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'My heart says carry on but my head says take it easy' - Norfolk coach firm to close after cancer diagnosis
PUBLISHED: 07:55 06 June 2018 | UPDATED: 12:41 06 June 2018
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The head of Norfolk's oldest family-run coach business has spoken of his heartbreak as more than a century of travel comes to an end next month.
Charles Reynolds said it was time to think of himself and his wife after a bombshell cancer diagnosis last year and calls for him to "take it easy."
The 62-year-old is the third generation to take the wheel at Caister-based Reynolds Coaches, running a fleet of 20 coaches all famously named after members of his family or special nominated VIPs.
Mr Reynolds said: "My heart is saying carry on but my head and all the advice says to take it easy."
An auction is likely to take place at the Caister site in August.
Mr Reynolds said that it wasn't what he wanted or expected but hailed the loyalty of staff and customers over the years.
He said medics had "done a good job" on him and that treatment looked to be working and his prognosis much improved.
"I have had some scans and x-rays and things look to be on the right track," he said.
"But physically I am not what I was six months ago and working 80 to 90 hours a week as I normally do is not conducive to my health.
"I have no successor and I simply cannot carry on running this as it is.
"It was a decision I did not want to make but I have to be fair to my wife and my family and to myself. But I am staying in politics."
The company was set up by Mr Reynolds' grandfather, a builder and haulier who started off with horses and carts.
It shrunk to virtually nothing during the Second World War but bounced back under the care of Mr Reynolds' parents.
He first remembers being involved in the business as a six year old manning the petrol pumps.
He delivered the news to staff this week and said he had had some lovely messages of support.
"There are literally dozens of people that I talk to as friends on the phone that I have never met in person but those relationships have built up and we have always tried to do our best.
"Everything comes to an end. It is heartbreaking for me after three generations and over 100 years.
"I shall miss it terribly and miss my staff and customers, but it is time for me."
The company employs some 21 people during peak periods.
It has been ferrying children to and from school for decades and will honour its 14 Norfolk County Council contracts until the end of July.
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Royal Pines is one of the Gold Coast's most prestigious communities and a highly sought after lifestyle precinct, located only 15 minutes from the beaches, dining and retail precincts of Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach.
Adjoining the Royal Pines Marina, Marina Concourse represents the final instalment of Sunland's visionary master plan, delivering elegant new residential apartments and dining, retail and leisure spaces. The majority of apartments are north facing overlooking the water, and include two secure basement car parks. Resident amenities include a private pool and entertaining pavilion.
Prices start from $535,000 for the 2 Bedrooms, 2 Bedrooms plus study $649,00 and $855,000 for the 3 Bedroom with balcony and terrace. Also a 3 bedroom 204m2 Penthouse with 18 m2 balcony is available POA. At this stage we anticipate construction to be completed in the first half of 2018.
Sunland Group is passionate about contributing to the enduring beauty and vibrancy of communities through the creation of inspiring environments. It's a signature tradition we've embedded in our developments around Australia for more than 33 years – a consistent commitment to enduring design excellence, partnered with human values.
Nestling the gentle waters of the Royal Pines Marina, Marina Concourse presents the ultimate blend of natural beauty and inspired architecture – 110 luxurious apartments and penthouses, perfected by stunning views and sophisticated interior design. At the marina level, a collection of dining and leisure spaces and expansive landscaped gardens have been created for the enjoyment of residents and the community. Interiors
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Brookfield Planning Meeting | January 20, 2017
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Meeting Notes
Brookfield New Hampshire Planning Board meeting from 1/20/17. The board meets at the Town Offices, 267 Wentworth Rd and this meeting began at 6:30 pm. Members of the planning Board are: Rick Surrette, Chair, Rob Collins, Geary Ciccarone, Ed Comeau, Vice Chair, David Champy II, Jim Freeman, Alternate, Dianne Smith, and George Nick, Administrative Assistant.
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13 Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.' 14 Many are invited, but few are chosen."
The Elect of God. The judgment seems harsh, but Matthew is thinking not of an actual wedding party, but of the last judgment. The language "weeping and gnashing of teeth" corresponds to 8:12; 13:42, 50; 24:51; 25:30, an apocalyptic expression (cf. Luke 13:28) that became a favorite of Matthew's to picture the terror of condemnation at the last judgment.
Matthew does not use "call" (kaleō) in the sense of "effective call," as does Paul, but in the sense of initial invitation to become a disciple. Whether one is actually "chosen" (eklektos, "elected," i.e., accepted in the last judgment) depends on manifesting authentic Christian faith in deeds of love and justice. For the first time Matthew explicitly appropriates the term rendered "elect," referring it not to a specific group (Jews, Christians), but to those who will finally be accepted in the last judgment (see also 24:22, 24, 31). The focus of an elect people of God has shifted from the OT understanding of the people of Israel as a whole to that of the righteous "remnant," a shift already made in some streams of Judaism.
Reflections. From Eugene Boring:
The theological point of 22:11–14 is that those who find themselves unexpectedly included may not presume on grace, but are warned of the dire consequences of accepting the invitation and doing nothing except showing up. By concluding in this manner, Matthew makes it clear that such pictures in which unfaithful Israel is condemned are not an encouragement to smugness on the part of his Christian readers. The "elect" are not the church as a replacement for Israel, but those finally accepted in the last judgment. The whole section, in fact, is directed to the Matthean reader. It is instruction and warning to insiders, not a description of the fate of outsiders, confessional language rather than objectifying report. At this point, Matthew does join his voice with his fellow Jewish convert, who laments the present rejection of Israel: "Therefore, whoever thinks he is standing secure should take care not to fall" (1 Cor 10:12; cf. Romans 9-11)
Matthew 22:13 wailing and grinding of teeth: the Christian who lacks the wedding garment of good deeds will suffer the same fate as those Jews who have rejected Jesus. A phrase used frequently in this gospel to describe final condemnation (Mt 8:11, 13:42, 50; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30). It is found elsewhere in the New Testament only in Lk 13:28.
- K. Beale and D. A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI; Nottingham, UK: Baker Academic; Apollos, 2007)
- Eugene Boring, The Gospel of Matthew in The New Interpreter's Bible, VIII (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1994) 377-79
- Warren Carter, Matthew and the Margins: A Sociopolitical and Religious Reading (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Book, 2000) 432-37
- T. France, The Gospel of Matthew in the New International Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdman's Publishing, 2007) 746-52
- T. France, Matthew: An Introduction and Commentary in the Tyndale New Testament Commentaries, Vol. 1, ed. Leon Morris (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1989) 292-94
- Daniel J. Harrington, The Gospel of Matthew, vol. 1 of Sacra Pagina, ed. Daniel J. Harrington (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1991) 282-85
- Arland J. Hultgren, The Parables of Jesus: A Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdman's Publishing, 2000) 341-49
- Craig S. Keener, The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdman's Publishing, 2009) 517-23
- Turner and D.L. Bock, Matthew and Mark in the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary, vol. 11 (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005) 279-82
- David Noel Freedman, The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1996)
- Gerhard Kittel, Gerhard Friedrich and Geoffrey William Bromiley, Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans, 1995)
- Horst Robert Balz and Gerhard Schneider, Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1990)
Scripture: The New American Bible available on-line at http://www.usccb.org/bible/index.cfm


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Note: goMobi has delayed the release of v1.8.2 until March 21, 2013.
On March 12, March 21, goMobi plans to release an update to the goMobi mobile website service. Full details on the new features and enhancements to goMobi are available in a PDF provided by goMobi.
Some of the highlights of this release include:
- New feature: Find Us feature - adds "Verify Map Location" in the dashboard when adding your location to the site
- New feature: New sharing options - business social network LinkedIn has been added
- New feature: Added the ability to add any 3rd-party source code to features that have a WYSIWYG editor
- New feature: New Site Cookie notification feature (for EU privacy compliance)
- Usability improvement: 'Create Page' character restriction removed so users can create pages with more content
- Usability improvement: Activated features will be displayed at top of Features list for easier editing
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Delhi is the most fascinating place in the world which every tourist tends to visit once in the life time. This is one such place that owes a huge ancient history and is even a modernized place and one can easily feel the sign of development everywhere. In the capital city of India one can see the culture as well as tradition and people who love to spend a vacation can easily choose the Delhi city tour and enjoy various interesting things around the city. Starting from the food till the attractions fascinate every traveler and it is even true that people of all sectors can spend a memorable vacation in this fast growing city. One can even explore the marvelous beauty of the constructions and the massive Red Fort in the city which allow people to enjoy witnessing the lovely art and architecture of Mughal rulers. Jama Masjid, The Imperial, Hazra Nizam-ud-din Dargah and a few more are not just popular,but are the places which one must explore during the vacation in Delhi.
A Few Incredible Things to Do During the Delhi City Tour
Make a plan
Choose the City Tour from a reputed tour planner and make sure that you pick the heritage tour, which offers a wonderful chance to visit the Old Delhi and other places that are worthy of exploring. The complete city is a feast to the eyes of the travelers as this region is a paradise of foodies, loaded with religious places and at the same time one can see the architectural marvels. The Humayun's Tomb, Qutub Minar, Lodi gardens, Lotus Temple, Akshardham, the bazaars of Old Delhi and a few more are worthy to explore during your stay in Delhi. All these are the examples of the historic significance of the modern city and along with the royal constructions there are a few contemporary wonders. Apart from the Jantar Mantar and UNESCO world heritage sites the city mesmerizes its visitors with the museums that are loaded with rich collections. The Crafts Museum, Children's Museum of Delhi, Nehru Museum, Gandhi Museum and a few more are not just educational but are even extremely worthy to visit.
Never forget to eat
During your Delhi city tour make sure you taste a few lip smacking dishes that are not just tempting but are one that fulfill your appetite. The kakori kebabs, Faluda, crispy kachori, dilli kay chole, sev puri and a few more in the streets of the Old Delhi always welcome people to have a bite of the delicious snack. And it is true that the holiday in the city doesn't get completed without eating the delicious and spicy street food in Delhi and a traveler turns to be a foodie after the visit to the capital. There are food joints that offer traditional food as well as the delicacies of various cuisines and one should never miss the fabulous feast served at the bazaars. People who love food can enjoy various varieties of dishes that are specially prepared and one can get a wonderful food the modern restaurants and even taste the street food which fills the tummy as well as heart with a unique taste.
Here is the Delhi shopping guide and things to buy during your trip as this fabulous place is worthy of filling your bag with exceptional collection. Starting from the apparels till the spices one can get various things in the market of the Delhi. Just pay a visit to the Chandini Chowk and get amazing goods including accessories, footwear, handicrafts and many more on the streets of the capital. Starting from the glittering wonders at the Moti Bazaar, Moon Square Market, Chawri Bazaar and a few more offer a unique and classy piece of goods of all sorts.
Choose a tour plan
Get the Delhi day tour packages only from the reputed and licensed service providers or the tour planners who offer an outstanding schedule that offers a feast for your eyes and fills the heart with memories of Delhi during holidays. Whatever may be your choice of exploring or spending your holiday you get everything in Delhi to get entertained as per your age. So get all your reservations done and follow the tour plan as this is one easy way to explore the dazzling city Delhi in a hassle free manner.


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If you've read some of our other blogs, you know that we're big advocates of creating quality content that informs and educates your audience. You're the expert on your business – why shouldn't you let your customers know? They'll be more likely to work with a company they trust to lead them down the right path. Sometimes, however, it can feel like you're talking to no one. Why is no one reading your blogs, interacting with your social media posts, or opening your emails? Here are four reasons why your content might be missing the mark and what to do about it.
1. You're not sharing content where your customers want to consume it.
You have no shortage of options when deciding where to publicize your content. You can put it on your website, share it one of hundreds of social media platforms, email it out in a newsletter, or even send a text. Which of these methods will be most effective for your customers? There's no way to know unless you ask them. Just like you prefer certain social media networks to others, your customers have preferences, too. If you're just posting your content wherever and however is most convenient for you, you're missing the point. It's important to understand how your customers want to receive information so you can make sure they see it.
2. You're treating all your customers like they're the same person.
Your customers are people – never forget that. They have different needs, wants, preferences, and dislikes. It's up to you to get to know them and to make sure they know you value them. That means personalized email campaigns that go well beyond just slotting in their name. Know your customers and give them the content that's going to be meaningful to them. If you're not sure how to achieve this, remember that you can't go wrong by asking. Ask your customers to tell you what kinds of content they prefer to read and adjust what you're publishing to suit their tastes – they won't all give you the same answer.
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You know the story you want to tell with your content and the information that you think is important. That's great, but remember that it's your customers that you're really trying to wow. Make sure your posts, emails, etc. are directly related to what your customers want to learn. A good way to figure out what customers want to know is to think about the most common questions you are asked on a daily basis. Answer a few of those in a single blog post, or write a longer piece diving deep into one particular topic. As you have hopefully started to see by now, asking your customers what kind of content they want to see will be very useful as well. You might be surprised where their interests lie!
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It remains a busy time for discussions about the future of the Tacoma Tideflats and industrial developments on the working waterfront.
The largest of those discussions was a set of public hearings Tuesday on the recently released draft of a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the liquefied natural gas plant that Puget Sound Energy is building. The hearings drew hundreds of demonstrators and a parade of comments that ran well into the evening. Tacoma City Council also took up its interim regulations on the Tideflats Tuesday with a final reading now set for Nov. 13. And, of course, the subarea planning process for the waterfront is still in the works.
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency held the two comment meetings Tuesday after it released the draft SEIS on the 8-million-gallon LNG facility. The draft report was required after the air quality agency found that the initial environmental review failed to take the collection-to-distribution impacts into account. The draft concluded that the plant would lower the area's generation of greenhouse gases only if it piped in natural gas from British Columbia.
PSE is building the facility to make cleaner burning fuel for TOTE ships between Tacoma and Alaska as well as to serve as a storage facility for utility customers to use during extreme weather conditions.
Critics of the project range from environmental groups such as the Sightline Institute, Redefine Tacoma and the Puyallup Tribe of Indians. These groups, and others, worry that the plant is an environmental risk located too close to urban areas; that it would continue the nation's reliance on fossil fuel rather than on more renewable energy sources; and would not leave Puget Sound air, water or land any cleaner.
The newest critic of the project is Citizens for a Healthy Bay (CHB), a 28-year-old environmental nonprofit that monitors developments on Commencement Bay. It had largely remained neutral but has since called out what it claims is PSE's lack of transparency and use of outdated review methods to promote the project.
"For the SEIS, CHB's Policy and Technical Advisory Committee, staff and board have reviewed information in light of recently published reports on climate change, and we are alarmed by the new information available on this project," CHB Executive Director Melissa Malott wrote to the clean air agency. "Within the SEIS is information that shows the LNG plant would have higher climate impacts than the no action alternative for the life of the project, and CHB finds that the LNG project poses unacceptable risks to Commencement Bay and the Tacoma environment."
The two main concerns that the nonprofit, and other environmental groups, point out is that the math used to determine emission impacts dates back more than a decade, when the "best available" method is readily available and used. The prevailing science shows that greenhouse gases are causing global warming at an ever-increasing rate. That climate change is affecting sea levels and habitats. Those changes could be irreversible in a matter of decades, so the project's timeline of a century not only downplays its actual impact but adds to the troubles.
"Cutting greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 is a massive task and will take drastic, unprecedented measures to accomplish," Malott wrote. "With the scale of change that needs to happen in mind, the LNG project is a step in exactly the wrong direction. Increasing methane emissions, which are 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, in the next few decades is the opposite of what we should be doing."
The clean air agency will now fold the public comments into its final report, which is expected to be released in February.
While protestors, and a handful of supporters of the LNG project, voiced their thoughts on the Tideflats project, Tacoma City Council held a study session and first reading on the continuation of its interim regulations, which have been in effect for a year and will otherwise expire in December.
The interim regulations are almost certain to pass in some form at the council's second reading of the ordinance on Nov. 13. Councilmember Ryan Mello, however, introduced a substitute ordinance that would require expanded reviews for heavy industrial operations on the Tideflats. He noted that an expansion of one of the three oil refineries on the Tideflats would essentially be the same as adding a new facility, something the council has been against. Mello argued that the tighter controls are needed as the Trump Administration steps up its calls for gas exports, particularly through West Coast ports to places like China.
"The conditions have substantially changed since we last talked about this a year ago," he said.
The interim rules, in whatever form they ultimately take, will last another six months before they face another renewal vote, which is a requirement of state law.
The rules put either an outright pause or require more oversight of developments and expansions on the Tideflats as the city conducts a Subarea Plan process to hash out zoning changes for the working water front. The effort will involve the City of Tacoma, Port of Tacoma and the Puyallup Tribe, since the tribe's reservation spans most of the waterway. Formal calls for the parcel-by-parcel review of properties and their zoning rules started a year ago with little agreement on which agencies should drive the process.
That changed when Tacoma threatened to fund the process itself if the governments couldn't develop a work plan by the end of the year. The current agreement has the city and port fronting $500,000 each for the cost of the plan and $200,000 coming from the tribe. The pact also forms a steering committee made up of two members from each of the governments as well as two from Pierce County and Fife, since they are also area that have vested interest in the future of the Tideflats. This five-government steering committee will develop a work plan – establish timelines, public comment systems and scopes of the work that would all be needed to then hire a consultant to coordinate the work.
Where to find more information
The draft Supplemental Environmental Impact State is available at all Tacoma Public Library branches as well as on Puget Sound Clean Air Agency's website: pscleanair.org. The comment period for the draft ends Nov. 21.
Information about the Tideflats Interim Regulations and the Tideflats Subarea plan can be found at cityoftacoma.org/tideflatsinterim.


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Flag of Tuvalu
In October 1978, the national flag of Tuvalu has been approved as a symbol of the country along with his coat of arms.
Description and proportions of the flag of Tuvalu
Rectangular flag flag of Tuvalu -the classical form of flags of independent nations of the world. Its length and width are related to each other according to a ratio of 2: 1. The main field of the flag of Tuvalu bright blue. The top quarter closest to the flag of Great Britain entered the shaft, under whose protectorate in 1892 turned out to be an archipelago. On the right side of the cloth are nine five-pointed star, symbolizing the atolls that make up the archipelago of Tuvalu. Location of stars on the flag follows the geographical location of islands in the Pacific Ocean. The blue color of the flag - a boundless ocean.
Flag of Tuvalu on the law of the country can beIt used both on land and in the water for any purpose. It can raise the citizens and the state institutions, the army and navy, the civil court and the merchant navy.
The history of the flag of Tuvalu
Under the protectorate and colonialDepending on the UK, the government of Tuvalu flag used as a typical panel, adopted in British overseas possessions. On a blue field in the upper quarter near the staff fit UK flag, and was located on the right half of the coat of arms of Tuvalu.
In 1978, the modern flag was adopted Tuvaluwho was on the flagpoles before 1996. Then Prime Minister Latasi introduced a new state symbol in order to initiate the process of changing the political system and the abolition of the monarchy. According to his plan, Tuvalu had become a republic, and flag design proposes a wide central blue stripe running horizontally and separated from the upper and lower fields of red thin white stripes. To the left of the flagpole on the blue field, hit an isosceles triangle white coated with a coat of arms of the state. To the right of the flag cloth placed eight five-pointed stars of white color: two - on the red field and four - on blue.
This flag Tuvalu lasted about one and a halfyears and caused a negative reaction among the population. They demanded to return to the previous symbol flagpoles, and monarchical authority of Her Majesty to leave untouched. In April 1997, the new prime minister took his place in the government, and the former flag of Tuvalu - a place on the flagpoles.


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Find out why Paris is the chocolate capital of the world with our guide to the city's best chocolate shops. Each master chocolatier on our list produces signature melt-in-your mouth chocolates, be it a truffle, chocolate bar, bonbon, praline or some other sinfully delicious concoction. Rich, luxurious and wonderfully decadent – chocolate lovers have never had it sweeter.
You never know what to expect when you visit Patrick Roger's whimsical chocolate shop. Roger never ceases to surprise and delight us with his dazzling life-sized chocolate sculptures and quirky window displays. Named best chocolatier of France in 2000, Roger has made a name for himself in the artisanal chocolate industry, setting himself apart by creating sinfully delicious bonbons and chocolates in exotic yet refined flavor combinations such as lime-caramel and lemon-basil. Roger's exquisite chocolates and sculptures has illustrated his great attention to detail along with his amazing level of creativity and passion for his art.
Founded in 1977 in Paris, La Maison Du Chocolat opened its door to a world of creative excellence and passion. The visionary behind the world famous chocolate shop is Robert Linxe who was dubbed the "sorcerer of ganache." Linxe is a master in crafting chocolates with the creamiest ganache, creating each delicate piece with the most harmonious and balanced use of ingredients. Today, La Maison du Chocolat has gained worldwide acclaim and is world-renowned for its exquisite chocolate creations.
Jacques Genin his undoubtedly mastered the art of classic French pastries. From caramels, éclairs, millefeuilles to Paris-brests, there is seemingly nothing Jacques Genin makes that is not utterly delicious, and we haven't even begun on his chocolate yet. Named one of the top French chocolatiers in 2010 by Club des Croqueurs de Chocolat, Genin offers the essence of great chocolate. Displayed in his shop like jewels, his dainty squared chocolates are made fresh daily, handled with care and packaged in beautiful tin boxes.
At Jean-Charles Rochoux, you will find yourself in a charming chocolate shop filled with lots of little wonders that will keep you absolutely enchanted. Rochoux packs an unbelievable amount of options in his tiny shop including perfectly shaped chocolate sculptures of figurines and animals, all of which is beautifully crafted in Rochoux's workshop just beneath his shop. His bonbons, ganaches, pralines and truffles are equally impression. Choose from flavors like blackcurrant, basil, peppercorn and rose.
Step back in time and enjoy a slice of true Parisian history at A la Mère de Famille. Founded in 1761, this charming store is Paris's oldest sweet shop and is an absolute must-go destination for chocolate lovers. The shop offers a wide range of irresistible artisan chocolates, including a great selection of single-origin chocolate bars from Madagascar, Ecuador, Venezuela and more. The company now has several other locations in Paris, but a visit to the original shop is a must. The shop is certainly enchanting as the floor tiles, display cases, and furnishings are all true vintage Paris.


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Idris Elba proposes to girlfriend Sabrina Dhowre at film festival
Dave Benett/Getty Images(LONDON) — Idris Elba is officially off the market.
The Luther star proposed to his girlfriend, model Sabrina Dhowre, on Saturday at Rio Cinema in London, where he was screening his directorial debut, Yardie.
In one fan video, Elba is seen down on his knee before popping up to hug his now-fiancee; the audience applauds loudly.
The news of his engagement comes months after the actor was quoted as saying he'd never get married again.
"Am I ever gonna get remarried? I don't think so. Yeah, I don't think so," he told Essence magazine last July. "Marriage is an institution of sorts. And I've done it. It's not for everybody. It's not my life's calling."
Elba and and Dhowre made their first public appearance together last year at the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Molly's Game.
The SAG Award-winner told People magazine that he fell in love with Dhowre while filming The Mountain Between Us, which saw him co-star with Kate Winslet.
"Falling in love while making a movie about falling in love is pretty special," Elba said last year.
This will be the third marriage for Elba, who was previously wed to makeup artist Hanne Norgaard and lawyer Sonya Hamlin. Elba and Norgaard are parents to a 15-year-old daughter named Isan. He's also a father to Winston, born in 2014, with makeup artist Naiyana Garth.
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Citing 'Inept' Management, N.J. Chief Targets Paterson Schools for Takeover
The education commissioner of New Jersey began legal proceedings this month for a takeover of the state's third largest school district, charging that the Paterson public schools have robbed students of a sound education through decades of severe mismanagement.
Commissioner John Ellis gave Paterson school officials until April 26 to show why the state should not seize control of the 24,500-student district.
The state chief predicted last week that three volumes of documents chronicling what he said was a history of "inept" management would be difficult to refute.
"If additional information would be introduced during court proceedings, I'd be open-minded to considering it," Mr. Ellis said. "But right now, I feel comfortable that the evidence supported the decision" to begin the takeover process.
The Paterson school board, which contends that the district's inadequacies stem largely from a state system of school finance that was struck down last year, has vowed to fight the move.3
The radical step would be the second district takeover in New Jersey for failure to comply with state educational standards. In October 1989, the state assumed control of the Jersey City district, the state's second largest, replacing the local superinten dent with a successor who reorga nized the staff, laid off employees, and decentralized school control. (See Education Week, Oct. 11, 1989.
While the Jersey City takeover was justified primarily on the grounds of political corruption in the local district, such a move against Paterson would be in response to what Mr. Ellis characterized as "ineptness, lack of appropriate man agement, failure to act, bickering, poor policy management, failure to assign teachers, and hire the right people for the job."
Those and other charges, Paterson school officials maintain, stem mainly from grossly inadequate state funding. They readily acknowledge such problems cited by the state as inadequate and overcrowded facilities, numerous violations of building codes, a lack of school libraries, and inadequate staffing.
A Paterson takeover would be the first since the state supreme court ruled that New Jersey's educational finance system unconstitutionally deprived urban-district students of a "thorough and efficient" education.
The president of the city's school board, Elease Evans, pointed out last week that the 1990 decision in the finance case, Abbott v. Burke, specifically mentioned Paterson as one of the urban districts burdened by the finance system.
Eli Burgos, a former school-H board member, added: "The com plexities of our problems were such that huge sacrifices had to be made to correct the deficiencies, and those sacrifices would only cause noncompliance in other areas."4
Otherwise, he said, "It would be robbing Peter to pay Paul."
Under a new state finance law-- the Quality Education Act, adopted last summer--the Paterson schools were to get $47.6 million in extra aid for the 1991-92 school year.3
But revisions to the law, approved last month, shaved $16.4 million from that infusion. Because of strict spending caps also passed by the leg islature, the district will ultimately receive only a $21.4-million boost. The bulk of that amount, district offi cials say, will be consumed by escalat ing insurance costs and needed in creases in at-risk and special- education programs.
And, with a takeover apparently imminent, they argue, any improve ments the district might have seen with even the reduced additional aid will likely remain unknown.
"The education department is not very honest in fighting for a thor ough and efficient education, what they called a tee," Ms. Evans said. "They found a new acronym in the qea, but the legislature immedi ately shot it down."
But supporters of a takeover say the district's problems go well be yond money.3
And even Paterson's mayor favors state seizure of the city's schools.
Mayor William Pascrell, who is also a Democratic state legislator, said the city government would not take on an adversarial role during the proceedings.
"We will do everything we can to help" the state's action, Mr. Pascrell said last week. "It's time to turn to the next chapter in education in PaH terson, N.J." "The political charges are just oke," added Melindo A. Persi, su perintendent of the Passaic County Schools, an administrative district encompassing Paterson and other independently governed districts 3within the county.
"It's tragic that it's come to this; we agree," he continued. "But we've got to put this behind us and go on ward and upward."
In 1989, Mr. Persi said, the PaterH son school board had to return 836,000 to the state because it failed to spend the money for the programs for which it was allocated. Last year, the district returned $1.2 million, he said, and he predicted that a substantial portion of the $5 million allocated for specific projects this year would also be returned.
"They're talking out of both sides of their mouths" about the adequacy of state funding, Mr. Persi charged.
"They've turned back more money to the state than most districts see in a lifetime."
Mr. Persi said a lack of communica tion between the city's schools and Paterson's central administration, not between administrators themelves, had paralyzed the district. For example, he said, for three years he has demanded that the dis trict develop a plan for substitute- teacher hiring and assignment, and for three years the money allocated for the plan has been returned.
Two weeks ago, Mr. Persi added, district officials shut down a three- year-old school with severe structur al deficiencies to allow an engineer to investigate. But as of last week, he said, no one had figured out what to do with its students once they re turn this week from spring break.
'Academic Bankruptcy' Law
State officials say the Paterson dis trict has not been certified under any system of state standards since 1976. In 1984, the district failed the state's first level of monitoring. In 1987, un der state supervision, Paterson failed the second level of monitoring. A pan el of educators and education-depart ment staff members was then asgned to the district; again, it was unable to meet state standards.
A final study, completed by the department of education and two private consulting firms, was com pleted April 1. After reviewing the findings, Commissioner Ellis on April 12 announced his decision to initiate takeover action.
The process follows procedures established by a 1988 law authorizing the state to take control of local systems deemed "academically bankrupt" and unable to provide a "thorough and efficient" education.
The battle between state and city education officials is likely to end up in court if the state presses ahead with takeover plans after April 26.
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What are the signs and symptoms of Achilles' Tendon injury?
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- Sports – Sports involving running, jumping and sudden sprints and stops (basketball, tennis, soccer, etc) increase risk of Achilles' tendon rupture.
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In segmented, Victorian New York, a black prostitute, a white millionaire and an Orthodox Jewish merchant would never meet. But through her work sewing beautiful corsets, Esther befriends all three, as they search for love and happiness against the odds. A great play with a little naughtiness, a little drama, and a little comedy. A little something for everybody.
Featuring Victoria Benkoski, Aileem Penn, Kelsy Nevins, Andrew Vroman, Carolyn McLaughlin and Rebekah Brisbane
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by Danai Gurira. Starring Adrian Coleman, Angelique Powell, D. Colin, Kendra Neal, Michelle Gordon. Amid the chaos of the Liberian Civil War, the captive "wives" of a rebel officer band together to form a fragile community.
"Soul Rebel Performance Troupe stages Tony Award-winning play 'Eclipsed'" (Times Union, July 2016)
Wedding Secrets
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by Joe Starzyk at the Russell Sage College – James L. Meader Little Theatre in Troy, NY
Who ever thought falling in love could be so @#$%ing complicated?!
Emmett Ferris, Sharon DeSilva, Dan DeWolf, Rita Machin, Aileem Penn, Kelsy Nevins, Keyonn Everett, Suzanne Baker, Nora Collins, Matt Calautti, Joe Starzyk, Mary Daigneaux, Meghen Ryan
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Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
February 2016
by William Hanley at the Sand Lake Center for the Arts in Averill Park. (Averill Park, NY)
What will happen when an anxious young black man, an old German immigrant and a pregnant, white teenager are thrown together on a strange, dark, fateful night in Brooklyn? Find out!
Aileem Penn, Bill Douglas, Katharine Dashiell
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As the first songwriter awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan's win has surprised many. In response, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius (who professes herself a Bowie fan), says Dylan is "a great poet in the English-speaking tradition". She argues: "If you look far back... you discover Homer and Sappho. They wrote poetic texts that were meant to be listened to, performed, often together with instruments, and it's the same way for Bob Dylan. We still read Homer and Sappho, and we enjoy it. Same thing with Bob Dylan – he can be read and should be read."
Now that the remit has widened, which other songwriters deserve the honour? Here are some suggestions.
Smokey Robinson
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Whether or not Dylan really called Smokey Robinson "America's greatest living poet", his exquisite songwriting has become a benchmark of the classic soul canon and beyond. Aside from his own sweetly-sung Motown hits with The Miracles (The Tracks Of My Tears; I Second That Emotion), Robinson penned finely-tuned killer tracks for the likes of The Temptations (My Girl; Get Ready), The Marvelettes (The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game), Marvin Gaye (Ain't That Peculiar), and many more. And Paul McCartney definitely did say: "Smokey Robinson was like God in our eyes".
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The bleakly beautiful paeans and acid ripostes of this Manchester indie anti-hero have seized the hearts of generations, from The Smiths' classics including There Is A Light That Never Goes Out and This Charming Man to Morrissey's solo hits such as Everyday Is Like Sunday (1988). Admittedly, Moz is more likely to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for his song lyrics than his fiction effort, the widely-panned 2015 novella List Of The Lost.
Chuck D
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There is no mistaking the incendiary and eloquent delivery of Public Enemy's frontman – or the fact that hip hop anthems such as Don't Believe The Hype and Fight The Power delivered a genuine shock to the mainstream system. On the clamorous and funky Revolutionary Generation (from 1990 album Fear Of A Black Planet), Chuck also pays due respect to black female power: "Day to day, America eats its young/ And defeats our women/ There is a gap so wide we can swim in".
Kate Bush
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Ever since Kate Bush's youthful breakthrough with Wuthering Heights in 1978, her lyrics have had a consciously literary character. Whether she is channelling Emily Brontë or James Joyce, or spinning purely from her own imagination, from 1985's Cloudbusting to 2005's King Of The Mountain, Bush is an extraordinary, vivid storyteller.
Caetano Veloso
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He is a Brazilian Tropicália icon, collaborative spirit and prolific writer, whose songs have captured a provocative, political spirit since the late 1960s. Early works such as É Proibido Proibir (It Is Forbidden To Forbid) have triggered riotous audience reactions; later successes have won him Grammys and other global accolades.
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Like Dylan, the award-festooned, multi-lingual Indian poet and lyricst Sampooran Singh Kalra, also known as Gulzar, has previously won an Oscar for his songwriting (for Jai Ho, his collaboration with AR Rahman on 2007's Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack). Gulzar's Bollywood smash hits have been praised for their spiritual complexity; for one of his best-known works, Chaiya Chaiya (another Rahman collaboration, from 1998 film Dil Se), he took inspiration from a 17th-Century Sufi folk poem.
Patti Smith
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Punk poetess, Mapplethorpe muse, and art rocker Patti Smith's expressions have ranged from righteous rage to fantastically tender declarations of love. Her most quoted lyrics are arguably the opening lines to her 1975 debut album Horses ("Jesus died for someone's sins, but not mine"), but Smith's world is incredibly vast, and her work has involved increasingly global influences over the years.
Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell has never been a predictable songwriter, from her coffeehouse folk origins in Canada, to LA's febrile Laurel Canyon scene of the late 1960's and early '70s – before the stark revelations of her legendary 1971 album, Blue. From jaunty choruses to haunting confessions, and ever since, Mitchell's songs have proved both delicate and undeniably powerful.
Nick Cave
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As solo artist, collaborator, or most famously, as frontman of The Bad Seeds for over 30 years, Australian rocker Nick Cave has always combined hard and dirty riffs with brutally smart and often gut-wrenchingly funny lyricism. That power is there throughout tracks such as Red Right Hand (1994), and it sounds undeniably devastating after the artist's own personal tragedy, on his latest album with the band, Skeleton Tree.
Kanye West
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Having proclaimed himself "Yeezus" back in 2013, Kanye might well see the Nobel Prize as a sure thing (second) coming – and it would certainly add celeb swagger to the ceremony. Despite the bluster, Kanye has dropped some bombshell social commentary: take 2010 track Gorgeous: "Inter century anthems based off inner city tantrums/ Face it, Jerome get more time than Brandon/ And at the airport they check all through my bag and tell me that it's random".
Leonard Cohen
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There's an unmistakeably grizzled soul and a satirical edge to Cohen's celebrated songs, such as Hallelujah and First We Take Manhattan. His lyrics have an intensity that arguably relates to his novel writing; more than ever, they also seem to present us with a picture of our own mortality. Now 82, Cohen has just announced that his next album is on the way.
Stephen Sondheim
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On and off-Broadway, Sondheim has arguably elevated the showtune to a work of high art. The composer/lyricist's best-known and widely covered musical numbers, such as Send In The Clowns (from 1973's A Little Night Music) and Losing My Mind (from 1971's Follies) are dreamily romantic in tone, with a much darker heart at play.
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Sounds simple enough, but is not. If you suffer from celiac disease, and want to live a normal healthy lifestyle, then you would have to follow a special diet that excludes gluten products. You would have to consult your primary doctor and work with a nutritionist as well to see which diet regime works for you. Not to be alarmed, if you do suffer from gluten intolerance there is hope and a solution. Your nutritionist will work with you so can live a normal and good life. The key factor to remember is to avoid any wheat based products.
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Just a Guy Talking About Periods
Katie has a fantastic question, and Katie's question is; what kind of training should I do whilst I'm on my period, because I don't feel like training.
Katie, that's a fantastic question. I'm going to actually expand on this topic a little bit as well, and I'm going to try and explain some of the other processes that are going on in your body when you're on your period, and in the build up towards your period as well. Because there are some things going on that you might not have realised, and hopefully I can shed some light on this.
Now, obviously I've never had a period so bear with me – I know this is a guy talking about periods! Now it's 2017; guys if you're a PT and you train girls, have you talked to them about their period? Do you actually know that they are on their period as well, because you might make some wrong decisions in terms of, if you take their body fat for example, and they're in their two week run up to their period, you might think that their body-fat readings have gone up.
Now actually, what is happening, the two week build up to your period, your body takes on a bit more water, so you might actually, if you stood on the scales, be as much as five pounds heavier. Now this isn't body-fat, you haven't put on five pounds of body-fat, that's nuts!
What's going on is that your body is holding a bit more water than it would do normally. So all this means is that, yes, you might be a bit more bloated, but it's just water, don't panic, it's not body-fat.
Personal trainers, if you're taking a client's body-fat reading and you don't know that their period is just around the corner, you might think they've put on body-fat and you might think they've put on weight, because they stand on the scales and they're a little bit heavier, and body-fat readings have gone up. Actually they're just holding a bit more water than normal. So you then might make the wrong decision when it comes to programming their nutrition. You might think their calories should come down a bit, and actually you haven't asked them; 'Are you about to have your period?'. And if the answer is yes, then you should really be taking body-fat measurements until after their period. So that's a good one guys, bear that in mind.
So the other thing about the two week build up to your period, now this only applies more so in the week before, the period is such a high-energy process, that your body is going to be burning an extra 200 calories per day.
If you feel hungry in the build up to your period, that's because of your metabolism. This extra energy that's being burnt up in your body. So let's say for example that you're a girl. Obviously. Let's say you're a girl and you're about to have your period. And let's say you're doing some kind of fat-loss program. You might not be doing a fat-loss program, this applies to anyone who's not doing a fat-loss program. But you're hungry in the week prior to your period, what you need to do is look at your diet daily and factor in another 200 calories from either carbohydrate or protein.
And that's not a bad thing that you're eating more. Because what you're doing is breaking even essentially with your diet. So don't worry that you want to eat a bit more in the week prior, that's because of what's going on in your body. And you aren't going to put on any excess weight from that, because you're just breaking even.
Okay, so holding more water and being hungrier, those two covered. What kind of training should you do? Now I train a lot of girls, and when they're on their period, you're not going to have a fantastic training session. So what I'd do is treat it like a de-load session. So we might go a bit lighter with all the weights that we do, we might fewer reps.
If however, you weren't really sure what to do in the gym, you could just keep it very light, do a body-weights circuit. Find something like a medicine ball or a light kettle bell, do some squats with that, go straight into a TRX bodyweight kind of row, finish with something simple as, you know, a very light dumbbell press, or press-ups on your knees. You can rotate that round a few times. But as long as you're doing something, that's great, and what you'll probably find is you'll feel better for having done the exercise.
So, I'm not sure if you've seen many guys speak about what's going on when you're on your period, but, these are the kind of protocols I'll use with the girls that I train, and I train a lot of girls, so far.
So, Katie, I hope that's answered your question and also maybe given you a bit of an insight into what's going on. I know that it's weird – there's a guy talking to you about periods. And this is part of my job, so I don't really see this as an areas where I don't really know much about, because more than half my clients are female so you have to know about these things.
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Please click on the small horizontal bars at the top of this page to see photos, watch videos, learn where to donate, or sign the guestbook. Watch the entire 1 1/2 hour memorial here.
Saralee Halprin
November 17, 1922 – November 23, 2014
The Santa Monica pianist and teacher, Saralee Konigsberg Halprin, has died at age 92.
Please click on the small horizontal bars at the top of this page to see photos, watch videos, learn where to donate, or sign the guestbook.
Mrs. Halprin, known for her clean technique and bright sound, began playing the piano at the age of four when she imitated what her mother's singing group sang in their Cleveland home. A frequent winner of musical competitions, she studied with private teachers who offered her scholarships, and attended both the Longy School of Music in Boston and The Juilliard School in New York City on full scholarships. At the age of 21 she was the pianist with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra under Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell and Fritz Reiner.
In 1946 she joined her family in Los Angeles, and won the 1948 Hollywood Bowl Auditions of the Air, a national yearlong radio competition, for which she was awarded a performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. It was in Los Angeles that she met her husband Leahn Joshua Halprin, a farmer and artist from Yuba City, whose family started the Pacific Coast Textile Company in Los Angeles to support the farm during the Great Depression. They spent time in both communities until Mr. Halprin's death in 1976.
In addition to her work as a solo pianist, she performed with cellists Harold Schneir, and George Neikrug, as well as violinist Jerome Kasin. She grew up playing with and accompanying violinist Sidney Harth, concertmaster, conductor and soloist of international orchestras.
"Playing chamber music is satisfying to me in every way," she said. "I love the sound of the strings around me, and the sound of string players who focus primarily on sound rather than technique."
She was a member of the Pacifica Piano Quartet for ten years. Affiliated with Young Audiences, they performed programs throughout the Los Angeles area. Until 2009, Mrs. Halprin was part of the SaDoMa Trio with Martine Verhoeven and Donald Howarth; they performed for and conducted chamber music classes for Brandeis University Women for 14 years. She also performed four-hand piano works with Sidney Stafford for 25 years, and two-piano concerts with Xenia Chasman. Her favorite composers included Mozart, Beethoven, Bizet, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, and Dvorak, and in her last years she was delighted to learn many of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. An enthusiastic teacher as well as performer, she taught in her Santa Monica home until her death.
Mrs. Halprin and her husband were devoted to progressive causes; she often performed benefit concerts for peace organizations and to support Another Mother for Peace, Daniel Ellsberg, and progressive political candidates. Mrs. Halprin was one of ten children; her oldest brother Raphael Konigsberg was a Los Angeles lawyer and activist barred from practicing law for refusing to take a loyalty oath during the McCarthy Era. The U.S. Supreme Court reinstated his law license in 1978. Mrs. Halprin was also an active volunteer in the Santa Monica area at the Santa Monica Library Book Store until shortly before her death, and at Santa Monica public radio station KCRW, Hosteling International, and Santa Monica Hospital for many years.
Mrs. Halprin was an avid walker and participated in YWCA exercise classes for 40 years. She loved beauty, and enjoyed filling her home with flowers.
She is survived by her daughters April Halprin Wayland and her husband Gary of Manhattan Beach; Lyra Halprin and her husband Alan Jackson of Davis, Calif.; and grandchildren Joshua Halprin Jackson (Shelby Ho) of Honolulu, Julia Halprin Jackson (Ryan Alpers) of San Jose, and Jeff Wayland of Northern California; brothers David Konigsberg of Los Angeles and Charles Konigsberg of Bellevue, Wash.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A celebration of Mrs. Halprin's life took place in early 2015. If you're interested in honoring her memory, contributions may be made to the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then we'd like to flatter the heck out of these couples, whose special wedding-day touches provide bushels of inspiration this season.
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In 19th-century America, female reporters were few and far between. But even with the odds stacked against her, a young woman named Nellie Bly became one of the pioneers of investigative journalism. A new arrival in New York City, she spent ten days undercover at the notorious insane asylum on Blackwell's Island – and lived to tell the tale.
Still at the beginning of her journalistic career, Bly persuaded Joseph Pulitzer to hand over the juicy assignment for the New York World. And at just 23 years old, she boarded a ferry bound for an island in the East River. Equipped with little more than determination, she uncovered a scandal that would shake the city to its core.
Afterwards, Bly's hard-hitting exposé resulted in an overhaul of New York City's mental health services. And throughout her career, she continued to strive for social justice across the United States. But it was her time on Blackwell's Island that really established the journalist as a force with which to be reckoned. So what really happened inside the insane asylum?
The story began in May 1864, when Bly was born under the name Elizabeth Cochran in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. Her mother Mary Ann and her father Michael, who founded the town, were both on their second marriage. And as a result, Bly grew up in a busy household of 14 siblings.
When Bly was just six years old, however, tragedy struck. Unfortunately, Michael passed away without signing a will, leaving his family without any legal right to his assets. But despite their financial difficulties, the young girl initially continued with her education, eventually enrolling at a small Pennsylvania college; she had dreams of becoming a teacher.
Sadly, the Cochrans' meager income could not cover Bly's education and she was forced to drop out. Instead of studying, she relocated to Pittsburgh, PA, where she helped her mother to run a boarding house. Then, towards the beginning of the 1880s, the young woman's life took a dramatically different turn.
Around that time, an article appeared in the Pittsburgh Dispatch with the title "What Girls Are Good For." In it, writer Erasmus Wilson poured scorn on the concept of gender equality, insisting that women were not fit to work and should remain limited to domestic tasks. For the feminist Bly, this diatribe was a step too far.
Angered by the article, Bly penned a fiery response and sent it to the paper. Ironically, editor George Madden was so impressed by the young writer's words that he offered her a job. And in 1885 she started her career as a journalist, earning $5 a week reporting on various issues of the day.
At that point, Bly began using her pen name, taken from a song by the American musician Stephen Foster. And even from the beginning, her work was defined by her social conscience as she penned pieces in support of women's and worker's rights. However, her unconventional approach did not always go down well with her superiors.
While working for the Pittsburgh Dispatch, Bly went undercover in a factory to write an exposé about the low pay and terrible conditions. But instead of being applauded for her ingenuity, she was banished to the women's pages. In disgust, the reporter left her position and took a job as a foreign correspondent.
In 1886 Bly traveled to Mexico, where she would spend the next six months reporting on the culture and people of the region. But these weren't just popular travel pieces: she also laid bare the poor conditions and corruption that was rife throughout the country. And when a journalist was arrested for being critical of the government, she spoke out in support of freedom of speech.
Unwilling to be publicly criticized by an American journalist, the Mexican government threatened to incarcerate Bly. Returning to the United States, the young journalist decided to start afresh in New York City. And after spending months searching, she finally found a new position at the New York World under the famous publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
At the time, Pulitzer's paper was famous for what was known as yellow journalism – a sensationalist style that tended to focus on lurid, attention-grabbing stories. However, there was scope for serious reporting at the New York World as well, and the 23-year-old Bly set out to make her name.
As one of only a few female journalists in the city, Bly had a tough road ahead. And her first assignment was certainly no easy ride. Keen to challenge his new reporter, Pulitzer gave her an undercover assignment: to infiltrate the lunatic asylum on Blackwell's Island (now known as Roosevelt's Island). Apparently, the city was rife with rumors about terrible conditions at the facility, and he hoped to be the one to break the scandal.
A narrow spit of land in the middle of the East River, Blackwell's Island is just two miles long by around 800 feet wide. Originally purchased by a Dutch settler in the 17th century, it remained in private hands until 1828. That year, the City of New York acquired it for $32,000: the equivalent of about $750,000 today.
Four years later, the city authorities constructed a penitentiary on Blackwell's Island. Apparently, the goal was to keep dangerous prisoners away from the city, isolated in a place where they could do little harm. But criminals were far from the only people to find themselves cast away in the middle of the East River.
Alongside the penitentiary, the City of New York also operated a number of additional facilities on Blackwell's Island. And as well as a workhouse and an almshouse, there were also a number of hospitals treating everyone from smallpox victims to the terminally ill. Then in 1839 another institution opened its doors; one which proved vulnerable to sinister distortions of its intended function.
Known as the New York City Lunatic Asylum, the facility was the first of its kind in the whole of the city. But by the time that Nellie Bly arrived at the New York World almost 50 years later, the institution had developed a sordid reputation. Were abuse and malpractice rife on Blackwell's Island? Pulitzer tasked his new reporter with finding out the truth.
Despite the challenging assignment, however, reports claim that Pulitzer did not give Bly any guidance on how she might infiltrate the asylum. Nevertheless, the young journalist threw herself into the challenge. In order to get a glimpse behind the scenes at Blackwell's, she reasoned, she would need to become an inmate herself.
Determined to get herself committed to the asylum, Bly began to practice looking insane. In the article that she would later write for the New York World, she explained, "far-away expressions have a crazy air." And so, she rehearsed for her undercover assignment by pulling faces in the mirror.
Once she was ready, Bly checked into a boarding house with the aim of proving herself to be clinically insane. Apparently, this first part was easy. Going by the name Nellie Brown, she got into character by ranting and raving at her fellow tenants. Unsurprisingly, it didn't take many diatribes about her "missing trunks" before people started to grow concerned.
After just 24 hours, at least one of the boarders had decided that Bly was insane – and a danger to the other tenants. Then, on the second night, another resident experienced a nightmare in which the deranged woman attacked them with a knife. Before long, the owners of the establishment had summoned the authorities to deal with the situation.
In an interview with the police, Bly told them that she was a Cuban woman who was suffering from amnesia. And at first, they believed that she was simply a missing person. But when she refused to talk to any reporters who might help to locate her family, she was shipped off to the city's Bellevue Hospital.
At Bellevue, doctors determined that Bly was suffering from delusions as well as dementia. Her bold plan had been a success, and on September 26, 1887, she was placed on a ferry bound for Blackwell's Island. As an inmate at the infamous asylum, she would observe first-hand the appalling treatment that was being doled out to some of the most vulnerable members of society.
At the time, it was not unheard of for outsiders to visit asylums in the United States. In fact, celebrities such as the writer Charles Dickens sometimes toured the facilities. However, these were typically supervised visits which often glossed over the grim reality. Bly, however, was able to glimpse life behind the scenes – and she was horrified by what she saw.
After her arrival, it didn't take long for Bly to realize that the patients at the asylum were living under terrible conditions. In the mess hall, she was served rotten meat accompanied by stale and moldy bread, while the drinking water was often contaminated. However, the poor catering turned out to be the least of her worries.
According to reports, the asylum on Blackwell's Island was originally designed for just over 1,000 patients. But by the time that Bly arrived, there were over 1,600 residents, mostly female, crammed into the facility. Moreover, cuts to the budget had left just 16 doctors to care for the entire population.
During her stay on Blackwell's Island, Bly bore witness to an horrifying catalog of physical and psychological abuse. Apparently, the asylum was freezing cold – although this didn't stop the nurses from administering cold baths on a regular basis. In her article, the journalist recalled, "I got, one after the other, three buckets of water over my head – ice-cold water too – into my eyes, my ears, my nose and my mouth."
"I think I experienced the sensation of a drowning person as they dragged me, gasping, shivering and quaking, from the tub," Bly continued. "For once I did look insane." In fact, the journalist soon realized that the conditions at Blackwell's Island were bad enough to make even the sanest person lose their mind.
"Take a perfectly sane and healthy woman shut her up and make her sit from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on straight-back benches, do not allow her to talk or move during these hours… give her bad food and harsh treatment, and see how long it will take to make her insane," Bly wrote. "Two months would make her a mental and physical wreck."
When they were not being forced to sit motionless on benches for hours on end, some patients were allowed out in the grounds. However, what Bly witnessed was far removed from the bucolic scenes that might have awaited some asylum tourists. Instead, large groups of women were tethered together with ropes and forced to pull a cart like a horse.
Even at night, it seems, Bly was unable to get much in the way of rest, as the screams of the suffering patients rang throughout the building. Nevertheless, she tried to interview as many of the inmates as she could, collecting stories about the abuse that they had suffered at the hands of staff. One one occasion, a woman claimed that she had been beaten so badly that she had been left with internal injuries.
In another interview, Bly spoke to a woman who allegedly tried to complain to a doctor about the beatings – only for the abuse to intensify. Meanwhile, she noted that the patients were injected with large amounts of drugs. In her later article, she wrote, "The attendants seem to find amusement and pleasure in exciting the violent patients to do their worst."
According to reports, Bly was so shocked by the conditions inside the asylum that she stopped pretending to be insane. However, she was unable to convince any of the staff that she was not unstable. In fact, she soon realized, many of the patients were actually sane people who had ended up at the facility through a cruel twist of fate.
Some patients, for example, were simply foreign immigrants, whose strong accents were difficult to understand – leading some to assume that they were speaking nonsense. Meanwhile, others were destitute, committed under the belief that they were being sent to a poorhouse rather than an asylum. In some cases, abusive husbands had claimed that their wives were insane and effectively banished them to Blackwell's Island.
Eventually, after ten days, Pulitzer arranged for Bly to be released from the asylum and brought back to the city. And on October 9, 1887, the New York World published the first of two articles exposing the horrific conditions. Thankfully, the young journalist's gamble paid off in spades, and soon the scandal was one of the most talked-about topics in New York.
Before long, a grand jury was dispatched to investigate reports of abuse at the asylum. But before they could get there, a clean-up operation had begun. Many of Bly's fellow patients were transferred to other institutions, while everything from the catering to the building itself received a last-minute makeover. Fortunately, the officials weren't taken in and a staggering $1 million was added to the facility's budget, transforming mental health care in the city for decades to come.
Two months later, Bly published a book, Ten Days in a Mad-House, about her experiences on Blackwell Island. But her career was just getting started. For the next two years, she continued to work for Pulitzer, reporting on social justice issues such as corruption, the prison system and workers' conditions.
Two years after her stint in the asylum, Bly took on another seemingly impossible challenge. Hoping to beat the time set by the fictional Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days, she set out to traverse the globe in record time. And after 72 days, she arrived back in New York to immense fanfare and celebration. However, Pulitzer did not give her the credit that she deserved, and she ultimately left her position at the New York World.
Later in life, Bly would return to journalism, covering World War I before her death from pneumonia at the age of 57. And today, she is remembered as one of the pioneers of investigative journalism; a trail-blazing female reporter in an era when women were often overlooked. In fact, towards the end of 2020, a memorial to Bly will be unveiled on what is now known as Roosevelt Island, where the asylum she visited once stood. Featuring sculptures of both the journalist and the people she interviewed, it will celebrate the legacy of a woman who stopped at nothing to uncover the truth.


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The sweetest event of the year returns to the Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum and Arabella's Tea Room on May 26, 2019 from 12 – 4 p.m.
The 35th Annual Arabella's Pie Social & History Fair encourages the Port Colborne community to enjoy a slice of homemade pie with a hot or cold beverage at Arabella's Tea Room before, or after, a walk through the museum grounds where traditional heritage is on display with live demonstrations, exhibits and entertainment.
"The social is a fun and interactive way to kick off Arabella's Tea Room season and encourages the community to visit the Museum to learn and experience about our city's history," said Stephanie Powell Baswick, museum curator. "It's also a great excuse to treat yourself and your family to some delicious pie!"
Some additional activities taking place on the Museum grounds include: discovery of traditional skills at the Niagara Antique Power demonstration and museum Blacksmith; spinning demonstrations in front of the Log House; card printing on the heritage press; traditional costume dress up station; perennial plant sale; Towpath Treasures Flea Market and live piano performance by musician Frank Krahn from 12-3 p.m.
Arabella's Tea Room opens for the season Saturday, June 1, 2018 and operates daily from 2 – 4 p.m. until September 30, 2019. The Tea Room will also be offering "two for one tea" from June 2-8, 2019.