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I'm excited to get this figure. July is going to be a big month!
At this point I just HOPE for Dylamug and Hunga the Harpy!
In all honesty though, I really don't care. Money saved for other things.
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Also, regarding the "He continued to lead the Masters of the Universe all the way to the Second Ultimate Battleground," the wording does indicate Clamp Champ leads. It is peculiar, but who would have thought of Clamp Champ and Jitsu leading their perspective sides.
However, without He-Man and She-Ra present, Man-At-Arms (Ducan) always appeared to be the second-in-command. If Clamp Champ is the new Man-At-Arms, perhaps he assumed all the command authority as Randor's new right hand.
Not happy. The price of all the Clamp Champs on ebay has just gone up. I am a filmation subscriber but could not afford the other sub. Was really looking forward to him too
Don't suppose anyone will have a spare they would be willing to send to the UK?
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The glossy skin is a bit much when compared to some of the earlier figures. But, like zodak74 says, it also nods back to the vintage figure if you look at it that way.
Still a great figure. Love me some Clamp Champ!!! I'm going to rename him Paul Justice. They both have that awesome dark complexion. Very cool!
It should be the Fighting Foe Men and Karratti types rather than the Clamp Champ and Fang Mans that are made the exclusive. I think it leaves more money on the table more than it helps push the subs.
There's people on Ebay that can't even unload them for $50ish and you've still got Ebay/Paypal fees on top of that! Shame...
Hah! You want to scare me, with no DOS for Clamp Champ, Mattel? You failed! Try again! Do it with Mantenna for example. That might work
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In theory though I totally agree that the less popular items should get no DOS so it's easier for them to sell on the secondary market. Keeping current subbers happy should be a priority and if subbers want extras they are stuffed too! I would have bought an extra Fang Man...
At this point I just HOPE for Dylamug and Hunga the Harpy!
Making the Fighting Foe Men an "exclusive" would have helped them maintain some value. I think making popular characters exclusives just backfires. Mattel made Shadow Weaver, one of the most requested figures ever, an exclusive and subscriptions sales dropped drastically for her year compared to the previous year. It just leaves a sour taste in a lot of people's mouths.
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The gloss doesn't have me worried. Looks like a great figure. I'm so pumped for july...too bad my wallet isn't lol.
It leans towards desperation more than sound business strategy to me, but I don't know for sure.
While I'm a subber, I did want to pick up an extra for a custom. Kind of bummed about that.
It sucks for international customers that there are no DOS Clamp Champs for those that wanted him. I already have mine pre-ordered through BBTS so it doesn't really bother me and but I do agree it makes people want to sub less rather than sub more.
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The chili sauce and ground turkey that are used to make these sloppy joes creates a deliciously unique flavor. The avocado adds a special touch to the sandwiches.—Nichole Jones, Pleasant Grove, Utah
Recommended: Slow Cooker Sandwich Recipes
- 1-1/2 pounds lean ground turkey
- 2 medium onions, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 jar (12 ounces) chili sauce
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 8 onion rolls, split
- 2 medium ripe avocados, peeled and thinly sliced
- In a large skillet coated with cooking spray, cook the turkey, onions and garlic over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain.
- Transfer to a 1-1/2-qt. slow cooker. Stir in the chili sauce, jalapeno, Worcestershire sauce, oregano, cumin, paprika, salt and pepper. Cover and cook on low for 4-5 hours or until heated through. Just before serving, stir in cheese. Serve on rolls topped with avocado. Yield: 8 servings.
Editor's Note: Wear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
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"I have mixed feelings regarding this recipe. This recipe is so similar to manwich, that it made me wonder why I didn't use manwich. The can would have saved me from dirtying the crockpot and saved me some time. On the bright side, I do find manwich to be delicious; therefore, I thought this recipe was delicious."
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"THis was fabulous! THe house smelled soo good while cooking and I couldn't wait to try them. We were NOT disappointed! I've already put this in my recipe book! YUM!"
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"My husband and I liked this recipe alot.I did not pay attention to the 4 hours simmer time and of course started it an hour before we were to eat. To compensate I sauted the onions, garlic and jalapeno pepper in a little olive oil first and then added the turkey meat. While that was cooking continued to add the remaining ingredients.I used hamburger buns that I heated in a pan with a bit of butter like a grilled cheese sandwich. Placed those open face, scooped the turkey joes, grated cheddar cheese and then topped with the avocado slices. It was perfect. And so much better than regular Joes that always taste like spagetti sauce to me. We will be making this again."
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A man who was sold rotten legs of lamb by his local New World says consumers are being deceived by misleading labelling.
Two vacuum-packed legs of lamb bought by Ross McIvor from Onekawa New World in Napier turned out to be off. The supermarket then gave him two replacement legs that were green.
He thought that was bad enough, but was then shocked to find that the supermarket's practice of labelling meat with a "packing date" did not indicate when it was actually packed. Instead it reflected when the meat was put on the supermarket's shelf.
The label on the green leg of lamb given to Mr McIvor stated that it had been packaged the day before, on January 16.
So he was appalled to learn that it was packaged at a processing plant on December 18 - almost a month earlier.
Foodstuffs NZ spokeswoman Antoinette Shallue said Foodstuffs stores "strictly comply" with the Food Standards Code, which requires a "best before" date but not a "packed on" date.
Stores often applied their own "packed on" dates to enable traceability, she said.
However, the Commerce Commission said customers should be able to rely on "packaged on" dates being correct. If the labels misled people, the store risked breaching the Fair Trading Act.
Mr McIvor said the current legislation was not good enough. "Whoever authorises the supermarkets and allows them to put deceiving labels on their meat needs their arse kicked.
"We have no idea how old the lamb is. It's a downright lie."
He was told the lamb he was initially sold, which was within its expiry date, was off because the vacuum packing was faulty.
However, the Coastal Spring Lamb supplier and the vacuum-packers had not been told of any problems when contacted by The Dominion Post yesterday. The farmer was appalled his lamb was being sold in such a poor state.
Onekawa New World immediately removed the batch from its shelves and Foodstuffs Wellington recalled meat from the same supplier from its stores. One person is believed to have suffered gastric illness. The Hawke's Bay's health protection team was still investigating whether it was due to the same batch of lamb.
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Sharp things and nudity don't go well together. Hugh Jackman learned that the hard way.
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On The Graham Norton Show, the actor recounted how he almost castrated himself with his Wolverine claws. Hugh, who was filming a nude scene for the new X-Men movie at the time, said, "There was a very intense first scene and I insisted on a closed set. I ran around the corner and all the female members of the crew were gathered there. I tried to cover myself and cut my inner thigh. It was just the inner thigh, thankfully. The metal claws had to go -- you can't have bits and pieces flying off."
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James Kirchick
James Kirchick (/ˈkɜːrtʃᵻk/; born 1983) is an American reporter, foreign correspondent, and columnist.
Born to a Jewish family,[1] Kirchick attended Yale University, and wrote for its student newspaper, the Yale Daily News.[2] He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington;[3] prior to this, he was writer-at-large for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.[4]
For over three years, Kirchick worked at The New Republic, covering domestic politics, intelligence, and American foreign policy.[5][6] While he remains a contributing editor for TNR, Kirchick's reportage has appeared in The Weekly Standard,[5] The American Interest, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Columbia Journalism Review, and Prospect. He writes frequently for newspapers including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal,[7] The Los Angeles Times,[8] and Ha'aretz.
Kirchick has worked as a reporter for The New York Sun, the New York Daily News, and The Hill, and has been a columnist for the New York Daily News and the Washington Examiner. He is a regular book critic and reviews frequently for Azure,[9] Commentary, the Claremont Review of Books, Policy Review, and World Affairs, among others. Kirchick is a contributing writer to the Advocate,[10] and has received the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism Award and the Journalist of the Year Award.[11][12]
In 2008, Kirchick wrote about newsletters that contained homophobic and racist material, published under the name of Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. The story became prominent in the 2012 presidential election.[5][6] Sam Stein of The Huffington Post also wrote in an article on the newsletters that there is evidence from old interviews with Ron Paul that he was writing for the newsletter during the period of time that the racist language was being published in his newsletter.[13]
It was later claimed by television station WXIX that Ron Paul was not the author of the newsletter segments which contained the material in question. In their second newscast on the scandal in January 2012, based on information provided by Lew Rockwell, who had also worked on the newsletter, WXIX's Reality Check claimed that the offending articles may have been written by one of the freelance writers who were said to have been employed at the time.[14]
Erik Wemple for The Washington Post wrote an article that included Kirchick's response to WXIX's second newscast, where Kirchick implied that the writer of the WXIX article, Ben Swann, was incorrect in his naming of the supposed writer of the "Special Edition on Racial Terrorism".[15]
Ron Paul did not initially deny authorship of the offending material,[16] though he had begun denying it by 2001. He has accepted responsibility for the content regardless of its author, as it was published under his name.[17]
August 2013 RT appearance[edit]
After advocating the death penalty for Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning on 30 July 2013 in the Daily News,[18] Kirchick was invited to appear on Russia's RT TV network live panel discussion awaiting Manning's sentencing on Wednesday, 21 August 2013. He accepted; however, once it was his turn to speak, Kirchick refused to discuss Manning's sentencing, instead choosing to protest the Russian LGBT propaganda law.[19] When asked by RT news editor Ivor Crotty if he was ready to have a conversation about Manning with the assembled panel, Kirchick retorted angrily: "RT has been Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden 24/7. I haven't seen anything on your network about the anti-gay laws that have been passed in Russia and the increasing climate of violence and hostility towards gay people."[20] That account was objected by one of the program's hosts who said they had a panel discussing it only the day before.[21] Tweeting shortly after the segment, Kirchik claimed RT "just called taxi company that took me to studio to drop me off on the side of the highway on way to Stockholm airport".[22]
Later that day, Politico reached out to both Kirchick and RT for comment. Kirchick called for a "boycott" of RT, calling its employees "not journalists, they're propagandists". RT responded in an e-mail, calling Kirchick's protest "unrelated to the subject of the panel. Regretfully, RT had no other recourse but to continue the discussion without him".[23] The Washington Post PostPartisan blogger Jonathan Capehart commended Kirchick for his "heroic" action;[24] The New Republic's Julia Ioffe praised Kirchick's "trolling of RT";[25] and the next day, Kirchik's opinion piece titled "Why I ambushed Russia's news network with rainbow suspenders" got published by The Washington Post.[26] In it, Kirchik further denounces RT as broadcasting "sophisticated conspiracy theories and anti-establishment attitudes to push a virulently anti-American and illiberal agenda", while relying on "a pool of talking heads, including 9/11 truthers, anti-Semites, and other assorted extremists, who espouse the sort of views found where the far left and the far right converge". A day later, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell invited Kirchick into his show where they discussed related concerns and controversies at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.[27][28][29]
2016 presidential elections[edit]
Kirchick was one of a number of neoconservatives, along with Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan, who supported Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton, over the Republican Party candidate Donald Trump, for the presidency during the 2016 American presidential elections.[30] He stated that while Clinton stands for the "status quo", Trump was instead a "brashly authoritarian populist".[30]
On August 15, 2016, the Daily Beast published an article by Kirchick which listed Jill Stein, Rania Khalek, Corey Robin, Glenn Greenwald, Ishaan Tharoor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, and others as "Hillary Clinton-Loathing, Donald Trump-Loving Useful Idiots of the Left".[31] Salon's Ben Norton contacted all of those who were mentioned in the article. All of them, except for Christopher Ketcham, stated they did not support Trump.[32]
- 2006 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Excellence in Student Journalism[11]
- 2007 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Journalist of the Year[12]
- ^ Washington Free Beacon: "Hughes Drops Jews" January 28, 2013
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During my brief stint as a graduate assistant at Info to Go (previously the National Information Center on Deafness) at Gallaudet University, a newsletter titled the "Band AIED" caught my eye. Thinking it was about first-aid bandages, I read it. It turned out to be about Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED).

What is Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED)?

AIED is a rare autoimmune disorder, meaning that the immune system attacks a part of the body. This attack on the inner ear results in a rapid hearing loss. Sometimes people with this condition also experience balance problems.

Treatment for Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease

AIED can be treated with drugs. If it is treated early enough before the disease has a chance to progress too far, the hearing loss can be stemmed. However, not everyone can tolerate the types and amounts of medication required to control this condition.

Research on Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease

The National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (under the Dept. of Veterans Affairs) has published some research papers addressing AIED. In addition, the American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery had a clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of three different drugs in treating AIED.

Support for People with AIED

Meanwhile, people with Meniere's sometimes get AIED, so the Meniere's Discussion list addresses AIED as well as Meniere's.

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Having AIED does not have to mean the loss of your hearing. Here is an About visitor's own experience:

I was diagnosed with AIED in September 2003. My hearing in my right ear went in a matter of 3 hours. I had severe hearing loss with extreme tinitus. The next day I was told nerve damage from a general md. I then went to an ENT specialist within 24 hours of the hearing loss. I was told I had about 72 hours to start treatment if I had any chance of getting any hearing back.

I was immediately started on oral steroids and I was immediately given shots in my ear. Two weeks later, it went to my right ear and we started the shots in both ears. My hearing loss was so severe on my right ear they would not even give me a percentage of what my chances are of regaining my hearing.

For the next several weeks I went through a series of ear shots and the dosage of prednisone went up to 60mg. I would see my ENT twice a week for shots and hearing tests. My hearing started to get better in my right ear after each shot. My left ear got progressively worse until about the third shot, then is slowly started getting better. All in all, I was on prednisone for 3 months. Then tapered off. We came to the conclusion that we thought the shots were working and not the oral steroids.

As I kept reducing my oral steroids, my hearing still was progressively getting better. After 6 months, I am continuing to see some progress. It has been slow. Initially I was going to have to have hearing aids. But at this point I am not. I am in the low low range of normal hearing. However, I still have a lot of the residual effects. The ringing in my right ear while it is much better is still there, my ears pop constantly and I have a lot of weird effects that go on that are hard to explain,they come and go.

I truly believe that the ear shots kick started my ears and stopped the progression of hearing loss.I am told that I am extremely lucky to have gotten a lot of my hearing back. I also when this first started was to take a lot of vitamin B complex. I still take it to this day, although I am at the normal does that you should take daily. For over three months I took 1,000 mg a day. I can't say that it has helped, because I am not sure exactly what has helped, but part of me thinks this has helped with the tinnitus. All and all it has been very scary as I have never had something like this happen before.

I take each day day by day, as It could also go again. I am still being monitored, but only every few months, unless I notice a change for the worse. I must say I was very lucky to have an ENT that was up to the challenge and very aggressive in his treatment. I did go for a second opinion when this first started and was told that he was doing exactly what the other ENT would do.


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The release of the Auditor General's compliance audit for Central Management Services has set off a firestorm of press, and some of it centers around campaign contributions from companies cited in the audit. We've seen different contribution amounts listed in different press accounts. In the interest of uniformity, here is our count of giving since January 1, 2000 by companies named in the CMS audit:
Giving to Gov. Blagojevich:
Accenture: $1,000
BearingPoint: $28,000
EKI/Electronic Knowledge Interchange: $23,000 (including $1K to Move IL Forward)
Maximus: $25,500
Mesirow: $3,500
Team Services: $4,000
Total: $85,000
Giving to Attorney General Madigan:
Maximus: $4,500
Mesirow: $2,000
Total: $6,500
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Working for rich people is kind of like robbing them. The chorus reminds me of going to a concert or club. Even though we don't make a lot of money, my husband and I always find a way to go to concerts and have fun with our friends. "Jump on my Shoulders" makes me think of going to a concert and, as a girl it's sometimes hard to see. I actually think it's pretty romantic because he seems to be saying 'I'll hold you up and we can just dance and have fun.'
I think "The devil's lost control" refers to not letting money rule our lives. "Live in the water/I'm scared of the city" reminds me it's important to return to nature, since I actually do live in a city and it gets overwhelming. The last lyric is the most meaningful, I think because it's so easy to relate to. It's like life's hard for all of us, but whatever you're looking for - it's worth it in the end if you don't give up. Just my interpretation. It's an amazing song.


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Many of England's once prosperous country houses are either no longer with us, or cared for by organisations like the National Trust. When the visitors go home, the doors are locked, the lights go out and these preserved icons of a past age lie silent and empty. But at Hesleyside Hall in the North Tyne, the pitter-patter of tiny feet, the clink of glasses during a party, and day-to-day life, still go on as they have done for several hundred years; for the house and estate is still in the hands of one of the most prominent families in the North – the Charltons. And thanks to some 19th century memoirs and stories still told today by the current family, the links between past and present are being kept very much alive.
IT was the summer of 1839 when young bride Barbara Charlton first set eyes on Hesleyside. She had spent the last few days enduring the arduous journey from London, first by train to Hull, then boat to Newcastle and finally by horse and carriage along unmetalled roads to the North Tyne.
By marrying William Henry Charlton, she had swapped the bright lights of the capital for a life that was completely alien to her. By all accounts it was a wet and miserable summer that year and the weather wouldn't have portrayed Northumberland in its best light. Perhaps Barbara gained some relief on her journey by catching her first glimpse of the ancient Roman Wall, before the horses left the Tyne valley and pulled her carriage north towards her new home.
And as that new home came into view, Barbara got her first close look, not only at the house, but the eccentric array of relations she would be sharing it with. These included her husband's parents William John Charlton and his wife Katherine, and her husband's elderly great aunt Miss Catherine Fenwick, who left an indelible impression on Barbara when she arrived.
We know all this because in her dotage, Barbara wrote a series of entertaining memoirs, which paint a fascinating picture of life at Hesleyside during the 19th century. They form a gold mine of information and today are among the family's treasured possessions.
As Barbara was ushered in, Catherine Fenwick, by then an 83-year-old, burst out of the library and gave her an effusive welcome. "To my great astonishment, she spoke the broadest Northumbrian, this being the first occasion on which I had heard that peculiar sing-song accent," recalled Barbara. "And it seemed so strange hearing it for the first time from a lady looking like a duchess and speaking like a cook!"
Barbara, it seems wasn't too enamoured by the "rather short man" who was her father-in-law. "He had the features of his mother, a bad nose and a bad mouth, the most sarcastic, disagreeable sneering mouth I ever saw." Barbara did concede though that he had an "undeniably good-shaped leg and foot" before tempering this compliment by pointing out that he'd had rotten teeth since his teens.
So much for the in-laws, but what about her new home. Many of us used to 21st century basic comforts – warmth being fairly high on the list – would have found the Hesleyside Hall of 1839 uninhabitable. The Charltons had owned land in the North Tyne since at least the mid-13th century and in the 14th century built a pele tower at Hesleyside which became their ancestral home. The pele went, but in its place an 18th century house was built. But by the mid 19th century, conditions for Barbara were uncomfortable, to say the least, with fungus growing everywhere and the downstairs being "a cave of icy blasts."
At least she expected to be well fed and watered at her country seat. So as the dinner gong rang, Barbara, perhaps feeling a little nervous, sat herself down at the dining table with her in-laws. But amid the flickering candlelight, things were about to get a lot worse as the meal was served.
"In those days the food was execrable and coarsely served," she said. "I looked on with astonishment at Mrs Charlton's disgusting way of eating, not to mention other nauseous table habits, and soon accustomed myself to eating my own rations with downcast eyes."
She went on: "No wine was ever served at dinner, though this did not touch me, as at that time I drank nothing. Water, drunk out of a black glass was the family beverage. Nevertheless, the butler and his pantry cronies appeared to indulge freely in wine! In that way it was hardly possible to find a more drunken establishment; Hesleyside was simply a house of refreshment for the neighbourhood."
What Barbara wasn't aware of until much later in life was that the laundry was being used as a brothel by the drunken servants. She only found out when one of her sons revealed all on his death bed.
"He gave the names of some of the upper servants as among the most licentious women of whom I had no suspicions, believing them to lead blameless lives. It horrified me, so long ago as that, to hear about the scenes of profligacy he himself had witnessed as he passed the laundry to and fro at odd times of the day; and I had no doubt, although he did not say so, that he was similarly au fait at the indoor servants' amours in the pantry."
Barbara's early experiences at Hesleyside though were comparably pleasant compared to those previously endured by her mother-in-law, Katherine. Barbara was to learn how her husband's grandmother Margaret Charlton (née Fenwick) and her sister Catherine Fenwick had made life unbearable for Katherine, when she had arrived as a young bride at Hesleyside 30 years earlier. The two matriarchs had been against the marriage, but grudgingly accepted Katherine into the household, seeing her only purpose in life as being a producer of children.
Barbara recalled: "Should she (Katherine) sit reading in her own room for the sake of peace and quiet, then her mother-in law would rout the poor woman out in double quick time, impressing her destiny on her own words to this effect. 'You will never breed if you mope over your books. My son, remember, only married you because you looked to be a good breeder!'"
The bullying by these two "spirit-breaking hags" during Katherine's life wasn't only verbal. One incident was witnessed by Barbara's mother during a visit to the hall, which Barbara later recorded: "My future mother-in-law by that time was quite disturbed in the mind, and when her brain was out of health she was apt to chatter nonsense, reminded all the time by the really regnant Mrs Charlton that she was a born fool, quite daft, and had no business to proffer an opinion on any subject, all being beyond the scope of any intellect.
"One day when all the ladies were grouped round the fire conversing, Katherine Charlton boldly asserted there was no such thing as bodily pain, but that all feeling of that sort emanated from, and was the creation of, the mind. 'Indeed!' said the leading spirit breaker and taking hold of her daughter-in-law's hand, thrust it into the flame." No wonder Katherine was unhinged by the time Barbara moved in.
"You will never breed if you mope over your books. My son, remember, only married you because you looked to be a good breeder!"
As the years went by and Barbara and her husband became masters of their home, conditions at the house improved. A French drawing room was created, and central heating was installed, as well as gas in most of the rooms. Barbara's husband was responsible for the building of the Border County Railway, which ran from Hexham through the North Tyne into Scotland. And being staunch Catholics (the Charltons had taken part in the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion), Barbara converted one room of the house into a chapel.
More than 100 years after Barbara's reign at Hesleyside ended, William and Anna have become the latest generation in a long line of Charltons to take over the estate, moving in last summer with their three children. William's grandmother and Barbara's great-grand daughter, Mamie Charlton, who ran the estate for many years with her husband, Major John Charlton, is now 93 and still lives in the house. Her husband died last year, just weeks short of his 96th birthday.
History leaps out at you from every corner at Hesleyside, from the artefacts hanging on the walls to the portraits of the many Charltons who made a name for themselves. And as Barbara's memoirs bring much of that history to life, so too do the stories told by Mamie Charlton who first came to Hesleyside as a small child with her parents in 1920.
After Barbara moved out, the house passed into the hands of her son, William Oswald Charlton who married an American debutante, Mary Grant Campbell (President Grant's godchild). She much preferred London to Northumberland and so the house was eventually let until their son, William Henry Charlton, moved in with his wife and daughter, Mamie.
It must have been love at first sight when William Henry first set eyes on his future wife and Mrs Charlton clearly remembers the story of how her parents met. "It was before the First World War in 1913," she said. "They gave tea parties in those days. My father was walking down Sloane Street, aged 36, with a friend in the Life Guards. He went to tea at the home of a widow with four pretty daughters and two months later, married my mother." That pretty young girl was Bridget Purcell, the daughter of William Purcell, who had made his fortune in Mexico.
"Then the house became empty and my father came up by train and they drove up by pony and trap and had a cup of tea in the library, but never saw anything else," said Mrs Charlton. "Then in 1920, when I was two, they said, let's have a go at living there. They took on four little orphans as staff. There was no heating and I was on the top floor. My mother shocked all the neighbours by putting plumbing in the front of the house. All the neighbours had flunkies and we had the orphans and our parties were more fun. I was not at them. I was on the top floor with Nana."
The house was bitterly cold, just as it was in Barbara's day, but Mrs Charlton has nothing but happy memories about her childhood – a far cry from the experiences suffered by her great-great grandmother, Katherine. "Barbara's grandmother-in-law Margaret Fenwick was a bully," said Mrs Charlton. "It must have been hell. Fenwick was very nasty to Barbara's mother-in-law.
"Barbara's husband, built the workhouse in Bellingham, the railway and the town hall. All through my childhood, my father used to carve the joint at the workhouse on Christmas Day.
"Barbara roofed over the courtyard here to create a billiard room which caused dry rot. It later had to be pulled down. I can remember the mushrooms as a child. People used to kick the mushrooms. Nobody minded.
"There were no other children in the house. I was an only child, but I had the maids who played with me. The maids married very well. They had such pretty uniforms and they were all orphans taken on by my parents. When my mother held a party, she would the next day have a party for all the maids and people who worked here. People at the Black Bull (in Bellingham) played the piano – anyone who could do something. It was all light-hearted, but there were no other children."
Things changed though when Mrs Charlton's cousins came to stay. "We got up to all sorts of high jinx," she said. "We went up on the roof which was terribly dangerous. There was none of this health and safety. They were terribly brave girls. It was great fun."
And it was during one of those visits that her 12-year-old second cousin, John, arrived with his brother Michael. It was a friendship that would last a lifetime as they later became devoted to each other as man and wife.
"I was four years younger at the time," said Mrs Charlton. "They came to shoot. My husband's brother was mauled by a lion in Tanganyika just after he married. He could not do much after that. He was a solicitor by trade. He grew tomatoes and hunted down in Somerset.
"It was great fun when my future husband came to stay. We played croquet and tennis and all those sorts of things. He was always fun. Then I was a bridesmaid to his sister. His home was Burghwallis and his father was George Anne who founded Tote Investors. He gave wonderful parties and died in 1960."
Mrs Charlton married on March 4, 1944, at St Oswald's Church in Bellingham, but unusually, her husband later had to change his surname, to maintain the Charlton name at Hesleyside. Three months after the wedding he embarked for France, only a week after the D-Day landings. "He had a week's leave and I was a Wren and had a month's leave so we went to Ireland," said Mrs Charlton. "But we could not travel together even though we were married because he was an officer and I wasn't. We had to go in different parts of the ship."
Major Charlton was part of the so-called Forgotten Army of Burma during the Second World War and spent five months behind Japanese lines. "He started out with 600 and brought back 80 from Rangoon," said Mrs Charlton. "He lost all his friends. It was a dreadful time. I never knew all about it, but he never banged on. He was such fun to live with. We romped through life with hard work."
Tragedy was to strike the couple in 1976 though, when two of their five daughters, Jenny Loyd and Kate Lloyd-Baker, were killed in a train crash in Mexico. It is Jenny's son, William who, with his wife Anna, took over the reins at Hesleyside last June with their children Matilda (6), Kitty (4) and Henry (2).
But unlike Barbara, Anna was already well accustomed to the area. Married for seven years, the family had already lived for some time at nearby Charlton. And hailing from the Brecon Beacons, the landscape of the North Tyne felt like home from home for Anna.
"It's very much a family home with toys scattered everywhere," she said. "We have always known it as a family house. We always have a lot of people to stay and always use all the rooms. The joy for me is, the children run around and play hide and seek in it. They sleep in the old night nursery that all the other children have slept in. They have an amazing place to live.
"The children help Mumma (Mrs Charlton) with the garden and when I see photos of her as a child, it is not much different. The cattle are the same, the paint is still peeling off the walls… it is perpetual. You wake up and think, a lot of people in the past have looked at that view. There is so much history and so many ancestors looking down on us. We are determined to keep it as a family home for the future."
Some things, it seems never change at Hesleyside. When Mrs Charlton moved in there was no electricity and her mother put in a generator to power electric lights. "We could never have lights on all the time," she said. "It always fused when we had a party."
And the same thing still happens today, despite the house being connected to the mains. "It was the last dinner party," said Anna. "We had a house full of people. It could not cope with all the electricity and we had a power cut for 12 hours and had great fun. The dinner party conversation was much better over candlelight."
The responsibility of running the estate comes with a lot of hard work. Anna recently bought herself a pedometer and found out she was walking up to 12km a day around the house. "Like any of these old houses, they are a struggle," she said. "But we are determined that if we can pass it on in a slightly better condition, that is a huge success because it is extremely difficult."
William lists a range of worsening problems ranging from dry rot, cracks in the walls and the need for a new roof – plus the fact there is no proper central heating. "It dominates our thoughts on how we can maintain and continue, but that is a privilege as well," he said.
"In some houses it just takes one generation to sell it, but we are not like that. There are now about five farms and 20 houses on the estate and it just about washes its face. It means we can pay the electricity and oil bills and do up a bedroom. The temptation is put a new roof on and sell a farm, but that is not a temptation we are into."
"We think day and night about making sure there is another 600 years of family history here," added Anna. "That is one of my first thoughts when I get up in the morning – how privileged we are and what we are going to do to keep all that wonderful history going."
November 22, 2012 at 7:50 pm
Very much enjoyed your article, fascinating.
In fact my wife's great grandmother x3 was Mary Catherine Cholmeley, the sister of Katherine, wife of William John, father in law of Barbara Tasburgh.
I particularly enjoyed looking at the portraits, but as far as I can tell it doesn't say who is who.
Could you possibly supply the missing information? I'll be grateful for that. Even better if possible, how can I get hold of a copy of the relevant publication, contaning the above article?
Yours sincerely
George Liakos


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Hello all,
I tried to evaluate the integral below,
integrandnumcc =
Integrate[(D[wcc, {r, 2}]^2 + (1/r D[wcc, r])^2 +
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wcc = (r - r^2) + n (r - r^3);
What I am getting is:
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Can anybody help find what is wrong?
Help will be apprecated.


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United Voice is the first society in Malaysia that is led by persons with learning disabilities which was registered in July 2005. The members of UV include persons with Down Syndrome, Autism, Attention Deficit Disorder, Global Developmental Delay and Cerebral Palsy.
Since UV became a registered society, it has grown rapidly. More parents are beginning to realize the need to expose their children with learning disabilities to the self-advocacy movement activities so that they learn to be more independent and develop skills to voice up for themselves.


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Although many apps have a clean, easy-to-use interface – and are intuitive and even fun – most still rely on search and lists as a primary mechanism to serve up data. While this works, it is neither efficient nor refined enough to address the trends in data, the likes of which enterprises have never experienced before. Business as usual isn't going to cut it in a data deluged world. We need to think beyond the app. We need systems that deliver context.
We perform data-producing tasks all the time. Even the simplest things we do on a mobile device make us a data generator; from surfing, to shopping, to speaking. As we're all aware, data is growing at break-neck speed. If you combine this volume with the screen size and user experience on the device, we either need to adjust our approach or expect a decrease in productivity.
The cloud provides some fantastic capabilities when combined with mobility. Because of mobility's (near) ubiquitous connectivity I can have access to my data at any time, anywhere. The ability for cloud providers to scale limitlessly means there will always be enough storage for all our data. Unfortunately, even with guidance, this begins to look like many American garages; full of stuff but impossible to locate anything.
Search functionality is not going to solve this issue. Why? Because the typical paradigm of search is to produce yet another list of data, not the answer. While search does help narrow the field, it doesn't drill in far enough. Michelangelo didn't paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with a broom – refined work requires a refined instrument. Organisations that provide the tools and capabilities to get at the right information, by the right people, at the right time will excel beyond their data-laden competitors. An app can deliver that information, but it will take a connected ecosystem to produce it.
What does this mean in an enterprise context? The more data you compile, post and hoard, the harder it's going to be for your employees to access, work with and, most importantly, derive value from it.
This will be the issue even on a PC, but it will be even more pronounced on mobile devices given the constraints of the user interface. Mobility provides the ability to deliver, in real time, essential information that can be targeted to a specific individual. But overwhelming the individual with information will only lead to a loss in productivity.
To avoid being knocked over by the data fire hose, organisations need to begin thinking now about contextual strategies that will allow the right access at the right time to the right data. A more refined and honed approach to organisational workflow will need to be developed. Just giving employees access to the entire data set and tools to search it isn't necessarily going to guarantee success. Even if they do eventually find what they are looking for, the inefficacy of the process will cost you.
Here are some questions to ask yourself.
• What are the critical steps in your organisational success?
• In each step of your process what are the key pieces of information?
• Who are they key players?
• With what frequency does the information change?
Understanding what information needs to be delivered and when allows you to begin to look how to systematically deliver that focused data.
There is a commonly held belief that mobile devices are great for content consumption but terrible for content creation. But given the growth rate of data in both the personal and enterprise context, there is a chance for that maxim to be turned on its head. What if data, as predicted, becomes so voluminous that it is just not practical to consume on a mobile device? Organisations need to think beyond the app and look to develop a contextual platform that will carry them into the future.
Benjamin Robbins is a Principal at Palador. He blogs regularly at remotelymobileblog.com and is @PaladorBenjamin on Twitter.
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WAUKESHA, WIS.— Peggy Thurston Farrell, assistant professor of art at Carroll University, created a silkscreen print that was accepted into the Southern Graphics Council International Traveling Print Exhibition. "Beware" was one of 47 prints selected from 400 entries by Frances Myers, an internationally known juror and professor of printmaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Beware" will be premiered at the SGC International Conference in New Orleans, La., in March 2012. The international exhibition will be shown from spring 2015 to spring 2017."Beware" is part of Farrell's "Symbols" series. She said, "My current interest in symbols began with a trip to China in spring 2001. While traveling, I couldn't help but notice the ubiquitous use of symbols, for birth, death and good luck found on clothing, jewelry, calendars, placemats, buildings and public transportation. To primitive man, symbols were a natural part of everyday life, but to modern man they are meaningless – or are they? In this body of work, I explore the relationship between ancient and contemporary symbols. As I silkscreen and collage layers of images from many parts of my life and travels, and repeat the symbols again and again, they create something more. New symbols emerge and challenge how and what we see."Farrell is a resident of Waukesha and joined the Carroll faculty in 1991. She has Master of Art and Master of Fine Arts degrees from UW-Milwaukee. She received the Women of Distinction Art Commission Award in 2010 from the Women and Girls Fund of Waukesha County. Farrell's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout Wisconsin and the United States, including the Milwaukee Art Museum, the University of Tennessee's Fine Arts Gallery and the Philadelphia Print Club. She also has exhibited at the Saitama Museum in Japan. In 2011, Farrell was part of the three-artist "Tribute" at EFFJAY PROJEKTS in Sheboygan, Wis., the Wisconsin Visual Artists Biennial Exhibition at the Anderson Art Center in Kenosha, the Carroll Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition at Carroll University, Milwaukee Artists Resource Network Treasure Hunt, and the Wisconsin Visual Artists Juried Membership Exhibition at Alverno College in Milwaukee.
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1930 In today's Variety, a review of a new vaudeville show at the Eighty Sixth Street Theatre singles out a newcomer from the world of cabaret. Reads the review: "She is a good looking girl with a fair enough voice that might carry much further with special stuff. This is her first stage appearance. She's out of cabaret so probably has plenty to learn." Her name is Ethel Merman.
1964 Leo Genn is the odd man out as Juror Number 8 as Reginald Rose's hit play 12 Angry Men makes its London debut tonight at the Queen's Theatre. Surprisingly, British audiences do not take to the play as well as American audiences did, and the Margaret Webster-directed production closes after only 99 performances.
1995 Ferenc Molnár's The Play's the Thing sees the Broadway stage again, courtesy of Roundabout Theatre Company. Adapted by P.G. Wodehouse, the play features Joe Grifasi, Peter Frechette, Jay Goede, Paul Benedict, J. Smith-Cameron, Jeff Weiss and Keith Reddin. The Gloria Muzio-helmed production plays 49 performances at the Criterion Center.
2000 The stripping ends at San Diego's The Old Globe as the sold-out hit musical, The Full Monty, already extended past its original July 2 close date, ends its world premiere in Southern California. The show by book writer Terrence McNally and composer-lyricist David Yazbek will move to Broadway, where the lovable losers of The Full Monty will open at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Oct. 26.
2002 Ten months after the World Trade Center terrorist attack obliterated the downtown TKTS discount ticket booth, a new one opens in a new location: Manhattan's South Street Seaport.
2011 Silence! The Musical – Hunter Bell, Jon Kaplan and Al Kaplan's parody of the movie The Silence of the Lambs – opens at Off-Broadway's Theater 80. Christopher Gattelli directs and choreographs the musical starring Brent Barrett as Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and Jenn Harris as Clarice Starling.
Today's Birthdays: Dudley Digges 1879. Roxy Rothafel 1882. Brian Dennehy 1938. Timothy Nolen 1941. Mia Dillon 1955. Jimmy Smits 1955. Tom Hanks 1956.


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I have purchased a new build property which I want to put either engineered wood or solid wood flooring throughout. The stairs are in the living room so would like them to be covered in the same floor covering. Can you cover stairs in wood and make it look professional? I am not intending to lay the flooring myself but pay a contractor - where would I find someone who could do a professional job. The property is in Maidstone
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that way, I'll know where Maidstone is.
As far as finding local contractors, you have multiple sources. try yellowpages.com, kudzu.com, citysearch.com, local newspaper, etc.
try "hardwood flooring installers in Maidstone" in your google search. that will bring up the results. if you scroll down, there will be a map of yourarea with pins on it indicating flooring installers around you.
If you want an installer with good reviews, go to Better Business Bureau website (bbb.org) and look for installers close to you. it will show BBB accredited businesses and that way you'll see if any of them has any complaints filed against them. BBB has a public rating system.(here's mine).
About the steps: the installer should tell you that you can get solid stair treads(one piece). they run about $27-$35, depending where you buy them anb how long they are. they have to be installed, sanded and finished. the raisers can be painted same color as the trim in the house.
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The Tallmadge girls basketball team improved to 15-6 on the season after earning a 44-41 victory over Mogadore Feb. 11 on the road.
The Lady Wildcats had a 34-33 lead heading into the fourth quarter. Leah Makuch led the Lady Blue Devils with 14 points and seven rebounds and Kelsey Rice and Demi DeLorenzo added nine and eight points, respectively.
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My earliest memory is sucking a wine gum on Sidmouth beach and a wasp, attracted by the smell, flying into my mouth and stinging my inside lip. It was just horrendous.
Having parents who both cooked was rare in the 50s and 60s. Mum, a teacher, made homely things like bramble pie and rice pudding. On Saturday nights Dad would get this copper pan out and a jug of cream and brandy and I'd watch him do little steak Dianes. It was such a treat.
My nickname at school was Hoggy, but then I did eat a lot. My maths teacher wrote a play-cum-musical set on a ship and gave me the role of "Seaman Keating, who is fond of overeating".
Mum scrimped to buy me a lovely cream and red Kenwood Chef. I've still got it in my spare room, along with so many Magimixes – they're the story of my life.
I drank Sarson's vinegar from the bottle from a young age.
I left school at 16 and lived in at Le Normandie as a full-time apprentice chef. Proprietor Yves Champeau taxed my emotions, shall we say, and I often cried. Sometimes he said: "Si-mon, go 'ome."
Probably the only time I was really ambitious was when I was 20. I opened a restaurant called the Shed in Dinas, Pembrokeshire. God, it was hard. I had one November when there were no customers at all.
I came to London because I wanted glamour and I was gay and I wanted to run away and I found glamour as an Egon Ronay inspector. Egon was very kind to me. If I didn't have a driving licence, I didn't have a job, and twice Egon hired a barrister to get me off speeding charges.
My worst moment at Bibendum [having what he has called "a mini-breakdown"] was just one of those nights. I stopped being a chef because I'd always just wanted to cook. And now I cook every day at home and write about it. It's me.
TV is bloody hard work. I couldn't look into the black hole until the cameraman taught me. There were sticky notes on the camera saying "Look at the fucking lens."
I'm very good on holiday on my own. You see so much more. Once in Paris I went to Brasserie Lipp four lunches runnings, sitting at the same table, facing the bar and kitchen, obsessed by their snails and just enjoying watching the staff.
You cook to please yourself and hope others like it. I don't understand cooks who just want to cook to please Michelin – I just don't get that.
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Modern Etiquette: That blue language could affect your career
By Pamela Eyring
(Reuters) - "Do you eat with that mouth?"
It's a question you may have asked when coming into contact with a profanity-prone colleague or office mate. But when it comes to swearing in the business environment, what is in poor taste and how does it affect your professional image?
According to a 2012 survey by Careerfinder, foul words may not only affect your reputation, they may also affect your chance for promotion.
After surveying more than 2,000 hiring managers and 3,800 workers across industries and company sizes, 64 percent of employers said that they'd think less of an employee who repeatedly used curse words, and 57 percent said they'd be less likely to promote someone who swears in the office.
So who's using all that blue language? According to the survey, half of the respondents reported swearing in the office and the majority of those (95 percent) reported that they curse in front of their co-workers.
Another 51 percent admitted to cursing in front of their boss or supervisors. And if you think that only men are using foul language, the survey indicates that women are catching up with their male counterparts with 47 percent of women admitting to cursing while on the company clock.
As the day-to-day demands on today's workers continue to increase, swearing can be a way to let off some steam.
However, that doesn't mean that your office should sound like a drunken wrestling match or a scene out of Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" (Guinness World Records title-holder for most swearing in one film!). Continued...


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Through a Lens Darkly
The Illusion of Self-Sufficiency
Reinventing a cinematic icon is a daunting task.
Ask George Lucas, who has been struggling to rehabilitate one of the silver screen's greatest villains for over thirty years. Or ask Stan Lee, whose Marvel characters are subjected to ill-conceived "reboots" on a nearly annual basis. Just don't ask Sylvain Chomet, the insane genius behind The Triplets of Belleville, whose recent animated feature, The Illusionist (L'illusionniste), makes it abundantly clear that reinvention is not only possible, but well worth the effort.
Based on a script from the legendary French director and comic Jacques Tati (whose cinematic alter-ego, Monsieur Hulot, appeared in a quartet of influential films during the 50's, 60's, and 70's), The Illusionist tells the story of The Great Tatischeff, an aging stage magician struggling to survive in a world increasingly disinterested in his threadbare sleight-of-hand. Dismissed from his most recent Paris engagement as a result of profound audience indifference, he embarks for the British Isles in a last-ditch effort to resuscitate his moribund career.
Coming briefly to rest in a tiny village pub on a small Scottish island, he acquires an unexpected follower: Alice, a credulous young char-maid who is convinced that his trite conjurings are truly magical. Unfortunately, her fellow townsfolk are less enamored than she is, and Tatischeff is obliged to head for the bright city lights once again. Unbeknownst to him, Alice follows along behind, aglow at the opportunity to accompany such a bewitching celebrity.
Upon arriving in Edinburgh and discovering his unexpected disciple, the magician grudgingly takes the young Alice under his wing, but the results are far from pleasant. Juggling his dwindling illusionary career with the practical jobs he must pursue in an effort to pay the bills that result from his new devotee's naïveté, Tatischeff is forced to confront his own social deficiencies.
The similarities between Tati's Hulot films—Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Mon Oncle (1958), Play Time (1967), and Trafic (1971)—and Chomet's most recent work are many. The character of Tatischeff himself, in addition to the obvious patronymic reference, is strikingly similar to Hulot in look, feel, and behavior, even down to the bemused, slightly awkward way in which he moves through the crowded city streets. Like Tati's films, The Illusionist is nearly entirely silent; dialogue, when it does occur, it is garbled and indistinct. For Chomet and Tati alike, inflection and mood are vastly more important to their storytelling than words. This lends an unusual—as in rare - Chaplinesque power to their images.
Chomet's unusual artistic genius was stunningly showcased by The Triplets of Belleville, but his tendency towards bizarre surrealism often overwhelmed the message he sought to convey. The Illusionist, on the other hand, is a quieter, more mature work—no doubt the result of Tati's subtly written characters and the mildly playful mood that permeates every frame of his films. While it retains much of the visual artistry of Triplets, the overall product is far more accessible.
Joseph Susanka has been doing development work for institutions of Catholic higher education since his graduation from Thomas Aquinas College in 1999. He blogs at Crisis Magazine, where he also contributes feature articles on a variety of topics.
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LENEXA, KS -- If it's "Kid Tested, Kid Approved," then that redemption product is from Redemption Plus. The new program evaluates redemption products using feedback from young consumers who attend focus groups.
Its first focus group of children, in a range of ages, participated in an open forum where they were presented with a variety of items. They gave their opinions on such things as fun, functionality, design, packaging and quality.
One of the desired outcomes of the program is to educate customers on the highest-rated products available. If the vast majority (80%) of the test group members approve an item, it is given the official seal of approval.
A second part of the program is to collect specific feedback on what can be done to improve a product to meet the desires of young consumers. This could include a color preference and different packaging, or any number of other variables.
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DUBLIN – The European Parliament election is grabbing headlines worldwide, as it highlights a new skepticism in the European politics and raises concerns about the future of the integration project. But the real litmus test for the European Union is to be found elsewhere – in the health of its smaller economies, especially Greece and Ireland.
Both countries are small and highly indebted, with weak domestic industrial structures and faltering banking systems. Both suffered massive financial crises – rooted in egregious economic mismanagement in Greece and a massive asset-price bubble in Ireland – which were amplified by the eurozone's structural shortcomings. And both countries had somewhat venal political systems, dominated by two large parties.
Of course, Greece and Ireland also have their share of differences, and have weathered the crisis with different degrees of success. But both are being celebrated as examples of the EU's achievements: Rapidly recovering Ireland is being lionized as a model for other troubled economies, while the still-fragile Greece is being held aloft in defiance of those who warned that the EU would crumble.
This sense of "mission accomplished" is premature and dangerous. For starters, the EU has drawn the wrong conclusion from the experience: austerity works. This belief ignores the critical role in calming markets played by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's pledge to save the eurozone, just as it overlooks austerity's high cost in terms of lost economic potential and social stability.


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