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National School Lunch Program Department of Agriculture
The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in over 99,000 public and non-profit private schools and residential child care institutions. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to more than 30.5 million children each school day in 2015. In 1998, Congress expanded the National School Lunch Program to include reimbursement for snacks served to children in afterschool educational and enrichment programs to include children through 18 years of age. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service administers the program at the federal level. At the state level, the National School Lunch Program is usually administered by state education agencies, which operate the program through agreements with school food authorities. The National School Lunch Program provides a federal cash and commodity support for each qualified meal and snack served to students. For school year 2016-2017, a subsidy of $3.16 for each lunch served to students eligible for a free lunch, $2.76 for each eligible reduced-price lunch, and $0.3 for each lunch served in the paid category. In 2015, the National School Lunch Program spent $13 billion to operate the Program.
Agency Accountable Official: Yvette Jackson, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services
Current Measure: 91%
Target: No target established
Description: This measure is the estimated percent of school age children in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program who are directly certified for free school meals without an application.
Update Frequency: Annually
Data Current as of: December 14, 2016
Current Measure: 25
Target: No target established
Description: The number of states receiving grants for school meals oversight systems. The purpose of these grants is to assist schools in reducing errors relating to record keeping and meal claiming. Increasing state grants will reduce related errors.
Update Frequency: Annually
Data Current as of: December 14, 2016
Program Comments
Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) relies on periodic nationally-representative studies to produce estimates of improper payments in the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program. The Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification (APEC) Study created the first-ever nationally-representative estimate of payment errors in the school meals programs, for school year 2005-06. The President's 2011 budget requests funding for an update to the study for 2012-13.
In order to measure improper payments in periods between major data collections, the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) developed a methodology that uses data available from other sources to estimate improper payments on an annual basis. To update the improper payment estimates in the school meals program, a series of models were developed to translate the national estimate of error into amounts and rates of improper payments for each school district participating in the study. Aggregating the district level estimates produces a national measure of predicted improper payments.
FNS is working toward a way to depict the percentage of errors by type – certification and non-certification errors – that could be provided to the public. Additional information on the program is also provided annually in the USDA Performance and Accountability Report.


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Suppose that 50 units are tested for 1,000 cycles of use. At the end of the 1,000-cycle test period, 5 of units have failed. When a unit failed, it was replaced with a new one and the test was continued. Estimate the failure rate.
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Technology has shown time and again its capacity to change the way we work.
From smart devices and video conferencing to cloud-based infrastructures, technological change has allowed us to work more effectively and conveniently in more places and in more ways.
So what new technologies will your business consider in the next 12 months?
Here are a few to ponder:
4G mobility
We're all aware of the revolution that mobile data networks have delivered for anywhere/anytime computing.
As you can probably guess, 4G (sometimes called 4G LTE) is the next evolution after 3G mobile networks (LTE in fact stands for Long Term Evolution).
As you'll also guess, what it delivers is better speed – download rates of up to 40 Mbps, which for most will be about twice the speed of 3G. Latency has also been halved compared to 3G, making connections snappier.
What does that mean for business? It means faster connectivity on the go for everything from email to remote desktops, and more reliable connections when working remotely. 4G is now the best choice for mobile data, but you'll only be able to use it with compatible hardware – either a USB dongle for your laptop or a 4G enabled smartphone or tablet.
For the moment, Telstra is Australia's only 4G provider, with a network serving the capital cities, major airports and around 80 regional centres.
Windows 8
Windows 8 is likely to arrive later this year.
Tablet-friendly features such as the much-vaunted Metro interface will be a big plus for business tablet computing.
But, on the desktop, it could be that you evaluate Windows 8 only to decide that an upgrade is not worth it. At this stage, the new features on offer don't appear to make a compelling case for businesses to reskill employees currently on Windows 7 or Vista. When purchasing new computers after Windows 8 arrives, be sure to take notice of the operating system for which you'll be licensed.
Mobility management tools
A fast-increasing number of mobile and tablet devices are finding a home in businesses and organisations. The US Air Force announced this month, for example, that it would put 18,000 iPads in the hands of its pilots.
As their popularity soars, so are efforts to make these devices easier for businesses to manage.
Concerns about security and ease of deployment are leading to new tools such as VMware's Mobile Virtualization Platform, which allows smartphones to be divided into work and personal partitions – letting staff use the phone of their choice while business data and applications remain protected.
Expect to be considering such a platform in the near future.
The NBN
After reports last week that the 'full scale' rollout of the NBN will now proceed following the ACCC acceptance of Telstra's structural separation, many might be surprised to learn that a full scale rollout wasn't already underway.
In any case, NBN Co says that it is now "looking forward to ramping up the rollout", and, in the few spots where the NBN is currently available, an increasing number of providers have released their plans.
Businesses located within coverage areas should keep in mind however that the NBN has a way to go yet before it becomes a commercial-grade solution.
At the moment, the network still lacks hardened commercial features and it will be up to resellers to address features like guaranteed service levels and contention ratios, as well as traffic prioritisation, SIP trunking, fail over and levels of capacity and redundancy.
At least for the next 12 months, the NBN is unlikely to be the best solution for the majority of business needs.
Dave Stevens is MD, Brennan IT.
(This blog post was first published on the SmartCompany website on March 15 2012).


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I wish to host Spiceworks web portal on a dedicated web server (IIS or Apache) in a DMZ, for security reasons and install the App/DB on a different server in the secured server zone. This will make it a two tier application.
Is this possible? I plan to host this in a virtual environment (VMware VSphere 5) i.e. the dedicated web server and App/DB server will be virtual machines placed in DMZ and Secured Server zones resp.
Thanks !!!
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Definitely. Check out Remote Collectors.
Jun 20, 2012 at 2:07 UTC
Please read this too as it explains how Central Server and Remote Collectors working: Collecting Remote Office Inventory using Multiple Spiceworks ...
Remote collectors don`t hold the scanned data in the local db. All scan results are sent to the Central Server. But each remote collector can have it`s own Portal ...
To the virtual environment: Yes, it will work. I have remote collectors running at virtual WinXPs (http:/
Note: Spiceworks comes with it`s own Apache. So you don`t need to setup a dedicated web server for it. If you need to deal with IIS redirection, have a look at this: http:/
To have a good start, feel free to watch some of those videos too:
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"My stay in the primrose ward"
About: Manor Hospital Manor Hospital Walsall WS2 9PS
Posted by kelz23xx (as ),
I had my first baby in the manor hospital. I have BPD I think this was the reason I was treated horribly and wasn't listened too. My fiance kept explaining to them I wasn't coping and needed pain relief, but they sarcastically told him it was labour so I have to just deal with it. I kept telling them the contractions were a lot more frequent now and very close together but they ignored me i feel and refused me an epidural and told me to have a bath when I got out the bath I told them I needed to push again they told me I didn't and was only in early labour but checked and realised I was right and took me straight to delivery suite where again I was treated horrible.
My fiancé pretty much delivered the baby. The midwife was too busy walking around the room telling me I wasn't supposed to be pushing, I kept telling her I needed too. I still hadn't had any pain relief only gas and air which I told them wasn't helping I kept passing out nearly fell off the bed and my babies heart rate was dropping low.
The midwife still ignored me after having the baby I was sent back to primrose ward kept in 3 days then kept refusing to discharge me not giving me a reason- why just saying they were too busy but were laughing and messing around at the desk.
Response from Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust 2 years ago
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I don't own, I am simply borrowing
So many times, I hear people say things about their Timeline on Facebook or their Twitter account and I have to stop and chuckle. There is such an importance to some so-called ownership of these accounts.
Don't get me wrong, I have referred to my Facebook account as my "Wall" or my "Threads" and even my "Timeline" like everyone else but lets take a moment to think about it.
Do we really own these accounts? The answer is NO! We take up space. We create this space into what we want it to possible look like the best we can with the tools given us.
All the pictures and quotes and whatever we had for breakfast or how many times in a day we go to bathroom are now ownership of Facebook, Twitter and whatever other social media one uses.
Unless you have a paid account, can you consider it yours? Even then, do you really own it? NO! You are simply renting space, just as if you were paying a host to serve your website.
Eventually, these supposed free sites will begin to charge you a fee to post your nonsense and you will pay it. Why? Because you are addicted to it but more on that later. Facebook, Twitter and even LinkedIn and Youtube aren't dumb. They know what is going on.
They know they have sucked you in and it's just a matter of time before they have you hook line and sinker. A real big catch I might add. They will have you. They already do have you. Think about it for a minute. It's quite comical.
What makes me laugh the most is how we are held hostage by all these social media outlets. They aren't holding us hostage for our money just yet. Most are free to use. What these social medias are holding hostage is your time.
How many times have you complained on your "Facebook Timeline" or "Twitter" that you just don't have enough time in the day to accomplish everything you need or want to accomplish? But here you sit, posting about all the nonsense and drama in your live. Really?
The average American spends an average of 3.2 hours per day doing social media. The younger generation (18-24 year olds 3.8 hours) spend more time with social media than the older generations (25-49 year olds 3 hours per day and 50-64 year olds average 2.6 hours).
So when you complain for now on about not having enough time in the day to do what you want to and can't seem to get anything accomplished, you have no one to blame but yourself. Well, and maybe the addiction of social media craze.
Have we become such a weak society that that simple applications distract us so much that we let the rest of our lives suffer? We have become our worst enemies and our true enemies see all we are doing to ourselves. They are just waiting to for the right opportunity to strike. You wait and see, it's coming sooner than later.
You also have to know that the privacy you scream to having a right to is the same privacy you are giving up every time you post something about your family, your activities, your job and your life. You bare it all for the world to see. The breakups, the issues with the kids, the financial burdens.
You post it all for the world to see. And yes, you are being watched. You can deny it all you want but you are being watched every moment of every day you are on a social media.
We live in a electronic/digital world where everything is easily recorded. Someone is lurking out there, waiting, using what you are posting and one day, it could come back to haunt you.
You don't own your social media accounts, they own you! Make a change before it's too late.
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Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" is probably the most played song of 2013 so far and it just won't go away!
People have been talking about the rape-y nature of the lyrics and the nudity of the women models in the uncensored version of the video. The more criticism its lyrics and explicit video gets, the more it gets the hype!
Much like Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" last year, the track has spawned a bunch of parodies and covers.
This particular one by Bart Baker is by far the best and makes Robin Thickle look like a creepy rapist


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PCB layout for phonostage
I'm in the process of laying out the phonoclone. Is it best to use a ground plane or star? If a ground plane where does the 0 volts connect on this plane?
thanking all in advance
I have used a groundplane on one board level (usually bottom) and attached it near the GND input of the power supply input. All ground returns are brought to this locus. Mark Brasfield suggested this in one of his application notes -- and it works.
Well, if you're interested (or feel bored ;) ) you can read a lot on proper grounding techniques.
My few cents are:
A ground plane is for the lazy engineer that doesn't care (or does not want to care) about where the return currents flow. So a ground plane allows them to find the path of minimum impedance. Drawback: adds capacitance (order of pF) to every circuit node.
If you know the ins and outs of the electrical circuit (currents) you can do a star ground which has also the nice advantage that you can use this pcb-side also for routing other signals.
Keep power and signal ground separate in any case. Keep digital and analog separate.
Have fun, Hannes
Hi...thanks for the replies.
If I go the ground plane route, by separating power and signal grounds, it that by physical distance?
I see on Jan dupont site and his PCBs he uses ground planes throughout with success. the input grounds are at the other end of the PCB to the power gound in some cases...is that what is meant by separation?
For a phono stage it won't hurt to keep an eye on physical distance as well; but I'm talking more about avoiding putting them next to each other than about keeping them on opposite sides of the board :)
Anyway the current demands in a phono stage are very small in general.
Have fun, Hannes
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Hi Rob,
I've been working on one that uses an AC wall adapter with the regulated supply on the board with the preamp and ran into some hum that I think I have now fixed. I'm not sure how yours will be but here's what I found I had to do. I separated the supply ground with a 10 ohm resistor (R10 in the pic below). This cut the hum to near nothing. I'm also looking for clues as to how to reduce this even further.
Working with small signals that requires 60dB (1000 times) amplification or more, a ground plane is must.
And like jackinnj says, the ground plane should be connected to the PSU ground terminal.
34 pF/m with a 1 mm wide trace according to
this calculator
Fraction of a pF is never a problem in these non-high impedance circuits.
One thing to care about is the feedback path though.
well, I'm going with Jan's ideas about ground planes. I spoke to a designer at a known pro-mixer company yesterday and he said that I 'really' need a ground plane. With digital I would need 3-4 planes - 1 digital, 1 analog, 1 ground and 1 power or sometimes you can get away with 1 plane that carries analog and digital signals BUT these need to be physically separated.
So, I'm going ground plane....BUT how?
Does my input lead from the RCA go to the PCB? Do all grounds (RIAA, grounds from ICs, power) all go the the plane at their nearest point like you see on Philips CD players.
MJL - Is connecting a 10R resistor between PSU Gnd and Audio Gnd common practice as I've never seen it done before. Do you use a 5 watt resistor for this? If the resistor value rises (heat etc) what happens to your RIAA accuracy?
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You can vote for the current version, the new one, or be really retro....
You can vote for the current version, the new one, or be really retro....
Truth is, there needs to be a link that shows the map in detail to really vote on it (preferrably as a PDF). In order for an NYC subway map to be functional, its gotta also be topographical.
And preparing for the counterpoints to that argument— yes the Vignelli map is cool, and yes it works in London...But London is an easier city to navigate (as a pedestrian) than New York, and its smaller (including all 5 boroughs). Manhattan's difficult to get around if you live in New York— and we're not even going to talk about Queens and Brooklyn.
No true typophile should miss any opportunity to strike down Vignelli.
Ah ah !
Once I found Mr Vignelli in my classroom when I was studying at Politecnico of Milan (there was obviously a great information system for students), and it was one of those days when you go to warm up the chair and talking shıt with your classmate, so there was Davide my buddy, and listening to Vignelli's presentation he said he was "mamello maman," whatever that means, it was such a great laugh, I still laugh now.
Following the links through from the article it amazes me why people pine for an underground/subway map to be geographically correct. As a rule (and one with a lot of exceptions I realise) people who are going to use the underground start with a geographically correct map to find their destination, then find the geographically nearest station. Once you are in the underground/subway system all ordinairy sense of geography is lost, in fact in many London station all orientation dissapears by the time you've taken the many stairs and corridors to the platform.
From limited personal experience I have to say I found the numbers on the existing NY subway map a little confusing. I think they put doubt in the mind of visitors - too much choice can be a bad thing. The London map is simpler; but then again so is the system!
I knew there was something else...
New underground map for Madrid – discuss
For my part, I was jealous of someone for getting to do this job till I saw the result! I've never been to Madrid, and I have no doubt this is very functional (the most important thing of course) but that doesn't mean there couldn't have been some style involved!
>Vignelli map for the Tube
IIRC the London Tube map was conceived by an engineer inspired by electrical circuit diagrams, and has been further developed since. Vignelli didn't and doesn't have anything to do with it so far as I know. The influence I believe goes the other way round.
There's really nothing wrong with the original map as far as functionality goes (disclaimer: I grew up in NYC and have used this map my whole life. Furthermore I have no problem at all with tourists getting lost and ending up in the south Bronx. In fact I wish all the tourists ended up in the south Bronx or just went back home).
But what has never been clear even to a native is the truly draconian scheduling - why some trains run only at rush hour or mysteriously terminate sometimes at certain stations or go local when they're supposed to be express (or vice versa). I'd give a prize to a map that could clearly let you know whether your train was in fact running when and where you think it is.
I think the current map sends all of your errant NYC tourists here to the Washington Metro. They get off in the middle of town, bewildered, looking for Time Square :-)
You can keep them.
If you want confusing, try going back to the days or yore (the 70s) when the express was the A and the local was the AA. I lived on a local stop and would tell my friends MAKE SURE YOU TRANSFER TO THE AA AT 59th ST and they'd get confused and end up on 125th street. This was long before Bill Clinton had an office up there.
Of course there were fewer tourists back then what with the recession and Son of Sam and all. Ah the good old days.
>In fact I wish all the tourists ended up in the south Bronx or just went back home
Ah, New York. The first time I drove into Manhattan, to move my son into his apartment, I ignorantly turned right at a red light. A New Yorker saw my Virginia plates and shouted "No turn on red! Welcome to New York--a**h***!"
If we didn't have the natives telling all of us to go to hell (or the South Bronx--pretty much the same thing!) we wouldn't know what city we are in.
I love New York City. I lived there for a while, and would gladly again.
However, when it comes to maps and signage, I think that telling the over 40 million tourists per year to take their 22+ billion dollars and both figuratively and literally get lost is a little shortsighted.
> it amazes me why people pine for an underground/subway
> map to be geographically correct.
There's nothing amazing about that: we are physical creatures. And we
[can] process a staggering richness of information, without even realizing.
A previous discussion involving the London underground map:
http://typophile.com/node/17631 _
My wrench gets thrown in starting: 25 March, 2006 - 3:45pm
An alternative to the Tube map showing times here
And a history of Tube maps
I did post these were in an older thread*.
If there were no tourists nothing would drive Patty to come here and be ripped off.
{*edit: the thread that Hrant links to}
Tim, the last straw is they are tearing down Coney Island to make it more of a "Vegas-style" themed resort with condos etc. Why? Because tourists don't really go there. Which is, of course, why the natives love it so.
As an artist and designer it is frustrating to watch my edgy interesting city give way to a sanitized, mallicized, Disneyized place that only bankers can live in and tourists can love. While the artists are fleeing in droves because they can't afford to live here, or don't want (in their 30s and 40s) to once again pioneer a decrepid, borderline dangerous neighborhood with no services so that they can get priced out 10 years later when the bankers decide it's cool (c.f. Dumbo, W-burg, East Village).
So yeah, I'd like to stick it to the tourists. Sorry to be off-topic, but in truth we New Yorkers are used to our map and why introduce something that would only confuse us in order to help out-of-towners get around?
Patricia is right on.
The London Underground map was created by Harry Beck. Don't know how Vignelli got credited. As much as I don't want to sound like a crochety old New Yorker— I agree with Patty in ways. I get annoyed with tourists when I come back to NY to visit.
But...I gotta say, when the locals have to ask you questions about the Subway— something needs to change. I can't tell you how many thick Brooklyn and Bronx accents I hear ask me for directions at Union Square...and that's even when I'm in town visiting.
So Terry, how many tourists here ask you, "Where is the Mall?" :-)
LOL! You know...for out of town suburbanites, that's an entire conversation! ;)
But as a resident, how often do you consult the map in order to get round, and how many different routes do you use? It occurs to me that these maps are as much intended for visitors as for locals and I'm just interested to know how this theory fits in with reality.
I use the subway map pretty regularly. But I'm not a Manhattan-centered local, I have a studio in Queens and lots of friends and family in Brooklyn, so I find myself using a pretty broad variety of subway lines, and often having to compare them to see which one will get me there faster and with fewer stops or fewer connections. It is probably simpler for a lot of people who mostly use it to get to work and back.
Now, most tourists stick to Manhattan and how confusing can that be? The streets are mostly numbered as are a lot of the avenues. I can see getting lost downtown or in Brooklyn but you have to be pretty clueless to get lost in midtown, whether or not the subway map is geographically accurate.
I will also add that most NYers are pretty helpful to lost tourists. We like being know-it-alls. I've even seen bidding wars - My route is better than your route! Don't listen to him, take this train! No, not that train, you have to change! But my train makes fewer stops!
Nothing but nothing beats the Berlin system where you can type in your address and your destination on a web site as well as the time you want to leave/get there and it gives you precise directions even to the minute. And then it's accurate!
Paris Metro is a snap.
"Nothing but nothing beats the Berlin system where you can type in your address and your destination on a web site as well as the time you want to leave/get there and it gives you precise directions even to the minute. And then it's accurate!"
You can do that on the DC Metro too Patty.
>why introduce something that would only confuse us in order to help out-of-towners get around?
Tourists in fact would be less annoying if they had better maps and signage, and got lost less often.
I'm not advocating the map noted here. I am advocating that signage and maps be useful to both locals and visitors.
>I'd like to stick it to the tourists.
Patty, would a cadre of NYC natives armed with bamboo poles to beat the tourists about the head as they come out of the bridges and tunnels do? :)
> Tourists in fact would be less annoying if they had better maps and signage
Tourists are not annoying because they ask for directions - in fact that's one of the few endearing things about them. Tourists are annoying because they see a destination through the eyes of a consumer, in effect becoming cultural pillagers. Because they're bred to consume. Just like all good livestock.
What's "shortsighted" William is blind capitalism.
As someone who grew up in America but has immigrated to NYC, I never had any problems getting used to the existing subway map. I've found it very helpful that I can match it up approximately to real geography, because I'm generally trying to figure out how to get to some particular place, rather than trying to grasp the overall topology of the system. That's why I think the existing focus on nodes (with less clarity for lines) is better than the focus on lines (with less clarity for nodes) in this new map. Plus, as Patty says, only half the lines actually function at any given time anyway, so why put the emphasis on the lines? :)
I'm not advocating the map noted here. I am advocating that signage and maps be useful to both locals and visitor
The signage has gotten a lot better actually. Fifteen years ago the same line might have signs in different places calling it the IRT local, the Broadway line, the 7th Avenue line, or the South Ferry train. At least now they consistently use the numbers/letters instead. The signs, that is. People, when giving directions to tourists, don't necessarily :)
Tourists in fact would be less annoying if they had better maps and signage, and got lost less often.
Tourists would be less annoying if they obeyed the rules of the road (keep moving, walk fast, no eye-contact, no stopping in the middle of the sidewalk, etc.). It is funny to see them patiently waiting for the light to change, tho.
I'll shut up. I just hate that NY has become some sort of themed mall of itself.
And one more thing - what would really help both tourists and locals would be better and easier-to-find neighborhood maps near the subway exits. Without the WTC to orient ourselves it can get very confusing when you EXIT the train in an unfamiliar neighborhood.
But as a resident, how often do you consult the map in order to get round, and how many different routes do you use?
When I lived there, pretty frequently actually. Regardless of whether I know where I'm going (to work, to the grocery store, etc.) there are always places that I will need to know how to get to. The far east and west sides of Manhattan aren't easy to navigate, particularly because there aren't subway lines in some parts! So when getting off the subway you have to know what train to take and where to walk to get there! It was often my above ground map as well...I have heard many other people argue the same point.
Now, most tourists stick to Manhattan and how confusing can that be? The streets are mostly numbered as are a lot of the avenues.
How about Broadway? ;) And let's not forget that East and West 59th (for example) are very different. Omit those and see how easy it is to find your spot on "59th street." I've learned the most about Manhattan by being lost there! :)
You should see it now - gleaming glass & steel condo hi-rises, CBGB closed & moving to Vegas and a bar called Bowery Mission right next to the real Bowery mission. Flop houses mostly gone altho the restaurant supply stores still hang on in Chinatown.
CBGB closed & moving to Vegas
Good. CBGB's was not what it used to be. When you have to pay $10 for a beer IN A BOTTLE (from a brewery less than 2 miles away mind you) in a dump that's never cleaned...its time to call it quits.
CBGB's tried to survive on its name alone. With the prices they charge for covers and drinks...it might as well be in Vegas. It ain't worth it. CBGBs became a tourist only spot.
I understand there's a personal connection for a lot of people, but after seeing enough shows there, I've got no love for the place. I'm sure my opinion would be different if I had seen the Ramones there though.
Or Talking Heads :^)
CBGBs was not a place most people would choose in the early 1980s I only went there to see friends bands usually ones that were not known. The popular bands of that day were mostly English.
The Bowery was run down, and the East Village much more interesting than it is now. I always use to say I liked living in NYC because it was like a shopping mall. Well now it's even more like that.
I have a 1979 version of the NYC subway system which was printed in 1976 .
CBGBs what a name Country, Bluegrass and Blues... I don't think much of that there.
Danceteria was the place to be in the early 1980s. My friend Audrey had a cat fight on the stairs with Madonna and Audrey kicked her behind, Madge tried to use a red stilleto in the fight but didn't have a chance.
>Tourists would be less annoying if they obeyed the rules of the road (keep moving, walk fast, no eye-contact, no stopping in the middle of the sidewalk, etc.)
London too, but the problem is more ours – people rushing to work, time is money etc – never taking the time to revel in the area or even look upward; what annoys me about tourists are the sort who, when visiting, say, Stonehenge, stay in the coach, take pictures and leave thinking they have done another item on the list (Hrant's cultural pillagers, I suppose).
The Tube does have a journey planner if you are visiting, probably wildly optimistic in timing.
I was hoping Vince's link would lead to pictures of the fight, but a nice reminder of Cindy Sherman :)
Well my friend Charlene has some old photos of Madonna and Boy George taken at DT and other places in NYC, but you have to be a member to see them. There are pictures of Audrey on the Yahoo group site. She had the hair and look of Annabella Lwin from BowWowWow.
Audrey vs Madonna (Audrey wins!)
And Vegas is the next level: to save the money and avoid the hassles, instead of going all the way to France (where they don't even speak English!), NYC, Egypt or Italy, you just hit one o' thems fancy caseeeenos! I mean, the least they could do is run an extraordinary rendition program at the Luxor for the worst offenders...
Danceteria rocked but Area was the place to be.
But seeing Andy Warhol chatting up Grace Jones at Studio 54 was kinda fun too.
I haven't been to CBs in years. But I'm sad it closed. Therein lies the paradox, you move on and hope the places you supported in earlier, different times will hang on and still make the city feel like it's yours. I realize it's the nature of the beast and that's not all bad, but I just don't like the direction things are moving in. Coney Island being destroyed for condos.
I'd be happy if the tourists went to New York New York in Vegas and left my city alone. They wouldn't know the difference anyway...
well Area was good but it was a bit too posh and fashion drugs, they had not men or woman toilets, one was more women though and one was more men. but you could go in either.
Scavullo did a photo shoot at Area I do remember.
Janet Jones Gretsky
how's that for typography ironic?
I've got a Studio 54 , 45 of BowWowWow and it's on DT flickr group.
I saw Malaria and Heaven 17 there during the reopening.
Heaven 17 you mean - right? Whose name was taken famously from the film 'a clockwork orange'.
yes.. Heaven 17 it was and I remember finding glitter for years somewhere either on the floor or in boxes or something from the show, it just got everywhere and got carried home.
hmm Linda, did you see the Cure at the Ritz with Ministry and the Banshees at the Beacon Theatre with Robert Smith on Guitar? And Siouxie sang Kish Kash on the Basement Jaxx CD a few years ago.
"her name is "Rio" she was dancing on my ceiling..."
Area had the rotating art installations. The Tunnel had the truly scary bathrooms. Nice thing about growing up in NYC was high school pals working doors and bars at VIP rooms in clubs thus getting access normally denied young peons.
Seeing David Byrne doing karaoke (my first time ever seeing karaoke) at the tunnel in the 80s was da bomb. He sang 16 Tons and Whole Lotta Love.
Always liked hearing music at the Cat Club and the old Ritz, the old Knit. I was never lucky enuf to see the real good bands at CBs (mostly saw friends bands) but did catch up with some of them at the Dr. Pepper concert series in the park when I was in high school. Too cheap/broke to buy tix, we'd sit outside and listen and smoke pot.
For female singers of a certain era nobody beats Patti Smith and she's still bringing down the house.


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[…] The most active of these Western stooges were a small group of individuals who portray themselves as "anarchists or leftist revolutionaries" but who only attempted to draw western leftists of all kinds, in particular anarchists, into supporting NATO's aggression against another of their victims in Eastern Europe.
They constantly whitewashed the fascist coup – which was even admitted by the US administration publicly – and misrepresented the next and premeditated step of the maidan – the civil war – as "Russian aggression", though even western media and western "human rights" organizations admitted it was nothing but the slaughtering of the civilian population of Donbass by the Ukrainian government. What no western media and no western supporter in Ukraine says to the western public – but they do say it quite openly and loudly in Ukraine – is that this civil war carries an ideological weight, in that the Kyiv nazis – who are pushing for this war against the constant sabotage by other Ukrainains, trapped and kidnapped by the government to go kill women and children in Donbass – see this civil war as a cleansing of the nation of the "occupants". The occupants being mostly the Russian speaking population in the east, but the "occupants" also include anyone who resists Ukrainian fascism of building an Ukrainian empire through "a pure white nation" in "a pure white Europe of nations".
Here are just a few examples of who the propagandists of western aggression against the entire population of Ukraine are.
AWU aka the "Autonomous Workers Union" in Ukraine is a small group of people, maybe 10-12, although only four seem active. Alexander Volodarsky (Shiitman, Hihilist blogs), Volodymyr Zadiraka, Serhii Kutnii, and Denis Gorbach ( aka on FB Gryts Varenyk who initially gave anti-Maidan interviews to lib com and revolution news, but ended up writing for George Soros (https://www.opendemocracy.net/author/denys-gorbach). The AWU pose as anarchists, and may even believe themselves to be so, but they are effectively supporting the Ukrainian government and nationalists agenda using psuedo-anarchist rhetoric. Their main focus seems to be lashing out against any leftist or anarchist movement who dares to criticize the government and its war and repression. This tiny group became so well known by initially being a (seemingly) lone voice among Ukrainian anarchists, and appealing to various leftist organizations.
Here is one interview with RKAS (revolutionary confederation of anarcho-syndicalists, which is also a small group):
"Autonomous Workers Union" (AWU) contacted the Swedish SAC and other reformist syndicalists abroad. After the beginning of the actual crisis, the more important figures in the AWU supported the Maidan, declaring it a "bourgeois revolution". They defend the Ukrainian "national liberation" and the actual regime in Kiev against Russia, rejecting the internationalist position against all states, governments and nations and welcoming the NATO. Some members of the AWU consider such position "too nationalist". They consider themselves "internationalist" and created a group "Black Rainbow", but they miss until now to reject Maidan and to break definitely with the nationalist leadership of AWU. Finally, the AWU/AST condemns expansionist actions of the Russian state, but not one word mentioned inflammatory actions of its equally imperialist rivals from NATO. There is no mention of the need to cease hostilities and stop the death of workers under the bullets and shells of punitive forces of "anti-terrorist operation". The statement completely ignores the catastrophic humanitarian situation in eastern Ukraine, and blames for this tragedy exclusively the separatists and "agents" of Russia." https://libcom.org/library/what-happening-ukraine-interview-international-secretary-kras-iwa
Since it was obvious that the maidan was actually organized and controlled by nazis – especially from UNA UNSO and their most visible political arm, Svoboda party – AWU presented themselves to western public as being critical of the Maidan. But at the same time they always supported it, and some of AWU even joined the openly hard-core nazi battalion of Azov. This is how the position of this AWU member, Sergii Kutnii, should be read, as he posted it publicly on his Facebook page:
"I will not go to meeting against the ATO ("anti-terror-operation" of Ukrainian forces in the East. – transl.). Because I think that the conflict in Donbass is one of illnesses which become worse if they are not cured. If the Ukrainian troops will withdraw, these fucking idiots from "people`s republics" will a) take control of territory; b) mobilize it own army; c) decide that they win over Ukrainians and conquer all now. Therefore if we listen to some naïve citizens who think that it is possible to enclosure ourselves from Donbass with a frontier line, we would obtain as a result a frontline and not a frontier. They will attack Kharkov, it`s sure. We all were shocked that the separatists in Zaporozhye were made run the gantlet in "corridor of shame". But after events in Odessa, I think that these fucking idiots there would be alive if such a "corridor of shame" would be just in time organized in Odessa. And I think, we will look at Odessa after ATO and understand that if such a little fire would be organized just in time in the administration house of Donetsk, it could be called small losses. And I don`t want that we will in the end feel regret that the ATO was not organized in proper time" (https://www.facebook.com/sergii.kutnii/posts/839609146068808)
"The left detectors of ATO train at neglect of an elephant. This elephant is the Russian factor which is necessary to considerate. Why Russia didn`t make a military intervention until now? Because it afraid new sanctions… But it is clear now that when Russia can`t wage war with Ukraine openly, the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics can it… So it is clear that in a hypothetical situation of permission to republics to separate, Putin will push them to war with Ukraine… Putin will explicitly try to put into practice the same pattern as Milosevic with Republic Srpska (in Bosnia, – transl.). So there are no peaceful alternative to ATO. What is proposed by some left who fall into ill pacifism – is a way to Munchen, to a combination of shame and war"https://www.facebook.com/sergii.kutnii/posts/840916939271362
After the support of bourgeois pro-EU and pro-NATO Maidan coup, many AWU members support now the war of Kiev bourgeois regime against the bourgeois regimes in Eastern Ukraine. It is the support of one nationalists against the others. Infamy like for some "anarchists" in 1914"
It's also important to note this post by Anarcho-Communism highlighting some of those who AWU have collaborated with, and what those people have done: https://www.facebook.com/anarchocommie/posts/818661544891260
Also it's important to listen to AWU's main rival organization, marxist union Borotba (yes their main target is a leftist union) as well. After all, Borotba attempted to join into Maidan as well, but unlike AWU they were beaten and physically removed by nationalists and neo nazis. It's also important to note that one Borotba member was murdered in the Odessa massacre. Here is a quote from a Borotba member about AWU:
"The dilemma faced by the lefts was something like the following: when you see a hundred middle-class nationalists rallying and demanding privileges for themselves, what tactics do you choose? Do you create an opposing group to challenge them and their ideas, or do you intervene and try to influence and hijack the middle-class nationalists concerns? The liberal left in Ukraine chose the latter. But as a result, they were the ones to be influenced, not the other way around. Because regardless of whatever a middle-class nationalist may read or be told, the basis of his/her 'visceral' politics is their own class interest; in particular, the desire to secure a privileged status. This perspective began to slide towards the ideology of Nazism" (read the rest here: http://newcoldwar.org/how-the-liberal-and-anarchist-left-became-swept-up-in-the-surge-of-right-wing-nationalism-in-ukraine/)
Mostly trotskyists supported the Maidan, but even the Trotskyist site "Internationalist" had substantial criticism of the AWU:
"There was even a group of supposed anarchists with reactionary, anti-woman, xenophobic positions who tried to unite with the Nazis and threw firebombs at the police together:
"A week ago they, together with some actual leftists who wanted to 'act,' decided to form an 'anarchist sotnia' [hundred, or centuria] in the Maidan self-defence. In order to do that they were prepared to give an oath to Andriy Parubiy [the fascist-nationalist commander of the storm troops]. But when they formed their ranks to do this, they were met by approximately 150 Svoboda fighters with baseball bats and axes. The fascists accused them of being racially impure and politically irrelevant and forced them out of Maidan…"
"So unlike many Maidan enthusiasts, the AWU is not blind to the dangers staring it in the face. They also resist the "patriotic" fervor against Russian intervention in Crimea, while calling for respecting the Tatar minority. Yet they sign joint statements with pro-Maidan groups, and do not present a revolutionary program to bring down the new rulers (or even refer to the seizure of power as a coup) nor for working-class struggle against all the oligarchs." (http://www.internationalist.org/ukrainefascistcoup1403.html)
Another member of AWU, Volodymyr Zadiraka, ends his interview (in German) by saying that if he were to be conscripted by Ukraine to military service, he wouldn't evade military draft and joins the army, though he is not a good soldier. (https://dasgrossethier.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/bekenntnisse-eines-kiewer-anarchisten/)
It's also interesting that AWU openly reveal their connections to USAID, a "labor initiatives" NGO which announced the summer camp in Odessa, Ukraine in late July. (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=464839853682910&set=gm.1593540747590225&type=1&theater&__mref=message) & (https://www.facebook.com/avtonomia.net/posts/981337938564732?pnref=story&__mref=message)
As many nationalists do, they effectively masterminded anarchist and liberal rhetoric, and applied it to justify the actions of its own nationalists and government. They never support Ukrainian anti government prisoners – just Russian ones such as Ukrainian anarchist Kolchenko. It's a typical nationalist position to ignore domestic repressions. Imagine a Greek "anarchist" who decried Turkish nationalists or Muslim clericalism, but completely turned a blind eye to the Golden Dawn. It's truly that bizarre.
Dmitry Kovalech from Borotba says: "There is now a request from west NGOs to establish a new 'left-liberal' movement in Ukraine, but which would be harmless, safe and would be able to effectively divert (or hijack) rising popular social protest into a safe mode. Although, such expectations and reliance on such groups in Ukraine are of no use, since such groups are not interested in expanding their number and influence so that not to create potential competitors for grants and payments. It's a matter of jobs for them. That's why all such projects (be they liberal left, feminist, or environmentalist) never spread further and became a matter of a narrow group which may regroup and rebrand but it's always the same bunch of people."
"If you want to expose a nationalist, ask him under which condition he/she would accept in theory the right to self-determination of autonomy of a part of own country? Do they recognize in principle any way for the population of certain territories to express their will, if it contradicts nationalists dreams of 'a greater nation'? Most likely, he/she would avoid the issue. In case of AWU we have a small group which echoes the government's position; is against federalization of the country and effectively stands for its centralization. AWU actually acts like patriotic 'socialists' in WWI – when German 'socialists' pointed at violations in France, while French patriotic 'socialists' pointed at violations in Germany – thus, both sides echoed own government/nationalist propaganda. Let's take the example of this interview: 'UKRAINIAN SYNDICALISTS: THE BIGGEST FASCIST THREAT IS CONCENTRATED IN RUSSIA AND IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES" – shouts the headline, identifying Donbass as 'occupied territory,' echoing the government's rhetoric. Meanwhile, they effectively downgrade Ukrainian (own) fascist threat:
"The position of the far right in Ukraine is rather weak and often depends on current political situation; a single mistake can lead to their collapse" http://ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2015/03/14/ukrainian-syndicalists-the-biggest-fascist-threat-is-concentrated-in-russia-and-in-the-occupied-territories/
Yet another recent blog post by an AWU member, Alexander Wolodarsky, attempts to take advantage of western ignorance and whitewash the fascists and their symbolism and role in the Maidan:
"Western observers, especially the left, were often resented by Nazi symbolics on "nationwide" protests in Ukraine. Due to this, the myth of the "fascist coup" and a "junta" and was so tenacious.
But this tolerance to extreme right, which manifested itself during the Maidan and held until recently, was not due to love of Ukrainians to fascism.
The external observers (and many domestic) did not take into account one important feature of post-Soviet politics in general, and of Ukrainian one in particular. And this feature is its complete lack of public political organizations had a clear ideology." (http://www.nihilist.li/2015/07/16/o-vospriyatii-fashizma-uber-die-wahrnehmung-des-faschismus/)
AWU, besides cooperating with Ukrainian fascists, coordinated with a Bosnian group of "anarcho nationalists" (racial separatists – google it if you aren't familiar), here is some relevant anarchist criticism regarding their alliance with this group. (http://www.sabotagemedia.anarkhia.org/2014/03/on-self-styled-libertarians-and-antiauthoritarians-from-bosnia/)
Anarchists in Ukraine are engaged against the civil war. They do not support IMF, EU, NATO or Russian capitalists. This does not mean that Russia's help towards Donbass when people were starving under bombs should be mocked since the food and medicine helped working people of Donbass resist the fascist military repression of the Kyiv government.
What AWU and other such ghost-like "anarchists", and other liars who attempt to compromise leftists in the west by getting them to support fascists and nazis, do not ever speak of are the following, and the listing of these real life facts exposes them once more as nothing more but capitalists and supporters of the US empire:
– Ukrainians were robbed by two thirds of their income while prices skyrocketed. There were people who organized strikes and were arrested by the nazi-controlled secret service of Ukraine, SBU. There were also people protesting in the neighborhoods of Kyiv against lack of electricity and food.
– over 90 % of Ukraine's population in the territories controlled by Kyiv government are utterly against the civil war, which they sabotage any way they can. This is why the government resorted to kidnap men and boys from workplaces, university campuses and even from the streets.
– there is an active and brutal colonization of Ukraine by the west, which is something not witnessed even in Latin America before: the colonizers are in the government and are named as governors (Odessa's case).
– Nazis from UNA UNSO (aka Right Sector) are named as propaganda officers of SBU, in the police, in the army and recently they even got themselves their own unit within SBU. These nazis openly organize to attack Russia so they can restore the Kievan Rus which they claim it was "theirs" – a historical abberation –, they also resent the USSR not because of reasons falsely propagated by westerners but because they did not control it. UNA UNSO's program states publicly that USSR should have been "Ukraine's".
– Ukrainian ideology explicitly urges the annihilation of the population in the east.
This is another attempt by supporters of the fascists in Ukraine to rebrand themselves as "leftists" – http://ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2015/08/21/interview-with-activists-of-the-new-left-party-social-movement/


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The cottage is pet friendly and we welcome up to two well behaved dogs to join you on your holiday. Up to three cars can be parked off road outside the cottage.
This charming cottage has a small sitting room with an open fire place and a second larger living room area with beamed ceilings, farmhouse style bespoke furnishings and a log burning stove.
The kitchen is equipped with all essentials for a self catering holiday including a washing machine, microwave, fridge and electric oven.
The cottage comprises three comfortable bedrooms comprising a double bedroom, a bedroom with three single beds and a small third bedroom with one single bed.
Rooms share access to a three piece family bathroom with bathtub and shower over.
The large garden is enclosed and has a garden shed for storage. The shed is stocked with a BBQ and a huge array of family garden games including a croquet set, clock golf, footballs and a badminton set. For children there is a climbing frame and swing to be enjoyed.
There are car parking spaces for two to three cars and additional parking space in the lay-by 100 yards from the cottage.
Bed linen and towels are supplied for your arrival and there are plenty of extra blankets if needed.
We welcome up to two well behaved dogs in the cottage and ask that they be kept downstairs and off the furniture.
Changeover day for weekly bookings at the property is Sunday.
Check in is from 3:30 pm and the cottage must be vacated by 11 am on the day of departure.
Short breaks are available throughout most of the year but are only available on a last minute basis in the high season.
The beautiful sandy beaches of Bigbury Bay are only 4 miles from the cottage and make for a great family day out throughout the seasons.
Our cottage is ideal for keen walkers and hikers with striking countryside and dramatic coastal Cliffside walks surrounding and The Dartmoor National Park is only 12 miles from the cottage.
The Clanaborough circular walking route is a local favourite and for those who want to explore the coast, Prawle Port and Bolt Head offer breathtaking sea views and cliff walks.
Plymouth, Kingsbridge and Salcombe are within 20 miles of the cottage and have a wealth of shops, eateries and attractions to enjoy.


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So now its on to the exterior. I wanted something that looks nice and subtle so I went on ebay and saw the JDM projector headlights and red/ clear taillights. They were a little price so I didn't know if I wanted to just replace my bashed headlight with a stocker. Went to go pick up a part for a friend at a wrecking yard and I couldn't believe what I saw. A munched Legacy with the JDM tails, I ran to the front desk and got them for $100 after tax. SCORE! No cracks, no leaks and they look great.
So here are the pics of how everything turned out. These also have my little project and I don't know if its going to fly but I decided to try and modify a 05 LGT engine cover. I like the way it looks but after I finished it up and paint it we'll see. I like how it covers all the nasty engine crap though.
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Got some JDM Projector Headlights from a guy in Canada for $80.00 so I am going to pick them up this weekend and black the inside of them out. Also I got some wheels on the way.
18x8.5 +38 Falken Hanabi wheels in silver w/ 225/40/18 tires. Wheels were $133.00 a wheel and the tires are coming off an old set of wheels I had. 70% tread. I will have to roll and stretch the fenders a bit so after they are on maybe I'll be part of the herra frush crew.
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I have some interior projects as well. Painted black interior, all red lighting, WRX steering wheel etc...
For the brakes we are going to do the JDM 4 Pots with some of our new 06 WRX 2pc rotors once they are finished and an H6 Upgrade in the rear. SS Lines, and Magic Pads.
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