. First, it seems to me that you flirt with someone by intending to flirt with them. It's one thing to cause sexual arousal in another person by a look or a walk or a word or your tone of voice or the tilt of your head. But unless you intend to cause arousal by that means, it doesn't seem right to my ear to say that you are flirting with them.
But it also doesn't seem right that merely intending to cause arousal by a certain bit of behavior -- verbal or non-verbal -- suffices for flirting. First of all there's the point that you might intend to cause arousal but be so clueless as to how to go about it that you utterly fail. A clueless and crude teenage boy who thinks that mooning girls is a cool way to flirt, isn't really a flirt (though maybe he's an attempted flirt, according to Daniel Nolan). He's just crude and obnoxious.
More interesting -- to me at least -- than cases of attempted flirtation that fail to arouse or intimate sex or romance because they are so inept are cases in which you do succeed in causing arousal by a behavior that's intended to cause arousal, but in which you, nonetheless, don't flirt. Psychologists have long known that sexaul attraction is facilitated during states of strong antecedent emotional arousal -- whatever the antecedent emotional state. There's a famous and widely cited study that compared guys crossing a scary bridge in a beautiful setting who were approached by a woman claiming to be doing research on beautiful places with guys on a secure bridge in a similar setting approached by the same woman. The woman asked a few questions, gave them a questionnaire, and gave them her number in case they had follow up questions. The guys on the scary bridge rated the woman more attractive and were more likely to call her afterwards than the guys on the secure bridge. Clearly the guys on the scary bridge were more emotionally aroused than the guys on the secure bridge, but they (mistakenly?) attributed their arousal to the presence of the woman.
Well what's that got to do with flrting, you ask? Well now that you know about this study, if you didn't already, here's a way to arouse a potential partner and cause that person to be interested in you. Take your target on a roller coaster ride on your first date. He or she will find you more attractive and be more interested in you than he or she otherwise might have been. Suppose you do this intentionally. Though you are manipulating your partner's level of sexual arousal by behavior intended to do just that, it doesn't seem right to say that you are flirting with with your target just by inviting her or him on the roller coaster ride. (Although, once you get the person on the ride your flirtations may be more successful.)
This brings me to the quasi-Gricean part. I think you flirt only when: (a) you behave in ways intended to intimate the possibility of sex or romance and (b) you intend to make that intention manifest to the other.
I'm not sure this is enough to constitute flirting. But it seems to me that if you don't intend to make it manifest that you intend to be intimating romance or sex then probably you are not flirting. You may be doing something else sexually charged. But you're not flirting.
Here's another quick thought about the "speech-acty" character of flirting. It seems to me that flirting is sort of like two speech acts in one. On the one hand, there's a kind of self-presentation involved in flirting. I present myself as potentially available to you. But in that self-presentation, I thereby invite you to present yourself to me as available to me. if you don't take up the invitation, I have flirted with you, but you haven't flirted with me. If you do take up the invitation, we're flirting with each other. Suppose that after you have openly declined my invitation, I continue to flirt with you -- that is, continue to present myself as available and thereby invite you to so present yourself to me. My flirtation turns into something else, it seems, though I'm not sure exactly what. An unwanted advance? Rudeness?
Suppose on the other hand, you accept my invitation to present yourself to me as available. But suppose that I decide I don't like you so much after all. I give you the buzz off sign. What then? Are you being similarly rude or obtuse or overly aggressive if you don't get the message? Was I being a mere tease? Once I begin a flirtation and you take me up on my invitation, am I or am I not entitled to take my invitation back without sanction? Or is it taking it back like refusing to let you in the door when you show up with your invitation to the dance?
Of course, there must be some limit, some off-ramp. To begin to flirt isn't to commit to carrying all the way through to romance or sex. To flirt is only to initmate a possibility. As the flirtation develops, we each get to decide at some point or other that the merely possible will not, in this case, be actualized. Or so it seems. But how exactly we manage that in a mutually agreeable way, now that's a tricky question.
[added after show.] I also think it's the fact that a flirtation intimates a mere possibility -- a possibility whose non-actualization is also presupposed as a possibility -- that lends flirtation an air of what we might call intrinsic playfulness. It's partly because it's made mutually manifest that this may or may not go any further that flirting sort of is bound to have a playful air. If flirtation were always intended to get you all the way to romance or sex, there would be a kind of intrinsic seriousness to it that flirtation lacks. Of course, at some point when there's mutual and continuing uptake, things can get serious indeed. And surely we want that out of some our flirtations.
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Carbondale fire, bank break-in appear linked
Local | September 18, 2015
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Carbondale firefighters work in an office at the Third Street Center early Wednesday after a fire was put down in one of the offices there.
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Carbondale police ask that anyone with information regarding Wednesday morning’s incidents call 970-963-2662.
A fire apparently set on purpose at Carbondale’s Third Street Center early Wednesday may be linked to a fruitless bank break-in that also happened overnight.
“The fire was suspicious in origin and we don’t think it was accidental,” said Rob Goodwin, Carbondale and Rural Fire Protection District deputy chief.
Linda Taylor, executive director of the Center for Independence, based in Grand Junction, said officials told her that the fire at her organization’s Carbondale office was set on purpose.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation was helping Carbondale fire and police officials with the investigation.
In a twist, Police Chief Gene Schilling said authorities think the fire may be related to a break-in at the ANB Bank at 409 Dolores Way.
Here’s how the night unfolded:
Firefighters and police responded at 1:30 a.m. to the Third Street Center, 520 S. Third, to find smoke coming from a window on the east side of the building. Audible alarms and flashing lights were going off, and a neighbor had already extinguished the fire before firefighters arrived.
“It was pretty much out, but the building was full of smoke” when the fire department got there, Goodwin said.
A couple of hours later, at 3:55 a.m., police responded to an alarm at ANB Bank to find glass broken in both sets of entry doors.
“It appears that a suspect entered the bank but did not take anything,” police said in a news release.
The break-in suspect is described as tall and thin, and was wearing black clothing.
At the Third Street Center, “There’s more water damage than fire damage,” Goodwin said.
“This fire reinforces the fact that fire sprinkler systems really do work,” he said. “Having a sprinkler system in place prevented the fire from spreading to other parts of the Third Street Center and causing further damage.”
The fire did not spread beyond the center’s office, but it was unknown when the nonprofit will be able to reopen.
No one was injured, and no loss amount had been determined.
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Is California Turning Even Bluer?
Eric McGhee October 25, 2018
California is already a fairly Democratic state, but in the last two years many have wondered if it has become even more so. In the 2016 presidential election, California was one of a few states that did not shift away from the Democrats. In most of the country, Hillary Clinton garnered a smaller share of the vote than Obama received in either of his campaigns for president—but in California, Clinton improved on Obama’s 2012 vote share by 1.3%, while Donald Trump fell short of Mitt Romney’s share by 5.6%.
Some areas of the state, such as Orange County, have experienced long-term demographic trends that favor the Democrats, yet the swing to Clinton in these places outpaced these trends. Seven of California’s congressional districts are held by Republicans but were won by Clinton in 2016. Just two years earlier, five of those seats favored Republican Neel Kashkari for governor by at least 10 points—in a race that Democrat Jerry Brown won by 20 points statewide.
The 2016 presidential vote therefore marked a big change of fortune for California Democrats, particularly in some districts. Does this mean that these districts have become more Democratic for good, or was the 2016 result a reaction to the personalities on the ballot?
One way to answer this question is to compare the change in the Democratic presidential vote in each congressional district to the change in party registration. Party registration indicates a more enduring attachment—something closer to a permanent change in allegiance. If party registration changed to match the latest presidential vote, it might indicate that something longer-term is afoot.
The figure below compares the change in the Democratic presidential vote between 2012 and 2016 to the change in party registration in the state’s 53 congressional districts from 2014 to 2018. The blue dots indicate Democratic registration change, and the red dots indicate Republican change.
Statewide, the Democratic Party has mostly held steady in registration while the Republican Party has lost ground. We can see this pattern above: the blue Democratic dots are clustered around zero on the vertical axis, indicating little average change, while all the red dots are below zero, indicating a decline in Republican registration. However, our question is whether a larger 2016 surge led to a larger change in party registration by 2018. If this has happened, the blue dots should be higher toward the right side of the graph and the red dots should be lower. We can see such a pattern, but it is weak. Districts on the left have indeed seen both smaller increases in Democratic registration and smaller decreases in Republican registration. Likewise, those on the right have seen larger Democratic gains and larger Republican losses. But the difference is modest.
The districts with the largest Democratic shifts—seen on the far right of the graph—display the expected pattern more clearly. In fact, most of the competitive congressional races mentioned above are represented here. Of the seven races considered most competitive by the Cook Political Report, four are in districts that shifted more than 6 percent toward the Democrats in the 2016 presidential race. All four districts are in or around Orange County: 39 (outgoing incumbent Ed Royce), 45 (incumbent Mimi Walters), 48 (incumbent Dana Rohrabacher), and 49 (outgoing incumbent Darrell Issa). Each of these districts also saw a Democratic registration gain of at least 1.4% and a Republican registration loss of at least 4.4%. So the districts with the most surprising results in 2016 are generally also the places with the biggest Democratic gains in registration.
Overall, these results do provide some support for the idea that the 2016 election marked a more permanent change in the state’s politics. But party registration tends to change slowly, and the patterns we are seeing suggest there may be years to go before any transition is complete.
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Home Breaking Warrington: “I Want To Send A Message And Win In Style.”
Warrington: “I Want To Send A Message And Win In Style.”
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Warrington: "I Want To Send A Message And Win In Style." Credit: Frank Warren
Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren today held the final press conference ahead of Josh Warrington’s third IBF world featherweight championship defence at First Direct Arena, Leeds on Saturday (October 12), live on BT Sport.
Warrington faces number four ranked challenger, France’s Sofiane Takoucht.
Also on the bill, Manchester’s Zelfa Barrett defends his Commonwealth super-featherweight title against Scot Jordan McCorry.
Barrett’s stablemate Lyndon Arthur meets Ghana’s Emmanuel Anim for the vacant Commonwealth light-heavyweight championship.
Here are a selection of quotes
“Hopefully there is no banana skin and if Josh comes through we can get to Elland Road again.”
“He is the best featherweight on the planet and can go on to become one of the best fighters of his generation.”
“If people say he isn’t the best why don’t Leo Santa Cruz and Oscar Valdez want to fight him?”
“Josh is something special and we will make big fights happen, but he has to get past Takoucht.”
“Zelfa against Jordan, this is a good fight. They are both skilful fighters, competitors and I’m sure we will see something special on Saturday night. Zelfa is my fighter, but I love having Jordan on our shows. I’ve never seen a guy give so much as he does.”
“If Lyndon can come through there is a lot happening among the British light-heavyweights and he will be in the shake up.”
JOSH WARRINGTON
“We took our eyes off a few things before the last fight against Kid Galahad. We were so concentrated on unification fights and just beating him up. I think we took our eye off the ball in a few areas of training.”
“This time, I have not looked beyond Takoucht. There is talk about unifications or going back to Elland Road, but the focus is this fight and this fight only.”
“I want an A class performance after the cuddling contest against Galahad. Sofiane can go home a hero by beating me and I can’t let that happen. World champions can get complacent, but we are on a mission.
“My mentality isn’t that this is an instant win. Winning is the most important thing but I want to send a message and win in style.”
SEAN O’HAGAN
“We have left no stone unturned and we have to come back with a statement.
Other world champions have turned down the fight against Josh, but Sofiane took it without hesitation and he will come and try to rip the title away. I believe that Josh is the best featherweight on the planet, but we have to win well.”
SOFIANE TAKOUCHT
“I feel good, I have been training hard, I am in the best condition and will show up on the night. Josh is a very good champion, but I need to make an impact in order to win. Winning will change my life and reputation in the boxing world. I believe in myself. I am ready to fight.”
ZELFA BARRETT
“Jordan is going to throw the kitchen sink at me and like Frank said he will give 150 per-cent.
We wanted this fight because Jordan will bring the best out of me. Jordan lost to Archie Sharp and Sam Bowen, but I am not them and the best in my weight division. My mindset is great and I am a different man to the boxer who lost to Ronnie Clark.
“If I want to get to world level these are the fighters I have to dismantle. I want the British champion Sam Bowen, but I am not overlooking Jordan.”
JORDAN McCORRY
“I have put everything into this camp and I am going to get a win. I respect Zelfa, he is a good boxer and looked very good against Lyon Woodstock, but I can cause problems if I stick to the game plan.”
“He showed flaws in his defence when he lost to Ronnie Clark and that is a bit of blueprint. Credit to him he went back to the gym and improved. This could be my last chance so I have got to give it everything and show what I am about.”
LYNDON ARTHUR:
“I don’t want a walkover, but there is no department where he is better than me. When I win this I am right behind these guys like Anthony Yarde and those fights can be made.
Right now, Anim is my sole thought. I am in the gym 24/7 perfecting my craft. There are lot of great Manchester fighters and I am just building my legacy.”
EMMANUEL ANIM:
“This is a great opportunity and something I have been waiting for a long time. Lyndon is a average boxer and never fought anyone like me in his life. I am going to take his title. He says I have beat nobody, but I am going to show I am somebody.”
The big night of action in Leeds is headed by local hero Josh Warrington (29-0, 6KOs) who makes the third defence of his IBF featherweight championship against France’s Sofiane Takoucht (35-3-1, 13 KOs). Zelfa Barrett (22-1,13KOs) will make the first defence of his Commonwealth super-featherweight title against exciting Scot Jordan McCorry (18-6-1, 4KOs). In a third title clash Manchester’s Lyndon Arthur (15-0, 12KOs) faces Ghanaian Emmanuel Anim (14-2-1, 12KOs) for the vacant Commonwealth light-heavyweight crown , in a battle of the big hitters.
Darlington’s Troy Williamson (11-0-1, 8KOs), Mark Heffron (23-1, 17KOs), Shakiel Thompson (4-0, 3KOs), Reece Mould (12-0, 6 KOs), Shabaz Masoud (5-0, 1KO), John Joyce, 1-0), Jack Daniels (4-0, 2 KOs), Callum Simpson (1-0), Evaldas Petrauskas (1-0 1 KO) plus exciting debutant George Davey are all in action.
Tickets are available from www.ticketmaster.co.uk and firstdirectarena.com Prices: £40, £50, £75, £100, £150, £200, £350 – Inner Ring Hospitality.
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Hidden costs for employers as pension contributions increase Hidden costs for employers as pension contributions increase
Hidden costs for employers as pension contributions increase
Out-Law Analysis | 31 Oct 2018 | 10:04 am | 2 min. read
ANALYSIS: Large employers could face a sizeable payroll increase from April if the increase in the minimum pension contribution for automatically enrolled workers is not managed properly.
The increase in the overall contribution rate, to 8%, should not come as a surprise to employers, who have already managed staggered rate increases over the past five years. However, the law only sets out a minimum contribution rate and a minimum employer contribution rate, but is silent on what the employee must pay. In the absence of any employee obligation under the contract, then the employer must pick up the difference.
This is particularly relevant to those employers with large workforces who have, in the past, adopted a pensions policy that has rewarded employees who contributed more while leaving the others to pay the statutory minimum.
Before April 2018, the minimum automatic enrolment (AE) contribution rate was 2%, with a minimum employer contribution rate of 1%. An employer may have offered enhanced pension contributions to employees who paid more than a minimum employee contribution of 1%. As a fairly typical example, employees who paid in at least 3% may have had those contributions matched by the employer up to a cap of, typically, 6%, while those who opted out or simply paid the minimum did not receive an enhanced employer contribution.
In April 2018, the minimum AE contribution rate increased to 5%, with an employer minimum of 2%. In April 2019, the minimum contribution rate will increase to 8%, with an employer minimum of 3%.
For employers, pensions-related payroll cost is a combination of those employees who either opted out of AE entirely (no cost) or pay the AE minimum (an employer cost of 2% until April 2019), and those employees who pay more and benefit from enhanced employer contributions (typical employer costs ranging from 3% to 6%).
Assuming that the employer has not borne the entire burden of AE minimum contributions, the employee only had to pay 1% until April 2018. Typically, from this year, that has increased to 3%, and will increase to 5% from April 2019. You can see why, if the employee is starting to make higher contributions, joining the employer's enhanced contribution scheme and getting matching contributions rather than the AE employer minimum is already starting to become more attractive.
Now, imagine this scenario playing out at a large employer with a pensionable payroll of £1 million, 75% of which relates to staff making minimum contributions (2% employer contribution) and 25% of whom are taking advantage of the enhanced scheme at a maximum 6% rate (6% employer contribution). This means a total pensions bill of £30,000 for our employer.
After April 2019, once employer contributions increase to 3%, the employer's total pensions bill would increase to £37,500, should the proportion of staff making minimum contributions remain the same. However, given those employees are now required to contribute 5%, those that can afford to do so would be better off joining the enhanced scheme and contributing 6%, matched by the employer. Assuming 75% of staff now take advantage of the enhanced scheme, leaving only 25% on minimum contributions (3% employer contribution), the employer's total pensions bill would increase to £52,500 - a £22,500 increase in a single year.
Of course, these figures are very fact-sensitive, and a lot will depend on whether your AE employees decide to opt out of pension saving altogether or not. Bear in mind that employees may be facing an increase from 1% to 5% of salary in just a few years, which may increase the numbers of employees opting out.
However, those employers who do offer the option of joining an enhanced scheme should model now what their increased costs could be as more employees start to see the benefit in saving more and getting their employer to help. Those employers who may find the potential increase challenging should start planning now how they may make the necessary pension changes in time.
Nick Stones is a pensions law expert at Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com.
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Upgrading Of Komtar Multi-storey Car Parks Commences
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Posted on September 18, 2015 By: Pocket News
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 18 – The State Assembly of Komtar Teh Lai Heng announced on Thursday about the upgrading of Komtar multi-storey car parks commences which upgrading works and subsequent management of the car park that will be undertaken by Only World Group.
Also were present of the PDC Setia Urus Sdn Bhd’s chief executive officer Datuk Ir. Ang Choo Hong, PDC’s general manager Datuk Rosli Jaafar and Only World Group’s director of operations Richard Cheong in the press conference at the Komtar multi-storey car parks here on Thursday.
The car park, with 288 car park lots and 180 motorbike lots, will be totally transformed once the upgrading is completed within six months time. The motorists would then be able to experience a “brighter, safer and more convenient” parking facility. Besides that, the 4 parking lots for OKU will also be remain the same.
The upgrading work will be included total repainting of the whole building and parking lots, rewiring of the electrical supply system and adding more lights, installation of CCTVs, installation of green/red parking lot indicators, installation of auto-pay parking system as well as replacement of two lifts and an escalators.
The upgrading of Komtar multi-storey car park was totally transform it to a modern car park. In the same time, each floor also having different colour to let people to remember the colour, especially level 5 will be painted with pink colour and will open for ladies to park only. Meanwhile, the lift indicator will also showing the colour for user to easily identical the colour.
The parking rate will remain the same as RM1 per hour for cars and RM1 per entry for motorbike. Season parking rate for cars will also remain as RM100 per month and for motorbikes RM20 for 2 months period. The car park will continue to be opened to motorists while the upgrading works are in progress.
The operation hour of the car park will also be extended from the present 7am until 10:30pm to 24 hours once the upgrading is completed. With the competition of the upgrading works, parking woes in Komtar will be over. There will be a total of 1500 parking lots in the Komtar, Prangin Mall and First Avenue zone which also enough to serve the needs at the peak times.
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Inaamulhaq feels that films like Nakkash are important to show the reality
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After playing vivid characters in the entertainment industry, Inaamulhaq comes back with a film ‘Nakkash’. The small budget film gives a vital message related to Hindu-Muslim rift in the country.
On playing the lead in the film, the versatile actor talks about the concept of the film, his character, the dialogues he liked and much more.
What is ‘Nakkash’ about, what kind of message does this film gives?
Inaamulhaq: Addressing the social issues of problems between Hindu and Muslims living in India, ‘Nakkash’ tries to give a clear picture of today’s religious, political and societal scenario. With the film, the director tries to limelight the kind of insecurities the 2 communities have. Therefore, while showing a beautiful story of some characters, the film gives an overall message that communal harmony is the need of the hour. And that is why this film is very important to watch.
What role are you playing in this film? How is it different from the past characters you have played?
Inaamulhaq: In this film, I play the character of Allah Rakha Siddiqui – a gifted Muslim craftsman from Varanasi, who is a widower with a young son. Like his ancestors, he engraves the walls of temples.
Being a Muslim, he goes and works in Hindu temples – that creates a fuss in the community – that is what the whole film is about. This role is very different from what I have done in the past because as an actor, I don’t believe in doing the same kind of role. Rather I like to challenge myself, expand my horizons and give something new to the audience. And, I think this is how it should be like. Every actor should take different kind of roles each time because on the screen that character should steal the show, not the actor. Just like all humans are different, their appearance, their characteristics differ – that is how we should try and choose different roles.
That is what even I have tried, how much I succeeded or not, this is what the audience will tell.
As it is a small budget film, what were your initial expectations from the audience?
Inaamulhaq: There are many struggles and hindrances for small budget films. There are many restrictions even in the production stage of the film, there is a lack of resources. But because the content is so strong, such films are being made. Then comes the main challenge, which is to release the film. And in the film, where there is no big name or star value attached, people don’t want to invest in it. Everyone wants to play safe in today’s time. But I think, small budget films like ‘Nakkash’ cannot be unsafe because the amount in which this film has been made can be recovered very easily. Even after all the problems, when such film releases – the biggest support that we can count on is from the audience. Therefore, I would like to request the audience that like we as actors and filmmakers play our role of making such films based on issues, and now it is your turn to give your part and watch the film and support us.
Such films usually draw a lot of criticism, did you think your film would face such issues. If yes, then were you afraid of it hampering the box office collection of the film?
Inaamulhaq: Film’s trailer did give an impression of being a controversial film at first, everyone thought that releasing this film might be a problem, or it will draw controversies after the release. But there is nothing like that. There is no controversial content at all. Because, if it might have been like that, then censor board would have kept in mind to cut scenes and then give the certificate.
It is overall a neutral film, in which no specific religion or community is blamed. This film is the reflection, a mirror image of how the people actually are – if they good or bad, there are shown like that.
So, I never thought there would be any kind of controversy. And, if there is no controversy, then obviously there won’t be any effect on the box office collection of the film.
You have even written dialogues for many shows in the past. Which one is your favourite dialogue from this film?
Inaamulhaq: I have not written much, just a couple of projects which I got on Television or films. I have a writer hidden in me. So, I try when I get something, I just give it a polishing from my end. Being a writer obviously helps me as an actor. If I talk about my favourite dialogues, there are plenty of good lines in this film like the line which was hit in the trailer itself – “Allah, ye ghar kiska hai? Bhagwan ka, bhagwan kaun hai? Allah k bhai!” or the line in which a kid looks at the idol and says, “Ya allah kitne ache bhagwan.” But among all of them, my personal favourite line which I only got was – “Insan jesi chahega, wesi banegi ye dunia.” That exactly is what the message of the film is, and that is what I want to tell everyone. We should try and build a good world for ourselves.
Do you think audience today is ready to witness such films? What kind of roles are you looking forward to after this project?
Inaamulhaq: I think the audience was always ready. It is not that the audience grew, it is the cinema which has grown and is reaching the audience. The loophole was at the end of the filmmakers because they never attempted in trying to provide something new to the audience, and that is why the audience accepted the truth in whatever they were shown. Now some new filmmakers have come, cinema literacy has increased and people started watching world cinema, so now people are trying to experiment with the content and trying to present it to the audience on various mediums.
And, answering the question about the kind of roles I want to do, I don’t really care about what kind of role I am playing. My only concern in the script. Because I believe a good script gives a good cinema, which takes us to a good future.
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Riot Fest 2017 Recap – QRO Magazine
Riot Fest 2017 Recap
Riot Fest 2017: big without being an unwieldy behemoth....
by Ted Chase September 24, 2017
Click here for festival sights from 2017 Riot Fest in the QRO Concert Photo Gallery
There are a lot of music festivals out there these days, no question, and standing out is becoming harder & harder (kind of like being an actual musician these days). With acts doing the festival circuit each summer, many fests are becoming more & more similar, same acts, different town somewhere between New York and L.A.
But Chicago’s Riot Fest does stand out, from its punk bent to veteran artists to having many of those vets play a classic album of theirs in full. 2017 felt like the festival’s biggest year yet, with a particularly stacked line-up that included variety at Douglas Park, Friday-Sunday, September 15th-17th:
One area where Riot Fest is similar to other festivals is that the first weekday of the fest has admittedly the weakest line-up of the three days. No knock on the acts playing, it’s just that the Friday line-up has to compete with day jobs and school.
But Friday did not miss out on this more unusual Riot Fest. One-man electronic act Tobacco (main man of Black Moth Super Rainbow) hid behind his kit to open up the main Rio Stage, with probably more vocoder than you’d hear the entire rest of the festival. And next on the Riot Stage was the only wedding dress you’d see at the fest (probably), thanks to Liars. The noise-punk-art act’s giant singer Angus Andrew came out in full regalia, from veil to ruffles – something he has been doing all tour for their new album TFCF, but still a sight to behold.
Having a spoken word artist definitely stood out in its own way at Riot Fest, but Saul Williams has always stood out. It was just he on the Rise Stage (not even a DJ…), laying down poetic truths such as “A riot is not a fest” and pointing out that the event is happening at Douglas Park, named for Senator Douglas (the other side of the famed Lincoln-Douglas debates), who said that the Declaration of Independence was written for white men.
Festivals in general are, or at least should, be able to bring attendees acts that they know of, but don’t know that well, ones they wouldn’t go see play their own show, but have been meaning to catch. Of course, different festivals bring different types of ‘been meaning to see’ acts – mainstream fests bring recent mainstream hits, whereas Riot Fest brought influential veteran punks like X and Buzzcocks. On the Roots Stage, Los Angeles’ X were celebrating their 40th year (their name dates back well before search engines…), and still have a great cowpunk, rockabilly-punk sound. Meanwhile, OG seventies British punks Buzzcocks at the Riot Stage might have been older, but they could still rock songs like “Orgasm Addict” – they’re always at it…
Rise Stage was the hip-hop stage for Day One, including Action Bronson. He’s as much a celebrity chef as celebrity rapper, with his own food show on VICE, and his own cookbook, Fuck That’s Delicious, which fans in the crowd brandished & Bronson promoted, recommending getting at your local bookstore. Of course, you might find either/both celebrity occupation to be insufferable – but he did play right next to the all the food stalls.
Much more in Riot Fest’s vein was Death From Above (formerly known as Death From Above 1979) at the Roots Stage, crushing it from second one. Playing behind their just-out Outrage! Is Now (QRO review), their dance-punk fury was a perfect fit for the festival, as drummer/singer Sebastien Grainger effused over the line-up. He also asked the crowd, “Do you want to have sex with me? You don’t have to answer that. I don’t even want to have sex with anymore…”
But for pure energy & aggression, there was Ministry. Yes, main man Al Jourgensen did look old up there on the Riot Stage, but like Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy – not an old you want to mess with (albeit with pink, not blue, skin, and long dreds instead of a mohawk). They are the kind of band that could have a song called “Punch in the Face”, i.e. “You need a punch in the face!” They even had a song called “Antifa”, complete with bandana-masked young hoodies flying black & red flags. Not sure what the song was actually saying about the controversial anti-fascist movement, but definitely tapped into that fury. Jourgensen could sing about the new world order under George H.W. Bush, can sing about antifa now under Trump (and did play their biggest hit, “N.W.O.” – “I think you know this one…”).
Right up next on the stage next door, Riot, was New Order. Other than both acts being veterans who lean towards electronic elements, the two would seem to be an odd pairing, but it actually was a great one. Whereas Ministry brought the thunder and fury, New Order brought the art and dance, yin-yang twin gods from around 1990. And just as the anger of a song like “N.W.O.” is still relevant today, so is the energy of a song like “Blue Monday”. And they closed in maybe the most awesome way possible, with an encore of their late, much beloved and even more influential first incarnation Joy Division’s utter classic “Love Will Tear Us Apart”.
[note: It was an understandably heavy crowd for New Order, not just of fans but also of photographers – so heavy that security/fire marshal closed the photo pit so it could still be navigable by EMT in case of emergency. Meanwhile, headliner Nine Inch Nails only allowed in the first of those in the New Order photo pit, without any prior notification or warning…]
With the headliner heaviness of the back-to-back Riot and Roots Stages, it would have been easy to overlook Vic Mensa on the Rise Stage, but one shouldn’t have. The Chicago native had his own local crowd, and though he was limited by the darkness (which felt acute at Riot Fest, particularly away from the two main stages) and only being backlit, delivered quite strong rap at a festival not known for it.
But anyone at Riot Fest Friday had to admit that the day was primarily about Nine Inch Nails. The biggest industrial act in the world has had a resurgence of relevance lately, from frontman Trent Reznor’s movie soundtrack work to their moving cover of late friend David Bowie’s “I Can’t Give Everything Away” from Bowie’s Darkstar swan song (QRO review). This is true of their old songs and their new songs, from this year’s “Branches/Bones” to open through to classic biggest hit “Head Like a Hole”, plus an encore – there was even the live debut of “The Background World”.
Riot Fest can, at times, feel like its trapped in nostalgia, with older acts (sometimes playing older albums in full). There’s nothing wrong, and lot right, about late greats, and Nine Inch Nails easily could have delivered an epic set of just songs like “Hole”, “Closer”, and evening ender “Hurt”. But instead the band took advantage of their status and time to integrate the new material in with the old. And yes, there was a massive mosh pit.
A major sight at Riot Fest ’17, perhaps the most major, was Peaches on the Riot Stage early. Indeed, it was surprising to see an artist as well known as Peaches playing so early, but maybe it was because she needed the time for her stage and costume changes. And boy, were there costumes! She opened up wearing an enormous pink fur ensemble, with dancers in body suits dressed as dancing vaginas. Later Peaches removed her fur for a comical naked suit, and proceeded to ride a member of security’s shoulders so she could stand on the photo barrier. “Jesus walked on water; Peaches walks on you.” The new wave feminist icon wasn’t just show, with songs like “Talk To Me” and “Boys Wanna Be Her”, now immortalized as the theme song for the Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
After the ultra-aggressive noise-metal of super-group Dead Cross on the Roots Stage, the next-door Riot Stage had the suitably wild young punks FIDLAR. Opening with a cover of Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” (which they’ve been doing regularly, and not just this time because Boy Mike D was playing – see below), FIDLAR felt like what every young Riot Fest attendee wish that they could do on stage at Riot Fest. “I drink / Cheap beer / So what? / Fuck you!”
While the Rise Stage was the hip-hop stage on Friday, it was the Radicals Stage on Saturday that was the afro-punk one, with acts like Fishbone (doing classic Truth and Soul album in full) and Bad Brains (one wonders what they & other acts on the stage thought of the first artist, two white British boys who call themselves ‘Slaves’…). Like X and Buzzcocks on Day One, Bad Brains are one of those classic acts that you’ve always meant to see, and Riot Fest provided the opportunity for their mix of punk and jah.
At Riot Fest ’16, the absolute biggest event was the reunion of The Misfits, playing one of only two reunion dates (and the other was at Riot Fest Denver). So singer Glenn Danzig ‘just’ doing his post-Misfits solo act couldn’t help but feel like a comedown, particularly under the hot, beating sun that he referenced more than once. While it was nice to hear Danzig III: How the Gods Kill in full (save for “Sistinas”, which Danzig mentioned needed an orchestra to do) in different conditions, perhaps Mr. Danzig should have taken this year off from Riot Fest.
[note: One thing was similar about Danzig – he once again didn’t allow any photographers, because he’s definitely gotten older…]
Special mention needs to be made of The Lawrence Arms, who played Rise Stage the same time as the prickly Glenn, and announced, “Hi, we’re Danzig!” The Rise Stage was right next to the ‘Riot Feast’ food stalls, all located in the northeast corner of the festival, which developed some serious lines despite the many, many foods/stalls on offer (particularly at those that accepted credit cards, as opposed to the less fancy-pants ones…).
When one saw that Mike D of The Beastie Boys was playing the Radicals Stage, you pretty much had to check it out, but hopefully didn’t have high expectations. Yes, it was the living legend of the group that you’re never gonna get to see any more (after the sad too-young death of fellow Boy MCA). “So What Cha Want” Riot Fest? D sang that song, but over a backing track from his DJ, and mostly sang other people’s material, including Kanye West. The crowd seemed happy, but it was mostly just for the chance to see Mike D, as opposed to for the actual performance.
Giving a full on ‘actual performance’ was Gogol Bordello on the Rise Stage. The self-described ‘gypsy-punks’ are a perfect fit for Riot Fest (QRO photos at Riot Fest ‘14), wild artists bringing out the wildness of the crowd. Frontman Eugene Hutz climbed on speakers many times, shedding his shirt early in dramatic fashion, but it should be noted that the other members are no shrinking violets – witness Pasha Newmer rock his accordion. Also should be noted is their politics, particularly their pro-immigrant stance in this era of DACA repeal. Gogol Bordello were not obvious, nor self-righteous, like so much political music, but just made their beliefs an essential part of their identity (kind of like being an actual immigrant). One definitely hopes that the mostly white crowd took the message to hear, along with the music.
As the sun began to set, the bigger acts came to the fore. At the Drive-In’s reunion brought them to the Roots Stage behind their new record in•ter a•li•a. The reunion seemed shaky after guitarist Jim Ward left it, and reactions to in•ter a•li•a have been divided. Their Riot Fest set, which was almost entirely in•ter a•li•a and final pre-break-up Relationship of Command, definitely showcased their unique hard & weird sound, though when removed from those up close, the weird and hard mushed together a bit into noise.
[note: or maybe your correspondent was just ticked off that the publicist for At the Drive-In & Queens of the Stone Age didn’t approve him to photograph…]
Headlining the Radicals Stage was the group you know are nothing to fuck with, Wu-Tang Clan. While the legendary hip-hop (super)group has played Riot Fest before (QRO photos at Riot ‘14), for this go they were playing classic Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) in full (note: not the single record that recently convicted & imprisoned pharma bro Martin Shkreli bought…). It was a high-demand performance, which seemed to somewhat overwhelm the already-taxed Riot Fest security. The VIP section in front of the stage (a new addition this year) had its flimsy metal barriers straining as people wanted to see the Wu up close and personal (plus those entourage members in the photo pit, which caused security to close it completely…)
Queens of the Stone Age headlining Saturday at the Riot Stage made complete sense. Particularly coming after Nine Inch Nails on Friday and with their new Villains (QRO review) just out, they’re a totally appropriate & professional act to cap Day Two. Josh Homme & co. gave enough rock and mainstream appeal to be enjoyed by the wide crowd at Riot Fest, while Homme mentioned being excited to see his heroes GBH open the Riot Stage eight-plus hours earlier. It might not have been as special as the emotional Nine Inch Nails the day before or the surprise Jawbreaker reunion the day after, but it was the full Queens of the Stone Age experience (minus an encore – QOTSA ended before the 10:00 PM curfew, but did not return for what seemed like the perfect, even required, place for an encore, distinctly disappointing the crowd).
The final day of Riot Fest was another hot one, both literally and figuratively. Opening the main Riot Stage was Beach Slang, whose talkative – read: drunk – frontman James Alex joked about everything from day drinking to Gene Simmons (“Horrible man, helluva rock star”) and “Santana featuring Rob Thomas!” But their music was still strong, including a cover of Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?”
And Alex gets special double drops for his last, quick note. Literally using his final 20 seconds on the stage (as he mentioned), Alex described getting a mixtape from the cool record store clerk when he was a kid (back when mixtapes were actual tapes…), which on it had Hüsker Dü (QRO spotlight on). Alex paid tribute to Hüsker drummer Grant Hart (QRO interview), who had died on Thursday, playing a bit of Hart’s Hüsker classic, “Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill”. “Rest loud & hard, Grant Hart…”
Certainly loud & hard, and not resting, was Hot Water Music on the Roots Stage, with their new album Light It Up just out. Later on, Mighty Mighty Bosstones (see below) singer Dicky Barrett noted about Hot Water, “If you caught them, you made the right choice. If you didn’t, you fucked up.”
But much less recent following up on the Riot Stage was that dog. Something of a could-have-been nineties alt-hit (they came up in the same scene that birthed Weezer), they were playing their final record, 1997’s Retreat from the Sun, in full. They noted that the track list was not designed to be played live in that order, also joking about all the songs about places, “Anybody from Minneapolis?” “Anybody from Long Island?” “Anybody from Hawthorne, CA?” Like many acts on Day Three, they sounded & were straight out of the nineties, particularly that decade’s great female alt-rock boom. And special mention of the two super-fans up front, who had a hand-made (and thus unreadable) cardboard sign saying that they had waited twenty years to see that dog.
In addition to the punk, Riot Fest has long booked not just ska-punk but out-and-out ska, so of course The Mighty Mighty Bosstones had played the festival before (QRO photos at Riot Fest ‘14). This year’s Riot was relatively light on the skanking, but Boston’s own brought their A game as they played the twentieth anniversary of biggest hit album Let’s Face It in full. Yes, that included biggest hit single “The Impression That I Get”, which had so many crowd surfers.
[note: Two stages of photographers in the packed photo pit – which had become the on-the-fly standard at the festival – meant that your correspondent was in there for the third & fourth songs, as opposed to the usual first three. This meant he was there for the Let’s Face It’s fourth song, “Impression”, and got to see it up-close, as opposed to having to navigate his way out during it, as he did when The Bosstones played the record in New York in July – QRO review]
Going into the festival, you might have thought, “Who the fuck are Cap’n Jazz and why are people so excited about their reunion?” They showed why on the Riot Stage. The Chicago natives, fronted by Tim Kinsella (Joan of Arc, Owls), were super excited to be there in front of a crowd that was super excited to have them. Kinsella was particularly goofy, crowd surfing while singing, giving out his tambourine to the audience then asking for it back, made-up hand gestures to the soundman, somersault, playing with his mike cord, and telling long stories that would be brought to a sudden close when his brother/drummer Mike would start the next song.
Bosstones’ Barrett had also pointed to Pennywise, who followed them on the Roots Stage. Back in the nineties they kind of seemed like another hardcore band (and they had their name before the current remake of It), but they’re actually a pretty damn good hardcore band. “We’re here to put the ‘riot’ in ‘Riot Fest’!” Singer Jim Lindberg opened by borrowing a photographer’s camera to get an excited crowd shot, and a member of the costumed GWAR (see below) made an appearance at the side of the stage.
In New York, especially Brooklyn, TV On the Radio are indie-rock royalty, having pushed the city’s start of the century rock revival into new artistic terrain (and becoming maybe the first band that a hipster liked before you did). Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone, and Andrew Sitek have all already composed an impressive legacy, but does it hold up outside of the five boroughs? Yes, it definitely does. Maybe in a relief from the rock and the heat, TVOTR at Rise Stage were the Sunday band the crowd really paid attention to in order to appreciate, which always amps up this act.
Another band that’s a perfect fit for Riot Fest, and thus another returnee (QRO photos at Riot ‘13), was punk legends Dinosaur Jr. They’re a perfect fit for the festival because they appeal to a wide range, from the hardcore metal heads that want to hear singer/guitarist J Mascis wail on his guitar to indie-hipsters that want to hear him mumble on vocals. They’ve even moved into the ‘veteran that you’ve always meant to see’ status. And like The Bosstones, they made this Riot Fest appearance special by playing an album in full, 1987’s You’re Living All Over Me.
Two acts always play Riot Fest, year after year: Andrew W.K. (QRO photos at Riot ’16) and GWAR (QRO photos at Riot ’16). This year, they were both playing on Sunday, and for some reason the festival rewarded their loyalty & delivery by sticking them on the smallest, farthest stage, Heather Owen – closing out that stage, but that meant that they were up against the big boys. Thus a lot of press never made it out to see them, but GWAR brought their show to the press, as the intergalactic scumdogs invaded the press tent. While a few members did interviews (please don’t ask your correspondent to know their lengthy & awesome names…), one took to pruning the trees with his giant buzz saw.
This wasn’t GWAR’s first time in a Riot Fest press tent (QRO photos at Riot Fest ‘15), or doing interviews there (QRO interview at Riot Fest ‘15), but the press was smitten nonetheless. Many, many people asked for selfies – and there were people asking to take photos of people taking a selfie with GWAR – and there were photographers asking to take a photo of people taking a photo of a person taking a selfie with GWAR – and there was even a photographer (your correspondent) taking a photo of a photographer taking a photo of a person taking a photo of a person taking a selfie with GWAR. Even getting in on the act was the one strange denizen of the press tent, who spent the whole day with bandanas and shades covering his face like a member of Antifa, having GWAR sign his GWAR skateboard (which the masked press member held with surgical gloves, possibly even weirding out GWAR…).
Like last year, the final night of Riot Fest ’17 had a big reunion to headline, which pushed a bunch of big acts up against each other in the slot before. Heather Owen Stage had GWAR and Andrew W.K., the latter of whom did overlap with main Riot Stage. On the Roots Stage, right next to the main Riot Stage, was Prophets of Rage. The supergroup composed of members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill, the question with them has always been whether or not they’re more than just a gimmick, a way to cash in their collected classics without the rest of said bands – particularly Rage singer Zack de la Rocha. Yes and no. They did do a lot of their old band’s material, particularly Rage, but if you’re gonna have someone who isn’t de la Rocha sing “Bulls On Parade”, Chuck D is a pretty good choice. And he & Rage/Rage guitarist Tom Morello were just on The Daily Show…
Starting at the exact same time on the Rise Stage (giving rise to the rare instance of two non-white artists playing against each other at the festival) was M.I.A. The British-Tamil rapper earned a lot of lovers, and a lot of haters, a decade ago with songs like “Paper Planes” and her political stances that struck some as limousine liberal (she tweeted out the personal phone number of the New York Times reporter who did an interview/profile of her that implied such). But that was a decade ago – has time mellowed her? Well, the haters might have moved on (they usually do pretty fast), but not her fans, as people were psyched to see M.I.A. She doesn’t play the States that often (has trouble getting a visa), but she was in full form at Riot Fest, with DJ, dancers, back-up singer, and jail-like bars on stage. With her white coat (that she did remove early) and gloves, and general regal bearing, she almost had a ‘Queen B’ or even Michael Jackson atmosphere to her, letting nothing phase her star.
[note: Or maybe your correspondent liked her because she & Paramore’s people approved him to shoot, unlike Queens of the Stone Age & At the Drive-In’s had on Saturday. Though M.I.A. did start five minutes late, with her DJ serving as hype-man before she finally made her entrance; not an issue for the fans, but was for the photographers who had to leave early & race to catch Paramore]
Running right up against M.I.A. – in this case a rare instance of two female artists competing at Riot Fest – was Paramore. The emo act leans pretty pop & popular for legit Riot Fest, but the kids love Paramore. Frontwoman Hayley Williams was all energy, now with long white hair as opposed to her prior usual pink short cut, more Debbie Harry than emo, but was still a total pop princess, without being ‘just’ a pop princess. They leaned heavily on new album After Laughter, and the crowd lapped it up. There’s a reason this group has lasted past their initial burst, to say nothing of line-up changes behind Williams.
If Riot Fest last year was about The Misfits reunion, if Riot Fest ‘13 was about The Replacements reunion (QRO photos), Riot Fest ’17 was about the Jawbreaker reunion. As you can see, Riot Fest knows reunions of iconic acts, but all reunions are not the same. The ‘Mats was Paul Westerberg & Tommy Stinson getting together with replacement Replacements behind them for a tour to cash in on their acclaimed legacy, but in the most fun way possible. The Misfits had an honest-to-god rock star in Glenn Danzig and their own successful legacy (that seems as much about the t-shirts as the music…) for a rare, not-to-be-repeated performance.
And the Jawbreaker reunion gig was different. They were younger than either of those, having broken up ‘only’ twenty-one years ago. Frontman Blake Schwarzenbach’s post career was nowhere near Westerberg’s or Danzig’s. They ended as more of a ‘could have been,’ with major label debut Dear You angering punk loyalists, yet also failing to break into the mainstream, leading to the band’s dissolution.
But it has held up, as had their entire material. Yes, there were punks decrying the whole idea of the reunion, ‘tarnishing the band’s legacy’ and all, but they were proven wrong (and be careful what you wish for punks: all of you who said Hüsker Dü should never reunite now got your wish…). It was amazing that, with no prior shows (save a small, short warm-up gig), they could close out the festival, playing the same headline stage slot as the likes of giants Nine Inch Nails & Queens of the Stone Age the days before. The show was for all of those who had waited & waited for them (documented in the just-out documentary on the group, Don’t Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker), from the giant crowd to the giant amount of people on either side of the stage – seemingly every friend & family (and there were kids before long after their dissolution up there) was there to witness this special reunion.
As festivals rise and fall and mutate, Riot Fest has made itself to be maybe the biggest punk rock festival, while not being ‘just’ a punk rock festival. Yes, you get the mohawks and even stretch from the hipsters to the metalheads, but hip-hop, ska and more. There’s even a carnival and motorbike trapeze act (which happened right outside the press tent, three times each day). You could play cornhole while listening to “Head Like a Hole”.
But Riot Fest has managed to be big without losing sight of what it is, big without being an unwieldy behemoth.
-words & photos: Ted Chase
Click here for QRO’s recap of Riot Fest ’16
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by OMNICELL on Sat Jul 20, 2019 6:04 am
The Beatles were my generation. I was a little kid and it was the first music I ever heard; I was in nursery school and it was 1966 and Help just came out; and in nursery school; they were playing " ITs a hard days night" and all the earlier Beatles stuff; all the time on the radio; it was great...
I loved the Beatles. I wanted to be Ringo star when I grew up; the drummer. and when I watched " Hard days night" movie; that was it; the the idea was sealed; Im going to be a Beatle. I loved them so much; with all my heart; also, the Monkeys. And I got my Beatles hair cut; and later wanted to have a big peace sign around my neck and I wanted to be a psychologist when I grew up. All of this before I was destroyed.
I was going to be many things before I was destroyed.
One reason I was creative and energetic about life; I was actually neglected and left alone; and I would watch TV on my own alone and could watch the Beatles on Ed Sulaven show and dream about some day meeting them in person or being like them when grew up.
Never when I was real young; did I even comprehend my personality being totally raped and ruptured out of existence; my identity carved out and beheaded.
The point is; I had a sharp identity and I knew what I wanted when I got older; I was extremely creative. In addition; I wanted to be a lawyer, a song writer, artist, actor, and mathematician astronomer, and anthologist.. And many more intellectual subjects of matter; Jazz musician and other things; classical pianist and composer.
The point; I had a life; I had my own thoughts and dreams and a complete life developed; and it was vast within me; always dreaming about eventing in my future; and then it was over; it was genocide; mind genocide. in my case; complete genocide by the vampires I was suppose to be loved by...
The point; Im in this new position in my life; its starting to happen; my original self is starting to accept my original self. And Im really appearing again... this is where true happiness lies; in the deeper recesses of self; in the end caps of the neural transmitter dendrites that feel their way through space n time; reaching; ever reaching for information and curiosity of the world around them; its an identity that seeks to express opinion of the world around it; this process creates happiness; this freedom.
The problem; How does a bloke almost 57 years old wake up from 50 years ago; in a positive sense and become the Beatles; Im not sure; but Im getting back that freedom again; And Im having to work with the universe with this; because Im not sure what to do.
Im Ok; Im grateful. Im scared. To be able to start bringing out the beginning life of independence that occurred over 5o years ago; is a strange and dangerous feeling thing. Its a wondrous thing; it truly is; I have to give myself permission to allow this to happen again; Im certainly scared that I could get destroyed again or damaged. but; it looks like the coast is clear; I don't see any enemy torpedoes heading my way...
I was convinced that my identity was worthless and it died very quickly, all of it went beyond hiding; it went into dormant stage of complete analyzation; it was no more to be seen; it was gone and any memory raped out of me; Now; its reappearing on its own.
My identity is appearing on its own; now; its not strong enough yet; its very young as it was when I was 4-9 years old; its full of life and creativity and ideas and most of the music and movies of the 1960's; the full era.... And with the idea that it will live out its fantasy life in the next area; starting in 1970.
Im not sure where to go with it; its like a part of me waking up that does not know Im 57; this identity believes Im starting out where I left off; I mean; the first thing I did was put on the Beatles clips of the early 60's; the live music shows and remastered stuff and listened to it. I have this urge...
In the 60's I listened to all their music and imagined what it would be like when I grew up into a teenager or older child or young teenager or in my yearly 20's. Well, that would be to fare for me to imagine when I was a kid. The point is; " I" was imagining; it was my life; no one else; I could imagine all that I wanted to; I could imagine everything I wanted to about everything. And then I was destroyed.
The point; is; This part of me is coming out; and Im worried because of the stress of memories of what happened when my identity was out before; how it was beaten to a pulp and ripped stripped and strangled to death with no mercy; like getting hit by a great storm tearing it to pieces until it was no more. The point is; As it comes out; Im paranoid and I have no idea where to go with it.
Ill explain;
When I was young; I would listen to a Beatles song and want to go into the woods and explore on an outing with friends when I go older. But in those days; I was a small kid; that means; when I got older; say; 1970; I wanted to be with chums my own age and explore caves and things or meet girls maybe; or play drums.. or have and adventure. So; I was dreaming at a very young age about what it would be like to be an older child or beginning teen; That was 50 years ago; How or what or what ever would I pull this off now. I haven't the siltiest idea. I know that being the real me makes me happy. and pain came when the real me was cut off from being myself; my full potential. Someone else was controlling my identity; taking away from it to keep me in control; smashing it and ripping it to pieces to they could destroy it and control it; like a dog.
So; now; in bran new living situations Im suppose to know what to do with these ideas of my original identity; Im not sure; but Im not shutting out what I love; and I love the Beatles; but what do I do with them or this....
When I grew up; I wanted to be like the Beatles and thought I would see the Beatles in concert.
I had many ideas of what I wanted for my life when young. And now my identity appears; and thats great; actually; I cant wait to be an intellectual again; it all died for me; everything;; all went into CPTSD and dissociation.
What do I mean; an intellectual; it means; my focus is on intellectuality; the books, the art, the music; the acting... the anthropology; hanging with others that want to talk art talk and psychology of things; it means I openly choose to think about the real things I like; intellectual things and pic the people that are like me to hang out with and no one else... the freedom of this is fantastic. really!
To be happy; I have to be me; and I was never allowed to be me when past 8 years old or in this society; a society Ive been at war with from the beginning..
So; the universe is opening the doors it said it would open; now; I have to learn to stop dissociating if I can; and keep working toward the things that make me feel good; and that is happening; even if it makes no world sense; it makes me feel great and real and inline with myself.
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Alice Hawkins statue unveiled
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A statue of one of Leicester’s pioneering suffragettes has been unveiled today to commemorate her work towards equal rights for women, as 2018 marks 100 years since women were given the right to vote in this country.
Alice Hawkins was a working-class woman from Leicester who worked in a shoe factory, where she soon realised she wasn’t being paid as much as men. This was the start of Alice’s fight for equal rights and she later became the leader of the Leicester suffragette movement.
In December 2017, Leicester was named as a Centenary City for its importance in women being given the right to vote, 100 years on. Seven other cities were also chosen as Centenary Cities – including London, Manchester, Bolton and Birmingham.
A seven foot bronze statue of Alice Hawkins was unveiled by Alice’s family, after a parade from Humberstone Gate to Market Place where the statue now stands.
Peter Barratt, Alice’s great-grandson, has worked tirelessly to spread the word about his great-grandmother’s remarkable life and dedication. He said:
“One of my earliest memories, 5 or 6 years of age, grandad telling me how we stood in this very same spot we are now, how his mother, Alice, speaking to the crowds and she was being heckled by men – but she stood her ground, she was made of strong stuff.”
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Paul McCartney to headline Glastonbury 2020?
13 April 2019, 05:00 | Updated: 13 April 2019, 05:01
Paul McCartney. Picture: MJ Kim/Press
Has Michael Eavis confirmed one of the 50th anniversary headliners?
Michael Eavis has appeared to let slip one of the big artists booked for Glastonbury in 2020.
Eavis said that Paul McCartney would “hopefully” be heading to Worthy Farm for the 50th anniversary of the festival next year.
Speaking to BBC Somerset, the festival’s organiser said: “Paul’s on good form at the moment.”
Asked by the reporter if he meant that McCartney would be heading to the festival, Eavis said “Hopefully for the 50th.”
He added, rather sweetly, “But don’t make a big thing of it will you?”
For #GlastonburyFestival fans...
Michael Eavis has revealed that Sir Paul McCartney could be performing at next year's festival 🎵🎸 pic.twitter.com/ShOw4bIZ5D
— BBC Somerset (@bbcsomerset) April 10, 2019
The former Beatle headlined Glastonbury in 2004 and next year will mark the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four splitting up and the start of McCartney’s solo career.
Also hotly rumoured to appear at the 50th anniversary of Glastonbury have been Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac and Queen.
Speaking to the NME about the possibility of Queen performing, singer Adam Lambert said: "I’m sure that if it were the right type of arrangement, I’m sure we would all be really, really honoured to be a part of Glastonbury.”
This year's Glastonbury takes place between 26 to 30 June and headliners will be Stormzy, The Killers and The Cure.
Watch Paul McCartney bring out Ringo Starr and Ronnie Wood for a rendition of Get Back:
Watch this Freddie Mercury impersonator steal the show ahead of Paul McCartney's Chile gig:
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History Revealed: Ordnance Plant
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Ramsey County Historical Society Presents
Mark Haidet, The Twin Cities Ordnance Plant During World War II
History Revealed Series
Ramsey County Roseville Library
Free and open to all. No reservations needed.
Join RCHS for History Revealed, our program series featuring presentations and tours from the best of local historians, authors and archaeologists, with a wide range of topics drawn from the heritage and traditions of Ramsey County.
Historian Mark Haidet will tell the story behind the building of The Twin Cities Ordnance Plant and its key role in helping the United States and its Allies win World War II. The rapid transformation of northwestern Ramsey County from farm fields in 1941 into an industrial complex employing more than 25,000 men and women at its peak in 1943 was called a miracle.
Mark Haidet worked for the Minnesota Historical Society for 36 years – 10 years as a historian and 26 years in the Development Office. As Director of Development for the program’s first 16 years, he built a comprehensive program and led three major campaigns for the Minnesota History Center, Mill City Museum and the Greatest Generation Project. He closed his career with three years at the State Fair Foundation where he completed the campaign to build the Fair’s new History & Heritage Center. Now retired, Mark is helping others as a free-lance historian and fund-raising consultant.
Main image: Inspection at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant, 1942. Courtesy of Hennepin County Library.
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Understanding the Market Before You Search Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor
Canada’s, and consequently Woodbine Corridor’s, real estate is falsely considered to be cheaper than its American equivalents due to bad weather. This is chiefly because when individuals think about the weather in Canada- and Woodbine Corridor in particular- they picture long winters and reduced daylight.
Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor are very costly, to be honest, and become even costlier every year. It is also true that certain places in Canada are icy-cold, but mostly on the far north. But, if you decide to be in one of these Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor, you’ll surely witness summers, springs, falls, etc. and not only winters. That said, these Houses For Sale require quite a budget.
Factors to Consider When Searching Homes For Sale Near Woodbine Corridor
According to the latest real estate census data, you have to earn upwards of $40,500 annually to afford a comfortable house in Toronto. Unfortunately, somebody who earns lesser than the stated amount may have to share a room or an apartment with someone else as this is the cheapest option.
Woodbine Corridor’s high costs of living are, however, easily offset by the fact that the city offers a few of the highest wages in the world. That said, let your budget figure out which of the Houses For Sale you will secure- there is no reason whatsoever to buy above your financial budget.
in 2017, Woodbine Corridor’s provincial government increased the minimum pay from $11.6 every hour to $14 per hour to allow residents to cope with the high cost of living in the city- there were even plans to raise that figure to $15 every hour by January of 2019.
Woodbine Corridor is developing due to factors such as focus on professional services, global trading, and leading business ventures. For people leading a professional and career-oriented life, Woodbine Corridor is a top spot.
Many factors at Woodbine Corridor such as the high salary and also the high average annual income for all the households have done a lot to bring about high growth in Woodbine Corridor. investors who buy the Houses For Sale help increase the real estate value and thus, the market is booming. This remarkable prosperity at the Woodbine Corridor areas has really seen the Woodbine Corridor estates rise at the same time grow.
Now is a good time to find Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor. The Houses For Sale come in all manner of shapes and sizes and there are options that will fit nearly every budget range out there.
Transportation Near Woodbine Corridor Houses For Sale
The investors seeking Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor will be happy to know that they are able to reduce one of life’s major expenses, owning a private car and depending on it for commuting on a daily basis.
Most of the people staying in the Woodbine Corridor estates are mostly depending on the public means. The majority of them are accustomed to and prefer the rich public transport that makes them access any area of the city, a factor backed by the report on the Woodbine Corridor Transit Commission. The investors are encouraged to get the Houses For Sale that are located along the transit lines for greater convenience.
Woodbine Corridor has an all-inclusive subway system. The system is dedicated to both the transport of people and goods.
All the Houses For Sale have a measure of access to the transport lines. The city of Woodbine Corridor’s TTC made certain of that. Their transport system is reliable even during peak hours. This makes it the transport of choice for many residents. The subway has a running period of five-minutes which drops to two-minutes every rush hour.
It is available from 6 AM through 2 AM every day of the week but Sunday. On Sundays, you’ll have to wait until 8 AM to get service.
Monthly transport cost is calculated to be at $150 a figure that is cheaper when compared to the use of private vehicles by Woodbine Corridor locals. Here you are freed from the strings of the gasoline expenditures, the insurance and also the repair as well as the maintenance that the private vehicle owners could have really paid.
You can save more in Woodbine Corridor which you can use to get Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor from such savings.
For students and the elderly, the TTC gets discount plans making it much cheaper to go around the city.
in 2019, in order to make the life of commuters even more efficient, TTC developed a simplified system. With your mobile app and physical card, it’s now possible to deal with any transportation fare cost discrepancies fast and easy. If you have a private car in Woodbine Corridor, this means a tedious process of buying parking place from private owners or the city; and if you would love to park within the city limits on an occasional basis-this goes for commuters and not vacationers and travelers-then a parking permit from Woodbine Corridor is a must.
Lifestyle Near Woodbine Corridor Homes For Sale
There are many reasons why people are interested in Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor. The city has low crime rates, high education rates, great transport infrastructure, and enviable amenities that draw in individuals and families alike. The city also offers excellent career opportunities for professionals and newbies alike.
The city is not ideal for young families despite the fact that it is ranked as one of the healthiest, safest and cleanest cities in Canada. It’s because the expenses for raising kids in Woodbine Corridor is incredibly high. Parents searching for Homes For Sale in Woodbine Corridor should brace themselves for costly childcare costs.
Research finding by the CBC shows that childcare expenses total up to $1800 per month. Consequently, Woodbine Corridor is ranked as the most expensive Canadian city to raise a kid in. Before getting one of the Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor, parents have to take into consideration this small challenge in residency.
Woodbine Corridor is stated to have plenty of entertainment opportunities that are well documented. It is one of the best Canadian cities for esculent delights. There are various entertainment opportunities hosted by neighborhoods. This makes the night life interesting. Outskirts of Woodbine Corridor also offers you with yummy food and unique entertainment opportunities, worthy of attention. Due to these,Woodbine Corridor is considered one of the greatest cities in demand for Houses For Sale, even though the cost of living are really high.
The East End of Woodbine Corridor is worthy of attention for entertainment lovers. The climate and atmosphere are laid back with multiple bars, clubs, and also other entertainment spots. If you are an admirer of one of a kind setting, then this would be the ideal place to discover. The real estate market of this part of the town is, therefore, equally in demand. They are many Houses For Sale which will be apt for a private residence, commercial use and investment.
Understanding The Price of Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor
the Houses For Sale prices often vary in Woodbine Corridor, and you’ll find a different cost depending on the neighborhood. Every neighborhood has a different security system, educational facilities, and amenities.
The internet will allow you to find the prices of Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor in every neighborhood. Not just Woodbine Corridor, but every Metropolitan in the world has different rates for Houses For Sale. Since Woodbine Corridor is the second most expensive town in Canada, you have to keep this in mind too. Woodbine Corridor Homes For Sale are the most expensive in whole North America as well.
Below is a list of Homes For Sale and their corresponding price based on a specific date which shows the cost of purchasing a house only gets higher and higher as each year passes. Woodbine Corridor’s economy affords appealing opportunities for success to everyone who dreams of a better tomorrow- never was there a better time to own property in the city. in the years to come, Houses For Sale and properties in Woodbine Corridor will absolutely mean more money; possibly more costly than you could imagine.
You can obtain Houses For Sale in half the rate of downtown Woodbine Corridor if you go for the inexpensive neighborhoods. The value and quality of various communities in terms of Houses For Sale can be discovered by searching by area.
You had to shell out $934,000 in 2017 for a house in Woodbine Corridor with two baths and three bedrooms, based on the newest Houses For Sale results. The same kinds of houses were at least $1.6 million in the downtown that year.
If you wish to find the cheapest Homes For Sale in Woodbine Corridor, East End is the place. Houses in Woodbine Corridor have experienced a boost in prices in the last decade in most of the neighborhoods of this city. A number of them have houses offered at $1.2 million in peak times. The East End community too is catching up with others.
Many people are not very enthusiastic to move towards the East End. individuals who have a high taste of luxury and more expensive housesare amongst them. When looking for the Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor, remember that the city’s gentrification is towards the east. This means that the East End of Woodbine Corridor has lots of investment potentials. Securing any Homes For Sale in East End would prove useful in the future.
The Eastward part of the city is on the spotlight by serious minded investors who are hoping that the climate value of these Houses For Sale will increase over the next 10 years. This is mostly because of the fact that downtown Woodbine Corridor and other expensive places keep experiencing an increase rate in price which force home buyers out of market
The Cost of Living Near Woodbine Corridor Homes For Sale
Prices of Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor can be emphatically stated to be the best in all of Canada. Real estate investors in Woodbine Corridor have also found it much easier to get one of the Houses For Sale than rent it as the monthly charge is more or less equal to the cost of a mortgage with the exception that rent will not secure you one of the Houses For Sale.
The best thing you can do is to Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor and purchase it rather than renting it. And as the rent and mortgage costs mean almost the same amount of money, it doesn’t make sense paying for something that will not be yours in the future. Remember that living expenses, plus Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor get costly as more time passes by. Across Canada, the prices that you’ll pay for phone charges, television and internet deals, food expenses on a regular basis, groceries, and transit plans are among the most expensive.
The Price of Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor By Neighborhood
The Western end of Woodbine Corridor is house to a young, active and dynamic community. When looking up Houses For Sale, give preference to these neighborhoods if you are a young professional trying to settle down in a place you can establish a career in.
The southeastern part of this region hosts a University and it is, thus, no surprise why its students and faculty name the western stretch home. New businesses have been popping up left and right, reshaping and re-molding the neighborhood almost overnight, with a very young, hip, hand millennial-focused community.
Prices in the neighborhood can be quite low although in terms of the cost of living, the real estate listings prices is still a bit on the high side and with only a little one can support the younger generation living in the community.
MLS Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor have started to increase, but haven’t climbed as fast as other places – mostly because it’s a bit out of the way from downtown as well as the public transport commute is quite a bit longer.
This city hosts the international film festival every September. It is, therefore, the perfect place for any person interested in mingling with the celebs. As good as that may seem, the privilege is pretty expensive. The average cost of the Houses For Sale is about $1.5 million. If this is a little too steep for you, don’t worry. There are lower priced condos and single housing units that will be great for you.
Downtown Core is generally a community of commerce and retail, and lots of people consider this place in Woodbine Corridor home too. You’ll be living smack dab in the middle of Woodbine Corridor, soaking up all that the urban life and atmosphere have to offer – but the home prices are going to reflect that if your purchasing real estate that close to the heartbeat of the city.
It has a little bit of a slower pace than some of the other communities in the city, but make no mistake it is heavily populated and also one of the more affluent communities in the region (particularly as of late).
Searching for Homes For Sale in Woodbine Corridor always promises to be exciting despite your financial budget. It won’t only give you the suburban feel which many people are looking for but also enables you to continue enjoying the excitement of the city. Midtown is one neighborhood that will offer such an atmosphere. It is filled with working-class individuals and it’s not far-off from the city. As such, using the public subway, you will arrive at your work station in the city on time; in fact with you will be left with an extra time to spare.
If you are expecting to find your children a great school, Woodbine Corridor is there for you. You will find an education system that keeps their promise. MLS listings are speaking well of the security, the health amenities and the fast transports. Make certain you never miss the chance of buying Houses For Sale here if life presents you a chance.
The real estate market in Woodbine Corridor is among the leading and most successful within North America that is the reason why it is expected that when you are doing a search, you will be offered hundreds, even thousands, of results. With such a great catalog of Houses For Sale, it is important that you prioritize your search with your preferences, needs, and budget.
Houses and other real estate properties in Woodbine Corridor are sure to cost you a fortune but you will find that they are worth every penny of your money. Searching for Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor is always very quick and easy as there is a lot to pick from even in the richest communities.
To guide you towards the most lucrative decision, we’ll share tips on everything Woodbine Corridor has to offer from neighborhoods to the best bargains on properties.
That said, it will be of great benefit if you could hire the services of real estate agents and realtors. Looking through the dense real estate market of Woodbine Corridor will be overwhelming if conducted in any other way. A citywide search of the Houses For Sale cannot be effectively carried out via Google. All the internet will do is to give you an idea of the number of Houses For Sale. The boots on the ground method is the only sure method to identify an excellent offer. Let an expert do the walking as your money does the talking.
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Woodbine Corridor is one of the most important metropolitan cities in Canada with a strong business neighborhood. The industry is huge in Woodbine Corridor, but it also has a fair share of cultural and entertainment facilities as well.
Job and career prospects are wonderful in Woodbine Corridor, with an economy that continues to boom and grow. Woodbine Corridor has one of the highest minimum pay in North America, and this minimum wage was increased once in 2017 and later in January 2019.
When it comes to Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor, the choices are countless. Nevertheless, the cost of living is anticipated a bit higher in Woodbine Corridor.
Woodbine Corridor Homes For Sale with Nearby Amenities
If you are looking for a home to stay in, and not just a home to be used for business reasons, then search for Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor in a neighborhood that has all the qualities you are searching for: comfy and safe.
The city’s neighborhoods are distinct and provide different opportunities. They are found in various environments and are, therefore, great for different demographics. Consider the layout of every neighborhood to find one that best suits your specific needs.
Anything close to the city center is obviously going to be the most urban, particularly in the business sector of the city. Woodbine Corridor is home to one of the biggest technology startup communities in North America, and was just recently called one of the best cities in North America for businessmen to build up shop. Houses For Sale in Woodbine Corridor have a very high price tag, but they are worth the cost if you have the budget.
The heart of the city is tempered with numerous attractions and facilities thanks to the robust economy. Entertainment spots like bars and clubs are operational up to 2 AM every day and some even go to 4 AM in busier times of the year. These attractions have made Downtown a more lively and fun place to live in for young adults and therefore they are getting captivated to it which is ultimately resulting in more income.
If you’re part of the millennial generation or interested in nightlife, Woodbine Corridor is for you when you are seeking Houses For Sale – but this place might not be best for those with established families or young families who like to get the most out of Woodbine Corridor nowadays too.
Houses For Sale in the outskirts of the city are cheaper and perfectly-suited for young families and individuals on a budget. These communities give a more serene environment, even though the busy Woodbine Corridor can still be accessed quickly through public transportation subway lines.
These lines allow commuters to go from the outer places of Woodbine Corridor, the more suburban neighborhoods, into the heart of the city to work and enjoy all the attractions it has to offer while staying in some of the slower paced, cleaner, and safer places of the municipality.
Public transit is one of the greatest things Woodbine Corridor has to offer when you’re seeking Houses For Sale here. The TTC is responsible for running public transport in the GTA, with two main subway lines (one running north and south, and the other running east and west, with two other lines running out to east and west ends) and also a variety of bus lines and other public transportation choices.
Property closest to the transit lines will be a bit costly. This is real for all real estate interests on earth. When searching for the Houses For Sale, be certain to pick one that is a little further from the line but, with easy access. This way, you kill two birds with one stone. You get more economic housing choices without missing out on the convenience of living close to a transportation system.
TTC has been said to uphold a good and a commendable management of public transportation which makes the transport cost cheap. Not many people in Woodbine Corridor have a private car. All due to the fact that it costs cheaper to use public transport than to own and operate a car. To be exact, it costs $ 150 each month to use all TTC operated transportation options. This is much lower than the amount you’ll spend each month when you utilize even the least expensive vehicle.
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Kingfisher first quarter profits slump as wet weather hits sales
By Nicola Harrison2012-05-31T08:32:00+01:00
B&Q owner Kingfisher UK & Ireland retail profit slumped 9.8% to £75m in the first quarter as wet weather hindered sales in the crucial Easter trading period.
Like-for-likes slumped 10.4% while total sales fell 7% to £1.1bn.
In the retailer’s B&Q business in the UK and Ireland like-for-likes plummeted 11.7% as total sales fell 8.9% to £968m. Retail profit declined by 13.8% to £65m.
The fall came as sales of seasonal products – which can represent 30% of sales in the first quarter, slumped 30%.
Group retail profit fell 8.6% to £160m as Europe also suffered from poor weather and an adverse currency translation.
The first quarter numbers were also negatively impacted by strong comparables from the previous year.
Kingfisher group chief executive Ian Cheshire said:”We anticipated the first quarter would be challenging, compared with last year’s strong growth which was boosted by favourable spring weather and public holidays.
“But an extremely wet April this year in the UK and France compounded the difficulty, adversely impacting sales of outdoor and seasonal categories.
“Given this unfavourable backdrop, we focused hard on our margin and cost initiatives and were able to significantly limit the profit impact. With the first quarter typically one of the least significant of the year and with the key summer season still ahead of us, we remain confident that we are well prepared to capitalise on any improvement in conditions and deliver a solid full year result.
“We are also making progress with our new programme of self-help initiatives, ‘Creating the Leader’, aimed at helping our customers have better, more sustainable homes and building a more valuable business for our shareholders.”
France outperformed the market, Kingfisher said. Retail profit in the country was flat at £78m. But at constant exchange rates represented a 4.2% rise.
Other International like-for-likes slipped 2% while total sales increased 5.8% to £438m.
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Corey Ranger holds up his naloxone kit, something he always carries around. Having the product and training on hand has helped him save three lives since moving to Victoria in April. (File Contributed/ Corey Ranger)
Victoria nurse urges compassion after being confronted while saving overdose victim
RN has saved three people’s lives in eight months
Nicole Crescenzi
Corey Ranger was on one of his daily lunch time walks when he came across someone on the cusp of death.
The man was near Bastion Square; his breathing shallow and his lips blue. Ranger, a registered nurse who has worked for a decade with vulnerable populations, immediately recognized the person could be overdosing on opioids.
Ranger whipped out one of the naloxone kits he carries around in his unicorn fanny-pack and began preparing the medicine.
A crowd began to draw around him, and from behind him Ranger heard a young man shout: “Just let him die for f**k’s sake.”
While Ranger was irked, he felt worse for the person he was helping.
“It’s awful; that person wasn’t doing very well and then they hear that,” Ranger said. Over the years, however, Ranger’s heard it all. “Working in the field you see a lot of people have either substance use, mental health issues or circumstances viewed through a moral sense, and it makes people feel emboldened to say very hurtful things.”
ALSO READ: Victoria advocates demand a safe supply of opioids
The problem, Ranger said, is a lack of education which only exacerbates the problem.
“It’s statements like that which result in a spiraling stigma that makes people feel even more isolated,” he said. “The more isolated you are, the more likely you are to have an overdose.”
Since Ranger moved to Victoria from Alberta eight months ago, he’s come across three overdoses: one near Bastion Square, one near the Royal Jubilee Hospital and one in a high-end bar.
The common factor in all of these situations was that the people were using alone.
“Drug use happens across all demographics,” Ranger said. “The only difference for those in poverty is that they don’t have walls to hide behind.”
READ MORE: Youngest opioid overdose victim in B.C. in 2017 was 10 years old
The BC Coroner’s Service reported that between January and October, 702 people died of illicit drug overdose in B.C., including 40 in Victoria. Of these, 77 per cent were men, most of whom were using alone at home.
While Ranger said sometimes the public feedback is demoralizing, it’s important to remember it comes from a place of ignorance, which he tries to tackle ignorance in the form of a conversation. One thing to point out is that 2019 saw the first decline in opioid overdose deaths since 2012 thanks to ongoing efforts with harm reduction services.
“Get yourself informed; there’s a lot we can do at every level to promote change and to promote positive outcomes for people,” he said. “Learn about what you’re making this comments on, and go get some naloxone training.”
Anyone who may need information on opioids, including overdose treatment and outreach services, can check out Black Press Media’s 2019 Overdose Prevention Guide available at vicnews.com/e-editions.
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From grid v3.6.1 by R-core R-core@R-project.org
Function to Create a Unit Object
This function creates a unit object --- a vector of unit values. A unit value is typically just a single numeric value with an associated unit.
dplot
unit(x, units, data=NULL)
A numeric vector.
A character vector specifying the units for the corresponding numeric values.
This argument is used to supply extra information for special unit types.
Unit objects allow the user to specify locations and dimensions in a large number of different coordinate systems. All drawing occurs relative to a viewport and the units specifies what coordinate system to use within that viewport.
Possible units (coordinate systems) are:
"npc"
Normalised Parent Coordinates (the default). The origin of the viewport is (0, 0) and the viewport has a width and height of 1 unit. For example, (0.5, 0.5) is the centre of the viewport.
"cm"
Centimetres.
"inches"
Inches. 1 in = 2.54 cm.
"mm"
Millimetres. 10 mm = 1 cm.
"points"
Points. 72.27 pt = 1 in.
"picas"
Picas. 1 pc = 12 pt.
"bigpts"
Big Points. 72 bp = 1 in.
"dida"
Dida. 1157 dd = 1238 pt.
"cicero"
Cicero. 1 cc = 12 dd.
"scaledpts"
Scaled Points. 65536 sp = 1 pt.
"lines"
Lines of text. Locations and dimensions are in terms of multiples of the default text size of the viewport (as specified by the viewport's fontsize and lineheight).
"char"
Multiples of nominal font height of the viewport (as specified by the viewport's fontsize).
"native"
Locations and dimensions are relative to the viewport's xscale and yscale.
"snpc"
Square Normalised Parent Coordinates. Same as Normalised Parent Coordinates, except gives the same answer for horizontal and vertical locations/dimensions. It uses the lesser of npc-width and npc-height. This is useful for making things which are a proportion of the viewport, but have to be square (or have a fixed aspect ratio).
"strwidth"
Multiples of the width of the string specified in the data argument. The font size is determined by the pointsize of the viewport.
"strheight"
Multiples of the height of the string specified in the data argument. The font size is determined by the pointsize of the viewport.
"grobwidth"
Multiples of the width of the grob specified in the data argument.
"grobheight"
Multiples of the height of the grob specified in the data argument.
A number of variations are also allowed for the most common units. For example, it is possible to use "in" or "inch" instead of "inches" and "centimetre" or "centimeter" instead of "cm".
A special units value of "null" is also allowed, but only makes sense when used in specifying widths of columns or heights of rows in grid layouts (see grid.layout).
The data argument must be a list when the unit.length() is greater than 1. For example,
unit(rep(1, 3), c("npc", "strwidth", "inches"),
data = list(NULL, "my string", NULL))
It is possible to subset unit objects in the normal way and to perform subassignment (see the examples), but a special function unit.c is provided for combining unit objects.
Certain arithmetic and summary operations are defined for unit objects. In particular, it is possible to add and subtract unit objects (e.g., unit(1, "npc") - unit(1, "inches")), and to specify the minimum or maximum of a list of unit objects (e.g., min(unit(0.5, "npc"), unit(1, "inches"))).
There is a format method for units, which should respond to the arguments for the default format method, e.g., digits to control the number of significant digits printed for numeric values.
An object of class "unit".
There is a special function unit.c for concatenating several unit objects.
The c function will not give the right answer.
There used to be "mylines", "mychar", "mystrwidth", "mystrheight" units. These will still be accepted, but work exactly the same as "lines", "char", "strwidth", "strheight".
unit.c
library(grid) # NOT RUN { unit(1, "npc") unit(1:3/4, "npc") unit(1:3/4, "npc") + unit(1, "inches") min(unit(0.5, "npc"), unit(1, "inches")) unit.c(unit(0.5, "npc"), unit(2, "inches") + unit(1:3/4, "npc"), unit(1, "strwidth", "hi there")) x <- unit(1:5, "npc") x[2:4] x[2:4] <- unit(1, "mm") x # }
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Another Woman's Husband
Rachel’s boyfriend takes her on a whirlwind romantic getaway to Paris. It is everything she has dreamed of as they plan their future and imagine what their lives will be like. As they are heading to the airport they witness a horrible accident in the tunnel. It is none other than Princess Diana. Rachel’s boyfriend becomes obsessed producing a documentary of Diana’s life, Rachel happens to have a client who grew up with Diana. As words are twisted and secrets revealed, the tragedy that rocked 1997 becomes unexpectedly entwined in their simple lives and almost tears them apart. Flashing back to the early 1900’s is portrayed the friendship of Mary Kirk and Wallis Simpson, later known as the Duchess of Windsor, an American socialite whose marriage to the British King Edward VIII caused a crisis that led to Edward's abdication. This work of historical fiction is both real and imagined: the lives of these strong, brave women that fought for independence, friendship and love, the connection to Princess Diana and Rachel, an average girl with a vintage clothing shop in London. Absolutely loved this fabulous page turner and I am equally excited to have found author Gill Paul, another British author to add to my list of favorites. Highly recommend this terrific read.
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JAMES YOUNG (1822-1870)
ISABELLA STEVENS (1826-1919)
(Last Updated: March 12, 2016)
James YOUNG was born around 1822 in England.
I don't know when James arrived in Canada, but around 1848, probably somewhere in the Mapleton - Lockport area (St Andrews), he was united with Isabella STEVENS b-1826, daughter of Mary O'CONNOR (a Cree woman) and Richard STEVENS (1796-1872) from England. ** MORE ABOUT RICHARD STEVENS
Their firstborn was Jane, born in 1849, followed by Louisa Rachel in 1851, Mary Ann in 1853, Isabel around 1859, Henry George in 1860, James Jr in 1862, John in 1863, Jemima in 1866 and Lara in 1868.
In 1868 daughter Mary Anne married Thomas TAYLOR, son of Jane PRINCE & George TAYLOR (1800-1844).
** MORE ABOUT GEORGE TAYLOR
James YOUNG died around 1870, before the Census was taken that year, when Widow Isabella was enumerated in St Andrews with their children.
In 1875 Isabella, living in St Andrews, applied for Scrip as the wife of Malcolm McLEOD, and the widow of James YOUNG. Malcolm McLEOD was born Oct 21, 1821 at Green Lake, SK, an illegitimate child of Charlotte (nee PRUDEN) & John McLEOD SR (b-1788), a Chief Trader for the HBC. Malcolm was sent to Edinburgh, Scotland, to be educated as a Lawyer. He studied Law in Montreal, was admitted to the Bar in 1845, and became a Judge there. In 1870 Malcolm was recorded as the occupant of Lot 135, St Andrews Parish (east side of the Red River, across from Lower Fort Garry).YOUNG.
Isabella & Malcolm McLEOD had a son, Malcolm McLEOD JR, born 1874.
Census 1881: St Clements/Lisgar (Probably East Mapleton or Lockport): Malcolm McLEOD SR, age 35; wife Isabella, age 52. Children: Jemima YOUNG, age 15; and Malcolm J McLEOD JR, age 7.
In 1883 son James married Margaret Ann GUNN in St Andrews, the daughter of Mary (nee DONALD) McCORRISTER and James GUNN (1824-1905). ** MORE ABOUT JAMES GUNN
On Sep 5, 1898 Malcolm McLEOD died, and Isabella went to live with her daughter Louisa.
Census 1901: Isabella (age 74) with her daughter (Widow Louisa McCORRISTER) in Little Britain.
On Jan 17, 1919 Isabella (nee STEVENS) YOUNG - McLEOD died in Little Britain
Please post comments & queries at this link: FORUM DISCUSSING the JAMES YOUNG FAMILY
========================== Family Details ==========================
Children of Isabella STEVENS & James YOUNG:
1. July 21, 1849 JANE YOUNG (m. William FIDLER)
** MORE ABOUT WILLIAM FIDLER
2. Mar 1, 1851 LOUISA RACHEL YOUNG aka McLEOD (m. William McCORRISTER)
3. Jan 9, 1853 MARY ANN YOUNG (m1. Thomas TAYLOR, m2. William BILLINGTON)
4. c1859 ISABEL YOUNG
5. Dec 9, 1860 HENRY GEORGE YOUNG (m. Catherine Jane TAYLOR)
6. July 10, 1862 JAMES YOUNG JR (Margaret Ann GUNN)
** MORE ABOUT JAMES YOUNG JR
7. Jul 17, 1863 JOHN YOUNG (m. Lydia Catherine "Catts, Fanny" COOPER)
8. 1866 JEMIMA YOUNG (m. Roderick McDONALD)
9. 1868 LARA YOUNG
Child by Isabella (nee STEVENS) YOUNG & Malcolm McLEOD:
1. 1874 MALCOLM J McLEOD JR
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The Ghosts of Hawa Mahal
Sriparna Ghosh
Heritage & History, Rajasthan
New college. New friends. New stories.
Well! This has always been the same story for me. But it is not everyday that you make friends with somebody who says that he hails from the Rajput Warrior dynasty of the Mewars.
It was evident from the beginning itself that this Rajasthani friend of ours had a keen interest in Indian history and also had a devotion for the army.
Each day when our classes would end, the weariness of the long day would force our ways to ‘Chaiwala’, a small café neatly tucked away into a peaceful corner of our locality.
While the ceramic cups of Chai jogged us into attentiveness, we would dwell on Shraman to tell us more stories and legends about Rajasthan. As he belonged to the Sisodia dynasty and was a descendant of Maharana Pratap Singh his tales about his city never seemed to end.
As he had already relayed to us the valour of the Rajputanas, we wanted to hear something different. We often laughed at the fact at how Rajasthan had many tales about ghosts and hauntings we wanted to know his share of ghost stories.
He then started recounting the story of the spirits in Hawa Maahal, the gem of the Pink City. As I had been to Jaipur, I could clearly remember the colossal five storeyed monument which looked like the crown of lord Krishna. Built in 1799 by Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh, the Hawa Mahal’s miniature windows with its lattice work appealed to me the most.
The thought of the beautiful pink and red structure being haunted by the spirits of the Ranis and her maids was really eerie. Amused at the jumpy look on our face he disclosed the rarely known to story to us.
Back during the rule of the Mewars, when the kings of Jaipur were attacked and killed, their Ranis and her maids would perform Jauhar (self-immolation) in order to preserve their sanctity from the vulgar intentions of the Mughals and Afghans. The spirits of all these Ranis and maids who burnt themselves to death still dwelled in the Hawa Mahal. Every now and then when the Hawa Mahal’s visiting hours are over, one can hear voices, whisperings and laughter inside the Mahal. These voices are of the dead Ranis and the maids who meet, laugh and talk with each other. Often the jingling of anklets are heard in the corridors as if the Ranis and her maids are running inside this Palace of winds.
It is believed that on the day of Teej (a hindu festival), the spirits become more active. During the ancient days, all the Ranis would gather at the Hawa Mahal to celebrate Teej and pray for the well-being of their spouses. Therefore, till date the spirits gather in the Mahal on the nights of Teej.
Even today they say that often one can see faces of women looking down at them through the lattice windows.
Saying so, Shraman ended the story. He then looked up at me and said something which made my hair stand on its end. He asked me to go back home and see through my photographs of the Hawa Mahal in case I might have captured the face of some dead Rani staring down at me.
Saying so he burst into laughter, as my face was as cold as the unfinished tea in my hand.
As we gathered our bags and huddled out of the café I promised to myself – I would never dare to look at the photographs of the Hawa Mahal – in case a spirit had decide to get herself photographed by me.
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More Hypocrisy on the Government Takeover of the Internet
Posted by Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) 0sc on February 24, 2015
President Obama’s unprecedented attempts at a government takeover of the Internet have another element, Hypocrisy.
A key Republican lawmaker in Congress called for Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler to make proposed net neutrality regulations public before a planned Thursday vote on the measure.
[House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason] Chaffetz urged Wheeler to publicly release the 332-page draft order that was given to the other four commissioners nearly three weeks ago and appear at a House Oversight hearing Wednesday before a vote at the FCC's monthly meeting Thursday.
Also today, FCC commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O'Rielly too asked for Wheeler to release the proposal to the public and postpone the Thursday vote to allow for 30 days of public comment.
Chairman Wheeler is refusing to do so even amid allegations of undue influence by the White House. This is particular ironic in light of what then Senator Obama stated in 2007:
A senator who supported the FCC's postponement back then, Chaffetz notes, was then-senator Barack Obama. "He specifically noted while a certain proposal 'may pass the muster of a federal court, Congress and the public have the right to review any specific proposal and decide whether or not it constitutes sound policy. And the commission has the responsibility to defend any new proposal in public discourse and debate,'" Chaffetz said citing the original letter sent by Sen. Obama to Martin.
In 2007 the proposed rules for a less important FCC matter were made public so there could be a debate. Not now.
[Note: RNLA is pleased to announce that both Republican Commissioners of the FCC will be speaking at our March 20 National Policy Conference.]
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860-288232 - Canary fish. Dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus). Lanzarote. Canary Islands.
1172-5110 - Dusky Dolphin
832-383367 - Lake Ninan, salt lake, in morning light, Victoria Plains, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
832-383593 - View over the city at sunset with dark clouds, Taiwan, China, Asia
832-383540 - Ananda Temple in the morning fog, blue hour, gilded tower structure or Shikhara, stupas, pagodas, temple complex, Plateau of Bagan, Mandalay Division, Burma or Myanmar
832-383491 - View from the Sugarloaf Mountain or Pao de Acucar at sunset, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, South America
832-383423 - Atmospheric clouds over Obergurgl, Otztal Alps, Tyrol, Austria, Europe
832-383525 - Catania Cathedral and the Fontana dell'Elefante fountain, Catania, Sicily, Italy, Europe
832-383469 - Evening mood, beach of Palombaggia, Porto Vecchio, Corse-du-Sud, Corsica, France, Europe
832-383494 - Waikiki Beach at dusk, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, North America
832-383615 - Dusk at the beach Praia da Dona Ana, Lagos, Algarve, Portugal, Europe
832-383472 - Palm trees by the sea at dusk, Puerto Naos, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe
832-383619 - Sunrise on the beach Praia da Dona Ana, Lagos, Algarve, Portugal, Europe
832-383548 - Historic district of Dresden with the Elbe river in the foreground at twilight, Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe
832-383601 - Palm grove at coast, Kikaua Point Park, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, North America
832-383457 - Panoramic view of downtown Montreal, Montreal Centre-Ville skyline during sunset, Quebec, Canada, North America
832-383749 - Rotating chain carousel and ferris wheel at the blue hour, Oktoberfest, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
832-383750 - Port Vell, Port promenade Rambla de Mar, Maremagnum, Twilight, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe
832-383723 - Sunset at the lighthouse of Rona, Strathcarron, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, Great Britain
832-383626 - Wooden foodbridge at the Lake Pfaffikersee at dawn, Pfaffikon, Canton Zurich, Switzerland, Europe
832-383632 - Mirrored twin towers of Deutsche Bank at dusk, Group Headquarters, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe
832-383674 - European Central Bank, ECB in front of the illuminated skyline, Osthafenbrucke, dusk, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe
832-383592 - Coast, Yuguang Island, Tainan, Taiwan, Asia
832-383591 - Sihcao Bridge on the sea, sunset, Tainan, Taiwan, Asia
832-383566 - Golden Gate Bridge at dusk, San Francisco, California, United States, North America
832-383474 - Church of San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk, Venice, Italy, Europe
832-383550 - Lighted Sellin Pier, Rugen Island, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe
832-383536 - Skyline with City Hall and The Shard with Themse at dusk, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
832-383537 - Tower Bridge at dusk, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe
832-383428 - Windmills, Kato Mili, Mykonos Town, Mykonos, Cyclades, Greece, Europe
832-383398 - Mediterraneo shopping centre, Atlantic Hotel Sail City, Klimahaus Bremerhaven, Havenwelten, Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany, Europe
832-383372 - Fortress with watch towers, Carcassonne, Languedoc-Roussillon, Departement Aude, France, Europe
832-383363 - Market Square, Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe
832-383405 - Galaxy Diner, original site of Bub's 1950s Diner, Route 66, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, North America
832-382972 - Market Square at sunset, elevated view, Old Town, Lublin, Poland, Europe
832-383210 - Sunset on the Kohala Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, United States, North America
832-383251 - Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Harbor Bridge and skyscrapers, dusk, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
832-383186 - Cruise ship at dusk, Philippsburg, Caribbean, Sint Maarten, Niederlande, North America
832-383127 - Stockholm City Hall, Stockholms stadshus, Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe
832-383029 - National Monument, Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe
832-383009 - Laymyetnta Pagoda or Temple at twilight, blue hour, Mrauk U, Sittwe District, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Asia
832-383218 - Pavilion, sunset on the beach, Kohala Coast, Big Island, Hawaii, United States, North America
832-383205 - Elevated view, Castle Square with Royal Castle, Old Town, Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, Europe
832-383114 - Hohenzollern Bridge with Cologne Cathedral at dusk, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
832-382927 - Palm trees by the sea at sunset, Playa de los Amadores, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain, Europe
832-383054 - Dog on beach at sunrise, Chatelaillon-Plage near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, Europe
832-383262 - Sydney Opera at Sunset, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
832-383351 - Baia del Silenzio, Bay of Silence, Sestri Levante, Liguria, Italy, Europe
832-383232 - Church on the island of Skeppsholm, Skeppsholmskyrkan, concert hall, with the Chapman Boat sailing ship, youth hostel, Skeppsholm, Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe
832-383193 - Sodra Blasieholmshamnen boulevard, Grand Hotel, Bolinderska palatset palace, Swedish National Museum, Stockholm, Stockholms lan or Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe
832-382979 - Skyline with skyscrapers in Darling Harbour at dusk, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
832-383151 - Benches at the waterfront promenade, Nessmersiel, Dornum, East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe
860-286683 - Dusky grouper, Epinephelus marginatus, Formigas Islet dive site, 27 miles northeast of Santa Maria Island, Azores, Portugal, Atlantic Ocean
832-382987 - La Moneda Palace and Plaza de la Ciudadania, dusk, Santiago, Chile, South America
832-383069 - Modlinger Buhne theater, Modling, Lower Austria, Austria, Europe
832-383169 - Cityscape at night with Frauenkirche church, Dresden Cathedral and Dresden Castle, Elbe river, historic centre, Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Europe
832-383187 - Cruise ship Aidaluna off the coast, sunset, Belize, Central America
832-383209 - Townscape with windmills at sunset, Oia, Santorini, Cyclades, Greece, Europe
832-383253 - Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge at dusk, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North America
832-383250 - Charles Bridge with Prague Castle and St Vitus Cathedral, dusk, Prague, Czech Republic, Europe
832-383141 - Slussplan, lock square, Kornhamnstorg, Grain Harbour Square, historic centre, Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe
832-383071 - Kehlsteinhaus am Kehlstein, Untersberg at the back, sunset, Berchtesgaden Alps, Berchtesgaden National Park, Schonau am Konigsee, Upper Bavaria, Beyern, Germany, Europe
832-383315 - Cave houses of Sasso Caveoso at dusk, Sassi di Matera, Basilicata, Italy, Europe
832-383212 - Ride Chaos Pendulum in motion at night, Oktoberfest, Theresienwiese, Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
832-383236 - Manhattan Bridge with views of Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, North America
832-383216 - Praca do Giraldo at twilight, Evora, Unesco World Heritage Site, Alentejo, Portugal, Europe
832-383239 - Table Mountain, Lion's Head and Devil's Peak in the evening light, panoramic view of Cape Town, footprints on Bloubergstrand beach, Table Bay in the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Africa
832-383144 - ""Travelling Giants in the Wind"", sculptures at Westerland Railway Station, Sylt, North Frisia, Schleswig-Holstein station, Germany, Europe
832-383107 - The Great Church or Church of St. Nicholas, Storkyrkan, right Stockholm Palace or the Royal Palace, kungliga slottet, historic centre, Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe
832-383068 - Maut Wirtshaus tavern in the Empress Elizabeth Street, Modling, Lower Austria, Austria, Europe
832-383090 - City view at night, Saranda, Ionian Sea, Albania, Europe
832-382969 - Cityscape with Tokyo Tower illuminated in twilight, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, Asia
832-383008 - Htukanthein, Dukkanthein or Htoekanthein Temple at twilight, blue hour, Mrauk U, Sittwe District, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Asia
832-382917 - Breakwaters or groynes in the evening light, breaking wave, Baltic Sea, Zingst, Fischland-Darss-Zingst peninsula, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe
832-382929 - Wasserturm, water tower, Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Europe
832-382941 - Windmill at sunset, Oia, Santorini, Cyclades, Greece, Europe
832-382923 - Media Harbour and Rhine Tower, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
832-382925 - German Church or St. Gertrude's Church, Tyska kyrkan, historic centre, Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, Europe
832-382910 - Allgau Alps reflected in Hopfensee lake, Ostallgau, Allgau, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
832-382907 - Skyline at dusk, TaunusTurm, Tower 185, Commerzbank, Messeturm, ECB, European Central Bank, Helaba, Landesbank Hessen, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Cathedral, Flosserbrucke bridge, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe
832-382911 - Skyline at night, TaunusTurm, Tower 185, Commerzbank, Messeturm, ECB, European Central Bank, Helaba, Landesbank Hessen, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt Cathedral, Flosserbrucke bridge, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany, Europe
832-382899 - Dawn on Hopfensee lake, Ostallgau, Allgau, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
832-382626 - Sellin Pier, dusk, Sellin, Rugen Island, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, Europe
832-382723 - Spider sculpture Maman by Louise Bourgeois, in front of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Basque Country, Biscay Province, Spain, Europe
832-382793 - Old solitary Oak (Quercus) in green field, dawn, morning fog, Harz foreland, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Europe
832-382645 - Closed visitor center at the Arctic Circle in winter, dusk, Saltfjellet, Norway, Europe
832-382688 - Illuminated viewing platform Biggeblick, Biggesee reservoir, Attendorn, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
832-382693 - View from Valletta of the fortress Fort St. Angelo in the centre of the Grand Harbour, Vittoriosa, Malta, Europe
832-382730 - Fishing boat in port at sunrise, Lajes das Flores, Flores Island, Azores, Portugal, Europe
832-382729 - Yacht Harbour at dusk, Horta, Faial Island, Azores, Portugal, Europe
832-382728 - Painted quay wall at the yacht harbour with view of Pico Volcano at dusk, Horta, Faial, Azores, Portugal, Europe
832-382489 - Rhine tower, Gehry Buildings, Neuer Zollhof, media harbor, dusk, blue hour, Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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ROLLS-ROYCE MOTOR CARS PRESENTS BESPOKE CULLINAN IN FUX ORANGE TO FAMED COLLECTOR
Unveiled at ‘The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering’, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars debuted the spectacularly colorful commission, ‘Cullinan in Fux Orange,’ marking the tenth time the brand has developed and reserved a color carrying the name of the prolific patron of Bespoke. Unveiled by Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, the commission was the highlight of the Rolls-Royce celebration at The Quail and Monterey Car Week, one of the hallmark annual gatherings for global luxury collectors worldwide
“Michael is a true patron of our Rolls-Royce Bespoke artistry. He has continually brought us color challenges ranging from exterior finishes to perfect color matching for a variety of materials throughout his creations. For more than a decade, my team has never failed to deliver for him and the brand. He has created a collection of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars that will grace the lawn of Pebble Beach and Concours around the world for the next century.” Torsten Müller-Ötvös, Chief Executive, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.
Working with the Bespoke design and color development team at the Home of Rolls-Royce, Goodwood, Mr. Fux challenged the designers to match the exterior color to a vibrant orange ladies wrap that caught his eye in South Florida. He purchased the wrap and had it delivered to the Rolls-Royce Bespoke Collective. Working together for nearly a year, the teams delivered the perfect surface application of more than seven layers of finish polished by hand for multiple hours in the Surface Finish Center. The exterior even features black Cullinan wheels and pinstripe wheel centers in the bright ‘Fux Orange.’
The interior is decked in hand-crafted Arctic White leather with offsetting Orange stitching and Orange Rolls-Royce ‘RRs’ on the headrests. Arctic White is carried over to the luxurious box grain leather fascia, steering wheel control stems and carpets. The designers brought color contrast with ‘Fux Orange’ finished fascia veneer, rear-view mirror and lambswool floor mats. The contrast of white and color showcased the artisanship with exacting standards for the Rolls-Royce craftspeople.
Mr. Fux’s Rolls-Royce cars are the highlight of his collection including more than 150 of the world’s most unique and colorful motor cars. Arriving in the United States a young Cuban immigrant, Mr. Fux built a series of successful businesses in the bedding and linen industry. Today, he strives to give something back to the communities he has worked in. Since establishing Te Michael Fux Foundation in 2006, he has donated millions of dollars to enrich the lives of children stricken with serious illnesses. In addition to building the Fux Family Center at the Miami Children’s Hospital, Mr. Fux and his wife Gloria hold multiple events each year to sustain the center and entertain the children. The colorful collection of cars are used at fundraisers to raise money to benefit those in need.
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars has dozens of colors reserved for numerous clients around the globe. Among the Rolls-Royce Motor Cars he has commissioned, Mr. Fux now ‘owns’ ten Bespoke colors, more than any other patron of the brand.
These colors can only be used by, or with, the permission of the client.
Fux Orange (Cullinan)
Fux Fuxia Pearl (Phantom)
Fux Fuxia (Dawn)
Fux Blue Candy (Dawn)
Fux Intense Jade Pearl (Phantom)
Fux Aequus Green Jade Pearl (Wraith)
Fux White (Ghost)
Fux Purple Candy (Phantom Drophead Coupé)
Fux Red Candy (Phantom Drophead Coupé)
Fux Yellow (Phantom Drophead Coupé)
Rolls-Royce’s craftspeople and designers create unique, one-of-a-kind Bespoke commissions. A Bespoke color is only one of the many hundreds of features offered for luxury collectors seeking a commission from the Home of Rolls-Royce, Goodwood.
CO2 EMISSIONS & CONSUMPTION.
Rolls-Royce Phantom: CO2 emission: 356-341 g/km ; Fuel consumption: 18.0-18.8 mpg / 15.7-15.0 l/100km (#)
Rolls-Royce Cullinan: CO2 emission: 377-355 g/km; Fuel consumption: 17.0-18.1 mpg / 16.6-15.6 l/100km (#)
Rolls-Royce Ghost: CO2 emission: 378-360 g/km; Fuel consumption: 16.8-17.7 mpg / 16.8-16.0 l/100km (#)
Rolls-Royce Ghost (Extended Wheelbase): CO2 emission: 384-367 g/km; Fuel consumption: 16.5-17.3 mpg / 17.1-16.3 l/100km (#)
Rolls-Royce Dawn: CO2 emission: 381-372 g/km; Fuel consumption: 16.7-17.1 mpg / 16.9-16.5 l/100km (#)
Rolls-Royce Wraith: CO2 emission: 369-357 g/km; Fuel consumption: 17.3-17.9 mpg / 16.3-15.8 l/100km (#)
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Opinion: We need a mayor who will make city safe
Keith Prince, London Assembly member for Havering and Redbridge
Havering's London Assembly Member Keith Prince.
As we move into a new decade, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all Havering residents a Happy New Year and a prosperous 2020.
After last month's extraordinary General Election, I hope and expect 2020 to be less politically tumultuous than 2019. Our new government will finally put an end to the Brexit saga, meaning that we can at last focus on other important issues in the run-up to those crucial GLA and mayoral elections in May.
The election will be fought on a whole range of issues, from improving our transport network to building more homes for families to live in to cleaning up the air that we breathe. But the most important job of the Mayor of London is to keep our city safe.
Over the next few months residents will be able to make an undiluted judgement on Sadiq Khan's record on crime. Londoners will be able to give their verdict after four years of surging knife crime, record murder rates and an increase in burglary. Voters in Havering will be able express whether they are happy about the fact that this Mayor has literally spent millions more on excessive PR, cultural festivals and City Hall bureaucrats while young Londoners are being killed on our streets.
The choice comes down to more of the same or change with the Conservatives. In May London has the chance to elect Conservative Shaun Bailey who will robustly get to grips with crime by meticulously cutting every penny of waste at City Hall and investing in making London safe. Unlike Sadiq Khan, we Conservatives will always back essential crime-fighting tools like stop and search.
In 2019 this country elected a government which is finally able to move this country forward. Let's make 2020 the year our city elects a mayor who will make London safe.
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Funeral Thank You Card Notes and Wording Examples
Written by ShutterflyLast Updated: Sep 11, 2018
Nothing is more difficult than saying goodbye to a loved one, but the support shown through sympathy cards and condolences can help you through the difficult times. When it’s time to write your funeral thank you cards, make sure you’re expressing everything you want to say with the right funeral thank you card wording. For help, explore our complete guide on sympathy thank you notes below.
Funeral Thank You Card Wording
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Sympathy and Funeral Thank You Card Wording Examples
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Expressing your thanks for a sympathy card can often feel overwhelming. We’re here to guide you through the process, and break down exactly what to say as a thanks to your supportive loved ones.
To start off, know that thank you cards are usually sent to those than helped out through the difficult times by watching your children or pets, bringing meals, delivering flowers, donating to the funeral expenses, sending a sympathy card, or for attending the service. If you’re ready to start writing the thank you cards, plan to include the following:
Addressee’s name: Most begin their letters with “Dear (name),” and this works fine for funeral thank you notes.
Thank you note: This is where you acknowledge their help or previously extended condolences. Make sure to use the words “thank you.”
Concluding sentiment: This can be anything from a follow up to the thank you, describing how their actions helped you, or a simple sentiment such as, “You are a true friend.”
Sign off: Sign offs include any of the following: “Love always,” “All my love,” “Sincerely,” “XOXO,” “Thank you again,” “Best wishes,” “Take care,” “Warmly,” or “Yours truly.” then follow the sign off with your handwritten name.
If you’re looking for specific phrases or wording to use in your funeral thank you cards, you’ll find samples below. From expressed condolence messages to monetary donations, we’ve collected a range of phrases for any thank you.
Thank You Card Wording For Funeral Donation
Samples of key phrases to use for a thank you card in response to monetary donations include the following:
“Thank you so much for the generous donation. That was very kind of you and we are so grateful to have you in our lives.”
“Thank you for the amazing contribution. It made a world of difference, and having your support helped us through this difficult time.”
“I honestly can’t say thank you enough. Your generous donation has truly helped lift a burden off our shoulders.”
“Thank you for the donation in [name]’s honor. Your thoughtfulness and generosity are much appreciated by the entire family.”
“I am so appreciative of your generosity. Thank you for caring so much about [name] and our family.”
Thank You Notes For Funeral Flowers
Flowers make for a beautiful universal symbol of love, life, and respect. If you’re been trying to find a way to thank those who contributed flowers in wake of a loved one’s passing, look below.
“Our whole family thanks you for the special funeral flower arrangement that you sent. It was one of our favourites, and helped to brighten our day.”
“Your flowers brought light into a very difficult time. Thank you for your love and support through everything.”
“Thank you for the gorgeous arrangement. They were so thoughtful and we feel so grateful to have you in our lives.”
“Thank you for sending such a beautiful arrangement. Your support shows through in these tough times.”
“[Name] would have loved your flowers, they were perfect. Thank you so much for such a beautiful contribution.”
Thank You For Sympathy
Just having the support of loved one’s around you helps relieve the burden of a friend or family member’s loss. Let your supporters know the difference they made with the follow thank you samples.
“Thank you for thinking of our family during this difficult time. Your card was sincerely appreciated.”
“Thank you so much for the condolences. We truly appreciated the warm words of comfort.”
“Your words were so kind and very much appreciated in these tough times. You are such a thoughtful friend.”
“Thank you for sharing in the celebration of [name]’s life. Our whole family appreciates the support.”
“Thank you for the stories and memories you shared. They truly helped our family and highlighted what a special person [name] was.”
All of the above examples can be pieced together to form your personalized funeral thank you card wording. However, if you’re looking for examples of completed thank you’s, we’ve crafting some below.
Thank You For Condolences
Find general thank you notes for sympathy and condolences below:
Example Thank You #1:
Dear [name],
Your words were so kind and very much appreciated in these tough times. You are such a thoughtful friend, and it meant to much to have you with us.
[name, signed]
Thank you so much for the condolences. We truly appreciated the warm words of comfort. You’re a true friend.
Thank you for the stories and memories you shared during the funeral. They truly helped our family and highlighted what a special person [name] was. We were so glad to have you there with us.
Thank You Notes For Funeral
Below, you’ll find thank you note examples for those who contributed to the funeral.
I honestly can’t say thank you enough. Your generous donation has truly helped lift a burden off our shoulders. It means so much to us to have your support.
I am so appreciative of your generosity. Thank you for caring so much about [name] and our family. You’ve really made a difference in these difficult times.
If you found this guide helpful but you’re looking for additional sympathy card resources, we’re here to help. Additional guides include:
What to write in a sympathy card
Sympathy etiquette
Sympathy quotes and sayings
How to write a thank you card
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Osteoporosis: Not Just An Elderly Disease
It used to be that osteoporosis was considered a disease that affected only the elderly. We particularly associated osteoporosis with older women whose backs were slightly hunched over or those who could no longer stand up straight. Today, the truth is that an estimated 20 million American women suffer from osteoporosis, and 80 percent of them don't even know it.
Osteoporosis is a chronic, progressive condition that steals bone from the body, leading to fractures of the hip, spine and wrist. Older people can suffer disability and even death from osteoporosis-related fractures. Alarmingly, one in two women and one in eight men will suffer from an osteoporosis-related fracture in his or her lifetime.
Many people confuse osteoporosis with arthritis, and wait for swollen joints and discomfort before being tested. Even though osteoporosis is painless until a bone fracture occurs, it is important to find out how healthy your bones are now and if need be, adjust your lifestyle to avoid this brittle bone disease. The American Chiropractic Association recommends the following tips to maintain healthy bones:
Start a regular exercise program. Walking, skipping rope, jogging, playing racquet sports, swimming and aerobics are all helpful in reducing the risk of osteoporosis. Exercising for 20 minutes, three times a week, is helpful.
Although weight lifting exercises are generally recommended, the National Osteoporosis Foundation says those suffering from osteoporosis should consult their health care practitioner before beginning a weight lifting program because excessive strain on the bones could result.
Those with severe osteoporosis and who have suffered from fractures may find Tai Chi, a form of martial arts, to be a beneficial strength training exercise system.
People suffering from osteoporosis should be careful when bending and lifting heavy objects, including grandchildren. Bend from the knees, not the waist, when lifting, and try to avoid hunching while sitting or standing.
Be sure to include calcium in your daily diet. The National Institutes of Health's recommendations are 1,000 mg/day for post-menopausal women taking estrogen; 1,500 mg/day for postmenopausal women not taking estrogen, and 1,500 mg/day for men and women over 65 years of age.
If you are looking for a calcium supplement, try one that's highly absorbable, such as microcrystalline hydroxyapatite concentrate (MCHC), or one of the malates, fumarates, succinates, glutarates, or citrates. But don't overdo it. Taking more than the recommended amount of calcium may cause kidney stones.
Consider taking additional nutritional supplements, such as vitamin D, C, magnesium, zinc and silica after consulting with your doctor of chiropractic.
Eat a healthy, balanced diet, including fresh vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds. Try broccoli, kale, collard greens, cabbage and turnip greens. Experiment with tofu, salmon, sardines and grains. Low-fat milk and/or yogurt are good sources of calcium. (A glass of low-fat milk and a cup of yogurt add 600 mg of calcium to your daily diet.)
Drink 8 eight-ounce glasses of water a day (herb teas, juices and coffee are not a substitute for water.) Avoid caffeine, carbonated sodas, alcohol, baked goods and junk food.
Watch your animal protein intake.
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Deepika is Mrs Kapil Dev in 83, coupling with Ranveer from real to reel life
Deepika will not merely essay the role of Kapil Dev's wife in 83, the film about India's ICC World Cup victory; she is also a co-producer of the film
Mumbai: The duo that started as an on-screen couple in movies like Galiyon Ki Raasleela – Ram Leela, Padmaavat and Bajirao Mastani and later got married in real life will play husband-wife in reel life as well. Yes, you read it right! Deepika has been finalised for an upcoming film 83.
The film depicts a real story based on the glory of India’s first world cup victory in 1983.
Ranveer Singh has already created a buzz with his looks in the movie. His posts on social media, showing his hardcore cricketing sessions with other co-actors of the movie, are going viral. Ranveer is playing the character of the then captain of the Indian cricket team for the 1983 World Cup (the Prudential Cup), Kapil Dev.
After a long confusion over the role of the leading lady for the movie, the real-life lady of Ranveer Singh is finally in for the role of his on-screen wife. Deepika will be essaying the role of Kapil Dev’s wife and this is not it. Deepika is also a co-producer of the film.
People are speculating about her role. Will it be just a guest appearance? According to the sources, her role in the movie is impactful. She will be playing the role of Romi Bhatia.
There is also a scene in the movie showing Romi, played by Deepika, leaving the cricket stadium after the Indian team starts losing wickets in a match. She returns when India inches close to victory.
The duo is playing a very strong role, which will show their strong chemistry as Mr and Mrs Kapil Dev.
Deepika is busy shooting for her upcoming movie Chhapaak as well, where she is playing the role of a victim of acid attack. Her snaps from that role had become the talk of the B Town a few months ago.
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Prudential Cup
Romi Bhatia
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Solartek Films Ltd were established in 2001 and our directors have over 35 years experience within the window film industry. We have worked with many prestigious companies throughout the UK and Europe and currently have nationwide contracts servicing some of the UKs largest glazing firms’ window film, manifestation graphics and digital printed film requirements.
Solartek Films Ltd understands that it has responsibilities to society and will respect these while developing its plans to grow and be successful.
To meet these responsibilities the company has set down its vision and its values for the future and developed a Charter of Business Principles and Conduct.
Our company’s business goals are long term and the Code of Business Principles and Conduct has been developed to provide appropriate ethical direction to sustain their achievement.
These define our culture and guide our strategies.
A commitment to provide customers with products and services to standards commensurate with value for money. In providing these we will be a trustworthy custodian of the natural resources and infrastructure that we manage.
An excellent record of compliance with published standards delivered through clearly defined business processes.
Environmental leadership
A commitment to provide services which safeguard public health and prevent pollution by purchasing only environmental friendly products and disposing safely of any residue. Our business depends upon a healthy environment and we are committed to sustainable development, preventing pollution and minimising waste.
Our vision is to be at the forefront of the industry.
We will display integrity when dealing with our customers. We recognise that it is in the best interests of our business to have regard for the views of important stakeholders such as customers, employees, local communities and the broader environment. We are committed to achieving a safe working environment, where our people are valued and respected. We try to ensure that our suppliers share our values. We aim to be good citizens and take into account the concerns of the wider community. Our business actions will be consistent with our value of environmental leadership. We obey the law and respect the social structures of communities where we conduct business.
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Creative Mother in Business
Thursday, 24 January 2008 09:56 AM
Creativity in the making comes a long way for a mother from Malaita Province, Grace Afea, who dyes sarongs (larva larva) for a living.
Mrs. Afea said that what she is doing now goes ten years back, when she first came to learn the art of "sun dye".
"The influence was from a Samoan woman who came and taught us how to do 'sun dye' on larva larva," she recalls.
Putting together what she had learnt, Mrs. Afea combined the skill with her cultural know-how in designs, covering the 'vast diversity of culture in Solomon Islands'.
She admitted that going into business on such conditions is not at all smooth running.
Mrs. Afea gave the current rainy season as an example of when her business is disrupted.
"With the continuous torrential rains currently in town, all this has stopped me from producing my products because it will not turn out as what is expected," she explained.
Mrs. Afea said that what she earns covers for more colors for new products and making ends meet for her family.
Solomon Times was informed that the colors (dye) are also expensive with most ranging from SBD$25 "but it will increase to almost SBD$50, which is going to be a great loss for us in our selling".
But even while it is hard, "going into the business of selling larva larva has helped to meet a lot of our family's basic needs and wants".
Mrs. Afea said that although hard earned, the business is worth all the hard work and sweat for the survival of her family.
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Stars Reveal Their Plans For The Chuseok Holiday
by D. Kim
Commonly known as the Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving, this year’s Chuseok is on September 13, and the holiday begins on September 12 and runs through the weekend. Some stars will be taking much-deserved breaks, while others will still be busy with work.
BTS will be continuing their official period of rest and will spend the holiday with their families.
JYP Entertainment artists TWICE, Stray Kids, and ITZY will have the holiday off. TWICE will return to preparing for their September comeback as soon as the holiday is over. Tzuyu shared, “I am meeting my family and friends and want to go camping for the first time in awhile,” while Dahyun commented, “I will eat lots of delicious food and watch shows like the ‘Idol Star Athletics Championships‘ at home.”
Starship Entertainment revealed that the agency makes an effort to not schedule work for their artists during the holidays. Following their recent world tour, MONSTA X will take the Chuseok holiday off and spend time with their families.
Chungha, who has been busy with both solo activities and I.O.I’s comeback preparations, will also spend the holiday at home with her family.
Swing Entertainment shared regarding X1, “X1 will be spending Chuseok, the first holiday after their debut, with their families. The members will return to each of their homes and rest during the Chuseok holiday.”
Some idols will be hard at work during the Chuseok holiday. SEVENTEEN is in the final stages of preparation for their comeback on September 16. NU’EST is heading to Taiwan for their “Segno” tour, while DAY6 is in the United States for their world tour “Gravity.” IZ*ONE is spending the Chuseok holiday in Japan for their scheduled Japanese promotions.
Saram Entertainment had the agency’s actors personally share their plans for Chuseok. Lee Je Hoon said that he will spend time with his family, watch good movies, and prepare for his upcoming film. Girls’ Generation’s Sooyoung revealed her plans to be, “Binge watching dramas I’ve wanted to watch, going on walks with my pets, learning my mom’s galbi-jjim (braised short ribs) recipe, and eating delicious food.”
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Unique Hen party ideas in Dublin: the naked chef experience
Hen parties, along with the entire wedding ceremony, are a costly affair. Thus, when thinking of hen party activities in Dublin, one option is to organize the last night of freedom at the comfort of your place. That way, it is not only an easier matter, but also a significant reduction in traveling and accommodation expenses. Thus, a Naked Chef experience could be a valuable option, as it can be carried out in the home of the bride, the bridesmaid, or one of the hens. It is all about killing two birds with a stone. The beauty of this activity lies in the hot cookery class and also in the superb Italian dinner!
Hen Party Latino is currently the only company in Ireland that caters the naked chef experience.
They come prepared with all necessary ingredients, based on a pre-decided menu and the number of guests. However, while throwing a hen party at home it’s comfortable and informal, you may wish to have it in a separate location too! In that case, they will put together a luxury hen party package in Dublin, with a private venue for the show, a limousine tour, a VIP entrance in the coolest night club of the city, and other fun and exciting hen do activities.
The naked chef provides cooking classes for all hen parties, hag parties, and LGBT. The naughty chef takes the opportunity to teach the girls some tips from traditional recipes to cook Italian cuisine, tricks that the bride can bring home with her to impress her future husband. All the guests can be assured of a pleasant evening with good food and delightful company, while sipping on fine Italian wine. The additional spice to this activity is not just the red hot pepper, but also the fact that the chef wears nothing but a mini apron!
After the completion of the cookery lesson, the chef, along with his lovely assistant, serves the traditional Italian dishes to all the hungry hens. The food is prepared from the freshest ingredients, avoiding any pre-packaged materials. They are also specialized in providing gluten free and dairy free meals and also taking care of any other special requests.
Now that the food is served, it is game time! The naked chef will play some fun and naughty games, like the intriguing blindfold guessing ingredient, where the bride needs to guess a secret ingredient.
Not only refined catering service, Hen party Latino organizes many other activities, like the infamous Nude life drawing, Cocktail Master class and 80’s dance. They know how every bridesmaid dreams of a perfect bachelorette party for the bride-to-be. And that is where they come to her help. They will make sure it is just the way she wishes, and will put their best effort to delight and entertain the guests. They will also customize the services by the desires of the partygoers - right from the party menu to the game activities. As long as the hens are happy, Hen Party Latino are happy!
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Abel Magwitch
Joe Gargery
Is Pip a success or a failure?
Crime and Transportation
Great Expectations and The Bildungsroman
Sample A+ Essay
Summary Chapters 1–3
Summary: Chapter 1
As an infant, Philip Pirrip was unable to pronounce either his first name or his last; doing his best, he called himself “Pip,” and the name stuck. Now Pip, a young boy, is an orphan living in his sister’s house in the marsh country in southeast England.
One evening, Pip sits in the isolated village churchyard, staring at his parents’ tombstones. Suddenly, a horrific man, growling, dressed in rags, and with his leg in chains, springs out from behind the gravestones and seizes Pip. This escaped convict questions Pip harshly and demands that Pip bring him food and a file with which he can saw away his leg irons.
Frightened into obedience, Pip runs to the house he shares with his overbearing sister and her kindly husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery. The boy stashes some bread and butter in one leg of his pants, but he is unable to get away quickly. It is Christmas Eve, and Pip is forced to stir the holiday pudding all evening. His sister, whom Pip calls Mrs. Joe, thunders about. She threatens Pip and Joe with her cane, which she has named Tickler, and with a foul-tasting concoction called tar-water. Very early the next morning, Pip sneaks down to the pantry, where he steals some brandy (mistakenly refilling the bottle with tar-water, though we do not learn this until Chapter 4) and a pork pie for the convict. He then sneaks to Joe’s smithy, where he steals a file. Stealthily, he heads back into the marshes to meet the convict.
Unfortunately, the first man he finds hiding in the marshes is actually a second, different convict, who tries to strike Pip and then flees. When Pip finally comes upon his original tormentor, he finds him suffering, cold, wet, and hungry. Pip is kind to the man, but the convict becomes violent again when Pip mentions the other escapee he encountered in the marsh, as though the news troubles him greatly. As the convict scrapes at his leg irons with the file, Pip slips away through the mists and returns home.
Analysis: Chapters 1–3
The first chapters of Great Expectations set the plot in motion while introducing Pip and his world. As both narrator and protagonist, Pip is naturally the most important character in Great Expectations: the novel is his story, told in his words, and his perceptions utterly define the events and characters of the book. As a result, Dickens’s most important task as a writer in Great Expectations is the creation of Pip’s character. Because Pip’s is the voice with which he tells his story, Dickens must make his voice believably human while also ensuring that it conveys all the information necessary to the plot. In this first section, Pip is a young child, and Dickens masterfully uses Pip’s narration to evoke the feelings and problems of childhood. At the beginning of the novel, for instance, Pip is looking at his parents’ gravestones, a solemn scene which Dickens renders comical by having Pip ponder the exact inscriptions on the tombstones. When the convict questions him about his parents’ names, Pip recites them exactly as they appear on the tombstones, indicating his youthful innocence while simultaneously allowing Dickens to lessen the dramatic tension of the novel’s opening.
As befits a well-meaning child whose moral reasoning is unsophisticated, Pip is horrified by the convict. But despite his horror, he treats him with compassion and kindness. It would have been easy for Pip to run to Joe or to the police for help rather than stealing the food and the file, but Pip honors his promise to the suffering man—and when he learns that the police are searching for him, he even worries for his safety. Still, throughout this section, Pip’s self-commentary mostly emphasizes his negative qualities: his dishonesty and his guilt. This is characteristic of Pip as a narrator throughout Great Expectations. Despite his many admirable qualities—the strongest of which are compassion, loyalty, and conscience—Pip constantly focuses on his failures and shortcomings. To understand him as a character, it is necessary to look beyond his self-descriptions and consider his actions. In fact, it may be his powerful sense of his own moral shortcomings that motivates Pip to act so morally. As the novel progresses, the theme of self-improvement, particularly economic and social self-improvement, will become central to the story. In that sense, Pip’s deep-seated sense of moral obligation, which is first exhibited in this section, works as a kind of psychological counterpart to the novel’s theme of social advancement.
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