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Nickel Creek A Dotted Line (Nonesuch) -
When bluegrass/Americana darlings Nickel Creek took a "hiatus" in 2007, the focus was no longer on an insanely-accomplished trio that were too good to be true (after all, the glare of that spotlight can be more than a little inhibitive), but that sabbatical was in brand only. Sara and Sean Watkins took the time to create their own supergroup, Works Progress Administration (featuring members of Tom Petty's and Elvis Costello's respective bands) fronted by a singer we hadn't heard from in ages - the underrated Glen Phillips (from Toad The Wet Sprocket). Sara also recorded two solo albums of her own, produced by none other than Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones (a huge fan.)
Chris Thile, meanwhile, was the busiest of the bunch: not only did he polish off three albums for his edgier alt-bluegrass side-project, Punch Brothers, but teamed up with heavyweights Yo Yo Ma (cellist prodigy extraordinaire) and Edgar Meyer (jazz/classical bassist) for The Goat Rodeo Sessions, and then, inspired by their scholarship of the genre, had the audaciousness to perform an entire album of Bach sonatas on mandolin. Some folks are so multi-talented, you almost hate how good they are. In anticipation of the 25th anniversary of the band's inception, Nickel Creek set out last Summer to plan a few select gigs in commemoration, and decided to reunite for a new EP. That EP grew into a full-length album, and the result, the understatedly brilliant A Dotted Line feels less like a reunion, and more like a moment of time standing still.
Sure, the side-projects expanded their songwriting chops, but A Dotted Line doesn't scream, "See how much we've honed our craft" - it sounds like a group so comfortable in their own skin, that seven years apart seems like a weekend away. From the simple, last-call reverie of "Rest Of My Life" to the haunting break-up tune "Christmas Eve" (the saddest thing since the classic "Blue Christmas"), every note is carefully placed in just the right space to give ebb and flow to Thile's mandolin and the Watkins' twin-fiddle backup. Surprisingly, even guest turns by the likes of Meyer, and drummer Matt Chamberlain (Pearl Jam, Tori Amos, Brad Mehldau and Costello, among others) feel like extensions of the core trio, and add an extra fullness to their tasteful arrangements.
And this time, Nickel Creek gives musical shout-outs that make A Dotted Line pop-accessible without selling out: from the sweet, sad refrain reminiscent of Toad The Wet Sprocket on "Christmas Eve", to "Love of Mine" (which sounds like it was written with Alison Krauss and Union Station in mind) to their their covers of "Hayloft" (by Canadian indie-rockers Mother Mother) and Sam Phillips' "Where Is Love Now" (a twenty year old chestnut Phillips finally recorded for 2010's The Long Play project), Nickel Creek interpret disparate tunes, and make them sound as if part of their canon. In fact, the closest they come to showing off is on the instrumental "Elephant In The Corn", which is so free-spirited and spontaneous, you have to remind yourself you're not listening to a performance on A Prairie Home Companion (which Sara Watkins had the distinct honor of guest-hosting.)
But the most outstanding number here has got to be "You Don't Know What's Going On" - a bonafide bluegrass rocker (if such a thing ever existed.) From the sparse opening that quickly evolves into a call-and-response arrangement, to Thile's rapid-fire chorus ("To believe in her, to believe I could turn it around/To keep bailing out the water while the ship went down/To keep calling her name when we started to drown/You could tell me I should've known better...") it has got to be the most upbeat-sounding heartbreak song ever written. And then to bookend that with Sara's bittersweet rendition of Phillips' "Where Is Love Now" (the only other one who could've done it justice being Sam herself), Nickel Creek takes a sad song, and parses a twinge of optimism amidst the melancholy. There was no doubt in anyone's mind that A Dotted Line would be a return to form. We wouldn't expect anything less from these guys, and being true to their artistry, they confidently deliver the goods. Grade: A
The Pretty Reckless Going To Hell (Razor and Tie) -
Can't be easy being Taylor Momsen: I mean, all you wanna do is rock, and you're constantly dogged by critics who feel it imperative to mention that you rose to fame starring in the WB drama Gossip Girl. And then there's your modeling career, which includes being the face of Madonna's fashion line, Material Girl, and photo spreads ranging from Seventeen to Maxim, while still in your teens. Who should take you seriously as a rock'n'roll preistess? Indeed, there you are, on the cover for Going To Hell, the sophomore release from your band The Pretty Reckless, naked, back to the camera with a provocative arrow painted on and pointing to your nether regions. Girl, will you never learn?
Apparently not, and what's more refreshing, you could care less - you've struck a chord with a lot of a young women, thanks to your candor, passion and willingness to push the proverbial envelope. It's no wonder then, that "My Medicine" (from TPR's debut album, Light Me Up) resonated with your generation in a way "Smells Like Teen Spirit" couldn't: drug interactions, hallucinations, sexual experimentation, it's all there, and what the lyrics lack in complexity, your voice more than makes up for, conveying genuine teenage angst. In many ways, Going To Hell is a more confident follow-up than its predecessor, with Momsen's current lineup (guitarist Ben Phillips, bassist Mark Damon and drummer Jamie Perkins) fleshing out her confessional tone poems, while cheerfully mixing up old school hard rock with contemporary indie, alt-rock textures, so much so, only the learned among her fanbase will discern its aural influences.
Clearly, Momsen is no stranger to groups like The Runaways, Heart and Hole - bands fronted by a strong female lead singer (Joan Jett, Ann Wilson and Courtney Love, respectively), but there's also touches of Soundgarden's tortured introspection, STP's metal/glam and intriguingly, some KT Turnstall thrown in for good measure. The single, "Heaven Knows" flirts with STP's clever hooks and Jett's anthemic delivery (sample lyric: "Judy's in the front seat picking up trash/Living on the dough/Gotta make that cashWon't be pretty, won't be sweet/She's just in here on her feet...") "House On A Hill" begins with a simple acoustic guitar and Momsen observing, "Somewhere in the end of all this hate/There's a light ahead/that shines into this grave" before orchestral touches like timpani and strings kick in, tranforming it into a textbook power ballad, and I don't mean that perjoratively - it simply reveals a shrewd knack for song construction that can't denied.
I can think of no other artist who could pull off the propulsive "Sweet Things" (a dialogue with the devil, where Momsen acknowledges "evil making me its whore" amidt tribal drumming) veering into a Beatlesque U-turn, as guitarist Ben Phillips (channeling McCartney) croons "Hey there, little girl/Come inside, I've got some sweet dreams/Put your hair in curls/Paint you up just like a drag queen" except for maybe STP. But Momsen is also unafraid to share her naked angst on "Burn", where accompanied only by acoustic guitar, she bares her co-dependent soul ("Here comes the darkness, eating at my soul/I just wanna die here/But you wanted more/Maybe I will finally learn...") It's almost enough to make you forgive a misstep like "Why'd You Bring A Shotgun To The Party" - which might have worked without the cheesy sound effects and telegraphed lyrics ("You think, then you start to drink/Does it make you feel like a man?/It's not the size, we understand.")
Much better is the latest single, "F-ed Up World" - from it's driving snare-beat intro (recalling Magazine's "The Light Pours Out Of Me") to Momsen calling out "back door bitches" Jesus freaks, and horny males ("Litte boys bugging me on the bus/I don't know why you want to know me/You aint getting what you want") to the catchy "sex and drugs and guns/light a cigarette" refrain, it's everything a good rock song should be: rebellious, cheeky, riff-heavy, and infectious. And that pretty much sums up Going To Hell - love 'em or hate 'em, but The Pretty Reckless can't be concerned with your approval or dismissal. They know who their core audience is, and admittedly write for them. It's that loyalty, combined with some catchy melodies and Momsen's sometimes waifish, mostly throaty vocals that makes their songs work. It's too soon to say whether or not TPR's songs will stand the test of time, but Taylor Momsen knows it's only rock'n'roll. And she likes it. Grade B


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Then I came upon this poor soul, dying right there on the street. I don't think a car hit it, otherwise it would've been smooshed, so I'm thinking a hawk or some other kind of predator may have got it, decided it wasn't on the menu, and then dropped it. It was a biggum - like 2.5 feet. Sorry snake... I even have to believe nasty ass snakes have a place in heaven, right?
I got a decent ride in, short and hammer time. I think I need to just HTFU and go out earlier and brave the heat so I can get in more time. Ugh.
A few neato pictures taken at sunset. As always, the trusty iPhone 4 does not fail.
Today, the Suzuki DRZ-400SM went to a new owner. I had to let my past go - sad, but things have changed. I probably would've kept it had my wife still been riding a motorcycle, but after she sold her's I just put it away and never rode it. I think it will properly be ridden by the new owner. This is the first time in 10 years that I haven't had a street motorcycle - will I ever go back? Who knows? Now, I just have my Honda CRF250X and after CX season is over, I will be happily rolling the trails once more. Goodbye for now, SuperMoto.


text: Lost-Pet Reunions: A cat is lost, her 11-year-old microchip info out-of-date Posted on Mar 09 , 2011 by Jane Harrell, senior producer Print Home > Blog > Pet Reunion Stories > Lost-Pet Reunions: A cat is lost, her 11-year-old microchip info out-of-date Tags: homeagain, lost pets Perdita was chipped — 11 years ago — but her family had since moved. Here's another great found-pet reunion story from our partner, HomeAgain. Learn more about the benefits of registering your pet's microchip with HomeAgain. Perdita's Chip Info Outdated – From Jackie, Cary, NC Perdita was gone for a month. We posted signs, ran ads, everything. She was chipped, but because she got the chip almost 11 years ago I could not even remember anything about it. I asked the shelter whom to call and they said, "HomeAgain." HomeAgain updated Perdita's microchip information with our address and phone number and sent an alert to all vets and shelters in the area. Today, almost a month later, a vet called from miles away. They had Perdita. She had lost her collar and tags. A family was bringing her in for shots since they could not find her owner. The vet scanned her and and found that the information on her chip matched the alert. Now, we are reunited. Without HomeAgain, she would have been gone forever. Even almost 11 years later, their system worked perfectly! Thank you, Home Again! <Leave a comment><Return to blog home page> More Pet-Reunion Stories: A dog sneaks out his pet sitter's cat door An indoor cat jumps off a deck and disappears HomeAgain calls when others take a holiday With outdated tags, a lost-pet alert saves the day Even an indoor cat can be lost (and found!) A dog is lost, then found, in less than 10 minutes Share this Article: Print


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Columbia Gas finished replacing gas lines Wednesday on Ryan Road to complete a road renovation project in Medina.
City Service Director Nino Piccoli said other projects throughout the city this month include:
• Replacing 130 slabs of concrete throughout the city.
• Renovating Dennison Court, off of Lafayette Road, with expected completion in early September.
• Repaving U.S. Route 42 and state Route 3, with completion in early October.
• Repairing the South Court Street railroad crossing the last week in August.


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One Year Old Gift Guide
Buying gifts for a one-year-old can be confusing. You could make this the Best Birthday Ever by just giving them an empty box with some paper to rip. For their parents' benefit, you might want to try something a little more thoughtful. These toys help your favorite one-year-old conquer all the developmental milestones on their way to two, but no one will be surprised if the baby seems more interested in the packaging.
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Red Footie Pajamas
Adults can wear footie pajamas but I don't recommend it. Little kids, however, have free reign.
$25 at Snug as a Bug | Buy
Miss Natalie's Growth Chart
When we moved a few months ago, the saddest thing was leaving behind the door frame where we'd tracked our kid's growth for the last 8 years.
This unique growth chart is made from simple materials and will look great in your kid's room. When you move, you can take it with you.
$40 at Miss Natalie | Buy
Bunny Jumps
Get them started reading in the bathtub early.
$7 at Barnes and Noble | Buy
Remote Control
For this to work, you'll need to convince the baby that it actually controls the TV, at least some of the time. Then maybe she'll give you back your cell phone.
$15 at Part Store | Buy
Sigg Water Bottle
The sooner you can be done with sippy cups, the happier you'll be.
$15 at Outdoor Kids | Buy
Stacking Cups
My kids loved these stacking cups as babies. We used them in the bathtub to play with water and rinse shampoo out of their hair, we hid small things under them and played peek a boo, and, after they'd been through the dishwasher, we doled out snacks in them. I'm not sure we ever got around to just stacking them.
Rainbow Nesting Tunnel
This toy gives your toddler lots of options. Line them up to make a tunnel, or make them a cave for toy animals, or a bridge over imagined rivers, or maybe a see saw for a doll.
$14 at Three Sisters Toys | Buy
ABC Blocks
$37 at Child Trek | Buy
Bath Goods
A collection of bright, mold-resistant toys to make bath time more fun. The only thing cuter than a baby in a tub is a laughing baby in a tub.
$14 at Sparkability | Buy
Musical Band
My family has a longstanding agreement not to buy each other�s kids drum sets or accordions. Of course, we haven't exactly produced a crop of musicians. Still, if you give this as a gift, be prepared for paybacks.
$50 at Baby Center Store | Buy
Schoenhut Spinet Piano
Put a brandy snifter on top and call it a part time job.
$95 at Live and Learn | Buy
Snail Pull Toy
Shape Sorting Cube
When you�re one, life is all about putting things away and taking them back out. Actually, when you�re 30, life is all about putting things away and taking them back out.
$15 at Fat Brain Toys | Buy
Spinning Top
$13 at Genius Babies | Buy
Chomp and Clack Gator Push Toy
This toy makes walking a whole lot more fun than crawling.
$40 at FAO Schwarz | Buy
Foam Blocks
You just found great-grandma's Irish lace tablecloth draped over a bush in the backyard. Time for some new fort-building materials. And perhaps a lock on the linen closet.
$45 at Back to Basics Toys | Buy
Giraffe Hat
Promotes rapid neck growth.
$15 at Finny's Funny Hats | Buy
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|Disabilities Guidebook: Places of Public Accommodation
Last updated: January 2006
What Is It? Title III of the ADA, 42 U.S.C. § 12182 prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability by any person or private entity who owns, leases, or operates a "place of public accommodation." A public accommodation includes almost every type of non-governmental operation which is open for business and which comes in contact with the general public.
What Is Its Purpose? To guarantee that you have the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, and benefits of any place of public accommodation. To place you on an equal footing, not to give you an unfair advantage.
Who Can Benefit? Any person with a disability who uses, or wants to use the goods, services, or facilities of a place of public accommodation.
Do You Have A Disability Under the ADA?
The way to determine whether you have a disability for purposes of the ADA is explained in the section of this Guidebook titled "Who Has a Disability Under the ADA?" in Chapter 1.
Your Rights Under Title III of the ADA: In General
Title III of the ADA prohibits discrimination in your "full and equal enjoyment" of the goods, services and benefits provided at any "place of public accommodation."
The term "full and equal enjoyment" means you have the right to participate the same as others and to have an equal chance to obtain the same benefits as others.
It does not mean that a public accommodation can exclude you because you cannot achieve an identical result or the same level of achievement as persons without a disability.
Example: It is illegal for an exercise class to exclude a person who uses a wheelchair because he cannot do all of the exercises that a person without a disability can do.
A "place of public accommodation" includes almost every type of operation which is open for business or which comes in contact with the general public. Specifically, it includes any commercial facility, operated by a private entity (not the government), whose operations fall within at least one of 12 different categories.
Those categories are:
1. Places of lodging.
Examples: An inn, a hotel, a motel.
2. Establishments serving food or drink.
Examples: A restaurant, a bar.
3. Places of exhibition or entertainment.
Examples: A movie house, a theater, a concert hall, a stadium.
4. Places of public gathering.
Examples: An auditorium, a convention center, a lecture hall.
5. Sales or rental establishments.
Examples: A bakery, a grocery store, a clothing store, a hardware store, a shopping center, bookstores, video rental stores, car rental places, pet stores, jewelry stores.
6. Service establishments.
Examples: A laundromat or dry cleaner; a bank, a barber shop, a travel service, a shoe repair shop, a funeral parlor, a gas station, a lawyer's or doctor's office, a pharmacy, an insurance office, a hospital.
7. Stations for public transportation.
Examples: A terminal, a depot or other station for transportation by bus or train.
Note: Title III, (42 U.S.C. § § 12181-12189; 12201-12212) does not cover airports, but it does cover places of public accommodation located within airports, such as a concession stand or gift shop. Airports run by public entities are covered by Title II of the ADA, (42 U.S.C. § § 12131-12165). If private airports do not receive federal funding, they are covered by the Air Carrier Access Act, 49 U.S.C. §41705; §40102 . See the section of this Guidebook titled "Access to Air Travel" in Chapter 15, Transportation.
8. Places of public display or collection.
Examples: A museum, a library, a gallery.
9. Places of recreation.
Examples: A park, a zoo, an amusement park.
10. Places of education.
Examples: A nursery or pre-school, an elementary, secondary, undergraduate or postgraduate private school.
11. Social service center establishments.
Examples: A day care center, a senior citizen center, a homeless shelter, a food bank, an adoption agency, substance abuse treatment centers, rape crisis centers, halfway houses.
12. Places of exercise or recreation.
Examples: A gym, a health spa, a bowling alley, a golf course.
Note: A public accommodation cannot refuse to serve you because its insurance coverage or rates are conditioned on the absence of persons with disabilities.
Private Clubs and Religious Organizations Are Not Considered Public Accommodations
Title III of the ADA does not apply t
However, either a private club or a religious organization can be considered a public accommodation subject to Title III to the extent that it rents space to a place of public accommodation.
Example: If a church rents space to a day care center, the church can be considered a public accommodation with regard to that space.
Places That Are Not Considered Commercial Facilities
Only facilities "in commerce" are covered by Title III. Certain types of facilities are not considered to be "commercial" under the ADA and therefore not covered by Title III. They include:
The Title III prohibition against discrimination in places of public accommodation applies to any person or private entity who owns, leases, or operates a place of public accommodation.
The ADA does not apply to the federal government. The prohibition against discrimination by state or local governments is covered by a different title of the ADA (Title II; § § 12131-12165). See the section in this Chapter titled "State and Local Government Services."
Title III covers the landlord who owns the building that houses the place of public accommodation. It also covers the tenant who owns or operates it. Depending on the situation, the owner, the tenant, or both may be responsible for the discrimination.
(1) If a restaurant is the tenant, (the owner is somebody else), and the restaurant discriminates by refusing to seat you, only the tenant would be responsible where the policy is imposed by the tenant and not by the landlord.
(2) Assume the restaurant refused to modify its "no-pets" rule and refused to admit a person who was blind because he had a guide dog. If he was refused entrance because the landlord requires such a rule, then both the landlord and the tenant would be responsible.
Benefits Must Not Be Separate or Different Unless It is Necessary
Generally speaking, the goods, services or benefits provided to you by a public accommodation must not be different or separate from that given to others. However, it is legal to make them different or separate when that is necessary to make the benefit as "effective" as that provided to others.
Example: It is legal to designate separate parking spaces for persons with disabilities.
The "Most Integrated Setting" Requirement (§12182)
The benefits provided by a public accommodation must be given to you in the "most integrated setting" appropriate to your needs. This means that to the greatest extent possible, the benefits provided to you should be given in the same location and in the same way as given to others.
(1) A restaurant violates the ADA if it requires you to eat in a back room.
(2) A health spa violates the ADA if it refuses you the full use of the spa because of stereotypes about your abilities.
Sometimes a public accommodation has programs or activities for the general public, and also has separate or different programs or activities intended for the benefit of persons with disabilities. You always have the opportunity to participate in the ones that are not separate or different.
(1) A place may offer special recreational programs designed for children with mobility impairments. However, it cannot exclude these children from its regular recreational services made available to children without disabilities, or require children with disabilities to attend only the special programs.
(2) A person who is blind may refuse to participate in a special museum tour that allows her to touch sculptures in an exhibit. Instead, she can choose to tour the exhibit at her own pace with museum's regular tour.
Exclusion or Denial May Not Be Based on Association
A public accommodation cannot exclude or deny equal benefits or opportunities to any person or entity just because that person or entity is known to associate with a person who has a disability. (§12182)
This means that public accommodations cannot discriminate against health care providers, employees of social service agencies, and others who provide professional services to persons with disabilities because of a professional association with them.
Examples: Discrimination by association:
(1) Where a day care center refuses admission to a child because his or her brother has the HIV virus.
(2) Terminating the lease of an independent living center because the center provides services to persons with mental impairments.
Retaliation and Coercion
It is against the law for anyone to discriminate against a person because that person has opposed any act or practice made unlawful by the ADA. (§12203). It also is illegal to discriminate because that person made a charge, testified, or participated in any way in an investigation, or proceeding under the ADA.
A law school violates the ADA rights of a law graduate with epilepsy if it fails to certify his application to the board of law examiners, as retaliation for his complaint about the law school's discriminatory policies.
It is against the law for anyone to coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any person who tries to exercise or enjoy a right protected by the ADA. It is also illegal for anyone to do those things to a person who is acting on behalf of someone else who is seeking to enforce ADA rights.
(1) It would be a violation of the ADA for a customer in a restaurant to harass or intimidate you to try to prevent you from patronizing the restaurant.
(2) It would be a violation for a public accommodation to fire an employee who appeared as a witness for a person who tried to enforce the ADA against the public accommodation.
The Direct Threat Defense
The ADA permits a public accommodation to exclude you if you pose a direct threat to the health or safety of others.
A "direct threat" is a significant risk to the health or safety of others that cannot be eliminated by changing policies, practices, or procedures or by providing auxiliary aids or services.
(1) A youth soccer association can bar a minor with a disability from competitive play, because there was a substantial risk of harm to him.
(2) A youth baseball league policy is illegal that bans coaches who use wheelchairs from the coach's box on the field. There was no significant risk that players might collide with the wheelchair, and therefore there was no direct threat.
In deciding whether someone poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others, a public accommodation must make an assessment in each case. This must be based on reasonable judgment that relies on current medical knowledge or on the best available objective evidence.
(1) A dentist cannot deny routine dental care, such as filling cavities, to an HIV-infected patient because, with proper precautions, that did not pose a "direct threat" to the dentist's health.
(2) A decision that a person poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others cannot be based on generalizations or stereotypes about the effects of a particular disability.
Legitimate Safety Requirements Are Allowed
A public accommodation can set and apply legitimate safety rules that are necessary for safe operation. This is allowed even if those rules tend to exclude certain persons with disabilities. Safety rules must be based on actual risks. They cannot be based on mere speculation, stereotypes, or generalizations about disabilities. Also, safety rules can exclude persons with disabilities only if they are applied neutrally to all clients or customers, regardless of whether they are persons with disabilities.
(1) An amusement park can set height requirements for certain rides.
(2) A recreational rafting expedition can require its participants to meet a necessary level of swimming skill.
Personal Devices and Personal Services Do Not Need to Be Provided
A public accommodation is not required to provide its customers, clients, or participants with personal devices or services of a personal nature.
A public accommodation does not have to provide wheelchairs, prescription eyeglasses or hearing aids, or services of a personal nature, such as assistance in eating, toileting, or dressing.
On the other hand, a public accommodation may need to supply you with auxiliary aids and services(see below).
Sometimes special assistance needs to be given as an alternative when the removal of physical barriers is not readily achievable. That kind of assistance should not be considered personal services, and may be required by the ADA.
Examples: A public accommodation may have to retrieve items from shelves; provide curb service; or make a home delivery.
Also, small changes in policies, practices, or procedures are not considered personal services, and may be required as a necessary accommodation.
(1) A waiter removing the cover from a customer's straw.
(2) A kitchen cutting up food into smaller pieces.
(3) A bank filling out a deposit slip.
You Cannot Be Screened Out From Participation Unless Necessary
A public accommodation cannot use eligibility criteria to screen you out from fully and equally enjoying its benefits.
Example: A store cannot require all its customers to present a driver's license as the only means of identification when paying by check. This discriminates against persons with severe vision impairments or some persons with developmental disabilities or epilepsy who are ineligible to receive a driver's license because of their disability. The store must permit other means of identification such as a state i.d. card or a credit card.
There are many situations where a public accommodation may try to use eligibility criteria to screen you out.
(1) A golf course cannot bar all persons who are deaf from playing golf.
(2) A movie theater cannot bar all persons with cerebral palsy from attending a movie.
(3) A restaurant cannot limit the seating of persons with Down's syndrome to only particular areas of a restaurant.
Exception: Criteria that screens you out can be used if the criteria is necessary to provide the benefits being offered.
Example: A day-care center had a rule requiring expulsion for children who are constantly disruptive and who are aggressive to other children. They did not violate the ADA when they applied the rule to a child who suffered from Attention Deficit/ Hyperactive Disorder.
A Surcharge Is Not Permitted
A public accommodation cannot charge you anything to cover the costs of any measures it takes on your behalf. Thus, a public accommodation cannot charge you for:
A public accommodation is allowed to ask for a deposit for the use of auxiliary aids, such as assistive listening devices. Any deposit must be reasonable and completely refundable.
It is Illegal to Make You Identify Your Disability Unnecessarily
A public accommodation cannot make you tell whether or not you have a disability, if it is not necessary.
Example: A retail store cannot require you to state on a credit application whether you have epilepsy, mental illness, or any other disability, or to ask whether you have the HIV virus.
It is Illegal to Force Unnecessary Requirements on You
The ADA prohibits policies that place burdens on you that are not placed on others, when they are not necessary.
Example: Public accommodations may not require that you be accompanied by an attendant, where you do not need an attendant.
Reasonable Changes In Policies and Procedures Are Required, When Necessary
In general, a public accommodation must make reasonable changes in its policies, practices, or procedures, when necessary to provide you with its benefits.
(1) A parking garage has a rule which bars all vans or all vans with raised roofs. It must make an exception for you if you use a wheelchair-accessible van and want to park in that garage.
(2) A department store has a policy of permitting only one person at a time in a dressing room. It will have to change that policy for a person with a developmental disability who needs help with dressing.
(3) A hotel has only one accessible room. If a person with a disability reserves that room, the hotel may need to keep it unoccupied until he arrives at the hotel.
Exception: the fundamental alteration defense. A public accommodation will not be required to make a requested change in policy that would "fundamentally alter" the nature of its benefits.
(1) A museum has a rule barring the touching of delicate works of art. It does not have to change that rule even for persons who are blind, if the touching threatens the integrity of the work.
(2) A brewery has a "no animals" policy. A person who is blind requests a change in that policy to permit his guide dog on the public brewery tour. The brewery must change the policy because a guide dog does not "fundamentally alter" the nature of the tour.
When Accessible or Special Goods Must Be Ordered
Accessible or special goods include: Brailled versions of books, books on audio cassettes, closed-captioned video tapes, special sizes or lines of clothing, and special foods to meet particular dietary needs.
Generally, a public accommodation cannot be forced to order accessible or special goods that are designed for persons with disabilities. But it does have to make special orders if it normally makes special orders on request, and if the accessible or special goods can be obtained from a supplier with whom the public accommodation usually does business.
Example: A clothing store would be required to order specially-sized clothing at the request of a person with a disability if it customarily makes special orders for clothing that it does not keep in stock, and if the clothing can be obtained from one of the store's customary suppliers.
When Referrals Are Permitted
A public accommodation may refer you to another public accommodation, if you require treatment or services outside of its area of specialization. This is allowed only if they would normally make a similar referral for a person without a disability who seeks or requires the same treatment or services as you.
Example: A doctor who specializes in burn treatment refers a deaf patient with a different kind of injury to another doctor, instead of treating him. This would not be discriminatory, unless the doctor provided such treatment to patients who did not have disabilities.
When Service Animals Must Be Allowed
In general, public accommodations must do what is necessary to accommodate "service animals." They also must make sure that persons with disabilities are not separated from their service animals. It is intended that the broadest possible access be provided to service animals in all places of public accommodation, including movie theaters, restaurants, hotels, retail stores, hospitals, and nursing homes.
A "service animal" is any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal trained to do work for the benefit of a person with a disability, including, but not limited to, guiding those with impaired vision, alerting those with impaired hearing to intruders or sounds, providing minimal protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair, or fetching dropped items. In rare circumstances, accommodation of service animals may not be required because a "fundamental alteration" in the nature of the benefits would result, or there would be a safety risk.
In rare circumstances, accommodation of service animals may not be required because a "fundamental allteration"in the nature of the benefits would result, or there would be a safety risk.
Example: A hospital may refuse to allow a person to bring her service dog with her while she visited her fiance in the emergency room. The hospital proved that its restriction was necessary to control infection and to avoid cross-exposure and allergic reactions.
Note: There is a federal law, 40 U.S.C. 291 (not the ADA) that allows persons who are blind to be accompanied by seeing-eye dogs or other guide dogs in any building or other property owned or controlled by the United States. Both the person and the dog have the same rights to admission to the building as any other person. The dogs cannot run free or roam, and must be in guiding harness or on leash at all times.
Accessible Check-Out Aisles and ATM Machines
A store with checkout aisles must make sure that an adequate number of accessible checkout aisles are kept open during store hours. If only one checkout aisle is accessible, and it is generally used for express service, one way of providing equivalent service is to allow persons with mobility impairments to make all their purchases at that aisle.
A bank that has automatic teller (ATM) machines must make sure that at least one is accessible to persons with disabilities. A bank complies when it provides one accessible walk-up ATM machine at a particular location, even though the walk-up ATM right next to it is not accessible, and the drive-up ATM is not accessible. However, the bank would be in violation of the law if the accessible ATM was located in a lobby that was locked during evening hours while the drive-up ATM was available to customers without disabilities during those same hours.
Seating in Assembly Areas
Assembly areas include such facilities as theaters, concert halls, auditoriums, lecture halls, and conference rooms.
Historically, persons who use wheel-chairs have been seated in the back of assembly areas separate from family members and friends. The ADA is intended to promote integration and equality in seating.
A public accommodation in assembly areas must provide the following things, if they are "readily achievable":
The idea behind removable aisle-side armrests is to benefit those persons in wheelchairs who can transfer to an existing aisle seat by taking off the armrest. In situations when a person in a wheelchair transfers to existing seating, the public accommodation must provide assistance in handling the wheelchair.
A public accommodation must locate the wheelchair seating spaces in assembly areas in the following ways:
Sometimes, removal of seats to make room for wheelchair seating spaces is not "readily achievable." In those cases, a public accommodation must provide a portable chair or other means to permit a family member or other companion to sit with an person who uses a wheelchair.
An existing public accommodation does not have to disperse wheelchair seating throughout an assembly area that has 300 or fewer seats.
Auxiliary Aids and Services
In some situations, a public accommodation must supply you with "auxiliary aids and services." See the list of types of auxiliary aids and services below.
You are entitled to auxiliary aids and services if that is necessary to make sure that you are not excluded, denied services, segregated, or otherwise treated differently than others. Appropriate auxiliary aids and services must be given where they are necessary to communicate effectively with persons with disabilities that affect hearing, vision, or speech.
"Auxiliary aids and services" can include:
(1) Qualified interpreters, note-takers, computer-aided transcription services, written materials, telephone handset amplifiers, assistive listening devices, assistive listening systems, telephones compatible with hearing aids, closed caption decoders, open and closed captioning, telecommunications devices for deaf persons (TTY's), video-text displays;
(2) Qualified readers, taped texts, audio recordings, Brailled materials, large print materials;\
(3) Acquisition or modification of equipment or devices.
The above list of auxiliary aids and services does not cover every possible or available auxiliary aid or service. There always will be new devices that will become available with emerging technology.
Example: Weight Watchers, Inc. agreed to provide sign language interpreters to all persons needing them at company- owned Weight Watchers centers. They also agreed to include the use of printed text or video closed captioning in weekly group sessions.
Text Telephone Devices for the Deaf (TTY). A public accommodation must make a TTY available, upon request, for a person with a hearing or communication disorder, whenever it offers others the chance to make outgoing telephone calls on a regular basis.
Example: A hotel or a hospital that has telephones in its lobby for the general public also must have a TTY or similar device available, on request.
Hotels also should provide a TTY or similar device at the front desk. This lets the hotel take calls from guests who use TTY's in their rooms. In this way, guests with hearing impairments can use such hotel services as making inquiries of the front desk and ordering room service.
Retail stores, doctors' offices, restaurants, or similar establishments are not required to have TTY's, if TTY users will be able to make inquiries, appointments, or reservations with such establishments through "tele-communications relay services" (TRS). Likewise, the public accommodation will be able to contact TTY users through the relay system. (See Chapter 14, Telecommunications).
TV and film captioning. Certain public accommodations that provide televisions also must provide, upon request, a means for decoding captions for persons with impaired hearing. They are:
Note: The Television Decoder Circuitry Act requires that all new televisions with screens of 13 inches or wider have built-in decoder circuitry for displaying closed captions. This law will lessen the need for portable decoders.
Movie theaters are not required to present open-captioned films. However, other public accommodations that provide information on films, video tapes, or slide shows are required to make the information accessible to persons with hearing impairments. Captioning is one means to make the information accessible.
A public accommodation is not required to provide auxiliary aids and services where they would:
Example: A day-care center is not required to provide necessary one-on-one care for a child with multiple disabilities, and can require a medicaid-funded personal care attendant, if providing one-on-one care would impose an undue financial burden on the center.
Alternatives to Auxiliary Aids
A public accommodation can choose an alternative to an auxiliary aid or service, if the alternative would be equally effective.
(1) A restaurant is not required to provide menus in Braille for patrons who are blind, if the waiters in the restaurant are available to read the menu.
(2) A bookstore is not required to make available a sign language interpreter, if effective communication can be conducted by notepad.
Removal of Existing Architectural Barriers
Architectural barriers include physical barriers of any kind. The presence of physical barriers prevents people with certain disabilities from visiting places of public accommodation.
Title III of the ADA requires a public accommodation to take steps to remove architectural barriers, where such removal is "readily achievable."
"Readily achievable" means easily accomplished and able to be carried out without much difficulty or expense.
(1) In order to provide access to persons who use wheelchairs, restaurants may need to rearrange tables and chairs
(2) Department stores may need to re-arrange display racks and shelves.
Steps to remove barriers. A public accommodation can take the following kinds of actions to remove barriers:
The above list of examples is not meant to cover every possible step that can be taken to remove physical barriers.
If ramps are being installed, they should be permanent and not portable, unless a permanent ramp is not readily achievable. If a portable ramp is being installed, it should have safety features, such as nonslip surfaces, railings, anchoring and strong materials.
Sometimes a public accommodation cannot afford to remove all its physical barriers at one time. It is allowed to
remove barriers in stages, according to priorities set by law. Those priorities are:
First Priority: Access from public sidewalks, parking or public transportation.
Second Priority: Access to goods and services made available to the public.
Third Priority: Access to restroom facilities.
Fourth Priority: Removal of every other kind of physical barrier.
A public accommodation does not have to take steps to remove physical barriers when those steps are not "readily achievable."
Examples of Steps That Are Not "Readily Achievable:"
(1) Rearranging furniture, equipment or display racks is not readily achievable if it results in a significant loss of selling or service space.
(2) Removing a barrier caused by a flight of stairs would not be necessary if removal would require extensive ramping or an elevator.
(3) Barrier removal is not readily achievable if it would threaten or destroy the historic significance of a designated historic building.
Alternatives to Barrier Removal
If a public accommodation can show that the removal of a barrier is not readily achievable, it has to use "alternative methods" to make its goods, services, or benefits available to persons with disabilities.
Example: If a restaurant refuses to rearrange tables and chairs to avoid significant loss of service space, the restaurant still has to provide access to its services through alternative methods.
Examples of alternatives to barrier removal:
(1) Providing curb service or home delivery
(2) Assigning an employee to get merchandise from inaccessible shelves or racks
(3) Relocating activities to accessible locations.
Examinations and Courses
There are private entities which offer courses or conduct examinations or tests. The courses or exams may be related to any of the following:
The entity must offer the course or exam in a place and manner that is accessible to persons with disabilities.
Example: A certified public accountant (CPA) review course which prepares students for licensing tests to become CPA's must provide sign language interpreters or other auxiliary aids to students with hearing impairments.
An exam must reflect the person's aptitude or achievement, and not the person's impaired skills (unless the exam is intended to measure those skills).
The entity offering a course or exam must provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services for persons with impaired sensory, manual or speaking skills.
(1) Taped examinations or texts
(2) Brailled or large print exams, answer sheets and texts or qualified readers
(3) Interpreters
(4) Transcribers
(5) Classroom equipment, such as laptop computers
The entity does not have to provide auxiliary aids or services where it would result in:
Courses must be held in facilities that are accessible to persons with disabilities, or alternative arrangements for access must be made. Materials for the courses must be made available in alternative formats.
Courses should be modified to make sure that they are accessible.
Examples of Modifications:
(1) Changes in the length of time permitted to complete an exam;
(2) Permitting oral rather than written delivery of an assignment by a person with a visual impairment.
New Construction § 12183
New construction refers to a public accommodation that designs or constructs facilities for first occupancy after January 26, 1993. Such facilities must be "readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities." If they are not, it is discrimination under the ADA.
The term "readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities" means that the facility or portion of the facility can be approached, entered, and used by persons with disabilities (including those with mobility impairments) easily and conveniently.
This rule requires a high degree of convenient access. It is intended to make sure that both patrons and employees of places of public accommodation and employees of commercial facilities are able to get to, enter, and use the facility.
Newly constructed facilities must provide access to the facility from the street or parking lot, as long as the responsible entity has control over the route from these locations.
Note: The facilities of public accommodations in Illinois also are subject to the construction and design rules of the Illinois Accessibility Code. See the section in this Chapter titled "Environmental Barriers in Public Facilities and Multi-Story Housing."
Alterations To Facilities
An "alteration" is a structural change to a place of public accommodation or to a commercial facility that affects the usability of the building. This includes remodeling, renovation, reconstruction, restoration, and changes in structure or walls.
Alterations are not required by the ADA. If alterations are made after January 26, 1993, to a public accommodation or commercial facility, then the altered portions must be accessible to persons with disabilities, including persons who use wheelchairs. The entity must assure access to the maximum extent possible.
Example: A restaurant violated the ADA when it constructed a raised dining area without installing a ramp and when it installed new booths without providing accessible seating.
Access To Path of Travel
When a public accommodation makes an alteration that affects access to an area of a facility containing a "primary function," the entity must make the "path of travel" to the altered area accessible to persons with disabilities. This includes persons who use wheelchairs.
A "primary function" area is where a major activity of the facility takes place.
(1) The customer services lobby of a bank
(2) The dining area of a cafeteria
(3) The meeting rooms of a conference center
The "path of travel" includes all parts of the facility that you have to use to get to and from the altered area. It also includes the paths to the bathrooms, telephones, and drinking fountains serving the altered area. All such paths must be accessible whenever the alteration is to a primary function area.
The "path of travel" is the continuous path connecting the exterior and the entrance of the building to the primary function area that has been altered.
The requirement to make the path of travel accessible does not apply if the cost of doing so would be too much. Costs of making the path of travel accessible are too much where the cost is more than 20% of the cost of the alteration to the "primary function" area. When that happens, then as much of the path of travel as possible should be made accessible, without going over the 20% limit.
Elevator Requirements
New Construction: Elevators are required in all new construction unless there is an "exemption." There is an exemption in any new facility that is less than 3 stories or has less than 3,000 square feet per story.
Example: A new office building that will have 5 stories, but where each story will have less than 3,000 square feet, does not require an elevator.
Note: The elevator requirements in the Illinois Accessibility Code are more strict.
When alterations are made: There must be elevator access to primary function areas that have been altered, unless:
Note: Alterations to the offices of a doctor or other health care provider must include an elevator, unless costs are too much. There is no exemption for offices of health care providers where the facilities are less than 3 stories or have less than 3,000 square feet per story.
A shopping center or mall with at least two levels must have an elevator even if the facilities are less than three stories or have less than 3,000 square feet per story.
Your rights have been violated if: You are a qualified individual with a disability; you use or want to use the goods, services, benefits or facilities of a "place of public accommodation"; your participation would not be a direct threat to others or to yourself, and:
Requests for Investigation By U.S. Department of Justice
The ADA does not have a comprehensive administrative scheme to enforce Title III of the ADA. There is no right to a hearing at a federal agency. Nevertheless, if you believe that you have been subjected to discrimination prohibited by Title III of the ADA or its regulations, you may request the Department of Justice to start an investigation.
Complaints should be sent to:
Disability Rights Section,
Civil Rights Division,
U.S. Department of Justice,
Post Office Box 66738,
Washington, DC 20035-6738.
Note: Call the ADA Information Line 1-800-514-0301 (voice) 1-800-514-0383 (TTY) to ask about filing a complaint with the DOJ and to order the DOJ publication, How to File a Title III Complaint, or visit the DOJ's Disability Rights Section Hompage.
The Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights is responsible for investigating possible violations and for enforcing the public accommodations regulations.
U.S. Attorney General Lawsuits
Following an investigation, the Attorney General may start a lawsuit in a United States District Court, but only when there is good reason to believe that any person or group of persons:
This means the Attorney General will not file suit on your behalf for an isolated or single instance of discrimination, but may do so if it is considered an important issue for the public at large.
In a civil lawsuit brought by the Attorney General, the court may order the following types of relief:
Whenever your rights under Title III of the ADA have been violated or are about to be violated, you can file your own private civil lawsuit. It is not necessary to first complain to the Department of Justice or the Attorney General. Also, it is not necessary to provide notice to state or local authorities before bringing a lawsuit under Title III of the ADA. In other words, you can file your own suit as soon as you know your rights were violated or are about to be violated.
If justified, the court may appoint an attorney for you and may allow you to file the case without fees or costs.
Relief Available From Private Lawsuits
When you file your own lawsuit, the relief you can get under Title III of the ADA is limited to "preventive relief." Preventive relief means an injunction or restraining order issued by the court to prevent the place you are suing from continuing to discriminate against you. You must be able to show a likelihood that the discrimination will continue or will recur.
You cannot recover monetary damages in a private lawsuit brought under Title III of the ADA. The court could award money damages, but only if the suit was brought by the Attorney General, who recommended that relief.
There is another other way you might be able to recover money damages for any losses you suffer by the failure of the public accommodation to provide access. That is by bringing a state law claim, or by adding a state law claim to your ADA claim. See the section in this Chapter titled "Places of Public Accommodation and Government Services (State Law)."
If you win the suit, the court most likely will order the public accommodation to pay your attorney's fee. This could include litigation expenses and costs. Litigation expenses include items such as expert witness fees, travel expenses, and the like.
If you lose the suit, you will not have to pay the public accommodation's attorneys' fees unless it is found that your claim was frivolous, unreasonable, or groundless.
Deadline for Filing a Lawsuit
Any lawsuit brought under Title III of the ADA must be filed within two (2) years of the date that you were harmed by the discrimination.
Who The Lawsuit Should Be Brought Against
A person can be sued under ADA Title III only if he or she owns, leases or leases to, or operates a place of public accommodation. This means you sue the management, and not an employee who is not part of management.
Title III of the ADA, and related statutory provisions, can be found at 42 USCA §§ 12101, 12102, 12181-12189, and 12201-12212.
The federal regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of disability by public accommodations can be found at 28 CFR Part 36.
A section-by-section analysis of the above regulations can be found at 28 CFR Part 36, Appendix B, titled "Preamble to Regulation on Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities" (Published July 26, 1991).
The federal regulations explaining the ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities can be found at 36 CFR Part 1191.
The federal law relating to seeing-eye dogs in buildings owned or operated by the United States can be found at 40 USCA §291.
Title III of the ADA does not apply to private clubs, not open to the public, or religious organizations and places of worship. However, either a private club or a religious organization can be considered a public accommodation subject to Title III to the extent that it rents space to a place of public accommodation.
Example: If a church rents space to a day care center, the church can be considered a public accommodation with regard to that space.
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Pohjola, Mika (Antero)
Pohjola, Mika (Antero), composer, producer, pianist, educator, b. Helsinki, Finland, 1 December 1971. The son of a Helsinki-based jazz guitarist with a great record collection, young Pohjola never heard jazz live. His father is Heikki Antero Pojola (b. April 14, 1938 in Karkola, Finland), a jazz guitarist who lives in Helsinki, Finland. His mother is Anneli Trustedt, (born Hirvela) (b. March 11, 1947 in Tampere, Finland). She's a lecturer in work environment and medical rights. She lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
His early musical training included the Helsinki Cathedral boy choir, Cantores Minores, and the Conservatory of Vantaa, from where he earned a diploma in piano and traditional counterpoint in 1987. By the age of twelve, he was already hooked on recordings by Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson and Charlie Parker, which lead his interests toward improvisation. When Pohjola moved to Sweden, he found a teacher, Alvaro Is Rojas, who taught him the mechanics of improvisation and harmony. Pohjola graduated from the Swedish Royal Academy in 1992, and continued his studies at Berklee College of Music in Boston (1992-94), where his teachers included Gary Burton, Herb Pomeroy and Ed Bedner.
After his arrival in New York in 1995, Pohjola naturally gravitated to the downtown scene and soon carved out a niche for himself with his eclectic brand of jazz. Alongside his gigs at the New York clubs (Blue Note, Birdland, Knitting Factory, Visiones, Jazz Standard, Cornelia), Pohjola has frequently toured Europe (U.K, Germany, Ukraine, Italy and Scandinavia), Canada, the U.S. (NY, DC, MA, CA) and Japan. Pohjola has worked with saxophonists Chris Cheek, Miguel Zenon, George Garzone and Mark Turner, guitarists Ben Monder and Mick Goodrick, bassists Drew Gress, Matt Penman, David Ambrosio and Fernando Huergo, drummers Roberto Dani, Yusuke Yamamoto, Mark Ferber, Jeff Ballard and Jeff Williams, and vocalists Johanna Grussner, Jill Seifers and Rigmor Gustafsson.
Presently, Pohjola operates in many strikingly different contexts - the freewheeling Sound of Village Duo; the more defined context of his electric quintet, MikaSonik; an improvising trio with Drew Gress and Mark Ferber, the progressive rock band, Stuck; folkloric journeys with Fernando Huergo Jazz Argentino and various recording environments, which result in works such as Moomin Voices, a re-worked portrait of the famous Tove Jansson fairy-tale Moomintroll.
In addition to his career as a composer, producer and pianist, Pohjola works as a part-time lecturer in improvisation, composition and music business.
On the Move (1997); Myths & Beliefs (1997); Announcement (1998); Special Edition (1999); Live at the Blue Note (2000); The Music of Mika Pohjola (2002); Landmark (2002)
As co-leader:
With Yusuke Yamamoto: Daytime Sessions (a home loft recording, 1999); With Johanna Grussner: Hur man raddar karleken & annat (2000); With Yusuke Yamamoto: Sound of Village (2001)
As sideperson:
Johanna Grussner Band (1995); Gary Davis Heckard: Improvisations (1997); Stuck: We're Stuck (2002)
As producer:
Orange (1994); Moomin Voices (2003)
As producer and arranger:
Orange (1994); Moomin Voices (2003); Muumilauluja (2005); Scandinavian Yuletide Voices (2005)
Radio and television broadcasts:
1993-2002: Numerous recordings as leader and sideman for YLE, The Finnish Broadcasting Company, Radio and TV.
1998, 1999, 2001: Various recordings for SR, The Swedish Broadcasting Company.
1998: BBC World Service ("Jazz Matazz" hosted by Alyn Shipton)
1996: Live recording for DR, The Danish Broadcasting Company
1996: BBC Wales ("Live from Brecon Jazz")
2003: Headlines Magazine (In Harmony with Music of Manhattan, by Tim Bird)
2001: Helsingin Sanomat (Living the American Dream, by Jukka Hauru)
1996: Hufvudstadsbladet (You Can Get There If You Really Want To, by Mikael Kosk)
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland police arrested a man found with marijuana at the Occupy Portland encampment at Chapmen Park.
Officers first approached the man Tuesday because they thought he was drinking alcohol in the park. They say they found he was concealing several bags of marijuana in a canning jar. The 35-year-old from Tillamook was jailed.
In other developments at the ongoing demonstration, police were notified Tuesday night that a 9-year-old girl was missing. She was found with a woman known as Rainbow and reunited with her mother in Lownsdale Square where they have been staying.
KATU reports that a sex offender registered his address last week as Lownsdale Square. An Occupy Portland organizer, Gina Ronning, says he's been helping and contributing and his past is "not anything to be panicky about."


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Though you may not always be staying at The Savoy, London's hotels offer the kind of quaint charm and groundbreaking artistry to fuel an Anglophile's daydreams for life. There's a form of accommodation to fit each budget, so do your research wisely and keep an open mind. You never know where it might get you.
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This book is not just a collection of favorite recipes. It is a story about friendship, and holding on to a holiday tradition while pursuing a career and taking care of a busy family.
This book is the smaller, 7x7 square version. It is the perfect size for gift giving.
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The double factorial is defined as $$n!! = \begin{cases} n \cdot (n-2) \cdot (n-4) \cdots 3 \cdot 1 = \dfrac{(n+1)!}{2^{(n+1)/2}((n+1)/2)!} & \text{ If $n \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, is odd}\\ n \cdot (n-2) \cdot (n-4) \cdots 4 \cdot 2 = 2^{n/2} (n/2)! & \text{ If $n \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, is even}\\ 1 & \text{If $n \in \{0,-1\}$} \end{cases} \,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\, (\star)$$ I am curious about the origin of this notation. I see it to be a poor, non-suggestive notation. After a quick search, I see that the notation was first used in Arfken $1985$. I am curious as to why one would use such a non-suggestive notation, call it double factorial and more importantly, why have others caught on to this notation? Also, are there alternate notations to denote $(\star)$?
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The way I parse it, $n!$ is a post-fix function call. Therefore $n!!$ parses as
Well, the way I assume it was chosen was:
And thus, it was done.
It's a terrible abuse of notation, as mentioned in the other answer, I'll agree.


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Our copyright system is such a clusterfuck.
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If you want a large audience for your comments, start by imitating the people WHO HAVE a large audience for their comments, like Fox News.
on 07 Feb 2013 at 9:30 am3John
This is bad, kind of related did you see the news the other day about a proposal by a school district in Maryland that they would own the copyright to any material produced by students? The whole system needs to be thrown out and restarted from scratch.


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Culture Secretary James Purnell today announced the World Collections Programme, a £3m initiative to be chaired by the internationally renowned Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor. The World Collections Programme will share the best of British cultural excellence and expertise with museums in Africa and Asia.
It will bring together collections in the UK, including those in the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Library, the Natural History Museum, the Tate and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in a unique initiative that could include staff exchanges, sharing expertise and conservation technology, and loaning works. The programme will build on the six collections' existing international collaborations.
Neil MacGregor, who personally negotiated the temporary loan of the Chinese terracotta warriors to the BM for their current blockbuster show, is the UK's leading authority on international cultural affairs. He also has a fine track record of establishing relationships with cultural institutions in countries including Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and China.
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A catalog of images from a collaborative performance art.
Studied painting at The College of Art, The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana from 1985 – 1989 earned a BA in Art specializing in Painting and Drawing and also an MA in Art Education, 1990-1992. Later received an MFA in Painting from Bowling Green State University, OH, USA (2001). Selected exhibitions: Mabee Gerer Museum, Shawnee, OK; Livingston Gallery, The Hague; Galerie Xenios, Frankfurt am Main; Artooteek Zuidoost, Amsterdam; Museum voor Zuid, Goes, Germany; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Gemeente Museum, The Hague; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; Humboldt University, Berlin; Park Art Gallery, NY, NY; Gallery 128, NYC, NY, Artists Alliance Gallery, Ghana; Artco Gallery, Herzogenrath; Museum for Art and Ethnography, Schwaz, Austria, and at several other locations. Gallery representation: 1. Artco Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany. 2. Influx Contemporary Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal. 3. Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana.
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William Poundstone blogs about the exhibition Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections at the Pasdena Museum of California Art, on view through January 5, 2014.
Poundstone writes: "Curated by Peter Selz and Debra Burchett-Lere, [the show] begins with the figurative watercolors Francis did as therapy from an army hospital bed in his 20s and ends with examples of the poured drip paintings he managed from a wheelchair, with one working arm, in his last illness at age 71... the PMCA show gives viewers opportunity to decide which phase of Francis they think best. I still favor the French Francis, and his 1953 watercolor Cote d'Azur (from the Broad collection) is worth a trip in itself."
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By NEIL A. LEWIS and PHILIP SHENON
Published: November 18, 1999
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17— The Egyptian government stepped up its condemnation of American officials investigating the EgyptAir crash today, saying that by focusing suspicion on one of the pilots they were rushing to judgment about the cause. Egypt's principal spokesman said a statement attributed to a relief pilot in the cockpit was being misinterpreted and did not show he was about to commit suicide by sending the plane into the Atlantic.
The chief spokesman for the Egyptian government, Nabil Osman, said in a telephone interview in Cairo that the Arabic words that investigators believe had been uttered by the pilot, Gamil al-Batouti, were a Muslim prayer ''said in a time of crisis when a person is facing a difficult situation.''
''But this prayer would never be said in terms of suicide,'' Mr. Osman said. ''It's definitely not to be said by someone who is going to commit suicide, because suicide is against Islam.''
While a federal official said some aviation investigators were unsure of the significance of the utterance, they still said they believed that information from the voice and data recorders recovered from the ocean floor indicated that Mr. Batouti may have tried to crash the plane. All 217 people on board died when the Boeing 767 plunged into the Atlantic about 50 miles south of Nantucket Island on Oct. 31.
The investigators said they believed that the cockpit's voice recorders provided evidence that it was Mr. Batouti uttering an Arabic expression that has been translated as ''I put my trust in God.''
Law-enforcement officials also said the voice tapes record the captain, Ahmed al-Habashi, frantically saying something that can be translated as either ''pull up'' or ''help me'' after the plane went into its dive.
At the request of Egypt, the United States government has delayed a decision to label the inquiry a criminal investigation and to turn it over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
James E. Hall, the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said more study of the cockpit voice recorder and data recorder was needed.
The swift agreement by the United States to delay a criminal investigation reflects the exceptionally close relationship between Washington and Cairo on a variety of issues including the Middle East peace process and counterrorism.
Secretary of State Madeline K. Albright and other senior Clinton administration officials have telephoned their Egyptian counterparts to assure them of close consultation between Washington and Cairo as the investigation continues.
The safety board said a group of experts, including representatives from the Boeing Company, which built the plane; Pratt & Whitney, which manufactured the engines; the Federal Aviation Administration; the F.B.I.; and the Egyptian government would begin work on Thursday on a transcript from the cockpit voice recorder. Gen. Mamdouh Heshman, the head of the civil aviation section of the Egyptian ministry of transport, and Capt. Mohsne el-Missiri, the investigator in charge for EgyptAir, are among the Egyptians already in Washington.
Transcripts tell whether sounds and speech were picked up by the microphone of the captain or the first officer, or one in the middle, called the cockpit area mike. They also try to define sounds, including alarms going off and levers or switches being moved.
''The group expects to work through the weekend and will attempt to complete this transcript next week,'' the board said.
Federal investigators said today that a new interpretation of the Arabic utterance could have some bearing on their initial theory as to what happened to bring down EgyptAir Flight 990.
But some of those investigators emphasized that the interpretation of the utterance was not the only factor that had led them to theorize that Mr. Batouti, a 59-year-old veteran of EgyptAir who was serving as a relief pilot for the flight, might have tried to crash the plane.
According to that hypothesis, after the co-pilot left the cockpit, Mr. Habashi left, leaving Mr. Batouti alone in control of the aircraft. Mr. Batouti then uttered the phrase, ''Tawakilt ala Allah,'' and someone turned off the autopilot. Captain Habashi then returned to the cockpit and remarked that something was wrong and needed to be fixed. Seconds later, the plane began a deep descent.
American investigators said their initial theory -- that one pilot was trying to drive the plane into the sea and the other was trying to save the jet by pulling the nose up -- was influenced by the absence so far of any evidence of mechanical failure.
In addition, safety investigators said today that they had confirmed from the flight data recorder that the elevators on the tail -- devices that control the nose's attitude -- were split, with one in the ''nose-down'' position and the other in the ''nose up'' position. While they are usually controlled in unison, it is possible for two pilots to push the sides in opposite directions. Also, the safety board announced today that during the descent the speed brakes, metal panels on top of the wings that make the plane descend faster were deployed while someone was trying to raise the nose.


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The Hollywwod Bowl provided a fun and entertaining night with the double bill of Gladys Knight and Kool and the Gang on Friday, August 8th.
Kool and The Gang opened the show and performed a 65 minute set. They quickly got the crowd out of their seats with hits "Fresh", "Tonight", "Emergency", "Mislead" and "Too Hot". The 14 piece band included a full horn session, guitars, drums, keys, lead and background singers. The band which formed in the 60s has been hitting the charts since the 70s and still consisted of original members Robert "Kool" Bell on bass, Ronald Bell on saxophone, George Brown on drums and keys, and Dennis Thomas on trumpet and vocals. Also performing were long time members Amir Bayyan, Larry Gittens, Clifford Adams, Curtis Williams, Michael Ray and Louis Taylor. Shawn McQuiller and Lavell Evans handled the lead vocals for the evening.
They continued on with a look at the 70s songs and showed their hard funk material while performing songs "Funky Stuff, "Jungle Boogie" and "Hollywood Swinging". Thomas who joined in on lead vocals told the crowd that they were always a band who could play "all genres of music".
They continued with "Cherish", "Ladies Night", "Get Down On It". They closed out their show with their biggest hit "Celebration".
For a group celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, they know how to entertain the audiences of three generations.
Gladys Knight proved why she is at legendary status in her 75 minute set. The seven-time GRAMMY Award winner has earned number one hits in Pop, R&B and Adult Contemporary, and has also had a career in film, television. Knight showed why she is still in the business after all of these decades and her voice still incredible.
Knight kicked off her set opening the show sitting at the piano and performing "Hard To Say I'm Sorry". She told the crowd "this is something you never seen me do". She stated that she wanted to take piano lessons as a child but with there being four kids, her mom could not afford it so her sister Brenda got the piano lessons and she got to sing. She said it was on her "bucket list' as she played the piano during the show. She then went on to perform "You Should Be Dancing" by The Bee Gees. Back up dancers come on stage to dance and it is Sasha Farber, Henry Byalikov and Artem Chigvintsev from "Dancing With The Stars". Then comes Tristan MacManus who was Knight's dancing partner when she competed on the hit television show to lead her into a dance routine. She joked afterwards saying "it was on my bucket list".
Knight has recently released new material and performed a few songs from her 2013 "Another Journey" album which included "I-L-O-V-E-Y-O-U" and "I Hope You Dance".
Knight who at 70 years old, never looked and sounded better. Dressed in a black pants and white shirt,she was backed by a six-piece band and 10 background singers. She showed her vocal power as she went into songs "Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me," "On & On" and "Make Yours A Happy Home" both from the "Claudine" soundtrack. Knight showed why she is still in the business after all of these decades. Her voice and stage presence is still incredible.
She continued on with songs "Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye), and "If I Was Your Woman" and "Love Overboard". Knight told stories in between each song about life and loving her fans who have been with her through ups and down and thanking everyone for always supporting her and attending her shows thoughout the years.
Knight went into with "I Heard It Through The Grapevine," and "Midnight Train To Georgia" which earned her a standing ovation from the crowd on 17,000, which made her very emotional by their response. She then talked about how much she loved Marvin Gaye and so many other singers that she looked up and were influenced by over the years. She said she remembered the first time she heard the voice of Teddy Pendergrass then went into a verse of "If You Don't Know Me Right Now" By Harold Melvin and The Blues Notes which featured Pendergrass on lead vocals, followed by "Love Don't Love Nobody" by The Spinners and "End Of The Road' by Boyz II Men.
A highlight and funny moment came when towards the end of her set, a guy comes out on stage to join her. It is her older brother Merald "Bubba" Knight who was a part of her long time band The Pips. He had the crowd laughing as he started a comedy routine of telling her how proud he was on her all these years. Then he asked for his own mike, took hers and thanks all his fans for coming, pretended to get Gladys off the stage for him to sing a song. He performed "Let's Stay Together" by Al Green that had the crowd laughing and cheering along as Gladys sang background vocals. He then went into "Happy" by Pharrell Williams with Gladys joining him to close out the show. The two of them on stage together again was a great way to end the show.
This concert was one amazing evening with talent by legends who know how to put on a show. The only bad part was that it all ended too soon.
Gladys Knight and Kool and The Gang will perform once again on Saturday, August 9th at The Hollywood Bowl.
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Reports of the fire at Majdanek that damaged the barracks housing hundreds of thousands of shoes should cause up to shudder. Something monumental has been lost and we must be mindful of its magnitude.
A word about Majdanek: The camp is situated in a valley just outside the major town of Lublin, in proximity to Little Majdan from which it derived its name. It was in the Polish territory annexed to the Reich. During the war it was part of Germany proper.
Today it is on a side road, adjacent to the major road between Lublin and Zamosc, a picturesque and charming Polish city. During the war, the camp was obscured from the road – but not from the city. Farmers worked the fields adjacent to the camp.
Majdanek was captured whole in July 1944. Unlike what happened in Auschwitz, the Nazis had no time to evacuate the camp or to burn it and destroy the evidence. The story of Majdanek was featured on the front page of the New York Times, then as now, the most prestigious of American newspapers.
H.W. Lawrence, a correspondent for the New York Times, wrote: "I have just seen the most terrible place on earth." These revelations were not given much credence. The very existence of something as awful as a death camp seemed impossible. Even graphic films of the camp shown in Britain and the United States were dismissed as Soviet propaganda.
Because it was captured whole, visitors to Majdanek see far more than they might see at Auschwitz itself. As any visitor of the camp will tell you, Majdanek is more primitive, more actual and more real.
Visitors would walk through a barracks of shoes, the shoes of 500,000 Jews from the various ghettos and camps, who entered but did not leave. To me that barrack was the most powerful part of a visit to Majdanek, more powerful even than the gas chambers and crematoria that one sees intact at the top of the hill, more powerful still that the pyramid of ashes that form a mountain just outside the gas chamber.
Moshe Shulstein, the great Yddish poet wrote of these shoes:
I saw a mountain
Higher than Mt. Blanc
And more Holy that the Mountain of Sinai
On this world this mountain stood.
such a mountain I saw—Jewish shoes in Majdanek….
Hear! hear the march.
Hear the shuffle of shoes left behind—that which remained.
From small, from large, from each and every one.
Make ways for the rows—for the pairs—
For the generations—for the years.
The shoe army—it moves and moves.
We are the shoes, we are the last witnesses.
We are shoes from grandchildren and grandfathers,
From Prague, Paris and Amsterdam,
And because we are only made of stuff and leather
And not of blood and flesh, each one of us avoided the hellfire.
We shoes—that used to go strolling in the market
Or with the bride and groom to the chuppah
We shoes from simple Jews, from butchers and carpenters,
From crocheted booties of babies just beginning to walk and go On happy occasions, weddings and even until the time
Of giving birth, to a dance, to exciting places of life…
Or quietly—to a funeral.
Unceasingly we go. We tramp.
The hangman never had a chance to snatch us into his
Sack of loot—now we go to him.
Let everyone hear the steps which flow as tears.
The steps that measure out the judgment.
Primo Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz wrote:
"Death begins with the shoes: for most of us, they show themselves to be instruments of torture, which after a few hours of marching cause painful sores which become fatally infected. Whoever has them is forced to walk as if he was dragging a convict's chain… he arrives late everywhere and everywhere he receives blows. He cannot escape if they run after him. His feet swell and the more the friction with the wood and the cloth of the shoes becomes insupportable."
Gisella Pearl, a Hugnarian gynecologist from Elie Wiesel's home town of Sighet described her own experience, but in the first person, and in a much more personal way:
"For two months I stood on my bare feet during two daily roll calls. My feet swelled and were covered with sores—which was not only painful but also dangerous…Then one of the women working near the crematory stole a pair of shoes for me in exchange for two days ration…I received a pair of shoes, about size ten, and I refused to listen when they tried to tell me the story of the man who had worn them…The shoes were so big that I could not walk in them. I needed shoe strings…I wanted them so much that nothing else seemed to matter."
The shoes of Majdanek are rotting. They smell. The rot and the smell tell us of the distance that stands between that time and our time. They bear witness to the erosion of time, which we do not want couple with the erosion of memory.
In another barracks just adjacent to the shoes the visitor walks down a barracks filled with uniforms of men and women, even of children who lived in this camp, who died in this camp. Human beings once wore these uniforms, once they were alive, now they are dead. One can sense their absence; the visitor must imagine their presence.
There are two gas chambers at Majdanek; the first one primitive, meant to murder a few. Simple, it has an entrance way, an undressing room, and then a small gas chamber with a motor next door and a sealed booth for the engineer who ran the diesel engine.
And then in the rear of the camp on top of the hill, the visitor sees the large gas chamber and crematoria, still intact, looking as if it is ready to go. The first gas chamber could kill a few people, one dozen or two. The second one could kill thousands and dispose of their bodies, leaving mounds of ashes.
How did the shoes and uniforms arrive at Majdanek?
Majdanek was the place where the warehouses from Aktion Reinhard were located, where the clothing and valuables taken from the prisoners were delivered, sorted and stored and shipped back into Germany.
It was also the headquarters for the destruction of regional ghettos and the place of supervision for the Aktion Reinhard camps Sobibor, Belzec and Treblinka.
Majdanek also was used as a prison camp and also as a transit camp for those who were deported elsewhere; it later became a killing center though that was not its primary purpose. Jews were a minority of those incarcerated in Majdanek though they were the overwhelming majority of those murdered there.
Jews were sent to Majdanek from diverse places including Slovakia, Theresienstadt and Germany in 1942, and later from the Lublin and Warsaw Districts of Poland and from the Bialystock ghetto upon its destruction. Between October 1942 and September 1943 the SS built two and possibly three gas chambers at Majdanek. Modeled on the gas chambers that were not used at Dachau, they could operate either on Carbon Monoxide or Zyklon B which was in use elsewhere at Auschwitz.
Historians differ as to the numbers of Jews killed at Majdanek. Postwar reports detailed 120,000 killed, others spoke of twice or three times that number. In a recent study by the director of the camp, Tomasz Kranz detailed the number of Jews deported to Majdanek and the number who were sent from Majdanek elsewhere, almost always to Aktion Reinhard camps where they were killed. According to the Memorial at Majdanek, some 74,000 Jews were deported to Majdanek and 15,000 Jews were deported from Majdanek to other death camps, leaving some 59,000 who were killed at Majdanek. Though the figures may be taken merely as a minimum since after 1942 camp officials ceased to record Jewish dead and in 1944 the records of the Majdanek camps were burnt just before its liberation.
We do know that more than half of that number were killed in 1942 and almost one in three during the so called Erntefest" (Harvest Festival) of November 3, 1943 when
SS and police units carried out Heinrich Himmler's orders to murder the surviving Jews in Lublin District, including the remaining Jewish prisoners at Majdanek. They concentrate 18,000 Jews from various camps and prisons in Lublin, including at least 8,000 Jewish prisoners in Majdanek, and then shoot them in large prepared ditches outside the camp fence near the crematorium. The killing at Majdanek on November 3, 1943, was the largest single-day, single-location massacre during the Holocaust at the camp. Majdanek was captured by the Soviet Union in July 1944, captured whole before the Germans had time to destroy the camp.
So much was lost in the fire – the material remains of the people who were consumed there and elsewhere by fire, whose burial place was the sky.
I cried when I heard of the flames that consumed these shoes and then I thought again. Perhaps after 66 years of bearing witness of the hell fire, the shoes – made of fiber and leather – were reunited with the grandfathers and grandchildren from Paris, Prague and Amsterdam, the men, women and children of flesh and blood.
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HPV-Associated Vulvar Cancer Rates by Race and Ethnicity
Vulvar cancers are rare. It is estimated that almost 3,100 new cases of HPV-associated vulvar cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year.* More white women get vulvar cancer than women of other races or ethnicities.
*Note: This study used cancer registry data to estimate the amount of potentially HPV-associated cancer in the United States by examining cancer in parts of the body and cancer cell types that are more likely to be caused by HPV. Cancer registries do not collect data on the presence or absence of HPV in cancer tissue at the time of diagnosis. In general, HPV is thought to be responsible for about 69% of vulvar cancers.
HPV-Associated Vulvar Cancer Rates by Race and Ethnicity, United States, 2004–2008
The graph above shows age-adjusted incidence rates for vulvar cancer in the United States during 2004–2008. "AI/AN" means American Indian/Alaska Native, and "A/PI" means Asian/Pacific Islander. The rates shown are the number of women who were diagnosed with vulvar cancer for every 100,000 women. About 1.9 white women, 1.4 black women, 1.1 American Indian/Alaska Native women, and 0.4 Asian/Pacific Islander women were diagnosed with vulvar cancer per 100,000 women. About 1.2 Hispanic women were diagnosed with vulvar cancer per 100,000 women, compared to 1.9 non-Hispanic women.
This graph was adapted from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Human papillomavirus–associated cancers—United States, 2004–2008. MMWR 2012;61(15):258–261.
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Seattle Seahawks vs. Washington Redskins NFL Playoffs Odds & Prediction: January 6th 2013
2013 NFL Playoffs Predictions
Seattle Seahawks vs. Washington Redskins
Sunday, January 6th 2013, 4:30 PM ET
NFL Playoffs Odds: Seattle -1 Over/Under 45.5
Prediction: CLICK HERE FOR THE WINNING PREDICTION
Seattle Seahawks (11-5 SU, 11-5 ATS, 8-8 O/U)
Rookie quarterback Russell Wilson has led Seattle to five consecutive victories and seven in its last eight games overall.
The Seahawks finished the regular season ranked just 17th in total offense (350.6 ypg) and a miserable 27th in passing (189.4 ypg). Thanks mostly to the contributions of elite running back Marshawn Lynch, Seattle did rank third in rushing (161.2 ypg) while putting up 25.8 points per game to finish ninth in scoring
Seattle may have fielded its best defensive unit in franchise history this season as they ranked fourth in total yards (306.2 ypg), sixth against the pass (203.1 ypg), 10th against the run (103.1 ypg) and a league-leading first in points allowed (15.3 ppg). The Seahawks went 3-5 SU and ATS on the road this season but won both of their final two regular season road games while covering the spread both times.
Washington Redskins (10-6 SU, 11-5 ATS, 9-7 O/U)
Led by outstanding rookie quarterback Robert Griffin III, Washington has reeled off an impressive seven straight wins coming into this NFC wildcard battle while covering the spread each time out. Washington beat Dallas 28-21 in their huge, regular season finale to win the NFC East and reach the postseason.
The Skins finished the regular season ranked fifth in total offense (383.0 ypg), 21st in passing (213.9 ypg) but first overall in rushing (169.1 ypg) as unheralded rookie Alfred Morris rushed for a franchise-best 1,610 yards to compliment RG3 perfectly. Washington also ranked fourth in scoring (27.2 ppg).
While the Skins were a terror on offense, the same can't be said of their defense as the unit finished a disappointing 28th in total defense (377.7 ypg), and a pitiful 30th against the pass (281.9 ypg). While Washington did manage to finish fifth against the run (95.8 ypg) that may have been because teams threw the ball so well against them, while often forgoing the run. The Redskins gave up 24.2 points per game to finish 22nd in points allowed, though they enter this NFC wildcard showdown having held five of their last seven opponents to 21 points or less.
Key Trends
Seahawks are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games following an ATS loss.
Seahawks are 6-0 ATS vs. a team with a winning record.
Seahawks are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games overall.
Seahawks are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 road games vs. a team with a winning home record.
Redskins are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 home games.
Redskins are 5-0 ATS vs. a team with a winning record.
Redskins are 7-0 ATS in their last 7 games overall.
Redskins are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 home games vs. a team with a winning road record.
Home team is 4-1-1 ATS in their last 6 meetings.
Favorite is 3-1-1 ATS in their last 5 meetings.
Seahawks are 2-5-1 ATS in their last 8 meetings.
Over is 4-0 in the last 4 meetings in Washington.
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