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The Kentucky Blood Center is giving away Kentucky Madness Dallas 2014 T-shirts to anyone who donates blood Thursday through Saturday.
The Blood Center this is the chance for donors to prove they bleed blue and receive a blue T-shirt o wear during the big game on Saturday.
"It's a great time to be a Kentucky fan, and it's always a good time for saving a life," said Bill Reed, KBC President and CEO.
To find a KBC donor center or blood drive, visit kybloodcenter.org or call 800.775.2522.
Blood donors must be 17-years-old (16 with parental consent), weigh at least 110 pounds, be in general good health, show a photo I.D. and meet additional requirements. Sixteen-year-old donors must have a signed parental permission slip, which can be found online.
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Steelers Look Pretty Healthy For Finale Against Browns
With a shot at the playoffs still in the realm of possibilities, the Pittsburgh Steelers have simply got to win in the regular season finale and then hope for a little bit of help. Luckily, they'll be rather healthy when facing off with the Cleveland Browns.
Steelers Insider Ed Bouchette Previews Steelers-Bengals
With the Steelers almost mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, questions are arising as to whether or not the Steelers will begin to play some of their younger more inexperienced players, but Steelers Insider and Post-Gazette Beat Writer Ed Bouchette says he doesn't see Head Coach Mike Tomlin taking that approach.
Steelers salute military, look to healthy players against Bills
The Pittsburgh Steelers return to Heinz Field Sunday to face a the Buffalo Bills on a night when members of the military and veterans will be saluted while trying to put the healthiest team on the field for a win in front of the home crowd – injury report
Steelers Appear Lost In Rough NFL Seas
The Pittsburgh Steelers have had rough sailing in 2013. Pundits and insiders are calling the team 'sunk'. As the Steelers prepare for the Buffalo Bills at Heinz Field on Sunday, they will make adjustments, get David DeCastro and Markus Wheaton back at practice and try to right the ship.
Steelers To Be Without Three Against Patriots In Week 9
The Pittsburgh Steelers (2-5) will enter Foxborough to face the New England Patriots (6-2) without David DeCastro, Markus Wheaton and Curtis Brown. List of probables long, but all are expected to be ready to go on Sunday.
Steelers Open To Roster Adjustments As Trade Deadline Arrives
The Pittsburgh Steelers lost a disappointing game against the Oakland Raiders only to see the New England Patriots squarely ahead. The Steelers evaluate their needs and sign punter Mat McBriar.
Steelers Renew Rivalry With Raiders In Week 8
The Pittsburgh Steelers head to Oakland to take on the Raiders in Week 8 of the 2013 NFL Season. With both teams at 2-4 on the season, a rivalry that has been intense since the 1970s could ignite a few fireworks.
Steelers Step Up Prep For Raiders With New Life At 2-4
With a two-week surge of winning ways, the Pittsburgh Steelers won't back down from the chance to beat the Oakland Raiders on the road. Isaac Redman will leave Pittsburgh as the Steelers move linebacker Kion Wilson to the 53-man roster.
Steelers Make Personnel Changes Before Rivalry Matchup With Baltimore Ravens
With the loss of Levi Brown (triceps) and David Johnson (wrist) following their 19-6 victory over the New York Jets, the Steelers signed unrestricted free agent Richard Gordon and activated Isaiah Green to the 53-man roster.
Steelers Bring In Sylvester And Allen, Wilson Gone For Week 6
Stephenson Sylvester and Will Allen return to the Pittsburgh Steelers to help bolster a defense that will take on the New York Jets and Geno at Met Life Stadium on October 13, 2013. Kion Wilson and DaMon Cromartie-Smith will be looking in from the outside.
Steelers To Face Jets With New Look In Week 6
The 0-4 Pittsburgh Steelers will come off of their bye-week with a few new faces on both sides of the ball as they prepare to shut down Geno Smith and the 3-2 New York Jets.
Steelers Use Bye Week To Evaluate And Repair 2013 Season
"Overwhelmed", "panic-stricken", even described as the "worst team in the NFL", the Pittsburgh Steelers aren't buying into the negativity. Instead they are using evaluation and personal reflection to find answers to their 0-4 start during the 2013 NFL Season in this bye week.
The Bye Week A Blessing For Struggling Pittsburgh Steelers
The Pittsburgh Steelers were on a roll only to fail to score in the final seconds of regulation to tie the Minnesota Vikings. The arrival of a bye week couldn't have come at a better time for a flailing Steelers team that is expected to do more.
Steelers Make Moves To Determine Roster Ahead Of Titans Showdown
During one of the busiest times in the NFL, when teams face tough roster decisions, the Pittsburgh Steelers have been doing their own shuffling to create an effective roster in time for their home opener against the Tennessee Titans on September 8, 2013.
Clark Wants To Remain A Steeler
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Sami is currently in the studio recording music for her upcoming album, Brand New Fairy Tale. The first two singles, including the title track, will be released on Valentine's Day 2015.
Sami Grisafe's music is available on Amazon, iTunes and ringtones through iPhone app store by searching "Sami Grisafe" and by clicking the links below. CD's are available through CD Baby and Amazon.
Sami Grisafe's second album, ATLANTIS, is a collaboration with LA-based Shannon Nicole and Chicago-based Jaclyn Rada.
ATLANTIS, is refreshingly diverse, receiving 6 Grammy pre-nominations and has a few Grammy Award winning collaborators associated with it such as blues artist Sugar Blue (Rolling Stones) and producer Ricciano Lumpkins (TLC, P.O.D., Mya). The moving title song "Atlantis" is a duet, which Sami performs with LA-based former Universal Republic recording artist Shannon Nicole. Her upbeat, super catchy single, "Hooky (in Chicago)," is built on a lifting reggae groove that gently dissuades you from being cooped up at work on a beautiful day.
Produced by Kathy Kuras and Sami Grisafe for Vicious Muse and Ricianno Lumpkins for Vet Boi Music Group. Mastered by Jerry Flowers for Audio 7 (Atlanta).
Sami Grisafe performed the National Anthem prior to taking the field and winning the gold medal at the 2013 IFAF Women's World Championship game. The Huffington Post called her performance "…one of the most inspiring versions of the Star-Spangled Banner we've ever heard." Sami Grisafe has recently released both a single and official music video based on her acclaimed performance of the national anthem at the 2013 IFAF Women's World Championship.
Produced by Kathy Kuras for Vicious Muse.
- The Star-Spangled Banner single on iTunes: here
- Official music video: coming soon
- Trailer for a documentary by Pyewackitt Productions featuring the National Anthem performance: here
- Original Youtube version: here
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Silhouette Mirage is an action-platformer developed by Treasure. It was originally released for the Sega Saturn in 1997; a PlayStation version (Treasure's first console-to-console port, subtitled Reprogrammed Hope) was released the next year in Japan, and subsequently localized for the U.S. by Working Designs.Years ago, in the colossal laboratory of Edo, genetic experiments produced the twin attributes of Silhouette and Mirage in a child called Armageddon. The twin attributes were opposite, complementary, and necessary for each other's existence, like yin and yang. Yet due to their very nature, they sundered Armageddon into two beings: Hal, who was all Mirage, and Megido, who was all Silhouette. Once started, this split infected all life on Earth. Many organisms were killed by the transition. The survivors were divided into two factions based on attribute, with Hal and Megido as their leaders.Responding to the devastation, the artificial intelligence Gehena created Shyna Nera Shyna, the Messenger of Justice (although most seem to know her as the Messenger of Destruction), a member of the rare Proteans, beings who combine the attributes of Silhouette and Mirage. Shyna's mission is to repair Edo's computer system and neutralize the two attributes by re-uniting them, effectively reversing the event that created the world as it currently exists.With run-and-gun elements in which the attribute of attacks, enemies, and other entities plays a central role in gameplay, it could be considered a different-genre analogue of Ikaruga.
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Help a hack: What's in your ultimate Windows XP migration toolkit?
This is an interesting exercise and there is a wealth of good and varied advice here.
However, standing back a bit, I can't help but think what an absolute mess the world of computing has got itself into. What should be a straight forward path is a journey riddled with pitfalls.
The answers to this problem should be just to buy the latest MS OS, insert disc and upgrade. Of course that could not be further form the solution. It is all a royal mess and an utter outrage.
Win XP holdouts storm eBay and licence brokers, hiss: Give us all your Windows 7
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Sorry to hear that you don't value the experience of your closest relatives or those who are 80+. On the other hand, good to hear that both you and your friends have no malware problems.
"Anybody running Windows XP after that date will face malware and virus writers targeting the OS alone unless they pay Microsoft for custom support."
Firstly, everybody using all versions of Windows can and often does, experience malware and viruses. Microsoft have been supporting all of these versions with updates and this has not stopped infection with malware and viruses.
Secondly, if you pay Microsoft for XP support will they refund you if you get attacked by malware and viruses? I really doubt that very much.
There is a great deal that is yet unknown about life after XP support stops.
This article is very poorly written and I am most disappointed at The Register for including it. Shame.
DEATH-PROOF your old XP netbook: 5 OSes to bring it back to life
What an interesting article and one that illustrates the utter mess that real users can find themselves in.
I would suggest that the solution is to do a fresh installation of XP SP3 and install Firefox or Chrome and also Office and Dropbox. Then keep a mirror disc image for when things go slow or wrong. To hell with there being no more updates for XP. It isn't as if the updates have kept XP free of problems anyway.
Also there is a very valid argument for giving your kids an old slow computer that does little else at an acceptable (to them) pace, than web browsing, email and MS Office.
Apple at WWDC: Sleek new iOS, death of the big cats, pint-sized Mac Pro
Bing! What are they thinking? I understand the whole let's sever all ties with Google stuff. Google is the best search provider by anyone's standards and Apple choose to use Bing just so they don't use Google.
As a committed Apple user, this is one more example of the inter company rivalry that is spoiling the customer experience. Steve Jobs would not have done this.
Help us out here: What's the POINT of Microsoft Office 2013?
What is the point of Microsoft. Fullstop.
The title of this News item could well have been "What is the point of Microsoft. Fullstop?"
The vast majority of new and existing computer/phone/tablet consumers just don't need anything at all from Microsoft. Nobody seems to be shedding tears either.
Microsoft used to dominate the technology news and a new Windows OS version was huge new for months before and after the event. Those days are long gone. Also the days when Microsoft would make a decision that was well received are also well gone. Shame on Microsoft.
Nokia Lumia 820 WinPho 8 review
So this is a 160g phone that doesn't work very well as a phone? And it needs to have more memory added by the user to increase the low memory? As an absolute minimum I would expect that a phone from Nokia would be a good phone to make and receive calls.
And it costs £400! Have I missed something?
Shame on Nokia.
Will Santa be working overtime to shift Win 8 kit? No. Yes! Maybe
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"The other guys skate toward the puck. I skate toward where I think the puck is going to be."
Unfortunately, I don't think that Steve Ballmer even knows what a puck is. His solution for success is to get off the ice and smack rugby balls with a golf club, from the goal posts into the center of the pitch. Sadly there is not one Microsoft employee with the pucks to get him to understand what needs to be done.
I have a houseful of XP with Office 2003, machines that I was considering upgrading. BUT - MS wants me to buy a WIndows 8 for each machine for £25 each, a new copy of Office for each, and reinstall all of my programs on each machine. That will take hours and hours and I am still unaware of a compelling reason to upgrade. There was a time when I would always upgrade to the latest MS OS because of real tangible benefits. That stopped at XP. Shame on Microsoft.
Fans rap Apple's 'crap' Map app
The town of Barry appears as "Biglis"!
Satelite images are very poor and many places built in the last 5 years are not present within the maps.
The town of Barry appears as "Biglis" - very strange.
Apple get your act together. This is not what is expected.
The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?
...and the camera Advert was faked!
Nokia apologises for 'faked' Lumia smartphone advert - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19499879
Nokia's big last chance blown
This will be looked back on as the last chance that Nokia got. Microsoft's last big chance too IMO. They had everything to gain by wooing us with must have features and competition stopping must haves. They have lost the plot - both of them and show no signs of doing what they need to do.
They introduced wireless charging and then fitted a huge battery! With wireless chargers in place in your home, car, office, etc, you can use a smaller battery and make a smaller lighter phone!
They have also assumed wrongly that the camera is the killer feature.
Even if they knocked this out for £100 with Android, it still wouldn't be competitive.
Microsoft to open UK retail store early next year
What would they sell? Who would buy?
I can't understand why they think they would need a store. What value do they think they would add and why would a customer want to shop there?
Microsoft have become so deluded that they are acting like a headless chicken that doesn't even register that it's head is missing. Five years ago if they brought the Surface to market for half the price of an Ultrabook, then we would all have had a reason to queue outside the MS Store. Had they then shown some understanding of the market and allowed the creative juices to flow unhindered for the next 5 years, we would still be queuing. Shame. Shame. Shame.
Microsoft takes on tablets with keyboard-equipped Surface
Interestin advance peek at some unfinished ideas
Watch the presentation here at about 14:20 in (http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/19/3096420/microsoft-surface-event-video-live).
Anyway, it's a promising looking device even though it is clearly a long way off. It really needs to ship with Office and if it is priced at say 20% less than the base iPad, it will appeal to many people and will be a success for Microsoft but a disaster for the Windows Tablet market.
There is however, a great deal of detail and working demonstrations missing from this early announcement.
Also why so much focus on the keyboard? That's an admission that the tablet format if flawed.
Virgin mobile users get tariff tweak treats
Do not believe Virgin Media Unlimited access
I signed up to 3 £10 a month Blackberry's with unlimited web access for the family. This month my daughter's one came with a £111 monthly bill. Apparently if you use over 50Mb per day you get charged an arm and a leg for it. They told me there is a fair usage policy for the term unlimited and it means up to 1Gb per month.
My daughter' online account tells her that she has 1.23 Gb left in her monthly allowance which she checks regularly. Go figure.
I pointed out to Virgin Media that on the day when the usage was high my daughter was in our house and the phone was connected to our WiFi so there should have been no excess data charge. Then they admit that if you use the Blackberry web browser, BTW there is no other way to browse the web, you incur a high charge which is outside of your normal unlimited 1Gb monthly limit and the phone will bypass your WiFi and use the astronomic charge Blackberry system!
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Where Would a Succubus Fit In a Five Man Band?:
1 animemetalhead, Mon, 14th Mar '11 5:16:37 PM from Ashwood Landing, ME
Runs on AwesomenessExactly What It Says on the Tin. I just reworked my story to be about a Five-Man Band rather than a Power Trio, and one of the added members is a succubus. The Chick is already filled by Amaya. Yuki is The Hero, Leo is The Lancer, and I don't have a name for my Smart Guy rogue yet That leaves The Big Guy, but I don't really think a succubus fits that trope.
edited 14th Mar '11 5:19:51 PM by animemetalhead
No one believes me when I say angels can turn their panties into guns.
2 Archereon, Mon, 14th Mar '11 5:17:49 PM from Everywhere.
Ave ImperatorYou don't need to adhere to the Five-Man Band like it's the breathed word of God or something. You can have two chicks, two smart guys, neither of those, ect...
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3 Crystal Glacia, Mon, 14th Mar '11 5:19:56 PM from Cedarpointland
HappinessIf you seriously want to cling to the Five-Man Band model, make her more than just a seductress. I've seen succubi fill Big Guy roles before because they had experience handling BFSes. See the Gria Ravagers from Final Fantasy.
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4 Killer Clowns, Mon, 14th Mar '11 5:21:07 PM from the Midwest Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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That leaves The Big Guy, but I don't really think a succubus fits that trope.Why not? A succubus is still a demon, and demons are generally seen as powerful entities. You could make her a Hot Amazon, or just have her inhuman strength be a terrifying surprise for anyone who tries to take advantage of her, or even anyone who underestimates her.
edited 14th Mar '11 5:31:35 PM by KillerClowns
The Joke-MasterThe real question is, where does the Five-Man Band fit in the succubus? In earnestness, though, is there any real reason why the succubus can't be the Big Guy? If the whole seduction thing is a mystical effect, what's to stop her actual physique from being muscle-bound?
edited 14th Mar '11 5:22:40 PM by Wanderhome
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6 animemetalhead, Mon, 14th Mar '11 5:29:32 PM from Ashwood Landing, ME
Runs on AwesomenessHolycrapthisgotrepliesreallyfast. I guess all of the above makes sense, I just have a hard time getting Chewbacca out of my head when I think of The Big Guy. It makes sense for a demon to possess supernatural strength, so I guess I'm just asking stupid questions. Now that I've sufficiently embarrassed myself on the internet, I'm off to find character names for the rest of them.
No one believes me when I say angels can turn their panties into guns.
7 sabrina diamond, Mon, 14th Mar '11 10:29:06 PM from inside my own belly... Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
Reluctant Monster, who doesn't want the others to know her real name, that causes her Transformation Trauma hence she remains with the five man band because the main character is her Morality Chain... So that's how she remains undetected for now, but alas this turns awry... xD
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10 Chabal 2, Tue, 15th Mar '11 2:06:27 AM from Plains of Tolosa
Fear meDepends on her powers, I suppose. If she's more a seductress, The Chick. If she regenerates, The Big Guy. If magic, another Black Magician Girl. Or all three: Dark Action Girl.
I'm guessing somewhere in the middle, maybe about waist-high...
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12 Mr.Cales, Mon, 26th Mar '12 9:47:52 AM from Misty Mountains
One of the NineShe's a Succubus- it's much more hilarious to make her The Big Guy than it would be to do anything else with her. :D
MakosexualFurthermore, big guys aren't always JUST equatable to raw power. Succubi might, for example, be able to use their powers of seduction in combat to defeat mooks and maybe even some of the villains higher up the chain. Of course, as demons they would probably have high strength and agility, but I'm thinking outside the box.
"In the end a gentle heart may be worth more than pride or valor."
14 Voltech 44, Mon, 26th Mar '12 10:49:15 AM from Alongside a Virtual Weasel
All Guns SparkingHow fast and loose are you playing your succubus? I've got one in my story, and while she's got a handful of the typical seduction abilities, she's also able to make the hero red ring with a single punch. (She's also got poison-tipped claws and can use said poison to blow up your organs. But, details.) I think you're allowed to have a little leeway here. Or you could just use the excuse "she's a demon, therefore she's super-strong" if you want a conventional big guy. Or she could transform into a battle-ready form at will. Also, how old is she compared to the rest of the band? If she's travelling with kids, she could be larger by default.
edited 26th Mar '12 10:52:59 AM by Voltech44
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15 Mr.Cales, Mon, 26th Mar '12 10:52:57 AM from Misty Mountains
One of the NineShe may have deliberately trained/been deliberately trained to take advantage of the fact that people expect succubi to be lustful beasts, not tough fighters; a wise demon might have a whole harem of succubi who double as bodyguards.
edited 26th Mar '12 10:53:11 AM by Mr.Cales
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Today is Anthony Stewart Head's 59th birthday, and if you aren't familiar with him then I pity you. He's best-known for the role of Watcher Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but he's done everything from film, to stage, to video games, and was just a hair away from being the Eighth Doctor. ... More >>
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The trapdoor has opened up and they're falling into the abyss of showbiz footnotes, where they'll no doubt join Topo Gigio and KC and the Sunshine Band. Says the article, public sentiment has turned against the kulty klan, especially since Kim's marriage barely lasted longer than the Merman/Borgnin ... More >>
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NAPLES, Fla.- Soup servers were kept busy during the January 26 Naples Empty Bowls event, held in Cambier Park, Naples. 38 local restaurants donated the soup; it was all good—even to the last drops that were drained from the containers!
Over 2,200 people from the Naples area participated in the 7th annual Naples Empty Bowls event on Saturday, January 26. The popular event was held at Cambier Park. Die-hard participants began lining up at 6:45 a.m. for the 11:00 a.m. opening.
For a $10 donation, those attending selected a handmade ceramic bowl then sampled soup from the 38 varieties. The event is an annual fund raiser for the Harry Chapin Food Bank. Over $50,000 was raised from the event. This will allow the food bank to distribute over $300,000 in food to families.
The Harry Chapin Food Bank wants to thank the Naples community for embracing the Naples Empty Bowls event and for their generosity. Thanks goes to the organizing committee, students and artists who created bowls, and those who contributed to the silent auction. The date for next year's event is January 25, 2014.
Over 2,000 bowls were made for the event by Collier County students and adults. The Barron Collier drum line performed prior to the 11:00 start. Artisans and students demonstrated the "throwing" technique and student groups provided entertainment.
The Naples Empty Bowls event presenting sponsor was Panera Bread. Additional sponsors included Ace Hardware, Allegra Printing, Bond, Schoeneck and King, City of Naples, Laquana Clay, Master Piece Mixers, Publix, Taylor Rental/Party Plus Naples, Sweetbay, Whole Foods, High Water Clay, Needles & Thread, Robert Abraham-Orthodontics, YT Freeman Attorney, Humiston & Moore Engineers, AVAirPros, Cynthia Strohmeyer, MD, Warner and Patti Blow, Ann Ciccarelli, Audry Morean Peterson, Wiliam and Barbara Yeager, Marjorie Newton, Phillis and Jeffery Heller, Nancy Lemaster, and Shelly Mamdani.
Comprising the "soup line" by providing at least 10 gallons of their specialty soup were local restaurants Bayside Seafood Bar & Grill, Brio's, Buzz Lighthouse Restaurant, Charlie Chiang's, CJ's on the Bay, Calistoga, Carrabba's, Castaways Backwater Café, Collier's Reserve Country Club, Daniela's, Eagle Creek Country Club, Food & Thought, Kensington Country Club, Larry's Lunchbox, Lorenzo Walker, M. Waterfront Grille, Marco Marriott Hotel, and Naples Flatbread.
Additional restaurants were Naples Heritage Golf and Country Club, Naples Sailing and Yacht Club, Palmira Country Club, Panera Bread, Patrics At World Tennis Club, Pelagos Café, Randy's, Spanky's, Stevie Tomato Sports Page, Sunburst Café, Texas Tony's BBQ, The Club at Mediterra, The Dock, Tiburon Golf Club, Turtle Club, Wilderness Country Club, Whole Foods, Worthington Country Club, Wynn's, and Zookies.
The Harry Chapin Food Bank solicits, collects and stores quality food for distribution to families in need through a network of 160 nonprofit agencies in Lee, Collier, Hendry, Charlotte and Glades counties that provide food to more than 30,000 people monthly. Over 1 million pounds of food are distributed by the Harry Chapin Food Bank monthly. For every dollar donated, about $6 in food value goes back to the community. In the past fiscal year, the Harry Chapin Food Bank distributed more than 15 million pounds of food and other grocery items valued at more than $24.9 million. This is roughly the equivalent of 12.5 million meals to people in need.
For additional information about or to contribute financially to the Harry Chapin Food Bank, contact 239-334-7007 or go to harrychapinfoodbank.org.


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Assemblywoman Sharon Runner's (R-Lancaster) legislation to increase the penalty for providing alcohol to minors failed to pass the Senate Public Safety Committee Tuesday on a party-line vote.
Assembly Bill 454 would have made this crime punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony, based on the severity of the case, when a minor is provided alcohol and subsequently kills or severely injures himself or someone else.
"Irresponsible adults are taking the lives of our children and today the Senate Public Safety Committee failed to take action and failed the families of our state," Runner said. "I dubbed this bill "Jeffrey's Law" in memory of one of the youths taken from his mother when an adult provided a teen driver with alcohol. Until our state chooses to send a clear message to adults that providing alcohol to minors has serious consequences, we can expect these tragedies to continue."
The issue was brought to the attention of Assemblywoman Runner when Barbara McClanahan of the San Bernardino District Attorney's office contacted her about a case in her district. In February of 2003, a 41 year old woman provided alcohol to a group of minors and allowed them to drive off in a Ford Expedition. When the intoxicated 18 year old driver crashed the vehicle after running a stop sign, the aftermath left 11 individuals dead or severely injured including a slain 18 year old adult, and a lifeless 17 year old minor, Jeffrey Trylch, whom AB 454 is named after. Tragically, the woman who supplied the alcohol to the minors had been previously reported to law enforcement, by Jeffrey's mother, for a similar incident. Unfortunately, under current law the woman who provided alcohol to the driver of the vehicle could only be charged with a misdemeanor and upon conviction she received 180 days in County Jail that she serves on weekends and a $110 fine for restitution to the victims.
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Ecuador: Let's talk about not having Julian Assange on our sofa
Blighty's Foreign Secretary William Hague is considering an invitation to sit down with his Ecuadorian counterpart - and discuss what to do about their little Julian Assange problem. The Ecuadorian foreign minister Ricardo Patino - due to arrive in London this month - has asked the UK Foreign Office for a chat about Assange, who …
It took a while, but, as predicted ...
it's the Ecuadorans that are keen to get rid of Assange.
Shame Hague made such a total tit of himself to start with. He only had to wait.
Re: It took a while, but, as predicted ...
Its diplomacy - the Foreign secretary says one thing to their ambassador in private, another thing to the media in private, another to the House of Commons. Meanwhile the British ambassador says something else to their PM or FM in private and yet another thing to their media. Meanwhile a whole bunch of other things are said in the cabinet.
Re: It took a while, but, as predicted ...
I forgot to add and probably yet another thing while letting their spooks listen in the conversation. And yet more and different stuff to our allies.
I imagine the Manning outcome will be largely dependant on what is agreed with Assange as regards his future...
Am I the only one thinking that JA could dye his hair brown and wear a false 'tache and he'd be able to leave?
Alternative escape plan
Ask all the members of the embassy to dress in giant condoms and hide himself in the middle of them - oh wait a sec......
Re: Alternative escape plan
No, his have a habit of tearing..
These are a distraction...
The real story is that they have been spending the past year digging underneath the embassy into the next building... what they will do is surprise everyone with having him appear on a webcam from another country the second the talks start...
He may end up 'serving' longer than his sentence would have been...
The Swedish prosecutor is waiting for JA. There is a valid European arrest warrant for JA. The UK Foreign Secretary might 'listen' to the Ecuadorian consulate, that is what diplomats do.
JA is going to Sweden, though. That isn't going to change. He can delay it, but that fact still looms before him. The Swedes are determined on that.
Re: He may end up 'serving' longer than his sentence would have been...
AFAIK, he needs to answer for breaking UK law first, but I may be wrong. Not sure what takes priority.
What I do know is that if he walks away from this one they better install revolving doors in embassies as everyone who has broken laws will want to try this. That is why I don't think he'll walk. Neither Sweden or the UK can afford that sort of flagrant ignoring of the law.
I also don't have a problem with him being shipped to the US. If the US really is stupid enough to turn this idiot into a martyr I think they deserve the problems that will no doubt cause. Ignoring him would be the wiser approach.
Worts case scenario for Assange is a sequence of immediate extradition to Sweden, followed by a 30 minute hearing after which he is released without charge, maybe with a fresh pack of extra small condoms. That would put the lie to the whole US paranoia, and reduce his further significance for the media to about zero. Hence the bleating - it's a very real possibility that this actually happens.
Tell 'em to keep him
He's all theirs. Forever and ever, world without end, amen. Whatever's being spent keeping a bobby outside the embassy is less than what would be spent on the trial and then locking him up... and he's just as locked away, and he did it to himself.
A lotta donuts
The MET spent £3 million in 7 months watching a building ? That's almost 14k per day. If an police officer earns £30,000 a year (£82 per day), they must have about 170 policemen on-site, right ?
Re: A lotta donuts
Well, it's like the street value of drugs seized by police. The street value of a police officer is much higher than their cost if you get them wholesale...
Or, as you suggest, they could just be eating a lot of Doughnuts. Say there's a nearby Krispy Kreme outlet, then that £14k could buy them as many as 5 or 6 doughnuts per day...
I wonder if old Julian showers regularly while he's in there? Or is he whiffing up their embassy something awful? I know the Guardian guys who worked with him on the US diplomatic cables complained that they were stuck in small windowless rooms with him, and he he hadn't bothered to wash or change clothes in several days.
Maybe that's the answer. The police have all been equipped with gas masks, just in case...
Re: A lotta donuts
@ Jim 59:
You're oversimplifying the maths. If an average rozzer on 30K per annum is scheduled to do an 8 hour shift then you need 3 of them to maintain a one-plod presence in a 24 hour period so we're down to 57 on-site assuming they all work 365 days a year. They don't, so let's say our single copper works a similar number of days a year to me, he's working for .62 of the year so multiplying our 57 by .38 means we're down to 21 on-site.
That's assuming the 3 million is only going on staff pay and not equipment costs and that night shifts don't pay more etc...
Bored? Moi?
Re: A lotta donuts
You need to work on your math a little (£30k becomes £50k by the time you have paid for taxes, office space, pensions etc, and they only work 240 days per year in 8 hour shifts) but I still make that 13 officers on duty 24x7.
Re: A lotta donuts
170 policemen on site per day, but they don't work 24 hour shifts so maybe about a third of that number at any one time.
Re: A lotta donuts
If the complaints of police officers are to be believed* then each officer spends one hour per day watching the embassy and seven hours writing a report about it.
*They aren't.
Re: A lotta donuts
"The Metropolitan Police has been forced to maintain a 24-hour watch on the building, which they said in February had cost Brits nearly £3m by that point."
And exactly who has forced them to spend that money ?
Choosing what resources to allocate is a discretionary process - in what way is this a priority with scarce resources , rioting in the streets and people getting hacked to death ?
Re: A lotta donuts
True, it's more like 1 hour watching and 7 hours trying to submit the report via the govt procured iplod-app-pad. Assuming theirs functions as well as the one the poor community nurses have to suffer.
Re: A lotta donuts
Google Maps says Krispy Kreme is about 20mins walk (probably a longer plod) away.
They're probably just going round the corner to Harrods, that alone explains the cost.
Re: A lotta donuts
Whether its 170, 21, or 13 its still far too expensive! At most you are requiring 4 persons onsite (its a small building!) and one situational commander. 3x 8hr shifts +cover = 20 persons, at a generous 60k per plod and 100k per command person that's 16x60+4x100 = 1.3 million. No helicopters, No fast-pursuit cars.
I suspect that what we are seeing is also a bill for a certain amount of espionage/intelligence.
Re: A lotta donuts
There's a Krispy Kreme in Harrods.
Re: A lotta donuts
There's a Krispy Kreme in Harrods.
That must be the mathematical Holy Grail that is: Expensive squared. They probably do a special one that's diamond encrusted, and filled with the tears of orphans. For £20,000. Probably with a free orphan thrown in for refills.
I was very disappointed when Fayed sold Harrods. He said he was going to have himself mummified and be interred in a pyramid on the ceiling. I wonder why no-one ever checked his blood for drugs...
However, if he'd not sold, the combined weight of the 2 egomaniac paranoid nutjobs in such a small area would probably have distorted the space-time continuum and led to a tin-foil hole forming in the area...
@ Sir Sham Cad
Take your point re shifts and holidays. But every copper working a third of 24 hours and 0.62 of a year still gives over 35 cops on site 24 x 7 x 365. (170*0.33*0.62)
Could it be that the nice policeman are getting some rather shift payments ? Assuming 5 cops on site 24x7x365 corresponds to 25 different full time bobbies including hols and shifts. Sharing 3 million, each one has trousered circa £120,000 in 7 months, back of a fag packet...
Re: @ Sir Sham Cad
Come on guys! When the boss asks you how much money you need for that new bit of kit that you finally have persuaded HIS boss is essential, what do you tell him?
(Don't forget the maintenance plan...)
Re: @ Sir Sham Cad
You guys all seem to be forgetting that its not as simple maths as that. I earn X from my company per hour for doing the work, but my time is sold to the customer at 3X minimum, because you have to include backroom staff and equipment, the front line equipment (in this case, the fully stocked cop car for the plod to sit around in, the gun, night stick, radios, dashboard computer, etc.), and a host of other overheads.
I would imagine that the 3million figure comes from how much the forces that have been deployed for this could have earned if they were deployed for the same amount of time protecting a football game or the like.
So going by the base figure for salaries is just being silly...
Re: A lotta donuts
You fail to take in to consideration that this "post" is not a normal assignment for the plods and therefore not in the staffing plan, so most if not all of these plod are on overtime. its not like they have a closet full of spare plods at the station where they can pull out of few extra for an assignment here or there and throw them back when they're done.
On a side note, this whole situation has an air of bullshit about it. The math just doesnt add up.
The math problem goes like this:
A: Sweden says they just want to talk to him about some allegations of (non-violent) sexual abuse. they haven't even charged him with a crime yet.
B: The US is saying heh we dont give a fuck about him, we have no interest in him what-so-ever, nothing to see here, move along. (which we all know is bullshit)
C: The (Cash strapped) UK is spending what works out to be £5.1m a year keeping a post of plods outside the embassy where JA is holed up 24/7/365.
In the equation, how the fuck does A + B justify C.
The allegations against him in Sweden, though somewhat serious in nature, definitely do not warrant a multi-million pound and years long operation to apprehend him, especially considering this bill is being footed by a third party who has no dog in this fight, and no interest in this situation outside of the fact that he's within their borders (I would have said he is on their soil, but he's actually on Ecuadorian soil).
All parties involved need to switch off the bullshit emitters and come clean. Sweden needs to just step out of the picture and the US to stop their bullshit and just unseal the indictment that we all know damn good and well has already been filed and is being kept sealed, outline the charges against him and issue an international warrant for his arrest.
This whole smoke and mirrors charade is disheartening and disgusting. The whole reason the US wont lay their cards on the table is because they plan to lay some seriously bullshit, trumped up and over-zealously harsh charges on him, similar to the "Aiding the Enemy" charges against Bradly Manning, and because most, if not all of the extradition treaties the US has in place with other nations have a dual criminality clause, and with the scope of charges they plan to bring, most other nations would refuse extradition based on the fact that the charges / punishment do not fit the crime (if there even was one on Julian Assange's or wikileaks part)
Re: A lotta donuts
I think you need to take the tin-foil hat off there.
Firstly he wasn't accused of a totally non-violent crime. One of the allegations is that he tried to force himself on one of the women, who was saying no dice until you put on a condom. It wasn't full-on violence in that she says she was holding her legs together and he was using his bulk to stop her getting away and trying to get them apart. So there's no accusation that he was trying to hurt her physically, but that would still be rape. Just less aggravated than if he was using a knife, or smacking her round the head or something. Not some sort of 'weird sexual offence that only counts in Sweden' but proper rape. As was confirmed by the UK Supreme Court judgement, where they upheld that the European Arrest Warrant was legal, but also said that the case would have met the criteria for extradition anyway, even without the EAW system.
So that's the first bit of your post that doesn't add up. As for the rest of it, justice isn't convenient, but we have a system that's supposed to pretty much ignore the costs and just get on with criminal cases. We have a valid warrant for his arrest, and the police are duty bound to carry that out. As approved by our courts, in exhaustive process, where Assange got to put his case at 4 different levels of courts. He had his day in court, he lost, now he has to go to Sweden and have his day in court there. If it even gets to court. But I'm inclined to suspect his motives for avoiding facing justice in Sweden might be down to a guilty conscience, given the amount of time, effort and money he's gone to in order to avoid facing them. Admittedly most of that money has been other people's, but still...
As for the US charging him, we'll know more when the Manning trial is over. I don't think they'd be able to accuse him of much for publishing the leaked stuff. Only if they can prove he was controlling Manning and helping with the hacking, then they can go for espionage or conspiracy. But if he did do all that, then he is guilty of either conspiracy to hack or espionage. Even if you think what he did was in a good cause. Although with the way Manning was treated, I'd be amazed if half the evidence from the military tribunal would be admissible, which leads me to suspect that even if the US could get enough evidence to try him, they wouldn't be able to get enough untainted evidence to get a foreign court to extradite him.
Do days spent in the Ecuadorian embassy count towards his sentence?!
Truth is irrelevant
Perhaps if Winston Smith had obtained and released a mass of secret and embarrassing documents, thus revealing the reality of Big Brother ... convenient charges could have been found to discredit Smith? From a cooperating ally?
Let the juggernaughts of self-perpetuating power rush headlong into history ... the populace will believe what it will.
The true mystery is the simple fact that the Ecuadorian embassy has not yet suffered a massive gas main fault.
Just goes to show how much money the MET piss up the wall if they claim its cost 3 million, why do we even need to watch the building 24/7, they allowed Dale Cregan out on bail when he was arrested for murder which let him go off and kill 2 police officers yet we have to spend 3 million of tax payers money watching just in case Assange gets away?
At what point do the MET decide it no longer in the public interest to keep a 24/7 watch on the embassy or is this going to be costing us money indefinitely?
The American government has said it has no plans to charge Assange
rotfl, this is pretty sophisticated for the US diplomacy. Should it read "no plans, but we're going to"? "No plans as of the time this statement was issued"? "No plans, but a strong intention to"? "No plans for the gov, but we ain't say nothin' about the plans for the gov sponsored agencies"?
that said, he deserves to be extradited and put on that one-way trip to Mars for being such an megalomaniac and screwing up a decent wikileaks cause.
Re: The American government has said it has no plans to charge Assange
"The American government has said it has no plans to charge Australian-born Assange nor has it made attempts to extradite him."
Complete and utter bullshit. If somebody nabs Assange outside the embassy, plans and attempts will be "devised and made" five minutes after the US hears about it.
Re: The American government has said it has no plans to charge Assange
To feed those who think less than wholesome thoughts about the various governments concerning this issue, please note that having someone shot on the spot (or disappeared or whatever horrible fate that might eventually be inflicted upon the hapless JA), requires neither that he be charged or extradited for this to come to pass.
On the other hand, letting the (alleged) victims have a go at him before taking action would be a good bit of diplomacy.
Re: Shot on sight... blah, blah, blah
Why would they ever bother to do that? THINK about it. His ravings and antics have made WL into a side-show. JA's paranoia has done more damage to WL then anything the CIA/NSA/etc. could ever hope to!
Joke alert, which is what this whole farce is.
Re: plans and attempts will be "devised and made" five minutes after the US hears about it.
I only wish there was at least one person somewhere in the bowels of our government who was that competent.
His credibility is stretching pretty thin
So the UK has pretty much proven to be a "if you ask for him we'll send him over" country when it comes to Extradition requests from the USA, with a few minor exceptions that took years to sort out. Assange was in the UK at the time of the allegations from Sweden. Why on earth would the USA come up with a scheme to send him to a different country that, more than likely, has a different extradition agreement that is more difficult for them to extract Assange?
Whatever happens, he needs to answer the charges of alleged rape in Sweden. Whatever else he may have done, he is not above or outside the law, and he needs to learn that.
I wasn't aware that WE had a Julain Assange problem...
Ecuador on the other hand....
Re: I wasn't aware that WE had a Julain Assange problem...
Ecuador does have a Julian Assange problem, but we have a Julian Assange problem problem.
re. A lotta donuts
imo British gov decided they won't risk "worldwide humiliation" which they believe they would get, should this smelly man holed in the embassy give them the slip. They will throw any resources and money not to let him do it. Quite different to the case of that bloke who was let loose by the system, and killed when out there. That was just the "regular" system involved, and no politician gave a toss. Now they do, because they feel they'd be a laughing stock of the world, and they'll do anything, at any cost, to not let it happen. And "the system" will duly follow the orders.
I'm willing to bet…
That the US are laughing their ass off at all of it.
Seriously, it would be a significant problem for them to manage to extradite Assange; on the other hand, if he is willing to discredit himself on his own, what is there not to like?
What are the betting markets like?
Can you still get 300:1 if he leaves the embassy grounds in the batmobile?
As the Daily Mash reported last year, his attempt to leave hidden in a laundry basket failed when details were published on Wikileaks.
Deear Meester Weeliam,
We too are sick of the little Ponce, he never does his share of the shopping, he wraps all our computers in tinfoil, please, please take him back before he has a nasty accident!
OK, we'll sweeten the deal with enough cash to pay off the Met's bills, plus a home-cooked meal using what's left in the fridge after you-know-who has helped himself...
One solution
albeit an old one, tried before, would be to ask the Nigerian embassy if they have any spare crates, and take JA to Ecuador?
(if giving their valued guest a diplomatic passport is too embarrassing that is - but if Ecuador wanted to avoid embarrassment, they shouldn't have granted the self-obsessed JA entry to the embassy in the first place, and should put him on the first plane to Sweden)
Re: One solution
alternatively I suppose they could ask if any long-serving Bulgarian diplomats have any spare umbrellas
Re: One solution
Ah, poor old Georgy Markhov. That was a terrible fate, and the parent state of the USSR continues to assassinate journalists and others of whom their leader Putin, grandson of Stalin's cook, disapproves.
Re: One solution
if giving their valued guest a diplomatic passport is too embarrassing that is
Sigh. Not going to repeat the diplomatic process details - you cannot give someone diplomatic status without permission of the host country.
Maybe the Foreign Secretary just wants to tell Ecuador something on the order: "We really don't care that you have him, but he stays there (in the embassy). Tell us when he goes outside."
It might cure lots of things. No need for police outside until things start to happen. Jail in any form works for me! I wouldn't want to be holed up in an embassy for over a year and keep going strong. Much less in a country like Ecuador!
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Facebook fights end up on street, police say
The Criminal Justice systems appears to favor the criminals. It should be revamped and designed, so that these kids and young adults wouldn't want to go to jail or prison. In jail the prisoners have better rights than the people who are doing what is asked. they do not have to pay for healthcare, food,college, or a place to stay. I think we need to work with China and build massive prisons over there, and send theses criminals(young or old ) over there where the people have no rights. Let them earn their freedom back.
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Tangy Cherry Relish
This flavorful blend of cherries, onion, green pepper and carrot perks up chicken or turkey nicely. When my mom served it at a holiday meal, I just had to have this quick-and-easy recipe. -Sue Bellamy, Roblin, Manitoba
8 Servings
Prep: 10 min. + chilling Cook: 5 min. + cooling
1 cup cherry preserves
1 cup dried cherries
2 tablespoons cider vinegar
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped green pepper
1/4 cup shredded carrot
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dried basil
Cut cherries in preserves into small pieces; place preserves in a
saucepan. Add the dried cherries and vinegar. Bring to a boil.
Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat;
cool. Stir in the remaining ingredients. Cover and refrigerate
overnight. Serve with turkey or chicken. Yield: 2 cups.
Nutritional Facts:
1 serving (1/4 cup) equals 158 calories, trace fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 150 mg sodium, 40 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 1 g protein.
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Coordinates: 51°27′50″N 0°10′04″W / 51.46377°N 0.16771°W
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Battersea is an area of the London Borough of Wandsworth, England. It is an inner-city district of south London in fare zone 2, situated on the south side of the River Thames, 2.9 miles (4.8 km) south-west of Charing Cross. Battersea spans from Fairfield in the west to Queenstown in the east.[1] Although in modern times it is known mostly for its wealth, Battersea remains characterised by economic inequality, with council estates being surrounded by more prosperous areas. In 2001, Battersea had a population of 75,651 people.[citation needed]
Historically a part of Surrey, the area takes its name from the old village of Battersea, an island settlement established in the river delta of the Falconbrook; a river that rises in Tooting Bec Common and flows underground through south London to the River Thames.[2] The site of the original settlement is marked by St. Mary's Church. William Blake was married, and Benedict Arnold and his wife and daughter are buried in the crypt of the church. Battersea is mentioned in Anglo-Saxon time as Badrices īeg = "Badric's Island" and later "Patrisey". As with many former Thames island settlements, Battersea was reclaimed by draining marshland and building culverts for streams.
The settlement appears in the Domesday Book as Patricesy. It was held by St Peter's Abbey, Westminster. Its Domesday Assets were: 18 hides; 7 mills worth £42 9s 8d, 17 ploughs, 82 acres (330,000 m2) of meadow, woodland worth 50 hogs. It rendered (in total): £75 9s 8d.[3]
Before the Industrial Revolution, much of the area was farmland, providing food for the City of London and surrounding population centres; and with particular specialisms, such as growing lavender on Lavender Hill (nowadays denoted by the road of the same name), asparagus (sold as "Battersea Bundles") or pig breeding on Pig Hill (later the site of the Shaftesbury Park Estate). At the end of the 18th century, above 300 acres (1.2 km2) of land in the parish of Battersea were occupied by some 20 market gardeners, who rented from five to near 60 acres (240,000 m2) each.[4] Villages in the wider area - Battersea, Wandsworth, Earlsfield (hamlet of Garratt), Tooting, Balham - were isolated one from another; and throughout the second half of the second millennium, the wealthy built their country retreats in Battersea and neighbouring areas.
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Industry in the area was concentrated to the north west just outside the Battersea-Wandsworth boundary, at the confluence of the River Thames, and the River Wandle which gave rise to the village of Wandsworth. This was settled from the 16th century by Protestant craftsmen - Huguenots - fleeing religious persecution in Europe, who established a range of industries such as mills, breweries and dyeing, bleaching and calico printing. Industry developed eastwards along the bank of the Thames during the industrial revolution from 1750s onwards; the Thames provided water for transport, for steam engines and for water-intensive industrial processes. Bridges erected across the Thames encouraged growth; Putney Bridge, a mile to the west, was built in 1729, and Battersea Bridge in the centre of the north boundary in 1771. Inland from the river, the rural agricultural community persisted.
Along the Thames, a number of large and, in their field, pre-eminent firms grew; notably the Morgan Crucible Company, which survives to this day and is listed on the London Stock Exchange; Price's Candles, which also made cycle lamp oil; and Orlando Jones' Starch Factory. The 1874 Ordnance Survey map of the area shows the following factories, in order, from the site of the as yet unbuilt Wandsworth Bridge to Battersea Park: Starch manufacturer; Silk manufacturer; (St. John's College); (St. Mary's Church); Malt house; Corn mill; Oil and grease works (Prices Candles); Chemical works; Plumbago Crucible works (later the Morgan Crucible Company); Chemical works; Saltpetre works; Foundry. Between these were numerous wharfs for shipping.
In 1929, construction started on Battersea Power Station, being completed in 1939. From the late 18th century to comparatively recent times Battersea, and certainly north Battersea, was established as an industrial area with all of the issues associated with pollution and poor housing affecting it.
Industry declined and moved away from the area in the 1970s, and local government sought to address chronic post-war housing problems with large scale clearances and the establishment of planned housing. More recently, some decades after the end of large scale local industry, residential overspill from fashionable Chelsea, the area to the north across the Thames, has changed the character of much of Battersea. Factories have been demolished and replaced with modern apartment buildings. Some of the council owned properties have been sold off and several traditional working men's pubs have become more fashionable bistros, although much local authority housing and industrial areas still remain.
Battersea was radically altered by the coming of railways. The London and Southampton Railway Company was the first to drive a railway line from east to west through Battersea, in 1838, terminating at Nine Elms at the north west tip of the area. Over the next 22 years five other lines were built, across which all trains from Waterloo Station and Victoria Station ran. An interchange station was built in 1863 towards the north west of the area, at a junction of the railway. Taking the name of a fashionable village a mile and more away, the station was named Clapham Junction. A campaign to rename the station "Battersea Junction" fizzled out as late as the early twentieth century. During the latter decades of the nineteenth century Battersea had developed into a major town railway centre with two locomotive works at Nine Elms and Longhedge and three important motive power depots (Nine Elms, Stewarts Lane and Battersea) all situated within a relatively small area in the north of the district. The effect was precipitate: a population of 6,000 people in 1840 was increased to 168,000 by 1910; and save for the green spaces of Battersea Park, Clapham Common, Wandsworth Common and some smaller isolated pockets, all other farmland was built over, with, from north to south, industrial buildings and vast railway sheds and sidings (much of which remain), slum housing for workers, especially north of the main east–west railway, and gradually more genteel residential terraced housing further south.
The railway station encouraged the government to site its buildings - the town hall, library, police station, court and post office in the area surrounding Clapham Junction; the Arding and Hobbs department store, diagonally opposite the station, was the largest of its type at the time of its construction in 1885; and the area was served by a vast music hall - The Grand - opposite the station and nowadays serving as a nightclub and venue for smaller bands. All this building around the station marginalised Battersea High Street (the main street of the original village) into no more than an extension of Falcon Road.
Battersea is dominated by four main housing estates. The Winstanley Estate, perhaps being the most renowned of them all, is popularly known as being the birthplace to the garage collective So Solid Crew. Winstanley is situated behind Clapham Junction railway station in the northern perimeter of Battersea. Further north towards Chelsea is the Surrey Lane Estate, and situated on Battersea Park Road is the Doddington and Rollo Estate. Going towards Vauxhall off the Wandsworth Road is the Patmore Estate which is in close proximity to the Battersea Power Station. Other estates include York Road, Somerset, Savona, Badric Court, The Peabody estate and Carey Gardens - which is arguably on Battersea's peripheral boundary in spite of its closeness to Patmore.
The tradition of local government in England was based on the Parish. Population growth in London during the 19th century demanded new arrangements, and the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea was created in 1899, with the boundaries described above. It was in 1965 combined with the neighbouring Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth to form the London Borough of Wandsworth. The former Battersea Town Hall, opened in 1893, is now the Battersea Arts Centre.
In the period from 1880 onwards, Battersea was known as a centre of radical politics in the United Kingdom. John Burns founded a branch of the Social Democratic Federation, Britain's first organised socialist political party, in the borough and after the turmoil of dock strikes affecting the populace of north Battersea, was elected to represent the borough in the newly formed London County Council. In 1892, he expanded his role, being elected to Parliament for Battersea North as one of the first Independent Labour Party member of Parliament.
Battersea's radical reputation gave rise to the Brown Dog affair, when in 1904 the National Anti-Vivisection Society sought permission to erect a drinking fountain celebrating the life of a dog killed by vivisection. The fountain, forming a plinth for the statue of a brown dog, was installed near in the Latchmere Recreational Grounds, became a cause célèbre, fought over in riots and battles between medical students and the local populace until its removal in 1910.
The borough elected the first black mayor[5] in 1913 when John Archer took office, and in 1922 elected the Bombay-born Communist Party member Shapurji Saklatvala as MP for Battersea; one of only two communist members of Parliament.[5]
The Member of Parliament for the Battersea constituency since 6 May 2010 has been the Conservative Jane Ellison.
In 2009, it was announced that a new US embassy would be constructed at Nine Elms. This development would also see the building of luxury apartments in the area.
Battersea is part of London on the south bank of the River Thames. Roughly triangular in shape, its northern boundary is the Thames, as it runs first north-east, and then east, before turning north again to pass Westminster. Its north eastern corner is one mile (1.6 km) due south of the Palace of Westminster; the north western corner is demarcated by Wandsworth Bridge and Battersea tapers south to a point roughly three miles (5 km) from the north eastern corner and two miles (3 km) from the north west. To the east is Lambeth; on the south are Camberwell and Streatham, on the south-east is Clapham and on the west Wandsworth.
Many parts of Battersea, particularly in the north, have been well known as hotspots for drug dealing. The Winstanley and York Road council estates have developed a reputation for drug related offences, and were made part of a zero-tolerance "drug exclusion zone" in 2007.[6]
Within the bounds of modern Battersea are (from east to west):
The recently opened London Overground station Imperial Wharf, although geographically close, cannot be reached directly on foot as it is on the opposite side of the River Thames, but via Wandsworth Bridge or Battersea Bridge.
Battersea features in the books of Michael de Larrabeiti, who was brought up in the area: A Rose Beyond the Thames recounts the working-class Battersea of the 1940s and 1950s; The Borrible Trilogy presents a fictional Battersea, home to the Borribles. Battersea is also the setting for Penelope Fitzgerald's 1979 Booker Prize-winning novel, Offshore.
Michael Flanders, half of the 60's comedy Flanders and Swann often made public fun at Donald Swann for living in Battersea.
Nell Dunn's 1963 novel Up the Junction (later adapted for both television and cinema) depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea near Clapham Junction.
Morrissey mentions Battersea in his song "You're the One for Me, Fatty".
Babyshambles recorded the song "Bollywood to Battersea" for 2005's charity album Help!: A Day in the Life.
The following people have lived, or currently live, in Battersea:


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Don't worry! It's not mine. About a month ago the shelter took in a pregnant dog and she recently had her pups. They're three weeks old and there seems to be one in every color. They're also really big! Their poor mom is just a little one - maybe a beagle-terrier mix. It's fun to watch the pups grow up. This pup was the adventurous one - he ventured out of the crate to pose (and to pee!).
Simon Says go watch this video! It's very cute.


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"The New York Times" spends some time with Suze Orman
As someone who has been a tad financially messy over the years, Suze Orman used to intimidate me quite a bit. While I love making excuses for my money troubles ("My college was overpriced!" "I'm a writer, dammit.") Orman doesn't care about excuses, and — finally — people are taking her advice seriously. It only took a recession.
This weekend, the New York Times ran a feature about Orman in their magazine titled "Suze Orman Is Having a Moment" — isn't that the truth?
While The Suze Orman Show has been a hit on CNBC for awhile now, Orman is appearing on talk shows, selling books and generally being sought after more than ever. She isn't afraid to tell people they are being stupid with their cash and her South Side of Chicago (holler!) attitude shines through in her no-nonsense responses to callers.
"Orman has been propelled to fame not by her financial success, or because of any revolutionary insight about, say, index funds. Rather, she has figured out a way to channel an innate charisma and a televangelist's intensity into an otherwise bland message of fiscal responsibility," Susan Dominus writes.
The article discusses Orman's rise to financial maven status, along with her relationships along the way. Apparently, dating can even make Suze Orman lose her head financially:
She dipped into her 401(k), an action she currently deems a financial cardinal sin, to pay for a $7,500 Cartier Panther watch, which she wore to impress a wealthy woman she was dating at the time.
Romance still seems to bring out the spender in Orman. She told the magazine another story about wooing her longtime and current partner Kathy Travis.
Eight years ago, when she first sensed that Travis was the right woman, Orman had her longtime driver meet Travis at the airport in a car filled with gardenias, Travis' favorite flower," Dominus writes. "Not long after Travis arrived home, the doorbell rang: a deliveryman with an armful of Casablanca lilies wanted to know where the rest of the flowers in his truck should go. It turned out that Orman had purchased the entire contents of a flower shop.
While the article focuses a lot on Orman's relationship with money, her sexuality comes into play quite a bit and she has no problem openly discussing it.
Her former coworkers once proposed that she work on a book with a Mormon motivational writer, but she told them up front that the partnership would not work out:
You wouldn't want to do a deal with me. Trust me. My lifestyle goes against what he practices every day. They got it.
Orman is successful, smart, gay and fabulous, but one of the best things about her is her down-to-earth attitude. She came from humble roots (the story she tells about losing her father is heartbreaking) and worked hard for what she has. She isn't some privileged princess preaching to those she is out-of-touch with.
I was considering checking out some of Suze's books before reading the piece and am now certain they are a worthwhile investment. I don't think she would argue with me too much about that — but she may have something to say about the L Word DVDs I just ordered.


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