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Healthcare is a good, not a right. People have rights to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. A good is something you work for and earn.
It might be a need, like food, but more goods seem to be becoming rights
in our culture, and this has troubling consequences. It might seem
harmless enough to decide that people have a right to things like
education, employment, housing, or fedzillacare. But if we look a little
further into the consequences, we can see that the workings of the
community and economy are thrown wildly off balance when people accept
those ideas.
The strongest opponent of government intervention in reforming the
healthcare industry is venitist Congressman Ron Paul, Republican of Texas.
He's known to some as "Dr. No" for his opposition to tax hikes and for his
refusal to vote for spending bills. He was a distinguished gynaecologist,
before becoming a Congressman.
Venitist Ron Paul does not believe peoples' needs or desires or wants or
demands are rights. Once you do that you embark on a system of government
that is uncontrollable. You have a right to your life, your liberty, and
you should have a right to keep what you earn. So Ron Paul does not
believe medical care is a right and that's one of the problems that we are
facing today and why there's so much confusion about what we ought to do
about healthcare.
Ron Paul asserts that insurance is a market phenomenon when you buy
something and somebody is paid to measure risk, like life insurance.
People understand that. This whole idea that anybody that already has a
condition can demand insurance is sort of like saying, well, your house is
burning down, and you go to the insurance company and say, "Hey my house
is on fire, can I buy insurance?" Everybody knows it doesn't work that
way. On the coast in Texas, if there's a hurricane in the Gulf, Texans
can't go out and buy insurance. Otherwise, the insurance companies would
all go broke and the government would have to bail them out. If you want
better care and cheaper care and more care for more people, you have to
look to the market for the distribution.
Ron Paul points out government has been mismanaging medical care for more
than 45 years; for every problem it has created it has responded by
exponentially expanding the role of government. Points to consider:
* No one has a right to medical care. If one assumes such a right, it
endorses the notion that some individuals have a right to someone else's
life and property. This totally contradicts the principles of liberty.
* If medical care is provided by government, this can only be achieved by
an authoritarian government unconcerned about the rights of the
* Economic fallacies accepted for more than 100 years in the United States
has deceived policy makers into believing that quality medical care can
only be achieved by government force, taxation, regulations, and bowing to
a system of special interests that creates a system of corporatism.
* More dollars into any monopoly run by government never increases quality
but it always results in higher costs and prices.
* Government does have an important role to play in facilitating the
delivery of all goods and services in an ethical and efficient manner.
* First, government should do no harm. It should get out of the way and
repeal all the laws that have contributed to the mess we have.
* The costs are obviously too high but in solving this problem one cannot
ignore the debasement of the currency as a major factor.
* Bureaucrats and other third parties must never be allowed to interfere
in the doctor/patient relationship.
* The tax code, including the ERISA laws, must be changed to give everyone
equal treatment by allowing a 100% tax credit for all medical expenses.
Laws dealing with bad outcomes and prohibiting doctors from entering into
voluntary agreements with their patients must be repealed. Tort laws play
a significant role in pushing costs higher, prompting unnecessary
treatment and excessive testing. Patients deserve the compensation; the
attorneys do not.
* Insurance sales should be legalized nationally across state lines to
increase competition among the insurance companies.
* Long-term insurance policies should be available to young people similar
to term-life insurances that offer fixed prices for long periods of time.
* The principle of insurance should be remembered. Its purpose in a free
market is to measure risk, not to be used synonymously with social welfare
programs. Any program that provides for first-dollar payment is no longer
insurance. This would be similar to giving coverage for gasoline and
repair bills to those who buy car insurance or providing food insurance
for people to go to the grocery store. Obviously, that could not work.
* The cozy relationship between organized medicine and government must be
reversed. Early on medical insurance was promoted by the medical community
in order to boost re-imbursements to doctors and hospitals. That
partnership has morphed into the government/insurance industry still being
promoted by the current administration.
* Threatening individuals with huge fines by forcing them to buy insurance
is a boon to the insurance companies.
* There must be more competition for individuals entering into the medical
field. Licensing strictly limits the number of individuals who can provide
patient care. A lot of problems were created in 20th century as a
consequence the Flexner Report (1910), which was financed by the Carnegie
Foundation and strongly supported by the AMA. Many medical schools were
closed and the number of doctors was drastically reduced. The motivation
was to close down medical schools that catered to women, minorities and
especially homeopathy. We continue to suffer from these changes which were
designed to protect physician's income and promote allopathic medicine
over the more natural cures and prevention of homeopathic medicine.
* We must remove any obstacles for people seeking holistic and nutritional
alternatives to current medical care. We must remove the threat of further
regulations pushed by the drug companies now working worldwide to limit
these alternatives.
True competition in the delivery of medical care is what is needed, not
more government meddling. As the government continues to convince us that
healthcare is a right instead of a good, it also very generously agrees to
step in as middle man. Politicians can be very good at making it sound as
if healthcare will be free for everybody. Nothing could be further from
the truth. The administration doesn't want you to think too much about how
hospitals will be funded, or how you will somehow get something for
nothing in the healthcare arena. We are asked to just trust the
politicians. Somehow it will all work out.
Basil Venitis muses that Obamacare now claims the highway to Yahweh! Obama
claims his version of health care reform is a core ethical and moral
obligation, hoodwinking bishops and televangelists to promote his
kleptocrat-run scheme. This way more Americans will meet Yahweh sooner
than expected! Questioning the patriotism of opponents backfired. The
major impetus behind the kleptocratic health care plans is not economic,
it is moral. The claim that health care is a moral right has motivated
enormous government coercions against the medical industry for nearly
fifty years. But this moral claim has blinded people to the fact that huge
price increases have necessarily followed the growth of the coercions.
Venitis muses that calling John Johnny cannot change fedzillacare!
Kleptocrat-run fedzillacare is kleptocrat-run fedzillacare no matter what
you call it. The health care co-op approach now embraced by the Obama
administration will still give Fedzilla control over one-sixth of the U.S.
economy, with a kleptocrat-appointed board, taxpayer funding, and with
kleptocrats setting premiums, benefits, and operating rules.
Venitis muses that if you think health care is expensive now, wait until
you see what it costs when fedzillacare is free! Other people must pay for
things like fedzillacare. Those people have bills to pay and families to
support, just as you do. If there is a right to healthcare, you must force
the providers of those goods, or others, to serve you. Obviously, if
healthcare providers were suddenly considered outright slaves to
fedzillacare consumers, our medical schools would quickly empty.
Basil Venitis points out Obama is a spin doctor, not a medical doctor!
Universal Healthcare never quite works out the way the people are led to
believe before implementing it. Citizens in countries with nationalized
healthcare never would have accepted this system had they known upfront
about the rationing of care and the long lines. As bureaucrats take over
medicine, costs go up and quality goes down because doctors spend more and
more of their time on paperwork and less time helping patients.
As costs skyrocket, as they always do when inefficient bureaucrats take
the reins, government will need to confiscate more and more money from an
already foundering economy to somehow pay the bills. As we have seen many
times, the more money and power that government has, the more power it
will abuse. The frightening aspect of all this is that cutting costs,
which they will inevitably do, could very well mean denying vital
services. And since participation will be mandatory, no legal alternatives
will be available.
The government will be paying the bills, forcing doctors and hospitals to
dance more and more to the government's tune. Having to subject our health
to this bureaucratic insanity and mismanagement is possibly the biggest
danger we face. The great irony is that in turning the good of healthcare
into a right, your life and liberty are put in jeopardy. Instead of
further removing healthcare from the market, we should return to a true
free market in healthcare, one that empowers individuals, not bureaucrats,
with control of healthcare dollars.
Kleptocrat healthcare brings the eventual imposition of price controls and
limitations on what procedures and treatments that are covered. This will
result in an increasing number of providers turning to cash-only
practices, making it difficult for those relying on the
government-mandated insurance to find healthcare, the exact opposite of
the desired result! Increasing number of physicians are already
withdrawing from the Medicare program because of the low reimbursement and
constant bureaucratic harassment from the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services.
Venitis points out Mustang Ranch, the most profitable brothel in America,
went belly up after Uncle Sam took over. Government should put the people
back in charge of healthcare by expanding healthcare tax credits and
deductions, increasing access to Health Savings Accounts, respecting
privacy and the doctor-patient relationship. Further politicizing and
bureaucratizing of healthcare will only increase costs and reduce quality,
as demonstrated by most other countries with socialized medicine.
Our experiences with gigagovernment have been unhappy. Gigagovernment is
expensive, inefficient, and corrupt. Moreover, once a government
bureaucracy has made its judgment on you, whom do you appeal to? With
Obamacare, government will decide when and if you can get that bypass.
That bypass will depend on such factors as your age and your overall
health. If you are decrepit, government will have a more economical place
to spend its money. In other words, your health will not be decided by
what you want to pay for it but by government policy. That test you wanted
for prostate cancer might be denied. You might just be too old. Such
decisions are made by nationalized helath systems every single day.
Any service the government provides can be more efficiently and
effectively provided by private enterprise. Government is not even very
effective in its efforts at regulation. There is another unappreciated
failing of government. It politicizes everything that it touches,
including the simplest human relations. Agreements that ought to be
arrived at voluntarily or through the rule of law are arrived at by
pullpeddlers or thanks to the political power of a group, ethnic,
economic, or otherwise.
One of the secret projects of the kleptocrat healthcare is the channeling
of healthcare money away from the elderly and toward community services
and drug or alcohol rehabilitation. Equal rights before the law is all
well and good, but it is kleptocrat favor and kleptocrat power that matter
when gigagovernment is making your decisions. That is why so many
Americans have opted for freedom from kleptocracy. We recognize that the
free society is the most humane and the most productive.
In socialized medicine, people wait so long for dentist appointments that
some pull their own teeth. At any one time, half a million people are
waiting to get into a British hospital. A British hospital tried to save
money by not changing bedsheets. Instead of washing sheets, the staff was
encouraged to just turn them over. Government management does the same
thing. To reduce costs they'll have to ration or deny care. People line up
for care, some of them die.
Rationing will be an integral component of Obamacare. Stopping costly
interventions will be a primary mission of the Federal Coordinating
Council for Effectiveness Research, a new hive of health care apparatchiks
created by the infamous porkulus. This new bureaucracy will assign a
monetary value to your life and deny care if you contract a malady whose
cost-of-treatment exceeds that amount. They have already devised a formula
for pricing out your life. It is called the
quality-adjusted-life-year(QALY), and it assigns a numerical value to a
year of life. A year of perfect health is given a value of 1 while a year
of suboptimum health is rated between 0 and 1.
The federal government owns assets worth trillions of euros, assets that
it simply doesn't need to perform its Constitutional functions. By selling
those assets over time, we can keep the promises that were made to today's
retirees, and to those nearing retirement, while freeing the rest of
citizens from a failed Social Insurance system.
One of the foundations of quality healthcare is the patient's confidence
that all information shared with his or her healthcare provider will
remain private. And yet, the government plans to undermine this trust with
establishment of mandatory electronic medical records collections and
unique health identifier numbers assigned to all citizens. Funding for
this program was among the numerous provisions jammed into stupidus
Kleptocrats' ability to protect medical records is highly questionable.
After all, we are all familiar with cases where third parties obtained
access to electronic veteran, tax, and other records because of errors
made by federal bureaucrats. We should also consider the abuse of tax
records by kleptocrats. What would happen if unscrupulous kleptocrats
gained the power to access their political enemies' electronic medical
In reality, the surgeon general is little more than the national nanny,
hectoring us to stop smoking, lose weight, exercise more, and never ever
go out without a condom. I've been flipping through my copy of the
Constitution, and I can't find the authorization for the federal
government to take taxpayers' money to establish an office to tell us how
we should live our lives. There are plenty of private groups that are
fully capable of instructing us on how to be healthy, wealthy and wise
without the government getting involved. The American Lung Association can
tell us not to smoke. Alcoholics Anonymous can preach sobriety. The
American Medical Association can lecture couch potatoes on the benefits of
losing weight and exercising more. Planned Parenthood and the Family
Research Council can fight it out over when and how we should have sex.
Every year in USA, criminals and cheats pilfer over $200 billion in
federal benefits to which they are not legally entitled. Medicare,
Medicaid, food stamps, refundable tax credits, and many other programs are
looted heavil. Swindlers, con men, and thieves siphon off as much as $100
billion of stimulus funds, which are vulnerable because policymakers are
under pressure to shovel it out the door quickly. Obama injects hundreds
of billions more tax dollars into federal health care instead of
fundamentally reforming Medicare and Medicaid, broken programs that are
already subject to grand larceny. That is incredibly unfair to those
Americans paying the bills.
Venitis points out Gregory means fast in Greek. Gregory's tax is the
kickback you pay public employees for fast service. Without it, you will
wait for ever! All Athenians know very well that without Gregory they will
have to wait many months before a state physician could see them. If you
want a surgery, you will have to give the state surgeon at least 5,000
euros kickback, that beloved Gregory! The surgeon would ask you how is Dr.
Gregory? If you do not reply propely, you will have to come back next year
to answer the same question. If you definitely refuse to give the proper
Gregory, the surgeon will forget his scissors inside you!
Advance health care directives, also known as advance directives or
advance decisions, are instructions given by individuals specifying what
actions should be taken for their health in the event that they are no
longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacity. A living will
is one form of advance directive, leaving instructions for treatment.
Another form authorises a specific type of power of attorney or health
care proxy, where someone is appointed by the individual to make decisions
on their behalf when they are incapacitated.
Third party payments are the main source of dysfunction in the American
health system. Give consumers responsibility for buying their own health
insurance. The employer-based health insurance system must be dismantled,
and the money spent by employers for insurance should be converted to
additional income. This would immediately inject cost consciousness into
health insurance decisions. Switzerland is the nearest any developed
country comes to having a free market in health care and health insurance.
Once consumers are unleashed, the medical marketplace would be
transformed. Most likely, a lot of routine care would be done through
retail health centers located in shopping malls, drug store chains, and
mega-stores. Such centers would not be staffed with physicians but with
nurse practitioners or other qualified personnel. Consumers would
generally pay for routine, everyday care directly out of their health
savings accounts.
Competition would also transform the medical information market, making it
radically transparent. Sources of information for medical comparison
shopping would proliferate, just as there are now dozens of publications
devoted to comparing the features and prices of cars, computers, guns, and
vacations. A core of savvy shoppers in the medical market will mean better
price and quality comparisons for everyone. The impending collapse of
top-down Obamacare will open up a policy discussion about how markets can
improve health care and reduce its costs.
Nothing is easier for kleptocrats than to mandate things that insurance
companies must cover, without the slightest regard for how such additional
coverage will raise the cost of insurance. Kleptocrats in the business of
distributing largesse, especially with somebody else's money, cannot
resist the temptation to pass laws adding things to insurance coverage.
Many of those who are pushing for more government involvement in medical
care are already talking about extending insurance coverage to mental
health, giving shrinks and hypochondriacs a blank check drawn on the
federal treasury.
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At a press conference announcing the indictment, DA Thomas praised Richardson for his "dogged determination." The detective, weary and emotionally drained, said, "You come to know your victim very well. She was more like a friend. There is a feeling of victory but a sad ending."
Cher's mother told the press she was glad the search was over. "Even though it may not be what you wanted to find, at least you can start dealing with something. You can't start a grieving process until you know for sure."
The next day, Heather was sitting in her psychiatrist's office when the doctor handed her a newspaper. "Did you see this?" Reading the article on Cher Elder, the doctor had noted the date of her disappearance and wondered if there might be a connection.
People were always handing Heather newspaper clippings, wondering if she had noted the latest violent episode, wondering how she was doing. Physically she was much better, except for a pain in her neck. On good days she felt emotionally strong, more like her old self. She'd begun to come out of her shell, re-establishing contact with her friends.
And a year after the attack she'd begun to date Dr. Bob Read. That hadn't been easy, either: He was married at the time, though he assured her that it was over, and there were questions as to the appropriateness of a doctor dating a former patient. But Read had fallen in love with the courageous young woman, and she had found a man with whom she felt safe.
Wanting to do something with her life that made a statement, Heather started working at the Belle Bonfils Blood Center--the facility that had supplied the 87 units of blood, several times the amount found in a normal adult, needed to keep Heather alive--first as a part-time receptionist, then as a blood-drive coordinator. And she volunteered once a week at the Denver Victims Service Center, to help others work their way to recovery from violent crime.
Heather had her bad days, too. And nights...since the attack, her dreams had been filled with images of being chased. Recently she'd dreamed that she was walking down a sidewalk when she saw the man in the green jacket waiting behind a wall. "If I can just get past him," she told herself in the dream, "I'll be okay." She kept walking as he watched her. Just as she thought she had made it to safety, she looked down. Her chest was covered with blood. She woke in tears.
In her psychiatrist's office, Heather now read the story headlined, "Dogged Work Nets Body, Key Suspect." She turned the page and saw a photograph of Luther. It was the face of her monster. "It's him," she said softly. "It's him."
Heather called Detective Scott and told him about the picture. "Okay," he said. "Let's get this thing solved."
It had been almost two years since Scott had looked at Heather's file. When he opened it and found the composite that the sketch artist had drawn from Heather's description, he was shocked: The artist's rendition looked like he had drawn it with Luther in the room.
Still, Scott wasn't satisfied. He arranged to get a more recent photograph of Luther. In this picture the beard was gone, as were Luther's glasses, and he wasn't wearing a hat.
Scott mixed this photograph in with some others of similar-looking men. When Heather looked through the photo lineup, she picked Luther out immediately.On March 10, Scott presented Heather's case to detectives Eaton and Richardson in Lakewood.
Eaton returned to Summit County from that meeting more determined than ever to solve the Oberholtzer and Schnee murders. The Idaho man remained a suspect, but his instincts told him to pursue all the leads concerning Luther.
"Go for it," said Morales, now the sheriff of Summit County.
In May an agent for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation found Laurie Wagner living out of state with her husband. She told him she didn't want to get involved; she said she was still afraid of Luther.
A few days later an investigator contacted the detective who'd submitted Wagner's gun for testing more than a decade before. Yes, he remembered, the test had come back negative. After that, he said, they hadn't kept after Luther about the Oberholtzer and Schnee cases, he said, "because we could not determine he was here at the time of the murders."
Eaton also located John Martin, a former Summit County inmate who was now in a New Jersey prison for embezzlement and writing bad checks. Thirteen years before, Martin had told the then-undersheriff of Summit County that he'd heard Luther brag about murdering two girls. The undersheriff had taken notes but said "there wasn't time" to pursue the matter back then.
Eaton went to New Jersey to interview Martin in July. The 55-year-old convict wanted to know what had taken so long.
When Martin met Luther in jail, "I told him I was in for assaulting a cop," Martin said. Impressed, the younger man had talked. Luther was full of brag. He told Martin that he had "beat and fucked" the girl with a hammer, but she was afraid for her life and wouldn't testify.


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When I moved from Kenya to Florida as an eighteen-year-old in 1999, I thought I knew what I was getting myself into. After all, we had come back to the States for three furloughs in the past fifteen years. I had even attended public school!
But the culture of Stetson University was yet another world away from the dirt roads of Grandaddy's farm and the country schools of rural North Florida. Most of the Americans I now met found my background as a rural Floridian every bit as foreign as my background as a rural African. I was an outsider in almost every way.
When I told people that I was from Kenya, they would usually ask, "That's in Ohio, isn't it?" If they knew it was a country in East Africa, they would then express surprise that I wasn't black. Other freshmen could say, "I'm from Orlando" and that would be that. I'd have to explain where Africa was and what missionaries were and why I didn't carry a spear.
It could take a good ten minutes of explanation before people understood even at a very superficial level who I was. The one place where such a lengthy introduction wasn't necessary was in the Evangelical Protestant subculture. Many of the folks in groups like InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at least knew what a missionary was, and many even had friends who were MKs (missionary kids). In InterVarsity I could show up and be, if not normal, at least within my peers' understanding of the world.
But groups like InterVarsity were apt to hero-worship missionaries. Their worldview had a place for me, which was nice, but that place was on a pedestal, which was not nice at all. I was a bitter teenager drowning in a foreign environment—not a mighty and faithful preacher of the Gospel to all nations. I wasn't even sure I believed in the Gospel.
The Africa Inland Church has no presence in Florida, and so I had no local congregation to identify with. For the first six weeks of college I attended churches each Sunday—there were a variety within walking distance—but had little to no interaction with members of the congregations. Sometimes somebody would say hello, but usually not.
One Sunday I woke up late and instead of going to church I sat in a vacant lot, read Scripture and sang a few songs. The only difference between this, I felt, and ordinary church attendance is that in the vacant lot at least it wasn't awkward for me to not interact with anyone, since there wasn't anyone around anyhow. And I didn't go to church again after that—I could do just as good on my own, so why bother?
Now that my egocentric understanding of God had been underscored by an egocentric understanding of Church and worship, there was very little connecting me to the faith of my childhood. I was relying on myself for any connection to God, and so it was a short step to take God out of the equation entirely. By the end of my first semester of college, this functional atheism had established itself as professed agnosticism. And it was soon to become not simply indifference but outright hostility towards missions and Christianity.
James (on the right) and a friend in front of their dorm at Stetson University. As you can see from James' hairstyle, he traded in his acting career for one as the lead singer in a heavy metal band.


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- 1 1/2 to 2 pounds broccoli di rape
- 1 pound Yukon Gold potatoes, any size
- 1/4 teaspoon or more salt
- 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- dried peperoncino (hot red pepper flakes)
Rinse and trim the broccoli di rape; cut the peeled stems into 4- or 5-inch lengths. Peel the potatoes, and cut into 1-inch cubes. Put the cubes in a pot with cold water to cover by several inches, and heat to a boil. Cook uncovered for about 5 minutes, then lay the greens and peeled stems on top of the potatoes, cover the pot, and cook for 5 minutes more.
Lift out the broccoli di rape and potatoes with a spider or other strainer, and lay them in a colander. Sprinkle about half the salt over the hot vegetables, let them drain and cool for a minute or two, then turn them into a mixing bowl. Drizzle the olive oil all over the pieces, and toss gently. Sprinkle on more salt and peperoncino to taste (I use 1/4 teaspoon pepper flakes, or even more, when I'm making this at home). Toss, taste, and adjust the seasoning.
Serve on a big warm platter, or put portions on warm salad plates.
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On this day, April 22,2009 we come together as a planet to celebrate earth. The celestial body to which we call home. For just one day let us try to forget about all the bad things we hear about on a daily basis and celebrate Earth.
We are not going to forget about the economic crisis or the growing instability around the world. All of these things and more are bringing to the mainstream the need for a priorities recalibration.
In our modern world of technology, gadgets, multi-tasking and mayhem we may have temporarily lost sight of the essentials. Many of you have noticed there seems to be some kind of convergence happening. We are in the midst of history making events daily and in this global, integrated world we are becoming more aware that we each play a role in the History we collectively write.
Welcome to the Eden Feed, we are here to participate in and feed this convergence with you. Help us all build a future where people, planet and peace are all safe and certain. It starts in your individual worlds and spills over into our collective one.
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Was in the plumber's showroom today and my hubby saw a push-button air-pump device of some sort to use instead of a wall switch for a garbage disposal. Has anyone had any experience with one of these? We are just in the beginning phases of a complete remodel and could consider this if it's a good idea...Thanks for your input! |
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- Posted by mariel1951 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 2, 10 at 18:49
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE mine. I installed it 2 years ago when I re-did my kitchen completely and just love it. It functions well and looks great. Visitors always ask me: what in the heck is that?! |
The best approach is to avoid all manual switches and use the kind where the disposer drain cover trips a magnetic switch. |
That is called an air switch. It is used in many configurations in industry and is quite safe. In the house we just bought, there is a double switch on the kitchen wall and a duplex receptacle under the sink. One switch controls the over the sink light. The other controls the duplex receptacle. There is only one feed to the receptacle and it feeds both sides. That meant to plug in a dishwasher, I could not use a disposer. The answer was to install the disposer on an air switch. There is no electrical connection from the adapter to the air switch control. The only connection is a rubber air line, which is electrically insulating. I simply leave the switch in the on position(for the dishwasher) and operate the air switch control for the disposer. Much safer than the electrical switch as the air switch control cannot be accidentally engaged. Actually, the air switch I bought cost more than the disposer. But it is worth it, safer and less expensive than rewiring. |
The best approach is to avoid all manual switches and use the kind where the disposer drain cover trips a magnetic switch." This turns the GD into a 'batch feed' model. A continues feed type is far easier to use, and the danger is greatly over rated. The grinding occurs between the slingers (movable pushers that force the food against the outside wall by centripetal force) and the side walls. There are not actual 'blades' in a home GD that cut (it is NOT like a blender). It is a real chore to reach into one to remove metal that becomes stuck in the grinding gap. The rotating parts are around 6 inches (or more) from the top of the unit. Air switches are a decent alternative to folks who do not want a switch in the back splash above the counter. What I still find at least slightly amusing is the presence of an over the sink light switch in the same back splash. |
- Posted by bill_g_web (My Page) on Sat, Jul 3, 10 at 11:03
I'd get the air switch too. Located in the countertop at the sink's edge, I don't have to reach far to operate it and since my hands are often wet when I need to turn on the GD, there's no worry of shock. |
- Posted by weedyacres (My Page) on Tue, Jul 6, 10 at 14:10
We love our air switch. :-) |
The magnetic stopper switch prevents someone from turning on the disposer when you are retreiving something out of it. Running a disposer without a cover can allow a utensil to drop into it accidentally and be damaged. Some recommend placing a wall switch out of reach so that a child couldn't turn it on while reaching into the disposer but that makes it more likely for for someone to think the switch is for something else and turn it on while someone's hand is in the disposer. I'm not going to put my hand into a disposer that has a switch whether it is electric or air operated regardless of how the blades are designed. I agree that ganging a disposer switch with a light switch is not a good idea. |
This subject has come up at the GardenWeb before. In the thread linked below more people liked the batch feed type and so have my clients. I had never heard of putting a switch under the sink. |
Here is a link that might be useful: batch vs continuous feed
Hard to believe, but the previous owner of our house installed a button on the front of the base cabinet. Aside from keeping a toddler away once upon a time, it's very convenient. (But don't install it that location, of course.) |
I commented on my house plans that they couldn't stick the GD switch in b/t 2 light switches in a 4-gang box, suggested moving it to the end position so at least I wouldn't hit it trying to turn 2 lights on at once. They moved it to other side of window, along with a receptacle, in a 2-gang box right behind my dish drainer! When we replace the countertops and tile the b/s, I'm going to remove that box and put in a batch feed GD or an air switch, on the sink rim, where I can reach it and don't have to worry about wet hands. We had an airswitch that came with whirlpool tub in old house, that was great, I didn't know til a couple of years ago that they sold them separately. |
- Posted by arizona_jan (My Page) on Wed, Aug 18, 10 at 12:22
I never liked the idea of wet hands and an electric wall switch for the disposal. When we put in granite, I insisted on an air switch--love it!! |
- Posted by arizona_jan (My Page) on Wed, Aug 18, 10 at 13:24
I never liked the idea of wet hands and an electric wall switch for the disposal. When we put in granite, I insisted on an air switch--love it!! |
Are all brands the same? Insinkerator? Brasstech? I'm ready to go buy one now! |
"I never liked the idea of wet hands and an electric wall switch for the disposal." Switches are made of plastic for a reason. |
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Watching "Mary Poppins," the Disney-Cameron Mackintosh extravaganza now on view at the New Amsterdam Theatre, is a little like eating an entire box of expensive chocolates - all by yourself.
You may end up feeling a bit overstuffed, but, boy, the experience will be fun. Tasty, too. This lavish stage version about the world's most blissfully competent nanny Is an amalgamation of the 1964 Disney movie that made Julie Andrews a film star and the classic children's books by P.L. Travers.
What its high-powered creative team has expertly grafted together Is essentially two stories. The first is a tale of a family in trouble - in this case, the Banks clan of17 Cherry Tree Lanein Edwardian London. Right from the beginning, you know "a father, a mother, a daughter, a son, the threads of their lives are all raveling undone." That observation is delivered by Bert, the cheerful chimney sweep who serves as the musical's Informal narrator.
The second strand is made up of large, and we do mean LARGE, production numbers that comprise the adventures instigated by Mary Poppins, portrayed with charm and crisp vocal power by a lovely Ashley Brown. The actress has something more, too, a sense of humor, a quality that helps mitigate the character's know-it-all aura.
It's Mary, who in Julian ("GosfordPark") Fellowes' efficient adaptation, patches up the family discord as its members discover what it is like to enjoy life and each other. To get to that point, we watch the emotionally stunted Mr. Banks, played with twitchy, nervous likability by Daniel Jenkins, work out his Intimacy Issues.
They involve dealing not only with his bratty and lonely children (portrayed at different performances by three rotating sets of child actors) but with his neglected, unfulfilled wife - a glorious Rebecca Luker in too small a role.
Woven throughout the show are the classic songs by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman from the movie. All the big ones are here - from "Chlm Chim Cher-ee" (an Academy Award winner) to "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." New songs by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe have been added. They fit seamlessly into the proceedings, and one or two of them, including Mary's opening number "Practically Perfect," possess an instant hypnotic quality. Definite singing-in-the-shower material.
Director Richard Eyre has marshaled the parade of eye-popping scenes with considerable assurance, fully exploiting the talents of his co-director and choreographer, Matthew Boume, and his set and costume design wizard, Bob Crowley.
Where to begin? The "Jolly Holiday" Technicolor transformation of aLondonpark where the statues come alive and begin dancing with the park strollers. Mary Popplns' reassembling of a wrecked kitchen with just "A Spoonful of Sugar." And then the exuberant "Step in Time" where a caravan of chimney sweeps cavort across the stage.
But that's nothing compared to the upside-down tap antics of Bert, portrayed by a lanky, grinning Gavin Lee, who comes direct from the London production of "Mary Poppins." Lee, sort of a new generation Jim Dale by way of Dick Van Dyke and Fred Astalre, is a major musical-theater find.
There have been snippy comments in the press about the scare quality of another of the big numbers, "Temper, Temper: where toys come alive to torment the naughty children. It's fairly mild stuff, certainly not in the trauma-producing mode of some of the more malevolent Grimm's fairy tales.
Crowley's detailed sets, particularly his gargantuan, four-level Banks household, are wonders to behold. The technical kinks experienced in preview performances seem to have been worked out. Right now, they sweep and swirl with majestic grace. And his costumes don't quit either - a staggering array of colorful period clothes.
Yet at its heart, this "Mary Poppins" is a small story, a family drama that is resolved with the help of a determined, thoroughly directed young woman. That this human and humane story shines through all the dazzling theatrical effects demonstrates the potency of its emotional impact.
Of course, there wouldn't be a happy ending without that formidable nanny, so Mary Poppins does get the last word. Or maybe we should say the last soaring, special effect. It won't be revealed here. Just remember that the woman's signature umbrella comes in very handy.
Nobody does magical entertainment like Disney - except Cameron Mackintosh. The two have teamed up for the musical "Mary Poppins," which opened last night on Broadway and won't be going anywhere for a long time. It is a roof-raising, toe-tapping, high-flying extravaganza.
The show, directed by Richard Eyre and written by Julian Fellowes, is based on books by P.L. Travers and the classic Disney film that won an Oscar for Julie Andrews.
No one's erasing that legendary performance, but Ashley Brown is a joy to watch as the enigmatic nanny who helps the Banks family - George and Winifred and their children, Michael and Jane - realize how much they need each other.
Brown had me from hello - well, from, "Jane, don't stare, and close your mouth, Michael. We are not a codfish." She plays Mary as stern and steely, but always has a bewitching twinkle in her eye. She sings, acts and dances gorgeously.
Gavin Lee, as the kindly Cockney chimney sweep, Bert, who helps her efforts, is just as captivating. Even with a faceful of soot, he beams with charisma in the role he originated in the London production, which opened in December 2004. (I saw that show early in its run, and Broadway's version is brighter and loads more fun.)
Songs by Richard and Robert Sherman from the 1964 film, including "Chim Chim Cher-ee," "Jolly Holiday," "Feed the Birds" and "A Spoonful of Sugar," are brought to life beautifully. Standout new songs by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe include "Practically Perfect," Mary's witty anthem of self-love, and "Anything Can Happen," a rousing, optimistic number near the close of the show. They fit so smoothly with the originals, you almost don't know they're add-ons. The dark-toned number "Temper, Temper" - in which toys serve up some tough love - is a noisy non sequitur.
Matthew Bourne's choreography is athletic and exuberant (even statues can't resist pirouetting) and hits a dizzying peak in "Step in Time," a giddy gathering of tap-dancing chimney sweeps.
Bob Crowley's costumes and sets are eye-poppers. The main set of the Banks home moves upstairs, downstairs and into the kiddies' chamber. The elaborate and complicated set design comes at a cost though - several scene changes come slowly.
In supporting roles, Rebecca Luker is luminous as Winifred and turns the new song "Being Mrs. Banks" into a genuinely emotional moment. Daniel Jenkins does his best to flesh out the cardboard role of the workaholic George. Jane Carr, as the housemaid, and Ruth Gottschall, as George's heartless former nanny, who gets a dose of her own nasty medicine, are standouts in the large cast.
Whether you're 7 or 70, "Mary Poppins" is a jolly holiday - and you'll be glad you took it.
Lovely! With her carpetbag, a parrot-headed umbrella for airy transport and the rare ability to slide up banisters, the inimitable heroine of "Mary Poppins" put down and took off at the New Amsterdam last night, courtesy of Cameron Mackintosh, Walt Disney and the original author, P.L. Travers.
"Mary Poppins" was fine as a Disney movie and is even better as this Broadway musical, imported sound and whole from London's West End. Let's play cute and call it - and the cast led by Ashley Brown, Gavin Lee, Daniel Jenkins and Rebecca Luker -supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Or words to that effect.
This story - of a supernanny who literally descends upon the unruly, unhappy Banks family on 17 Cherry Tree Lane, somewhere in Edwardian London, proceeds to restore order and then just as literally takes off into the heavens - has its own built-in magic.
And it's a magic that the musical, with its urbane and knowing book by Julian Fellowes, cleverly evokes in a manner a little darker, more mysterious and a good deal more authentic to the novel than the overly jolly movie version.
Most of the music, of course, is taken from the film's original score by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, so you probably go in humming the tunes. But the new and amiable songs by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe make a decent fit, and the whole patchwork, orchestrated by William David Brohn, has just that right Broadway belt and lilt.
What makes Mackintosh currenliy the best producer on Broadway and the West End is his creative touch and the manner in which he picks his collaborators, places them on the same page, and makes sure they stay there.
"Mary Poppins" looks and sounds complete - a perfectly engineered piece of musical theater.
The staging by Richard Eyre and co-director Matthew Bourne and choreography (Bourne and Stephen Mear) seem seamless, although perhaps Bourne, with a set of smoothly energized and imaginative dance numbers, deserves the most laurels.
But there's also Bob Crowley's superbly inventive scenery and costumes, Howard Harrison's lighting and the terrific stage effects for which I presume we tip our cap, in part, to technical director David Benken. It's a show that looks good enough to eat.
The production appears smoother and perhaps slicker than it did in London- and the ensemble is a lot crisper, especially in its dancing. The leading and featured roles are perhaps in places a little more questionable.
The standout is Gavin Lee as Bert, the Cockney sweep/handyman, the role played by Dick Van Dyke in the movie. Lee, who hails from the London production, has all of Van Dyke's dash and insouciance, while dancing up a storm, not to mention up and around the proscenium arch in gravity-defying fashion.
Having brought in Lee, it was perhaps a pity not to have also imported his incandescent English co-star Laura Michelle Kelly as Mary Poppins. That said, Ashley Brown, despite difficulty with that acutely English accent trademarked by the film's Julie Andrews, grows on one. Her acidulated charm, occasional wicked smile and schoolmarm authority finally prove totally endearing.
The parents Banks - stuffy, inhibited George and flustered and confused Winifred - are played with commanding zest by fine, youngish Broadway veterans, Daniel Jenkins and the lovely Rebecca Luker.
As the children Banks (there are three different pairs), Katherine Leigh Doherty and Matthew Gumley were excellent, as were the Banks' servants, a resourceful Jane Carr as Mrs. Brill and a nicely wary Mark Price as Robertson Ay. A kind word is also due Ruth Gottschall, who screeched most effectively as that governess from the past, the dreaded Miss Andrew.
Film musicals don't normally translate well into stage versions - think "Singing in the Rain" - but "Mary Poppins" doesn't simply translate, it transcends. This is a great show that, for first time this season, has Broadway singing again.
She glides through the skies like an umbrella-powered stealth bomber, ever ready to dump her cargo of good advice on unsuspecting households. When she touches ground, on the stage of the New Amsterdam Theater, you can't help noticing that while she looks like Joan Crawford trying to be nice, she sounds more like Dr. Phil.
Well, it took 'em long enough, didn't it? I mean, it's been two years since that reality series first appeared on the Fox network, the one in which stern British women shake up and shape up clueless parents with hopeless children. But it wasn't until last night that "Nanny 911: The Musical" finally opened on Broadway.
Oops; my apologies. The correct title of the handsome, homily-packed and rather tedious show at the New Amsterdam is "Mary Poppins." But I think my confusion is understandable. Though based on the classic fantasy book series by P. L. Travers and the 1964 Disney movie it inspired, this megamusical is ultimately less concerned with inexplicable magic than with practical psychology.
True, the title character (played by the fierce-smiling Ashley Brown) still works the sort of sorcery that only high-end Broadway budgets allow: she flies; she slides up banisters; she makes cuddly toys turn as menacing as Chucky; and whenever Bob Crowley's spectacular Edwardian set threatens to fall apart, she restores order to chaos with a wave of her gloved hands.
But be warned. In this high-pedigree show — produced by the Disney company and Cameron Mackintosh and staged by the eminent British director Richard Eyre and the wunder-choreographer Matthew Bourne — every act of sorcery comes with a fortune-cookie life lesson attached. The operating philosophy, it would seem, is that a spoonful of spectacle helps the medicine go down.
This almost Puritanical suspicion of theatrical enchantment for its own sake keeps "Mary Poppins" from ever achieving the undiluted wonder of, say, the opening sequence of that most successful of Disney Broadway ventures, "The Lion King." Even young children with great patience (is that an oxymoron?) may grow restless with the implicit lecturing between those moments when Mary flies, literally and figuratively. (The show runs a hefty 2 hours 45 minutes.)
While the show uses many of the bubbly Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman songs of the Disney film (with new ones in the same vein by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe), the re-creators of "Mary Poppins" have said they wanted to restore Ms. Travers's original sensibility, including a mysticism that is by no means pure Church of England.
Certainly a dark-clouded, Jungian air pervaded the "Mary Poppins" that opened nearly two years ago at the Prince Edward Theater in London, where it continues to run. Its predominant palette when I saw it was gray. Then there was that notorious scene where the Banks children, Mary Poppins's charges, were sentenced to death by firing squad by their own toys.
The show's producers seem to have figured out that gray is not the favorite color of Americans. So cake-frosting pinks, greens, lilacs and yellows have, for the most part, pushed away sootier tones. As for those vengeful toys, well, they still get angry, but not homicidal. Nothing remains here to frighten anyone, except possibly diabetics.
If this sanitizing of the exotic in "Mary Poppins" makes it more digestible for young children, it also makes it less arresting for adults. When I saw it in London two years ago, "Mary Poppins" was a show divided between its shadowy id and its can-do super-ego, which set the prescriptions of self-help books to music.
In New York it is made clear that the heart of this show is not in the starry skies to which Mary ascends in the finale — or even among the rooftops where Mary's B.F.F., Bert (Gavin Lee), works as a chimney sweep — but somewhere closer to the kitchen sink.
Be grateful, then, that Mr. Crowley has provided a gloriously detailed, multileveled home for the unhappy Banks clan. There, neatly laid out for resolution, are the problems of George (Daniel Jenkins), the banker, who thinks making money is more important than spending time with his family; his wife, Winifred (Rebecca Luker), a former actress who ponders the identity problems of "being Mrs. Banks"; and little Jane and Michael (with three children rotating in each part), who misbehave only because they want their daddy's attention.
"Mary Poppins" as a study of an unhappy family in need of healing comes more from the Disney movie, which starred Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, than from the Travers stories. But the script by Julian Fellowes (of the film "Gosford Park") and the new songs suffer from squeezing the complexities of domestic dysfunction into the rhythms of a singalong children's wonderland. Mr. Jenkins and Ms. Luker are excellent as the troubled spouses and give the show a much-needed emotional center.
But you can't help being embarrassed for them when their characters' problems are reduced to chipper mantras about self-empowerment and getting in touch with your feelings. Mr. Banks, it turns out, was himself the victim of a repressive harridan of a nanny, who makes a return in the form of a "Shockheaded Peter"-style gargoyle, played by Ruth Gottschall.
Could this "Mary Poppins" have been created for the English stage before the death of Diana, Princess of Wales — the event (as the current movie "The Queen" reminds us) that made it O.K. for Britons to emote in public? The show's most significant progression isn't about the children, but about Mr. Banks, who learns to stop recoiling when his wife tries to kiss him and to value quality time with the kids over making money.
As for the show's title character, the poor thing doesn't really have much of a personality other than that of an animated healing force. Ms. Brown introduces a few campy gestures to assure us that she has a sense of humor about all this, even if Mary doesn't.
She sings prettily and dances with spirited efficiency, though it's the rubbery Mr. Lee, as the cockney-of-all-trades Bert, who gets the showstoppers, including a sequence that has him astonishingly tapping his way around the proscenium arch. Mr. Lee also serves as a chipper (and sometimes irritatingly smug) narrator, delivering folk-wise sung introductions to many scenes.
Even the fantasy numbers seem to exist principally for didactic purposes. That multicolored "Jolly Holiday" scene, in which discreetly naked statues come to life in a park, introduces a lonely little statue whose greatest wish (like Michael's) is to reconnect with his father. "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" has the jaunty instructiveness of a "Sesame Street" spelling lesson.
The liveliest dancing comes in the "Step in Time" sequence, where chimney sweeps tap like troupers from "42nd Street" on the rooftops of London(a setting that allows the sage Bert to observe, "Troubles are never so bad when you can look at them from a little higher up"). But the show reserves another, newly created and numbingly inspirational song for its climax.
It's called "Anything Can Happen," and in it Mary achieves her apotheosis as an advice guru. As lamplighters swirl around her like Ice Capades dancers and star patterns of light fly over the audience, Ms. Brown's Mary lets her eyes mist up and her smile turn sacred as she and Bert declaim, "Broaden your horizon/Open different doors/You may find a you there you never knew was yours."
Well, I certainly hope so, Miss Poppins. But with all due respect, that heavy invisible volume on family counseling that you tote around with you makes it hard for any magical nanny to fly beyond familiar horizons.
The partnership between producing powerhouses Disney and Cameron Mackintosh was bound to yield a mega-"Mary Poppins." With the behemoth shows that led the British invasion of Broadway in the 1980s, Mackintosh made "bigger is better" his manifesto. And Disney's ventures into musical theater can hardly be called modest in scale. So it's perhaps not surprising the lavish adaptation of P.L. Travers' beloved stories of a magical nanny is somewhat overstuffed. That quibble aside, the show is also bursting with dazzling stagecraft, stunning design, old-fashioned storytelling virtues and genuine charm.
Mackintosh and Disney have assembled an impressive creative pool that includes Richard Eyre, a director versed in classics and new works; choreographer and co-director Matthew Bourne, who has re-energized dance with his cinematically inspired ballets; screenwriter Julian Fellowes, whose work on "Gosford Park" made him an experienced navigator of bustling English households; and designer Bob Crowley, whose eye-popping sets eclectically reference Christopher Wren, Edward Gorey, Tim Burton and beyond.
With such distinctive personalities involved, this clearly was not going to be a straight-up translation of the 1963 Disney movie, often accused of putting a saccharine gloss on Travers' stories -- starting with the title character. While Julie Andrews forever painted the nanny in the kindly "Spoonful of Sugar" mode, Travers' creation was altogether more tart. Probably no one's ideal employee, Mary Poppins was strictly no-nonsense -- vain, discourteous and rarely compliant.
When the show bowed in London in 2004, the character leaned decidedly in the author's direction. Laura Michelle Kelly was so severe in the role that one hoped money was being put aside for the Banks children's therapy bills. On Broadway, she's no less self-governing and strong-willed and, in the form of Ashley Brown, she has the defiant chin of a cartoon astronaut. But the part has been subtly softened. Her clipped diction, clasped hands and stiff poise make it clear this Mary is nobody's servant. But with Brown's warm manner and crisp soprano, her benevolence is never in doubt.
Fellowes has focused on Mary as a healing spirit for a dysfunctional family, displayed like lab rats in Crowley's enchanting three-story Edwardian doll's house set. George Banks (Daniel Jenkins) is a slave to his career, determined to push his former actress wife, Winifred (Rebecca Luker), into a more elevated social circle while devoting little time and attention to his unruly children, Jane and Michael (Katherine Leigh Doherty and Matthew Gumley, respectively, alternating with two other actors in each role).
Umbrella and carpetbag in hand, Mary flies in on the east wind to set things right and then flies away to the west to wherever she's needed next, forming no attachments.
While the show's twin pursuits of fantasy and family counseling are not entirely harmonious, Fellowes' book installs a neat symmetry of opposites that the famously punctilious Travers might have admired. This is evident in two of the new numbers by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, who also adapted the lyrics of the Sherman Bros. songs popularized in the film. Mr. Banks advocates "Precision and Order" while Mary preaches "Anything Can Happen If You Let It."
That sense of contrast is everywhere in the show: In the well-heeled folks strolling in the park and the soot-stained chimney sweeps cavorting on London's rooftops; in the desire to accumulate wealth that drives George's bank cronies and the gentle call to "Feed the Birds" of the ragged old woman (Cass Morgan) outside St. Paul's Cathedral; in the wintry gray shades of reality and the watercolor wonderland opened up by Mary in "Jolly Holiday" (in which Bourne's touch is evident in the prancing statues).
It's also there in Mary's cure-all remedy of "A Spoonful of Sugar" vs. the "Brimstone and Treacle" favored by George's childhood nanny Miss Andrew (Ruth Gottschall). The latter number, however, feels like an add-on that exists merely to accommodate a villain. Likewise "Temper, Temper," in which toys come menacingly to life to discipline the ill-behaved Banks tykes. Reports that the scene will terrify infants seem exaggerated, but the superfluous song brings about an intrusive tonal shift.
There seems to be an unspoken rule that shows have to skirt three hours or London audiences will feel swindled. On Broadway, greater economy is welcomed and the producers' refusal to trim more than 10 minutes from "Mary Poppins" will challenge the attention span of children, especially in the protracted 90-minute first act. But reprise-laden excesses aside, there's much to savor here.
With minor exceptions including "I Love to Laugh," the unlamented "Sister Suffragette" and one regrettable casualty, the lovely lullaby "Stay Awake," all the Sherman standards are here, entertainingly reconceived by Eyre and Bourne.
Bourne and co-choreographer Stephen Mear's athletic dance routines are at their liveliest in "Jolly Holiday" and the rambunctious rooftop tap number, "Step in Time," while "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is animated by fun semaphore spelling moves. "Spoonful of Sugar" is played for comedy, with the Banks' kitchen collapsing in chaos only to be reassembled with a flick of Mary's wrist. But it's the simpler staging that often captivates most, in the melancholy "Feed the Birds" or the joyous "Let's Go Fly a Kite."
Of the new songs, Mary's glowing self-assessment, "Practically Perfect," is a tuneful addition, and "Being Mrs. Banks," gorgeously sung by Luker, provides touching insight into the insecurities of a loving but underappreciated wife.
Principals and ensemble are solid all around, with Jenkins providing emotional ballast as George, whose sensitization is the story's central journey. But without detracting from the engaging Brown, the show's guiding spirit is Gavin Lee's Bert, the original London cast's sole carryover.
A lithe beanpole who handles dance duties with infectious ease, Lee saunters through the show on rubberized legs, wearing a grin that won't quit. He makes the expanded role of Bert as charmed, chipper and enigmatic a figure as Mary, threading together the action with occasional snatches of "Chim Chim Cher-ee." And his seeming authenticity helps erase the memory of Dick Van Dyke's bizarre Cockney accent in the film.
Mary's climactic ascent, soaring above the orchestra seats almost within arm's reach of the mezzanine and balcony before disappearing into the heavens, is a feat both simple and enthralling. But Bert almost steals the show in "Step in Time" as he taps his way up and around the entire proscenium arch. While there's no shortage of scenic wizardry on display here, it's a beguiling touch that this show's two most memorable, awe-inspiring effects have a human face.


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The views on this page are taken from the local and national media and do not necessarily reflect the views of Everton.WHEN Eden Hazard plays for Chelsea today, Everton boss David Moyes could be forgiven for thinking ''if only ...''.For Moyes was chasing the attacking midfielder when he was a youngster at Lille. But once again the Goodison club's lack of cash saw them miss out.Chelsea have no such problem, and Hazard, 21, has been a sensation since his £32million move there last summer.Moyes said: "We knew all about Hazard because of Marouane Fellaini and the Belgium boys."But it was always going to be biggish cash for us – and we've had a few like that, I can tell you!"It hasn't stopped Everton's rise up the Premier League this season, fired by the signings of Nikica Jelavic, Darron Gibson and Steven Pienaar.Moyes said: "Our football has improved and we look a threat."So much so that Everton are fancied for Champions League qualification.Moyes added: "We will try to do it, but it is going to be tough."If anyone thinks we are a shoo-in then let me tell them – it is going to be a long, hard season!''Leighton Baines missed out on a place in Fabio Capello's squad for the 2010 World Cup because he was deemed too shy and introverted. England took Stephen Warnock instead. How times have changed. A misfit at Aston Villa, Warnock is on loan to Bolton Wanderers in the Championship, while Baines has developed into one of the most impressive left-backs in the game.Such has been his form that when Baines steps out at Goodison Park on Sunday, with Ashley Cole on the opposite flank, it will no longer be given that the Chelsea player is the best full-back on show.Baines' statistics with Everton are astonishing, from his set-pieces, to his attacking thrusts and pass completion rate, to his number of tackles and interceptions.But nothing is quite so arresting as this figure: according to the EPL Index website, which uses Opta stats, Baines was the first player in the top five European leagues this season to create 50 chances for his team. Even now, no player has created more.This reflects not only the changing role of a full-back, and how he can be a team's primary attacking source, but also how Baines has combined that skill with his defensive duties. Last season he was named in the Professional Footballers' Association team of the year, which is selected by the Premier League players. It was the first time in a decade that Cole had lost out to a fellow Englishman.Everton manager David Moyes summed up the rivalry. "I have always said Ashley Cole is England's No 1 left back but Leighton Baines is getting very close," he said. "He's kept pushing and he's improving all the time. He's a terrific player. He's as close to Cole as he's ever been. I don't watch enough of Cole to be able to judge how he is playing but his form for England has been exceptional. Cole was head and shoulders above everyone at one point."Clubs are taking note. With Cole in the final year of his contract, Chelsea have joined Manchester United and Paris St-Germain in scouting the 28 year-old. It would be a surprise to see Baines at Everton next season; he is unlikely to be sold for less than £15 million.Baines has grown up. He was homesick with England. In the past, he questioned whether he belonged in the top flight and whether he would be "found out", initially when he did not make it at Everton first time round, then on his Premier League debut for Wigan Athletic, against Chelsea, and before his international bow.It helps that Moyes has created the most comfortable environment for Baines to thrive within, especially when Steven Pienaar is in the Everton team.Cole, though, must not be dismissed. Having just turned 32, and suffering from a chronic ankle problem that prevents him from training properly after matches, he is in decline. But his standards are still extremely high, as is his competitive edge.Though a difficult character — shooting interns with air rifles, sending injudicious messages on social-media sites — Cole can be a very good team-mate. He travelled up to Leicester a couple of seasons ago to watch Chelsea defender Patrick van Aanholt make his debut on loan. On England duty, Cole changes next to Baines before training.Baines has been deferential. Though Cole is no longer an automatic selection for England, Baines has said he cannot be regarded as a genuine challenger for Cole's place, partly because he has no experience of the Champions League. "It must carry some weight if you're playing in Europe's top competition," Baines said. He also dismissed any suggestion that he was now at the same level as Cole, who has 99 caps. "I wouldn't have thought so. Ash has got terrific experience and he's playing for a club that's trying to win the league."Next season, Baines might be able to say the same. The gap is narrowing rapidly.QPR boss Harry Redknapp has lined up Everton's Sylvain Distin as an alternative to Tottenham Michael Dawson.Redknapp is desperate to sign a new central defender in January, who can also provide leadership in the dressing-room.Distin captained Portsmouth under Redknapp and the 65-year-old also tried to sign the Frenchman for Tottenham.Redknapp has shown a strong interest in Dawson, who has spent much of the first half of the season on the Tottenham substitutes' bench.Dawson will have talks about his future with Tottenham boss Andre Villas-Boas, who recently he claimed he wanted to keep the former England international.Sunderland are also interested in Dawson, which is why Redknapp has added Distin to his long list of January transfer window targets.Everton will be reluctant to sell Distin, but they are yet to extend the 35-year-old's contract past the end of the season and will bid to take Joleon Lescott back to Goodison on loan, with a view to a permanent move.David Moyes believes qualifying for the Champions League will be crucial if Everton are to keep Marouane Fellaini.The Goodison boss fears he will once again be forced to cash in on his most prized assets if he his unable to land the riches that come with a top-four finish and a place amongst Europe's elite.And that would mean the departure of £30million-rated Fellaini and also England defender Leighton Baines. Everton entertain Chelsea today, with the London club already being linked with a summer move for powerful Belgian Fellaini, who is serving the final game of a three-match ban.And Moyes admitted: "I would really hope Fellaini will stay if we were in the Champions League."Of course, he might still go for the money on offer somewhere else, but at least he wouldn't be going for the Champions League."If you want to keep your best players you need top European football because they want to be involved in that."I agree with Arsene Wenger that finishing in the top four is the equivalent of winning a trophy – even if you don't get to parade silverware. "I don't know whether every financial problem would be solved just by qualifying."But, for me, it would have an absolutely massive impact in terms of keeping the players I have and bringing in new faces."Moyes' own future also seems linked with whether Everton can build on a promising start that has seen them well placed to repeat the fourth-placed finish they last secured in 2005.That season their hopes of going into the group stages were ended by a qualifying round defeat by Villarreal. And in the intervening years, financial necessity has seen Everton become a selling club.Moyes has been at the helm for a decade, but has just five months left on his current contract.His frustration is clear.He said: "I would hope that if we made the Champions League, I would get an awful lot more money to spend on players for at least a couple of years."I think it would enable us to keep our progress going in the right direction. To really transform the club, to make things really go through the roof, we would probably need a new owner. But what worries me is that, just to keep the progress going, we need more money."There's a big pay cheque coming for all Premier League clubs next year because of the new television deal. But to have Champions League money as well would be a big lift. It could really change what happens."I think Everton fans would definitely swap what we have got here for what Chelsea have got – because all fans want to see their team winning things."Qualifying for the Champions League would give us much more room to work in. When we finished fourth in 2005, I couldn't believe the players we were offered just because we had got into a qualifier."But it is going to be tough and, if we are honest, we are probably big outsiders to do it because Arsenal have been very consistent in qualifying for the Champions League and Tottenham have finished fourth twice in recent seasons."Having said that, we need to have the dream"That is what this game is all about."ARSENAL are poised to launch a £10million swoop for Everton ace Leighton Baines.The England defender still has more than two years left on his current deal and is considered integral to the Merseysiders' charge for a top-four finish.But Gunners boss Arsene Wenger is a huge admirer of Baines, 28, and believes that his adventurous overlapping style would be a perfect fit at The Emirates.Manchester United, Chelsea and Paris St-Germain have also been linked heavily with a move for Baines and Wenger is prepared to go up to £15m for the left-back.That might well be enough to force David Moyes into selling a player who cost £5m – although the Toffees boss prefers the idea of keeping Baines to the end of the season then reviewing the situation.Moyes, meanwhile, believes Baines has never been closer to winning his battle with Ashley Cole for the England left-back spot.He said: "Leighton is improving all the time. He's a terrific player, he really is.His form for Everton has been exceptional." The January transfer window is to Sky Sports News what Children in Need is to the BBC. There is the same sense of giddying expectation in the studio, the same rolling news ticker at the bottom of the screen, the same sense that somebody's life will never be the same again. It's just that the money goes to less deserving causes.The January transfer window is 10 years old and despite the fact that it has seen more than £520 million change hands (compared to the £355m raised by Children in Need over the same period) it is hard to find anyone in football who likes it or will even argue it has been decisive. There has never been a game-changing transfer in January to rival Eric Cantona's arrival at Manchester United in November 1992 or Thierry Henry's at Arsenal in August 1999.The very first January window gave a clue as to how it would operate. There were 10 major deals and most involved clubs in the relegation zone – West Ham and Sunderland – or Leeds, who were in an advanced state of financial disintegration and had to sell to survive.The decade has seen pitifully few hits – Jermain Defoe to Tottenham and Luis Suarez's move to Liverpool stand out. But the field is littered with misses that stretch from Hull spending £5m on an arguably terminally unfit Jimmy Bullard to the £50m cheque that took Fernando Torres to Stamford Bridge, where he contributed to three Chelsea managers losing their jobs.Nevertheless, David Moyes last year transformed Everton in January, bringing in Nikica Jelavic from Glasgow Rangers, Darron Gibson from Manchester United and bringing back Steven Pienaar from Tottenham. Everton were 12th when the window opened and lost only two matches once it had closed. If Everton do complete their journey to the Champions' League this season, it will have begun last January."The key to that was that we sold Dinyar Bilyaletdinov to Spartak Moscow," said Moyes. "We got five-and-a-half million quid and we spent five-and-a-half million quid. It was that which gave us the impetus to go on. If that deal hadn't come in, I don't think we would have been doing that kind of business. Sometimes opportunities come up and you have to take them, but did I have it all planned out? Not at all."I don't think anybody enjoys January, partly because we are continually asked questions about it and because at Everton we have some players who would fit in very well at the top clubs." Chief among them is Leighton Baines, who has developed into one of Europe's finest left-backs and is seen by some at Chelsea as Ashley Cole's natural replacement. "But my instincts are that not many of the top clubs buy in January," he said.Moyes is partially right. Tottenham have been the most consistent users of the January transfer window of any major club: Michael Dawson, Andy Reid, Danny Murphy, Jonathan Woodgate, Younes Kaboul, Pienaar and Defoe. Chelsea, too, have employed it, always spectacularly, sometimes effectively, especially when taking Nicolas Anelka and Gary Cahill from Bolton.It is seven years since Sir Alex Ferguson did a long-term deal in January, and then he needed to. Manchester United had finished last in their Champions' League group and appeared to have no answer to Arsenal or the Chelsea of Jose Mourinho. Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic were rushed in and, though they were to become the core of United's defence, they began disastrously."It is very difficult to get a big player in January," said Ferguson. "I read that one or two clubs are after David Villa, which would be the biggest signing of the January window. You would get his profile, his experience and his time at Barcelona. He would be the one big signing but I don't see anything else. I don't see Atletico Madrid selling Falcao. I don't see any of the big clubs wanting to buy a player they can't use in Europe. It doesn't seem sensible."It is not an easy market because teams abroad who are involved in a relegation scrap won't do business either. You look at Fernando Llorente at Bilbao who is not getting a game and his contract is up at the end of the season. He's a target but Bilbao are sixth bottom of the league, they have collapsed. Can they afford to sell one of their biggest assets? No."
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