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'After you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your wine press' (Devarim, 16:13). With these words the Torah commanded us about Sukkot and Chazal (Sukkah, 12a) explained that this referred to the waste of the grain crop and of the vineyards, and that if these are still connected to the ground they are not eligible to be used for skhakh. Sukkot is called â?? the festival of the ingathering, chag heasif' (Shmot, 23,16), as this is the time that all the crops are gathered into the storehouses and granaries, after the harvests are completed. We should know that everything in the material world is meant to teach us something in the spiritual realm. So, parallel to the ingathethering of the crops, there is, on Sukkot an ingathering of all our religious and spiritual actions. In the material world, all the crops are cleansed of all waste before they are stored. So, in spiritual matters too, of all the Torah we have learnt and all the mitzvoth we have done, before they can be gathered into the Heavenly storehouse, they have to be cleansed and purified of actions that are not totally for the sake of Heaven and any impure thoughts that we may have had when doing them. The Avnei Nezer taught that this is what is done to us on Rosh HaShanah and Yom HaKippurim. Just as at this time the evil people are signed and sealed immediately for destruction, so too with each individual the evil portions are wiped out and with each mitzvah the â??pesolet' is removed.
Now there are in agriculture two different sorts of waste, chaff and straw. The chaff is valueless and useless, so that in Eretz Yisrael it is simply strewn to the wind. However, in contrast, the straw and branches are of value to the farmer both as bedding for animals and other uses; it is only relative to the fruits, wheat or other grains that it is considered waste. So too, with regard to spiritual matters there are 2 types of shortcomings or â??pesolet'.
Mitzvoth, Torah and good deeds are sometimes accompanied by foreign thoughts or performed while we still hold on to our wrong deeds. Then these are serious sins and have to be cast aside quickly and thoroughly like the chaff. They are cleansed easily because they are basically foreign to the Jews and so do not become rooted within them, rather brushed aside like the burrs that settle on a bald person's head. This we achieve on Rosh HaShanah and Yom Hakippurim, like the chaff that is winnowed by the wind.
The Chovat Halevavot explains that every mitzvah consists of a material- physical part that is the actual performance of the mitzvah, that always involves the physical and a separate element that is the spiritual component contributed by our kavanah, joy and religiosity. For the actual performance there is the reward of this world, not a reward of material things rather a reward that we will use the benefits we gain in this world in order to merit our place in the world to come. The Rambam explains that this is the goal and purpose of all the material-physical things we gain in this world ( Hilkhot Teshuvah, chapter 9.). The performance element of the mitzvot is like the straw for the farmer, in that while of itself it has a value as we have seen, yet relative to the kavanah, spirituality and spontaneity required for a mitzvah it is actually pesolet. Without them our mitzvot cannot take us into the treasure house of the world to come together with the kavanah, just as the straw isn't gathered into the farmer's silo, but is used for other purposes.
The straw and branches cast aside after the harvest, that are pesolet relative to the grain and fruit, the Torah commanded us to use as skhakh, so too after cleansing ourselves of our actual sins on Rosh HaShanah and Yom HaKippurim, the spirituality of that skhakh and of the Sukkat will cleanse the material- physical performance of our mitzvot of the defects caused by our lack of kavanah and by the mechanical and routine way that we performed them. Then the Torah we have studied, the prayers we have said and the mitzvoth we have performed will truly carry us to our merits in the world to come.
Now we can understand the halakhah that s'khakh that is still connected to the earth is pasul, invalid. Such skhakh is not religious nor is it spiritual, since it is still connected and joined to an inanimate object, the earth in which it is rooted. The material-physical element in the performance of mitzvoth must not be done without religiosity, without ecstasy or mechanically merely as a matter of habit. When performed in these ways, our mitzvoth remain rooted and entwined in the inanimate and the purely physical-material and therefore are pasol, unable to carry us to the world to come.
Shem Mi Shmuel, Sukkot, 5672.
Text Copyright © 2004 by Rabbi Meir Tamari and Torah.org.
D r. Tamari is a renowned economist, Jewish scholar, and founder of the Center For Business Ethics (www.besr.org) in Jerusalem.


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While Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams remained in Cairo on Sunday, the chances of reaching a long-term agreement before the current ceasefire expired a day later were almost nil, according to Israeli participants.
On Friday, Egypt leaked to the press details of its comprehensive truce proposal, which calls for a gradual easing of the blockade of Gaza to be overseen by Israeli and Egyptian forces and future talks on a Gaza seaport and airport, as demanded by Hamas.
Israel responded to the proposal with some wariness, noting that it wasn't prepared to dilute its security demands, and that agreeing to a seaport and airport as part of the overall ceasefire package, regardless of when they would be built, would be seen as a prize for Hamas' aggression against the Jewish state.
"If Hamas thinks it will make up for its military losses with a political achievement, it is wrong," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at Sunday's cabinet meeting.
But Israel's cautious approach to the new Egyptian proposal was of little consequence, as Hamas had already rejected the deal a day earlier. Hamas leaders said that Israel would accept all their demands, including the immediate and unconditional lifting of the Gaza blockade, or face a new war of attrition in its southern regions.
Netanyahu said if Hamas believed Israel would play along with this blackmail, it was sadly mistaken. "If Hamas thinks that by continuing the steady trickle of rocket fire it will force us to make concessions, it is wrong," the prime minister insisted.
Israel was far more accepting of recommendations issued on Friday by the European Union, which called for the lifting of the Israeli blockade in exchange for the disarming of all militant groups present in Gaza.
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We're on live TV here, I've got to move.... You can tell that I'm a lame duck, because nobody is following instructions.People were applauding too much, eating into the time. He didn't have to choose to do live prime-time TV, but having chosen it, he could have made the speech very short or his people could have done something to limit the applause. But at least the early excessive applause made an opportunity for him to say something self-effacing. (And yet, was he saying that if he were not a lame duck, he could get us all to snap to following instructions? Seems dictatorish.)
But tonight it's my turn to say thanks.... [M]y conversations with you, the American people — in living rooms and in schools; at farms and on factory floors; at diners and on distant military outposts — those conversations are what have kept me honest, and kept me inspired, and kept me going. And every day, I have learned from you. You made me a better president, and you made me a better man.Nicely humble. I don't remember much emphasis on conversation with ordinary Americans, but it's a nice idea, even if it's not honest. It's a riddle then isn't it? It's like the man who wasn't there. What kept him honest? Or is the point: See? I'm being transparently dishonest, claiming honesty, and you love me anyway. That's how good a man I am. Good at rhetoric that makes the crowd in the big room applaud, and who knows what's going on in the living rooms on the other side of the TV?
But Obama's party just lost the election, and whatever good he did was not good enough to propel the project forward. That's the problem to be addressed. But Obama drifts back to the past to when he "first came to Chicago... searching for a purpose to my life... working with church groups... witness[ing] the power of faith, and the quiet dignity of working people in the face of struggle and loss."
Somehow that musing over quiet unleashes a chant in the room: "4 more years! 4 more years!"
It's a presidential farewell address, and the historical reference is to George Washington, whose farewell address was all about 8 years being enough. How obtuse the crowd is! And it's obtuse for Obama to respond as he does: "I can't do that."
He can't because the Constitution had to be amended when one President failed to follow Washington's example. It would have been better to honor the wisdom of George Washington and say that 8 years is enough for any one man. Squelch the impression that you longed for 4 more years.
But I know it must hurt that his would-be legacy-keeper lost. He'd like to believe the people would not have voted for change if only they'd had the option of voting for even more continuity than Hillary embodied.
Obama gets back to the idea of himself as a young man in Chicago, where he "learned that change only happens when ordinary people get involved." He still believes in the importance of ordinary people in politics. The human masses devolve into an impersonal "it" in what seems intended to be another example of Obama's soaring rhetoric:
And it's not just my belief. It's the beating heart of our American idea — our bold experiment in self-government.These are great, but very familiar ideas, plugged in summarily as if they naturally followed from Obama's early Chicago years as a community organizer. More standard notions tumble out, as though this were the brainstormed first draft. We have "individual dreams," but we "strive together" for the "common good." We got immigrants and "gave... lives" fighting wars and fighting for civil rights.
It's the conviction that we are all created equal, endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It's the insistence that these rights, while self-evident, have never been self-executing; that We, the People, through the instrument of our democracy, can form a more perfect union.
The next section is about America's flaws. He intones the cliché "two steps forward... one step back." Then he lists his achievements: Cuba, the Iran agreement, killing bin Laden, same-sex marriage, Obamacare. Then he observes that the new President is about to enter. He leaves it to us to assume that's the 2 steps forward, one step back.
We have to have to make it work. We must "meet... challenges" and "remain the wealthiest, most powerful, and most respected nation on earth." The word "remain" there seems like a response to Trump's "Make America great again." America is great. We just need to stay great.
Our youth, our drive, our diversity and openness, our boundless capacity for risk and reinvention means that the future should be ours.Well, that last election sure demonstrated "our boundless capacity for risk and reinvention." That's a nice gloss on what happened. To choose Hillary would have been too safe, too risk averse. That's not who we are.
The topic becomes "democracy." It's very abstract and wordy. A genuflection to democracy. That gives way to economics. Economics are important too. Economics and democracy are then merged:
[S]tark inequality is... corrosive to our democratic idea.But what can we do? Obama say "there're no quick fixes," and:
I agree, our trade should be fair and not just free.I guess that means he agrees with Trump.
But the next wave of economic dislocations won't come from overseas. It will come from the relentless pace of automation that makes a lot of good middle class jobs obsolete.That's the stock anti-Trump response. The real problem isn't cheap labor from non-Americans. It's robots.
And so we're going to have to forge a new social compact to guarantee all our kids the education they need.That's the pivot to the next big issue. Democracy and economics have been hit and merged. Time to talk about education, which, I assume, will be the slow fix for the aforementioned democracy and economics problems.
Oh, no. I'm wrong. Education is just the first item on a short list that also includes unions, the "social safety net," and the tax code. These are just means that "[w]e can argue about." They take us toward goals that "we can't be complacent about." What goals? I think the goals are supposed to be a great democracy and a great economy. But he doesn't explicitly state the goals at this point. This actually turns out to be a segue into warning us about threats.
Obama speaks of "disaffection and division" and the "never realistic" vision of "a post-racial America." Without saying it explicitly, he frames the last election in terms of a racial/ethnic divide:
If every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and an undeserving minority, then workers of all shades are going to be left fighting for scraps while the wealthy withdraw further into their private enclaves.In addition to the wealthy in "their private enclaves," there are all the people who "retreat into our own bubbles" where we indulge in "naked partisanship."
If we're unwilling to invest in the children of immigrants, just because they don't look like us, we will diminish the prospects of our own children — because those brown kids will represent a larger and larger share of America's workforce.
And increasingly we become so secure in our bubbles that we start accepting only information, whether it's true or not, that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the evidence that is out there.The fake news problem. The Fox News problem. The Trump-is-on-Twitter problem. Obama resorts to what's been a stock argument with Democrats since the election: We need a "common baseline of facts." That always sounds to me like longing for a time when liberal mainstream media filtered the facts. That's over. What are you going to do about it? The facts are open to debate now, and many voices can be heard. If you really love democracy, why aren't you thrilled?
This idea of a common baseline of facts sets up the topic of climate change, which leads to the importance of science and a "faith in reason and enterprise" and "order based... on principles, the rule of law, human rights, freedom of religion and speech and assembly and an independent press."
This invocation of "order" gives Obama a chance to briefly decry "violent fanatics who claim to speak for Islam" and "autocrats in foreign capitals." Obama makes the claim that during his 8-year administration, "no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland." He proceeds to mention "Boston and Orlando and San Bernardino and Fort Hood," but those don't fit the category. They simply "remind us of how dangerous radicalization can be." Obama also takes credit for having "ended torture, worked to close Gitmo, [and] reformed our laws governing surveillance to protect privacy and civil liberties."
Now, we begin to move in for a landing. Obama calls us to become politically engaged. He lists the kinds of people he's seen over the last 7 years — hopeful young people, "grieving families," "doctors and volunteer." He calls out to his wife:
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson of the South Side... for the past 25 years you have not only been my wife and mother of my children, you have been my best friend...He calls out to his daughters (though only Malia is in the room):
Malia and Sasha...under the strangest of circumstances you have become two amazing young women.
You are smart and you are beautiful. But more importantly, you are kind and you are thoughtful and you are full of passion....He calls out to his favorite male character:
To Joe Biden... the scrappy kid from Scranton....He calls out to every hung-up person in the whole wide universe... I mean:
... to all of you out there — every organizer who moved to an unfamiliar town, every kind family who welcomed them in, every volunteer who knocked on doors, every young person who cast a ballot for the first time, every American who lived and breathed the hard work of change...He says he's "even more optimistic about this country than when we started." He shifts into the text of his own old best speech, which becomes the end of this last speech:
I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written:
Yes, we can.
Yes, we did.
Yes, we can.


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Sunday, May 06, 2007
Bar Lourinha
Bar Lourinha, and it was just that, an extremely small bar, was very busy. We had to wait about 50 minutes since we didn't book, but we had come this far and would eat in there if we had to wait all night. It was extremely dimly lit and the noise levels were unbelievable. Being such a small place and crammed with so many people, you literally had to shout to be heard. We were seated at these chest height tables where you actually had to share a long table with other patrons, a rarity in Melbourne.
Bar Lourinha serves small tapas so we ordered nearly all of them from the menu. I had read one review on some restaurant rating site where someone said that the serving sizes were generous and filling. Let me just clear that up before we start, don't let my photos decieve you, the dishes were, in my opinion, very small. It is on a par with Movida in terms of sizes of dishes and pricing. However, the quality (or more accurately, Thanh's like of the food) is a different issue. More on that later.
The Yellowtail Kingfish "Pancetta" was ok but not fantastic. The fish itself was kind of bland and the lemon oil didn't add to it that much.
The Wagyu "Carne Cruda" and Shave Horse Radish was again good but not great. The raw wagyu was not as flavoursome as other wagyu I've tasted. For a great, let me emphasis GREAT, raw beef, you have to go and try the one at Horoki. It blows this one out of the water and is cheaper too. Not that this one was bad, but just not great.
Probably my favourite savoury dish of the night, was the night's special of Veal with Fennel. The veal had great flavours and I really liked the sauce.
The Twice Cooked Octopus had great texture and the flavour was ok. But I have to compare it to the Paprika Octopus with Potato at Movida which was just superb and similarly priced.
The Spiced Chickpea and Spinach salad was done very well. The chickpeas were cooked right through till they were nice and soft and the spiced flavour was interesting, if slightly too salty. Compared to the Chickpea Salad at La Paella, which was excellent, this one was again give the ok by me. Do you start to see a pattern emerging?
The sausages again were, you guessed it, ok but not great. Compared to the sensational sausages at Lazar's, these ones were very bland. The Lazar's sausages were, and still are, the best I've ever eaten. It totally gave me that "wow, mmm, this is fantastic" reaction both times I went there.
Ok so we finally came to the Roasted "Tastebud Orgy" Mushroom with Garlic Cream. I have to say that they were good, but I wouldn't quite go as far as saying they were a "tastebud orgy". However, one dish later on I would use those terms to describe. Do I have you on the edge of your seat in anticipation?
The Chicken "Piri Piri" Winglets was given the "Did they forget to flavour this" comment from Patrick. He said that in contrast to all the other dishes that were so strong all night, this dish was almost flavourless. I would have to agree. It tasted like the chicken wings that I throw on the BBQ with a drizzling of lemon. Seriously, my mum marinates much better wings and for $14, she makes 3 kgs of it and I stuff myself until I cannot eat anymore.
The Chorizo with apple cider went into one of those "thats very different" category. I did like it and found the apple nice.
Desserts sounded great, but were hit and miss again. The Spiced Chocolate and Hazelnut Mousse were a definite miss. It was actually disgusting and we each took one small spoon and that was all that was eaten of it. The Spiced Chocolate tasted like mouthwash, but worse. And since it was all over the mousse, we couldn't even remove it and just eat the mousse.
Ok finally, the one dish of the night that was a "tastebud orgy" was this beauty. The Pomegranate Cream with Pistachio Praline. This dish was divine. It was sort of like a firm panna cotta with some really beautiful flavour. But, when eaten in a whole mouthful with the pomegranate and the pisatchio praline, I kid you not, it was just amazing. We all finished this dish off extremely quickly.
The Donuts with Custard, that's what I'm calling them anyway since I forgot the name, was ok. The outer dough was very sweet and the custard type thing inside was ok. It had some honey jam on the plate which went well with the donuts.
The Churros with Chocolate Sauce was one thing that is better than Movida. The churros itself had better texture (is a bit softer and not overly crunchy) and the Chocolate Sauce is also better.
The place itself is ok, but I think its actually a bit too crowded and noisy for a meal. It was quite uncomfortable sitting so packed together and hard to eat. Talking was very hard and we found ourselves shouting across the small table to be heard. Service was very good, almost too good. Candy said she was very self conscious since the waiters would literally hover behind us and watch us finish the last things on the plate before they would remove the plate. In fact sometimes, we hadn't finished what was on the plate and they would start taking it away which meant we actually had to stop them and feel sort of silly since we wanted that last piece of sausage or that piece or the salad with the wagyu.
The cost for the meal wasn't expensive but neither is it cheap. For the same cost roughly, $40 each here compared to $46 at Movida where we got a French wine as well, I enjoyed it ten times more at Movida in terms of atmosphere and food. So I guess you can guess that I will be going back to Movida for my Spanish food in future. However, Bar Lourinha is far from bad, and if you like that crowded bar type environment, do give it a try.
Overall Rating: 12/20, Food and service ok. Atmosphere a bit too crowded and noisy for my liking.
Scores: 1-9: Unacceptable, don't bother. 10-11: Just OK,some shortcomings. 12: Fair. 13: Getting there. 14: Recommended. 15: Good. 16: Really good. 17: Truly excellent. 18: An outstanding experience. 19-20: Approaching perfection, Victoria's best.
33 comments:
- Timothy5/06/2007 3:16 PM
Hey, my first visit to you site. Nice stuffs you write. I am just wondering, you take good shots .. why not blow it up for the details ? Would be enticing, wouldn't it?ReplyDelete
Hi Timothy, thanks for visiting and I hope you keep enjoying the blog.ReplyDelete
I upload a resized and quality reduced version of the photos because I'm using the free version of Flickr and you are only allowed so many megabytes of upload per month. I find the shots are sufficient for the purposes of the blog. If you click on the photos, you get taken to the Flickr page of the photos and you can view the photos in the largest size of 960x720, which fills up most of my 22 inch lcd monitor. So I think you can see the details from that sized photo.
Hi Thanh, gosh when did you go to Bar Lourinha? I was there just this Saturday night but luckily didn't have to wait 50minutes. I agree it was a bit noisy for my liking and I wasn't as impressed on this occasion as the first time. Yep, the kingfish- it was missing something, the veal wasn't exciting but the pomegranate crema and churros were still amazing!ReplyDelete
Also, we found out that the chorizo diablo (a very popular dish no longer available) had to be retired b/c the chef left on the grounds of questionable work practises (in the way the chorizo was made onsite).
Hi M, I was there on Saturday from about 8pm but had to wait till about 8:50pm when there was a free table near the kitchen. I was on the wooden table with another group who were nearer to the kitchen. Where were you? We might have passed each other without knowing it as I don't know what you look like.ReplyDelete
The pomegranate crema was amazing. The churros were good too and I ended up drinking all the chocolate as well (shame on me, I'm getting so fat).
I wonder what the chef had done that was so wrong. Was he smoking while preparing the food or was he slaughtering the animals himself?
I don't think I will be going back to Bar Lourinha as I find I just couldn't talk to my friends at all and thats one of the reasons we go out for dinner, to meet, eat and catch-up.
Oh Thanh, sorry to hear that your experience with bar lourinha didn't live up to my hype. when we went it was an early evening weeknight so perhaps you get a different crowd and ambience on particular night. i find that some places tend to be hot or cold with me. e.g the first time i ate at movida i was unimpressed by the whole experience mainly b/c i was still hungry after the meal and thus felt quite shortchanged :P i've since returned a few times and found that sometimes movida can be very, very good and sometimes it can be quite ordinary.ReplyDelete
one thing i have to say about BH that slightly irked me was that, although for me the food was superb on the night, i reckon they could improve on the bread they mete out and provide a little more than a paltry slice at a time - seriously, what's up with that? as a wog chick i cannot emphasise the importance of having lots of tasty bread to soak up all that likewise tasty food. oh well!
Serenity, it was slightly disappointing after reading your great post, but I agree with you that visits to restaurants can be good or bad each time depending on certain circumstances.ReplyDelete
Its funny you mention the bread thing. Because that was the first thing one of my friends commented about when they brought it out. He said "Is that all" and joked about how each of us would only get one small slice and that we should stretch out the eating of it to make it last throughout the night. I never get why they don't give you more bread, its cheap right?
- Anonymous5/10/2007 1:22 AM
It isn't chocolate it's dulce de lecheReplyDelete
Anonymous, now that you mention it, I believe it did say that. I just assumed that meant chocolate. But I've just Goggled it and it is actually a chocolate sauce mixed with a caramel like candy, hence it had this nice flavour to it. Thanks for clearing that up.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/11/2007 2:08 PM
its still not chocolate or anything like chocolateReplyDelete
Anonymous, my bad. I looked up Wikipedia again and it doesn't say chocolate at all. I misread the sauce part and my own mind added the chocolate itself. Oops. Thanks for clearing that up. So its just sweetened milk that has been boiled?ReplyDelete
I have received a threatening email from the chef/owner to take down this review for some reason. Read about it all hereReplyDelete
A fair review! Now to read about the email...ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7/22/2008 6:09 PM
I never usually comment on Blog sites because I have found that food Bloggers generally can't cook and know little or nothing about food. Your review of Bar Lourinha proves this in your case.
You went wrong to start with by walking into Bar Lourinha comparing it to Movida. Bar Lourinha is nothing like Movida nor are they trying to be like Movida.
I have eaten at Bar Lourinha many times and I keep returning because I always walk away thoroughly impressed with the creative food, impeccable service, awesome wine list and brilliant atmosphere (yes, some people do enjoy a noisy bar as opposed to the boring Tobin brothers atmosphere at most restaurants these days)
You prove how little you know about food or taste when referring to dulce de leche as chocolate sauce. Have you ever tasted chocolate.
Finally. I guess the reason for Matt wanting you take the photos off the website would be because they are possibly the worst photos I have ever seen. Food photography is a very specialized area. Best to leave it up to the professionals.
Don't you think???
Anonymous, I definitely cannot cook and have never claimed to know it all about food. I don't think anyone can every claim that.ReplyDelete
I've since realised that they do different cuisines, but that doesn't mean I still can't compare them. I compare my favourite Thai restaurant to my favourite Indian restaurant when weighing up which one to eat at, so I think comparing these in terms of restaurants is fair enough.
I'm glad that you like Bar Lourinha. I have nothing against them when I reviewed their restaurant. And like I wrote, people who enjoy a noisy bar, this would be a great place.
Regarding the dulce de leche, I now know that it's not chocolate sauce. And I made a mistake. I don't mind. With every mistake I make and people point it out, I learn another thing. I can't, and never will know everything. But I'm always willing to learn.
I have tasted chocolate and love it.
If you really think my photos of his website are the worst ever, you obviously haven't seen some far worse of his food. Food photography is a specialised area, and again, I don't claim that I'm a food photographer. If every blogger left everything to the "professionals", there would be no blogging. In fact, if everyone that put anything up on the Internet left it to the "professionals", we wouldn't have any other form of information than from large media outlets and corporations.
Well, that's what I think. I'm always glad to have helpful criticism. I think that I have learnt from more and more blogging experience is that I can do a bit more research into things that I don't understand rather than wait for my mistakes to be pointed out. Otherwise, this is something I enjoy doing and will keep doing.
Thanks for your comment. I hope you might enjoy some of the other posts and learn something from me that I know about that you didn't already know. If not, then there are a million other blogs and websites out in cyberspace for you to enjoy.
- Anonymous7/23/2008 7:03 PM
OK, excellent!ReplyDelete
We've established one thing, you can't cook! So.......... what makes you qualified in anyway to review a restaurant!
Actually, yes, it should be left up to the professionals. People who know what they're talking about, people who know about taste, people who can take excellent photos (YOURS ARE THE WORST BY THE WAY) and understand the heart and soul that goes into this industry! An industry that YOU clearly know nothing about!
Also, I've attached a link to Amazon you may be interested in! It's English Grammar for Dummies only $13.59
Happy reading!
- Anonymous7/23/2008 7:04 PM
Oops forgot the link!ReplyDelete
Here it is!
Hello again Anonymous, I can't cook, that's no secret. But why does that exclude me from reviewing a restaurant. Can film reviewers make direct a film, not necessarily. The most famous food reviewer in Melbourne, Mr Lethlean, has no official qualifications to review restaurants. I read an article about him talking about how he sort of fell into the industry when his editor at the time asked him to review a few restaurants. From there, he went on to review more and more. He was initially a journalist I think.ReplyDelete
Food is extremely subjective. These reviews are just my opinion. I'm not forcing you to agree with them. I read reviews myself from other people and I may agree or I may not. It's the beauty of free speech.
It's your opinion that it should be left to professionals, not mine. I don't have to agree with you, just like you don't have to agree with my reviews.
I do agree with you in regards to people knowing about what they are talking about. That does involve research and just learning from others. This blog is a great outlet for that. Many other food lovers comment and provide useful knowledge and suggestions.
But people who know about taste mean, there's no definitive answer for that. Taste, like I said earlier, is so subjective. What I might think is fragrant, like a durian, will smell like manure to someone else.
I'll take a pass on the Grandma book. I don't double check my spelling and grammar so will never use that book anyway.
You may like to read the book yourself too. TYPING IN CAPITAL LETTERS IS SHOUTING AT POEPLE, WHICH IS EXTREMELY RUDE :-). And I've also noticed you really like to use your !!!!!!, which again doesn't work at the end of most sentences.
Anyway, do you happen to work in the food industry. Your fervent declaration that everything should be left to the "professionals" would suggest you are part of the food industry. I'd be very interested in hearing your opinions on a host of things if you do work in the industry. Maybe you can channel your energies into that rather than constantly repeating that I should leave it to the professionals. I just like food and want to discuss it with other people. Hopefully you're the same, rather than a person who just likes to criticise others.
You don't happen to be associated with Bar Lourinha? Hahahaha. That would explain everything.
Thanks for commenting again!
- Anonymous7/24/2008 9:56 AM
Yes, I work in the industry. For over twenty years now! I am in no way affiliated with bar lourinha, I have just developed a fondness to bagging out your pathetic blog.ReplyDelete
John Lethlean is a professional food reviewer. You are not and never will be. You are a hack! Durian does smell like manure!
You should stick to engineering, science fiction and karaoke and I will stick to my multiple exclamation marks!!!
You probably should look in to buying the "Grandma" book!
- Anonymous7/24/2008 1:15 PM
I think a new best friend.
- Anonymous7/24/2008 1:25 PM
"You should stick to engineering, science fiction and karaoke and I will stick to my multiple exclamation marks!!!"ReplyDelete
You left out hogging everyone's TV and desanitising everyones furniture.
Anonymous 1, it's great that you have managed to work in the food industry for twenty years. That's a good achievement. I wish I was somehow slightly involved in the food industry.ReplyDelete
It's good that you're not affliated with Bar Lourinha, as I think they should concentrate on their food rather than trying to silence people who didn't love (not even hate) their restaurant. You can bag my blog all you want.
Lethlean is a professional, but he wasn't when he started. Everyone has to start somewhere. He went through so many professions before becoming a reviewer. Even then he only thought it would be a part time thing. And I'm sure he made many mistakes when he started. Show my someone who has never made a mistake and I'll show you God.
I like engineering, science fiction, karaoke and food.
Anonymous 2, meet Anonymous 1.
Anonymous 3, at least I don't create hazardous gas with my flatulence.
Anonymous, the real Anonymous, not you Mr KP, if you really are passionate about food and feel that blogs are so bad, you might like to take a read of a few things. It may change your mind, it may not. I hope you keep an open mind about things though. Times are changing and with the advent of the Internet, it has democratised print publishing. In the past, only the so called "professionals" that you keep referring to could get to say anything. Even if we, the general public disagree, we could not voice that. But now, everyone has a chance to put in their two cents. You may disagree, in which case, just don't read on.ReplyDelete
These links are from Ed Charles, a blogger who I've had the pleasure of meeting a few times, and also writer for the food section in the Herald Sun. He has written many many articles about the merits of traditional media and also blogging in regards to food. Both have their pros and cons, but should be able to live side by side.
*A survey about how much people trust blogs
*Panel discussion at Restaurant08 about blogging
*How blogs actually show up more in Google than traditional print articles
*Ferran Adria's comment about food blogs
*How bloggers are happier than real Epicureans
*The Out of The Frying Pan discussion about blogs (where my blog got a mention by the way :-))
*Critics versus the pros
These articles all show that food blogs may not be the best edited pieces of writing, but they do provide alternate points of views from your average Joe, they have a much more diverse range of topics as they are not as restricted as traditional media, they provide the latest opinions on whatever is new, there are many recipes from many lands that you just won't find easily in traditional media, they can be a lot more detailed as there are no word limits and finally, they help build passion for food when seeing others passion for the topic.
Traditional media definitely has it's place. Their articles are generally much better researched. They have access to people, places, things that bloggers don't. I read the Epicure every week, but I also intersperse that with reading blogs where I can see new recipes and read about many more new restaurants. I take everything others say and make my own judgement. But I don't go and berat them for having an opinion. If I disagree, I will discuss it, but not insult them.
- Anonymous7/24/2008 9:46 PM
Geezz Louise Mr Fat Do,ReplyDelete
You're really letting this guy get under your skin if you spent all that time digging up websites and references to argue his point. You do realise you got a day job to support your eating habits!
- Anonymous7/24/2008 9:54 PM
Grandma bookReplyDelete
and it's berate not berat
you do need that book and spell check too
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, you Anonymous peanut. "I have just developed a fondness to bagging out your pathetic blog." FONDNESS TO? Really? Seems you do need Grandma's book too, as Thanh suggested.ReplyDelete
Anonymous KP, it's not getting to me at all. I rather like these discussions as I'm learning to write good rebuttal statements with facts to back it up rather than take the easy way out and throw insults. I didn't need to do that much digging as they're all articles that I've read before and enjoyed. I'm just hoping to pass on some information that supports my point, not Anonymous'. (Not sure if I need another s after the apostraphe, what say you Duncan?)ReplyDelete
I realise I have a day job, that's why I'm doing this at night. So where are we eating this Saturday?
I know it's berate thank you. Just a typo. If you want to start picking out everything spelling and grammar error, enjoy. But just let me point out that "I think a new best friend" isn't exactly great Engrish either hehehe.
Duncan, you are the linguistics expert. In my opinion, it should be fondness for? I've heard it used that way. "I have a fondness for chocolate, mmmm".
Anonymous, Anonymous KP and Duncan. I think you should all check out Pain In The English. I read this occasionally and all the people on this site are totally into grammar and spelling. All the posts are about grey areas in the English language.
i find this sort of thing funny.ReplyDelete
there are always people who take offence to other people's blogs.
but here's the rub: it's not relevant whether the person has qualifications or not - they are merely giving their opinion, and opening themselves up to the world in doing so.
who are we to challenge someone, to say that they are not qualified to give their own opinions?
i find this amusing. my pics are worse, and my grammar is far worse (and potentially more inflammatory). that's just how i am, and i don't see the need to change, to please people. after all, it's my own blog, and i can write how i want.
that's what makes it mine, and what makes me me.
so while everyone is entitled to their own opinion about a restaurant and the food that they have had, it's not really other's places to insult them for not sharing the same opinion as themselves. after all, if we all had the same opinion on everything, then the world would be a dull, boring place.
the one thing i am curious about is this: everyone else is willing to give their names, and talk about themselves, so why is it that the most abusive person is not willing to show themselves? it's easier to throw stones from behind a wall.
oh, and by the way, i like your blog.ReplyDelete
i stumbled onto it ages ago and read it every now and then.
good work ;)
JamesBluntKnife, I find it all funny too. I don't know why this person got so offended. So I made some food errors, and a lot of spelling and grammatical errors. But all I'm doing is just giving my opinion on food. And food is so subjective that there is no definitive answer on it. There's not even a qualification you can officially get from a university to say that you're an expert in the field of food.ReplyDelete
I hope you keep coming back and reading my blog. Thanks for the support.
i think that blogging is definitely about learning though - you make a mistake and you learn from it.ReplyDelete
also, the other thing that i like is that you really open yourself up so you can be honest about things that normally you wouldn't talk about.
those are just two things that i like about it.
for me it is the freedom of expression - i work in a government job and any documentation i work on is very strict in process and construction. blogging appeals to me because it's such a change to the norm.
JamesBluntKnife, everything in life is about learning. Hence, any mistakes or new facts that people point out to me, I'll try to remember and learn from it.ReplyDelete
I do try to be honest to an extent. It is a great outlet for one's mind to write it down.
I hate writing documents for work too. I think ours won't be as strict as yours. Only the documents that need to go out externally do we really have to follow a process.
- Oblivion10/09/2008 4:24 PM
i doubt that is your real name.
A nickname likes yours and mine is no different from using anonymous ID. You're not different from people throwing rocks behind walls expect yours bounce back and hit you back in the face!!
- get-a-life-anonymous8/11/2009 1:43 AM
I think we all realise by now that this "anonymous" commentor is associated with Bar Lourinha.ReplyDelete
How pathetic..


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Chris Brown Fires Back at Miranda Lambert over Criticism
Another day, another Chris Brown Twitter drama. Country singer Miranda Lambert lambasted Brown and the Grammys for allowing him to perform in light of his assault on Rihanna in 2009. She continued her verbal and PR assault on Brown at one of her concerts. While Brown was relatively quiet in regards to her specific comments, he spoke out the best way he knows how yesterday: his oft-controversial Twitter account.
At a concert on Thursday (Feb. 16) at the University of Massachusetts, Lambert was about to launch into her song 'Gunpowder and Lead,' about a woman who kills her abusive husband. Before she began the tune, per E! Online, she spotted a sign in the audience that read 'Take Notes Chris Brown.' Lambert held the poster up, and, in what can arguably be considered an antagonistic move, instructed her crowd to take photos and tweet them.
And tweet them they did. Her photo above went viral quickly, and word eventually got to Breezy, who, as expected, didn't take it well. "Using my name to get publicity? I love it! Perform your heart out!" he tweeted on Saturday (Feb. 18). He immediately followed it with, "Go buy @miranda_lambert album! So motivational and 'PERFECT'!"
Lambert isn't the only one who can't forgive Brown for the ill-fated 2009 pre-Grammy incident. Music editors and fans alike went nuts when it was announced that Brown would feature on Rihanna's 'Birthday Cake' remix. Brown responded to that backlash, as usual, on Twitter as well, writing, "Let them be mad!!!! We make music. Don't like it, don't listen! Turn up the music remix is coming soon too! Guess who's on it?"
While we agree that Lambert may be capitalizing on Brown's notoriety, we do wish he'd learn to let things go. Perhaps if he had a little more self-control and self-censorship, the world would forgive him as easily as Rihanna did.


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|Kevin Clash
Warren Wolf was a wolf reporter who once interviewed Dr. Nobel Price in a 1981 "Sesame Street News Flash" segment, substituting for Kermit the Frog. He was a Sesame Street parody of sports broadcaster Warner Wolf, a staple of New York City news broadcasts during the 1980s and 1990s. He first appeared on Sesame Street in season 12.[1]
His merchandise appearances include the 1980 coloring book More Who's Who on Sesame Street, the 1982 coloring book City, the 1982 Sesame Street card game You're a Grouch! and the 1984 coloring book Trace & Color.
Book appearances
- ↑ season 12 press kit, found at CTW Archives


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Damn it, Jess, you just WON'T make it easy for me, will you?
Much as I want to love the cinema of Jess Franco without reservation, after getting a smattering of his work under my belt I still find myself maddeningly on the fence. My early experience of Oasis of the Zombies put me squarely in the "Jeez, what a hack!" camp; but then he hit me with the beautiful Vampyros Lesbos, and I had to recalibrate my judge-ometer. The Awful Dr. Orloff, while not without its charms, left me cold (sorry, Kate), but then I was blasted into giddy glee by his much more colorful and MAD retelling of a similar story in the excellent Faceless (1987). Succubus hypnotized me with imagery and dreamlike narrative on par with the best work of Vicar-fave director Jean Rollin, but 99 Women seemed pale and uninvolving by comparison. The charming, enthusiastic interviews Franco is famous for only make it that much harder, since often he manages to convince me the movie I just watched was much more impressive and enjoyable than my initial viewing experience would indicate.
I guess what I'm saying is that for me, Franco more than lives up to his billing as a "difficult" filmmaker. And my latest foray into his inarguably unique cinematic vision, 1972's The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (Ritos de Frankenstein, La maldición de Frankenstein), did little to settle the matter. On the one hand, it's largely a poor production with laughable effects and a story so incoherent it would have the late, great Paul Naschy shaking his head in bewilderment; on the other, it has some gorgeous compositions, tasty psychedelic lighting, and enough sexy-horror MADNESS to prevent my dismissing it entirely. Hack or genius? HACK OR GENIUS? GAHHHH!
Ritos de Frankenstein hits the ground running and seldom stops for breath. Skipping all preliminaries and niceties, we open in the sparsely appointed lab of Dr. Frankenstein (Dennis Price), in flagrante de genesis. Highlights here include a nicely disgusting brain in a jar, Franco himself assaying the role of the doctor's skeezy assistant Morpho, and monster makeup consisting of a bodybuilder (Fernando Bilbao) with a cereal box flat-top covered from head to foot in metallic silver body paint! Seconds later the monster is jolted to life and utters his first words--"It HURTS!" Flush with success, Dr. Frankenstein explains that since he put a human brain in the monster, it now has the power of speech and is thus perfect!
There's no time for celebration, however, as at just that moment a strange visitor arrives at the doctor's house. Clad in a full-length robe, anachronistic shiny red platform boots, and little else, Melisa (Anne Libert) is the right-hand girl of the mysterious Cagliostro, an occultist hip to the doc's discoveries and wanting to get in on the action. Together with distinctly Vampyros Lesbos-era Morpho-like henchman Caronte (Luis Barboo), Melisa invades Frankenstein's lab, kills his assistant, and then makes short work of the doctor, revealing under her robe some strange bright green feathers and talon-like fingers, about which there will be more to say in a moment.
Cagliostro, as played by Franco regular Howard Vernon, is a perpeturally reborn supervillain with incredible powers that are apparently based on a combination of telepathy, psychokinesis, and "magnetism" with a dash of Eeevil Spirituality thrown in--sort of a Caligari-meets-Crowley with a bit of R'as Al Ghul added for flavor. By summoning the legions of the dead in service of the great devil-god Panthos, Caligrosto hopes to create a new race of supermen to rule the earth, leveraging Frankenstein's technology to breed his monster with a yet-uncreated female creature.
Melisa is apparently an earlier failed experiment in the whole "perfect being" sweepstakes, a hybrid of a Eurobabe and a bird of prey (hence the talons and feathers) that didn't quite live up to his hopes. However, though she turned out all blind and feathery, Melisa also inherited a bit of clairvoyance and the ability to transmit Caligostro's "magnetism" over great distances, sort of a relay tower between him and his creatures of the night. ("I receive images through your magnetic waves! Pleasure, blood, death! I can see Frankenstein's creature raping beautiful virgins to satisfy your desires!" All righty then!) And all she asks in return is the occasional half-naked woman (or in one case a young boy) chained to the dungeon walls in Caligostro's castle where she can find them by echolocation and drink their sweet hot blood. You know, just like a bird of prey does.
Back at Castle Frankenstein, one of the late doctor's colleagues, Dr. Seward (Alberto Dalbés, who played a pretty good mad scientist himself in Paul Naschy's Hunchback of the Morgue) has arrived for the funeral, along with the sole heir, Vera Frankenstein (Beatriz Savón), herself a fledgling mad scientist intent on plumbing the depths of her father's discoveries in order to avenge his death. At this point, my monster-kid brain kind of went into overload--we have Dr. Frankenstein, his creature, La Hija de Frankenstein, a Caligari-figure, a blind, blood-drinking, clairvoyant bird-woman, and the doctor from Bram Stoker's Dracula all tussling with each other with the fate of future generations in the balance. Could it get any crazier?
Have I mentioned the BDSM subtext yet? Well, hang on!
So Vera and her female Igor quickly liberate the body of Dr. Frankenstein from his tomb and hook him up to the old rejuvenating ray, half-succeeding in bringing the old man back to life. Dear Dead Dad tells Vera that only Caligostro could be behind his death, and she swears to hunt him down and make him pay. Meanwhile Big C is sending Frankenstein's monster out to kidnap beautiful women and bring them back to his Build-A-Bride workshop so that he can pick the most perfect parts and stitch them together to create his Eve. Vera has to jolt Dad to life a couple more times (really, she uses him like a Living Dead Magic 8-Ball), but finally manages to trick the slow-witted monster into kidnapping her (instead of one of the other naked Eurobabes he went after) and thus infiltrates Caligostro's compound.
Of course Caligostro sees through the ruse right away and chains Vera in the dungeon along with all Melisa's tasty snack treats. There's already been a lot of leering bondage with these nameless unfortunates, but here Franco kicks the fetish up several notches. Dissatisfied with Caronte for allowing the monster to bring back the wrong dame, Caligostro concocts a fiendish system to kill two birds with one stone: he chains Caronte and Vera together back to back, places them in the center of a roomful of poisoned metal spikes,and decrees that whoever pushes the other onto the fatal spikes and survives will be released. To make it more interesting, he summons a legion of the wandering dead to watch, gives the Monster a cat o' nine tails, and has him get all whip-happy on them till someone dies.
To recap--you've got a mostly naked couple chained to one another surrounded by poisoned spikes, being whipped by a musclebound, silver body-painted Frankenstein's monster, while a bunch of skull-faced zombies look on. "Jaw dropping" is not really the word, but it's all I've got.
Vera wins the challenge, earning the right to become Caligostro's mindless slave and work on putting the Bride together. Meanwhile Dr. Seward and the local police inspector have jolted Dr. F to life one more time to find out where Vera went. It turns out it's one time too many, as the Dead Doc becomes a shambling zombie and goes after Seward. Luckily the cop has a jug of hydrochloric acid in hand, which he splashes on the dead man and which immediately dissolves his head to a bloody stump! I mean, in less than a second! Good thing Seward didn't get any splashback.
It all ramps up to a scene where the Bride is brought to life in a wonderfully pervy and very BDSM-tinged scene, and the Monster prepares to mate with her while the Dead Army of Panthos cheers him on. Seward arrives in time to break it to the monster that Caligostro killed his papa, which leads the creature to interrupt his coitus and go after the bad guy for the Final Confrontation.
Oh, and there's a bunch of scenes with Lina Romay as a gypsy writhing by a creek while Caligostro sends her mental messages that really seem to have nothing to do with the rest of the movie at all.
Succubus as you can get, but I've got plenty of room for both under my pleasantly pitched tent.
Where it gets maddening in a bad way is the split-personalty nature of the way the film is made. Franco gets in some truly gorgeous shots here--standouts are an early scene with some henchmen bringing a crate containing Frankenstein's monster up the beach to Caligostro's castle (again reminiscent of some of Rollin's best work, all bright colors and weird visual poetry) and shots of the Children of Panthos creeping through the fog-drenched forest, wrapped in their burial shrouds--just creepy and lovely. However, much of the rest of the movie looks like it was shot by an epileptic ape and edited with a blender. The monster's makeup is "My Kid's First Super-8" level stuff, as is the haphazard feathering of Melisa. The scenes in the dungeon with the chained models are grimy in a grindhouse way that's either terrible or great depending on your perspective. And close-ups of Panthos' Kidz in the final scenes are frankly laughable. And despite my previous statement, sometimes the plot seems SO pulled strait out of Franco's drug-addled ass, some of the joy gives way to frustration.
Performances are all over the place too--Vernon is great as Caligostro, sporting a truly awesome fake beard and some of the craziest wide-eyed stares it's been my pleasure to witness. Vera ranges from competent to bad, and Seward isn't given much to do. I was actually kind of moved by some of the monster's scenes, particularly his painful birth, though I don't know if that's a result of the actor's performance or my own gin intake.
I do think The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein is an...interesting movie, with flashes of brilliance amid a sea of what-the-fuckery. It doesn't settle my Franco problem, but it's definitely worth at least one viewing--because let's face it, where else are you going to see Frankenstein's Monster whipping a couple of chained up naked folks? 2.25 thumbs.
Nota bene: I actually checked this DVD out of my local public library, which is pretty objectively awesome. The version on the disc is the domestic "clothed" version, but includes the for-export nude versions of the super-pervy scenes as a bonus feature. These improve the proceedings greatly--naked artist's models, the bride in all her birthday-suit glory, and even Vera and Caronte completely unclothed in the climactic whipping scene, offering a rare glimpse of wiggly Eurowang. You know, if that's your thing.
A few more images from The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein:
Caligostro: Next on MTV's Cribs
"A little to the left..."
A Haunting Scene
"I knew we should have worn our Ming Dynasty camouflage!"
Caligostro always got a kick out of Melisa's Grover impersonation
"Thow the switch, Jess! THROW THE SWITCH!"


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Latest content added for Digital Library Collection: Texas Fashion Collectionhttps://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/TXFC/browse/?sort=date_a&fq=untl_decade:1900-1909&fq=untl_institution:UNTCVA2014-03-07T07:40:23-06:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing Digital Library Collection: Texas Fashion CollectionBeaded Bag2010-12-20T11:16:33-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30073/

Handbag. Rectangular bronze frame chased with scrolling floral forms. Ball/snap closure and bronze chain. Body of purse of off-white woven cloth covered in beaded design of red, pink, green, black, and white in an American Indian or possibly Caucasian motifs. Originally lined in pink silk. Frame is marked "Germany".
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Infant's bonnet of white cotton, possibly as part of a christening set. Lace inset and tucking near brim. Gathered shell. Ties of self.
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Child's sunbonnet of white cotton. Channel-stitched. Corded brim that also stiffens and shapes bonnet. Long curtain of same.
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Child's poke-type bonnet of white silk. Completely shirred and trimmed with white satin ribbon, outlined with lace. High crown to which circular shirred flange has been added. Label inside crown mostly illegible; last word is "Chicago".
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Pair of boots or "High Button Shoes" of brown leather. The shoes, designed with pointed toes rounded at the tips, lace closed along center front with laces 16 holes high. The medium height, stacked heels are rounded at sides and back, and are curved at front, tapering slightly to ground. The sole is of tan leather. The shoes are lined in off-white cloth. The base of the heel is of brown rubber(?) with molded marks. Maker's mark in sole: "Hamilton-Brown / Makers / [illeg] Molded into heel: "Cushion Comfort Heel 2" Stamped in lining: "450 24512H"
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Pair of boots or "High Button Shoes" of gray/silver lamé cloth. The shoes, designed with pointed toes rounded at the tips, lace closed along center front with laces 18 holes high. The high heels are rounded at sides and back, tapering to center and flaring back out at base, and are curved at front. They are covered with the lamé fabric on the back and sides. The sole is of tan and brown leather, as is the cap on the heel. Shoes are lined in off-white cloth. Hand-written notation on inside lining, partly illegible: "37 / .... / 911"
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Pair of lady's boots or "High Button Shoes" of black and tan leather. The lower section of the shoes, designed with pointed toes, are of black leather. The upper sections, of tan leather, close along center front with laces, 17 holes high. Medium/high heels styled as a modified boulevard or Louis heel, with rounded sides and back, flaring to base, and with curved front section. Sole of black and tan leather. Stamped on sole: "TEDCO / Trade Mark" Stamped on lining: "435 72307 4" and "Tedco"
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Pair of lady's boots or "High Button Shoes" of tan leather. The shoes, designed with pointed toes, are of tan leather which close along center front with laces, 19 holes high. Medium/high heels styled as a modified boulevard or Louis heel, with rounded sides and back, flaring to base, and with curved front section. Heels covered with matching leather. Sole of tan leather. Stamped on lining: "H.Seligmann / Seguin, Tex." and "356 10146" Stamped on sole is a wreath containing an image of a shoe and label "Duchess".
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Pair of lady's boots of black leather and wool broadcloth. The "high button shoes" are designed with pointed toes gently rounded at tips. The lower part, including vamp, are of black leather. The upper part is of black wool broadcloth edged at scalloped top with black leather, and with black leather accent band running from heel partly up the back of the boot. The boots lace up along the front with 20 holes. Lined at top with reddish/orange fabric, the body of the shoe lined in white fabric. High heels are rounded at sides and back, flaring slightly to base, and curved at front. Black leather soles. Stamped notation inside: "3 1/2 B R251"
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Pair of black suede boots. Ankle-height boots of black suede, with pointed toes and decorative stitch accent at opening. Black suede tassel on heel from opening. 2 1/4" high "stacked" spike heel of black leather(?). Upper is lined in black leather, inner sole lined with red leather. Sole of dark brown leather. Stamped in each shoe: "Anne Klein / New York". Stamped on sole: "Anne / Klein / Made in Italy / 7 1/2 / M"


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Detroit Edison Co., (DECo) had been using three-recloser schemes for improving system reliability since 1992; since that time the original solution had become out-dated due to improvements in equipment designs and capabilities. The challenge was to integrate the new equipment, with its many different protocols, with the existing legacy system. DECo posed this challenge to their major suppliers: Develop equipment that will integrate seamlessly into the existing system without any additional proprietary interfaces or hardware. Cooper Power Systems formed a team with DECo to meet this goal. Along the way, this partnership expanded into a strategic alliance that saved DECo as much as $1 million per year on recloser scheme costs. Their concentration focused not just on recloser scheme compatibility, but expanded to include life cycle cost, inventory management and process improvement.
By changing the focus from first cost to life cycle cost, DECo was able to assess all of the costs associated with procuring and operating a piece of equipment throughout its life. Several design features and process improvements resulted in life cycle cost savings as well as enhanced capability.
Control/RTU Integration
Cooper's new recloser control and automation platform, the Kyle® Form 5, has an integral loop scheme and imbedded communications functionality that uses S-COMM protocol. (DECo uses System Northwest's S-COMM protocol for their pole-mounted devices.) A second independent communications port gives DECo the capability of upgrading in the future to DNP 3 protocol. Since RTU function is built into the control, there is no need for a separate RTU cabinet and its associated wiring and installation. Elimination of the separate RTU is estimated to save DECo $8,500 per installation (DECo installs more than 40 reclosers per year). The Form 5 and recloser integrates seamlessly into DECo's existing system with no discernable difference to the distribution management system or the substation submaster.
All existing loop sectionalizing, midline and tie controls are integrated into the Form 5 control, so DECo can install the same control in any functions. The new control takes the place of five differently configured controls that DECo previously had to stock and a total of 21 line items from its stock shelves.
The new NOVA recloser, a vacuum recloser using completely solid-state insulation, is 600lbs less than the previous recloser and 30% smaller. It is much easier to handle, and can be installed much faster than the old one. Because of its reduced weight, it can be installed on most existing poles, saving the cost of replacing the pole with a heavier version. Since the NOVA recloser contains no oil, there is no chance of leaks or spills and in addition, the recloser is more sensitive to ground fault trip settings, improving hot line work safety for crews.
Reduced Maintenance
Studies show that the true costs of removing, transporting and maintaining a recloser every 12 years is as much as installing a completely new recloser. The NOVA recloser does not need maintenance throughout its life, translating to a $15,000 savings per unit to amortize over 24 years. Another advantage of the recloser is its cypoxy insulators, in contrast to the traditional porcelain insulators. The new insulators are more resistant to damage and cracking from flashover or physical abuse, which also helps reduce maintenance costs and improve reliability.
This strategic alliance was able to reduce inventory and delivery costs by "drop ship" deliveries directly to service centers, with no additional testing needed on the units, cutting the transportation costs by 19%. As a result of the demonstrated success in three-phase reclosers, DECo and Cooper plan to expand the alliance to single-phase reclosers for greater reliability gains and cost savings.
"For us, distribution automation helps limit customers affected by outages. Cooper's state-of-the-art recloser and recloser controls easily integrated into our existing system - and reduced the cost of a three recloser loop scheme by $40,000," says Jim Evans, DECo Principal Engineer, Relay Engineering DAS/SCADA.


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25th Annual Comcast SportsNet Sports Awards to be Televised Live
on Comcast SportsNet on Thursday, January 24th at 7:30 PM CT (Pre-Show Special airs at 7 PM)
(Chicago December 17, 2012) -- Many of Chicago's most popular past and present professional athletes will take center stage to receive honors at the 25th Annual Comcast SportsNet Sports Awards to benefit the March of Dimes. The silver anniversary reception, dinner & ceremony will be held on Thursday, January 24th, 2013 from 5:00-9:00 PM CT at the Hilton Chicago & Towers, 720 S. Michigan Avenue. Over the past 24 years, the Comcast SportsNet Sports Awards has raised close to 9 million for the March of Dimes.
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Hubble Helps Solve Mystery of Ultra-Compact, Burned-Out Galaxies
A certain class of massive galaxies in the early universe lived fast and died young. By "died" astronomers mean that the galaxies had completed building stars just 3 billion years after the big bang. By contrast, our 12-billion-year-old Milky Way galaxy continues making stars today. When star formation stops, the aging stellar population looks redder in the star-forming galaxies that are more bluish. The nickname for the essentially "burned-out" galaxies is "red and dead."
By combining the power of Hubble with infrared space-based telescopes and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have now solved a decade-long mystery as to how compact elliptical-shaped galaxies existed when the universe was so young. These "red and dead" galaxies have now been linked directly to an earlier population of dusty starburst galaxies. These objects voraciously used up available gas for star formation very quickly. Then they grew slowly through merging as the star formation in them was quenched, and they eventually became giant elliptical galaxies.
Development of Massive Elliptical Galaxies
Astronomers combining the power of the Hubble Space Telescope, Spitzer and Herschel infrared space telescopes, and ground-based telescopes have assembled a coherent picture of the formation history of the most massive galaxies in the universe, from their initial burst of violent star formation through their appearance as high stellar-density galaxy cores and to their ultimate destiny as giant ellipticals.
This solves a decade-long mystery as to how compact elliptical-shaped galaxies that existed when the universe was only 3 billion years old, or one-quarter of its current age of 13.8 billion years, already had completed star formation. These compact ellipticals have now been definitively linked directly to an earlier population of dusty starburst galaxies that voraciously used up available gas for star formation very quickly. Then they grew slowly through merging as the star formation in them was quenched, and they eventually became giant elliptical galaxies.
"This is the first time anybody has put together a representative spectroscopic sample of ultra-compact, burned-out galaxies with the high quality of infrared imaging of Hubble," said Sune Toft of the Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen.
"We at last show how these compact galaxies can form, how it happened, and when it happened," Toft added. "This basically is the missing piece in the understanding of how the most massive galaxies formed, and how they evolved into the giant ellipticals of today. This had been a great mystery for many years because just 3 billion years after the big bang we see that half of the most massive galaxies have already completed their star formation."
Even more surprising, said Toft, is that these massive, burned-out galaxies were once extremely compact, compared to similar elliptical galaxies seen today in the nearby universe. This means that stars had to be crammed together 10 to 100 times more densely than seen in galaxies today. "It's comparable to the densities of stars in globular clusters, but on the larger scale of a galaxy," said Toft.
In tying together an evolutionary sequence for these compact massive galaxies, Toft identified their progenitors as highly dust-obscured galaxies undergoing rapid star formation at rates that are thousands of times faster than in our Milky Way galaxy. Starbursts in these galaxies are likely ignited when two gas-rich galaxies collided. These galaxies are so dusty that they are almost invisible at optical wavelengths, but are bright at submillimeter wavelengths, where they were first identified nearly two decades ago by the SCUBA (Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array) camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii.
Toft's team assembled, for the first time, representative samples of the two galaxy populations using the rich dataset in Hubble's COSMOS (Cosmic Evolution Survey) program.
They constructed the first representative sample of compact quiescent galaxies with accurate sizes and distances (spectroscopic redshifts) measured from the Hubble Space Telescope's CANDELS (Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey) and 3D-HST programs. 3D-HST is a near-infrared Hubble spectroscopic survey to study the physical processes that shape galaxies in the distant universe. The astronomers combined these data with observations from the Subaru telescope in Hawaii and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This allowed for accurate stellar age estimates, from which they concluded that galaxies formed in intense starbursts 1 billion to 2 billion years earlier, in the very early universe.
The team then made the first representative sample of the most distant submillimeter galaxies using the rich COSMOS data from the Hubble, Spitzer, and Herschel space telescopes, and ground-based telescopes such as Subaru, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, and the Submillimeter Array. This multi-spectral information, stretching from optical light through submillimeter wavelengths, yielded a full suite of information about the sizes, stellar masses, star-formation rates, dust content, and precise distances of the dust-enshrouded galaxies present early on in the universe.
When Toft's team compared the samples of these two galaxy populations, they discovered a link between the compact elliptical galaxies and the submillimeter galaxies observed 1 billion to 2 billion years earlier. The observations show that the violent starburst activity in the earlier galaxies had the same characteristics that would have been predicted for progenitors to the compact elliptical galaxies. The team also calculated that the intense starburst activity only lasted about 40 million years before the interstellar gas supply was exhausted.
Illustration: NASA, ESA, S. Toft (Niels Bohr Institute), and A. Feild (STScI);
Science: NASA, ESA, S. Toft (Niels Bohr Institute), V. Smolcic (University of Zagreb), B. Magnelli (Argelander Institute for Astronomy), A. Karim (Argelander Institute for Astronomy and Durham University), A. Zirm (Niels Bohr Institute), M. Michalowski (University of Edinburgh and Universiteit Gent), P. Capak (California Institute of Technology), K. Sheth (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), K. Schawinski (ETH Zurich), J.-K. Krogager (Niels Bohr Institute and European Southern Observatory), S. Wuyts (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), D. Sanders (University of Hawaii), A. Man (Niels Bohr Institute), D. Lutz (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), J. Staguhn (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Johns Hopkins University), S. Berta (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics), H. McCracken (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris), J. Krpan (University of Zagreb), D. Riechers (Cornell University and California Institute of Technology), and G. Brammer (European Southern Observatory and STScI)
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Kananaskis Country is a 4,000 sq. km network of three provincial parks and multi-use areas within the Canadian Rockies. The town of Canmore sits at the "gateway" to K-Country, and you'll find it full of great shops, galleries, restaurants and pubs.
You'll also find Peter Lougheed Provincial Park at the heart of the Kananaskis, with numerous campgrounds and enough mountain trails, meadows, lakes and streams to keep any outdoor adventurer happy.
Getting there:
From Calgary, head west on the Trans-Canada Highway (Hwy. 1) to Kananaskis Trail (Hwy. 40).
Stops Along the Way
Kananaskis Village
You'll find accommodation in the Village, as well as shops, restaurants and pubs. In the summer, you can hike the pathway system, and in the winter you can strap on your snowshoes or slip on your cross-country skis and explore the same routes. Skate on the ice rink in winter, or enjoy the waterfalls during summer.
Once you get to Longview, you understand the name: you can almost see forever from here. The village is famous for its beef jerky, and nearby, at the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site, you'll find even more cowboy culture, with original buildings and interpretive tours. You'll also find sightseeing, fishing, hiking, and dining.
Turner Valley and Black Diamond
A visit to these two towns, just a few kilometers apart, gives you a glimpse of Alberta's rich past – in the early years, Turner Valley was the world's greatest oil producer. A drive in this direction puts you in the middle of stunning scenery, too, with rolling hills and wide-open spaces.
Head south from Calgary on the Cowboy Trail (Hwy 22) to Millarville, a quiet agricultural community. The Millarville Farmers' Market is open every Saturday during the summer, and is famous for its fresh produce and interesting goods from local vendors. Like the ponies? The Millarville Racetrack is Canada's oldest, established in 1905.
Bragg Creek
This cozy artisans' community, south and west of Calgary on Hwy. 22, is a great place to shop for native and western art, local pottery, jewelry and unique gifts.
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Long Description: Suppressed lactation, delivered, with mention of postpartum complication
This is the 2014 version of the ICD-9-CM diagnosis code 676.52
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Complications of pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium (630–679)
Complications of the puerperium (670-677)
- 676 Other disorders of the breast associated with childbirth, and disorders of lactation
- Complications of the puerperium (670-677)
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Maternity diagnoses (age 12 through 55) Maternity diagnoses (age 12 through 55)
Maternity diagnoses: Age range is 12–55 years inclusive.
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- O92.5 - Suppressed lactation (approximate) Approximate Flag
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Also called: Lactation, Nursing
Breastfeeding offers many benefits to your baby. Breast milk contains the right balance of nutrients to help your infant grow into a strong and healthy toddler. Some of the nutrients in breast milk also help protect your infant against some common childhood illnesses and infections. It may also help your health. Certain types of cancer may occur less often in mothers who have breastfed their babies.
Women who don't have health problems should try to give their babies breast milk for at least the first six months of life. There are some cases when it's better not to breastfeed. If you have HIV or active tuberculosis, you should not breastfeed because you could give the infection to your baby. Certain medicines, illegal drugs, and alcohol can also pass through the breast milk and cause harm to your baby.
If you are having problems with breastfeeding, contact a lactation consultant.
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The shares of Facebook tumbled again Tuesday, the social network giant's third day as a public company.
The stock dropped 8 percent shortly after the market opened Tuesday, before inching back to just 4 percentage one-day loss around 7:45 a.m. (Monitor the real-time price of the stock here).
The stock price has fallen 14.63 percent to $32.65 per share since it debuted on the public market Friday at $38 per share.
Based on Tuesday's price, the company is now valued at $88.67 billion, well below the $104 billion it was worth at the time of the public offering.
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The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell is pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church, the largest United Methodist congregation in the nation. Often described as a 'spiritual advisor' to President George W. Bush, Caldwell introduced Bush at the 2000 Republican National Convention and delivered the benedictions at the 2001 and 2005 presidential inaugurations. He endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president in January.
When you called President Bush to say you were endorsing Senator Barack Obama, how did he respond?
He had shared his thoughts with me about Senator Obama months before I called and told him I was going to endorse. And he says he likes him as a person. He told me that early on, before the Senator even announced he was running for president. He has a tremendous amount of respect for him.
While the differences between President Bush and Senator Obama are very, very clear, allow me to share with you what their commonalities are. One, they have deep, resolute loyalty to their country, to their families, and to their God. They are both Christians. They both love their wives intensely. They're both very good dads.
They are also strong believers in rebuilding the family and rebuilding the infrastructure of our communities… Now, obviously, they have two entirely different approaches as to how to achieve that common good.
They are also strong believers in rebuilding the family and rebuilding the infrastructure of our communities… Now, obviously, they have two entirely different approaches as to how to achieve that common good.
How do you know about Obama's family life?
For the last 12 months, I've been talking to people who are part of the campaign very, very regularly. And I listen very intently to what they say. And the few times I have been around the Senator, I've noticed very carefully what he does…
Let me give you a little tidbit. When he was in Houston, we had a history-making number of folks show up here for the rally… As he was leaving the event I said, "Is there anything we can pray for for you?" And he said, "Pray for my wife and my children…." You know, he doesn't ask for--he doesn't ask that you pray for his strength or pray for his stamina so he can endure these 16-hour days. He's not focused on himself. He says, "Pray for my wife and my children."
You've been pretty quiet about your support for Obama since endorsing him. Why?
Nobody's asked me. But, I tell you what. As soon as he gets the nomination, it will become a lot more noisy. Let me share this with you.The check that I wrote to Senator Obama is the first check I've ever written to a politician who was running for local, state, or federal office.
So you see him as a unique candidate.
Yeah. There are several reasons. One, I think he's just a solid man. He's a solid, spiritual man, and I have a great deal of respect for him as an individual.
Number two, when he initially announced, they said, "Well, he will be a symbolic candidate. He has no chance of winning." And then he began to attract, you know, crowds of 20, 30, 40,000. Then they'd say, "Well, he may attract twenty, thirty thousand folk at a time, but he won't be able to raise any money." And then he started raising a ton of money… Then, they said, "Well, he's not black enough." Well, clearly he is. Then they said, "He's too black." Well, that's ridiculous. Then they said, "Well, you know, he doesn't like white folk because his pastor says whatever." And I think folks forget his mother was white, for goodness sake. The grandmother of his children are white. I mean it just--that's just a ridiculous argument.
Then, they said, "Well, he's Muslim." And he's confessed his faith--I would say that he's more of a Christian than some folk who claim to be Christian, because he didn't grow up in a Christian house… He had to declare his faith separate and distinct from his--from the house that he grew up in.
As a pastor, how did you feel as Rev. Jeremiah Wright emerged as possibly the biggest stumbling block to Obama winning the Democratic nomination, maybe even the presidency?
The timing is unfortunate. I also think the media has blown it up a little bit. Quite frankly, some of the confusion is an issue of style versus substance. I am most appreciative of how Senator Obama has remained focused and on task in trying to call America's attention to the many, many challenges that need to be addressed, and to get everybody back on point.
I think since they--whomever they are--since they could not find anything wrong with him as a person, there seemingly has been an attempt to reach out and find something wrong with those who are allegedly around him.Everybody keeps saying, "Well, he sat there for 20 years." For starters, he didn't sit there for 20 years, right? He's been a member for 20 years. He's not sat there for 20 years. For three years, he was in law school. Another eight years, he was in the state senate, and another three years--or three years, really now four--he's been in the US senate. I don't mean to split hairs on this, but it hasn't been 20 years.
And furthermore, truth be told, there are some things that Pastor Wright has said that are absolutely true. Now, you may not like how he said it, and whenever your metaphor overwhelms what you have to say, that can be problematic. But there are a number of African Americans in this country who affirm the ministry of Pastor Wright.
And furthermore, truth be told, there are some things that Pastor Wright has said that are absolutely true. Now, you may not like how he said it, and whenever your metaphor overwhelms what you have to say, that can be problematic. But there are a number of African Americans in this country who affirm the ministry of Pastor Wright.


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Yes, neighbor, but what do YOU think?
Among the many findings of a new Pew Research Center survey is this data about neighborhoods, and how Americans want them to look: more conservatives than liberals want to live in a place where most people share their political views.
The survey found that, among the consistently conservative, 50% believe it's important to live in a place where most think the way they do about politics. For consistent liberals, it's 35%. Check out the Pew poll.
The divide over neighborhoods doesn't end there. Many more liberals than conservatives want communities where the houses are smaller and closer to each other, and things like schools and stores are in walking distance. Conservatives, not so much. They prefer places where the homes are bigger and farther apart and those stores are "several miles away."
The survey is stark by several measures, finding that Democrats and Republicans are ideologically further apart than at any point in recent history, and growing numbers of both parties have highly negative views of the other party.
It was the largest political survey in the organization's history and polled more than 10,000 adults between January and March.
-- Robert Schroeder
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At the time there was a lot of speculation as to why the vinyl tops were on the Penske cars. People suspected lots of different reasons. I think one of the stranger hypotheses I've heard was that the vinyl top covered up tiny holes which released air pressure from inside the car. I don't think I have heard anything about a lowered roof but bondo and paint can cover up welds as good as any vinyl top can. I believe Mark Donohue was the one who stated that the vinyl tops were to cover up wavy roofs because the bodies of the two team cars had spent a little too much time in the acid tank. Yes, a normal unibody structure would suffer a lot from too much acid dipping and the roof does strengthen the structure of the body. However, don't forget that these cars had complete roll cages which attached to various parts of the chassis such as the front subframe, the rocker panels, the rear frame at the suspension pickup points, the side panels just aft of the door openings and it was also welded to the inner roof structure in a number of different spots. This is what became the birdcage type of frame for the car which was much stiffer than any unibody car, especially one without a B pillar behind the door, could be on its own.Eventually, during the 1969 season the protesting of the vinyl tops got to be so much that Penske did have to have them removed and my understand is that the wavy roofs were cut off the cars and new roofs were rewelded in place, sans vinyl. It is a good thing, since Penske's cars finally started winning races with the vinyl tops off the cars and they went on to win the Trans-Am championship that year, making it two in a row.


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There are a a number of events that the North Oakland Democratic Club will participate in in September.
- With the approach of the Michigan expansion of Medicaid, a Michigan health care exchange, and enrollment for health care plans relating to the Affordable Healthcare Act, the NODC has invited a speaker from the Michigan AARP, Steven Hernandez from Michigan Consumers for Healthcare and possibly another speaker (to be announced) to provide an update. We will meet Thurs. Sept 19th at Red Knapp's American Grille 6722 Dixie Hwy., Clarkston, 48346 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm As always, please bring canned and packaged food for the Oxford/Orion FISH Food Pantry – the need for food support has only grown larger in North Oakland County
- Please be part of the North Oakland Democratic Club table at the OCDP 53rd Annual Phil Hart Dinner, Sun. Sept.15, 6:00 pm at Club Venetian 29310 John R Road Madison Heights, MI 48071 Click here for tickets. Please let me know if you are making plans to attend and would like to sit at our table.
- Sun. Sept 15, noon to 5 pm Please drop by the NODC canopy at Taste of Clarkston. We will be with exhibitors in the parking lot on N Main St, at W. Washington St.
- Sat. Sept 21, 8:30 am to 10:30 am. Please join us for our September Adopt-A-Road pick-up on Brown Rd between Joslyn Rd and Baldwin Rd. Meet us in the northeast corner of the Costco parking lot (400 Brown Rd) . Bring work gloves and sturdy shoes, we will provide the safety vests, bags, and picking sticks
- Sat. Sept. 28, 10 am to 5 pm. Please drop by the NODC canopy at Septemberfest in Ortonville. We will be on South St, above Mill St.


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Whether you're a developer, business, commuting employee or resident, or future resident, there's an opportunity for you in Lakewood. The 12.1 mile long W light rail line, which opened in April 2013, connects Lakewood to downtown Denver, nearby Golden, and the entire metro Denver light rail system.
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The City of Lakewood has rezoned the areas surrounding light rail stations and the West Colfax Avenue corridor to accommodate for mixed-use and higher density projects. To learn more about the Mixed Use zone districts visit the City's Light Rail planning page.Contact Lakewood's Economic Development Division to discuss opportunities along the W light rail line.


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