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Spike Lee on the set of his new joint, "Red Hook Summer." — PHOTO BY DAVID LEE, COURTESY 40 ACRES AND A MULE FILMWORKS
Director Spike Lee's most recent feature films have been larger studio releases, including "Miracle at St. Anna" with Derek Luke and Michael Ealy and "Inside Man," starring Denzel Washington. With the release of "Red Hook Summer,' now open in theaters, he returns to the smaller, more intimate style that made such an impact in the '80s, when he introduced "She's Gotta Have It," "School Daze" and "Do the Right Thing."
"Red Hook Summer," co-written by Lee and James McBride, is the story of Flik Royale, a young boy from middle class Atlanta, who comes to meet his maternal grandfather for the first time, and spend the summer with him in Brooklyn's Red Hook housing project. Although he initially is not happy about it, Flik has fun in spite of himself, learns some serious life lessons, and realizes that there is a whole world outside of Atlanta.
Lee was recently in Philadelphia to promote "Red Hook Summer," and I sat down with him at Ms. Tootsie's, the popular soul food restaurant on South Street, to discuss his latest project. I've interviewed Lee on several occasions, and as always, he was in a "New York state of mind."
"It's going back to my ongoing chronicles of Brooklyn, New York," Lee said of "Red Hook Summer," which he financed completely on his own. "It started with the first one, 'She's Gotta Have It,' in 1989, 'Do the Right Thing,' 1989, then 'Crooklyn,' then 'Clockers,' 'He Got Game,' and now 'Red Hook Summer,' so that's six films."
When asked why he chose Red Hook in particular as the setting for his film, Lee responded. "Many different reasons. It's a very strange, peculiar, cut-off neighborhood from the rest of Brooklyn. James McBride grew up in Red Hook. (NBA star) Carmello Anthony is from Red Hook."
The story is told through three outstanding young actors including Jules Brown as Flik, Toni Lysaith as Chazz Morningstar and Sincere Peters as 12-year-old Blessing Rowe. "They all went to my old junior high school," Lee said. "There was a drama teacher there — Mr. Evan Robinson. He's a great teacher, and once James and I wrote the script, I knew that I could go just sit in the back of his class and find [good young actors]. I said, 'There goes Flik. There goes Chazz. There goes Blessing.'"
While "Red Hook Summer" has an overall atmosphere of innocence, it does ultimately deal with some adult issues, and I asked Lee why he chose to tell this story through the eyes of young people.
"James McBride and I both have teenagers, Lee said. "We had breakfast one morning and said, 'How come we don't see kids like our teenagers in films?' That's where it started."
Lee also enlists the services of the talented Nate Parker, who has appeared in "The Great Debaters," "The Secret Life of Bees" and "Red Tails," playing noble, upstanding characters or an individual who ultimately finds redemption. However, in "Red Hook Summer," he plays Box, a gang leader who appears to be torn between good and evil.
"I didn't want to do another stereotypical portrayal of a gang member," Lee explained. "You need great actors to elevate your material, or it's just going to be the same thing again and again and again."
While summer blockbusters have their place, I was happy to see Lee revisit the provocative storytelling that indeed is his strength. "This is no big studio film, so you will not see any TV ads for it," he said. "This is all grassroots. Beginning with people like yourself, we're going to get the word out," Lee said. "Radio stations, TV stuff, social media — all that's being done."
So as the latest "Spike Lee Joint" faces its opening weekend, the Emmy Award-winning filmmaker said in parting, "Just come out and see it, and make up your own mind."

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Seven years ago my husband and I fell in love with Troy. We were committed to finding a house to polish up and make it shine. This year a sign hangs on the front of our home at 253 Fourth St. that reads "Little Italy 2012 Best Rehab." What an honor! We both, Bill and Andrea Daley, appreciate greatly the acknowledgment of receiving this award and here is our story.
The following are points that many prospective owners may overlook. Do go through the steps of performing a detailed home inspection first. There are plenty of websites that will give itemized lists and companies that will do this for you. These are additional points to consider:
n History: Is the property in a historic zone section? If so, there will be certain rules outlining what can and cannot be done. Check with the city.
n Structure: What is the foundation made of, are there any cracks, any stone missing, any open holes? Foundations all should have some type of windows for ventilation. Many owners close them over to keep the homes warm not knowing that a closed-up cellar or basement encourages dry-rot, which over a long period of time will weaken the beams.
Is the basement dry? If not, this is another huge undertaking to correct. The homes prior to the 1900s seem to have been constructed with sturdy dry basements, but if there is water or moisture it will need to be attended to. Again, this can run into thousands of dollars to put in a sump pump, or dig out the exterior and put in a drainage system. It may be leakage from cracks in the foundation; all are attached to a high price to correct.
n Water Pipes: Homes that are over 100 years in the city are subject to having the water supply system replaced with one that goes to the middle of the road. This is a costly expense; any where from $2,000 - $5,000. Be prepared, eventually all homes will need this done. Check with the owner to see if it has already been replaced.
n Brick Exterior: (We own a brick home circa 1850) Look to the top along the roofline. Are there openings in the brick? Look at the gutters. Is there evidence of the brick deteriorating around them? This comes from water and the winters of expansion and contraction. If the drainage system is not in good working order then havoc to the areas will be noticed. The bricks will eventually work themselves out and fall to the ground; a very dangerous position to be in. Check the overall condition of the brick, it is important to keep up with its maintenance; some homes have had walls collapse.
Be cautious of brick buildings that have been covered with siding. There is no way to tell what is underneath.
If renovating the exterior, due to previous worn off paint, do not sandblast. Sandblasting is a messy operation, unsafe for the environment, and all those little pellets will enter any opening in your home. Sandblasting also takes away the natural exterior of the brick. This exterior preserves it. The best to do is to chemically strip. It takes hours but is rewarding. If painting is your option, do as little sanding or scraping as possible. If you need to sand and scrape, then it is up to you to confine the area and use the proper apparatus: PPE, Personal Protective Equipment -- safety glasses, and a lead preventive mask. It is your responsibility to protect the immediate environment, your neighbors and those passing by. Contact a lead certified specialist to find out the do's and don'ts.
n Roof: A general inspection will direct you to check the roof. What most people do not know is that there may be several covered over roofs. At some point a new roof cannot be installed without taking off all the preceding roofs, which will escalate the cost of a new roof.
n Heating and Insulation: There was forced air and as of last year we installed a new energy efficient system, which has cut our cost in half. As each wall was taken down, insulation has gone in. The older homes were never buttoned up as tightly as the homes of today, so consider heating and insulation a major part of a rehab along with its cost. Our system cost $10,000 and I anticipate within five or six years it will pay for itself.
These are the major things that we came up against during our adventure. Most of our costs have been our time. We want things done right so that the structure will last another 150 years.
Andrea Daley is the founder of Bella Vita Restoration: check out the website for helpful hints on many restoration projects at www.diyRestoreit.com. "Troy's Treasures" is a project of the Troy Rehabilitation & Improvement Program (TRIP), Inc.


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For what reason may I request a leave of absence from my current job?
The University/Health System offers a variety of unpaid leaves of absence to accommodate the needs of the staff. Approval for leaves of absence must be obtained from the staff member's supervisor and from the appropriate Human Resources Department. Final approval or denial of a leave of absence request is the responsibility of the Human Resources Department. Staff members must provide advance notice of request for leaves of absence to their supervisors.
Leaves of absence are granted for the following reasons:
Childcare Leave of Absence: available for both female and male staff members following the birth of the staff member's child or following the adoption of a child who is under the age of six. The duration of the initial childcare leave of absence is six months. This leave may be extended for a maximum duration up to one year from the date of birth or adoption.
Disability: The University/Health System provides a Long Term Disability program so that monthly income and other benefits may be continued for totally disabled eligible staff members and is administered by the Benefits Office.
Disability is defined as the complete inability, by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment, to engage in any occupation or employment for wage or profit for which the staff member is reasonably fitted by education, training, or experience. The impairment must be expected to result in death or have lasted, or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve (12) months from the staff member's last day of work. Such disability shall not be caused by engaging in any criminal act or intentionally self-inflicted injury or illness, nor shall any benefit be payable while in prison or jail. The maximum duration shall not exceed the duration of the disability, or until age 65.
The Benefits Office 734-763-1214 or 734-764-6584 can provide additional information to you regarding the Basic & Long Term Disability Plans or refer to 203.01-0 Basic Long Term Disability Plan.pdf (332K) and 203.01-1 Expanded Long Term Disability Plan.pdf (38K)
Family Medical: is granted to staff members for the following reasons.
- For the staff member's personal illness
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The duration of a family medical leave will not exceed twelve (12) weeks per year. The family medical leave allows for continuation of the staff member's health benefits at their current cost providing the staff member has at least one year of continuous service. Those staff members without one year of continuous service are still eligible to take the twelve (12) weeks of leave, but will assume the total cost of their health benefits if they desire to continue their health care coverage.
Government Service: is available for staff members with at least one year of continuous service elected to a full-time public political office (except that of Michigan state legislator), or appointed to an office of a policy-making nature or one of significant responsibility such as head of or assistant to the head of an office, department, or branch of the federal, state, or local government. The initial duration of this leave is one term of office, or one year of government service. This leave can be renewed for additional terms of office, or years of government service.
Maternity: refer to medical leave of absence, or childcare leave of absence.
Medical: available to staff members unable to work because of a personal illness or injury, or disability related to pregnancy only after exhausting all PTO/sick/vacation time. The initial leave may not exceed six (6) months, but may be renewed for up to two (2) years by providing medical documentation of the continued illness/injury.
Medical/Childcare: available to staff members unable to work because of pregnancy, and only after PTO/sick/vacation time is exhausted, and the staff member desires to remain off work following the birth of the child. The initial leave may not exceed nine (9) months but may be extended up to one year from the date of birth.
Pregnancy: refer to medical leave of absence, or childcare leave of absence.
Educational: is granted at the University's/Health System's discretion only. Is available to staff members with at least one year of continuous service undertaking a full-time (10 or more credit hours), accredited educational program that is directly related to the current position or to positions to which staff members may reasonably aspire within the University; and whose program is to be completed within four continuous years. The maximum duration of the initial leave can not exceed one year, but can be renewed annually up to four years.
Personal: is granted at the University's/Health System's discretion and only if the staff member's department guarantees a return to the same position or one of like status and pay. The maximum duration of a personal leave will not exceed one year.
Additional detailed information on leaves of absence can be obtained by referring to SPG 201.30 (link), by referring to the labor agreement for your job, or by contacting the Health System's Human Resources Department at 734-647-5538.
You may also want to contact the Benefits Office for questions or concerns relative to your health care coverage(s), and/or your retirement contributions. You can contact the Benefits Office at 734-764-6584 or 734-764-1214.
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Energy Costs of Spasticity in Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Investigation
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|Basal Energy Expenditure Spasticity
|Other: Weaning of Antispasticity Medication
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|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
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|Energy Costs of Spasticity in Spinal Cord Injury: A Pilot Investigation
- Increase in Basal Energy Expenditure [ Time Frame: 7 days ]
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|January 2008
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|July 2010
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|July 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Weaning of Spasticity Medication over a three day period while measuring Modified Ashworth Scale and Penn Spasm Frequency Score. Then titration of medication back to previous dose over a three day period.
Other: Weaning of Antispasticity Medication
Weaning of antispasticity medication over a three day period and then titration back to previous dose over a three day period.
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Obesity is at epidemic proportions in the population with spinal cord injury (SCI), and is likely the mediator of the metabolic syndrome in this special population. Recent literature reviews have suggested that obesity is present in > 67% of persons with SCI. Additionally, recent studies have demonstrated the causal relationship between adipose tissue accumulation and vascular inflammation, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance / glucose intolerance, hypertension and thromboemboli.
Obesity in SCI occurs because of acute and ongoing positive energy balance, i.e., greater caloric intake than energy expenditure. Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) in SCI is reduced primarily because of muscular atrophy and diminished muscular contraction; pharmacological treatment of spasticity possibly reduces energy expenditure (EE) even further, but has not been evaluated to date. TDEE is comprised of three components: Basal Energy Expenditure (BEE), Thermic Effect of Activity (TEA) and Thermic Effect of Food (TEF). Of the three, BEE contributes the greatest amount (65-75% TDEE) and is the most sensitive to changes in spasticity.
Dampening spasticity has been reported to increase weight gain and necessitate reduced caloric intake in a child with spastic quadriplegia. Similarly, athetosis in patients with cerebral palsy increased resting metabolic rate (RMR) as compared to control subjects with no athetotic movements. Although several studies have reported energy requirements for persons with neurodevelopmental disabilities, and even SCI, however, none have attempted to measure the metabolic effect of spasticity.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- C1-T10 SCI at least 1 year post injury
- Spasticity in the legs
- Veteran
Exclusion Criteria:
- Recent increase in spasticity
- Botox within 6 months
- Phenol within 2 years
- Prior surgery for spasticity
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00572845
|United States, Virginia
|McGuire VA Medical Center
|Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23249
|Principal Investigator:
|David R Gater, MD, PhD
|McGuire VA Medical Center
|Study Chair:
|David X Cifu, MD
|VCU Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
|Responsible Party:
|Virginia Commonwealth University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00572845 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 11, 2007
|Last Updated:
|February 19, 2016
Keywords provided by Virginia Commonwealth University:
Basal Energy Expenditure
Modified Ashworth Scale
Penn Spasm Frequency Score
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Muscle Spasticity
Spinal Cord Injuries
Spinal Cord Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Trauma, Nervous System
Wounds and Injuries
Muscular Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Muscle Hypertonia
Neuromuscular Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
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I just don't think even you can force a computer trade...
I think the only option would be for one of us to give him a player... And that's what would hurt one of us...
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I just don't think even you can force a computer trade...
I think the only option would be for one of us to give him a player... And that's what would hurt one of us...
Nothing in life worth having comes easy.
I can create a secondary PSN account, join the League as one of the CPU owned Teams under that secondary PSN account ( not as CableKC )....propose a trade of the Player to Vandy.....he accepts it... we just let the trade go through......then I leave the League under the secondary PSN account and reverting the Team back to the CPU.
Hence.....force a CPU to Player trade in a round about way.
Keep in mind....I only suggest this with Vandy upgrading one of his lower end Players to some CPU Owned Player in the low to mid 70s...just to replace his Player that he essentially lost cuz of the glitch.
I know that we can look at this as a "tough bananas" approach as this is just a glitch in the game that Vandy has to live with....but if there is a way to remedy this without really hurting one of the other Player's Teams.....then I prefer to take that route.
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Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
I didn't realize that the League Speed is still set at SLOW ( where the League Calendar Day advances once every 8 hours in Real time ). I can't do it now....but I will change the League Speed to FAST ( where the League Calendar Day advances once every 4 hours in Real time ) later tonight or tomorrow morning.
If you have scheduled games for anyone that is coming up....keep in mind that you don't have as much time as you may think:
1 League Day = 4 hours in Real Time
6 League Days = 24 hours / 1 Full Day in Real Time
12 League Days = 48 hours / 2 Full Days in Real Time
30 League Days = 120 hours / 5 Full Days in Real Time
Please make a note of this...especially if you have upcoming games to be scheduled against other Players. All the Games are already unlocked.
If you have already made arrangements with someone but can't play before the League Calendar Advances.....then let us know and I can PAUSE the League....AS LONG as both Players agree to a time to play but can't play before the League Calendar advances.
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Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
I leave for Indy tomorrow morning until Sunday so I'll be away from my PS3. I've played all the CPU games though, so I think I'll only miss a game against CableKC's Warriors on 11/28 and maybe also against the Grizzlies but that's on 12/21. I haven't done the math so I'm not sure if I'll be back by then. If either of you guys sees this and wants to get a game in tonight, just message me on PSN or on here.
Do we have any games on the schedule? I could play in a bit...
Nothing in life worth having comes easy.
So I just got back from my trip and I signed into 2k to check on our league, but it won't let me in. It says, "Failed to communicate with the server." Anyone else getting this message?
I got it the other day... You usually just have to try back in a few hours...
Nice start for the Clips btw!
Nothing in life worth having comes easy.
Can anyone here veto the trade I accepted? I don't even know what the trade was. I was going through CPU trade offers and rejecting them all and accidentally accepted one.
I'll get on there and see if it's still up for vetting...
Nothing in life worth having comes easy.
It's cool if not. Nothing major.
How many people are still playing? I haven't been contacted in a while about a match.
The league and this thread both seem to be dying out... We'll see if people get back in once the Playoffs roll around again...
Nothing in life worth having comes easy.
Smothered Chicken!
With the playoffs right around the corner, I'd just like to say that I really hope we don't sim and auto-advance any playoff matchups, even User vs CPU ones. I'd like it if we could play against the CPU rather than automatically getting the win. I know the idea is to get as many User vs User matchups as possible, but it doesn't seem like many people are still playing anyway. I also don't think it's fair -- for lack of a better term -- for someone to basically sim all season, then show up for the playoffs and automatically advance because they're up against the CPU. Anyway, that's just my two cents. Good luck, everyone!
Sorry Kuq... But if this thread is any indication... I believe all have quit...
I know I haven't logged in since mid June...
It was like everyone lost interest after the offseason... This was fairly active in season 1... Season 2... Not so much...
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Nothing in life worth having comes easy.
Anybody know how to get in contact with Vandy or if he's still playing? He's the last game on my schedule before the playoffs and I'd like to play that game considering we're the top 2 teams in the West.


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I watched this last night.
Here is what I took away from it:
1. I was convinced that Donaghy did not fix games because he didn't need to.
2. The emotions and biases of the referees towards players, coaches and owners have a far greater impact on the game than I could have imagined. I believe Donaghy is telling the truth in that regard - in fact I believe he was 100% truthful with all his answers on the show.
3. I think the book would be an interesting read, and not a defense of his actions. He knows he screwed up.
I didn't watch
I watched HBO Real Sports talk to the gambler he worked with and I watched some of this 60 Min stuff too.
I am convinced that the NBA has a serious problem with refs, and that Donaghy is a big fat liar who fixed the games he worked. His success rate was NOT tied to his "NBA knowledge" because he apparently did not win very well on NBA games he bet but didn't work. HBO cited the numbers, or had his accomplice cite them, so I assumed they were likely fair. He was hitting on 80% of his NBA bets, but when broken down between games he worked and games he didn't work I think it was more like 80% on his games (lots of these) and 40-50% on other NBA games (not many of these bets).
They made a strong case that Donaghy is full of crap, and I think by corollary that the NBA is pulling a cover up.
There are only 2 options here:
1) Donaghy fixed games and the NBA is covering that up
2) Donaghy was correct when he said that ref bias was so strong that you could bet at an 80% correct rate, meaning the games are virtually fixed. Not for money, but rather for emotional reasons. But fixed is fixed.
His win rate was so off the charts high that it's one or the other. He didn't get lucky. He either impacted games directly or knew that other refs were going to do so to such a degree that you would be certain to win your bet.
I didn't see it all yet, but what I saw left out the part where he claimed they would bet on how long they could go without calling a foul. He was going with "I didn't know of any other refs that bet on games", but even though a bet like I just mentioned would be a "friendly" bet it's still a bet. It still involves calling the game in a way other than is intended by the rules, and it involves more than just Donaghy.
I love the sport and I love NBA caliber players. With the Pacers so down I'm less involved with friendly calls by the refs that hurt their playoff chances or something important. But it's pretty tough to see all the evidence and other witness testimony and not realize there is probably a major issue with how the game is called.
And Mike Mathis, former head of the refs, basically admitted that the emotional bias was there, that refs did discuss personal issues they had with various players and coaches before and after games.
Of course Mathis is no paradigm of morals himself being at the core of the airline ticket tax evasion scandal.
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I'm either getting old or dense, because I still don't see it
Does anyone actually believe refs can be completely objective figures? Without getting into a philosophical debate (hereeee Soupy Soupy Soupy) - I will just say, I have my doubts.
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January 31 2014 09:06AM
TSN's Darren Dreger reports that the Oilers have added some size to their blue line, adding Mark Fraser from Toronto.
Oilers acquire Mark Fraser from Leafs for Cam Abner and Hartikainen.— Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) January 31, 2014
What The Oilers Sent Away
The players going the other way in the deal were both outside of the organization's plans, so the cost on this isn't especially dear.
Teemu Hartikainen is having a pretty good season in Russia and has to be the guy the Leafs were interested in on this deal. He's a big winger with some skill who couldn't do much in 23 NHL games last season with the Oilers; he wasn't interested in staying in the organization on a two-way deal and so he went off to Russia. I've been told down the line that this isn't a player that Edmonton really had plans for, but that doesn't mean he might not break out with the Leafs.
Cameron Abney, the other guy in the trade, has negative value; he's an ECHL enforcer taking up a spot on Edmonton's 50-man list. In the Oilers' organization he was passed as a player by Erick Lizon (currently with the CHL's Wichita Thunder).
Abney needed to be included in the deal so the Oilers could stay at 48 contracts.— Bob Stauffer (@Bob_Stauffer) January 31, 2014
What the Oilers Added
Everybody hoping Edmonton would add a big, physical defenceman for the third pair got their wish today.
Fraser is listed at 6'4", 220 pounds. He has had three fights in the NHL this season; last year he had nine fights in the majors and eight in the AHL. He's a stay-at-home defenceman who plays a throwback style; the new Theo Peckham on Edmonton's blue line.
As for what he is as a player? Theo Peckham isn't far-off as a comparison there, either. Fraser has struggled badly this year, with regular partners Paul Ranger and Morgan Rielly both faring better without him than with him. Of interest, though, is the way he and Cody Franson played together last season, and the way his regular partners in New Jersey (primarily Andy Greene and Johnny Oduya) played with and without him. He has had a measure of success in the NHL before, even if he isn't enjoying that this season.
For the time being the pending unrestricted free agent can provide the Oilers with physical play in the six/seven slot and provide the Oilers with a warm body if they choose to move other free agents like Anton Belov or Nick Schultz or Corey Potterat the deadline. He has familiarity with Dallas Eakins from time spent with the Marlies, so he should slot in to the Oilers system with relative ease, and his skillset is a nice fit alongside any of Potter, Philip Larsen or Taylor Fedun on that bottom pair.
This is a small trade, but it adds a dimension the Oilers were lacking at the cost of players the team didn't really care about anyway. The player with the most potential to be an NHL difference-maker went to Toronto, but Hartikainen wasn't going to be that guy in Edmonton and the trade market for 'tweeners who want one-way deals isn't as robust as it could be.
Update - via @Steve_Dangle of Leafs Nation comes this Hockey Night in Canada segment on Fraser:
Additionally, Jeff Veillette - who covered Fraser in person when Fraser played for the AHL's Toronto Marlies - wrote a piece on the trade for Leafs Nation.
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February 01 2014, 06:26AM
300 posts over a nothing trade?
February 01 2014, 06:48AM
300 posts over a nothing trade?
All the trolls here assume all the talk is about the trade. It' only has so many posts because of the lack of articles yesterday and it happens to be at the top. A lot of the talk here has been about hemsky and mactavish. I suppose I'm just feeding trolls here so I will let myself out lol.
February 01 2014, 07:23AM
It was the latest article yesterday, the comments were more just general Oilers chat, as they usually are.
February 01 2014, 07:30AM
Regarding Fistric, what is MacT supposed to do other than let him walk? Sign him to 3 years at 2M? This is what happen when you can't agree with the contract term with a UFA. Fistric is no different than any other UFA, like Iglina. If you are not interested in him, don't talk to him. If you are interested, you try to sign him to a contract you think is reasonable to you. If you can't sign him to a contract you think is reasonable to you, then you move on to the next one. How complicate is it?
You think Fraser is worse, obviously MacT thinks otherwise. Fraser not only will hit, he will drop the groves and stand up for his teammates. How many time did Fistric drop the gloves to protect his kids? If you have to choose between Mike Brown and Fraser, who would you rather have? Both the Oilers and the Sharks have to give a 4th rounder to get Mike Brown, do you think any team will give a 4th rounder for Fistric?
I am not sure what the right to Hartikainen will get us. What did we get for Omark? futher consideration, inw, a 6th/7th rounder. This summer MacT release Toni Rajala to Europe. I was quite upset because although Rajala is small, he, imo, is our best forward in OKC. If MacT can let Rajalo go, it is just a matter of time that we will do the same to Hartikainen. Since he is not part of our plan, therefore the roster spot has more value to MacT than his right.
I was never a fan of either player so I am totally okay with it. Perhaps you are a fan of those 2 players, or MacT hater?
I'd take Brown over Fraser. Oilers traded a third rounder for Fistric. Not sure what you are saying about the organization that traded a third for a guy you state nobody would trade a 4th for?
February 01 2014, 10:46AM
I just can't get over how intelligent the oilers organization is. The Marlies are the best AHL team there ever was. Easily better than Half The NHL. The only reason the players were on the farm is that Toronto has been such a powerhouse over the last decade. These players have really started to make a huge impact on the oilers roster now.
I'd take Brown over Fraser. Oilers traded a third rounder for Fistric. Not sure what you are saying about the organization that traded a third for a guy you state nobody would trade a 4th for?
How many minutes does Brown play per game? 5? The only reason he is iced is to stand up for his teammate and fight. Fraser will do the same and play the #6 D. But before Fraser even plays one game for us, you already like Brown more. What else can I say?
What I think about the trade for Fistric, never like the trade for Fistric and Smithson.
What a stupid organization the Oilers are. They are now going out and getting all of Eakins Marlie players so they at least like the coach. It's ridiculous, MacTavish won't fire a bad coach so he just goes out and gets guys that talk nice about Eakins. Well done. On pace for the worst season ever 4 years into a revuild. Sickening
February 02 2014, 09:14AM
How many minutes does Brown play per game? 5? The only reason he is iced is to stand up for his teammate and fight. Fraser will do the same and play the #6 D. But before Fraser even plays one game for us, you already like Brown more. What else can I say?
What I think about the trade for Fistric, never like the trade for Fistric and Smithson.
I watched them both play in Toronto. Suffice to say I don't expect them to change the player they are now that they are here in Edmonton? Fraser will bring some nastiness, both in terms of physically and his below average skill set.
February 02 2014, 01:33PM
I don't understand the MacT hate. The guy took on a last place team of smurfs 6 months ago from a passive GM. He added Ference, Gordon, Perron, Scrivens, Brysgalov, Belov, Hendricks and now Fraser. Tried to get Bernier, Schneider, Clarkson and probably others in trade attempts we never heard about. He shipped out some underachievers in Duby, Paajarvi and Smid.
The guy is active, more so than most GM's out there as far as I can see. Not all moves will be great, not all will work out, but the guy is trying.
I seems to me a lot of people think its as easy as calling up GM's and demanding they trade their great players to us for our junk. Not gonna happen.
I want playoffs next year as much as anyone but it likely wont happen that fast. Tambloweini's team will take time to correct and I think MacT has the potential to do it.
All Mac - T has done is trade 4 liners and nobody's for 4th liners or nobodies. You could put the 4th line of the Oilers on any NHL team and their record and standings would not change.
It is the first 3 lines and the top 4 D, that make the difference.
It is called ICE Time.
The reason no free agent will come here is because the Oilers have the worst management team and record to show for that in the league. The players know this, the agents (who know more inside information than the players) also know this. If I were an agent, would I give advice for any of my players to go to the worst team in the league over the past 14 years who have the same management or choose another team for the same salary.
People, use your heads. This is Lowe's team. He has been in charge of everything since he took over as GM and has been involved in every decision with the GM who he has hired since. The Oilers are going nowhere until Lowe, Mac-T, et. all are gone.


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The first long-term forecast for the 2013 hurricane season predicts a busier-than-average slate of storms for the Atlantic Ocean, an outlook that local meteorologists and emergency planners said was unlikely to significantly affect their preparations.
"We don't do anything different with our planning based on the number of hurricanes predicted," said Warren Lee, director of emergency management and 911 communications for New Hanover County. "We always plan like it's going to be the worst season we've ever had."
According to the forecast, released last week by researchers with the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, the Atlantic basin should brace for 18 named storms during the five-month season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. Nine of those are projected to strengthen into hurricanes, four of them Category 3 or higher.
If accurate, that prediction would place this year's storm activity above the average season, which sees 12 tropical storms and six hurricanes, three of them major, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
It would also be remarkably similar to the 2012 storm season, which saw 19 named storms, nine of them hurricanes, and ranked as the third-busiest season in history. Prior to the start of that five-month period, long-term forecasts had predicted "near-normal" activity in the Atlantic, expecting between nine and 15 named storms and four to eight hurricanes, according to NOAA.
But even a slow season can wreak havoc on coastal communities, said Mark Bacon, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Wilmington.
"We had a quiet year in 1992. There were only seven storms and four hurricanes, and only one was major," Bacon said. "But that one, the first one, was Hurricane Andrew."
Hurricane Andrew, a Category 5 storm, formed in the Atlantic and tore over the Bahamas and the southern tip of Florida before crossing into the Gulf of Mexico and making landfall in Louisiana. The storm caused 26 direct fatalities and $26.5 billion worth of damage, ranking as the fifth-costliest tropical cyclone in U.S. history.
"So the people in Homestead, Fla.," Bacon said, "did not care that it was a quiet year."
Colorado State researchers will update their initial forecast twice, once in June and a second time in August. Other long-term predictions, including a forecast from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, will be released closer to the start of the season. But for area officials, preparations will continue as normal.
"Your astrologer or your stockbroker, they're trying to predict something in the future, and you can't do it with certainty. Weather's the same way, but arguably with more chaotic systems," Bacon said. "It's better than it used to be, but it's not an exact science, so it's best to always get your planning and preparation going."
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It was love at first sight for sporting enthusiasts Ralph and Pauline Harding and today the romantic couple celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary.
The couple didn't intend to marry on Valentine's Day, it just happened to fall on the very Saturday the couple wanted for their wedding day.
They met when they were both playing sport at Devizes Sports Club in London Road.
Recalling the moment he saw his future wife Mr Harding, 86, said: "I used to see this blonde lady on a bike come and play tennis at the sports club. I was playing hockey there and my sister, Pat, knew Pauline and introduced us."
The couple hit it off straight away and courted for four years.
Mrs Harding (nee Doel), 83, who was a clerk at Barclays Bank in The Brittox, Devizes, said: "I thought Ralph was the bee's knees."
Mr Harding, who was born at Ivy House, Devizes, said: "I was besotted with her."
Of their long and happy marriage, Mr Harding said: "We both clicked and got on together. We have had our differences like everyone, no doubt, but we always made up."
Born in Trowbridge, Mrs Harding moved to Devizes when she was eight as her father, Walter, was the engineer in charge of the buses for Bath Tramways and latterly Bristol Tramways.
The couple got married at the former St Mary's Congregational Church, Northgate Street, Devizes, on February 14, 1953. They woke that morning to find a foot of snow had fallen.
Apart from wet feet for the groom and a creased train on the bride's dress from holding it up out of the snow, the wedding went ahead without a hitch. However, the snow did prevent the photographer from making it to the church so the photos were taken at the reception at Devizes Town Hall. The couple honeymooned on the Italian Riviera, the first time they had gone abroad.
Mr Harding worked at his parent's farm, Manor Farm, Marston, and in 1960 he and his wife moved to Liddington Warren Farm, Upper Wanborough, which he ran with his brother, Percy. They had sheep, cattle and pigs and Mrs Harding would help out with milking and other duties as well as bringing up their four children, Mark, Stephen, Sarah and Katharine. They also have three grandchildren, Matthew, Kirstie and Emma.
When her children were older, Mrs Harding ran a kitchen hardware and vintage clothes shop in Aldbourne by the village pump.
The couple played tennis together over the years at Aldbourne Tennis Club. Mrs Harding used to coach there and Mr Harding still plays there and at Devizes Tennis Club twice a week. He played hockey for Marlborough and Wiltshire and played until he was 63.
When Mr Harding retired at 65 they moved to Broadleas Close, Devizes, where they still live.
The couple's interests include family history and Mr Harding volunteers three mornings a week at Devizes Hospital tending plants in the grounds and helping to sort medical records.


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Wednesday, December 14, 2016
The 97% Consensus? Global Warming Unmasked! (video)
What Is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project?
It's too bad the current brouhaha about CO2 is so narrowly focused. So what if a higher concentration in the atmosphere raises global average temps? If higher temps were accompanied by increased atmospheric moisture, it would even out around the world and turn it into a paradise planet, greening the deserts so that the teeming billions could be fed. Cold temperatures are inimical to life, not a goal of life.
Too bad, it might take a lot more CO2 than you think to really change the global weather. Why do they call CO2 greenhouse gas? Because plants breathe it, and they pump it into greenhouses to help them grow and thrive. Polar regions and deserts look good in postcards, but who wants to live there. Meanwhile global pop. is zooming, so obviously the real answer is to pump more CO2 and water vapor into the atmosphere to turn the Earth into a greenhouse, turning deserts both hot and cold into lush green crop-growing regions like 35 million years ago when the avg. global temp was 88F and the CO2 level was 1K parts per million (vs. 390 PPM today). So what if we lose some desert polar regions and even some yummy coastline, the adjustments will be inconvenient but temporary, but I prefer shirt-sleeve weather to Frosty the Snowman. How many arctic animals can't adapt to a warmer climate? What animal needs to live in ice and snow and wouldn't like a vacation to Tahiti? They can lose the fat, hair or feathers.
The real question is can we make and keep the global CO2/H20 levels high enough, and for how long? Sooner or later mass global starvation will become unstoppable if world pop. keeps climbing, and this is the way to forestall it, if we act soon enough. Don't give me them Malthusian objections, give me some CO2/H20 solutions. I like a paradise Earth in the possibility window.
So, while the world is debating the horrors, extent or lack thereof of global warming caused by CO2, let's engineer the CO2/H20 solution to making the Earth a warm temperate planet from pole to pole with no deserts or ice wastelands, allowing vastly more food to be grown and turning poor nations rich. I DON'T mean a planet with wild swings between super-hot summers and super-cold winters, but one that is warmer than now everywhere, but moister and greener, with a giant network of plantlife helping to avoid extremes. Since CO2 and water vapor are the keys, and the paltry amounts in the atmosphere need to be increased as soon as possible to turn deserts green and get the warming process off to a good start, but the new levels have to be maintained permanently, I'm looking to remote Antarctica (which is really a sea) as the most promising source for unlimited CO2 and water vapor generation, given that noxious emissions (sulfur dioxide, etc.) can be controlled.
This blog is for posting news on the world climate situation, scientific and political, along with my own articles. I'm sure it will start out with hardly any interest or followers, but I'm hoping that it will attract the smartest people eventually and in the end I hope for a global consensus that if it can be done it must be done.
So what is the Antarctic Volcanoes Project? My working idea is that an international effort to reactivate as many volcanoes in Antarctica as possible in an ideal location for distributing the CO2/H20 will produce the best and most cost-effective results. Sorry, one-worlders, it won't give you a license to override and control any country's economy, but if your country is suffering from lack of food you will be too busy expanding farming to care. Hence until I think of or hear about a better way to increase world CO2/H20 levels, this is my pet project. If you are a scientist, please climb aboard my AVP Express and let's make it happen.
It Would Be Funny If It Were's So Sad
It would be funny it weren't so sad, but when the scientists say "greenhouse gas" they are using a malaprop. It should be greenhouse GLASS, because that's why a greenhouse stays warm, by glass walls stopping convection of air and trapping heat. Yes, CO2 is pumped into greenhouses, but not for heating purposes, only to help plants BREATHE. So the whole sucker's game of "greenhouse gas" must truly be for the purpose of stopping more vegetation from growing and feeding the teeming billions. Is that their true goal?
Jan. 14, 2011. Good article on CO2 levels and global temps 30-40 million years ago
Aug. 31, 2011. Giant pipe and balloon to pump water into the sky in climate experiment
May 31, 2013. Scientists find that higher CO2 levels green arid regions
Mar. 30, 2015. Higher atmospheric CO2 levels causing boom in vegetation
Aug. 15, 2017. Scientists find 91 new volcanoes miles beneath Antarctica's thick ice sheet
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Jinkx Monsoon Debuts at Provincetown's Art House Theatre for Summer Run, Now thru 9/20
Jinkx Monsoon, the alter ego of Jerick Hoffer and season five winner of RuPaul's Drag Race, will star in Off-Broadway's hit production "The Vaudevillians" at one of New England's most prestigious music and comedy venues summer of 2014. Hosted by Provincetown's Art House Theatre, the drag-comedy sensation will reprise her role as Kitty Witless, alongside co-star and co-writer Richard Andriessen, better known as Dr. Dan von Dandy. Extended for the fifth time in New York, the show will leap to this popular Cape Cod summer destination from today, June 27 through September 20, 2014. For tickets and information, visit www.ptownarthouse.com, or call 1-800-838-3006.
The New York Times writes, "Straight or gay, everyone leaves this show with sides aching from laughter." Called "a pure delight" (The New York Times), "comedic genius" (Show Business Weekly), "hilarious" (BroadwayWorld), as well as "intelligent and entertaining" (TheaterMania), "The Vaudevillians" has amazed audiences since its inception. Even RuPaul proclaimed the performance "a triumph!"
Time-travelers from a century ago, the show's starring duo are 1920s performers who toured speakeasies and burlesque theatres. They have emerged from a deep freeze in Antarctica to present their act just as they did before they were caught in an avalanche and frozen alive. Now, Witless and the good doctor are on a quest to reclaim their music-songs like "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," about the suffragettes, and "Drop It Like It's Hot," about the invention of the electric iron.
A native of Portland, Oregon, Jerick Hoffer is a graduate of Cornish College in Seattle. It was at Cornish as a fifteen-year-old theater major that Hoffer traces the early manifestations of Jinkx Monsoon, whom he refers to as a "zany, off-the-wall, irreverent, gorgeous anachronism." In 2006, Hoffer made the Guinness World Records as lead dancer in the world's largest drag queen chorus line. By 2012, the young performer was starring at top Seattle theaters - Moritz in "Spring Awakening" (Balagan Theatre), Angel in "Rent" (The 5th Avenue Theatre), and most recently, Hedwig in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" with the Seattle Theatre Group.
Landing the hot production of "The Vaudevillians" was a coup for The Art House, but it is not out-of-character for the upstart company, which has built an international reputation for cutting-edge, live entertainment for gay and mainstream audiences. If there were a "how-to" written about transforming venues in popular travel destinations, it might be the story of Provincetown's Art House. Since Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale, along with his creative partner and music director Seth Rudetsky, launched their signature Broadway@ The Art House series in 2011, the theatre has become the talk not only of Provincetown, but New York, and far beyond. The series now attracts notable names from Broadway and television, such as Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Chita Rivera, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Megan Mullally, Christine Ebersole, and Jane Krakowski. This success spawned runs in New Orleans, Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, The Poconos, Hartford, Woodstock (NY), Detroit - even overseas venues in Sydney, Melbourne, and London.
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Jinkx Monsoon in "The Vaudevillians," starring Jerick Hoffer & Richard Andriesson:
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July 4, 10:15 p.m.
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Sept 4 - 20, 2014 (Thursday through Saturday) at 8:00 p.m.
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BOSTON—The time of death? Probably around 1:42 of the first half. That was when Knicks guard Jason Kidd stood beyond the 3-point line and, with little more than a flick of the wrist, sailed a pass toward the rim. Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony went up, grabbed the ball and dunked, leaving Jeff Green and the entire Celtics defense in his wake.
That was part of an 11-2 run that put the Knicks up 18 points, a span during which the night-in, night-out combativeness that has defined the Celtics seemed to be sucked from their very souls.
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By then, the Celtics as we have known them over the last six seasons were over and done. The final count for Game 3 on Friday night at TD Garden was 90-76, and the accompanying numbers were hideous for the guys in green: 40.0 percent shooting, 18 turnovers, and an 0-3 deficit that won't be overcome.
"I thought we wanted to play well," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said after the game. "We didn't. I didn't think we showed up not to play well. I thought we, overall, I thought our effort was there. I thought we played with spirit early on. We missed—we missed two layups to start the game and a plethora of other open shots. I thought we lost our spirit for one stretch, and I thought it was that second quarter, the last five minutes of the second quarter. That hurt us."
Playing without injured guard Rajon Rondo, the Celtics have looked old and slow against a better, deeper Knicks team in this series. With the way the Celtics have looked, they might have suffered this fate against any of the other seven East playoff teams. Even when Rondo does return next year, there is no getting around the fact that the team's two most important players, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, are going to be older and slower when the season comes around.
All of this means that the so-called Big Three chapter, which saw one leg crumble this summer when Ray Allen signed with the Heat, is no more. And though it would be easy to poke holes galore in the transactions—or lack thereof—pulled off by Celtics president Danny Ainge in the past year, it is, instead, an appropriate time to acknowledge what Ainge wrought, not only in Boston but around the league.
The Big Three is dead. Long live the Big Three.
Maybe Ainge should have been more open to welcoming one of two big men—either Chris Andersen or Kenyon Martin—to the Celtics' fold when both were free agents. Boston considered both, but Martin and Andersen are wild-card personalities, and ultimately the risk of disturbing the locker room outweighed the potential reward of adding quality frontcourt depth.
Maybe Ainge should have pushed harder to make a move at the trading deadline. The Clippers expressed interest in Garnett, but Garnett ultimately declined to waive his no-trade clause. There was interest, too, in Pierce, and maybe Ainge could have worked a deal that would have sent him to Dallas, Golden State or Brooklyn. Maybe he should have gone hard after a replacement point guard for Rondo.
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And maybe Ainge should have been wiser last offseason, when he committed $21 million over four years to Courtney Lee and $15 million over three years to Jason Terry. The combined playoff contribution of those two has been nothing short of depressing, with Terry scoring 23 total points on 7-for-22 shooting, and Lee adding six points on 1-for-4 shooting.
But that's picking nits at this point. Let's face it, Ainge needed serious guts to take some of the risks he did six summers ago, when he first made the deal to get Allen from Seattle on draft night. There was no guarantee that he would be able to add Garnett, too, and he had to patiently wait out KG and the Timberwolves until they finally agreed to make the deal happen, at the end of July 2007, for five players and two first-round draft picks.
Those deals got the Celtics a championship in 2008. They got Boston back to the Finals in 2010, a seven-game series with the Lakers. They brought the Celtics within a game of the Finals last season, thanks to a thriller against Miami in the Eastern Conference finals. But even then, the Celtics were operating beyond their expiration date. It took a lot of grit and some otherworldly play by Garnett and Rondo to challenge the Heat last spring.
And, in fact, if there is any team that should be thankful for the advent of the Celtics' Big Three, it is the Heat. Remember, there were doubts about what Ainge did with the Celtics in '07. Having three players chewing up nearly all of the team's cap space—three players who might or might not be willing to sacrifice their own star status for the benefit of the team—and filling out the rest of the roster with bargain signings, was a risk. It worked. Other teams took notice, and by the ever-important summer of 2010, teams with cap space sought to replicate the Big Three model. The Heat got it done.
Remember what happened in the NBA the year before Ainge and the Celtics put the Big Three together? Of course you don't . That's because the Spurs slaughtered the Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, a sweep that got a measly 6.2 Nielsen rating, the lowest in the history of the Finals. That bounced up to 9.3 when Boston won the following year, and has been over 10 each of the last three seasons—the Celtics-Lakers seven-gamer in '10 and the series featuring the Heat's Big Three each of the last two years.
With the way things unraveled here on Friday, it might be tough to maintain perspective. This was a brutal night for the Celtics. They'll play Game 4 on Sunday, and if the effort is anything like it was in Game 3, the series won't go back to New York. The Knicks will sweep.
After that, who knows what's next? On draft night, or in the summer, they could revisit the trade opportunities that lingered in February. They could do what Ainge has been trying to do for much of the last three years—rebuild with a younger core prominently featuring Rondo, hoping he is healthy and that forwards Jeff Green and Jared Sullinger complement him well.
Before all that happens, though, and amid the wreckage of what this April has become for the Celtics, it's a worthy time to pause and tip our caps to what this franchise was able to achieve after its Big Three-sparked resurrection, how long it was able to maintain that level of achievement—and how important it has turned out to be for the revitalization of the NBA.
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" Located in West Yorkshire, UK, and nestled between Huddersfield to the South and Bradford to the North, Halifax is ideally situated within fifteen minutes drive from M62 J24 and easily accessible within a half an hour drive from Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield. "
"Halifax? For a weekend break? Why?" We were asked this several times over our two days in the town. Maybe it's harder to appreciate the charms of a place if you live there day in, day out. I'd passed through Halifax on the train on several occasions and even made a ten minute stop once to deliver something by car but I'd often fancied stopping to take a look. The setting is dramatic; the hills make a pleasing backdrop which contrasts brilliantly with the old industrial buildings; the only example I can think of in the UK that comes close to this for the combination of industrial heritage and countryside is in our network of canals, especially in Cheshire and Staffordshire.
In this piece I'll look only at the town from an architectural point of view. Suffice to say it's a rather typical northern town with all the shopping brands you'd expect along with plenty of pubs and clubs, sporting entertainment (rugby league more or less eclipses football as the local sport of choice) and cultural pursuits.
If you're interested in architecture and/or British civic history, then Halifax is a good place to visit. John Betjeman described Halifax as 'a town of hidden beauty' a sentiment with which I can only partly agree, not because it's not beautiful but because these days 'faded' or 'crumbling' might be better words to describe it. The Clean Air Act of 1959 may have done a great deal towards saving some of Halifax's finest civic buildings but many others are now almost derelict or simply neglected at best.
A number have been saved and restored though and some of them are of importance not just to the town, but nationally too. The splendid Piece Hall (reviewed separately in this journal) is one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture in the UK. Built for wool merchants to display their cloths in the eighteenth century the complex, with it two tiered colonnades, was later used as the town's fruit and vegetable market before falling into severe neglect. A single vote saved the Piece Hall from being demolished and now it's at the heart of the town's civic pride.
The indoor market also got a new lease of life and visitors should make a point of at least passing by the see the tall entrances to the hall. Inside there are stalls selling everything from slippers to boiled sweets and it's a good place to look for a bargain. Ask at the bakery stalls to try some traditional local cakes and scones. The building iteself is Grade II listed on account of its handsome Victorian facade and impressive clock tower. Built between 1891 and 1895, this building with its glazed roof harks back to the days when Halifax wielded a great deal of economic clout.
Halifax was once a booming town, made rich by the wool industry. A number of buildings celebrate that importance and civic pride, most notably the town hall. It was designed by Charles Barry, who had already designed the Houses of Parliament in the capital; Haligonians like to say that the architect practiced the style in London and then came to Halifax to perfect it. It's another of Halifax's buildings to have Grade II status. The idea of having a town hall was orginally mooted in 1847 and several times in the following years, but in 1856 proposals were finally made more concrete, partially thanks to the Improvement Act of 1853 which made it possible for the city corporation to borrow £15,000 towards the costs of building a town hall, police station and courthouse. The complex opened in 1863 and no less than 350 trains brought more than 70,000 people to Halifax over two days to attend opening sessions; yet more made the trip on foot. The town hall was offocially opened by the then Prince of Wales, later Edward VII' it should really have been opened by Queen Victoria but after she'd been widowed two years earlier, she had retired from public life. The most striking element of the exterior design is the 180 feet high tower which was decorated with statues by John Thomas that represent the four continents. Meanwhile, paintings by Daniel Maclise and JC Horsely on the staircases are worth seeing, and hang under a colourful blue and green glass dome.
Although it dates from long before Halifax's boom days, the minster is another of the town's notable buildings. Parts of it date from the 1100s but over all it's a mixture of elements from a variety of styles. Until fairly recently it was just a parish church but local people fought a campaign to have it 'upgraded' to a 'minster' in the hope that it would highlight it's importance to people outside Halifax. The minster has numerous interesting architectural features inside and out but my favourite is the lifesize figure of 'Old Tristram' which holds the parish alms box. It was carved from wood in 1701 and is said to represent a man who used to beg in the Halifax area around that time.
Situated opposite the entrance to the train station, the Square Chapel is yet another listed building and dates from 1772. It's architect, Thomas Bradley (incidently he's also believed to have designed the Piece Hall) was only 18 years old at the time he designed it. The structure is 60 feet square and at the time of completion it's believed it was the largest unsupported roof span in the country. Although the chapel is used frequently as an arts venue it is in still need of further restoration but worth seeing if there's something on when you visit. We went in for a beer festival and noticed that while the lower floor has been modernised and improved, the main hall has suffered much damage to its original features.
At the 'bottom' of town, The Clough Mills are a magnificent reminder of the heyday of the town. Sympathetically restored to house apartments, office accommodation, artists' workshops, a theatre and a hotel, this complex was once home to the largest carpet factory in the world.
There are interesting buildings at every turn in Halifax, too many to mention in just one article. There are over 600 listed buildings in the immediate area of the town which gives those interested in old buildings plenty to look out for.
I was born in Halifax and have lived in the area almost all my life except for living in Newark for a while (where I would go back given the chance).
Halifax isn't a bad place to visit there are some good shops, officially there are more pubs/clubs per household than anywhere else in the country) with more being built almost daily!) and there are some nice places to visit.
Quite a lot of big chain stores here such as M & S, W H Smith, Woolworths, Peacocks, New Look, Evans, Wilkinsons and The Body shop (among others) there are also lots of "one off shops" Harveys is a department store sells higher end fashion, cosmetics and homeware items, Spinnies very nice card and gift shop with a coffee shop, a few small "boutiques" and 2 markets! There is the Borough Market large, indoor open all week (except Sunday), sells everything from fruit and veg to porcelain dolls and everything inbetween. The Piece Hall Market outdoors open Thursday, Fridays and Saturday and the 4 Sundays before Christmas. Thursday is the busiest day this is second hand day! The peice Hall itself has some good specialist shops dolls houses and teddy bears, craft, mineral and crystals, records and a book shop. The Piece Hall is a wonderful building more about that later.
There did used to be Westgate Market as well which was a small indoor market that could have been really nice but somehow wasn't and recently closed, what it will reopen as is anyones guess but possibly another bar or club!
Loads of them, if a business closes down and it is big enough it will open as a pub or club! For a decent cheap pub lunch go to the Brass Cat they do 2 meals for £4.99 and aren't half bad. There is a Yates wine bar which is always packed. There are several Nightclubs, The Coliseum where I spent my later teen years! Not a bad club usually busy, not much trouble, drinks not cheap but they do have cut price nights have live acts on occasionally Jason Donovan springs to mind! The Acapulco known locally as the Acca, dosen't seem too bad, cheap drinks ok crowd used to be that the men were all about 50 and the girls about 15! Both are mainstream music clubs. The Tube and Zoo bar are more "alternative" music. Revival has a heavy metal night on a Friday usually with a live tribute band playing last time I was in it was "Moletallica"!
There are countless pubs most of them are ok, no real dives!
Eureka Childrens Museum is a must if you have kids, it is about £4.75 per person kids and adults pay the same under 2s are free. They have loads of "hands on exhibits" there is a M & S, a post office and a kwik fit as well as a broadcasting studio and how your body works. There is a gift shop and cafe which are both fairly resonable.
Bankfield museum is situated just outside Halifax town, they have various exhibits troughout the year past ones have been 1960's and the world wars.
Shibden Hall is situated again just outside Halifax town centre in Shibden Park. It is still as it was in the 17-1800's and craft fairs are held there where vendors will dress in authentic costumes.
Other places of interest
The Piece Hall is probably one of Halifaxs finest buildings. It is a large multi storey building around a central courtyard where wool and cloths were sold, an outdoor market is still held here Thursday (flea market), Friday and Saturdays. The building itself has dozens of small individual shops ranging from model shops to vinyl record shops. If you enter the Piece Hall from the Westgate entrance there is a handprint in the stone wall this is said to be a Witches handprint left as she tried to stop herself being dragged into the courtyard for execution.
The Shay, if you are a Halifax Town supporter, not much to look at really but some people do go to visit!
Peoples Park, a delightful park with a fountain and staues that have been restored over recent years, and a newly opened information centre. Until recently was a no go area, situated to the west of the town centre it is now a pleasent place for a family day out, there is a play park for the children and the whole area is covered by CCTV, the park is locked at night.
The Victoria Theatre, a lovely building which attracts acts for all tastes, from Chubby Brown to the ballet, The Chippendales stripped there and teh West Yorkshire Scouts put on Gang show there every 4 years.
The Halifax, a review of Halifax wouldn't be complete without mentioning THE Halifax would it? The Head Office is on the outskirts of the town centre and is a massive building almost entirely made of windows! Although it has been there for years it still looks modern and somehow out of kilter to it's surroundings, it is among beautiful old buildings and looks stark and unfriendly in contrast.
Transport and Parking
Most of Halifax Town centre is pedestrian zoned but there is plenty of parking both in car parks and on streets. All parking is pay and display (except disabled). The town has a good bus service and trains are frequent. The Bus station has won several design awards and there is a lovely cafe there for while you wait for your bus. The bus and train services into Halifax are quite good.
All in all Halifax is a nice place to visit with plenty to see and do, but I'd prefer not to live here!
Halifax is the administrative centre for the Metropolitain Borough of Calderdale and is situated in the County of West Yorkshire in the North of England. Looking at a map of the U.K we are slightly north of central between Leeds and Manchester. Calderdale is essentially Halifax, the upper and lower Calder valley and the Ryburn valley. The area is 363 sq km iand is an area that includes the outstanding natural beauty of the South Pennines and historic townscape. The population of Calderdale is just under 200,000 people and Halifax itself just short of 100,000. Halifax is steeped in history and derives its name from the old English words of Halh (nook of land) and Gefeaxe (coarse grassland). From its early settlement Halifax has greatly developed, mainly due to the woollen and textile trade and in recent years banking, finance and insurance. Halifax was granted its municipal charter in 1848, thus making it a borough. The historic wool trade of the past is is best demonstrated in the Italianate Collonaded 18th Century piazza where cloth was sold. The square is named the Piece Hall. The name Piece Hall is derived from the pieces of cloth that local woollen merchants sold. The centre of Halifax has undergone a phoenix like transformation and has been restored to its full glory. Halifax has many Edwardian and Victorian gems and this is demonstrated through the legacy of architecture they have bestowed up on the town. Indeed, Halifax has been noted as having the most complete Edwardian street scape in the UK. An interesting fact is that Halifax town hall was designed by Sir Charles Barrie - architect of the Houses of Parliament in London! One of the really nice things about Halifax is its scale and the lack of an arndale centre or central mall. We do have a very decent shopping area, but rather than building a bland could be anywhere centre; they remodelled old edwardian shop fronts and developed new o
nes in keeping to give the Woolshops Centre. This is an excellent example of modern townscape in keeping with the old. For a great view of the town you must visit Beacon Hill, Halifax. As the name suggests the hill was used as a site for the beacon to ward against invaders, nowadays it affords an excellent view of the town and NO tourists (only the locals know about it!!!) An equally impressive view is from Wainhouse Tower (only open Bank Holidays). Wainhouse tower is an impressive stone built tower to the west of the town centre. What can you do in Halifax??.... lots of stuff!! Apart from the shops and architecture, Halifax has some of the best nightclubs in the north of England. It has many pubs and clubs and all are centrally located, there are even coach parties that visit, such is the popularity! There is a new Jumpin' Jacks, The Colliseum, The Acapulco, Bar Centro and hundreds of pubs (quite literally). There is the Eureka Childrens Museam (Nationally recognised) the Bankfield Museum, Shibden Hall and Museum and Dean Clough Art Galleries for those visitors into the arts. The town also has the Victoria Theatre which attracts lots of top acts. Sportier types can visit the leisure centre, town pool or even go ski-ing at the Halifax Ski Centre (artificial slopes). Getting here. Getting here couldn't be easier. Most visitors from abroad will fly to the region. Yorkshire has its own international airport - Leeds Bradford. It has links to Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin and Paris together with many domestic services. Many foreign visitors can utilise the many charter flights. In addition if a suitable flight is not available (non European) Manchester International is only an hour away by car or train. For travel within the U.K; train services are frequent and link all regional centres including, Leeds, Manchester, Liverppol and York. Road connections are
excellent via the M1 and M62 - direct access via Junctions 22, 24 and 26. Out of the town centre. Visit Withens Moor, Wainstalls, Halifax- this is the real Bronte Moor and is rugged and Wild. In addition visit the many pretty towns and villages near such as Hebden Bridge, Luddenden, Midgley and Haworth. Hebden Bridge is the most popular, it is cosmopolitain, trendy, arty and is in a really lovely setting. An interesting fact about Hebden Bridge is that it is the Lesbian capital of the north- probably due to the liberal attidues that have stayed since the hippies arrived in the 60's! Halifax is well worthy of a visit and people will be surprised at the diversity and beauty of Calderdale. To say that we are in one of the most densely populated areas of England and indeed the United Kindgom, you are never far from real rural treats or urban gems. For further information see:- http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/ www.yorkshirevisitor.com www.ytb.org.uk www.yorkshirenet.co.uk/seegde http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/ http://www.woolshopsshoppingcentre.co.uk/ http://www.harveysofhalifax.co.uk/ http://www.eureka.org.uk/
I like Halifax. If it were based, say, where Preston is, it would be THE tourist attraction to be seen at. The reason I like it doesn't have anything to do with my girlfriend living there, but I just think it is lovely. The reason it is not THE tourist attraction to be seen at is mainly because of its location, in between two massive great big cities, the great wonderful and prosperous Bradford and, don't make me say it, Leeds. These shadow Halifax's greatness. In fact, Halifax was once a brilliant town, thriving in the woollen and engineering trades until fabric weaving came at 5 pence a yard from sweatshops in Indonesia and Africa. I believe it also once was a city as their coat of arms states something like "God save the city". Now, however it is part of a new borough alled Calderdale (much in the same way Keighly is now part of Bradford) which I dont much like, apart from halifax. Calderdale is full of those grimy little milltowns, with back-to-backs for which Yorkshire is fanous. These stretch from Halifax to Todmorden and well into Lancashire and finish about Rawtenstall. Instead of visiting these and analysing the various soot particles stuck to 1'6" gable ends, visit Halifax city centre. Halifax is actually quite good for shopping for a town of its size although all the locals complain about it. Various shops are being done up at the minute and markets redeveloped. It should be really nice when its done. Halifax also has brilliant nightlife. In my opinion far better, and definately cheaper, than Bradford or Leeds. Now I can't remember the exact prices, but the Colloseum and Acapulco offer excellent nights out or if its a pub crawl your after you practically fall out of one pub into another! If you plan to go to Acapulco but get put off because it looks a right scruffy hole from the outside - don't be! Outside it is painted black and its all scratching off but don't worry - its great inside! The Colluseum
is also brilliant but I don't need to note that because it looks OK from the outside anyway. The best thing about Halifax centre though has got to be the ABC cinema. I went there with my girlfriend the other week and when we went in it looked just like the ABC in Leeds - Formica Formica Formica! The ticket office didn't even have a till! Just a dish with money in and a roll of those really old "ADMIT ONE" tickets I never even thought existed. The staff were very pleasant however and told us to "Enjoy our film" (like THAT was what I was planning on enojying!) which I have never been told at either Odeon Bradford, Odeon Leeds, Odeon Leeds Bradford, ABC Leeds or Showcase Birstall but the best thing has got to be the audotorium! We were in Audotorium 1 and I don't know what the others are like but we got inand I thought it was going to be like the 1960s attrocity I walked in on but in fact, only the back wall was done in Formica (the exit). The rest was what it must have been like when it was built - maybe 100 years ago! Seriously now, the audotorium was just like what you would expect to see at a theatre, and was about half the size of the Alhambra in Bradford! The only difference was it didn't have them silly boxes or whatever you call them (the things that look like thise ashtrays you get in cars) at the side and it only had one circle thing. The decor was picturesque apart from two gigantic speakers outside the screen - even this was situated on a stage! It was £3.50 a ticket for Bridget Jones' Diary if anyone is interested. Anyway, Halifax is a great town and well worth a visit. While you're there, don't visit the rest of Calderdale or Leeds, but Bradford might be worth a go. Oh, and the bench outside the library next to the bus station - don't even think about it - Its mine and stefs!
A lovely little town in Yorkshire. With its winding roads and steep hills, Halifax is one of the more scenic towns in West Yorkshire. There are many attractions in Halifax including the most famous 'Shibden Park'. Where we were recent visitors. I have been going to shibden since I was a child and it is most definatly one of the best parks I have been to. Set on a hilly area it has many walking trails, A boating lake with childrens pedal boat area, a playground and also a little train which trundles around the lower area of the park. There is also Shibden Hall which is worth visiting on an open day. I always like looking around old houses and they have regular fun days with people in costume and fun activities. The park is also the best place for sledging in winter. There is no hill like it, it just goes on forever. Shibden park is worth visiting even if you are not too local.


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