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Flu outbreaks are being reported throughout the country, and here in Braintree officials have counted 23 confirmed cases, up from two for the entire season last year.
The town conducted several flu clinics this past fall and still has vaccines in stock, Chief of Staff and Operations Peter Morin said in an email Thursday. In addition to the 23 confirmed so far, Braintree likely has "significantly more unreported cases," Morin said.
With more than 700 confirmed cases in Boston – 10 times the number of average cases last year – Mayor Thomas Menino declared a health emergency Wednesday morning.
The health department had 158 doses of flu vaccine remaining as of Thursday morning, Morin said. They are available to Braintree residents free of charge by appointment. Anyone interested may contact the Health Division of the Department of Licensing and Inspections at 781-794-8094.
The Red Cross offers several tips to reduce your exposure to the flu, like washing your hands often, coughing and sneezing into your elbow instead of your hand and others on this list.
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These are called "Phantom Smells" or phantosmia, and can have a variety of sources including neurological disorders, such as brain tumors, migraines, or epilepsy....or something as simple as sinusitis. Please don't start thinking you have a brain tumor, but it would be advisable for you to consult a neurologist to see if there is a reason for this possible olfactory hallucination.
If you do live in large metro area with a university-based medical center, this would be a place to be evaluated. This is not an easy medical condition to manage......
It's important to note that I don't get sick often, and I don't even remember the last time I've even had a sinus infection. So it's a little unsettling since I'm a pretty healthy person that's getting this phantom smell.
Also important to note that I'm looking for good home remedies, I'm an unemployed student with no insurance or really any money for doctor stuff. So anything to help this smell go away as cheaply as possible would be ideal.
I have a confirmed & thought to be benign brain tumor on my right Trigeminal nerve (at the intersection of 2&3 & resting on my right carotid artery - I believe is how they put it - which they said makes it basically inoperable unless they absolutely had no choice) that has been stable in size for nearly 2 years now. I have smelled the cigarette smoke thing (have never smoked in my life nor has my husband) for quite some time (since we moved into our current home in 1999); however, about 3 weeks ago I started receiving a new smell.....a very super sweet floral smell; it lasts different lengths of time, has no specific location, nor can I seem to find a specific trigger. I guess my question is; should I move up the date of my next MRI or are they just going to think I'm being a paranoid hypochondriac?
The only thing I have heard of that is connected to a sweet floral smell is epilepsy. But I'm guessing you would probably know if you had that. It's better to tell the doctors I think I'm shocked to hear you have a brain tumor. so the doctors think this is why you have phantosmia?
I too suffer from phantosmia. I am not formally diagnosed, because my ENT doc had no idea what I was talking about. But I know what I have. I usually smell the smoke/putrid smell most of the time, but from time to time I smell a sickeningly sweet smell too.
How do you deal with your phantosmia? You have had this disorder for such a long time. I will tell you what I do and maybe we can share notes.
My only remedy, though it lasts only briefly, is the netipot rinse. Specifically the bottle rinse. I hate the actual pot! I have to use the rinse anywhere from 2-20 times a day to make the smell go away. I irrigate my nose and then I blow my nose with my head right side up and then upside down. I repeat as much as necessary. Then after I am done this I cough, to the point of gagging, with my head upside down. This action seems to keep the smell away for a few hours.
I have one symptom, however, that does not seem to match anyone else's. I feel like I can feel something drop down in the back of my throat with the smell comes on. It's a subtle feeling, but it's there. Also, sometimes I get a whiff of the offending smell briefly before it even sets in. I also can test if I the smell will come on by holding my nose and blowing forward. If I can smell the smell when doing this, then I know I have to use the netipot rinse asap.
Sorry for the lengthy response. I really have no one to talk to about this. It's hard for the people around me to understand, because they can't experience it for themselves.
Regarding remedies; the cigarette smell doesn't last that long & is not that strong & I'm not quite sure what to make of the sweet smell yet although I'm going to look into what you mentioned. I will keep your solutions in mind though should I need to use them, thanks for the info.
I have a great support system, but, as you say, it's hard to make people understand who haven't experienced what you are trying to describe. I think they think I'm nutts.
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"Our pitching and middle infield are strong," said coach Dave Bliss, who is entering his 13th season at Cooperstown.
Bliss also said he's confident that, just like the team's last two years, Cooperstown will have no problem making it to the Section Three Class C Tournament. Cooperstown reached the sectional title game two seasons ago and made it to the C-2 semifinals last spring, when its season ended with a 2-1 loss to Weedsport in 11 innings.
"It was really a shame someone had to lose," Bliss said. "It was really well-played by both teams. But it was especially a shame since it was us that lost."
Although it's too early to pick his captains — practice started last week — Bliss said he knows junior shortstop Maggie Hall, senior pitcher Nicole Cring and senior second baseman Alannah Haggerty will lead Cooperstown.
The trio played baseball when they were younger and often competed for travel teams, but softball became their only option once they reached middle school.
"I was really stubborn, but they forced me," said Hall, who joined Cring and Haggerty in helping Cooperstown to the Class C state tournament in girls basketball this past winter.
Together, they rewrote the single-season record book at Cooperstown last season.
Cring became the single-season leader in wins and strikeouts. Haggerty set the all-time record for highest batting average. Hall set season records for hits, doubles, triples and home runs - and she's already the all-time program leader in those categories.
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---- — SALEM — One woman has gone to jail for at least a year and then faces deportation, while another will spend the rest of her life covered in scars on her face, chest and arms.
And the man they fought over was nowhere to be seen yesterday in Salem Superior Court, where a judge stated what a lot of people likely wonder in such scenarios: "I'll never understand why the jealousy is always focused on the other woman," said Judge David Lowy.
During an emotional hearing, Judith Medina, 45, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who has sent two of her children to college, tearfully apologized after admitting that she splashed boiling hot oil onto the 22-year-old woman she found in her boyfriend's apartment one morning last April.
"I'm sorry," she whispered over at the victim after pleading guilty to charges of assault and battery causing serious bodily injury and assault and battery.
Prosecutor Kristen Buxton described to Lowy what happened that morning of April 14.
The 22-year-old woman, Maria Mejia, was cooking plantains in a pan of hot oil in the Lawrence apartment of a man named Randy Serrano, 35.
The apartment was filled with children of both Mejia and Serrano.
Then, Medina let herself in, using a key she had been given. She and Serrano had been dating for some seven years, her lawyer said yesterday.
Buxton said Medina had been told that Serrano was cheating on her, but defense lawyer Amanda Barker said she had no idea she would find the other woman there that morning.
There was a confrontation in the kitchen, as the victim stood near the stove cooking. Suddenly, Medina swept her hand, moving the pan enough to send hot oil flying out and onto Mejia.
The younger woman screamed in pain, said Buxton, and the two began to struggle. Medina then scratched the victim's face.
Police arriving in response to a 911 call could hear her screams, and her own young children were present and also saw their mother's suffering, said the prosecutor.
Mejia was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with burns over 20 percent of her body. She underwent skin grafts and a painful recovery, but remains scarred, said the prosecutor.
"This has affected me in a lot of ways," Mejia told the judge during a victim-impact statement yesterday. "Now I have flashbacks. I hardly sleep. My kids are in counseling."
"I don't think it was necessary in front of the children," she added.
Medina, who has no prior record, begged her forgiveness when it was her turn to speak.
"I didn't want to hurt anybody," said Medina. "It was a mistake. I've never been a bad person. I got there, I never thought she was going to be there. That was my home for seven years."
Serrano told police that Mejia, the younger woman, was just a friend who had come to help him pack for a trip, according to police.
Buxton said that Medina, a mother of children, should have known how traumatic it would be to all of the children present that morning in the Summer Street apartment.
Her actions near a hot pan of oil, said the prosecutor, were as reckless as firing a gun or throwing a knife.
And the victim is left with lifelong reminders of what happened to her. "She has to look in the mirror each day," said Buxton, who had urged Lowy to impose a 21/2 year sentence.
Barker, the defense lawyer, said her client admits that her actions that day were reckless, and "a really stupid, thoughtless act."
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The music started in H&M court at the Palisades Mall and about 500 people started dancing. On Feb. 14, they joined women in 203 other countries who also organized flash mob dances in support of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, and the ONE BILLION RISING campaign.
This past Thursday was the largest day of mass action ever to stop violence against women and girls, to express their outrage, and to strike, dance and RISE to support an end to violence against women once and for all, according to the 1 Billion Rising website.
The "Rockland Rising" flash mob dance was choreographed by Myrna Packer to Tena Clark's "Break the Chain" and organized by Center For Safety & Change, formerly Rockland Family Shelter. They anticipated 200 people, but ended up with about 500, said Kiera Pollock, the center's Deputy Executive Director of Programs and Clinical Services.
In celebration of the 15th Anniversary of Eve Ensler's "One Billion Rising" movement, Rockland "rose up" in solidarity with national and global organizations to demand an end to violence against women.
"It's very important to stand together on behalf of women for the strength and safety of women," said Assemblywoman Ellen Jaffee, who was right in the middle of the flash mob dancing away. "The violence against women is unacceptable and we will not allow it to continue."
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"February 14, 2013 will change the world not because it is a day of magic, although there are indeed mystical elements surrounding this campaign. It will change the world because the preparation for it and organizing for it has already created an energetic wind or wave igniting existing efforts to end violence against women and create new ones," said V-Day Founder and award winning playwright Eve Ensler.
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Volvo XC90 vs MB M Class vs Acura MDX vs Lexus RX 350 vs BMW X5 vs Cadillac SRX
Just a couple of more things...
Regarding the MDX, has anyone noticed that the adjustable steering wheel does not come down enough? I like to pull the wheel directly in front of me, but I found the MDX does not do this. It stays in a somewhat angled-up position,
We also drove the Lexus GX470, but that had a strange low console that cut my husbands right mid calf when he drove it.
I checked out both the Volvo XC and Lexus RX. My husband found the leg room in the Volvo uncomfortable when he drove it. The gas pedal is too far to the right and his knee was smashed up against the console.
The Lexus is really nice, but I also have 2 kids and would find the 3rd row helpful when carting around neighborhood friends.
I am leaning toward the Cadillac SRX. It has the 3rd row, is comfortable and luxurious inside and the rear liftgate is remote. How great is that when you are loading packages!! Also, the third row goes up and down electrically. I know it kind of looks like a hearse, but for the price it kind of has everything you need.
Review here: http://www.autoblog.com/2007/01/29/in-the-autoblog-garage-2007-cadillac-srx/
Picture gallery here: http://www.autoblog.com/photos/autoblog-garage-2007-cadillac-srx/
Even more at the link--if you can believe it.
Your biggest problem is that the RX does not have a third row--like you are looking for "occasionally".
How much research have you been able to do?
If you are looking for vehicles with a third row, here are some of your best choices--based on reviews in the press:
Volvo XC90
GMC Acadia
Mazda CX-9
Saturn Outlook
Acura MDX
There are more.
The Volvo third row is not likely to be comfortable for very long for anyone, but you could probably manage.
It is very safe.
You might also want to wait for the Toyota Highlander and Honda Pilot--all due to be refreshed this year.
If you are in a rush and want the best right now, there is no question that the Saturn and the GMC are the very best. They are all the rage in the automotive press right now (and incidentally, hey have the biggest third row).
Two more to consider:
BMW X5 (small)
Mercedes-Benz R-Class(cavernous)
guyf Posts: 456Volvo says their 3rd row is recommended for people under 5ft-3". My wife is that size and she is very comfortable back there for 2-3 hours drives. We do not use the 3rd row very often, maybe twice a year. You are right, the Volvo third row is very safe, as safe as any other seat in the XC90.
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suvhunt Posts: 27I just got the MDX after comparing to XC90 and RX350. The MDX is best value for the money by far, here's some pros and cons:
MDX (tech/ent)
1. Well integrated audio and video and navigation
2. Excellent voice recognition
3. Great handling
4. Very techy with lots of gadgets and toys
5. 3rd row
6. Lots of "small things" included like xenon lights, backup camera, bluetooth, aux input on the tech/ent package.
1. May be too techy for some folks. If you think a blackberry or treo is too complicated, don't look at this car. Must read manual to maximize all the tools.
2. 3rd row is smaller than Volvo.
3. Roof rack, trailer hitch, and side boards are all optional (if you care for them)
4. Ugly grille.
Volvo XC90
1. Safe, high crash ratings.
2. Large roomy 3rd row
3. Nice factory headrest DVD setup
4. Nice conservative appearance (my wife likes it)
1. The 6cyl is very weak.
2. Poor reliability history ( and thus higher maintenance)
3. Navigation is really really bad and not worth its weight in paper.
4. No backup camera, just an optional radar buzzing thing.
5. Ends up 4-5k more than MDX comparably equipped.
Lexus RX350
1. Nice finish
2. Smooth drive
3. Nav is pretty good and easy to use.
4. Lexus customer service
1. No 3rd row if you need it.
2. Very boat like to drive. Handling worse than Acura of Volvo. Could be a good thing if you like driving a boat, though.
3. Its really a glorified highlander. All the interior setup is identical, shift gear box and all.
4. Hard to find the factory DVD and aftermarket doesn't look so hot.
5. Costs a little more than MDX even without the DVD.
Hope that helps someone.
kaistring Posts: 2From my SUV hunt, I eliminated BMW X5 (too many friends got lemons or service problems)& Porsche (best looking but poor dealer attitude with too limited warranty for a fuzzy car):
Benz ML 350 vs Acura MDX Technology
1. Benz drives with a more solid & safe feel
2. Benz has a much better exterior front nose.
3. Surprisingly Benz holds better resale value when I checked from year to year going back to 2000. Plus I bought my premium 2007 Benz for much less than the MDX Technology
4. Better voice activated Navigation & traffic report in MDX
5. Much better looking gauges in MDX.
6. Bigger & roomier interior in MDX
I would have bought the MDX if I could tolerate the funky looking front nose from the side and from the front. Driving the Infinity FX35 actually gave me a german car feel- much better than the MDX, but the FX appearance and blind spots are even worse than the MDX.
My suggestion would be to first do some research (you can start here) on each of the vehicles that you are attracted to. Read some reviews, do side-by-side comparisons to narrow it down to 2 or 3. Then go out and test drive those on a variety of roads, and get a feel for the dealers and what kind of pricing is available in your area. Do not "fall in love" and buy until you have driven all of the models that you are interested in.
By the way, the BMW and the Lexus are not alike and appeal to different target audiences. You need to figure out which one you fall into.
chaseboy Posts: 30Hi everyone:
Has anyone shopped the MB M-Class in relation to the MDX? What did you find notably different between the two? In your opinion, which would you prefer?
I am looking at both vehicles right now, and wanted to see if other shoppers/buyers compared these two vehicles in their research.
bidder5000 Posts: 17Hi. I am trying to make a final decision and having a hard time.
I have two kids so interior room is HUGE factor to me so the Lexus appears too small, is that what the rest of you think?
I love the ride and feel and gadgets on the MDX, but I think the BMW looks better outside.
The Mercedes is actually the LEAST expensive of them all I have found, can you believe it. I will be LEASING and they are running a Lease special for $525 a month so it's $125 less a month than the MDX so it's hard to decide.
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By Roger Luckhurst
Bram Stoker was always a man in the shadows, the back-room boy who for thirty-years had organised the life and finances of the greatest actor of his age, Sir Henry Irving. Almost as soon as Irving died, Stoker suffered a debilitating stroke and retired to a private, financially precarious existence. He had to be bailed out by the Royal Literary Society in the last year of his life, unable to survive.
Stoker's death one hundred years ago today, on 20 April 1912, conformed to type: it was utterly eclipsed by a much larger catastrophe. He died quietly at home only five days after the R. M. S. Titanic hit an iceberg and sank with the loss of 1500 lives. The papers were as yet crammed with the breathless accounts of survivors, the obituaries of the rich and famous, and confusing news about the identity of the three hundred bodies that had been fished from the sea and even now were heading mournfully for port on the cable ship the Mackay-Bennett. Heroes were being created amongst those who went down with the ship. Meanwhile, buried on page 15, The Times in London carried an obituary of Stoker, largely dedicated to the man's faithful service to the great actor Irving. Stoker had ensured Irving's marvellous success at the Lyceum theatre, the company taking over £2 million between 1878 and 1905, all down to careful management. As a writer, the obituary stated, Stoker's "chief literary memorial will be his Reminiscences of Irving" which he had faithfully published in 1906, working feverishly despite his illness. There was only a passing mention of Stoker's penchant for "particularly lurid and creepy kind of fiction", but that was clearly marginal and irrelevant.
In the next decades, people would go on to dimly remember reading that lurid Gothic shocker Dracula in the 1890s, a period piece redolent of a by-gone age, fading into memory like Stoker's widow — a relic of that lost era who lived to the age of 91, eventually dying in 1937. Our obsession with Dracula dates from a much more recent time.
There remains some controversy about what killed Bram Stoker in the end. Rather notoriously, Stoker's nephew Daniel Farson published a biography in 1975 in which he suggested that the death certificate stating one of the causes of death as 'Locomotor Ataxy 6 months' was a euphemistic way of avoiding any announcement of the shame of death by the sexually transmitted disease syphilis. There was no cure for syphilis and the last degenerative stages were marked by severe mental and physical decline. Could this account for the entirely unhinged nature of Stoker's notorious last novel, Lair of the White Worm? Did Stoker's public life as Irving's right-hand man hide something more dissolute? Is this the enigma at the heart of Stoker's rather odd marriage to Florence Balcombe, a society beauty who turned down Oscar Wilde's proposal but was courted by many literary men in the 1880s and 1890s whilst Stoker spent all his evening hours at the theatre? Is that why she preferred not to have her ashes interred with Bram, but scattered to the winds? We shall never know. There is no proof – and no body to disinter.
What makes a Gothic shocker like Dracula so enduring is that it refuses to give itself up to any final explanation. Even the most reductive biographical readings hit a blank wall around the life and death of Bram Stoker himself.
Roger Luckhurst is Professor of Modern Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has most recently edited our edition of Dracula, but has also edited Late Victorian Gothic Tales, also for Oxford World's Classics. You can see Roger Luckhurst in this OUPblog video discussing why we're still enthralled by the original Dracula novel.
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Forest Hills Cemetery officials closed an "unauthorized entrance" after someone almost overdosed within the cemetery's wooded areas.
Until this week, there had for years been a gap in the cemetery's wrought iron fence at the parking lot of , near . The gap was heavily used by dog walkers but also taken advantage of by partiers or drug users.
Two summers ago, a fire was set in the section of the cemetery just by the gap.
It was the near-death of a drug user that prompted the cemetery to shut the gap, said Janice Stetz, office manager for the historic cemetery. That overdose was near the Tower Street gate.
She said visitors from Forest Hills neighborhood will have to use the authorized entrances on Tower and Walk Hill streets.
"We welcome dog walkers and visitors to the cemetery by using our authorized entrances," she said.
She said dog walkers play a positive role at the cemetery, with the caveat that they must pick up after their pets.
"We do count on dog walkers who use authorized entrances to put an extra set of eyes on the property," said Stetz.
Further, she said fears about a lack of fire truck access to the area are unfounded, because an access road and small roundabout are nearby.
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Local ballot measure campaigns reach the finish line
The deadline for submitting enough valid signatures to quality local initiatives for the November ballot is today (July 6) at 5 p.m., which made for a busy holiday weekend for two San Francisco ballot measures that will be close calls: labor's effort to increase the city's hotel tax by 2 percent and the pension reform measure pushed by Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
"It's going to be really close," Adachi told the Guardian on Friday, referring to a measure to increase how much city employees contribute to their pensions and health care costs, which the labor movement is bitterly opposing.
But labor leaders say they have enough signatures for their Hotel Fairness Initiative after an all-hands-on-deck weekend of gathering and counting signatures, and they plan to hold a rally on the steps of City Hall at 1:45 pm on their way to turn the signatures in to the basement Elections Department. That initiative needed at least 7,168 valid signatures and officials say they turned in about 17,000.
Adachi says he's also cleared the 44,799 signature threshold for qualifying a charter amendment and plans to turn them in at 4 p.m. He has yet to formally support the hotel tax increase (which could bring in about $30 million per year) or any of the other proposed revenue measures being considered by the Board of Supervisors, which still has a few more weeks to place measures on the ballot.
"It doesn't deal with the train wreck that we're in," Adachi said of the proposed revenue measures, noting that they don't come close to reaching the $167 million per year that he says his employee benefits reform measure would bring into the city, which labor leaders say will come directly out of the pockets of city employees and hurt the local economy.
But Adachi counters by telling us, "My message is there's not going to be a city to run in a few years if we don't do something."
Meanwhile, Sup. Sean Elsbernd last week turned in about 76,000 signatures to remove Muni workers' pay guarantees from the city charter, which would appear to easily qualify. The Board of Supervisors is working on a competing ballot measure that would also remove that guarantee, but include a more comprehensive reform that includes governance and oversight changes and new revenue.
Imagine that! Contributing to you OWN pension! Outrageous!
Some possible slogans for MUNI workers:
"Why should we contribute to our own pensions? YOU do it for us!"
"MUNI workers - recession-proof since 1912 and we're not gonna change it"
"Our benefits are sacrosanct - get used to it."
"The bus may be late but our pension checks never are."
Adachi turned in over 75,000 signatures,actually more than Elsbernd did. City employees have a bizarre sense of entitlement to gigantic benefits. They should stop whining and face reality.
Pension reform is critical to the City's fiscal solvency. I've heard Adachi turned in even more signatures for his pension measure than Elsbernd did for the Muni reform measure. The voters are recognizing that unsustainable employee benefits and pensions are going to cause irreparable damage to the City's financial health unless they take action--since elected leaders aren't doing anything other than trying to conceive new revenue measures to pay for the benefits and pensions.
Because after all, the City is just a jobs program, not required to provide services to homeless, the disabled, seniors, Muni, parks, police and fire and more. It is just a trough that rides the back of a population that is seeing their real pay decline over the past 20 years, and seeing that progressives have just as little to offer in the way of solutions as the downtownies who are repeating bullshit from 40 years ago.
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They say travel broadens the mind, but when there's cake involved other body parts are also at risk of broadening.
Sugar lurks around every street corner, particularly since the diabolical cupcake revolution began foisting its caloric concoctions on an unsuspecting public.
While cupcakes might be a passing fad, some dessert offerings seem impervious to change.
In a few lucky corners of the world, pastry makers have been perfecting their creations for generations, reaching the point where they're works of art.
Here are nine of the world's oldest pastry shops -- tried and trusted by centuries of cake-hungry visitors.
Hofbackerei Edegger-Tax (Graz, Austria)
This bakery has been coming up with the goods since the 14th century and has been at its current location since 1880.
The ornately carved, arched wooden doors and storefront crowned by the Austro-Hungarian imperial coat of arms -- a gold two-headed eagle holding a sword and a globe above the door -- attest to its age and popularity with local royalty.
This was, after all, a "Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court."
Its traditional Sissi Busserl cookies, named after Empress Elizabeth of Austria, are worth trying.
Celiac sufferers are in luck -- the bakery might be ancient but it's keeping up with the times by offering gluten-free products.
Hofbackerei Edegger-Tax, Hofgasse 6, Graz;. +43 316 83 02 300
La Maison Stohrer (Paris)
Continuing the theme of royalty with a fondness for fat, Paris's oldest pastry shop, La Maison Stohrer, can claim regal connections via Poland.
In 1725, when Louis XV married Polish princess Marie Leszczynska, his new bride brought along her father's pastry chef, Nicolas Stohrer, to Versailles.
Five years later Stohrer opened this pastry shop on Rue Montorgueil in Paris, and it's been serving royalty ever since -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II stopped in during her 2004 state visit to France.
Commoners are welcome too.
Stohrer is credited with inventing "baba au rhum" -- a booze-soaked brioche named after a character in "The Thousand and One Nights" -- that's still a popular choice.
It's worth breaking eye contact from Stohrer's crammed pastry cases to check out the frescoes created by artist Paul Baudry in 1860.
Maison Stohrer, 51 Rue Montorgueil; +33 1 42 33 38 20
Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano (Genova, Italy)
This ancient cafe is heavy on the confectionery and famous for its candied fruit.
The company was founded in 1780, opening the oldest of its two shops on Via Soziglia in 1814.
Not much has changed since.
Those visiting in May and June will witness Pietro Romanengo fu Stefano's staff engaged in annual labors to separate the petals used to produce the cafe's celebrated rose syrup and rose sugar.


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4-star hotel in Manchester (Northern Quarter) near Affleck's Palace
A stay at Crowne Plaza Hotel Manchester City Centre places you in the heart of Manchester, walking distance from Chinese Arts Centre and National Football Museum.
This 4-star hotel is close to University of Manchester and Old Trafford.
Make yourself at home in one of the 228 air-conditioned rooms featuring minibars and LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with separate bathtubs and showers feature hair dryers and bathrobes. Conveniences include phones, as well as laptop-compatible safes and desks.
Enjoy the recreation opportunities such as a 24-hour fitness center or make use of other amenities including complimentary wireless Internet access.
Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, which features a bar, or stay in and take advantage of 24-hour room service. Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Buffet breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour front desk, luggage storage, and laundry facilities. Planning an event in Manchester? This hotel has facilities measuring 7699 square feet (693 square meters), including small meeting rooms.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Crowne Plaza Hotel Manchester City Centre Amenities
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The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. Event facilities measuring 7699 square feet (693 square meters) include small meeting rooms. This business-friendly hotel also offers a 24-hour fitness center, laundry facilities, and 24-hour room service.
Crowne Plaza Hotel Manchester City Centre is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 228
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Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
Glasshouse - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
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11:00am Wednesday 29th January 2014 in Sport By Tony Kelly, Deputy sports editor
HIGH-CALIBRE company will be among the sharp-shooters York's Simon Dyson will do battle with in the bid for a desert storm tomorrow.
Dyson is one of the early starters in the star-studded Omega Dubai Desert Classic.
The $2½ million event has attracted a field topped by world number one Tiger Woods and leading British player Rory McIlroy.
The 36-year-old Dyson has been paired with Argentina's José Coceres and Frenchman Gregory Havret.
He will be buoyed by last week's encouraging show in the Qatar Masters in Doha, where his joint 16th place netted him just over £20,000 in prize money.
Dyson advanced five positions to 174th place in the world rankings and he is up to 39th spot in the Race to Dubai standings.
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INDIANAPOLIS — You never know what you'll find when you attend Beacon of Hope's annual Handbags for Hope event. This year's event is from noon to 3 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Country Club of Indianapolis, 2801 Country Club Road.
Purse registration is from 11 to 11:50 a.m. with a luncheon at noon and a live auction from 1 to 3 p.m.
Beacon of Hope works to raise funds and awareness for domestic violence victims. Executive Director Terry Moore said they've seen a spike in crisis calls this month, indicating an increased need.
"Personally, this is my favorite event that we do all year," Moore said of the purse auction. "I love having all the women, and yes, some men, come to the purse auction and watching their faces just light up when the beautiful purses come out."
The format is a unique one to them. BOH has male models showcase the purses, which are then bid on. The caveat is that each purse is full of items such as gift certificates, money, jewelry, tickets, and more but bidders have no idea what's in the purse they bid on until they win and take it home.
"It's exciting and unique," Moore said. "Women bring a gently used or new purse and fill it with items they think other women would want. I bought a very nice purse last year and it had a 12-pack of nice, votive candles in it. In the past, I've had jewelry."
Over the years, BOH has had several local celebrities model the purses. This year's headlining celebrity model is J.D. Cannon from country music station Hank FM. Wayne Township Trustee Andy Harris and members of the Wayne Township Fire Department will also model purses.
Though the event is a fun one, Moore says the goal of the afternoon is never far from the minds of those attending.
"We will have a guest speaker, a domestic violence survivor of Beacon of Hope," Moore said. "Domestic violence used to be the number one best kept secret. But organizations like Beacon of Hope, Sheltering Wings, the Julian Center, the Salvation Army, and other wonderful domestic violence service providers are out working pretty much 24/7 to bring awareness to the community."
She noted that there is no consistency to the month to month numbers of domestic violence, but she did offer a reason as to why she expects more calls in the coming weeks.
"September was definitely slower, but October has been a very busy month for Beacon of Hope," Moore said. "Every month it can differ. The fall break that the children are on right now, it could cause an increase in calls because the men are at work and so forth, so the women are going to try to make their moves."
Which, Moore says, is why fundraisers like Handbags for Hope are essential.
"All proceeds go to Beacon of Hope to move our programs further along," she said. "Without the generous support of people attending our events, (we) would struggle to improve our programs. There is so much buzz right now about this purse auction. We just make it a very fun event for women to come to, and when they get their invites in the mail the next year, they're excited to come back."
The event typically has about 160 people attend. There are a few spots available, and registration ends Nov. 2.
Moore said they're especially grateful to PNC Bank, which this year provided a platinum sponsorship that will help offset the cost of the event.
There will also be a raffle, with prizes including a stay at the Renaissance Hotel in Carmel and breakfast the following morning at Grille 39.
Moore said she hopes events like this continue to let the community know how they can curb domestic violence.
"We need to talk about it," she said. "Get help. Potential victims need to talk about it, as well as the person that's witnessing domestic violence in action."
Tickets for the Handbags for Hope event are $35 per person or $350 for a table of 10. Attendees must be at least 8 to attend. To make a reservation, call 731-6131.
For more information about Beacon of Hope, visit the website at www.beaconofhopeindy.org.
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Title text: People aren't going to change, for better or for worse. Technology's going to be so cool. All in all, the future will be okay! Except climate; we fucked that one up.
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The title of this comic is a reference to the dystopian comedy Idiocracy. The film postulates that over about 500 years, society will suffer from a massive decrease in intellectual potential. This development is attributed to the fact that people with a lower IQ are believed to be more fertile and thus better able to pass on their genes. The scientifical approach towards a negative correlation between intelligence and fertility is called intelligence dysgenics.
Cueball professes his approval for the theories represented in the film, and White Hat agrees with him, lamenting the gradual decay in intelligence and education. But in panel 3, White Hat suddenly reveals that all the "facts" he cited were wrong, and we learn that he doesn't support the dysgenic thesis at all. He turns to accuse Cueball of conceited self-righteousness (using religious zealots as an analogy), harshly condemning intelligence dysgenics as an excuse for feeling superior to the rest of society. Cueball's suggestion of birth control for the unintelligent only furthers his attitude. Although it is not named, one thing at work here is the Dunning-Kruger effect — that stupid people don't realize they're stupid.
White Hat's punchline, playing on Cueball's birth control suggestion, is a direct insult: it would be better to reproduce with a stupid person than an elitist like Cueball.
It's pretty clear here that Randall is voicing his opinion through White Hat, and using Cueball as a straw man. In later comics, this situation is often reversed, with White Hat as the straw man and Cueball as the reasonable one. It's probable, however, that this White Hat is not the same as the one in other comics, since his hat is rounded instead of cylindrical.
The title text reflects the opinion. It makes a few cheery comments on the future, but then finishes on a rather sour note about climate change.
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- [Cueball looking at a DVD cover. White Hat stands next to him.]
- Cueball: Idiocracy is so true.
- White Hat: I know, right? It used to be that the intelligent, upper classes had more children.
- White Hat: Sadly, the recent reversal of this trend has dragged IQ scores and average education steadily downward.
- Cueball: Depressing, huh?
- White Hat: Yeah, except everything I just said was wrong.
- Cueball: Huh?
- White Hat: Wrong. False. The opposite of true.
- White Hat: You're like the religious zealots who are burdened by their superiority with the sad duty of decrying the obvious moral decay of each new generation.
- White Hat: And you're just as wrong.
- Cueball: But look at how popular—
- White Hat: More harm has been done by people panicked over societal decline than societal decline ever did.
- Cueball: Look — all we need is a program that limits breeding to—
- [White Hat is walking off panel.]
- White Hat: New theory: Stupid people reproduce more because the alternative is sleeping with you.
This explanation seems to be incorrect. The key point was that White Hat actually was wrong! The average education has gone up, and the average IQ cannot sink! By allowing Cueball to agree with clearly false laments, he baits him into revealing his stupidity. --Quicksilver (talk) 19:58, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
- The title text pretty much spells out that, in Randall's mind, White Hat is correct. 188.8.131.52 06:14, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
I propose that the hatted figure is not in fact White Hat, as neither the hat shape nor the personality are consistent with other appearances. (Category:Comics featuring White Hat) The real White Hat, when he speaks, is generally a bit of a wet blanket or well-meaning buffoon. This one, whom I'll dub White Derby, is speaking counter-buffoonery, what we may reasonably guess to be the actual thoughts of the author. Usually Cueball fills this role (eg 258:_Conspiracy_Theories), and in fact if the roles here were reversed I'd tend to ignore the misshapen hat. But two and two, together, well... --18.104.22.168 18:39, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
- Eh. He hasn't appeared in any other strips, and it's not too harmful to put him under the umbrella of the real White Hat. I see your point; White Hat is no longer a generic character like Hairy, but an actual recurring one.
- Also, have Black Hat and White Hat ever appeared in the same comic? (Click and Drag doesn't count.) Alpha (talk) 09:08, 11 November 2013 (UTC)


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The Irmo Yellow Jackets scored three unanswered goals in the final 32 minutes of the game to come from behind to beat Nation Ford 3-1 in the Class AAAA Upper State boys soccer championship at W.C. Hawkins Stadium on Tuesday evening.
"In the first half we seemed to capitalize on holes and in the second half we uncharacteristically gave those holes up," said Nation Ford coach Elton Ramey.
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But I won't go into some of the other stuff that happened that night, but do know that my mother and my sister were out on the porch with a gun, and my mother said, "I see you and I know who you are." She recognized some of them. She'll tell you that she became the first black elected official in Baker County just 11 years later, and she is still serving you all. She's chair of the board of education and she's been serving almost 34 years ...
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Are the Huskers ditching the black shoes? From our friends at Huskermax.com.
For the Husker ex-pats. Saw this t-shirt at "Czech Days" in Wilber, NE.
Without Nebraska, the Big XII is literally redefining the game of baseballl. Obviously, they didn't invest any of Nebraska's buyout money on a spellchecker.
Building for the B1G. Recent aerial photo of Memorial Stadium expansion and Haymarket arena construction from HuskerMax.com.
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