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ALDI has completed its purchase of 66 real estate assets from the Delhaize Group. The transaction includes the land, buildings and leasehold improvements associated with Delhaize's recently retired Bottom Dollar Food operation.
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In December 2013, ALDI embarked on an accelerated growth plan to open 650 new stores by the end of 2018, with the goal of operating nearly 2,000 stores across the country. ALDI also is planning to invest more than $3 billion to pay for land, facilities and equipment. When the expansion is complete, ALDI will have stores coast-to-coast and anticipates serving more than 45 million customers per month. The expansion is expected to create more than 10,000 new jobs at ALDI stores, warehouses and division offices.
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Chance for showers to start Volusia, Flagler work week
Published: Monday, April 14, 2014 at 6:13 a.m.
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After a postcard-perfect weekend, Volusia and Flagler counties start the work week with a slight chance of rain in the forecast – and more likely on the way.
Monday will be partly sunny with highs in the mid- to low-80s and a 20 percent chance of rain – with chances both early in the morning and later in the afternoon, according to forecasters with the National Weather Service in Melbourne. Winds will south-southeast at 5 to 10 mph and the overnight low will be in the mid- to upper-60s.
Rain chances increase greatly on Tuesday to mark the approach of a cool front into the area. Showers and thunderstorms are possible – forecasters call it a 70 percent chance – with wind gusts as great as 30 mph.
After highs in the mid- to upper-80s on Tuesday, temperatures drop to the low 70s on Wednesday, and rain chances drop to 20 percent. While temperatures will climb through the rest of the week – reaching 80 again by next weekend – a slight chance of rain persists through the end of the week, 30 percent most days.
At the beaches, watch for a low to moderate risk of rip currents, which will be at their strongest in the late morning and early afternoon. Swim near a lifeguard to be safe.
For boaters, small craft operators should not venture too far to sea as conditions could be hazardous with seas up to 6 feet offshore.
On the roads, the Florida Highway Patrol reports no accidents affecting traffic in Volusia and Flagler counties. In Volusia, the left lane of northbound Interstate 95 near Edgewater is closed for construction.
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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have a long road ahead of them if they are serious about saving the marriage. Cheating rumors broke just before Christmas and things have been downhill ever since. Emily Goodhand went to the press and revealed she had an affair with McDermott while he was in Toronto at the beginning of the month. Recently it was reported that Spelling told him to get help or get out and just one day later, McDermott checked himself into rehab. According to a Jan. 26 report from People, Dean McDermott checking himself into rehab is not going to be a fix all for his marriage to Tori Spelling. She is incredibly hurt and it will take time to heal.
Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have four young children together. Their marriage has been rocked with financial problems in the past but have managed to stay together. When the affair was revealed, Spelling was rocked to the core. She believed that McDermott was faithful and this shattered her trust completely. While she held her head high in public, she was taking it hard behind the scenes. McDermott announced his rehab stint and chalked it up to health and personal issues. Fans are assuming he may be being treated for a sex addiction.
While this is a step in the right direction for Dean McDermott it is not a fix-all for his marriage to Tori Spelling. It will take a while to be able to cope with the reality of everything but fans are pretty sure that Spelling will stand behind her husband.
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[Intro music plays]
Andrew: Because, eh, it was a couple days late, we had some stuff to do over the weekend and I didn't have much time to edit the show and all that, this is MuggleCast Episode 71 for January 9th, 2007.
[Music continues to play]
Ben: O-M-G. I can't believe it, I just can't believe it.
Andrew: What?
Ben: You know, first we get the title...
[Andrew laughs]
Ben: We get the title a few weeks ago. That's big news, but there's even bigger news today.
Ben: [pretending to cry] Fox cancelled The OC.
Jamie: What? Permanently?
Laura: Darn.
Ben: Permanently, it's gone.
Jamie: Why?
Ben: Off TV.
Ben: I don't know. The - "California," no more. [laughs]
[Andrew, Ben, and Jamie laugh]
Ben: I don't know, they just...
Andrew: California, here we don't come. [laughs]
Jamie: Yeah.
Ben: I know. I just read an editorial a little bit ago, it was like in the New York Post or something where they completely ripped- no, it was The Guardian actually. [British accent] TheManchesterGuardian.co.uk.
Jamie: Oh, awesome.
Ben: They wrote an editorial saying that they just completely rehashed the same plot lines, and...
Andrew: Is it true?
Ben: Yes, I was devastated - yeah, actually, it was. Because I stopped watching after Season Two. [laughs] So...
Jamie: What? So, Ben, then they cancelled it because The Manchester Guardian ripped on them?
Andrew: Yeah.
Jamie: That's nice.
Andrew: Our feelings are hurt!
Ben: Yeah, that's pretty much it.
Jamie: The power of Hollywood.
Ben: No, actually they just cancelled it because people sort of stopped caring.
Andrew: Really?
Ben: Kind of like MuggleCast. Yeah.
Andrew: Well, my sister almost cried when she found out.
Ben: Does she know? That it got cancelled?
Andrew: Yeah, yeah. But, yeah.
Ben: [impression of Andrew's sister] Oh my god, Andrew! [laughs] But like I said, I think we're going to get cancelled next; we're done after this e-mail.
Jamie: Yeah, no, no. The Manchester Guardian ran a story last week that MuggleCast just uses the same inside jokes, doesn't do anything new, doesn't talk about Harry Potter. So, yeah.
[Ben laughs]
Jamie: We're destroyed next week.
Eric: That's an omen.
Jamie: It's our last show ever.
Ben: Hard pressed to move on, I'm Ben Schoen. I'm back, people!
Andrew: I'm Andrew Sims.
Ben: I'm back!
Jamie: I'm Jamie Lawrence.
Eric: I'm Eric Scull.
Laura: And I'm Laura Thompson.
Micah: The first three Harry Potter DVDs were removed from US shelves this past week, with the Goblet of Fire DVD coming off on January 22nd. Warner Home Video has announced that the DVDs will be re-released later this year in high-definition format. WHV HD DVDs, say that five times fast, offer resolution six times higher than regular DVDs, as well as vibrant color, contrast, and sound.
MTV has released a list of the top 10 must-see movies of 2007. Order of the Phoenix came in at the top, ahead of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Spider-Man 3.
Harry Potter has been revealed the fifth most searched term on MSN during 2006. With a movie, and possibly a book, out later this year, we can expect it to reach the number one spot, or close to it, in 2007.
HarryLatino.com has released a new interview with Daniel Radcliffe conducted a number of months ago. In it the actor discusses what his Boggart would be, Evanna Lynch, his desire to visit Mexico, and more.
And just eight hours after the title of Book 7 was announced, the novel hit the number one spot on Amazon UK's book chart. The staggering success of the book is further illustrated by the fact that it is now outselling all other books in the top 10 list combined. On top of that, the adult edition of Deathly Hallows is sitting at number two on the chart. No release date has been set.
Despite that fact, Christopher North, Amazon UK's Head of Books, said:
"Thousands of people in homes and offices across the UK have been going online to reserve their copy. If the initial response is anything to go by, this could be the biggest selling Harry Potter book of all time."
The biggest selling Harry Potter book of all time? You think?
That's all the news for this January 9th, 2007 edition of MuggleCast. Back to the show.
Ben: Thanks for that, Micah. Guys, is it just me or is the news kind of been a bit slow the past week? I mean, there's a Dumbledore figurine...
[Laura laughs]
Ben: [laughs] That's about it.
Andrew: It's been - it's worked out for us though, because we haven't been around to post much of it. So...
Jamie: [laughs] Yeah.
Ben: Yeah, that's true.
Andrew: It's been perfect.
Ben: So, Andrew, are you going to buy a Dumbledore figurine?
Andrew: Huh?
Ben: I bet Jamie would.
Jamie: Ten, actually.
Andrew: I already pre-ordered mine, actually. Yeah.
Ben: I bet they're invincible.[laughs]
Andrew: Yeah, yeah.
Eric: Just like Michael Gambon.
Ben: Andrew, Jamie, and myself were all out in the Sin City, Las Vegas, for New Year, and that was fun. And Jamie is actually in Andrew's MuggleCast recording studio this week. [laughs]
Andrew: Yep, he is.
Jamie: The amount of equipment here is oh, god.
Andrew: It's so awkward here. You should see...
Jamie: What's that?
Andrew: We should use Photobooth right now and take a picture and put it online.
Andrew: And make it the album art.
Jamie: Seriously. Ben...
Ben: They're so close to each other, there's like two inches of space.
Jamie: Ben...
Andrew: Thanks, Apple, for making the iPod cables so short.
Jamie: I didn't realize that there was so much...
Andrew: Talk into the mic.
Jamie: Okay, Ben, I didn't realize that there was so much equipment here. You should see his setup.
Jamie: He's got microphones...
Ben: Three-watt amp.
Jamie: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Andrew and Jamie laugh]
Jamie: Three-watt amp...
Eric: Right next to the Easy button.
Jamie: Microphones, you know. It's just ridiculous. He must have spent thousands of dollars on this.
Ben: Eric, what did you do for New Year?
Eric: I was in Myrtle Beach actually, and it rained and got foggy so they cancelled the fireworks.
Andrew: Oh, boo.
Ben: Well, that sounds like a waste of time.
Laura: Yeah, really.
[Ben and Laura laugh]
Ben: Actually, as the clock struck midnight in the crowd of 300,000 people, Jamie Lawrence was on my shoulders.
Andrew: Weren't you, Jamie?
Jamie: Hmmm?
Ben: It was awesome. We were down in the Strip and the fireworks went and set off, it was great.
Jamie: Oh, yeah. Oh, Ben. Should I tell the story about the countdown?
Ben: Yeah, [laughs] yeah. It was awesome.
Jamie: Okay, so we were all - we'd walked down from the hotel to the Strip. We couldn't walk that far because it was packed, even though Emerson was like, "Oh, come on. Let's walk further." What Emerson didn't seem to realize is that you can't walk into a sort of crowd full of people that won't move at all. So, anyway, we stopped and there are about 300,000 people there, and I was sitting on Ben's shoulders watching the countdown like an excited child that I was. There was a huge countdown that started off at sort of 30 and then counted down, but we could only see half of it because there was a sort of part of a hotel blocking it. So, it said sort of nine, so we shouted out, "Nine!" and then "Eight"...
Jamie: And we're thinking sort of, "Oh yeah, ten seconds to New Year." Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. And then on zero we all sort of jumped about screaming, and then we looked around and we realized that only sort of, you know...
Ben: [laughing] Our group of people. Yeah.
Jamie: Thirty-five other people were doing this as well. And then we realized that it had actually been 29, 28, 27. So, we looked across and found that there was another countdown still counting down. So, first embarrassing moment.
[Eric laughs]
Ben: So, it was kind of anti-climactic, to say the least.
Andrew: Yeah. [laughs]
Jamie: Yeah. So, yeah, the last embarrassing moment of the year actually happened on the countdown to the new year.
[Andrew and Ben laugh]
Ben: Before, before.
Eric: And, so, 300,000 people, you said. Was Emerson trying to give out MuggleNet stickers, this time?
Andrew: Believe it or not,
Ben: Actually, he was.
Eric: Yeah, I - he's...
Jamie: Yeah, he, he put them into one of the fireworks that...
Jamie: ...burst them all over the place, so everyone got one.
Ben: Now, Laura, Laura. Laura, what were you doing?
Laura: I worked, and then I came home and I stayed up...
Ben: So, was there a big celebration..
Laura: ...until 12:30.
Ben: Was there a big celebration at Target?
Laura: No, there was not.
Ben: Oh. That's too bad.
Laura: I was only there until six.
Ben: Awww.
Laura: And then I came home and I stayed up until 12:30, and I went to bed so I could get up and go to work again.
Ben: Did you...
Laura: Very exciting.
Andrew: Laura, you sound a little...
Eric: That sounds like my life. I'm glad I left that place.
Eric: I would've been at the - I would've been at the theatre upstairs in the long, dark projection hallways, just...
Eric: ...sitting there, with my wristwatch and not even like, a working radio.
Andrew: But you would've loved it. Admit it.
Jamie: And only the small voices inside your head to keep you company, Eric.
Ben: We have a few - we have a few announcements this week. Podcast Alley. Are we still the top podcast?
Eric: We were, actually. just...
Andrew: Well, listen, I mean, even if we're not on the Podcast Alley list, we're always number one. But...
Ben: Yeah, in your hearts and minds and soul, all that stuff.
Jamie: Can I just say, we've been extremely arrogant this week, too arrogant. We need to cut it back a slightly.
Ben: So go ahead and vote for us on Podcast Alley, show your support for MuggleCast. Also, MuggleNet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter Seven. Thanks to those of you who came out and saw Emerson at the bookstore this Saturday. I'm sure you guys had a grand old time. You collected your MuggleNet stickers.
Ben: Remember, our book, MuggleNet.com's [stumbles]...MuggleNet.com's...
[Jamie laughs]
Ben: MuggleNet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter Seven: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Falls in Love, and How the Adventure Finally Ends, by me, Jamie, Emerson, Andy, and Gretchen. You can go pick up, they're in your book stores.
Ben: And this is sort of our first listener rebuttal this week, because somebody was absolutely infuriated that we published a book. Ben, I have no idea how old he is, he sent me an e-mail, he said - this is not me, by the way, it's a different Ben. He said - he's basically an insult to the name.
The book that you're putting out is disgusting. Being Harry Potter fans, how can you possible feel that - feel just in actually selling a bunch of speculation to kids. The reason that people like me listen to MuggleCast is to get ideas and see what other people think that might happen in the last installment, but why should I even listen to that anymore considering every time the members of cast arrive to - at a Book Seven issue, they'll have to skip it with a, "Don't want to ruin our book," or, "If you want to know our thoughts, buy the book." In all sincerity, there is no reason to even come back to this site since all the cool thoughts and perspectives are now going to be sold. You guys are just a bunch of nerdy suits. Very disrespectfully, Ben. P.S. In addition, why would you want to try and ruin the last book?
Hey, Jamie, didn't you have a little response to this Ben character?
Jamie: Well, you see, Ben, I would love to tell Ben, like I told that girl from Glasgow a few weeks ago, to act like the sky at 6 a.m. and lighten up.
Jamie: But I've just spent 14 hours sleeping, and so I haven't seen morning, so I don't know if it's still does light up at 6 a.m. So, I think I'm going to be - I'm going to be nice to him. I think, I think there - I think, is he trying to say don't come and listen to the show now, because all the stuff we talk about is in this book, yeah? But that's completely...
Ben: Or, or that we're going to stop talking because you should...
Jamie: Yeah, okay, well...
Ben: ...read our book instead.
Jamie: A, it's completely untrue, because...
Laura: The show is impromptu. We come up with new theories all the time.
Ben: Yeah, and the book - the book isn't inclusive of every MuggleNet staff member's opinion. So...
Jamie: No, and the book is basically...
Ben: You just have to remember that.
Jamie: The book is basically a summary of all of the ideas we had, and there are opinions in that book. Andy's, Gretchen's, Emerson's, that haven't ever been on the show. You know? Emerson's been on once, stuff like that. And we don't always say, "Oh, we don't want to ruin the book," or, "If you want to know our thoughts, buy the book." We may say, "If you want to know more, buy our book," or, "If you want to know more about our thoughts, buy it." But, all of the core thoughts and perspectives are not going to be solved. You know?
Ben: We're not holding back.
Jamie: Yeah, exactly.
Ben: We're not holding back for the sake of the book.
Jamie: And we know already that there's more that we could add to the book. You know? The books, I mean, it's - we haven't got, you know, the title stuff in there, because, you know, the title was released afterwards. So, we can't talk about, you know, the title of Book Seven and say, "Well, read the book," because we haven't, and we still talk about that. We still talk about, you know, Snape being evil, we still talk about Dumbledore being dead on here, even though we've got it in the book.
Andrew: Yeah.
Jamie: It's just, if you want a collection of, you know, points and stuff, then buy the book. And there's other stuff in there, like, you know, chapters about how far we've come in the Harry Potter world, you know, chapters about what we're going to do after Book Seven finishes, it's, you know? It's a work in itself, it's not anything to do with...
Ben: It's different.
Ben: I mean, we talk about news on here. We talk about - like, this week's discussion is going to be completely different, something we never put in the book, so it's not necessarily, you know, it isn't like we're taking away from the book by having the show.
Jamie: No, and...
Ben: They're not mutually exclusive; they can coexist.
Jamie: Exactly. And we are, in no way, trying to ruin the last book. If we wanted to do that, we'd go down to the local Borders and pin up posters saying what we think is going to happen. You know? If you want to buy the book and read about it, that's fine, but...
Ben: Yeah, nobody's forcing you to.
Jamie: ...we aren't forcing it on anyone.
Ben: Yeah, so remember, you can purchase this at Borders. If you're going to order it on the Internet, please support MuggleNet, order it through Alivan's, our online retailer. Yeah, they're out partners, so order through there.
Ben: Yeah, like I said before, I was kind of gone the past five weeks, so, you know, we had the title happen, we had, you know, all kinds of crazy Harry Potter stuff going on. So, I just wanted to briefly, you know, interject what I think about what Deathly Hallows means, the title, the release date. Okay, first of all, Deathly Hallows. I'm not going to be all philosophical and try to define what the hallows are. I mean, if you want to know what the hallows are...
Jamie: Read our book!
[Everyone laughs]
Ben: [laughs] No, actually, I don't know what Deathly Hallows means, I'm not - I mean, listen to the episode if you want some more speculation on that. I don't - I think it's just souls, something like that. However, on the release date. Something I need to brag about here, is if you - go back and listen to Episode 22. I said that we were going to get the title of Book Seven at the end of 2006, and correct me if I'm wrong here, [laughs] but I was right! So, I just thought - I felt the need...
Eric: When was this?
Ben: Episode 22.
Andrew: Good work, Ben.
Ben: Actually, I didn't remember saying that. Someone e-mailed in, so thank you, "LittleRoxyChick16," for telling me that I was right.
Ben: Yeah, you know me, I never miss an opportunity to brag, so thank you for sending that in.
Andrew: No, no.
Ben: Oh, the release date. I was pretty adamant about it being 2008, but something tells me it could be this summer, but I don't know. I'm not so sure anymore. It's a coin toss. If I had to pick a date, it's going to be the end of July, if anything. Remember this episode. When we get the release date you can come back. July 2007 or July 2008, one or the other.
Andrew: Oh, well, geez. Well, me and Jamie were talking about this. If - well, we're going to be excited to have the release date if it is July 2007, but we're also going to be upset.
Ben: It puts a date on the end. It's like the expiration date of the Harry Potter series.
Andrew: It's not just that.
Eric: We have a debate about it later on in the show. So...
Andrew: That is a good point, so we shouldn't be talking about it now, yeah.
Jamie: I agree.
Ben: Yeah. [laughs]
Ben: Speaking of titles, this week's main discussion is sort of a new take - a new spin on what the title could mean, and Micah came up with this, but we're discussing The Hanged Man. And if you look to Goblet of Fire it's the name of the bar in the beginning where the townsfolk are discussing the Riddle murders.
Eric: In Little Hangleton.
Jamie: Yeah.
Ben: Little Hangleton - yeah [laughs] Hangleton.
Eric: Hangleton. Hangle...
Ben: Yeah. And so it actually comes in that hallow, the word hallow, deathly hallows - is an archaic word for the word gallows; a frame, typically wooden, used for execution by hanging. And one of the definition for hallows is actually a site where a person is hanged. So, we're thinking there may be some type of connection between gallows and hallow, and since "the hanged man" is in the book, there could be some correlation there.
Jamie: Doesn't that kind of just reinforce the death link?
Eric: Yeah.
Jamie: That, you know, it's about, all of the discussion we've had has come back to the fact that whatever interpretation of the title we give, it always comes back to that it's about death. But if you want to know more, read our book.
Andrew: Can't say any more.
Laura: Now looking at that literally, do you think that Harry is actually going to see any form of gallows in the seventh book?
Eric: I don't think he needs to see gallows. The emphasis is on The Hanged Man is a village pub in the town where Voldemort is, where his ancestry is from. Both the Gaunts and the Riddle family lived, presumably, either in or on the outskirts of Little Hangleton. So, the fact that they have a pub called The Hanged Man just emphasizes that there's something big with death having to do - and, you know, Voldemort has that connection. All these titles and things we're getting, I think it's just about Voldemort's quest for immortality and coming to an end.
Ben: And you know, this Hanged Man stuff is really the ultimate over-analyzation, but you know, folks, it's what we do. It's who we are.
Andrew: I don't think so. I think Micah presented an interesting case.
Jamie: It's interesting, yeah.
Ben: It's interesting. I mean, but I don't know realistically what correlation there's going to be. A lot of people have e-mailed in about the hanged man being a tarot card, which is what Miss Cleo and all those people used to do. [laughs] You see all the hotlines on TV. [imitating Miss Cleo] I'm Miss Cleo, and we can do the Tarot card! Let me tell your future!
Andrew: [laughs] Yeah.
Ben: Anyway. [laughs] It's symbolism...
Eric: It's pointless.
Ben: ...which points to divinities. In all the stories, the destruction of self brings life to humanity.
Ben: This is from Wikipedia, just basically what the card is.
On the card these are symbolized respectively, by the hanged man from the living tree from which he swings. It's relationship to other cards usually involves personal loss for a greater gain.
So, the relation to hallows and the hanged man represents, as I said, a personal loss for a greater gain, which in a way sort of represents...
Jamie: Oh, my god.
[Laura Laughs]
Ben: What Harry may or may not be doing.
Jamie: Represents a - well, I was going to say I don't personally think that Harry is a Horcrux, but that's what that could represent. You know?
Jamie: He loses his life for the greater good of getting rid of Voldemort.
Andrew: Or someone else's.
Jamie: But, that's a horrible thought.
Ben: He doesn't necessarily have to be a Horcrux, he could die in the process somehow.
Jamie: Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Eric: Or also, destruction of self could also mean destruction of those close to ones self, in a way.
Ben: Right.
Eric: I mean, if you suffer some losses, you are, you know, some people feel like half a person, etcetera. Something like that.
Eric: It's about sacrifice, trials, and suffering. I don't think he'll be happy about it this time.
Andrew: Going back to the literal meaning, though, Deathly Hallows, if this theory brought up by Micah, if it's anything to be believed, literally doesn't it mean deathly hangings? Wouldn't that be essentially what it means?
Eric: Well, it's not a word you can say, "Deathly Hangings," because it has so many different meanings, and was chosen for exactly that.
Ben: What exactly does archaic word mean?
Jamie: It's fallen out of usage.
Laura: Archaic is like ancient.
Jamie: No, it's not, it's just one that's fallen out of popular usage.
Andrew: We're going to have to look it up.
Ben: Yeah, so it's basically - can they be used interchangeably?
Eric: Well...
Ben: Or it just means at one time hallow mean gallows? They were the same thing?
Laura: Mhm.
Eric: Using them in the word form that JKR has, by saying Deathly Hallows, she created the word, basically. I mean, Hallow is obviously a word that has many, many meanings, but using it in the form that she does with the title is completely - you can't substitute Deathly Gallows, Deathly Horcruxes, Deathly Saints.
Jamie: No, exactly. You can't substitute it, yeah. It's etymology that's important.
Eric: Yeah, you can't substitute it because it has an old use, has many different meanings, and is open to interpretation, but also you can't substitute it because it's not an actual word the way she's using it.
Ben: I see.
Laura: By the way, "archaic" means "very old or old fashioned."
Jamie: No, no the...
Andrew: There's multiple meanings. We're looking it up, too, right now.
Laura: Yeah.
Jamie: Linguistically it means "commonly used in an earlier time, but rarely used in present day, except to suggest an older time such as in religious rituals and historic rubbles. Examples include thou, methinks, forsooth." And so on.
Andrew: Either way, does it really matter?
Jamie: No. I can't believe we spoke about this. This couldn't be less relevant if we tried. [laughs]
Laura: Well, does that mean there was some kind of hanging that went on, I don't know, maybe in the past that Harry's going to learn about?
Eric: No, and especially it doesn't mean that some kind of hanging took place. It could have, but the hanging is death. People are being put to death. It's life, death, sacrifice, the whole nine yards. It doesn't mean there was a hanging that took place that's going to be significant in the book.
Ben: Yeah, but with the hanged man, you know, the Tarot card and all that, there's also an association with life and the runes. This is from Wikipedia. It says:
The Hanged Man is often associated with Odin, the primary god of the Norse Pantheon. Odin hung upside down from the world-tree, Yggdrasil."
I can't say it.
"For nine days in order to gain knowledge of the runes, which the Norse cosmology regarded as a source of all mystery and all knowledge. The moment he glimpsed the runes, he died, but the knowledge of them was so powerful that he immediately returned to life. This interpretation highlights the necessity of taking personal sacrifice in order to achieve one's higher spiritual good."
Andrew: This is so deep.
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I remember reading a newspaper article written when this statue was unveiled. Local residents were gathered for the unveiling of what was to be an impressive new monument on the fort grounds. The base had been built for some time and people were awaiting the arrival of the figure which was to grace the top. Evidently, there was a general sense of dissatisfaction when the cloth was removed and the bust was seen for the first time. Residents had thought that the figure was going to be a full casting of a body standing atop the monument rather than just a head and shoulders. Years later this monument has grown into a much loved part of the community. Ironically the love does not necessarily transfer to the gentleman portrayed in the bronze casting. More often than not I hear it referred to as the Champlain monument. For the sake of clarity, locally there is a Champlain monument located on the waterfront at the Port Royal Habitation.
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The East Carolina baseball team completed its Annual Fire of Blackbeard Challenge last week as the 2011 fall practice schedule came to an end, with Bryan Bass, Jake Harris, DeShorn Lake, Jake Reinheimer, Dario Santangelo, Andy Smithmyer, Corey Thompson and Timothy Younger guiding team Red to the Seventh Annual Title. For Bass (2010) and Thompson (2009) it is the second time they have been on the winning team.
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Tokyo (東京 Tōkyō; "Eastern Capital" ), officially Tokyo Metropolis (東京都 Tōkyō-to ),[1] is the capital and largest city of Japan, and is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. It is located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. Tokyo's government also administers the twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, that cover the area that was once the city of Tokyo in the eastern part of the prefecture.
The population of the special wards is over 8 million people, with the total population of the prefecture exceeding 12 million. The prefecture is the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, the world's most populous metropolitan area with 35 to 39 million people (depending on definition) and the world's largest metropolitan economy with a GDP of US$1.479 trillion at purchasing power parity in 2008.[2]
Tokyo was described by Saskia Sassen as one of the three "command centers" for the world economy, along with New York City and London.[3] This city is considered an alpha+ world city, listed by the GaWC's 2008 inventory[4] and ranked fourth among global cities by Foreign Policy's 2008 Global Cities Index. In 2009 Tokyo was named the world's most expensive city for expatriate employees, according to the Mercer and Economist Intelligence Unit cost-of-living surveys [5] and named the third Most Liveable City and the World's Most Livable Megalopolis by the magazine Monocle.[6]
Tokyo is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family.
Tokyo was originally known as Edo, meaning estuary.[7] Its name was changed to Tokyo (Tōkyō: tō (east) + kyō (capital)) when it became the imperial capital in 1868.[7] During the early Meiji period, the city was also called "Tōkei", an alternative pronunciation for the same Chinese characters representing "Tokyo". Some surviving official English documents use the spelling "Tokei";[8]. However, this pronunciation is now obsolete.[9]
Tokyo was originally a small fishing village named Edo. In 1457, Ōta Dōkan built Edo Castle. In 1590, Tokugawa Ieyasu made Edo his base and when he became shogun in 1603, the town became the center of his nationwide military government. During the subsequent Edo period, Edo grew into one of the largest cities in the world with a population topping one million by the 18th century.[10]
It became the de facto capital of Japan[11] even while the emperor lived in Kyoto, the imperial capital. After about 263 years, the shogunate was overthrown under the banner of restoring imperial rule. In 1869, the 17-year-old Emperor Meiji moved to Edo. Tokyo was already the nation's political and cultural center,[12] and the emperor's residence made it a de facto imperial capital as well with the former Edo Castle becoming the Imperial Palace. The city of Tokyo was established, and continued to be the capital until it was abolished as a municipality in 1943 and merged with the "Metropolitan Prefecture" of Tokyo.
Central Tokyo, like Osaka, has been designed since about 1900 to be centered around major train stations in a high-density fashion[citation needed], so suburban railways were built relatively cheaply at street level and with their own right-of-way. This differs from many cities in the United States that are low-density and automobile-centric. Though expressways have been built in Tokyo, the basic design has not changed.
Tokyo went on to suffer two major catastrophes in the 20th century, but it recovered from both. One was the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, which left 140,000 dead or missing,[13] and the other was World War II. The bombing of Tokyo in 1944 and 1945, with 75,000 to 200,000 killed and half of the city destroyed, were almost as devastating as the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.[14]
After the war, Tokyo was completely rebuilt, and showcased to the world during the 1964 Summer Olympics. The 1970s brought new high-rise developments such as Sunshine 60, a new and controversial[15] airport at Narita in 1978 (some distance outside city limits), and a population increase to about 11 million (in the metropolitan area).
Tokyo's subway and commuter rail network became one of the busiest in the world[16] as more and more people moved to the area. In the 1980s, real estate prices skyrocketed during a real estate and debt bubble. The bubble burst in the early 1990s, and many companies, banks, and individuals were caught with mortgage backed debts while real estate was shrinking in value. A major recession followed, making the 1990s Japan's "lost decade"[17] from which it is now slowly recovering.
Tokyo still sees new urban developments on large lots of less profitable land. Recent projects include Ebisu Garden Place, Tennozu Isle, Shiodome, Roppongi Hills, Shinagawa (now also a Shinkansen station), and the Marunouchi side of Tokyo Station. Buildings of significance are demolished for more up-to-date shopping facilities such as Omotesando Hills.
Land reclamation projects in Tokyo have also been going on for centuries. The most prominent is the Odaiba area, now a major shopping and entertainment center. Various plans have been proposed[18] for transferring national government functions from Tokyo to secondary capitals in other regions of Japan, in order to slow down rapid development in Tokyo and revitalize economically lagging areas of the country. These plans have been controversial[19] within Japan and have yet to be realized.
Geography and administrative divisions
The mainland portion of Tokyo lies northwest of Tokyo Bay and measures about 90 km east to west and 25 km north to south. Chiba Prefecture borders it to the east, Yamanashi to the west, Kanagawa to the south, and Saitama to the north. Mainland Tokyo is further subdivided into the special wards (occupying the eastern half) and the Tama area (多摩地域) stretching westwards.
Also within the administrative boundaries of Tokyo Metropolis are two island chains in the Pacific Ocean directly south: the Izu Islands, and the Ogasawara Islands, which stretch more than 1,000 km away from the mainland. Because of these islands and mountainous regions to the west, Tokyo's overall population density figures far underrepresent the real figures for urban and suburban regions of Tokyo.
Under Japanese law, Tokyo is designated as a to (都), translated as metropolis.[20] Its administrative structure is similar to that of Japan's other prefectures. Within Tokyo lie dozens of smaller entities, most of them conventionally[citation needed] referred to as cities. It includes twenty-three special wards (特別区 -ku) which until 1943 comprised the city of Tokyo but are now separate, self-governing municipalities, each with a mayor and a council, and having the status of a city.
In addition to these 23 municipalities, Tokyo also encompasses 26 more cities (市 -shi), five towns (町 -chō or machi), and eight villages (村 -son or -mura), each of which has a local government. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is headed by a publicly elected governor and metropolitan assembly. Its headquarters are in the ward of Shinjuku. They govern all of Tokyo, including lakes, rivers, dams, farms, remote islands, and national parks in addition to its neon jungles, skyscrapers and crowded subways.
Special wards
The special wards (tokubetsu-ku) of Tokyo comprise the area formerly incorporated as Tokyo City. On July 1, 1943, Tokyo City was merged with Tokyo Prefecture (東京府 Tōkyō-fu ) forming the current "metropolitan prefecture". As a result, unlike other city wards in Japan, these wards are not part of any larger incorporated city. Each ward is a municipality with its own elected mayor and assembly like the other cities of Japan. The wards differ from other cities in having a unique administrative relationship with the prefectural government. Certain municipal functions, such as waterworks, sewerage, and fire-fighting, are handled by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. To pay for the added administrative costs, the prefecture collects municipal taxes, which would usually be levied by the city.[21] The special wards of Tokyo are as follows:
The "three core wards" of Tokyo are Chiyoda, Chūō and Minato.[22]
Western Tokyo
To the west of the special wards, Tokyo Metropolis consists of cities, towns and villages that enjoy the same legal status as those elsewhere in Japan.
While serving as "bed towns" for those working in central Tokyo, some of these also have a local commercial and industrial base. Collectively, these are often known as the Tama Area or Western Tokyo.
Twenty-six cities lie within the western part of Tokyo:
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has designated Hachiōji, Tachikawa, Machida, Ōme and Tama New Town as regional centers of the Tama area,[23] as part of their plans to disperse urban functions away from central Tokyo.
Districts, towns and villages
The far west is occupied by the district (gun) of Nishitama. Much of this area is mountainous and unsuitable for urbanization. The highest mountain in Tokyo, Mount Kumotori, is 2,017 m high; other mountains in Tokyo include Takasu (1737 m), Odake (1266 m), and Mitake (929 m). Lake Okutama, on the Tama River near Yamanashi Prefecture, is Tokyo's largest lake.
Tokyo has numerous outlying islands, which extend as far as 1850 km from central Tokyo. Because of the islands' distance from the administrative headquarters of the metropolitan government in Shinjuku, local offices administer them.
The Izu Islands are a group of volcanic islands and form part of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. The islands in order from closest to Tokyo are Izu Ōshima, Toshima, Niijima, Shikinejima, Kozushima, Miyakejima, Mikurajima, Hachijojima, and Aogashima. Izu Ōshima and Hachijojima are towns. The remaining islands are six villages, with Niijima and Shikinejima forming one village.
The Ogasawara Islands include, from north to south, Chichi-jima, Nishinoshima, Haha-jima, Kita Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima, and Minami Iwo Jima. Ogasawara also administers two tiny outlying islands: Minami Torishima, the easternmost point in Japan and at 1,850 km the most distant island from central Tokyo, and Okino Torishima, the southernmost point in Japan. The last island is contested by the People's Republic of China as being only uninhabited rocks. The Iwo chain and the outlying islands have no permanent population, but host Japanese Self-Defense Forces personnel. Local populations are only found on Chichi-jima and Haha-jima. The islands form the village of Ogasawara.
National parks
There are several national parks within Tokyo, among them:
- Meiji no Mori Takao Quasi-National Park, around Mount Takao to the south of Hachiōji
- Ogasawara National Park. As of 2006, efforts were being made to make Ogasawara National Park a UNESCO natural World Heritage Site.
- Ueno Park, well known for its museums: Tokyo National Museum, National Science Museum, Shitamachi Museum and National Museum for Western Art, among others. There are also art works and statues in several places in the park.
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|By hours³
14.978 million
|By nationality
Foreign residents
As of October 2007, the official intercensal estimate showed 12.79 million people in Tokyo with 8.653 million living within Tokyo's 23 wards.[24] During the daytime, the population swells by over 2.5 million as workers and students commute from adjacent areas. This effect is even more pronounced in the three central wards of Chiyoda, Chūō, and Minato, whose collective population as of the 2005 National Census was 326,000 at night, but 2.4 million during the day.[24]
The entire prefecture had 12,790,000 residents in October 2007 (8,653,000 in 23 wards), with an increase of over 3 million in the day. Tokyo is at its highest population ever, while that of the 23 wards peak official count was 8,893,094 in the 1965 Census, with the count dipping below 8 million in the 1995 Census.[citation needed] People continue to move back into the core city as land prices have fallen dramatically.[citation needed]
As of 2005, the most common foreign nationalities found in Tokyo are Chinese (123,661), Korean (106,697), Filipino (31,077), American (18,848), British (7,696), Brazilian (5,300) and French (3,000).[25]
The 1889 Census[citation needed] recorded 1,389,600 people in Tokyo City, Japan's largest city at the time.
Climate and seismology
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Tokyo lies in the humid subtropical climate zone (Koppen climate classification Cfa),[26] with hot humid summers and generally mild winters with cool spells. Annual rainfall averages 1,380 mm (55 inches), with a wetter summer and a drier winter. Snowfall is sporadic, but does occur almost annually.[27]
Tokyo is an example of an urban heat island; the city's population is a significant contributor to its climate.[28][29] Tokyo has been cited as a "convincing example of the relationship between urban growth and climate".[citation needed] Tokyo also often sees typhoons each year, though few are strong. The last one to hit was Fitow in 2007.[28]
Tokyo was hit by powerful earthquakes in 1703, 1782, 1812, 1855 and 1923.[30][31] The 1923 earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 8.3, killed 142,000 people.
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Global warming
Tokyo has enacted a measure to cut greenhouse gases. Governor Shintaro Ishihara created Japan's first emissions cap system, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emission by a total of 25 percent by 2020 from the 2000 level.[33]
Heat island phenomenon
In Tokyo, particularly in the special wards, the problem of the heat island phenomenon is serious. According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government,[34] the annual mean temperature has increased by about 3°C over the past 100 years.
Tokyo is one of the three world finance "command centers", along with New York and London. Tokyo has the largest metropolitan economy in the world. According to a study conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Tokyo urban area (35.2 million people) had a total GDP of US$1.479 trillion in 2008 (at purchasing power parity), ranking again as the largest urban agglomeration GDP in the world.[2] As of 2008, 47 of the companies listed on the Global 500 are based in Tokyo, almost twice that of the second-placed city (Paris).[35]
Tokyo is a major international finance center,[36] houses the headquarters of several of the world's largest investment banks and insurance companies, and serves as a hub for Japan's transportation, publishing, and broadcasting industries. During the centralized growth of Japan's economy following World War II, many large firms moved their headquarters from cities such as Osaka (the historical commercial capital) to Tokyo, in an attempt to take advantage of better access to the government. This trend has begun to slow due to ongoing population growth in Tokyo and the high cost of living there.
The Big Mac Index shows that workers in Tokyo earn the highest salary in the world.[citation needed]
Tokyo was rated by the Economist Intelligence Unit as the most expensive (highest cost-of-living) city in the world for 14 years in a row ending in 2006.[37] This analysis is for living a corporate executive lifestyle, with items like a detached house and several automobiles.[citation needed]
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is Japan's largest stock exchange, and second largest in the world by market capitalization and fourth largest by share turnover. In 1990 at the end of the Japanese asset price bubble, it accounted for more than 60% of the world stock market value.[38]
Tokyo had 8,460 ha (20,900 acres) of agricultural land as of 2003,[39] according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, placing it last among the nation's prefectures. The farmland is concentrated in Western Tokyo. Perishables such as vegetables, fruits, and flowers can be conveniently shipped to the markets in the eastern part of the prefecture. Japanese leaf spinach and spinach are the most important vegetables; as of 2000, Tokyo supplied 32.5% of the Japanese leaf spinach sold at its central produce market.
With 36% of its area covered by forest, Tokyo has extensive growths of cryptomeria and Japanese cypress, especially in the mountainous western communities of Akiruno, Ōme, Okutama, Hachiōji, Hinode, and Hinohara. Decreases in the price of lumber, increases in the cost of production, and advancing old age among the forestry population have resulted in a decline in Tokyo's output. In addition, pollen, especially from cryptomeria, is a major allergen for the nearby population centers.
Tokyo Bay was once a major source of fish. Presently, most of Tokyo's fish production comes from the outer islands, such as Izu Ōshima and Hachijōjima. Skipjack tuna, nori, and aji are among the ocean products.
Tourism in Tokyo is also a contributor to the economy.
Tokyo, as the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, is Japan's largest domestic and international hub for rail, ground, and air transportation. Public transportation within Tokyo is dominated by an extensive network of clean and efficient[40] trains and subways run by a variety of operators, with buses, monorails and trams playing a secondary feeder role.
Within Ōta, one of the 23 special wards, Tokyo International Airport ("Haneda") offers mainly domestic flights. Outside Tokyo, Narita International Airport, in Chiba Prefecture, is the major gateway for international travelers to Japan. All Nippon, Air Japan and Delta Air Lines have a hub at the airport.
Various islands governed by Tokyo have their own airports. Hachijōjima (Hachijojima Airport), Miyakejima (Miyakejima Airport), and Izu Ōshima (Oshima Airport) have service to Tokyo International and other airports.
Rail is the primary mode of transportation in Tokyo, which has the most extensive urban railway network in the world and an equally extensive network of surface lines. JR East operates Tokyo's largest railway network, including the Yamanote Line loop that circles the center of downtown Tokyo. Two organizations operate the subway network: the private Tokyo Metro and the governmental Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation. The metropolitan government and private carriers operate bus routes. Local, regional, and national services are available, with major terminals at the giant railroad stations, including Tokyo and Shinjuku.
Expressways link the capital to other points in the Greater Tokyo area, the Kantō region, and the islands of Kyūshū and Shikoku.
Other transportation includes taxis operating in the special wards and the cities and towns. Also long-distance ferries serve the islands of Tokyo and carry passengers and cargo to domestic and foreign ports.
Tokyo has many universities, junior colleges, and vocational schools. Many of Japan's most prestigious universities are in Tokyo, including University of Tokyo, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Waseda University, and Keio University.[41] Some of the biggest national universities located in Tokyo are:
- Ochanomizu University
- University of Electro-Communications
- National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
- University of Tokyo
- Tokyo Medical and Dental University
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
- Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
- Tokyo Gakugei University
- Tokyo University of the Arts
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
- Hitotsubashi University.
There is only one non-national public university: Tokyo Metropolitan University.
There are also a few universities well-known for classes conducted in English and for the teaching of the Japanese language. They include:
For an extensive list, see List of universities in Tokyo.
Publicly run kindergartens, elementary schools (years 1 through 6), and junior high schools (7 through 9) are operated by local wards or municipal offices. Public high schools in Tokyo are run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education and are called "Metropolitan High Schools". Regardless, Tokyo has many private schools from kindergarten through high school.[42]
Tokyo has many museums. In Ueno Park there are four national museums: Tokyo National Museum, the country's largest museum and specializing in traditional Japanese art; the National Museum of Western Art; and the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, with its collections of Japanese modern art as well as over 40,000 Japanese and foreign films.[43] Also in Ueno Park are the National Museum of Science and the public zoo. Other museums include the Nezu Art Museum in Aoyama; the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Sumida across the Sumida River from the center of Tokyo; and the National Diet Library, National Archives, and the National Museum of Modern Art, which are located near the Imperial Palace.
Tokyo has many theaters for the performing arts as well. These include national and private theaters for traditional forms of Japanese drama (like noh and kabuki) as well as modern dramas. Symphony orchestras and other musical organizations perform modern and traditional music. Tokyo also hosts modern Japanese and international pop and rock music at venues ranging in size from intimate clubs to internationally known arenas like the Nippon Budokan.
Many different festivals occur throughout Tokyo. Major events include the Sannō at Hie Shrine, the Sanja at Asakusa Shrine, and the biennial Kanda Festivals. The last features a parade with elaborately decorated floats and thousands of people. Annually on the last Saturday of July, an enormous fireworks display over the Sumida River attracts over a million viewers. Once cherry blossoms, or sakura, bloom in spring, many residents gather in Ueno Park, Inokashira Park, and the Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden for picnics under the blossoms.
Harajuku, a neighborhood in Shibuya, is known internationally for its youth style and fashion.[44]
Cuisine in Tokyo is internationally acclaimed. In November 2007, Michelin released their guide for fine dining in Tokyo, garnering 191 stars in total, or about twice as many as its nearest competitor, Paris. Eight establishments were awarded the maximum of three stars (Paris has 10), 25 received two stars, and 117 earned one star. Of the eight top-rated restaurants, three offer traditional Japanese fine dining, two are sushi houses and three serve French cuisine.[45]
Tokyo, with a diverse array of sports, is home to two professional baseball clubs, the Yomiuri Giants (Tokyo Dome) and Tokyo Yakult Swallows (Meiji-Jingu Stadium) . The Japan Sumo Association is also headquartered in Tokyo at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan sumo arena where three official sumo tournaments are held annually (in January, May, and September). Football (soccer) clubs in Tokyo include F.C. Tokyo and Tokyo Verdy 1969, both of which play at Ajinomoto Stadium in Chōfu.
Tokyo hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics. National Stadium, also known as Olympic Stadium, Tokyo is host to a number of international sporting events. With a number of world-class sports venues, Tokyo often hosts national and international sporting events such as tennis tournaments, swim meets, marathons, American football exhibition games, judo, karate, etc. Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, in Sendagaya, Shibuya, is a large sports complex that includes swimming pools, training rooms, and a large indoor arena.
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As the largest population center in Japan and the location of the country's largest broadcasters and studios, Tokyo is frequently the setting for many Japanese movies, television shows, animated series (anime), web comics, and comic books (manga). In the kaiju (monster movie) genre, landmarks of Tokyo are routinely destroyed by giant monsters such as Godzilla.
Some Hollywood directors have turned to Tokyo as a filming location for movies set in Tokyo. Well-known examples from the postwar era include Tokyo Joe, My Geisha, and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice; well-known contemporary examples include Kill Bill, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Lost in Translation.
Japanese films that use Tokyo as their setting include:
- Daremo Shirenai (Nobody Knows) (2004)
- Tokyo Zombie (2005)
- Tenten (Adrift in Tokyo) (2007)
Architecture in Tokyo has largely been shaped by Tokyo's history. Twice in recent history has the metropolis been left in ruins: first in the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake and later after extensive firebombing in World War II.[46] Because of this, Tokyo's current urban landscape is one of modern and contemporary architecture, and older buildings are scarce.[46]
Tokyo also contains numerous parks and gardens.
Sister relationships
Tokyo has eleven sister cities/states:[47]
In addition, Tokyo has a "partnership" agreement with London, United Kingdom.[47]
See also
- Capital of Japan — for discussion of the de jure or de facto status of Tokyo as capital
- 1703 Genroku earthquake
- ↑ "Geography of Tokyo". Tokyo Metropolitan Government. http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/PROFILE/overview02.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Global city GDP rankings 2008-2025". Pricewaterhouse Coopers. https://www.ukmediacentre.pwc.com/Content/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=3421&NewsAreaID=2. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
- ↑ Sassen, Saskia (2001). The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (2nd ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691070636.
- ↑ GaWC - The World According to GaWC 2008
- ↑ The Mercer 2009 Cost of Living Survey.
- ↑ Fawkes, Piers (2009-06-18). "Top 25 Most Liveable Cities 2009 - Monocle". PSFK.com. http://www.psfk.com/2009/06/top-25-most-liveable-cities-2009-monocle-magazine-zurich-copenhagen-tokyo-munich-helsinki.html. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Room, Adrian. Placenames of the World. McFarland & Company (1996), p360. ISBN 0786418141.
- ↑ Waley, Paul (2003). Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo. Routledge. p. 253. ISBN 070071409X.
- ↑ "明治東京異聞~トウケイかトウキョウか~東京の読み方" Tokyo Metropolitan Archives (2008). Retrieved on 13 September 2008. (Japanese)
- ↑ McClain, James (1994). Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era. Cornell University Press. p. 13. ISBN 080148183X.
- ↑ Sorensen, Andre (2004). The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century. RoutledgeCurzon. p. 16. ISBN 0415354226.
- ↑ "History of Tokyo". Tokyo Metropolitan Government. http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/PROFILE/overview01.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
- ↑ Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake of 1923. Britannica Online Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Tipton, Elise K. (2002). Modern Japan: A Social and Political History. Routledge. p. 141.
- ↑ "Tokyo Narita International Airport (NRT) Airport Information (Tokyo, Japan)". Retrieved on 11 September 2008.
- ↑ "Rail Transport in The World's Major Cities" (PDF). Japan Railway and Transport Review. http://www.jrtr.net/jrtr25/pdf/f04_oka.pdf. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
- ↑ Saxonhouse, Gary R. (ed.); Robert M. Stern (ed.) (2004). Japan's Lost Decade: Origins, Consequences and Prospects for Recovery. Blackwell Publishing Limited. ISBN 1405119179.
- ↑ "Shift of Capital from Tokyo Committee". Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development. http://www.jpc-sed.or.jp/eng/committee/committee06.html. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
- ↑ "Policy Speech by Governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara at the First Regular Session of the Metropolitan Assembly, 2003". Tokyo Metropolitan Government. http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/GOVERNOR/SPEECH/2003/0301/2.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
- ↑ "Local Government in Japan" (PDF). Council of Local Authorities for International Relations. pp. 8. http://188.8.131.52/pdfs/en/localg2006.pdf. Retrieved 2008-09-14.
- ↑ The Structure of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Tokyo government webpage)
- ↑ Population of Tokyo - Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Retrieved on July 4, 2009)
- ↑ "Development of the Metropolitan Center, Subcenters and New Base". Bureau of Urban Development, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. http://www.toshiseibi.metro.tokyo.jp/plan/pe-011.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 "Population of Tokyo". Tokyo Metropolitan Government. http://www.metro.tokyo.jp/ENGLISH/PROFILE/overview03.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
- ↑ "Tokyo Statistical Yearbook 2005, Population". Bureau of General Affairs, Tokyo Metropolitan Government. http://www.toukei.metro.tokyo.jp/tnenkan/2005/tn05qyte0510b.htm. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
- ↑ Peel, M. C., Finlayson, B. L., and McMahon, T. A.: Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 11, 1633-1644, 2007.
- ↑ "Tokyo observes latest ever 1st snowfall". Kyodo News (Tokyo). March 16, 2005. http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070316/kyodo/d8nsv0600.html. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 Barry, Roger Graham & Richard J. Chorley. Atmosphere, Weather and Climate. Routledge (2003), p344. ISBN 0415271703.
- ↑ Toshiaki Ichinose, Kazuhiro Shimodozono, and Keisuke Hanaki. Impact of anthropogenic heat on urban climate in Tokyo. Atmospheric Environment 33 (1999): 3897-3909.
- ↑ "A New 1649-1884 Catalog of Destructive Earthquakes near Tokyo and Implications for the Long-term Seismic Process" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey. http://sicarius.wr.usgs.gov/tokyo/submitted/GrunewaldJGR_submitted.pdf. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
- ↑ "A new probabilistic seismic hazard assessment for greater Tokyo" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey. http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/reports/reprints/Stein_PRSLA_364.pdf. Retrieved 2007-10-14.
- ↑ "気象庁 / 平年値(年・月ごとの値)". Japan Meteorological Agency. http://www.data.jma.go.jp/obd/stats/etrn/view/nml_sfc_ym.php?prec_no=44&prec_ch=%93%8C%8B%9E%93s&block_no=47662&block_ch=%93%8C%8B%9E&year=&month=&day=&elm=normal&view=.
- ↑ "World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)". Wbcsd.org. http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?type=DocDet&ObjectId=MzAyNzQ. Retrieved 2008-10-18.
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MEDINA — A former employee of the Brunswick Recreation and Fitness Center was found not guilty Friday of having inappropriate physical contact with a 14-year-old boy late last year.
A 23-year-old man, of 800 block of Amherst Lane, Brunswick, was acquitted of the fourth-degree felony charge after a common pleas jury deliberated for about five hours following a four-day trial in front of visiting Judge Thomas Curran.
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Good News! I'm Anemic!
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No, I am NOT crazy! LOL It is good news because it explains some stuff AND it is something I can fix! Yeah!
I've been 'doing right' since the end of February . . . I'm eating better than I've ever eaten, I'm excercising regularly, and I'm really paying attention to my health and how I feel. In the past when I've 'done right' I have experienced an amazing increase in my energy levels but this time, not so much. I feel better and have more stamina than I had before I started, but I expected more so I had a sneaking suspicion that something might be a little off. I shared thiswith my doctor at my last visit so she ordered labs to check it out (LOVE my doctor because she listens AND takes me seriously!). So . . . got a call this morning and, as suspected, I'm anemic. WooHoo!
WooHoo? No, really, woohoo. What that means is that when I have to push myself to get up in the mornings or to get to the gym because I feel tired, it is NOT the sign of a character flaw. I'm not simply lazy, I really AM tired! And THAT, I really can do something about!
The doctor is giving me an Rx . . . ewwwwwww! I know that iron supplements are nasty - N-A-S-T-Y!!! But, in a few months, I KNOW I'll feel better so I can deal with a little nasty.
Then comes the diet . . . THAT is gonna be tougher because I feel like I already eat an iron rich diet. I already eat spinach most every day (I use it for salad, in place of lettuce on sandwiches, etc.) I eat dried fruit most every day. I eat lots of tomatoes and citrus so I'm getting plenty of vitamin C. I even cook in cast iron several times a week. What I don't do is eat organ meat and THAT is not gonna change! Ewwwwww! There is only one thing that I like that could be considered organ meat - braunschweiger - and that is so full of saturated fat that any good it could possibly do would be canceled out by the harm it would do! LOL Anyway . . . I need to do a bit of reading to figure the diet thing out!
In the meantime . . . WOOHOO! I'm anemic! LOL
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Johnson's father, Stanley Johnson, was reading from the same script. "'Et tu, Brute' is my comment on that," he told BBC News when asked about Gove, who, like Johnson, has been close with Cameron since their days at Oxford. Gove had been tipped to be Johnson's campaign manager. The Washington Post compared the Tory leadership grudge match to "a binge-watching session of House of Cards," and Tory MP Nigel Evans told the BBC "it makes the House of Cards look like Teletubbies." At The New York Times, the Tory turmoil "seems derived from Game of Thrones, itself drawn from centuries of English history." The newspaper Metro agreed about the Westeros connection:
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Late Thursday night, U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves blocked a Mississippi law set to take effect Friday that would have carved out religious exemptions for people and businesses opposed to same-sex marriage, homosexuality, and transgender people. "The state has put its thumb on the scale to favor some religious beliefs over others," Reeves wrote, calling the bill "the state's attempt to put LGBT citizens back in their place" after the Supreme Court's ruling that same-sex couples have the right to get married. On Monday, Reeves had struck down the part of HB 1523 that would have let the state's circuit clerks refuse to issue same-sex marriage certificates due to religious objections. The law also sought to offer protection to businesses that refuse to serve LGBT people and would have affected adoption and foster care as well as bathroom policies at schools and businesses.
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Donald Trump isn't really advertising in battleground states. Hillary Clinton is buying ad time in Nebraska.
On Thursday, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign added Nebraska to the list of states where it is running ads, including the traditional swing states of Ohio, Virginia, Florida, Iowa, and Colorado, plus North Carolina. The ad buy is aimed not at the entire heavily Republican state but at the one congressional district President Obama won in 2008 — Nebraska awards two of its five electoral votes to the statewide winner and one each to the winner of its three congressional districts. Donald Trump, says The Washington Post's John Wagner, "has not started a concerted TV ad campaign in any battleground states."
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Police in Bangladesh say a Hindu temple worker was hacked to death on Friday by three assailants on a motorcycle.
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Shaymanonda Das was getting ready for morning prayers in the district of Jhenaidah when he was hacked on the neck with machetes, the BBC reports. Police say the motive isn't clear, but a similar attack took place in the same district last month, with the victim a 70-year-old Hindu priest hacked to death in a rice paddy field.
Since February 2013, more than 40 people in Bangladesh, including academics, secular bloggers, and gay rights activists, have been killed in similar attacks pinned on Islamic militants. The Islamic State has claimed credit for some of the deaths, but the government says ISIS does not have a presence in the country, and local militant groups are responsible, the BBC reports. To combat such terrorist organizations, the government says it has arrested thousands of people. Catherine Garcia


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Carina R. wrote: "Hello! With summer officially here, I'm looking for a new bathing suit. I fell in love with Gap's Retro Longline Top but it's no longer available. What I love about it but can't seem to find elsewhere is that it has good... [More]
Jun 8, 2011 12:03 PM
Says Jackie: "I have been looking for oiseau perfume eau de toilette darling blue, Anthropologie use to carry it and no longer does. Is there a place online where I might be able to find it?" Wow, Jackie. Marian here, and since I'm the OBer... [More]
Jun 8, 2011 11:10 AM
Stacey writes: "Dear magnificent, magnanimous Outblush masterminds, Please help! I'm getting married in September and my mother has decided she and the mother of the groom are to wear complementary Cobalt/Royal Blue dresses. My mom is a size 8/10 and the Mother of the Groom... [More]
Jun 8, 2011 9:39 AM
Paige wrote: "I recently saw Julie Bowen in this dress and absolutely loved it. I have a wedding to attend in June, can you help me find this dress? Thank you!! I am a size 4/6, my budget is $150 and the wedding is in... [More]
Jun 7, 2011 12:00 PM
Lily writes, "Hi Outblush! I need to find not one, but two Father's Day presents. My dads adopted me from Vietnam and made me a part of their wonderfully crazy family. They have given me everything a girl could dream of, from a princess castle... [More]
Jun 7, 2011 10:40 AM
Rebekah writes: "I need some help finding outfits to match my adorable new hat. My husband went on a business trip to Seattle and brought me home this oh-so-cute cloche from Goorin Bros. (it's not available online so I had to take my own pics).... [More]
Jun 7, 2011 9:00 AM
Camie writes: "Hey ladies (and gentleman?): I need your help. I have spent the last 2 weeks looking for shoes to go with this dress and have come up with nothing. Please help. Here are the details. I will be "renting" the dress (how fabulous... [More]
Jun 6, 2011 12:20 PM
Malcolm writes, Hi! With Father's Day coming up, I need to find something nice for my Dad. My two older brothers don't have their act together (or my level of intelligence), so I'm stepping up. My dad's a good guy, but he spends a lot... [More]
Jun 6, 2011 10:30 AM
Sarah N. wrote: "I recently purchased these pants but I need suggestions on what tops to wear with them. Thank you!" Sarah, the key here is to balance the silhouette on the lower half. You can go for a longer draped tunic or blouse, but... [More]
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