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Marston's toasts rising profits despite concerns over Brexit
Premium pubs and beer business Marston's has raised a glass to rising profits despite looming concerns that Brexit could knock consumer confidence and raise costs for the sector.
The Two For One and Pitcher & Piano owner reported a 7% jump in underlying revenue to £905.8 million, and a 7% jump in underlying pre-tax profit to £98 million in the year to October 1.
Average profit per pub jumped 8%, as like-for-like sales in its premium and gastro-pub business rose 2.3%, while like-for-like sales in local taverns - which drew higher drinks than foods sales - increased 2.7%.
It helped offset the impact of disposals of a number of non-core pubs, the sale of which generated £45.9 million in cash.
Marston's - which brews beers including Hobgoblin, Wainwright and Lancaster Bomber - saw its share of the premium bottled ale market rise to 27%, and to 20% in the premium cask ale market.
Chief executive Ralph Findlay said: "We have delivered another year of good growth across the business, with the outstanding performance of our beer company particularly encouraging.
"Trading has been solid in the first few weeks of the new financial year and we have seen no discernible change to the trends experienced in 2016. The majority of our major product cost lines are contracted for 2017 and well into 2018."
The Wolverhampton-based pub and brewer acknowledged there are "wider concerns regarding the possible impact of Brexit", particularly on consumer sentiment and input costs following the collapse in sterling since the vote.
Sterling has fallen 17% against the dollar and nearly 10% against the euro since the referendum on June 23.
However, the company confirmed that it is hedged against currency fluctuations, with forward contracts in place into 2018.
Marston's also assured that it has planned for modest increases in business rates next year, but said it was protected in part due to its low exposure on the high street and city centres.
"We are well placed to continue our track record of growth and to make further progress against our key financial objectives," the company said.
Greg Johnson, an equity analyst at Shore Capital Markets, said: "The disposal and capital investment programme has re-positioned Marston's towards a higher quality estate, with greater direct control and a burgeoning beer business.
"The trading backdrop appears stable (albeit uncertain) and costs remain manageable in our view. The ongoing new build programme is delivering attractive returns and we estimate is capable of delivering mid-single digit earnings growth and further margin progression."
Shares fell 2.5% in afternoon trading.
Marston's employs around 14,000 people across 1,559 pubs in the UK.


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Nathaniel's Nutmeg : How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History Paperback
by Giles Milton
In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe.
This infuriated the Dutch, who were determined to control the world's nutmeg supply. For five years Courthope and his band of thirty men were besieged by a force one hundred times greater - and his heroism set in motion the events that led to the founding of the greatest city on earth.A beautifully told adventure story and a fascinating depiction of exploration in the seventeenth century, NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG sheds a remarkable light on history.
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This book touched me deeply, and I now find myself seeing the humble nutmeg in a new light, along with a rich desire to visit the Spice Islands and experience more about naval life in the tall ships.
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I loved this book, although a history of the spice wars in South East Asia it reads like a novel. It isn't at all the story Nathaniel Courthope, who appears only toward the end, and any claim he may have to having changed East Asia seems slight to me. Although full of historical detail, Milton still makes Goodies of the British and Baddies of the Dutch, although from what I can see none come out of this with much credit. Milton has a talent for both showing the full horror of the life of sailors, explorers and pirates and for making you want abandon your safe but dull life and set off for the Spice Islands.
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The story of the the first Europeans to reach and trade with the "spice islands" of what is now eastern Indonesian. This should be a gift to a writer of popular history - the fabulous prices paid for nutmeg and cloves, the way the sea route broke the stranglehold of the Arab traders - but if there is scope for THE popular history - this book isn't it. Milton manages to choke a good story. He even has a cute new angle - that Holland traded Manhattan for a tiny spice island - but still can't bring it all together into an interesting narrative. What a shame. Read April 2010.
Review by isabelx
Shipwrecks, piracy, torture and murders abound in this story of the bloody struggle between the English and Dutch East India companies for control of the lucrative spice trade in the early 17th century.
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A great read and a bit of a history lesson too!
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David Oh, a Republican front-runner for a seat on City Council, yesterday accepted an invitation from members of the U.S. Army Special Forces to explain on socnet.com why he has called himself a Special Forces officer and/or a Green Beret in his last three political campaigns. He offered his second apology in two days for those claims and vowed to make public the truth.
It was a difficult conversation with the fiercely inquisitive and ultimately unforgiving soldiers who accused Oh of using lawyerly language to dodge accuracy. Oh opened with this mea culpa:
"First of all, I truly am very sorry for my offenses. There probably have been more than I am aware of but I did not appreciate the lines I was crossing. In retrospect, I thank you for your patience in not pounding me sooner or more severely. I am NOT a Green Beret (SF Tab). I apologize for any actions or statements that may have misled people. I did not respect that matter enough despite my utmost esteem for you gentlemen."
Oh offers to destroy campaign materials making claims about his Special Forces/Green Beret status. The Special Forces commenters demanded a public statement from Oh within 24 hours. He responds:
"I will pay for two full page ads apologizing to tabbed Green Berets, the military, veterans and the voters, for my lack of attention to detail when the knowledge was in my possession and the carelessness was to my advantage. I will offer to return any contributions and release any endorsements from those who supported me. I do not want votes or support under the cloud that I made misrepresentations in order to win."
You can read the entire thread, which ran from 10:49 pm yesterday to 7:13 am this morning. Some of Oh's more meandering responses have been edited by the site administrator. Oh's claims have also been closely tracked over at ProfessionalSoldiers.com.
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By Candace Rondeaux and Dan Balz
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, July 21, 2008
KABUL, July 20 -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met here Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and later reiterated his call for additional U.S. forces to deal with conditions in Afghanistan that he described as "precarious and urgent," capping a two-day tour as casualties continued to mount from violence in the war-torn country.
Obama joined Karzai for a "working lunch," marking the first meeting for the Afghan president and the presumptive Democratic nominee. Obama's colleagues in the congressional delegation visiting Afghanistan, Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), were also at the lunch, said Humayun Hamidzada, Karzai's chief spokesman. Hamidzada said the heads of Afghanistan's ministries of defense and foreign affairs, and Karzai's national security adviser, also attended the nearly two-hour meeting.
Obama, interviewed in Afghanistan for CBS's "Face the Nation," called Afghanistan the "central front on our battle against terrorism." He said the Iraq war has distracted attention away from this critical battlefront and that it is time to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq and shifting more military resources into Afghanistan.
"If we wait until the next administration, it could be a year before we get those additional troops on the ground here in Afghanistan, and I think that would be a mistake," he said. "I think the situation is getting urgent enough that we've got to start doing something now."
Obama also said that the United States should press neighboring Pakistan harder to help eliminate the terrorist sanctuaries and training camps along the border that are fueling the strength of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. "I think that message has not been sent," he said in implicit criticism of the current administration.
Obama's visit to Afghanistan marked the first leg of a foreign tour that will take him to Iraq, Jordan, Israel, Germany, France and Britain between now and the end of the week. From Afghanistan, Obama flew to Kuwait. The state news agency KUNA reported that he met with the Gulf Arab state's emir, Sabah Ahmad al-Sabah. Obama was expected to continue on to Iraq for meetings with U.S. and Iraqi officials and to speak with U.S. military personnel on Monday.
In a statement issued after the meeting with Karzai, Obama, Hagel and Reed said their trip is aimed at assessing whether the United States has the right strategy and resources to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaeda. "Our message to the Afghan government is this: We want a strong partnership based on 'more for more' -- more resources from the United States and NATO, and more action from the Afghan government to improve the lives of the Afghan people," they said.
Karzai and the three U.S. politicians discussed topics including education, health care and the state of the Afghan National Army and Afghan national police. "The discussions focused on the significant progress that we've made but also on the unmet challenges we still have ahead of us," Hamidzada said. "The discussions also focused on the difficulties we're facing, the difficult challenges of the fight against corruption, counternarcotics and also the continuing threat of terrorism and fundamentalism not just threatening the way of life in Afghanistan but also in the region."
Obama has made the U.S.-led military mission in Afghanistan a central plank in his campaign platform, calling for 7,000 additional troops to be sent to the country as part of an overall drawdown in the number in Iraq. He has said that, if elected, he would remove combat forces from Iraq over a 16-month period and has repeatedly called for more troops and more resources in Afghanistan to fight the mounting threat from a Taliban resurgence and al-Qaeda.
"Losing is not an option when it comes to al-Qaeda, and it never has been," he said on CBS's "Face the Nation," "and that's why the fact that we engaged in a war of choice when we were not yet finished with that task was such a mistake."
The senator from Illinois and his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), have sparred intensely over the progress in both wars and how best to reshape U.S. military missions. That debate continued Sunday on the morning talk shows and elsewhere. McCain's campaign issued a statement highlighting comments from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, raising doubts about the wisdom of removing combat forces from Iraq over the next two years, as Obama has advocated.
"I think the consequences could be very dangerous," Mullen said on "Fox News Sunday." "I'm convinced at this point in time that coming -- making reductions based on conditions on the ground are very important."
The McCain campaign statement noted, "Barack Obama says he wants a 'safe and responsible' withdrawal from Iraq, but is stubbornly adhering to an unconditional withdrawal that places politics above the advice of our military commanders, the success of our troops, and the security of the American people."
On Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was quoted in the German magazine Der Spiegel as embracing Obama's 16-month withdrawal timetable, causing a stir at the White House. Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad contacted Maliki's office to express concern and seek clarification on the remarks, according to White House spokesman Scott Stanzel. Later in the day, a Maliki aide released a statement saying the remarks had been mistranslated and misunderstood, though without citing specifics. Der Spiegel issued a statement standing by the quotations.
The meeting with Karzai took place a few hours after Obama, Reed and Hagel met with U.S. troops at Camp Eggers, a heavily fortified U.S. base in the Afghan capital.
Karzai and Obama met over a traditional Afghan meal of rice, chicken and mutton at the presidential palace a little more than a week after Obama pointedly criticized Karzai's leadership in the face of deteriorating security conditions. In an interview with CNN, Obama said Karzai had "not gotten out of the bunker" to help the country develop.
Karzai's spokesman declined to say directly whether the two touched on the senator's recent remarks, but he said Obama's comment was not without merits.
"We didn't see that as a criticism per se because there is a degree of realism in that statement and that is the fact that while we are making significant progress in rebuilding our country, we are also facing a significant threat of terrorism that is imposed upon us and the Afghan people," Hamidzada said. "So the fact that we are spending a lot of our resources and energy fighting terrorism that is exported from the south is a reality."
The high-level meeting Sunday came as Afghan officials reported that eight Afghan police were killed and six wounded in a "friendly fire" incident involving NATO forces and Afghan police at an Afghan checkpoint in the western province of Farah. Provincial police chief Khalilulah Rahmani said the incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday when Afghan police mistakenly fired on a NATO convoy in the district of Anar Dara. The eight police officers were killed after NATO forces called in an airstrike during the firefight.
NATO officials also reported Sunday that four civilians were accidentally killed in the eastern province of Paktika when NATO forces fired two mortar rounds at a suspected Taliban location. The bombs landed wide of their target by half a mile.
Civilian casualties and "friendly fire" incidents have been an issue of much contention inside Afghanistan. Karzai recently called for investigations into several NATO airstrikes that resulted in civilian casualties, including a July 6 bombing that killed 47 people in the eastern province of Nangahar.
Obama and the other senators visited Nangahar on Saturday, meeting with U.S. troops and the provincial governor in the city of Jalalabad.
Asked whether Karzai discussed civilian casualties from NATO operations, Hamidzada said only that the two men talked "broadly" about a range of issues.
Staff writer Dan Eggen in Crawford, Tex., contributed to this report.
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Wednesdaymarks the final day for the holder of a winning lottery ticket to come forward and claim their prize. The missing ticket, which must be presented by 11pm in order to receive £64million, was bought in the UK in the Stevenage and Hitchin area.
The correct numbers relate to a draw that took place on June 8th 2012 for the EuroMillions, but the time limit to claim the winnings is set at 180 days. After this deadline the prize money cannot be received.
The winning numbers for the jackpot are: 5, 11, 22, 34 and 40 with the 'lucky star' numbers being 9 and 11.
Although lottery officials are not stating where the ticket was bought - as it is understood lottery rules do not allow this information to be stated - it has been said that it was purchased in the Hertfordshire area; in Stevenage and also nearby Hitchin.
It is expected that some of the funds will go to good causes connected to the lottery if the money is not claimed by the owner of the winning ticket.
A National Lottery spokesperson said, as quoted by The Telegraph: "Our message is simple - we're urging everyone to look one last time everywhere a missing ticket could be hiding. We're desperate to find this mystery ticket-holder and unite them with their winnings - this amazing prize would be a fabulous early Christmas present."
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Residential homes are interspersed among restaurants and bed-and-breakfasts in Rocheport's small business district— less than twenty miles from Columbia.
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By Jonas Weir
Missouri is defined by its small towns as much as anything else. Between our state's two great metropolises lies our state's heart—where tiny towns populate great plains and small communities dot the rugged landscape of the Ozark hollows. Some sit high above the Missouri on great river bluffs; some are tucked away in the woods.
From border to border, we looked for the most quaint, charming, and frankly, prettiest small towns. Although there is no official definition of a small town, we decided to look only at villages and towns with populations under one thousand. Yes, places like Jefferson City have been nationally recognized among the beautiful small towns in the country, but places that large are not nearly as tiny as the towns on this list. Jefferson City's population is more than forty thousand, and a few of the towns here have populations of less than a hundred.
Here, the beauty comes from many things. Some places have quaint downtowns with thriving business districts; others are defined by historic buildings and sublime natural landscapes. Regardless, each of these ten towns is worth the trip and is one of the best ways to get a slice of small town America.
The Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre is one of many benefits in this town with a population under fifty. With a season that runs from March until December each year, the Arrow Rock Lyceum draws in visitors from all over the country.
Arrow Rock
No place in the state is quite like Arrow Rock.
Sitting on bluffs above the Missouri River, Arrow Rock has been a place of significance since well before the first Europeans visited. Archaeological evidence shows people have been here for more than ten thousand years. In the early nineteenth century, Arrow Rock became a frontier village along the Sante Fe Trail. After that, prominent Missourians, such as artist George Caleb Bingham and Dr. John Sappington, called Arrow Rock home. Before the Civil War, it reached its peak population of about a thousand.
Arrow Rock's rich history, however, is only part of the equation that has made it one of the prettiest towns in Missouri. The town's distinct look does come from the 1829 city plan, but it also would not be the same without the dedicated merchants, Friends of Arrow Rock nonprofit, and Missouri State Parks, who have lovingly preserved the historic buildings, including George Caleb Bingham's 1837 home.
Today, the town has fewer than fifty full-time residents but has the amenities of a much larger city. Visitors from all over come to Arrow Rock to patronize the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, two museums, a state historic site, seven antique and specialty gift shops, three restaurants, and five bed-and-breakfasts. In the tiny village of Arrow Rock, history not only lives, but it also thrives. Arrow Rock sees the future in its past.
Aside from drawing in tourists to try the town's two destination bakeries, Kimmswick brings the biker crowd to town with the C&S Cycle Harley-Davidson dealer.
Kimmswick is an unlikely hotbed for tourism. In 2010, the US Census recorded the population at a mere 157. However, there is plenty to do in this quaint village twenty-five miles south of St. Louis. You could spend a day, or two, here.
The annual Strawberry Festival in June and the Apple Butter Festival in October are the town's two biggest attractions, drawing thousands of visitors that come to indulge in the fruits of the season. The Strawberry Festival overlaps with the town's bluegrass festival, so visitors can enjoy music and fresh berries at the same time. Although those two weekends are the highlights, the town hosts events throughout the year, including Halloween festivities in the fall and Christmas celebrations during the winter.
Kimmswick is worth the trip any time of the year, though. Founded more than 150 years ago, the historic downtown is now home to many homegrown boutiques, art galleries, gift shops, and antique stores.
The town is also a destination for those with a sweet tooth. The town's two bakeries—the Dough Depot and the Blue Owl —are both required visits. Our recommendation is getting lunch at the Dough Depot and dessert at the Blue Owl, or vice-versa. Or better yet, get a full meal and dessert at one bakery on Saturday, and try the next on Sunday.
Specialty shops line First Street in downtown Clarksville, including Great River Road Pottery, Simpatico art gallery, Miss Tiffie's Candy, and Tubby's Grub & Pub at the River.
Seventy-five miles northwest of St. Louis, Clarksville has become a day-trip destination for residents of the Gateway City. The town is no more than eight blocks long, but its business district is thriving with antique shops, artisan shops, speciality stores, and restaurants.
Founded on the banks of the Mississippi River in 1819, Clarksville was named after Corps of Discovery explorer and governor of the Missouri territory William Clark. In 1880, the population hit its peak at 1,600. With a current population of about a third of that, it's not the population center it once was, but that adds to the small town charm.
Clarksville's quaint storefronts, restaurants, and bed-and-breakfasts aren't the only things that attract visitors. In the winter, Clarksville is one of the best places in the state to see bald eagles. River Front Park is only one of the places to spot the majestic birds. Just outside of town, Overlook Farm restaurant and resort is the place to take in the beautiful northern Missouri countryside.
Courtesy of Missouri Division of Tourism
Les Bourgeois Vineyard is the largest tourist attraction in Rocheport. The vineyard offers outstanding views of the Missouri River and easy access to the KATY Trail.
Not quite twenty miles from Columbia, Rocheport, population 239, is the town that proves that Mid-Missouri is just as beautiful as any other part of the state.
Taking its name from the French words for rocky and port, Rocheport sits on the jagged bluffs of the Missouri. The town was established as a trading post in the early nineteenth century and became a full-fledged town in 1825. Today, the town still offers the same vistas that Lewis and Clark saw when they traveled through the area more than two hundred years ago, though I-70 pierces through the landscape to the southeast.
The best place to catch a glimpse of Mother Earth's majesty might be Les Bourgeois Vineyards. Not far from the KATY Trail, the winery has indoor and outdoor spaces that look out onto the Big Muddy.
On the other hand, Les Bourgeois is not the only attraction in town. The small downtown area has shops, galleries, and even a museum. No trip to this river town would be complete without stopping by the Rocheport General Store. The store has a variety of dry goods and offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Additionally, it often becomes the town's music venue, playing host to an eclectic variety of music acts, from bluegrass to classic rock, on weekends.
Downtown Perry is home to a thriving business district. A number of antique and gift shops line Main Street, along with a medical clinic, a bank, and more.
This year, Perry, in rural Ralls County, is celebrating its sesquicentennial—or 150th birthday.
In July 1866, a year after the Civil War had ended, the town of Perry was platted and named after Perry Crosthwaite, who owned a nearby mill. In the early days of Perry, the Crosthwaite family owned the hotel, dry goods store, market, drug stores, hardware store, lumberyard, mills, livery stables, wagon and blacksmith shop, and opera house. Since then, the town has grown, but not too much. The population currently hovers around 700—compared to the 147 recorded in the 1880 Census.
Today, Perry touts itself as the southern gateway to Mark Twain Lake, and its residents preach that it's small town living at its best.
The charming, historic downtown evokes Main Street USA, and the nearby waters at Mark Twain Lake are perfect for Andy Griffith's favorite pastime—fishing.
Photo by Notley Hawkins
Westphalia's city hall now occupies this historic bank building on Main Street. The bank failed as the stock market crashed in 1929. It sits across the street from the St. Joseph Catholic Church.
Less than twenty miles south of Jefferson City, the topography starts to develop into the rolling hills and jagged plateaus distinct to the Ozarks. Tucked away into the side of these hills is the tiny community of Westphalia.
With a population of less than four hundred, Westphalia is marked by a short drag of quaint, historic buildings along main street. Despite such a small population, the town has a museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the area's rich German heritage, a restaurant in an old inn, and Westphalia Vineyards.
Built in 1848, the St. Joseph Catholic Church is one of the oldest buildings in the area. Today, it still shines like a white, stone beacon and attracts passersby to this tiny community.
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Open seasonally, Jolly Cone in Van Buren is a great summer hangout spot. Find the burger joint at 203 James Street, where it has stood since 1953.
Van Buren
Van Buren sits on the banks of one of the most gorgeous bodies of water in the country—the Current River.
The tiny town spills right into the crystal blue waters of the Current and is, for many, the gateway to Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Founded in 1833 and named after statesman Martin Van Buren, this small community has been the county seat for Carter County for not-quite two hundred years. The town did not receive electricity until 1927, and it still serves as a destination for those who want to unplug.
Today, the town is home to a little more than eight hundred residents and sports an adorable, historic business district, along with many places to camp, hike, float, hunt, and do about anything else outdoorsy. Home to many swimming holes, summer is the best time of the year to visit Van Buren.
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Our Lady, Help of Christians was founded in April 1872 in Weingarten. Today, it still serves as a Catholic parish for the residents of rural Ste. Genevieve County.
Weingarten's name sums up what the town is all about. The German settlement in Ste. Genevieve County takes its name from the German word for vineyard, and the rich landscape surrounding the tiny village is Missouri wine country at its best.
Thirteen miles from Ste. Genevieve, Weingarten was founded in 1837 by Jacob Wolf. Today, the oldest building in town is Our Lady, Help of Christians. Built in 1872, it still serves a large parish.
Although Weingarten is technically unincorporated and was absorbed into the total Ste. Genevieve County for the 2010 Census, the population hangs around one hundred. The biggest attraction in town is Weingarten Vineyard, which might sound silly when translated to German but is seriously worth visiting. Dinner at the Garten Haus restaurant is the perfect way to end a day visiting southeast Missouri.
Although on private property, you can see this beautiful historic mill from Route 21 in Centerville, just a half mile west of Pine Street. Reeds Spring Mill dates back to 1881.
As a part of the Arcadia Valley region, Centerville sits on the west fork of the Black River and is a historic mining town.
The Black River and surrounding St. Francis Mountains mark this region with natural beauty, and Centerville adds to the charm by sporting several historic buildings that deliver the nostalgic feel of yesteryear. Reeds Spring Mill and the old Reynolds County courthouse are just a few.
With a population of about two hundred, Centerville is among the smallest towns in the state, but it also stands out as one of the prettiest.
MeMe's Antiques and Country Cafe sit along Spring Street in downtown Reeds Spring. It's one of four restaurants and five retail shops in the town of less than one thousand.
Reeds Spring
A cozy village on Table Rock Lake, Reeds Spring is more than a vacation destination.
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Nick notices that this man's face is messed up: The lips are thick, the nose smushed. Then, this man shows Nick that he only has one ear. This makes Nick feel ill, and he starts to move away. The man asks if Nick has ever been crazy. Nick says no and is about to leave when the man introduces himself as Ad Francis, who is a famous boxer. He tells Nick that he won so many fights because his heart beats slowly. Another man appears. It is Ad's friend, Bugs. Bugs and Ad decide it is time to eat. Bugs makes ham and egg sandwiches, warning Nick not to give his knife to Ad. Ad becomes angry and starts threatening Nick. Bugs sneaks behind Ad and hits him, knocking him unconscious.
Bugs apologizes for the way that Ad behaved. Nick asks why he gets like that. Bugs replies that his fame became too much. His sister was his manager. Then, they got married, which disturbed a lot of people. Bugs says that they were not actually brother and sister--that was only for publicity. Still, his wife eventually left him because it was too much to handle. Then he went crazy. He met Bugs in jail. Now, he and Bugs travel the country on the money that she sends him. Bugs tells Nick that he should leave so that Ad does not see him when he wakes up. Nick heads toward the next town over.
In this story, Nick continues his rite of passage. Through the earlier stories, Nick has been in the same place, growing up in his hometown. And, while there, he did not always develop. Sometimes, he circles back to old states of mind. In "The Three-Day Blow," for example, Nick wants to go back to his relationship with Marjorie. In "The Battler," though, he takes a journey, which is a physical reflection of his internal development. Nick, like many male protagonists, goes on an adventure by himself. Along the way, he runs into trouble, like the man on the train. But, he learns from these mishaps.
In addition, he meets people who can teach him something. Ad Francis carries several lessons for Nick. First, he is tough, just like Nick feels that he must be tough. This toughness is part of the manliness that Nick seems to be on the road to. Second, though, Ad is crazy, and that craziness has come from a woman. Ad, therefore, acts as a warning to Nick not to get too close to any woman. If he does, he might end up dependent on her for money like Ad or crazy for love like Ad. As Nick grows up he needs to decide whether he will accept these tenets of manliness--toughness and aloofness from women--which his father also seems to have tried to teach him earlier in life.
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Metastatic breast cancer affects up to a quarter of a million people in the U.S. every year, yet the disease is still largely misunderstood. Those with metastatic breast cancer face daily challenges, continued treatment regimens, anxiety and a whole host of emotions knowing they cannot be cured from their disease. But their stories remain hidden, or get lost, among the better-understood realm of early stage breast cancer.
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We thank our clients the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Sinai Health System and Gilda's Club Chicago, for their partnership on these important projects.
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Sinai Urban Health Institute recently unveiled new findings from the largest community-driven, face-to-face health survey ever conducted in Chicago. The findings showed there continue to be significant, sometimes devastating disparities in the health and wellness of different racial and ethnic groups in Chicago, exacerbated in certain communities.
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The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reduction of Standard Hours in Germany
A transformation of what had become a universal 40-hour standard working week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions negotiated in the metal-working and printing sectors. These reductions have continued through 1995, and were followed by reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through 'work-sharing', and is being emulated in the United States with the launch of a reduced hours campaign by the AFL-CIO. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, I find that increased overtime or reduced short time was little used to offset the reduction in standard hours: a one-hour reduction in standard hours appears to have translated into a reduction in actual hours worked of between 0.85 and 1 hour for workers in manufacturing. One might expect this to have resulted in a loss of earnings for workers in affected industries. I substantiate the union's claim of 'full wage compensation', however: reductions in standard hours were accompanied by a relative rise in the hourly straight-time wage of 2–3% for each hour fall in standard hours; enough to keep monthly earnings the same as in unaffected industries.
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The range for Enneagram style Three (Achiever) includes responses showing a determined focus on success. Achievers are hard working, productive, ambitious, competitive, charismatic, and always in the limelight. They exemplify a basic human need for encouragement and affirmation that's so exaggerated they're alienated from themselves. Instead of allowing "what I want," their attention goes to "what others expect of me."
This drive to success is an effort to counter fears of failing, of not meeting others' expectations. But Achievers dare not show insecurity, so they block off emotions while doing whatever it takes to succeed. Thus, less healthy characters with this personality style will slip from being successful to appearing to be successful, as they cut whatever corners are necessary to keep up appearances.
For Achievers, in life and in fiction, the transformational character arc involves releasing the relentless drive to be the best. They become more authentic, with higher self-awareness, acting on their own values and wishes instead of what will make them look good to others.
Does that mean readers only like novels and memoirs that show such a positive, radical change? Veronica Sicoe makes a useful distinction among Change, Growth, or Fall Arcs:
- Change Arc—protagonist is positively transformed by the end of the story.
- Growth or Shift Arc—protagonist changes but not necessarily for the better, just different, or overcomes an internal block and upgrades somewhat.
- Fall Arc—protagonist declines significantly, dooming self and/or others.
Representing the Change and Shift Arcs are a number of biographies about championship boxers, who — like Olympic gold medal winners — could be a natural fit with the Achiever personality. Certainly this seems true of Lennox Lewis, who won the world amateur junior boxing title, a Summer Olympics boxing gold medal, and world heavyweight championship. What clues suggest he might be an Achiever?
In Lennox, when biographer Melissa Mathison asks, "What got you interested in boxing?" Lewis says, "The trophies." She also describes him as "one great dresser," which is characteristic in that looking good is both metaphor and reality for this personality style. Lewis' attention is always turned toward winning. "I use visualization . . . mentally, you have to be very focused." His lack of self-knowledge is also typical of Achievers. The pressure to keep up the image leads to a tendency to "do" feelings and adopt a role with a script to follow. When asked what he wants people to know about him, Lewis seems at a loss: "That's a difficult question. What would they want to know about me? What do I feel they ought to know? . . . I represent a certain type of people." The question was unexpected. He had no script to follow.
But aren't all championship boxers great dressers? Aren't they all competitive? How do we distinguish among several aggressive types that might be successful boxers? Here we see the nuance of character in language. George Foreman has said, "Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it," a use of metaphor more characteristic of the Enthusiast than the Achiever. In yet another style, Mike Tyson is all about expecting the worst ("Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth"), sounding like a Loyalist. And Muhammad Ali speaks from the gut like a Challenger: "It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." In contrast, Lewis' description of boxing has an Achiever's success-oriented competitive focus: "It's me trying to outdo the other person . . . the highly skilled are the ones that are successful."
The Achiever's striving to impress others is an effort to counter feeling worthless. At the far negative end of this drive are ruthless opportunists who will resort to anything that saves them from exposure. Here we have Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley. After protagonist Tom Ripley befriends wealthy Dickie Greenleaf, he envies the Greenleaf's luxurious lifestyle and wants it for his own. He eventually kills Dickie and assumes his identity, later resuming his own name and forging a will that makes him Dickie's sole heir. Tom admits his greatest talent is "Forging signatures, telling lies . . . impersonating practically anybody." When another character suggests he must feel tormented, Tom replies, "Don't you just take the past and put it in a room in the basement, and lock the door and never go in there? That's what I do." Ripley's path is definitely an example of a Fall Arc — a decline into breaking all the rules to foster his desired image — more evidence that a character arc does not have to be heroic to entrance readers and sell books.
To extend this exploration, Joan Schenkar's The Talented Miss Highsmith describes Pat Highsmith's fictional males, especially Tom Ripley, as versions of herself. Jeanette Winterson's review of Schenker's biography summarizes, "Concealment was her game and her way of life." Highsmith traveled in search of fresh encounters and forged, fabricated, or outright lied. Her diaries indicate she was only six years old when she began to have "evil thoughts" about the "murder of my step-father . . . And learned to stifle also my more positive emotions. In adolescence, therefore, I was oddly in command of myself."
Hmmm. So at some point you'll consider your own Enneagram personality style, to see how you've stamped your characters with a bit of yourself, and might have limited your point of view by not considering other styles. If none of the three I've written about so far seems familiar, you're sure to recognize your image among the six more to follow.


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Gobbling Up the Grand Slam
Winter Haven, Fla.
C amouflaged from head to toe, we sat at the tree for 90 minutes, eyes peering into the recesses of the fog-shrouded forest while I used a call inside my mouth to replicate the yelps, clucks and purrs of a lovesick hen turkey. Somewhere in the grayness to our front a tom was quick to gobble replies, but slow to come our way.
Finally a second gobbler sounded off from our left no more than 100 yards away. The...


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Midsomer Murders (TV Series)
Written in Blood (1998)
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The Midsomer Worthy Writers Circle invites well-known author Max Jennings to one of their monthly meetings. The group's secretary, Gerald Hadleigh is opposed to to the invitation, but is outvoted. It becomes apparent that Jennings and Hadleigh knew one another at one time. When Hadleigh is found dead the next day, Barnaby and Troy begin looking into the backgrounds of the various Circle members and try to locate Jennings. When they do find him he is, as they say, incapable of assisting them with their inquiries. A second murder adds to the puzzle but in the end, the solution rests on learning of long ago events and a hidden family secret. At home, the Barnaby's agree to care for daughter Cully's Russian Blue cat Killmouskie, with interesting results for Tom.
After a noted author speaks before a group of local Midsomer writers, the naked body of the event's host is found bludgeoned to death in his bedroom.
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EDWARDSVILLE — When told of the lack of good free throw shooting and plethora of turnovers, all Metro-East Lutheran girls basketball coach Rob Stock could do was roll his eyes and offer up a sheepish grin.
That's because on Monday night, it didn't matter.
The Knights used a stout defense, most notably in the second half, and clutch perimeter shooting by knocking down 6 of 17 from the 3-point line in pulling away from the Roxana Shells, 52-43, in nonconference play at Hooks Gymnasium.
The Knights (2-2) were a mere 6 of 24 from the free throw line and turned the ball over 23 times, but after the Shells (2-3) shot 60 percent from the floor in the first quarter, including 5 of 6 to start the game, the Knights blanketed Roxana to the tune of 24 percent the rest of the way.
"That was us," Stock asked of the free throw shooting and turnovers. "Alright, well. That just shows you we played pretty good defense to keep ourselves in the game. We obviously left a lot of points on the floor then.
"That's OK, it's early in the season. We'll get there."
The defense, which produced 18 turnovers, was there, especially at the start of the third quarter when the game was tied 25-25, and Roxana missed the first eight field goals it took to open the third.
"We just started to play the way we're supposed to play our defense," Stock said. "We stepped up the intensity a lot and started to cover the holes we had left open in the first half. I think that made a big difference. Scheme-wise, it gave them a lot more problems. They started to figured out midway to the end of the third quarter how to beat it a little bit, but we made another adjustment to kind of help curve that as well.
"… Any time you can get them to miss shots, you have to take advantage of that. I think we did that. We settled down a little bit and made some shots. It relaxed our girls and helped them play better offensively."
The Knights got scoring from nine players, including 11 from senior Audrey Paitz, who was 3 of 5 from 3-point land.
"Any time you make shots from the outside, it's going to pull the defense out a little more," Stock said. "I think we got a lot more comfortable in the second half offensively. We got a couple girls back for the first time tonight (senior Karley Schley and junior Hannah Landers because of injury) and it just took a little while for everybody to get used to playing together. It was good to have them back. By the end, we were working together and we saw the benefit of that."
The Shells, who got a game-high 18 points from junior Hannah Rexford and 13 from sophomore Sara Kreutztrager, jumped out to an 8-2 lead playing a fast-paced game and turning the Knights over. They made their first four field goals and then went silent from the floor.
Rexford, after making her first four field goals, started seeing more double- and triple-team coverage. She finished 7 of 14 from the field.
"She was successful at the baseline there and had some nice little moves and got herself to the free throw line the first half," Shells coach Tammy Talbert said of Rexford. "She kind of went cold also and they started guarded her tighter."
Roxana wasn't much better from the free throw line either, going 6-for-17.
"I've said this for like three games in a row now. We're either hot and we can make a basket, or we're as cold as ice," Talbert said. "First half, we made the baskets that we needed to make and then second half, we just couldn't buy a basket.
"When you turn the ball over three possessions in a row (to start the second half) and they come down and score on us, that takes the air out of you a little bit. I think that's what happened."
And when the Shells couldn't defend the 3-point ball, the Knights were able to get some good interior looks from Schley in particular.
"We didn't defend that well," Talbert said of the 3-point shot. "You can tell the kids time and time again get their hands in their face and if we don't rotate and get ourselves out, that's going to happen to us and unfortunately, it did."
Roxana 12 13 7 11 — 43
ME Lutheran 11 14 13 14 — 52
Roxana (2-3) — A. Palen 6, Lucas 6, Rexford 18, Kreutztrager 13. 2FG-17, 3FG-1, FT-6, PF-14.
ME Lutheran (2-2) — Kasting 8, Jezek 2, Schley 6, Robinson 7, Landers 5, Schulte 6, Paitz 11, Stewart 2, Yurchuk 5. 2FG-14, 3FG-6, FT-6, PF-18.
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