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Archive for March, 2012
Leeds get defensive in Gender Identity FoI response
Posted by Zoe O'Connell in Equality on 23 March 2012
There have been a couple more answers from Leeds GIC in response to Freedom of Information requests. The first is the "Information for Referrers" leaflet (PDF Link) which details what steps GPs should take before passing someone on to the service. We already suspected the most interesting part of this, specifically: "The GP would need to provide an up to date physical examination report…In addition to the physical examination an examination of the sexual characteristics would be highly desirable.". I struggle to see how a physical examination of "sexual characteristics" at this stage can be justified, particularly when by a GP who is not going to have the experience to do this sensitively. The only time I had any form of physical examinations were by the surgeon and electrologist, which despite being rather necessary was still, in the case of the surgeon's visit, rather upsetting.
Most likely the main effect of this is just going to end up being unnecessarily upsetting people trying to access the service. Luckily, I've heard of several people that have refused the physical exam and they've still been able to get a referral, so this aspect appears not always to be adhered to. It's inclusion in the referrers leaflet means people that don't need it or want it may still end up having it however, because they feel bullied into it to access essential medical care.
One sensible aspect is getting the GP to carry out the blood tests before referral. This would hopefully cut down on delays at the GIC due to needing to go away and come back for a test, although I do not know if this is routine practice at other GICs too.
Slightly worrying is the assertion that this is a "a time-limited Pathway of Care for the maximum of three-year duration". [sic] Having not heard of anyone being discharged from the clinic after three years while still mid-transition, I assume this is not actually enforced.
The other response was asking who had been involved in an FoI response and some rather inaccurate content on their web site, which has since been updated. In it, they start getting defensive about their policies, something I have not seen before in an FoI response. Here's what they said:
Specifically, our Care Pathway follows the stages laid down within The Harry Benjamin International Standards of Care (this differs from the WPATH guidance), as we believe that hormone treatment is best undertaken after real life experience has begun to ensure that, possibly irreversible hormone treatment is not undertaken without there being a completely coordinated comprehensive care approach which has the ability to meet the changing needs of our service users flexibly and safely. This is paramount to a positive outcome.
Interestingly, they are explicitly rejecting the latest version of the WPATH Standards of Care with this response and reinforcing their view that hormones should only be prescribed after going "full time". I have no idea if Leeds doctors have ever actually tried anything like talking to their patients, but going full-time is far more irreversible than hormones. Just because it's social and not chemical/biological does not lessen it's impact if you are treating the person as a whole.
I have not seen any studies of this, but I also suspect that those going full time before hormones are hugely more at risk of social impacts such as job loss and violence due to not "passing".
Met Police lose 2005 rape handling report
Posted by Zoe O'Connell in Liberty on 20 March 2012
A few weeks ago, an article appeared in New Statesman highlighting how the Met Police buried a critical 2005 report by Brian Paddick into their handling of rape cases. Having asked for a copy of the report, you will probably not be surprised to learn the Met have conveniently lost it. Here's their reply:
Searches have been made within Sapphire Command, (who are responsible for investigating rape and other serious sexual offences), Territorial Policing Headquarters, Records Management, MPS Press Office and the National Police Library.
The requested document has not been traced.
If truthful, not only have they buried the document so that the public can't see it, but they've buried it so deep that even Sapphire Command don't have it. Given those are the folks who currently investigate rape and might be best in a position to implement the original recommendation to adopt a "consistent, victim-centered approach", that's worrying.
Another day, another casually transphobic product
Posted by Zoe O'Connell in Equality on 19 March 2012
I don't know who found this first – it was all over twitter yesterday. It seems Urban Outfitters have joined the ranks of retailers using casual transphobia in their products with this greetings card, described by them as "charming". (Update at 1130, 19th March: The card appears to have been pulled. The link now shows just that the product has "sold out".)
In case it gets pulled down – I hope it does – here's the text:
Jack and Jill,
Went up the hill,
So Jack could see Jill's fanny,
But Jack got a shock,
And an eyeful of cock,
Because Jill was a closet tranny.
Their twitter account, @uoeurope has had a large number of (Polite so far, I'm pleased to say) messages asking for an explanation. No response as yet.
Yvette Cooper's "tranvestite" gaffe
Posted by Zoe O'Connell in Equality on 17 March 2012
Yvette Cooper, shadow Secretary of state for the Home Office and shadow minister for Women and Equalities made a bit of a faux pas yesterday. She wrote an opinion piece for Pink News – which I agree with the ideas behind, even if I'm suspicious of the motives – calling on the government to introduce more marriage equality by allowing same-sex religious marriage.
Unfortunately, it seems she's not that well-informed on LGBT issues and neither are whichever Labour HQ staff proofread the piece. Badly informed enough not to know what the T in LGBT stands for in fact.
Here's what one paragraph near the end initially included…
We know there are other prejudices many who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transvestite still face from homophobic bullying in school, to discrimination at work.
The line was rapidly corrected to say "transgender", with Pink News blaming the error on a "typo in the original copy". But this is Labour's second error in a week, the first Ken's London mayoral manifesto making errors on healthcare comissioning.
I do not regard this development as a good thing. Effective government requires effective opposition and it's harder to push a topic when the opposition are floundering.
Equal Marriage consultation begins
Posted by Zoe O'Connell in Equality on 15 March 2012
The equal marriage consultation is finally out – you can find details on the Home Office web site. For information on how to respond, it's worth reading About Time. You'll find much on there that's Trans-related, as Sarah Brown and myself contributed heavily, but I shall try to get my own draft response up in 24 hours or so for people to look at too.
Thiree points I'd like to make about responses: First is do please respond. I'll no doubt be posting repeatedly on the topic so you'll not likely forget and it's running for 12 weeks, but volume of responses helps as much as having reasoned responses.
Secondly, I note the online form is very "tick-box" in nature. There's much nuance that's can't be put across with an tick-box response so if you have the time, writing in would be better. I'm quite happy for people to copy-and-paste my responses when I've drafted them, or just write in saying "What she said!".
Thirdly, some things appear to have been ruled out by the press releases. This is why it's important to respond: Many of them are in the consultation anyway and we need to show there is a genuine public demand for these things. Responses from members of organised religions that support equal religious marriage will be particularly useful!
Ken Livingstone: When the Trans community has friends like these…
Posted by Zoe O'Connell in Equality on 13 March 2012
Ken Livingstone, mayoral candidate for London, has just developed some policies for the Trans community as part of his manifesto.
Now, I like Ken. If I lived in London he'd probably get my number 2 preference behind Brian Paddick. After all, when the alternative is Boris, I probably don't need to say much more.
But it's pretty clear he has absolutely no clue on what issues face the Trans community. Here's the very first entry:
Most importantly, it will try to mitigate the worst effects of the government's disastrous NHS privatization. Local commissioning makes the postcode lottery much worse, hitting trans people hard.
This is flat-out wrong. At best it's misinformed, at worst it's blatant scaremongering.
The Health and Social Care Bill actually nationalises commissioning policy for Trans healthcare. Given the awful attitude of many doctors, this is viewed by the vast majority of Trans campaigners involved in healthcare as a good thing. It will end our constant game of wack-a-mole with PCTs implementing policy that is often as not unlawful.
I doubt that anyone outside of the Tory party thinks every line of the bill is great but for the Trans community, the shift in commissioning policy is a positive thing.
The rest of what's quoted is pretty weak: Sorting out housing and employment discrimination, improving diversity training. The generic hand-waving sort of thing you expect from any politician interested in equalities in a sort of passing manner. Nothing specific beyond a mention of the Trans Day of Remembrance.
I do hope that the final version is a little more robust on issues:
- Specific consideration of the situation that lead to Toiletgate in 2008 beyond just "training" would be nice.
- Backing the Equal Marriage Campaign. (Not just the watered-down Gay Marriage version)
- And ensuring that London, as an employer and service provided, doesn't use some of the get-out clauses in the Equality Act 2010, something we've done in Cambridge.
I'm pretty livid at Ken for this, because it's appropriating a marginalised group's issues, a group I'm a member of, to push a partisan point. In doing so, he's screwing over that group. Labour tried the same with a ploy to keep ID card just for Trans people after the election and we killed that one dead too, with the help of Julian Huppert MP.
The Liberal Conspiracy piece ends:
The experience has shown me that Ken Livingstone is genuine about being the most trans-supportive politician this country has ever seen.
Genuine? Perhaps, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on that. Maybe he's just been hoodwinked by some partisan element within the Labour party. And I'll similarly assume that Natacha, the author of the document, has never met Lynne Featherstone, the current Minister for Equalities, and is thus unaware of the work that's being done there.
But still clueless, and thus not much help.
Lets keep the rainbow flag flying
Posted by Zoe O'Connell in Equality on 7 March 2012
I am somewhat baffled by recent assertions that objecting to people saying "trans men and women" is somehow erasing the identities of non-binary folk. The logic, as best I can figure out, seems to be that if you dare to mention that some people do not fit on the binary then it weakens your own identity by association. Or perhaps you are entirely one extreme of the wibbly wobbly blob that is sex and gender and gender roles and identity… but you're feeling a little uncertain, perched out there on the edge.
If you have insecurities about your identity, please don't push them on the rest of us. Yes, I prefer female pronouns. But on a weekend I spend my time, as one person put it, up to my eyeballs in mud. If I get Sir'd occasionally running around a training area instead of Ma'amed as an honest mistake, so be it. I may occasionally get angst about it, but I don't use that to beat others up with.
Gender is complicated, as Sarah Brown points out and over-simplication does not help our cause.
There are plenty of other terms to use. "Trans folk", "Trans people", "Trans community". Personal objections to how one particular phrase sounds does not suddenly give one the right to trample over others by using a problematic phrase. The onus must remain to find an alternate phrase yourself, otherwise we give free license to bigots to use whatever terms they like because they can't find one they don't object to.
Yes, as members and activists within a community we're expected to abide by a higher standard than the mainstream, because people look to us to set an example.
There are parallels with another problem within the LGBT community – and yes, it's still a problem – that of bisexual erasure. Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon recently caused a fuss by saying that for her, "sexuality is a choice".
Rightly, she was criticised. What she seems to really mean is that she is bisexual, but she portrayed her position as flipping between two binary states rather than existing somewhere in the complex n-dimensional space of attraction and romanticism.
Lets not fall into Cynthia's trap when it comes to gender. I'm a Kinsey 5 when it comes to sexuality, and I guess on the same zero-to-six scale applied as male-to-female, my gender identity and presentation is somewhere around a four or five, but with a pretty narrow window I'm able to operate within. Dresses and Barbies at the six end of the scale make me uncomfortable, although not as bad as the catastrophically dysphoria-inducing concept of being any closer to the male end. I'd say a perfectly androgynous three is my hard limit.
Yet even that is a simplification.
It's a rainbow flag for a reason. Lets keep it that way, with all its colours.
"Sexual fraud" sentencing: Widespread misreporting
Posted by Zoe O'Connell in Equality on 5 March 2012
Barker, who I've written about previously, was today given a 30 month sentence for two counts of sexual assault and one of fraud.
After a brief panic that being transgender and not totally out while kissing someone has been made illegal via case law, it seems likely that this case is being misreported. It's the usual suspects, such as the Daily Mail and the Mirror.
Going back to the original reporting, this Metro story from the original hearing states that Barker was initially arrested for sexual assault before it was realised they were in fact (presumed) female – i.e. the original arrest had nothing to do with any cross-dressing/transgender aspect.
What has not been reported is the nature of the "specimen offenses" of sexual assault that Barker entered a guilty plea to. However, Barker lied and claimed to be 16 when they are 19, which may be relevant. Their other girls involved are reported to all have been 15/16 and the slightly more balanced Press Association report states there was "sexual touching" involved.
It's also important to note that the guilty plea for fraud is to do with a false claim for compensation after a made-up physical assault.
The NHS Gender Governance Group: Debates on "unintentionally creating she-men"
Posted by Zoe O'Connell in Equality on 1 March 2012
Following some excellent work by Emma Brownbill, copies of meeting minutes from the North's "Gender Governance Group" (G3) have been uncovered. Formed in 2005, this was initially a forum for gender practitioners from the North of England to discuss their experiences but lately has taken a slightly more sinister turn. It seems the group is concerned about the more progressive approach taken by Charing Cross becoming the UK standard and wants to have input into the forthcoming Royal College of Psychiatrists' Standards of Care and UK-wide NHS commissioning guidelines to ensure they can carry on as they are. (The UK-wide NHS commissioning guidelines may now not happen: it depends on the NHS Reform Bill passing)
Yes, you read that right: they're worried about Charing Cross being more liberal.
Edit: This has also been written about by Emma Brownbill and Sarah Brown.
Edit 2: I've been advised I should add a trigger warning to this post: Some folk are finding this upsetting.
One could possibly forgive the group, which at the time consisted of just Sheffield, Leeds, Leicester and York, for not having heard of a "genderless patient" in 2005. After all, back then not many gender-neutral folk would have had the courage to be completely open with the NHS. One surgeon suggested this could be "Scoptic syndrome", which I've never heard of, but may be a typo.
But the group hasn't improved. Here is one quote from the minutes in 2009 that's quite revealing regarding the attitude of some doctors towards their patients – the doctor works at Leicester GIC.
[A doctor] spoke to the group about the issue of unintentionally creating "she-men": patients who have breasts and are on hormones but don't have final surgery as they don't want to go any further. These patients continue to live full time as female but with male genitalia. Many of the services present at the meeting had examples of this happening
Further comments also in 2009 show that the clinicians were "wary" of folk requesting just an orchiectomy, despite a surgeon present stating this wasn't anything new and there were few follow-up issues from this treatment.
Glasgow had similar issues in 2010, referring to a "highly intellectualised" patient who it appears also identifies as gender-neutral, but is repeatedly misgendered as "he" throughout the meeting. Clinicians did not seem to know how to handle this situation due to a lack of an "evidence-base" (as if any of their other work relies on one!) Luckily (for the patient, not for the GIC!) they apparently know their rights and how they can be treated. It seems the patient may also have had to resort to legal threats, as there is a note that the Equality Bill (as it then was) "only mentions FtM/MtF".
Think you have legal rights?
So is it just those people that don't fit the nice stereotype and wear frilly dresses or excessively manly outfits to their meetings that they're uncomfortable with? Sadly not. It seems they are not keen on any of their patients having legal rights at all. One of the rights gained under the Gender Recognition Act allowed people to have complete separation of their old records and details from their new ones, so you can't be "outed" to medical staff. (After one bad incident, my details are withheld from the central NHS database, the "spine")
Following a discussion in March 2009, it appears most of the members would discharge patients that actually tried to insist on this, as they were quite keen on their "right not to give care". There was no discussion about finding an accommodation. Legal rights, or NHS treatment: a simple choice.
Similar applies if you ask for your notes not to be transferred. Given the approach of some doctors I can quite understand patients not wanting unknown material to be handed over effectively scuppering their chances of getting treatment. This is a no-no for many doctors. If you won't let them see your previous psychiatric notes, they won't treat you.
It's probably no surprise to learn that the Department of Health wrote to lead clinicians at the clinics in 2009 reminding them of their legal responsibilities, although the Equality Act was dismissed in 2010 as not applying to the clinics because they work in mental health. (In Scotland and some other countries, gender services are not necessarily lead by mental health)
Even a Gender Recognition Certificate won't help you. Also in 2010 a trans man (Who has a GRC and has been transitioned for a couple of decades) tried to push for bottom surgery without a second opinion, but they refused. The implication from the minutes is that either he had already had a negative second opinion or that if he did it would be refused as the Gender Clinic regarded his presentation as "chaotic".
Presumably any non-trans individuals who want genital surgery because of an accident would also be refused if the doctors thought they were acting a little camp?
Based on the above, one might suspect the clinics have a few unhappy patients. Despite this, it was reported in April 2010 that the results of a user survey had "astounded" researchers due to the differences between the NHS and Independent Sectors.
Other organisations aren't happy either
Other organisations have their concerns about some of the clinics too, and this has not made the members of the G3 group happy. There was grumbling about the Equality and Human Rights Commissions' report into trans healthcare, with it being claimed "the document could lead to confusion to service users". Similarly, Leeds were getting "harassing emails" which they found "not very pleasant" because a Department of Health leaflet "doesn't reflect what they do". I would guess the DoH leaflet probably states what they should be doing however.
Charing Cross do not appear to be too pleased either, as surgeons who work closely with them refused to accept referrals from Northern GIC clinicians until May 2010 and insisted on having a Charing Cross based doctor performing the second referral. The members of G3 felt that surgeons in London "did not appear to have knowledge of the credibility of services in the UK". Given one quite vocal member of the group refers to his patients as "she-men", I'm not entirely convinced they have as much credibility as they would like to think.
Going for a power grab
So, what are the next steps for the G3 members? The national Standards of Care may be published soon, so they keep saying, and the NHS Reform Bill could be more pressing as it would centralise policy. Once that happens, "in commissioning there can't be any differences any more".
One would hope that they would aim to work towards the new WPATH Standards of Care, but instead they are clearly wanting to stop things heading in that direction and force the more restrictive RCPsych/UK Standards of Care on everyone. They refused to let a private doctor join the group in 2007, unless he signed up to the new but still draft UK SoC.
It's not surprising they want to stop others moving forward with care because as of 2008 at least one GIC, Northampton, were "not keen" on the old WPATH Standards of Care. That's the previous version by the way, as the new one is even more progressive so they presumably hate that even more.
The approach favoured by some members want the group to take "clear clinical governance" and heavier involvement in national commissioning and the UK SoC, which they feel may be applicable not just to the NHS but also the private sector. If they do this, they hope the standards and guidelines will be "flexible enough for all teams to work with" as their current "concern is if they talk to Charing Cross to agree and commission then things will be modelled around Charing Cross."
But you can forget any actual trans folk or the private doctors having significant input into this process as these quotes illustrate:
When National Standard agreed there would be a one day event and we felt at that stage there was a need for a national body and that is should be for professionals only instead of users and carers
D also made the team aware that the largest independent provider in London, Charing Cross won't talk to this person. so is there any problem in excluding the independent sector? K said the national standards of care is written for the independent sector and the NHS. A thinks the private sector is a bit of a complication at this stage
This approach would let them carry on with their current practices, such as Nottingham restarting people from square one even if they've been private before. (That was 2008, although they did insist they won't take people off HRT)
For trans men, many doctors – although this is apparently a controversial point within the group – want the ability to impose a 12 month wait and two opinions before allowing top surgery (something that might be required for a trans man to pass at all) despite the WPATH SoC only mandating one opinion.
Leeds and Nottingham are currently requiring "evidence of physical examinations" from GPs for even a referral, even though this isn't in the WPATH guidelines anywhere at all. Just the pre-surgical exam can be traumatic enough for transfolk when it's with experienced nurses and surgeons, without an inexperienced GP having to go looking down there too.
I'll close with this October 2011 quote:
Leeds have struggled recently with GIRES putting pressure on them regarding hormones and real life experience. Leeds clarified that they have two stages of RLE, the stage before hormone and assessment 6 months, RLE 2 years before surgery
This is the kind of regime that they're fighting to preserve.


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Spending the evening on the red carpet, Tina Fey joined in on the Tinseltown festivities by attending the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday (September 23).
The Vivienne Westwood clad "30 Rock" actress received a warm welcome at the Nokia Theatre LA Live venue as she eased her way inside to get settled in for the always-entertaining toast to television's finest.
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It was a very special evening for "30 Rock," as they pulled off their second live episode ever with the help of plenty of guest stars.
Taking care of some media duties, Tina Fey was spotted at Rockefeller Center for an appearance on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" last night (April 12).
The "30 Rock" chick looked to be having a great time as she reconnected with her old "Saturday Night Live" cohort Fallon, and talked about the tricks she has to pull to get some alone time from her family and job.
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The "Date Night" actress got all done up for the occasion, sporting a stylish Carolina Herrera gown for the folks outside the Kodak Theatre as she strolled past.
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The "30 Rock" star strolled up to the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles ready for action, chatting with the press and posing for photos along the way.
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B. Smith's Restaurant Row Details
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(212) 315-1100
Hours of Operation:
Sunday: 11:30am - 10pm, Monday: 5:00pm - 10:00pm, Tuesday: 5:00pm - 11:00pm, Wednesday: 11:30am - 11:00pm, Thursday: 5:00pm - 11:00am, Friday: 5:00pm - 12:00am, Saturday: 11:30am - 12:30am
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This is a solid choice for
pre-theater dining. Food is scrumptious! Make sure you try the Fried Green Tomatoes as an appetizer."
Dined on 8/23/2014
Good food, great service and
romantic ambiance. Wonderful dining experience."
Dined on 8/22/2014
The food was well made and
delicious. It as if your southern Grandmother made the food. Everything was well seasoned and well prepared. If your into the traditional Southern meals. This is THE place to go. However their drinks were great!!"
Dined on 8/15/2014
The food choices were great and
the bread pudding was very good. The waiters were very attentive."
Dined on 8/14/2014
The food was just okay. I had the
fried chicken and was not all that impressed."
Dined on 8/13/2014
I could have made every dish
better at home. Except maybe the biscuits. Duck was seared with No notable seasonings. Just drizzled with balsamic reduction. Cold plantation hash and hard Brussels sprouts. totally bland"
Dined on 8/12/2014
Nice ambience. Food was sub par.
Fried green tomatoes were delish. My turkey hash was dry, bland and inedible. My daughter's banana foster pancakes were like lead weights. My sister's sweet potato pancakes were good except that two were burnt to black."
Dined on 8/10/2014
We were all pleasantly surprised
by the ambiance, service and generous portions of food. Four people in my party ordered the lobster quiche and we all enjoyed it very much. The quiche had large chunks of very tender lobster and the quiche was very light and flavorful. Another friend ordered the crab croquette with southern potato salad and she loved it. We definitely will make a return visit."
Dined on 8/9/2014
Heard of B Smith restaurant
however had never been until 8/8/14; to celebrate my anniversary the waiter "Oscar" was excellent in suggesting wines and specific menu sides, we enjoyed the meal so much that we wanted to "say compliments to she chef" overall great time"
Dined on 8/8/2014
I enjoyed B. Smith's a great deal.
My appetizer, the black-eyed pea soup, was different and quite good (and this is coming from someone who doesn't love beans). For my entrée I had the fried chicken, mac and cheese and collard greens. The chicken was downright delicious. It had a perfectly fried skin and the meat was juicy and had great flavor. The pepperjack mac was very good as well although I expected more cheese, but as it turns out, my friend got an additional order and it was freshly made, which made quite a difference. Hers had a great amount of melted cheese. The greens were ok too but I didn't have space for veggies because I had to wait for my 3 varieties of sorbet, which were delectable! Really wonderful overall!"
Dined on 8/6/2014
Great restaurant, the food was
DELICIOUS, and I couldn't stop dancing or singing along to the R&B playing in the background. Our waiter was okay, but overall, he got the job done."
Dined on 8/5/2014
The ambience and service was
outstanding the food was only fair. The Fried Chicken was hard and unseasoned. The Crispy oysters was too exotic…simple seasoned salt and black pepper or cayenne would been awesome….and the pepper jack mac need to be a bit more solid…it reminded me of chef boy ardee mac from the can…with the runny cheese… Not so Spul food"
Dined on 8/5/2014
I was there with my favorite guy.
He couldn't stop talking about the best time he ever had. We had an awesome time. OMG, from the blackeye pea chowder, corn bread, mac n cheese, collard green, sweet potato salad(different but delicious) and the kick butt fried chicken and don't let me forget the bourbon bread pudding with vanilla ice cream MM good. The menu choses for restaurant week definitely 2 thumbs up. Thanks Open Table for being apart of another good food spot."
Dined on 8/3/2014
I visited this restaurant quite a
few times before and loved it, but for some reason this time it was not that great. They have definitely fallen off. Once a vibrant space buzzing with people it was now down to a mediocre crowd. Not sure why. The menu also is very limited they were not too many options. I had the fried chicken, macaroni and collard greens it was very tasty, but nothing exceptional. Not sure if I would recommend this place to anyone going forward."
Dined on 8/1/2014
our service was terrible. It was
not crowded and we never saw our waiter after he took our order. Someone ordered coffee and the cup was dirty."
Dined on 7/30/2014
We went to the restaurant during
restaurant week and so we understood the limited choices, but we did not expect to be rushed, particularly seeing as there were not very many in the restaurant at the time anyway. My wife had not even finished her salad when they brought the entree."
Dined on 7/29/2014
I was visiting New York for my
birthday, and I am so glad for the B Smith's experience. The food and service were amazing!"
Dined on 7/26/2014
There were four of us for dinner
on Saturday, July 26, 2014. It was wonderful! Three of us had chosen meals off the prix fixe menu and one did not. The portions were very generous for both options. This was my fourth time here and I would go back again and again."
Dined on 7/26/2014
Time for this restaurant to
re-invent itself. The space and menu/food need 'newness'. It all felt old, and tired. 1990's it might have been cool then. The hostess wasn't nice. When we commented on the empty restaurant at 6:00 on a Friday, she quickly snapped at us that they're just opening. The food was boring, aesthetically unpleasing, not great. The waiter was friendly. Again, boring and bland and a unkind greeting at the door. When going to the Theater on a special Friday night, don't go to B Smith's for dinner. Underwhelmed - fail to impress or make a positive impact on (someone); disappoint."
Dined on 7/25/2014
I was here on Friday night for my
mom's birthday. It was a perfect pre-show dinner. Great start to a great evening. Our waiter was very pleasant and conversational. My Mac and cheese was delicious, the blackened catfish was good but could have been seasoned better. OMG the bread pudding! All said, we enjoyed ourselves. Thanks B. Smith."
Dined on 7/25/2014
Wonderful Maiter'd who helped get
me my dining points for this Great Theater District restaurant. Thank you and I hope to return soon."
Dined on 7/22/2014
I took clients to a business
Dinner here very Disappointing!!!I was seated right at the door, asked to be moved to a quiet part of the restaurant and she said its too dark on that end, so I cant be moved there, Even tho there were a total 4 guests there NO WARM CORN BREAD for us, they tasted like bad store bought stuff. The waiter was very Unhelpful , no interaction other than asking what we wanted, and did not return, we were not offered a wine list, did not even see it on the actual menu, cos he did not help us at all. the food was very BLAND and MEDIORCE at best. 2 people had Catfish which was a very expensive dish for such a small piece of fish. If you are trying to impress business guests in NYC DO NOT go to B Smiths's."
Dined on 7/22/2014
Unfortunately, it seems that B.
Smith's has gone downhill. The rolls for the sliders were hard as a rock, the waiter brought us another round, and the buns came out grilled the second time and still hard. It was obvious they were trying to make old rolls passable. The cornbread and biscuits were stale as well. The Mac and Cheese was gritty. The onion rings were sponge like. We should have know something was wrong when we dined in a practically empty restaurant on a Saturday night in the summer."
Dined on 7/19/2014
We wanted a nice place to eat
before theatre. This fit the bill. Lovely restaurant, attentive service and good food. 3 course brunch was a good value."
Dined on 7/19/2014
Took my husband to see Motown the
Musical we went to preshow dinner love everything especially the bread pudding he had a wonderful birthday treat!"
Dined on 7/17/2014
The place was nice, service was
fantastic, and food was good. It's not a 5 star restaurant. It's not a gourmet type of best NYC restaurant type of place, it's more of a casual, let's get a nice bite to eat before the play. So if that's what you're looking for, this place is good for you."
Dined on 7/16/2014
Easy access to the theater
district. Interesting menu selection. Great fried green tomatoes; biscuits too were good. Mains were tasty but a bit disappointing. Very friendly, helpful wait staff. We were there on a Sunday eve...so not crowded at all and therefore very conversation friendly"
Dined on 7/13/2014
I hadn't been to B.Smith's in
about 15 years, I was disappointed in the menu as I remembered it as having more variety. The fried green tomatoes were a bit on the raw side, the mac & cheese was dry & tasteless, the pecan sweet potato pie was too too sweet & had a mushy crust. The collard greens & blackened cat fish were tasty. The martinis & cosmos were quite small."
Dined on 7/12/2014
Had a wonderful diner here on
Saturday, July 12th. Started with the fried green tomato appetizer...wish I could have had more. Then the shrimp and cheesy grits...absolutely delicious. For dessert we shared the bourbon street bread pudding. The server was very attentive and helpful with our choice. Would definitely go back."
Dined on 7/12/2014
All went well with our out-of-town
friends visit. Except, I arrived early to inform the wait staff of birthdays for 3 of the friends and they wanted me to point them out discreetly upon arrival. I did. Nothing happened."
Dined on 7/11/2014
We had been here many years ago
and were looking forward to going again with family. Sadly, the service was poor, the food was mediocre and the air conditioning made a constant and annoying squeak. The place is lovely and convenient but not sufficiently so to return. I was disappointed because I really wanted to love the experience."
Dined on 7/8/2014
The servers are not polite to
clients. While we were being seated, a waiter in a hurry pushed past us on his way to the kitchen. They certainly weren't attentive during our meal. The food was average. Shrimp and catfish sliders were very good, but everything else was just OK. With so many great restaurants in NY, you don't need this one."
Dined on 7/6/2014
Lots to choose from. Have a look
at the Happy Hour menu, too. Try the Oysters with the wasabi sauce...you won't be disappointed.Will, at the Bar, is a delight. A nice find and a great location for those heading to a show."
Dined on 7/5/2014
We went to B. Smith's after a show
as an alternative to the steak and Italian restaurants in the area. I had high hopes but was very disappointed by the food. I had a seafood combo which tasteless at best. Not well seasoned. Not hot. My wife had chicken which was a little better. The surroundings were clean and roomy. The staff was pleasant. We definitely would not go back. Had hoped for much better."
Dined on 7/5/2014
Took my hubby here for his
birthday. We both enjoyed the food...everything from the appetizers (crab croquettes) to the dessert (bread pudding) were delish!"
Dined on 7/3/2014
Disappointed. Planned a dinner
with friends hoping that the experience and knowledge of B. Smith on shows would be enjoyable. Service was slow. Bartender was eating finger foods at the bar. Ugh."
Dined on 7/2/2014
We always have great food here:
Southern cooking with a flair. This was no exception with especially great pulled pork sandwiches with interesting sweet potato salad and crunchy slaw."
Dined on 7/2/2014
B. Smith never fails to delight.
Had a wonderful brunch, especially enjoyed the unlimited Bellini's and Mimosa's! Great menu options for brunch or lunch on the menu."
Dined on 6/29/2014
The food and the service were
wonderful. I would definitely recommend this restaurant to others."
Dined on 6/25/2014
This was a very nice restaurant,
however, I am not sure why OpenTable said there were no reservations available at the times I originally wanted when there were only 8-10 people in the whole place when I arrived. The food was good, but not hot, just warm. It seemed like it was prepared before ordered. We ordered the special which included an appetizer, entree and a desert for about $40, a good deal based on the rest of the menu priced. Mine was the catfish with greens, and whipped sweet potatoes. My wife had the chicken, greens and mac and cheese. The mac and cheese was a little gritty due to one of the cheeses used. The service was great! Location was close to the theaters and only a few blocks from 42nd street."
Dined on 6/24/2014
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The Great Falls Rescue Mission is giving families in Great Falls an early Thanksgiving dinner. The Great Falls Rescue Mission started Thanksgiving a little early for the city of Great Falls.
"We are celebrating Thanksgiving for those folks that might not get a Thanksgiving meal otherwise. We have a pre-registration program where we had people to call in and they sign up to come and have a meal with us. So we've cooked about, well enough to feed almost 800 people," explains Development Director, Jim McCormick.
Certainly the number of people through the door has met the Rescue Missions expectations. "We're figuring pretty close to 800," says McCormick.
Helping out the Great Falls Rescue Mission is several groups from the community making the event that much more special for many families.
"Oh my goodness, we have probably 150 volunteers. We had military groups and set up all the tables and what not beforehand and then they take off and then we have a group that comes in and serves and then we have another group that comes in at the end of the evening and takes everything down," explains McCormick.
After they eat a few families who signed up will get to take home a turkey of their own.
"After this is over the ones that signed up will go out back and we'll give them a whole basket full of food with a turkey and all the fixings," adds McCormick.
The festivities are not done yet as the Rescue Mission are planning for another Thanksgiving meal.
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Travelgate refers to the first major ethics controversy of the Clinton administration.
Catherine Cornelius, a 25-year-old cousin of Bill's, had been promised the position of director of the Travel Office. She urged the Clintons to fire the career employees and place her in charge.[1]
Once the firings took place, the Clintons expected to be congratulated by the Press for shutting down an operation that had been cheating taxpayers. However, they were instead accused of cronyism.[2]
A memo written by David Watkins depicted Hillary Clinton at the center of the 1993 travel office dismissals. Watkins wrote, "we both know that there would be hell to pay" if "we failed to take swift and decisive action in conformity with the First Lady's wishes."[3]
- May 16: Hillary speaks with White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty about possible mismanagement in the travel office.[2]
- May 17: David Watkins, White House director of Management and Administration, tells Watkins and Vince Foster that he plans to fire the Travel Office staff.[2]
- May 19: seven White House Travel Office staffers were fired, for little apparent reason besides to make way for a company owned by Clinton's friends (Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) from Arkansas. Prior to the removal of the previous staff -- who historically would carryover from administration-to-administration -- Harry Thomason accused Travel Office employees of demanding kickbacks. An accusation later proved false.[4]
- May 26: Bill orders an internal investigation of the Travel Office firings.[2]
- July 2: White House internal investigation findings released. Four high officials received formal reprimands. Three others were criticized..[5]
- Later, one fired staffer -- Billy Dale -- would be charged with embezzlement after the Clinton administration demanded FBI files on travel office staffers. Dale was acquitted by a jury.[6]
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- ↑ New York Times "Memo places Hillary Clinton at core of travel office case," January 5, 1996
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Children's Day in Japan (Kodomo no Hi)
With Golden Week coming to an end in Japan, today is one of the special day's in Japan called Children's Day (also known as Boy's Day).
Children's Day (こどもの日) takes place each year on the 5th of May, and it is also known as Boy's Day (端午の節句).
For many weeks I have seen the beautiful Koi banners like these above blowing in the wind. Before the day the koi-carp (koinobori) are raised, with each Koi having it's own meaning.
The carp is used to show strength, as in Chinese legend, a Koi swims upstream to become a dragon.
The black carp is called "Magoi" and it is placed at the top to represent the father, then this is followed by the red carp "Higoi" which is the mother, and finally the last carp that can range in colours.
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The Clarendon side used no fewer than four 'keepers last season as they struggled to find a suitable replacement for veteran goalie Shawn Sawyers.
Of the quartet, which included Damion Crooks and Philmore Crumbie, young Herron shone the brightest last season and Hyde is now hoping a rivalry with the experienced Messam can be a success for the club.
"We had a lot of problems in that area (last season), but we have (three) goalkeepers that we are trying to work with, so we just have to hope that they will get the job done," Hyde said.
"We have Harrison from Tivoli, who is injured now," the former Portmore coach added. "Garth has really improved a lot and I know Messam (formerly of Waterhouse and Arnett Gardens) should bring a lot of experience to the team."


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Following the verdict in the trial of Sara Ege, found guilty of murdering her seven year old son, the Crown Prosecution Service Wales has issued the following statement:
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The deeply tragic nature of this case has been all too apparent to anyone that has followed this trial.
This is the second time that the events leading to Yaseen's death have been put before a court.
The criminal trial process can be difficult for all those involved – in particular those close to Yaseen.
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Sometimes we need to use only positive numbers, and the absolute value is a useful tool for this purpose. When you see an absolute value in a problem or equation, it means that whatever is inside the absolute value is always positive. Absolute values are often used in problems involving distance and are sometimes used with inequalities. Later we will discuss graphs of absolute value equations and inequalities.


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Paul K. Guillow's model airplanes have
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By Andrew Leonard
"This is pretty cool," my 13-year-old son,
Eli, admitted, as we waited for the glue
to dry on the wing of a Cessna 150 balsa
wood model airplane. I couldn't disagree.
Way back in the last century, when I was
13, I devoted many happy hours to building
scale model "stick and tissue" airplanes
— Sopwith Camels, Fokker D.VIIs, P- 51
Mustangs, and Mitsubishi Zeros. To see
my son groove to the simple pleasures of
balsa wood construction struck a familiar
chord. Snapping together the plastic parts
of a sci-fi Japanese robot is fun; building
a wood-and-paper plane that can fly generates a higher class of satisfaction.
Time froze as we stood in front of my
basement workbench. We were using the
same set of X-Acto knives my grandfather
gave me for my 11th or 12th birthday. Our
Cessna came from a kit made by Guillow's
— the same company that manufactured
all the airplane models I put together as
a boy. When I examined the construction
plan, I noticed that the copyright date
was 1971, and it occurred to me that I had
hunched my back over the identical plan
three and a half decades earlier.
My son's interest in the Cessna was all the
more rewarding when I considered that, as
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The die-cut balsa wood part sheets were
also intimately familiar — for all I could tell,
they had been crunched out by the very
same machines in use 35 years earlier.
360s or Angry Birds or all the Japanese
anime we could stream from Netflix to while
away the hours. My son's generation enjoys
unlimited access to the most immersive,
distracting, and addictive digital entertainment options the human mind has ever
devised. But there he was with a sanding
block in his hand, carefully smoothing out
fuselage joins — and enjoying it!
When I clumsily snapped a wing former
out of its sheet and accidently broke it, the
déjà vu feeling was as strong as the smell
of the airplane "dope" that modelers use
to stiffen the tissue covering the wings and
fuselage. I convinced myself I could recall
breaking that same piece, long ago.
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Edited 1/10 at 9:45 am (Thanks to a reminder in a Facebook post by a loyal reader.)
If nothing else, U of L survived it's first test this season with Jim Burr in stripes, holding one of the whistles.
Which he used as injudiciously as usual. Especially on Wayne Blackshear's third foul. The Cardinal SF was moving his feet and playing good D on his man who cut from the left side toward the foul line. He kept himself between the Pirate and the hoop, and as best I could tell, never touched him.
Oh well.
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The Cards also survived running its offense at the end of the court, where lining the front row, were a bunch of fellows in nothing but Speedos. Talk about disconcerting!!
Wonder if they were on the Seton Hall swim team?
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Gorgui Dieng.
Gorgui Dieng.
I was reminded last night, while watching Dieng play significantly better than in his first couple of games since returning from injury, of Pervis Ellison. What I recall of Pervis is that his improvement from game to game his freshman year, and even thereafter until his senior season, was palpable. He never made the same mistake twice.
Dieng is obviously taking more time to develop. But his steady game to game maturation is a marvel to watch. He makes his jumpers. He makes his free throws. He gets the rebounds. He blocks shots. He's getting some nifty moves under the basket. He plays game altering defense.
16 points. 14 rebounds. Toss in a couple of assists and blocks and a steal.
Had he not been hurt, Louisville would more than likely be undefeated and #1. (Which probably wouldn't be such a good thing anyway.)
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Once again, I feel duty bound to ask this question: Why isn't Wayne Blackshear getting more minutes? Last night, he spent only 17 on the hardwood.
He missed no more D assignments in the first half than any of the other guys. And took but one ill advised shot.
It's obvious Pitino favors Luke Hancock, who is smart on the court. But very very slow, gets beat a lot at the defensive end and has trouble getting off his shot unless wide open. Blackshear is also a might slower than one would expect or hope, but still has more game and more potential than Luke.
I must accept that Pitino knows more than I do. But this scenario remains dumbfounding to me.
They each hit 2 treys last night, the only ones for the Cards. Hancock finished with 7 points and a rebound in 24 minutes. Blackshear tallied 8 points, along with 2 boards, an assist and 2 steals.
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Russ Smith had 6 assists and two steals. But he had four turnovers, all when he tried to do way way too much with the ball on offense, usually trying to drive to the hoop, finding trouble instead. Looked like he was trying to tap into his inner Dwayne Morton.
He was 2/11 from the field, but 7/8 at the line.
It was Russ's least good game of the season.
His running mate, Peyton Siva had 7 assists and 4 steals.
Silent L is starting to become a force. He sure knows how to dunk.
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Why I Know More Than The Rick:
It was obvious at the end of the first half that The Rick believed his best ballers could take charge of the game in the second half. Because he sat them down and allowed Seton Hall back in the game. I thought it ill advised.
I understand he was displeased with the Cards' defensive effort. That's still no reason, it doesn't seem, to put the game in jeopardy.
On the floor for the Cardinals at the end of the half were Tim Henderson, Zach Price, Kevin Ware, Luke Hancock and Russ Smith. In other words, the least of U of L's available lineups. Unless he went walk on only.
Seven points of a 9 point lead were trimmed in the last three minutes.
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Why The Rick Knows More (Way More) Than Me:
After an obvious tongue lashing during intermission, to start the second stanza, Louisville forced 5 Pirate turnovers and 3 missed shots before Seton Hall finally tallied on a free throw. The home team didn't score from the field until the 14:49 mark.
After Pitino got the team playing D, which it did in the second half, the game was never in doubt, despite Louisville's woeful shooting.
Bottom Line: Conference W on the road by 15 points without Chane Behanan. Sweet.
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Maybe ESPN should stop apologizing for Brent Musburger — who did nothing at all untoward — and apologize for Mike Patrick, who is, as ever, a fawning buffoon. But who fails to tell you what player committed a foul, what foul it is, etc, etc. You know the basics, required of a play by play announcer.
Patrick did a swell job however of giving color announcer LaPhonso Ellis a game long giggle.
ESPN could also be apologizing for its failure to provide even the most rudimentary of statistics at halftime.
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Coming Saturday to the Yum!: South Florida Bulls.
Lest you have forgotten, a reminder. The final score of last year's encounter at the Yum!: Louisville 51, South Florida 58.
– Seedy K


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Let's be clear here: there are probably no fewer Royals fans today than there were ten days ago. If there are, then, well, okay. I can understand why. It's not as if they were viciously and voraciously turned away by a team with a track record of success who hit a speed bump at the start of this season. This has been a systemic issue for a team that, for all intents and purposes, has been playing solitaire with an incomplete deck over the last fifteen years.
Royals fans have lived through worse stretches under worse circumstances. Say, in 2005, when the Royals lost nineteen consecutive games. Back then, there was no end in sight. Even when the team mercifully snuffed The Streak To End All Streaks with a 2-1 victory of the A's, the mood wasn't improved, because there was nothing to really cheer about. Chip Ambres led off that game. Paul Phillips and Donnie Murphy completed a lineup that included Emil Brown hitting cleanup.
So, let's be clear: This latest losing streak will do very little to affect the current Royals fan population, if only for the fact that it can't get much lower. It will affect their mood, to be sure. Some of them (as I have) will step away for a few days, focus on other projects, spend some more time with their family; doing those things that are more constructive than following Royals baseball (maybe a new slogan should be "Royals: We suck so hard that everything else looks better by comparison. You're welcome.").
It's getting to that point that we have seen so many times before, where the tragedy becomes so overt and prolonged that it morphs into comedy, and at the center of these farcical proceedings is Ned Yost.
I firmly believe that the Royals would not be sitting at 3-12, off the rails on a ten-game losing streak, if Ned Yost (or a manager similar to him) were not at the helm. This Old World mentality of aggressive, hit-and-run baseball, coupled with a paint-by-numbers bullpen, is a clear sign of the meddlesome nature of Yost, and was a mild irritation in the past. Combined with a prototypical amount of bad luck and a penchant for over-thinking and panic, and the results have been readily apparent.
The Royals this year have used fourteen different lineups. Fourteen. FOURTEEN. The only lineups that have matched were the first two to start the season. And even if you forgive the necessity of varying lineups due to the injury of Lorenzo Cain and the necessity for days off for a catcher, the Royals are setting a dangerous and new precedent in lineup meddling. Throughout the first two weeks of the season, the only people who have seen consistent time in their respective lineup spots are Butler and Hosmer. And even that has come under fire with Yost's latest lineup du jour.
Yost's bullpen usage at times has been, in a word, baffling. In Wednesday's game against the Tigers, Sanchez did what Sanchez does: He threw 97 pitches in five innings, striking out three and walking three while managing to give up only two runs. The Royals were winning 3-2 at the time. Yost went to the 'pen and brought in Kelvin Herrera, who proceeded to mow down the Tigers for the next four outs. He literally looked untouchable, completely fooling the hitters with his fastball and off-speed pitches, striking out two and inducing two groundball outs. The one hit he gave up was a lazy bloop single to left-center by Gerald Laird, after which he came back to strike out Austin Jackson. Playing the matchup, and utterly ignoring the fact that Herrera was shutting the Tigers down, Yost went for the lefty-lefty draw and brought in Jose Mijares to face Brennan Boesch. Mijares induced a flyball out to left. Job well done. Yost, however, decided to leave Mijares in against right-handed Miguel Cabrera, one of the best hitters in the American League. Cabrera promptly singled. A wild pitch eliminated the lead and a single by Fielder gave the Royals the deficit.
This is just one example of Yost's overall managerial strategy when it comes to the bullpen; he is much more inclined to go with what the book tells him the proper order of things is supposed to be as opposed to realizing how the game is dictating the action on the field. Herrera was baffling hitters. Mijares got one out (the only out he should have been asked to get) facing three batters.
The Royals, as a team, are 8 for 15 in stolen base attempts. Alex Gordon, Billy Butler, and Eric Hosmer have all been caught stealing this year, presumably while someone who can actually drive the ball was standing at the plate. It boggles the mind. Meanwhile...the Royals catchers are 5 for 17 in catching attempted baserunners. That last part doesn't have much to do with Yost; the Royals' catchers are just generally bad at catching base stealers. Teams appear to be aware of that.
And with all this, the litany of woe continues on another Royals season. They will (probably) pull out of this tailspin, and the decent news is that this is happening in 2012, not 2013 or 2014, when it may actually matter. The good news is that, unlike previous seasons containing multiple long losing streaks, there are reasons to be excited about the direction of this team. Danny Duffy has impressed in several starts this season. Outside of one defensive-letdown-induced inning, Luke Hochevar has picked up where he left off last year. Hosmer and Gordon have started slowly, but no one expects them to hit .183 and .190 for the year. Butler is being Butler. Moustakas is meeting expectations. Cain, before his injury, was flashing his range in centerfield. Despite the bat, Gordon is performing exceptionally in left.
And perhaps the best news is that Yost should be gone eventually, whether it is in the next couple of weeks or at the end of the season (his contract is up at the end of the year).


text: The air seems a little fresher and easier to breath--yes? When you were watching the playoff run and Sanchez making just enough plays to keep us moving forward but was being carried by the rest of the squad, isn't yesterday what you had envisioned? How did you like that shovel pass to keep a drive moving? Or the goal line strikes? Me too. That being said, it's a long ,long season. Matt Slauson does worry me. Antonio Cromartie is a major Jekyll and Hyde type almost on a play to play basis and is generally not good for my blood pressure. We are one more injury to a defensive lineman away from being in serious trouble. You will all expound on the positives from Sunday and there is plenty to brag about, but let's keep it real people. We are a very talented, well coached team with justifiably high aspirations.But no Superbowl talk please.Let it play out and enjoy it for whatever it is. Biggie this week on the road against a very good and gritty Dolphins team. A win there and I won't subject you to any more Prozac prose like this. A loss and I'M SURE I'll have to talk you down from the ledge one more time.


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Updated at 12:50 p.m.
St. Thomas More School issued the following notice:
A break in the main water line that provides water for the entire St. Thomas More School campus requires immediate repair, which in turn requires us to close the school early today. Our goal is to have everyone dismissed by 12:30 this afternoon.
Car Riders - may be picked up any time between now and 12:30 p.m.
Bus Riders - we are currently contacting the school districts to arrange transportation home, PLEASE STAY TUNED TO RADIO, TV, FACEBOOK, and EMAIL notifications regarding specific dismissal time for the school district in which you reside. You may pick up your child at school any time between now and 12:30.
Please be aware that this repair may necessitate a delayed opening or school closure tomorrow.
Earlier version:
St. Thomas More School in Salisbury Township dismissed early Wednesday, Jan. 16 due to a water main break. Parents may pick up their children at any time today. Extended care and all after-school activities have been cancelled.
On Monday, Salisbury Middle School and Western Salisbury Elementary School dismissed early because of water pressure problems.
St. Thomas More issued the following notice:
"Due to a water main break, we must close school at this time. The following school districts will provide transportation at these time.
Allentown - 12:30 pm
Brandywine - 12:30 pm
East Penn - Between 12:00 pm and 12:30 pm
Northwestern - 12:30 pm
Parkland - 12:30 pm
Salisbury - 12:30 pm
Saucon Valley - 12:30 pm
Southern Lehigh - 12:15 pm
Whitehall - 12:15 pm
Patents may pick up their children at any time. Please monitor emails, the STM website and our Facebook fan page about tomorrow.
Extended Care is closed.
All after-school activities are cancelled."