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William Mudford
William Mudford (8 January 1782 – 10 March 1848),[2] was a British writer, essayist, translator of literary works and journalist.[3] He also wrote critical and philosophical essays and reviews. His 1829 novel The Five Nights of St. Albans: A Romance of the Sixteenth Century received a good review from John Gibson Lockhart, an achievement which was considered a rare distinction. Mudford also published short fictional stories which were featured in periodicals such as Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Fraser's Magazine, and Bentley's Miscellany.[4] His short story The Iron Shroud, about an iron torture chamber which shrinks through mechanical action and eventually crushes the victim inside,[5] was first published in August 1830 by Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and later republished separately in 1839 and 1840 with the subtitle "Italian Revenge".[6][7] Edgar Allan Poe is considered to have been influenced by The Iron Shroud when he wrote The Pit and the Pendulum having got his idea for the shrinking chamber from Mudford's story.[8][9][10] Mudford was born in London, where his father made a living as a shopkeeper in Piccadilly. He was influenced by John Milton, Joseph Addison, Samuel Johnson, William Cowper, William Collins, Mark Akenside, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith.[4]
Life and work[edit]
Mudford was born in Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, London, on 8 January 1782.[2] He exhibited an interest in political philosophy and attended lectures at the university of Edinburgh where he befriended John Black who, at the time, was also a student at the university. Later, Mudford published a series of letters exchanged with Black in William Cobbett's Political Register. The letters centred around a debate about classical education. In the exchanges, Mudford had argued against the merits of classical education, while Black supported the opposite side. In 1810 Mudford published a series of essays under the title The Contemplatist, which were originally published in instalments in a weekly periodical under the same title.[11] He later joined the Morning Chronicle as a parliamentary reporter. Departing from the Chronicle he was employed first as assistant editor, and then as the editor of the Courier which at the time was an influential evening journal on par with the Times. After he came to a disagreement with the owners of the Courier over policy matters, Mudform resigned from the journal and issued a letter justifying his actions. His letter drew a lot of attention at the time. In the aftermath of his departure the Courier lost readership and eventually closed while attempts at inviting Mudford back at the journal proved unsuccessful.[2]
Mudford has been described by Sir Walter Scott as an author who "loves to play at cherry-pit with Satan."; a Shakespearean expression used to indicate familiarity with the Devil.[12][13] John H. Collins, analysing the influence of Mudford's work, comments that "the Shroud story is a first rate piece of writing comparable to the best half-dozen works by Poe" and that "it should not just be dismissed as a mere potboiler which the genius of Poe transformed."[14] He goes on to mention that he thinks many readers mistakenly think that the "Iron Shroud" is one of Poe's works thus further strengthening Poe's reputation by attributing to him a story that he actually plagiarised.[14] In the Dictionary of Literary Biography Mudford's writing is described as vigorous while as a writer he is called a master at creating atmosphere. In the same source, his stories are analysed as lacking the subtlety and psychological depth found in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe but they are described as amusing and entertaining.[4]
In 1803 Mudford published his first novel, Augustus and Mary also known as The Maid of Buttermere: A Domestic Tale. Following that, Mudford made a living occupied by more mundane work such as translating foreign works and editing essays and other literary works. He also wrote his second novel Nubilia in Search of a Husband which was his response to the popular Coelebs in Search of a Wife by Hannah More and was clearly aimed at capitalising on the market success of the novel by More.[4]
As a young man Mudford showed his ambition by contacting influential and powerful men. When only seventeen, Mudford approached the producer of the Covent Garden Theatre John Philip Kemble, with the suggestion of issuing a pamphlet in his honour. Years later this was followed by a proposal for a theatrical play which was rejected by Kemble. The play itself was subsequently lost. Mudford, at 18, followed the Duke of Kent to Gibraltar as his assistant secretary.[4] Mudford was a Tory and a supporter of the foreign minister of the era George Canning.[4] Mudford was also a close friend and supporter of Samuel Taylor.[4]
At the age of forty he lost a lot of money in speculative ventures in the stock market and had to start again financially. He worked very hard and accepted an offer from the conservative party in East Kent to become the editor of the Kentish Observer. He finally settled in Canterbury and eventually became the owner of the Kentish Observer. He contributed regularly to Blackwood's Magazine and sometimes he wrote a story, a review, and a political paper in the same issue. His series of First and Last stories were very popular as were his contributions under the nickname of The Silent Member. In 1841 Mudford moved back to London where he succeeded Theodore Hook as editor of the John Bull magazine all the while maintaining his connection with the Kentish Observer. During this period his health started declining but he still kept a busy work schedule. In 1848 he wrote his last article on the topic of the French revolution which appeared in the John Bull on 5 March of the same year.[2]
Mudford while employed at the Morning Chronicle met William Hazlitt who was also working as a journalist there. A rivalry developed between the two and Hazlitt became one of Mudford's detractors. In Hazlitt's essay in Table-Talk published in 1821 under the title Coffee-House Politicians, Roger Kirkpatrick, one of Hazlitt's friends, is described as a Mudford impersonator. In the essay Mudford was described by Hazlitt as a Contemplative Man who wrote an answer to Coelebs. Hazlitt then goes on to describe him as a man made of fleecy hosiery and fat, pert, and dull as it was possible to be. Hazlitt thought that Mudford was a political hack-type journalist and a government tool and he often criticised and ridiculed him.[4]
Charles Dickens used a parody of Mudford's name when he wrote the Mudfog Sketches, creating the town of Mudfog as a parody of Chatham.[4] Mudford was also a founder member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and was among those who voted to create the organisation on 16 June 1824 at Old Slaughter's Coffee House, London.[15]
Mudford died at 5 Harrington Square, Hampstead Road, on 10 March 1848, leaving a widow and eight children. His second son, William Heseltine Mudford, became the editor of the Standard in 1894.[2] In Mudford's obituary, appearing in the June 1848 issue of Gentleman's Magazine, his abilities as the editor of the Courier were praised.[4] The entry on Mudford for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography appeared in 2004, written by David Finkelstein .[3]
Selected works[edit]
- A Critical Examination of the Writings of Richard Cumberland, Sherwood Pub., Neely, and Jones, 1812
- A critical enquiry (1802), Garland Pub., 1974
- The life of Richard Cumberland, esq., Sherwood, Neely and Jones Pub., 1812
- A critical enquiry into the writings of Samuel Johnson in which it is shewn that the pictures of life contained in the Rambler, and other publications of that celebrated writer have a dangerous tendency. M. Jones, 1803
- Sudario de Hierro y Otros Cuentos Goticos by James Hogg, John Howison, William Mudford, Celeste Pub., July 1999 Paperback
- The Iron Shroud, Viking Press, June 1973 Hardcover
- The Five Nights of St. Albans, James Blackwood & Co Pub., June 1929 Textbook Binding
- Nubilia in search of a husband, printed for J. Ridgeway, Piccadilly; and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1809
- Nubilia in search of a husband, Bradford & Inskeep, T. & G. Palmer Pub., 1809 [microform]
- An historical account of the campaign in the Netherlands in 1815, under His Grace the Duke of Wellington, and Marshal Prince Blücher, printed for Henry Colburn, 1817
- The Contemplatist: a series of essays upon morals and literature Sherwood Pub., 1810, 336 p.
- ^ Voller, Jack G. "William Mudford." The Literary Gothic. 8 May 2008
- ^ a b c d e Dictionary of National Biography (1885) from the Internet archive, pp. 253–254
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- ^ a b Oxford Biography Index Number 101019482 Primary authority: Oxford DNB
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Online Biography of William Mudford from the Dictionary of Literary Biography hosted by BookRags
- ^ "The Iron Shroud" at Google Books
- ^ Shattock, Joanne (2000). The Cambridge bibliography of English literature, 1800–1900. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 1974. ISBN 0-521-39100-8.
- ^ White, William (1993). "Volume 238". Notes and Queries. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ Online Biography of William Mudford from the Dictionary of Literary Biography hosted by BookRags p. 2
- ^ Oxford Journals Critique of William Mudford Notes and Queries 31 July 1943 p. 83
- ^ Title The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Related Tales The world's classics Oxford World's Classics Author Edgar Allan Poe Editor J. Gerald Kennedy Edition reissue, illustrated Publisher Oxford University Press, 1998 ISBN 0-19-283771-0, ISBN 978-0-19-283771-4 Length 336 pages Quote: "Explanatory Note #254 p. 298: Poe apparently got the idea for his shrinking chamber from an 1830 Blackwood's story titled the 'Iron Shroud'"
- ^ The Contemplatist: a series of essays upon morals and literature Author William Mudford Publisher Sherwood, 1810 Original from the University of California Digitized 19 May 2009 336 pages from Google Books
- ^ THE TALE OF TERROR Study of the Gothic Romance BY EDITH BIRKHEAD M.A. ASSISTANT LECTURER IN ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL FORMERLY NOB ftE FELLOW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL LONDON CONSTABLE 6f COMPANY LTD.1921 GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSB AND CO. LTD.
- ^ Title Notes and queries Publisher Oxford University Press, 1888 Original from Harvard University Digitized 7 March 2007 From Google Books. Definition of "Playing at Cherry-Pit with Satan": Referring to the game of throwing cherry-pits in a hole and also found as an expression in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and used to indicate that Malvolio is on familiar terms with the Devil. p. 37
- ^ a b American Notes & Queries – a Journal for the Curious 1943–44 By Hesperides
- ^ Kathryn Shevelow, For the Love of Animals: The Rise of the Animal Protection Movement (New York: Henry Holt, 2008), p 269. Also see Arthur W. Moss, Valiant Crusade: The History of the RSPCA (London: Cassell, 1961), p 23.
External links[edit]
- Works by or about William Mudford at Internet Archive
- Works by William Mudford at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Works by William Mudford at The Open Library
- Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens from Project Gutenberg


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The Secretary of State, Colin Powell, said on Monday he disagrees with President George Bush's position on an affirmative action case before the Supreme Court challenging the consideration of race in admitting black and other minority applicants to colleges.
In a rare public acknowledgment of dissent with the President and with other White House aides, Mr Powell said he supports methods the University of Michigan uses to bolster minority enrolments in its undergraduate and law school programs.
The policies offer points to minority applicants and set goals for minority admissions.
Many colleges and universities use variations of the system, which is meant to help minority applicants overcome the effects of generations of legalised racial discrimination.
"Whereas I have expressed my support for the policies used by the University of Michigan, the President, in looking at it, came to the conclusion that it was constitutionally flawed, based on the legal advice he received," Mr Powell told CBS television.
But the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, said she backed Mr Bush's decision to step into the case before the Supreme Court and to argue that the university's methods were unconstitutional.
She told NBS there are problems with the university's selection policies, and cited the points system.
But she also said race can be a factor in colleges' selection process.
"It is important to take race into consideration if you must, if race-neutral means do not work," Dr Rice said, adding that she had benefited from affirmative action during her career at Stanford University.
"I think they saw a person that they thought had potential, and yes, I think they were looking to diversify the faculty," she said.
"I think there's nothing wrong with that in the United States. It does not mean that one has to go to people of lower quality ..."
On Sunday the White House announced Mr Bush's proposal for the next budget would raise funding by 5 per cent for grants to black colleges, universities, graduate programs and Hispanic teaching facilities.
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The co-owner of a Winnipeg-based transportation company expressed relief Wednesday after witnessing a once-trusted employee who cunningly bilked his business out of hundreds of thousands of dollars get sent to prison for 4 1/2 years.
But it wasn't the amount of prison time Lisa Lavergne will serve that gave Jonathon Gershman of G2 Logistics solace. It was more that she was held to account at all.
"Finally, justice has been done," Gershman told the Free Press after watching Lavergne, a serial fraudster, learn her fate.
"It's been a tough three to four years. But at least we now know that justice has been served."
Lavergne, 46, pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 in April 2011 after being arrested in fall 2009.
Since Lavergne admitted her guilt, Gershman has watched as the woman he and others once viewed as a trusted colleague repeatedly devised dodgy excuses and tactics to stall having to face the music.
Court heard that when she skipped her last sentencing date in November and a warrant was issued for her arrest, it took the Winnipeg police fugitive squad months and many hours of officer time to get a bead on her.
When they finally did in mid-June, the mother of three was found sitting in a packed-up truck with her passport in her purse, Crown attorney Jocelyne Ritchot said.
Ritchot described Lavergne as "an incorrigible fraud artist" and "a menace to society" who is "driven by greed." She asked provincial court Judge John Guy to imprison her for five years.
Employed as a freight-routing specialist by G2 in 2003 with a salary of about $48,000 a year, Lavergne carried out a sophisticated illegal invoicing scheme starting in 2008, which diverted $262,962 of G2's money into her own bank account.
In all, Lavergne created 369 bogus invoices to trigger the issuing of cheques to rip the company off bit by bit until the discovery of her deception in August 2009.
"You had an opportunity 368 times to say, 'Hold the phone, I shouldn't be doing this,' " Guy told her.
"We're not talking about an 18-year-old girl who didn't know any better."
Lavergne has prior convictions for false pretences, theft and under the Excise Tax Act for claiming $27,000 worth of ineligible GST rebates by creating fake expenses and invoices, said Ritchot.
In 1997, she was sentenced to 30 months after admitting to four counts of fraud over $5,000 -- frauds that also involved breaching the trust of her employers.
In one case, she used money stolen from one company to pay a civil-court judgment a former employer obtained against her, court heard.
A victim-impact statement written by Gershman on behalf of the company was presented to Guy, but not read out in detail.
In the wake of the losses from Lavergne's fraud, the company had to downsize, Ritchot said.
As well, there was also a large amount of "personal betrayal" employees had to deal with.
Through defence lawyer Aaron Braun, Lavergne asked Guy to impose a three-year penalty.
"She says she's ashamed and embarrassed," Braun said, adding she took responsibilty for her actions quickly after being arrested.
He pointed to several G2 Logistics employees present in court, with many wearing bright orange T-shirts emblazoned with slogans such as, "Six to life without the possibility of snacks" and "Three to life, second stint."
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Antrobus family survives a thousand calamities
The Antrobus family has survived fires, floods, the Ice Age, the Black Plague, a dozen wars and seven-year pestilences for the last 5,000 years.
Yet, they look to the future with optimism in a comedy titled "The Skin of Our Teeth" by Thornton Wilder.
The comedy centers on the life of George Antrobus (Antrobus is Greek for mankind), his wife and two children, and their utility maid, Lily Sabina Fairweather, all of Excelsior, N.J.
"They have survived a thousand calamities by the skin of their teeth," Director Michael Stevenson said. "This play is a tribute to their (our) indestructibility."
George Antrobus was described as a John Doe, the average American at grips with destiny, sometimes sour and sometimes sweet.
"They run many a gamut, are as durable as radiators, and look upon the future with a disarming optimism," Stevenson added.
Students taking part in this production include Sarah Ramsey, Eden Jackson, Luke Ensign, Elizabeth Pavlicek and Chris Prchal, as the Antrobus family and their maid.
Ramsey said her character -- the family maid -- does chores like she's told to, but on the side, she's trying to pull Antrobus away from his marriage with Mrs. Antrobus.
"There's conflicts and disasters going on all around us," she said.
Ensign describes Antrobus as the father figure for the family and somewhat representative of mankind.
"There's tons of disasters but the family is always optimistic and we always pull through," he said. "This play was completely new to me, but I really like it -- it's amazing."
Other student actors who portray a variety of characters from dinosaurs and wooly mammoths to back-stage help conned into being actors include Brooke Benz, Helena Montoya, Victoria Craig, Vivian Robbins, Robert Dorsa, Hope Jensen, Marena Mahto, Kathleen Bachman and McKenzie Kostelecky.
The production's assistant director is Brian Rhodes as assistant director.
The performances are 7 p.m., Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the Dickinson High School Auditorium.
Admission prices are $8 for adults, $7 for high school students and senior citizens and $6 for junior high students and younger.


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Leader of Opposition Abdul Bari Siddiqui launched a frontal attack on the Nitish Kumar government for generating a false feel-good factor among the people of the state at a debate on the governors address to the joint session of the state legislature on Tuesday.
Nitish was a part and parcel of the NDA regime that had created a false feel-good situation ahead of the 2004 (Lok Sabha) elections. He (Nitish) was also party to the drubbing that the NDA suffered in 2004. But Nitishji, rather than taking a lesson from the 2004 phenomena, has been embarking on the same ploy, Siddiqui said in his trenchant speech, inviting occasional interruptions from the Treasury Bench.
Referring to Sheikhpura youth Mukesh Kumar, who allegedly suffered torture at the hands of the police, Siddiqui said: The torture inflicted on Mukesh by the police, was no less heinous than the rape and murder of the New Delhi girl that evoked national outcry. But the policeman who indulged in the crime was still scot-free. The police brutality has grown and so have the incidents of loot, dacoity and rape in the state.
Siddiqui also questioned the liquor policy of the state.
Since 2007-08, the government had been announcing in the House about its fool-proof measures to check the supply of spurious liquor in the market. It has been shamefully boasting of the phenomenal rise in the excise revenue, he said.
But how could several people die in Ara, Gaya, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Madhubani and Nalanda after consuming liquor? Who had supplied the spurious liquor to the consumers? asked the RJD leader.


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Vancouver Aquarium could look to Baltimore for a plan to free its whales and dolphins
The head of the Baltimore National Aquarium has revealed his organization is debating the future of its popular dolphin programs.
John Racanelli recently told Al Jazeera America that staff are discussing ending captive breeding programs, and also releasingdolphins currently held in tanks into the wild.
"Having calves in this setting may not be the best possible thing for their well-being and health in the long run," he said.
"The truth is that dolphins are far more cognizant…have much higher level of cognitive capacity, and have very highly demonstrated social behaviors," he continued. "They can obviously sense future events and correlate future and past events. The more we learn here at the aquarium, the more we realize how different these dolphins are from most of their other cousins in the ocean."
Al Jazeera describes Racanelli as the first head of a zoo or aquarium in the United States to speak publicly in favour of abolishing a captive breeding program.
It reports that the Baltimore aquarium began discussing ending its cetacean exhibits after two dolphin calves died in 2011.
"We're asking some tough questions, we really are," Racanelli said. "I feel we've really only scratched the surface."
He also addressed common arguments used to support keeping large marine mammals in captivity.
Asked what could become of the facility's dolphins—several of which were born in captivity and have never experienced life in the wild—Racanelli said the answer could be a "national dolphin sanctuary".
He also took issue with the suggestion that the global population of dolphins benefits from a relatively small number of animals kept in captivity, arguing humans do not learn to properly respect the animals when they interact with them at aquariums.
"In many cases, when people see dolphins in this kind of sterile setting, the messages that they take away with them are not in fact the ones that we as conservationists want them to," Racanelli said.
The Baltimore aquarium CEO's statements stand in stark contrast to those made in recent months by top officials at the Vancouver Aquarium.
On June 13, the aquatic facility at Stanley Park unveiled the first phase of a multi-year expansion. The construction project will eventually see larger tanks installed to accommodate greater numbers of beluga whales and dolphins.
Plans to increase the number of cetaceans kept at the Vancouver Aquarium have become controversial.
On April 9, Mayor Gregor Robertson called for an end to whale and dolphin captivity in Vancouver. The aquarium responded by issuing a statement that questioned the mayor's understanding of research conducted at the facility.
"We appreciate the fact that he [Robertson] is very supportive of the Aquarium, and we recognize he has personal feelings," that email read, "but believe he might not understand the vital role belugas and dolphins play in our important conservation efforts."
Then, on May 26, the Straight reported that renowned primatologist Jane Goodall had issued a letter making the case for an end to whale and dolphin captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium.
In response, the aquarium issued a statement attributed to vice-president Clint Wright that suggested Goodall did not fully comprehend the situation.
"The Vancouver Aquarium has the greatest respect for Jane Goodall but her information may be incomplete," Wright stated. "The current science is clear that beluga whales live as long, if not longer, while in human care. Scientific and behavioural evidence shows that cetaceans at the Vancouver Aquarium are content and thriving."
Despite such calls for change at the aquarium, CEO John Nightingale has repeatedly told media that plans to acquire more large marine mammals will "likely" go ahead.
"We do intend that cetaceans continue to play a vital role in engaging the public," he told the Straight in a March 11 telephone interview.
The Vancouver Aquarium presently keeps two Pacific white-sided dolphins named Helen and Hana, two beluga whales named Aurora and Qila, a pair of Pacific harbour porpoises named Jack and Daisy, plus a number of sea otters, seals, and sea lions. It also owns three additional belugas currently on "breeding loan" to SeaWorld parks in the United States.
The Stanley Park facility is now one of the last aquariums in Canada holding large marine mammals in captivity.
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Daniel Tanner
Jul 2, 2014 at 7:27pm
It is an incredible turn to hear that the head of a large national aquarium believes that people do not learn to properly respect these animals when seeing them in captivity. To have someone of that stature make such an admission is the aquarium equivalent of Edward Snowden - it shakes the whole justification for these places to the core and exposes the real truth of the matter.
Jul 2, 2014 at 8:45pm
They can say whatever they want
Jul 2, 2014 at 8:54pm
It's an absolute breath of fresh air to see a CEO think of the animals before the money or facility(in Nightingales case he likes to call it "rescue" and rehab"). I applaud that this aquarium is a forward thinking aquarium. I only hope the board of the Aquarium understand how Their current business model is going to fail. They need to be leaders not followers.
Michele Baillie
Jul 3, 2014 at 1:18am
I believe Cetaceans are ensouled; people like you and I. Let them go.
George Terwilliger
Jul 3, 2014 at 8:13am
You know what I find rather ironic in terms of this whole debate is that just down the road from the aquarium, there is a horse drawn carriage ride that operates as a for profit business that doesn't seem to generate any controversy. Riding a Horse drawn carriage certainly isn't education or conservation. These same animal activists must have seen it as they make their way to the aquarium. Even Constance Barnes, the voice of the whales has supported the operator for over 15 years. Indeed in March of this year a motion passed without any opposition to a
future thinkers
Jul 3, 2014 at 8:17am
In changing times, if an organization were to survive, it needs to evaluate and change to fit the climate. Baltimore National Aquarium obviously has strong leadership who is thinking about its future and how thrive in the future world. Dinasours like the Vancouver Aquarium (under the self serving leadership of John Nightingale) cannot see past its current bank deposits, will crumble and die. No amount of expansion is going to save them if they refuse to change. The Vancouver Aquarium will pour all its money and pride into its own demise.
Holly Chapman
Jul 3, 2014 at 10:13am
I think it would be wonderful if all of these places were forced to watch Black Fish.....
Jon Wrigley
Jul 3, 2014 at 10:53am
The Georgia Straight does realize that unlike America, Canada only ever had a handful of aquariums in the first place right? I mean technically the Vancouver Aquarium is the only active aquarium in Canada that displays cetaceans, since MarineLand is technically a theme park with an animal display and the other aquariums of which there are about four have never displayed cetaceans.
Ian Boothby
Jul 3, 2014 at 2:56pm
No captive whale has even been released and survived. Freeing them means their deaths. Any article that talks about freeing the whales is lying to its readers for the sake of a catchy headline.
Hank Werner
Jul 4, 2014 at 8:49am
@Ian but no one cares about that! Seriously facts are for suckers as long as they free the majestic beasts that I can commune with because we are one with them. Also Ian you need to watch that documentary about orcas at Seaworld which must be how all animals are treated in captivity!


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THE year 2012 was always destined to be memorable as the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympic and Paralympic Games coincided with York's 800th anniversary. A lot was expected and there have been ups and downs. Julie Hayes, business editor, reviews the year.
The year started off rather gloomily with casualties on the High Street. Throughout the year, Clinton's, Game and now Comet are among those that have gone into administration.
At the same time, York has seen other retailers take advantage of openings, with Jessops expanding into Spurriergate, Urban Outfitters replacing Habitat in Ousegate and Yo Sushi filling the former Ponden Mill store in Church Street.
Bad news followed from Del Monte in February, when it announced the closure of its York factory, with the loss of 140 jobs after losing a contract with Morrisons.
But also in February, Network Rail outlined its plans for a new rail operating and training centre, which could bring about 475 jobs to York.
The York Rail Operating Centre, planned by Network Rail for a 7,300 square metre site between York Station and Holgate Bridge, is expected eventually to control all rail operations on the east coast line, from King's Cross to the Scottish Borders.
Fifteen thousand people packed into York city centre to see the Queen visit York on Maundy Thursday.
The Queen presented Maundy money to 172 people. Pensioners nominated for the honour for their service to the church and community attended a civic lunch with local dignitaries and the winners of The Press's Community Pride Awards 2011.
York City Football Club spread more joy when the team celebrated a double victory at Wembley.
Players were cheered by thousands of supporters on their victory parade in an open top bus from Bootham Crescent to the Mansion House.
City won promotion with a 2-1 victory over Luton Town at Wembley, eight days after winning the FA Trophy. The parade was City's first since they were promoted to the old Second Division in 1993.
In June, the Government gave the green light to plans to build a new community stadium at Monks Cross.
The contentious proposals had split the city with camps arguing for economic growth and others campaigning against increased out-of-town development at Monks Cross, as the scheme is underpinned by a retail development which would bring John Lewis to the city as well as provide a new superstore for Marks & Spencer.
City of York Council granted permission for the £90 million retail scheme and the stadium in May and the Government decided not to call the project in for a public inquiry.
The York 800 celebrations, marking the 800 years since York was given its royal charter, came to a climax over York's Charter Weekend in July, with Ebor Vox, a project in which hundreds of local people came together to form a huge community choir.
The choir sang This York, a song written specially for the celebration as it followed a huge procession, led by the civic party.
York was swept up in Olympic fever over the summer, as the whole country celebrated London hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
About 83,500 people are believed to have seen the Olympic torch pass through York, with 55,000 lining the streets during the day, 23,400 in the evening on Knavesmire and another 5,000 watching it the following morning as it left the city.
The torch relay itself was estimated to have generated up to £1 million of additional spend in the city over the two days, with footfall in the city up 25 per cent on the average for a Tuesday.
Some local businesses also benefitted from Olympic contracts, with Tockwith's Stage One creating both the Olympic rings which hung from Tower Bridge during the duration of the Games and the Olympic cauldron featured in the opening ceremony.
The Mystery Plays made a comeback in the Museum Gardens in August, attracting more than 32,000 people.
Hundreds of volunteer cast and crew members came together from across the city to put on the successful cultural event.
In September, global insurer Hiscox announced it was to create hundreds of jobs in the city, with a new office in Hungate.
The £1.4 billion-turnover business will initially have 125 staff in York, rising potentially to 500, in the new office which is to be developed alongside a new £18 million, 262-bedroom hotel, which will provide a further 100 jobs.
York Potash also unveiled its plans for a £1 billion new mine, which is expected to create more than 1,000 new jobs in North Yorkshire. The minehead would be based near Sneaton and mine potash, which is used as fertiliser, beneath the North York Moors National Park.
York Potash has since reported it expects there to be even more high quality potash than it first believed, enabling decades of mining on the site, which is subject to planning permission.
Floods battered businesses on the riverside at the end of September, including York Dungeons and new Malaysian restaurant Ning, in Tower Street. In November, more floods again hit businesses still trying to recover from damage two months earlier.
Helen Douglas, general manager of York Dungeon, said the lower floors were flooded again, six weeks after being pumped and dried out and the attraction would now not open until next spring.
Drax Power set about raising £180 million towards converting the power station near Selby to green power after the Government confirmed it would give it the support it needed.
Britain's largest coal-fired power station, it will now embark on a £650 million-£700 million capital project to transform its plant to burn biomass, such as willow and straw, rather than coal. The project will create thousand of jobs in the supply chain over the next 12 to 18 months, including for Shepherd Construction, which will build new fuel delivery, storage and distribution facilities and through port and rail infrastructure investment.
Confectionery giant Nestlé opened its new £7 million global research and development centre in York. The Product Technology Centre employs 185 people, including world-leading confectioners John Costello and Florian Poirot, and brings together skills including materials science and chemistry of products, new product design and development, marketing, engineering of production equipment and tasting.
The third York Business Week is expected to have attracted about 7,000 business people to a raft of networking events, workshops and conferences held to celebrate and foster business in the city.
Seventeen organisations which put on events during York Business Week, which coincides with Global Entrepreneurship Week, were recognised with High Impact awards.
CPP, the card and identity protection business, has come to the end of a difficult year as a consequence of an investigation by the Financial Services Authority into the mis-selling of some of its products.
While the investigation has now been concluded and the company, which employs about 900 people mainly in York, starts to regroup, it faces more cost-cutting after a £10.5 million fine and other costs of about £35 million related to the investigation.
The Press Business Awards 2012 celebrated the achievements of businesses in York, North and East Yorkshire, especially Ryedale Group, an innovative printing business, which walked away with three awards, including overall Press Business Of The Year.


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dennis fortier
Given that the Modified Mini-Mental Status test is a verbal test, declining performance may indicate declining cognition, but it may alternatively be due to hearing impairment. This common flaw in studies linking hearing loss and cognitive decline is very well summarized at the Brain Today blog. .
When a person is accustomed to having those senses normally then lose them, they will lose other things, like their social skills, then isolate themselves (become self-contained or have their own internal world), which in essence, fulfills the prophecy "You don't use it, you lose it". This could lead to pseudodementia typical of depression..
Hearing loss may have a greater effect on cognition than vision loss because hearing aides generally are less effective and more expensive than eyeglasses. There also tends to be less social acceptance of hearing amplification devices, which unfortunately, contributes to the greater social isolation that occurs among those with hearing loss..
Geridoc - I use a personal amplifier for TV - I even have an extension so I can be a distance away from TV or radio (leave the amplifer at TV and recline on sofa. Also use in large discussion group (not in a sitution with more than one person talking). It works great - sounds are clearer than with hearing aids -$30 radio shack with an inexpesive headset. It doesn't resolve all sitautions but I won't leave home without it now. I too got frustrated in trials of high priced hearing aids. They just don't do the job. Spread the word. I bet even a better one could be made and still have a low price..
Kendall Brown MD
The issue is, is there an accounting in this study for what compensatory steps aare taken forthe hearing losses ? I do not see this in this summary..


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Best Matchup (Best combined record with both teams being over .500): San Francisco @ Oakland
Personally, I love the idea that Henderson is still playing. There's a funny sort of hypocrisy we have in sports. We want very much for our athletes to play for the love of the game, yet we demand that they stop playing when they are no longer aesthetically pleasing to us. Realizing that part of Henderson's motivation is to get back into the bigs, it is still neat to see him doing his thing in this small corner of the professional universe. If your kids have never seen Henderson play and you get a chance to go see the Bears, I urge you to do so. In fact, make a point of it. In this day and age, you won't find yourself any closer to a bona fide Hall of Famer for just nine bucks.
As for the A's, if they clinch the division with a couple of weeks to go this year (or get eliminated), I think it would be a grand gesture to bring Rickey back for a couple of weeks to close out his career. Of course, there's no guarantee that he would close out his career. I think they're going to have to pry the bat from his curled, arthritic fingers some day.
Had the Mets beaten the Reds on Thursday afternoon, then the Mets-Yankees showdown would have qualified in this category. That was not to be, however. I was at Shea Stadium for the contest and watched as the Mets did everything in their power to destroy my ain't-it-great-to-be-at-the-ballpark-and-not-at-work groove. They got men on first and second with nobody out two times and failed to advance any of them even a single base. They also had men on second and third with one out and failed to score.
I mention these failures so as to soften the blow for Mike Cameron, a poor fellow who had the kind of day you wouldn't wish on a plague monkey--even a plague monkey had who bitten your children. Cameron had already struck out three times when Ken Griffey Jr. lofted an easy fly his way with two outs and the bases loaded in the 7th inning. I think one can accept losing in just about any fashion, but the failure to secure a routine fly ball is pretty hard to take. We as fans just assume that what goes harmlessly up will come harmlessly down without touching the earth during its descent. Such was not the case here, as Cameron lost it in the sun, clearing the bases, breaking a 2-2 tie and pretty much putting the Mets away.
On the way out to the game, I was in Grand Central Terminal, wondering if I would see any celebrities. On my last trip to New York, I saw Al Lewis of The Munsters fame. For New Yorkers, this is not a big deal since Lewis has been a fairly ubiquitous presence around Manhattan. For a visitor from far off, however, it passed for a big damn deal. Anyway, I found myself in the exact spot in Grand Central Terminal where I had seen Lewis and began to wonder if I would be so lucky this time around. Lo and behold, who should walk by but our own Bud Selig, Commissioner of Baseball? He was alone, sort of hunched over and not looking very happy. (Proving that commuting sucks, regardless of how cool ones' job is.)
If I were Commissioner (or should I say, when I am Commissioner, since my hat is still firmly in the ring for when the job opens up), you won't see me scuttling around Grand Central alone. I will travel with an entourage worthy of a rap star. I'll have so many hangers-on that we'll need an entire section at the ballpark when I show up.
So there I was within howdying distance of the Commissioner of Baseball. What should I have done? Which of these would you have done?
2. Buttonholed him and told him what a bang-up job he was doing.
3. Invited him to come out to the ballpark with us for an afternoon of baseball fun.
4. Pitched crazy solutions to all of baseball's ills and then asked for spare change as compensation.
5. Stolen his watch and let it go at that.
Why does baseball continue to fascinate? Because on the same day that the Blue Jays and Devil Rays were banging out 33 runs, the Angels and A's put up three. As long as the game continues to offer that kind of diversity on a day-to-day basis, its unpredictability will keep us all fascinated.
With this in mind, the Royals have the fewest in the American League:
VORP: Fewest Position Players in double figures:
Royals: 2 (pre-Carlos Beltran trade)
Everyone else has at least five with five teams at seven. The Royals cut their number in half when they traded Beltran to the Astros. (Ken Harvey is the other.) One would assume that it would be an American League team that would have the highest number of players so disposed, what with that DH thing they have going on over there. Not so. The Dodgers and Cubs lead the majors with eight players each in double figures. Chicago is getting double-figure production out of every position except shortstop. (Todd Hollandsworth's outfield fill-in work got him onto the list.) On the Dodgers, Juan Encarnacion is the only regular still in single figures. On the other side of the coin, only one Expos player--just barely--gets into this realm. Brad Wilkerson just clears the double-figure hurdle with a 12.2.
As for the Cardinals, they are demonstrating once more that a diverse attack is not necessary, provided the key men are in the top of their respective classes. The cry of the Cardinals fan this off-season was that, while the Cubs and Astros were loading up, the best quartet of teammates plied their trades in St. Louis. Things aren't quite as magnificent this year, but three of the four are holding their own:
VORP Rank by position Big Four: 2004 2003 ----------------------------- Edgar Renteria 8th 1st Jim Edmonds 1st 1st Scott Rolen 1st 1st Albert Pujols 2nd 4thPujols was second among leftfielders this year and is currently fourth among first basemen, his new position. Pitching aside, when a team has got top men at this many positions, it can carry the weight of corner outfielders like Ray Lankford and Reggie Sanders and a catcher like Mike Matheny. Closest Matchup (Teams with most identical records at press time): Anaheim @ Los Angeles
C: Josh Bard, Cleveland
SP: Mark Prior, Chicago (N)
CL: Troy Percival, Anaheim
How cursed must he be feeling right about now--especially since he had to feel pretty good about most of that team after draft day. One can almost imagine him penning the following note at the conclusion of the draft:
Dearest Ma-ma:
Nearly three months into the season, though, he's whistling a different tune:
Dearest Ma-ma:
Well, that's the point of having a fantasy team, isn't it? So one can bellyache about it.
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Sunday, 10/7/12
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." – Ernest Hemingway
ADVANCED OLY, with Jim, 9-11am
THE "GIRLS" SESSION with Tim, 9am
STRONGMAN with Tim and Chris, 10am
CROGA, with Tim, 11am
ONE HOUR OLY, with Jim, 12pm
SQUATTING ONLY with Jim, 1pm
HYBRID OLY with Jim, 2-4pm
Previous times we've done "Kelly".
"THE GIRLS" with Tim.
MOVEMENT PREP: Coach's Choice, 10 minutes.
"Kelly" with a MANDATORY 30 minute cap.
Five rounds for time of:
30 Box jump, 24 inch box
30 Wall ball shots, 20 pound ball
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I missed it! Darn working for a living thing. I'll make up for it tomorrow and buy three times as much. :-)
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Wari's capital is one of the largest archaeological sites in South America. From AD 600 and 1000, its denizens created an exhilarating episode in the history of the Americas by forging a society now widely regarded as one of the western hemisphere's first empires. The exhibition showcases textiles that are among the most complex ever made in the Andes; fine ceramics; delicate ornaments of precious metal, shell, or bone; and small, masterful sculptures of stone or wood.
Wari: Pre-Inca Lords of Peru was organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.


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The rights issue was undersubscribed, but the company said 23 shareholders have committed to taking part of the shortfall. The board is still seeking to place any remaining shortfall with one or more institutional investors.
Redundancies and voluntary salary sacrifices are expected to save the company $1.5 million in the coming year.
At the company's annual general meeting on Friday, non-executive director Christopher Hext said that if the company was unable to raise the capital required or undertake other alternatives it could cast doubt on the ability of the 93-year-old group to continue, and said the environment was too uncertain to provide any outlook.
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When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport and the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate. After her partner, Special Agent John Scott, is nearly killed during the investigation, a desperate Olivia searches frantically for someone to help, leading her to Dr. Walter Bishop, our generation's Einstein. There's only one catch: he's been institutionalized for the last 20 years, and the only way to question him requires pulling his estranged son Peter in to help.
When Olivia's investigation leads her to manipulative corporate executive Nina Sharp , our unlikely trio will discover that what happened on Flight 627 is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth, which leads to the formation of the Fringe division.
Broadcast History
This show airs on the Fox broadcast network. It premiered on September 9, 2008.
On DVD / Video
|Release Date
|The Complete 1st Season
|September 8, 2009
|The Complete 1st Season (Blu-ray)
|The Complete 2nd Season
|September 14, 2010
|The Complete 2nd Season (Blu-ray)
|The Complete 3rd Season
|September 6, 2011
|The Complete 3rd Season (Blu-ray)
|The Complete 4th Season
|September 4, 2012
|The Complete 4th Season (Blu-ray)
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- Anna Torv as Special Agent Olivia Dunham
- John Noble as Dr. Walter Bishop
- Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop
- Blair Brown as Nina Sharp
- Lance Reddick as Director Phillip Broyles
- Jasika Nicole as Special Agent Astrid Farnsworth
- Seth Gabel as Special Agent Lincoln Lee ( Season four; recurring earlier )
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- Mark Valley as Special Agent John Scott
- Kirk Acevedo as Special Agent Charlie Francis
- Michael Cerveris as The Observer
- Sebastian Roché as Thomas Jerome Newton
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Excellent vegetable stromboli recipe! –
4 servings
1 large eggplant
2 medium zucchini
Kosher salt as needed
Olive oil for grilling
1⅛ cups warm water (110°F)
1 tablespoon active dry yeast
Pinch of sugar
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2½ to 3 cups all-purpose flour or white bread flour
1 head of Roasted Garlic
Italian herb seasoning mix, to taste
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
½ teaspoon poppy seeds
Vegetable Preparation:
To make the vegetables, trim off the tops of the eggplant and zuc¬chini, then slice them lengthwise into strips, cutting them as thinly as possible (a mandolin may be helpful here). Lay the strips out in a single layer and sprinkle both sides of them with salt. Let the strips sit for 30 minutes (this will help remove some of the moisture from the vegetables).
Bread and Muffin Preparation:
1. Heat a nonstick grill or grill pan. Pat the vegetables dry and brush them lightly with olive oil. Grill, turning halfway, until the strips are soft and have brown grill marks. Set the vegetable strips aside to cool, or refrigerate until needed.
2. To make the dough, place the warm water in a mixing bowl. Sprinkle the yeast and sugar into the warm water and stir well. Let the mixture sit for 5 minutes to dissolve the yeast.
3. Add the olive oil, salt, and 2 cups of the flour. When the dough begins to form a ball, turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead. As you knead, add just enough of the remain¬ing flour to keep the dough from sticking. Knead for about 10 to 15 minutes, until the dough is smooth, elastic, and supple.
4. Place the dough in a well-oiled mixing bowl, turning to cover the top of the dough with some of the oil. Cover with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel, and place in a warm, draft-free place to rise until doubled in bulk, about 1 hour.
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