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Posts Tagged 'urban planning'
Cheddar, Cheever, and the Burbs
September 1, 2015 | by Micah Nathan
Fifty years ago, John Cheever published The Wapshot Scandal, his second novel. Like many second novels, it's more ambitious and more playful than its predecessor, the work of a writer who suspects he's better than he feared. The traditional form suddenly seems boring, the same old themes threaten a categorization that the writer doesn't want, and the writer—encouraged by praise, validated by awards, perhaps softened by income—realizes he can write just about anything. So he does.
The Wapshot Scandal begins where The Wapshot Chronicle ended: with the Wapshot family leaving the safety of St. Botolphs and searching for fulfillment in more modern suburban communities. An acrid whiff of cynicism rises from the page: we know this won't end well, Cheever knows we know, and now it's a matter of how and when. Moses and Coverley Wapshot bring their wives to Proxmire Manor and Talifer, respectively; the first is an archetype of the suburban nightmare, the second an archetype of a Cold War community, built around a missile-research facility.
Scandal is very much of its time, but even in its time the satire was well-trod: husbands drink too much, wives betray, wealth corrodes, families splinter, sex—granted or withheld—destroys. Cheever's cynicism isn't unique; he never claimed it was. What was, and what remains, unique, are passages like this:
The village, he knew, had, like any other, its brutes and its shrews, its thieves, and its perverts, but like any other it meant to conceal these facts under a shrine of decorum that was not hypocrisy but a guise or mode of hope.
This is what made Cheever special: he understood that the desperate idealism behind existential decay is still idealism. Which brings me to, well, me. Read More »
Mapping Central Park
June 17, 2015 | by Anna Heyward
Desire Lines turns a walk in the park into an emotional map.
In 1654, Madeleine de Scudéry produced a ten-volume philosophical novel called Clélie, about the coaction between temperament and free will. Clélie was a popular salon novel at the time, but it's now best remembered for the Carte de tendre, often translated as "the map of love" or "the map of the country of tenderness": a long description of a country that represents the landscape of human emotion, illustrated by a map in the first volume of the book. The country is divided by the "river of inclination," and there are little hamlets, deserts, and mountains like "sincerity," "assiduity," and "respect." "Passion" is a dangerous-looking rocky outcrop, beyond which is unknown territory. To get from one end to another, one must avoid the "Lake of Indifference," and "Affection" has to be surmounted to arrive at deep spiritual love. The map is one of the premier examples of sentimental cartography, which has a niche spot in French literary history.
In March, the Public Art Fund of New York City installed Desire Lines, a new commissioned work by the French Italian artist Tatiana Trouvé, which mixes sentiment and cartography. Desire Lines is at the southeast end of Central Park, in the Doris C. Freedman Plaza, where it will sit for the summer. The structure comprises three steel racks, nearly twelve feet tall, that hold spools of rope in different colors; there are 212 spools in all, each with a length that corresponds to a specific path in the park. Trouvé mapped, named, and indexed every one of them, from the thoroughfares to the secluded, unnamed paths. From a distance, the installation resembles a giant's sewing kit, or an electrician's stock. Engravings on each spool suggest various acts of walking in the culture: "Woman Suffrage Parade, March 3, 1913" or " 'Walk on By,' " Dionne Warwick, 1964." Visitors "can choose a path by name and then undertake the walk as it describes, tracing the march of history in collective memory while discovering Central Park anew." Read More »
Meet Your New Neighbors: An Interview with DW Gibson
May 21, 2015 | by Lee Bob Black
In cities, trends come, go, and come again; causes rise to prominence, fall by the wayside, and emerge repackaged; neighborhoods flourish or fall out of favor. Condos, cupcake shops, and bike lanes become signifiers; shady buyouts and racist landlords fuel arguments about whether communities are being renewed or decimated.
The word gentrification is in the subtitle of DW Gibson's most recent oral history, but the author has trouble with it: it's too broad, he writes, to adequately capture a wide variety of experiences, contexts, and meanings. Several interviewees in his book also seem at odds with the word. One says gentrification doesn't describe anything in the real world. Another says he doesn't need to be able to describe it because he knows what it feels like.
To mark the release of The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century, I spoke with Gibson, a journalist and documentary filmmaker, about bringing the human touch to the page, viewing a book as one long panning shot in a film, and the importance of using all the tools at one's disposal, including cute daughters.
How do you make gentrification something people want to read about?
Most of the books out there are academic or have an academic feel to them. I think the way you get people to care about gentrification is to write about human beings. My goal was to show the human fabric of gentrification. People relate to people, to stories. Read More »
Systems Bigger Than Ourselves, and Other News
March 16, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- On SimCity and the value of games that dared to make complex systems their protagonists: "SimCity is a game about urban societies, about the relationship between land value, pollution, industry, taxation, growth, and other factors … the game got us all to think about the relationships that make a city run, succeed, and decay, and in so doing to rise above our individual interests, even if only for a moment. This was a radical way of thinking about video games: as non-fictions about complex systems bigger than ourselves. It changed games forever—or it could have … "
- Philip Roth's misogyny is treated as a given these days; "the women are monstrous because for Philip Roth women are monstrous," Vivian Gornick once wrote. But: "Maybe Philip Roth loves women? Maybe he, who offers a three-page description of female masturbation, is in fact an advocate for female desire? … While misogynists try to shame women, Roth celebrates women's sexual power. It's the men he is out to get."
- "That sentence is shit. It's got to be better. You asshole." Matt Sumell on writing and doubt.
- Today in German words that dearly need English equivalents: verschlimmbessert, which can be roughly translated as " 'ver-worsebettered.' In essence, it's a combination of verbessern ('to improve') and verschlimmern ('to make worse'). Here, then, is a verb that is able to express the idea of something simultaneously improving and worsening."
- In which Benjamin Percy attends the dreadfully named Man Camp and enjoys a surprisingly rousing encounter with masculinity: "When men get together, they tend to speak with irony or rough-throated braggadocio, but [here] there was an uncommon sincerity to everyone's tone. It caught me off guard."
Olympia by the Sea
August 28, 2014 | by Mark Chiusano
The dashed ambitions of Brooklyn's Marine Park.
There is a proud park on the watery edge of Brooklyn. It contains a pool, a little sandy beach, canoes and kayaks, new sporting fields of all kinds, gardens, an open-air theater, and a playground; nearby subway stops draw people from the extremes of the five boroughs. Today, this sounds more or less like Brooklyn Bridge Park, the enchanting construction facing downtown Manhattan and built through public-private partnership, as is the way of city planning these days. But almost ninety years ago, these were just the lesser diversions in the grand plans for Brooklyn's Marine Park.
Take the B or Q train down, down, down to Kings Highway—bring a book or music, because it's a ride. Get off there, find the B2 or B100 bus on Quentin Avenue, and ride that another fifteen minutes east, and you'll find the modern Marine Park. (You can also ride the 2 or 5 to the end of the line, which requires two bus transfers, but you'll get there.) Almost ten miles from City Hall, you'll have reached the greatest graveyard of a mighty park that New York City has ever seen.
It started in 1911, when the famed designer of the Chicago Columbian Exposition, Daniel Burnham, was invited to Brooklyn with his partner Edward Bennett to design a blueprint for the borough's expansion. They set aside a large area far and away to the southeast by Jamaica Bay, as "a littoral counterpoint to Prospect Park," as Thomas Campanella, Marine Park's assiduous (and perhaps only) historian writes. As Campanella has documented, this suggestion became a reality through the philanthropy of two prominent Brooklynites, Frederic B. Pratt and Alfred T. White. They bought up and gave to the city about a hundred acres of land for the park's creation. The city was leery even then—there were murmurs that a park would do little more than increase real-estate value for homeowners in the region. The philanthropists sweetened the deal to include $72,000 dollars to pay for costs. "The donors owned no other land in the vicinity and did not expect to profit in any way from the gift," promised the chairman of the League for the Improvement of Marine Park, which throughout its history would have its work cut out for it. In 1925, the City at last made a formal announcement, and Marine Park was born. Read More »


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Immigrant stores
Close to Termini, there are a lot of small shops run by immigrants (mostly African) and they sell a lot of cheap but cute things. Usually, these shops are on the smaller streets.
What to buy: I got a blue beaded drawstring purse, but I also saw a lot of jewelry, African drums, etc.
What to pay: I paid around 5 Euros for the purse.Related to:
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Shoe stores
Being a girl, I just HAD to check out the shoe stores! I checked out a few close to Termini and compared prices, and ended up buying a cute pair of wedge sandals with leather straps for very cheap.
What to buy: Shoes of all styles and price ranges.
What to pay: I think I paid around 30 Euros for the pair I bought.Related to:
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Coppelia: If you're a dancer
Close to the Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, I stumbled upon a dancewear store called Coppelia. Being a dancer, I just had to check it out! It's quite small but there are all sorts of dance shoes, clothes, etc. Since they had brands that are not available in my hometown's dancewear store, I took advantage of the opportunity and tried on many pairs of pointe shoes (and ended up buying a pair of Grishko 2007 pointes).
What to buy: Pointe shoes and ballet slippers (brands include Bloch, Grishko, Prima Soft, Porselli, Freed, Gaynor Minden), leotards, tights, dance sweaters, skirts, jazz pants, etc. Mostly ballet stuff, but I also saw some jazz shoes and sneakers.
What to pay: I think I paid around 40-50 Euros for the Grishko pointe shoes.Related to:
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D&G: Terrible prices!!
Those who know me knows that I have a thing for D&G-clothes. They are expensive, but most of the time really nice looking, and of great quality.
Since I couldn't find the D&G-shop when I was in Dublin the week before, I was really looking forward to do some serious shopping in the D&G-shop in Rome.
Was I mistaken or what...??
Either D&G has shock raised their prices during the last four months, or that shop in Via Condotti seriously has missunderstood the price settings... I found two very nice t-shirts in the shop. The first was priced 250 euro. The second 450 euro.
For a t-shirt!? Are you kidding me?!
Needless to say there were no shopping made that day...and definitely never ever in that shop.
The shop itself was nice, although compared to the D&G-shop in Milan the staff was fairly arrogant, I almost felt like Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman" when I walked in.
And no, I wasn't dressed like a prostitute... ;)
But there sure are better shops to burn your VISA-card in Rome than this one...
If you still want to go there, there are women's clothes on the first floor, while men goes a level up.
What to buy: Nothing, no matter how rich you are.
What to pay: Way too much...Related to:
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Tax-free shopping in Italy
Tourists in Italy arriving from outside the European Community are entitled to the refund of I.V.A. (Value Added Tax) which ranges from 12 to 35% on amounts exceeding 155,00 euro spent in the same shop. To enjoy this benefit it is necessary to apply to shops that have an agreement - Tax Free, Italy Free Shopping, Tax Free System, Euro Tax, Tax Refund posted in their window and/or inside. The refund can be obtained inside the shops with the proper sign - or at Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport of Fiumicino in the Customs Office or by post. Items must be new, in original boxes, and you must have all receipts. Go early to the airport if you intend to complete the procedure there.
I'm updating this tip with the following information from a visitor to my pages indicating that he has used this tax free service in Italy and they were very efficient:
Happy shopping in bella Italia.................Related to:
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Polvere di Tempo: Hour glasses, sun dials, and ancient knowledge!
The woman that owns this shop has been doing her trade for 25 years, she told me, which includes hand made hour glasses and sundials. She makes hour glasses in a range of sizes from 4 feet to pendant size for a few euro. Many of them are very fine. She also crafts sundials and has made a unique assortment of them. My favorite was a ring with a knob that slides a piece back and forth which you align so as to let the sun's shadow fall through a hole and onto the inside of the ring where the hour ticks are. You'll never need a watch in Rome with a ring like that!
There were many other very clever designs including one with magic squares of words from ancient Rome or floor plans of the Pantheon, Collosseum, etc crafted into pins, cuff links, wax seals, jewelry, and more. I fell for the octant, an old brass sailing instrument with protractors and moveable lenses and things for my fiancee who loves boats and Leonardo. Needless to say a hand-crafted historical gift like this, hand wrapped with much care and a beautiful wooden box for under 150 euro was a steal and a pleaser.
Stop in here for tons more wonderful curiosities! The website is also wonderful.
What to buy: The sundials are calculated for Rome's latitude.Related to:
- Arts and Culture
- Historical Travel
The Roman Forum Shop: Roman life
The Roman Forum shop, which is entered when exiting the Roman Forum is a small but relaxing shop offering great views over the Forum.
What to buy: There are figures, pop-out books, colour in boks etc. all at street value prices.Related to:
- Family Travel
- Archeology
Spar: Spar
All over England there used to be Spar shops. They slowly became less and less until the last I had seen on the Isle of Wight (U.K where I live) became a CO.OP (Cooperative). I hadn't seen a Spar for ages and then when I was strolling through Rome there was a Spar. Just as I remembered seeing in England with the Red and White striped band and geen logo. I couldn't beleive it.
What to buy: They sold everything you used to get in th eEnglish Spar just with some different names. If you didn't want to go out for a meal you could go in there and get something.
What to pay: Usual pricesRelated to:
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Can't remember: Kids Toy Shop
Really sweet little childrens toy shop, only small but has a good range of dfferent toys but mainly knights and castles. Some kids go there to buy toys, others just to play. It's a really sweet shop. Just behind the River Tiber. I would be grateful if someone could tell me the name and road.
What to buy: A good range of educational and just fun toys. Mainly knights and castles. Few girls toys.
What to pay: Same price you would in England really.Related to:
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- Family Travel
Salsamenteri: Wine and dine with Pasta
Its a small rough shop, furnished with dark wooden cases and always cost cut alcohol. It is Salsamenteri and is beautiful. Above the doors it says Enoteca Vino
What to buy: They sell lots of different varieties of wine and lots of differnet shaped pastas. Some are more for novelty like the Italian flag and other more rude shaped pastas. Still, it is a lovely shop and a great place to get a present for some one back in your own country or someone you are meeting in Rome or just buy it for yourself.
What to pay: The prices are resonable, around 3 or 4 Euros for a big bag of novelty pasta or around 4 to 5 Euros for Wine, cheaper if it is displayed outside.Related to:
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Shopping near the train station
Shopping near the train station has reasonably cheaply priced items i.e. hand made leather belts and purses. There is also many clothing shops. Don't go at night and walk around. I got very nervous when I did it. lots of seedy characters.
What to pay: You can definetly hagle over prices
ArcheoArt: Reproductions Roman artifacts
Marco says that he maintains a laboratory for the reproduction of archeological artifacts. They are quite good - many excellent marble/alabaster statues, both large and small. Lots of Gladiator artifacts that look as if they could be or could have been cinema props. Excellent array of reproduced ancient jewelry. Very entertaining!
What to buy: Reproductions of Roman artifacts - Jewelry especially
What to pay: Negotiate with Marco Bocchio - always ask for the tax to be deducted over 155 €Related to:
- Archeology
- Arts and Culture
La Maschera: Can't get to Venice - masks here in Rome 4 U
This is a small shop - right across from Bartolucci's wood working shop and close to the Pantheon. The owner is most accommodating and has a great number of fascinating masks to choose from.
What to buy: Fantastic MasksRelated to:
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Shopping Mall - Rome style: Galleria Alberto Sordi
You can find almost everything here - clothing, stationery, Lundt chocolate shop, music, books -- and on a sweltering Rome day, the air conditioning alone beckons to you if you are anywhere near the entrance. The Galleria Alberto Sordi was built in 1914 on the former Palazzo Piombino and is named after the famous Italian actor who died during the year before it re-opened, honoring his name. The arcade facility is located right in front of the column of emperor Marcus Aurelius. The arcade had always been one of the city's strategic meeting places. Obscure actors were know to gather here during the first half of the 20th century in hopes of securing an engagement. For 20 years arcade had gradually fallen into decay and became an abandoned place where the homeless spent the night. Its revival and reopening in 2003 permitted two generations of roman people to step into the former Galleria Colonna for the first time in their life.
For those who are familiar with Milano, you might say it is reminiscent of the Milano Galleria - only on a much smaller scale - perhaps it is the glass ceiling.
The lovely stained glass ceiling is complimented by a centrally located bar and cafe where you can leisurely await the final hour(s) of your companion's shopping sprees.
What to buy: Almost anything - always check tags for "Made in Italy" as there is so much now that is "made in China"
What to pay: From average prices to slightly more expensive than the off-Corso shops.Related to:
- Arts and Culture
- Women's Travel
- Family Travel
Opening hours
The shops in Rome tend to close on a Saturday lunchtime and don't open again until Monday morning.
Don't plan a weekend shopping trip to Rome - you might be disappointed. Better to shop in the week.
What to buy: Rome is great for sandals at the moment. Lots of stalls across the city sell a good selection of sandals for 13 euro per pair.Related to:
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Jay-Z and Kanye's "Otis" Video (Not About Otis Redding) to Air Tomorrow
Let's start with the facts: (1) Rap giants Jay-Z and Kanye West joined forces to create an album titled Watch the Throne; (2) There is a teaser trailer for their upcoming video "Otis"; (3) The video was directed by Spike Jonze; (4) The song features a sample of Otis Redding's soul classic "Try a Little Tenderness"; (5) "Otis" isn't about Otis Redding; (6) Numbers 2 and 5 are unsettling.
"Otis" (the video) is hitting MTV airwaves at 8:56 p.m.. EST on August 11, which is great. But we've got a bone to pick with this new rap power couple.
They used an Otis Redding song, a song that would bring emotion to a dead man, sung by one of the most powerful voices in music, even used his name as the title of the song. But the lyrics are about supermodels, Mercedes Benzes, and inventing "swag." Totally, tastelessly missing any point of the original song.
This is all fine, except why then use Otis Redding's name as your title? They could have called it "Try a Little Swag" or "Hermes is my Tenderness" and it'd make more sense.
As far as we can tell from the trailer (which is a commercial for a music video), Kanye's wearing many gold necklaces and there are a good number of pyrotechnics involved. Guess we'll wait till tomorrow to get a peek.
To learn more about the history of "Try a Little Tenderness," check out Dave Bry of The Awl's fascinating post about the evolution of the song, a mini-project that will be complete once the "Otis" video airs tomorrow evening.
If, however, you need more Jay-Z and Kanye, you can catch them this November 14 at the BankAtlantic Center at 7:30 as part of their Watch the Throne tour. Tickets went on sale this week via livenation.com.
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Giddy GadgetsGiddy Gadgets (1962) - Modern Madcaps Theatrical Cartoon Series
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- Modern Madcaps Theatrical Cartoon SeriesTheatricalSeriesCartoon
- Traditional Animation
- Famous Studios
- Distributed by: Paramount Studios
- Cartoon Characters: Professor Herman Schmaltz, Lena.
- Voice Actors: Gil Mack.
- Directed By Seymour Kneitel.
- Animated By Nick Tafuri, Jack Ehret, Larry Silverman.
- Written By Carl Meyer, Jack Mercer.
- Music: Winston Sharples.
- Originally Released on March 19, 1962.
- Originally Released Theatrically.
- Running Time: 7 minutes.
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Professor Schmaltz, an "inventor, genius and stuff like that there," makes life easier for his wife Lena- or so he thinks- by coming up with new household gadgets. Instead of helping her, his inventions all go awry. He invents so many different stupid things that... (more)
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Schneider Day Night Live
Cam Davie
April 04 2012 12:07PM
Cory Schneider can do no wrong in the eyes of Canucks fans.
And his impressions are no exception.
Cory Schneider. Superb goaltender. Compelling interviewee. Master impressionist.
The Canucks goalie has been on CBC's After Hours on two different occasions, discussing various aspects of his game, his life, and the Vancouver Canucks. During both interviews, Schneider broke out some amazing impressions of some of his teammates and his coach.
We decided it wasn't enough to just marvel at his mimickry. We had to rate them.
Click past the jump to see how we scored Cory Schneider's impressions!
Enough Ducking Shootouts - Canucks "defeat" Ducks
Cam Charron
April 04 2012 01:10AM
It's not like the Vancouver Canucks weren't playing well, but they just weren't getting the saves from Roberto Luongo early on in the game. Finding themselves down 4-2, the Canucks rallied in front of Cory Schneider and found a pair of goals ere headed to the shootout, where three pretty goals by Alex Burrows, Alex Edler and Maxim Lapierre won the game for the team, their seventh straight since the loss of Daniel Sedin to a concussion.
For further analysis, scoring chance recap, and cheering on your favourite Statistical Three Stars and booing your hated Statistical Three Goats, click past the jump.
Is Raymond Qualified, to be Qualified?
Thomas Drance
April 03 2012 02:53PM
Mason Raymond hasn't been able to find his form this season, and time is running out.
Needless to say, Mason Raymond is not having a particularly good season. Leading up his benching on Saturday against Calgary, Raymond has struggled to drive possession (like he was able to do in the past several seasons), his defensive game has fallen off significantly, and to top it off, he's benefitting from the on-ice bounces and still can't seem to bury his chances. What's worse, quickly glancing over how Raymond's presence impacts his most frequent line-mates (and in particular Ryan Kesler), reveals that Raymond's presence in the top-six may be a drag on the performance of his team-mates.
The Canucks are going to need Raymond's speed in any run they may make deep into the Stanley Cup Playoffs, so they need him to find his game. In fact, so much of the way they've handled him of late, he's spent six of the past ten games on the team's top-line for example, strikes me as an effort to rebuild his confidence. Hopefully that effort pays off, because Raymond's contract expires at the end of this season, and if he doesn't pick it up in the postseason, then common sense dictates that the speedy forward will be in serious danger of not even being qualified by the team.
Read on past the jump!
Vigneault's Defensive Shell
Thomas Drance
April 03 2012 01:06PM
It's hard to "lose the room" when you have sweet Ninja Skills.
Photoshop work courtesy sworn enemy Harrison Mooney.
Several weeks ago, Canucks fans were lamenting the hockey club's lack of effort. A hypothesis emerged that held that the team, content with a second place finish in the West, had activated "Operation Don't Get Hurt," and there was a fair bit of convincing evidence that this was, in fact, the case. Of course, the Canucks then showed up to play for real in Chicago, Daniel Sedin was knocked out of the lineup by probably the single dirtiest cheap-shot of this past NHL season, and though the Canucks went on to lose that game in overtime - a fire seemed to be lit under the respective posteriors of the team. Since then the Canucks have reeled off six straight wins on the back of stellar goaltending, and suffocating defense.
Read on past the jump!
Game #80 Preview - #TeemuForever
Cam Davie
April 03 2012 11:20AM
#TeemuForever. The only upside to Teemu Selanne's possible retirement is
that we won't see him in this horrible colour combination.
(Photo by Jeff Gross/Getty Images)
Game Day Recon: Game #80 - Ducks @ Canucks
The Canucks' regular season is winding down, as is Teemu Selanne's career (or so we are led to believe). Today will likely mark the final time Selanne visits Vancouver as an NHL player.
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The situation: The user can input a word or in a inputbox. When he finishes a function check if the word is in the array of words - easy. Now I wanna write a help, if one letter is missing or the letters are written the wrong way, a message should popout.
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Beginning April 2016, Juggernaut will publish 50 titles each year, to be distributed and warehoused by Hachette India, and will roll out soon its digital programme.
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Blood from the towel did seep onto the pages and her head would not stop hurting, but she became more and more engrossed in the book, every now and then making a note in the margin.
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3.7 Room cleanliness
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for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Soldotna, Ak
It was ok for just a shower,bed and tv.Posted Aug 14, 2015
For almost 200 dollars a night. I would expect more! There was no microwave,coffee maker, no shampoo. I was surprised there was a bar of soap. Either offer more or drop your price.
by A verified traveler from Anchorage
200 for256k?Posted Aug 3, 2015
Pros: air conditioning was acceptable
Cons: the T.V., internet connection speed, beds, pillows
Location: better hotels across the street. TGI Fridays within walking distance
Horrible hotel! there was no breakfast served, there were no amenities (ok in fairness I could have seen what they offered before hand); but the real let down was the room. Room smelled like cheap cologne as if the cleaning crew tried to cover up rather than clean, holes were in the comforter(which could have come from an 80's sitcom), the pillows were flat, without support. We may as well not had the pillows at all. The channel selection in the room itself was poor, and on an actual tube T.V. The remote was broken (the up button was worn out). The fan blew cold air but was so loud you could not hear the T.V. unless you cranked up the volume to an undesired level. The final piece of this disappointment was the internet service. Slow!! In this day in age how are you going to offer 256k speed? The connection was so slow my devices had a hard time connecting. The person at the front desk had no clue how to help, could not assist with the login, didn't even know the website to login! (She kept repeating that my browser should automatically take me to the login page) looked at me with confusion and gave me the 1-800 number so i could talk to someone. Waited on the phone for about 15 minutes, finally someone helped me online but the internet connection was so slow, might as well not have bothered. Overpriced and underperformed, I will not be going to this chain ever again!
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Not recommended hotelPosted Aug 3, 2015
The room was not so clean In the room just above us someone gave sex services all night and it wss quite noisy. The price was very high for such lousy hotel
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MuggyPosted Jul 28, 2015
Pros: Price and location.
Cons: Cleaner and fix the damned bathroom vents please.
For some reason this Motel 6 has decided that they don't want the vent fans to work. I used 4 different rooms in the past 2 weeks and stayed last fall for a night and none of the rooms had a working bathroom vent. After 8 hours in the car and 2 junk food stops and 4 people in a room a bathroom vent is a necessity. Not to mention how muggy the room gets after 4 people have showered. The vents are there in the ceiling they just don't turn on with the lights and they don't have another switch to turn them on. I don't understand it. Also I realize this is a budget Motel but I paid extra because I had 4 people in one room yet they give you only 2 bath towels. If they know you will have 4 people because you disclosed that and paid the extra you should not have to call down to have more towels brought up. The TV remotes didn't work in 2 of the rooms and the last morning the TV was out in all our rooms. Blankets were full of cigarette burns in our non smoking rooms. Not the cleanest. I have seen worse but could easily have been better. Its a fairly new building and should be in better shape. Will I stay again? Yes, it was $70 cheaper than the next closest price when I booked. I can over look a lot for $70.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler
Eh...Posted Jul 27, 2015
Quiet, good central location. Very dated rooms. Shares a parking lot with 2 nicer hotels, but for the price i can't complain.
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Would not stay again.Posted Jul 21, 2015
No microwave, coffee in room what a disappointment. TV needs to be updated. Walls are very thin, hallways smelt like wet dog. No shampoo or cream rinse in bathroom, for four people only two towels, the house keeper acted like we where going to leave with them. The towels where ripped and a three of the four we did get had holes.
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Motel 6Posted Jul 3, 2015
Cons: No Smoking
Location: The location is great and we usually like to stay in Midtown.
The whole 3rd floor smelled of cigarette smoke, the room was worse. I did not think any hotels or motels allowed smoking. There were cigarette burns on the bathroom counter, holes in the drapes and bedding smelled of cigarette smoke.
for Familiesby A verified traveler
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Staff was great good location
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Hotel was nice enough but there was construction in the area so it was hard to find our way onto the property.


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Consider that "Obama administration officials" ranks 13th while "Democrats in Congress" follows in 14th place. The other news networks were scattered throughout the lengthy list. The poll of 1,000 U.S. adults was conducted Nov. 6 and 7.
Stand clear, now. Here comes "Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to being Your Most Masculine Self," by one Stephen Mansfield. Due from publisher Thomas Nelson on Tuesday, the book has received accolades from none other than Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, the former commander of Delta Force.
"The Western world is in a crisis of discarded honor, dubious integrity, and faux manliness. It is time to recover what we have lost," Mr. Mansfield proclaims. He also wrote "The Faith of George W. Bush" and "Lincoln's Battle with God" among other books.
"My goal in this book is simple. I want to identify what a genuine man does — the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood — and then call men to do it," the author adds.
He is weary of man-bashing culture like demeaning commercials and sitcoms, and he seeks to school younger gents in authentic manliness, lest they become isolated, by emphasizing "more doing, less talking."
The thoughtful Mr. Mansfield also has supplied a list of 10 essential movies for manly men. They are: "Seabiscuit," "Chariots of Fire," "The Pursuit of Happy-ness," "It's a Wonderful Life," "Dead Poets Society," "Apollo 13," "The King's Speech," "Men of Honor," "Hoosiers" and "The Last Samurai."
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It seems many of us in this group are trying to conceive. I'd love to hear from all you single moms by choice about your babies/kids, how you had them and what your life is like now.
Amy, 42
It seems many of us in this group are trying to conceive. I'd love to hear from all you single moms by choice about your babies/kids, how you had them and what your life is like now.
Amy, 42
Amy, 43
IUI #1 BFN, IUI #2 MC at 13 weeks, IUI #3-4 BFN
I spent a good year really thinking about being a SMC. I started saving for daycare, pricing out diapers, formula, etc., and stuck to a strict budget. After a year, I decided to take the leap of faith. I knew from a young age that I wanted to be a mom, and just because Prince Charming hasn't come knocking, doesn't mean that I couldn't fulfill my dream. I believe I was "meant" to be a mom.
It was a long road to conception! I am a believer that if things are mean to be, then they will happen. I wanted my conception to be as "natural" as possible, so I knew that I would never do IVF. After a lot of thought and four unsuccessful IUIs, I "gave in" to doing some medicated cycles. My eighth try was going to be my last. I was emotionally, mentally, and physically drained not to mention I was out of sperm! I triggered the night before my half marathon and the entire time I was running, I was so worried my eggs would pop out sooner than they were supposed to. Lo and behold, that is the time I successfully conceived.
My son is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me. I cannot believe how much I love him. It was worth the eight IUIs until he finally chose me to be his mommy. I can't imagine having a husband. I can't imagine my life without my son. I am a really laid back mom and nothing gets me frazzled. On the other hand, I am strict about his schedule and bedtime and that has made life as a SMC a lot easier. My son has made me so incredibly happy and fulfilled and the best little baby I could ever ask for.
I started a blog long before I had my first IUI (in my signature). You are welcome to read about the highs and lows of everything from making the decision to be a SMC to choosing a donor to having your first procedure to having you child in your arms. I've always been an open book, so feel free to ask me anything!
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Sit back cause this may get a little long. I was 33 years old sitting in my OB/GYN's office. It was on the tip of my tongue to ask her about AI but my courage was lacking. As she was about to walk out the door, my voice rang out! "I want to become a Mom but Mr. Right hasn't come along and I can't wait any longer." She was so supportive. She put me in touch with a great fertility clinic here in St. Louis called Parints. Their office is the best. Next step was to tell my family. Again the support came pouring out. The excitement was so high! Upon my first try with IUI in December '03, I became pregnant. I was so on cloud nine. However, my euphoria was shattered when I found out I had a blighted ovum. Why was this happening. My OB let me try to miscarry natuarally but when that wasn't happening, I ended up with a D & C. At first my world was shattered and my hope faded. She told me I should wait a couple of cycles and then I could try again. The wait was excruitating. I tried four more IUI and each time received a BFN!!!! My doctor decided to do a procedure (sorry can't remember the name but remember the pain) where they inject dye into my fallopian tubes and see if there is any blockage. It was so uncomfortable but the good news was that all was open and in fact she said that most women after having this procedure end up pregnant on the next try. In Sept of '04, I went in for an ultrasound and the tech asked if I had endometriosis. I told her no. She said that I had six large eggs and that three had just popped and the other three were getting ready. I didn't even get a chance to go home, I was given my HCG shot and had my IUI right then. My fertility specialist said..."Oh you will get pregnant, we just don't know how many!" Two weeks later, I tested and sure enough I was pregnant! My nerves were high when I went in for my first U/S at 7 weeks. I didn't know if I was going to have another blighted ovum or a beating heart. Plus I didn't know if I would have multiples. Turns out I had a little beating heart. We also discovered that it was twins but the other egg was not developing and would be absorbed back into my body. After 42 weeks, I delivered a beautiful healthy baby girl. She is now 8 years old! This ends Chapter 1 of my journey as a SMBC!
Single Mom to two beautiful children.
Chapter two: After about three years, I decided I wasn't getting any younger and that my daughter needed a sibling. Once again I started my journey. I became pregnant on my second IUI and discovered I had triplets. Just call me fertile mertile! However, this blessing was not meant to be. God had other plans. As I had blood tested, I discovered that I was miscarrying all three. I was around 6 weeks along. Once again I was devastated! Why was this happening to me. My OB/GYN decided to run further testing and discovered that I had MFTHR. I wasn't absorbing enough folic acid and my progesterone was low. They knew what to do if I got pregnant again. Well I decided at that time to hold off. I felt maybe God had other plans and wanted me to enjoy my life as is. So for the next three years I held off until I turned 39. I started to regret my decision to wait and thought I should try again. I talked to OB and she gave me a green light but told me about all the risks at my age. I was now AMA (Advanced Maternal Age)! I contacted Parints once again and she started me on my usual cocktail of Clomid. Then I discovered that the sperm bank I had used all along (MWSB) was shutting its doors and they didn't know if I would get any vials. I managed to get two vials of my choice. This was my only chance to get pregnant. Wow the odds were working against me. On the day of my first IUI procedure, I was fighting a cough and that afternoon I had to have a tooth re-filled. I was assured that everything would be okay. The next day I went in for another IUI to double my chances. Now came the TWW! I always hated this time period. Well one of the weeks I was to go on a business trip to our FL office. I took my meds and vitamins as prescribed and even thought I had some breakthrough implantation bleeding. On my way back to STL, I got in the wrong line and ended up having to go through the back scanner device. Oh great...I didn't know if I was pregnant or not and couldn't say anything for fear of looking stupid to the TSA agent and letting my co-workers know anything was up. I then proceeded to have to have another x-ray at the dentists office because the filling I had earlier was not right and they had to correct. Great I was just jinxing myself left and right. When it came time to test, I didn't expect to see a BFP. Now my nerves went through the roof. When I informed my doctor I said I don't even know if I want to tell you that I got a BFP, I am so nervous. Now came getting over the next few hurdles. First hurdle...making it past the 6 week mark and seeing a heartbeat. Next hurdle....keeping my progesterone levels up and folic acid intake at an acceptable lever. This entailed me taking extra folic acid, progesterone, vitamins and baby aspirin during my pregnancy. Next hurdle... to get out of the first trimester. Well as time progressed I made it over every hurdle. Then at my 13 week mark, I rec'd news that shattered my world. My OB said that I had a 1:25 chance of having a baby with DS. What???? How could this be happening. I was referred to a geneticit and specialist. When I walked in sure I was going to have an amnio. I found out that they messed up my numbers. After the u/s which did not reflect anything except that I was having a boy (he was quite proud of his manhood), I was told that my chance was now 1:380 not bad for a 40 year old (normal range is 1:80 I think). I decided against the amnio and was good with my decision until the day before my scheduled c-section. I was a nervous wreck and crying at a drop of a hat. My daughter was scared for me and didn't understand what was really going on. I assured her everything was okay and that I was just really happy to finally be having her baby brother. On 11/2/11, I delivered a healthy baby boy with a normal set of chromosomes. No DS. I thank God everyday for blessing me with my children. I always said that I could live without a man but I could not live without being a mother! They are my life. Good Luck to all you ladies. It can be a long, exhausting journey but the end result is truly a blessing!
Single Mom to two beautiful children.
Thanks for your stories. I love reading them. They fill me with hope and optimism!
Just went in for ultrasound and am waiting to hear from my doc about when I will have my first IUI! Hurry up and call!
Amy, 42
First IUI any day now!
Amy, 43
IUI #1 BFN, IUI #2 MC at 13 weeks, IUI #3-4 BFN
I don't have my happy ending story YET, but hopefully soon. Congratulations to all of the women that have been able to fulfill their mommy dreams
My story starts out like most others, but ends up being a little different. I have never been one to date a lot and had decided young to do it at age 35 if I hadn't met anyone. In 2008, I had surgery to remove uterine fibroids. At that time my doctor told me if I wanted to have babies, the sooner the better, I was 27. At that time I decided to move my deadline up to about 30. In January 2011 I had a friend who had just had a baby and I was having major baby fever. I decided then and there to try very soon. My annual exam was due shortly so I talked to my Gyn then and she referred me back to the doctor who had done my surgery as he was at a fertility clinic. I went in and had an initial consultation and started testing. His office was over an our away. In the mean time I found out a local OB/Gyn did IUI and decided to see her. In July 2011 I had my first IUI resulting in a BFN. I was planning on trying again in August. In between the cycles, I got a call from a guy I had seen a couple years before and we started seeing each other again. I told him what I was doing and he encouraged me to continue so I did a second IUI in August, again BFN. We were starting to get serious so I decided to wait and see what happened and didn't do any more cycles.
Well, February 2012 AF was a few days late so I decided to test and got a BFP. It was such a surprise, but not an unwelcome one. Things were going really well with my BF and we practically lived together through my pregnancy. In October 2012, I had my beautiful daughter. Due to circumstances beyond my control, my BF is not around so I am the single mom I always thought I would be. It can be tough, but it is totally worth it. My daughter just turned 8 months and I couldn't do it without the support of my family.
I always just knew I'd be a single mom. I just went about it in a way I didn't predict. I think knowing daddy is out there, just not able to be a part of our lives makes it hard, but we make it work and in a few years hopefully that will change.
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Julie Burchill: When I was a kiddie in the 80s, I wrote a really clever piece for the Face called Apocalypse Now (Please), about a group of people I christened "Amockalypsists". These were fire-and-brimstone types whose motto was basically The End Is Nigh.
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A Kok and Blair story
Alexander Chancellor: It's difficult to see how Tony Blair can any longer be considered the spiritual heir of the Labour party's founding fathers. His socialist credentials have long looked threadbare, but they now appear to have vanished altogether.
Words that should be banned
I received a letter from a chap who would like to ban this word on the basis that it is used by women, in an endeavour to force men into doing something arduous, by making it sound very easy and quick. 'Can you just take the rubbish out?' was his example, though even in the past week I've heard more extreme uses, such as 'Can you just lend me £1,000 until I get paid?' (That sounds reasonable, except for the fact that the speaker didn't have a job, as such, and was using the word 'paid' as a metaphor for 'until you give up trying to get it back'.)
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Q & AMat Fraser, 38, was born with short arms due to the drug thalidomide. The son of actors, he was raised in London and New Zealand. He was a drummer in rock bands for 15 years before training to become an actor. His one-man play, Sealboy: Freak, will be shown as part of the Degenerate Festival at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this month.
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It is one of Britain's biggest boom industries, with new shops springing up quicker than you can say cappuccino. Clearly, we're becoming a nation of coffee lovers - but is the cup that runneth over about to turn bitter? Joanna Blythman reports.
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Winning streak
Director Peter Cattaneo struck cinematic gold with his first big feature, The Full Monty. Can the man with the Midas touch do it again? Sally Vincent asks him.
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Killing timeAs a UK businessman nears his 5,000th day on a Florida Death Row, Tim Samuels asks if Krishna Maharaj's colour has anything to do with the lack of help from back home in proving his innocence.
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Free for allNapster provided music for free online. Then the lawyers stepped in. John Alderman on the fight for the soul of the record industry.
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Jess Cartner-Morley: Selfridges has sold out of toupee tape. There are rumours of a waiting list. Evidence of a quiet plague of hair loss in the capital? Thankfully, no, though the truth is, in its own way, equally disturbing.
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In your faceAs I have become quite a connoisseur of beauty treatment of late, I now have high expectations. I expect to come away feeling relaxed, cleansed and looking as fresh as Kate Moss.
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The gentle touchReflexology has long been used to help ease anything from back pain to migraine. And now, says Julia Pascal, you can even treat yourself.
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Your personal trainerWhat is the best way to gain weight (ie, muscle), but at the same time improve aerobic capacity? I run three times a week and do weights twice. I've gained eight pounds in the past three months which is now toned. Am I doing enough weights, or should I slow down on the running?
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Do I have to?Okay, I've tried: the treading water - too hard; the dieting - too unrealistic; the running - far too much like hard work, and ultimately pointless. So, what next?
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Have you heard the one about...You've been together for years, you love each other, but if she says, 'Don't panic, Mr Mainwaring', one more time, you're going to scream. Sophie Radice on how to handle those funny little stories and jokes that lose their appeal as time goes by
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All the people I've ever slept withHe looked like a man who had made a series of mistakes in his life and had drunk his way through the consequences - dead eyes, red skin. He plugged himself into me as if I were an energy source. I sat by him at a dinner party - his wife at the other end of the table. After half a bottle of wine, he was telling me how he had started life as a rebel but had had to calm down since his first child was born. They had another child, because 'once you've got one, you might as well have two', and then a third accident made a trio of responsibilities. He took another swig.
Things my girlfriend and I argue about
Margret keeps making me answer the phone. I'll be sitting watching the final 15 seconds of a TV serial that I've been following for seven months (say), the phone will ring and she'll jut her head towards it and say: 'Get that.' The thing about this is, we both know that it will never, ever, ever, though-we-continue-till-the-earth-spirals-down-into-the-sun, ever be for me. I have received perhaps three phone calls in the past 11 years, and that's counting people asking if I have a few moments to hear about an exciting new development in index-linked pensions. Everyone I know either emails me or sends me dog excrement through the post, depending on the context. Margret, on the other hand, is legally obliged to have a phone clasped to the side of her head on her passport photo.
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That sinking felineCould the introduction of pet passports bring a return of ships' cats? JD Carpentieri looks back at the moggies who once ruled the waves.
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Fashion people don't do things by half. Not when they see an opening for profit expansion, that is. So Calvin Klein's new home range was launched with excessive panache last month - with exquisite local finger food in a candle-filled Paris art gallery.
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You can't trust the British summer: one minute you're sun-kissed, the next you're drenched. But at this elegant pool house in Somerset, discovers Lesley Gillilan, it's St Tropez all year round.
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Buying: Why it's bad for youOwning our homes is a sign of national prosperity, isn't it? Quite the opposite, says economist Andrew Oswald. The countries that rent are the countries that flourish.
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A cut aboveSummer main courses should be dishes you can make in advance, says Jeremy Lee. Who wants to spend hours slaving away in a kitchen when the sun is high? A little extra time and thought in your cooking will reap the rewards.
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LITTLE ROCK (AP) - Two people were arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing the identities of workers at Arkansas Childrens Hospital, and a third suspect was being sought.
Police investigated for nearly a year before arresting Cheryl Raynor, 30, and Theresa Glason Colvin, 26, on charges related to identity theft.
Little Rock police Detective Tommy Hudson said he was first contacted in October 2001 regarding the case. He said several pharmacists at the hospital had learned that their identities had been assumed by several different people in the city.
The investigation led to a worker in the human resources department at the hospital.
"They would take that personal information and create fake identification cards with the victims names but have the suspects pictures on the identification cards," Hudson said.
Police identified the third suspect as Victoria Brown.
Hudson said the theft involved $10,000 he said he can prove now, and possibly more than $100,000.
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HUD aims to engineer a massive resettlement of neighborhoods on the hunch that urban poor who move to suburban areas will get better jobs and perform better in school. Officials say this justifies forcing local officials to loosen zoning laws and other "barriers" limiting development of affordable housing.
But a comprehensive November 2011 study sponsored by HUD's research unit undermines the reasoning for what critics call an unprecedented federal intrusion into local housing affairs.
The study analyzed HUD's Moving to Opportunity initiative, a 15-year housing program launched in 1994. The program aimed to boost employment and education prospects for urban poor by providing access to better housing, schools and jobs in more affluent neighborhoods.
By those objectives, the experiment bombed.
Poor Outcomes
Though HUD moved thousands of mostly African-American families from government projects to higher-quality homes in safer and less racially segregated neighborhoods, the adults for the most part did not get better jobs or get off welfare. In fact, more went on food stamps. And their children did not do better in their new schools.
Despite enrolling in schools that ranked higher on state exams and drew their student bodies from "considerably safer and more affluent neighborhoods," the HUD-sponsored study found the children had no gains in reading or math achievement tests between 1994 and 2008. They generally earned the same grades and were held back at the same rates as control-group peers who remained at their old inner-city schools.
In fact, the program saw "slightly worse outcomes in some respects for Section 8 males, who were less likely to be on track educationally and less likely to have attended college."
Job outcomes were equally disappointing.
The 287-page study found that adults who relocated outside the inner city using Section 8 housing vouchers did not avail themselves of better job opportunities in their new neighborhoods, and saw a "sizable negative impact on annual earnings."
"Moving to lower-poverty neighborhoods does not appear to improve education outcomes, employment or earnings," the study concluded.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Marshall quarterback Byron Leftwich has yet to return to practice since injuring his left shin Nov. 2 and is questionable for Saturday's game at Ohio.
Leftwich, one of the nation's top quarterbacks, is still on crutches and backup Stan Hill is listed as the starter.
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Sarah Burge, known as the "Human Barbie" for the immense amount of plastic surgery procedures she has underwent, has made headlines for giving her seven-year-old daughter Poppy gift certificates for breast implants and liposuction.
The woman is spending $30,000 to bring her eight-year-old beauty pageant star daughter to America – to beat Toddlers and Tiaras at their own game. Burge says her daughter Poppy will 'storm' the USA pageant scene.
The mother has splashed out thousands on clothes, hair and makeup – and Poppy will even wear a special tooth cover to hide her two missing front teeth.
Poppy, who has taken part in beauty shows in the UK, is now preparing to come to America and will enter her first US pageants during a series of under twelve events in Atlanta, Georgia, in May.
She said: "Poppy will dominate the USA pageant circuit – the English Rose is always the best. Poppy is outgoing and outrageous and we will beat the American children. Poppy knows she will win. She is in training for the American events up to four hours a day before and after school."
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- NEXEN® N FERA SU1N FERA SU1 Summer / Performance Tires by Nexen®. Since tires are the only thing that holds your vehicle on the road, they are an important aspect of safe driving. So, if your summer tires that you took off last year are all worn...$73.00 - $194.00 (ea)
- NEXEN® CP672CP672 All Season / Performance Tires by Nexen®. A quiet ride all year round is the hallmark of this passenger tire - an optimized sectional design reduces pattern noise for ultra-quiet driving. Stable handling and tight cornering...$60.00 - $135.00 (ea)