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The brother of a man who was killed during a confrontation with police last May says two deputies do not deserve the award they received earlier this week.
On Wednesday, Onondaga County Sheriff's Deputies Michael Hoosock and Adam Quku were named "Deputies of the Year" at a Sheriff's Association ceremony in Albany. They were credited for their actions on May 5th in which they and a Syracuse Police Officer shot and killed Benjamin Campione in a parking lot at the Regional Transportation Center.
But Campione's brother, Victor Campione says the deputies should not have received the awards. "That they would accept an award for the tragic way my brother was killed with all the questions behind it with no consideration or compassion for my family and myself and what we've been going through... it's like reliving it all over again." Campione told CNY Central's Jim Kenyon.
Police reports say Benjamin Campione, a mentally ill man high on drugs, was armed with a pellet gun that resembled a .357 magnum revolver which he pointed at the officers. A Grand Jury investigated the incident and found the officers' actions were justified.
Victor Campione, who is a retired police and corrections officer, says the officers may have been justified in firing at his brother, but he also feels they went too far. He points out that a total of 23 shots were fired during the incident which reportedly lasted only seconds. 4 of the shots struck Benjamin, once in the side, twice in the back and once in the buttocks. Campione says the other 19 rounds were fired into a parking lot "My brother, his back was to the deputies and he was on the ground. Who became the threat to the community? 19 rounds were all over that area, hitting parked cars where people could have been in them. And they're giving an award to these two deputies?" he complained.
Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh nominated Hoosock and Quku for "Deputies of the Year." "They responded as they were trained." Walsh explained, "They were threatened on a call of a man with a gun who turned the gun on them and they responded just as they were trained to respond." Walsh says the deputies "checked quickly to make sure no one was in the line of fire." He disagrees with Campione's claim that the deputies actions constituted a threat to public safety. "Well I'd totally disagree with that. When we have mentally ill individuals roaming our streets, armed with weapons off medication...this is a problem."
Campione says his family had begun to put the incident behind them, but now that two deputies have received awards, he intends to continue to investigate the circumstances of his brother's death and go public with whatever he finds.

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I vividly recall my initial meeting with the Criminologist Jock Young, whose untimely death was recently announced. I had applied to undertake the part time MA in Criminology at Middlesex University and when interviewed by Jock, his inimitably relaxed but immensely authoritative manner helped me through the meeting to secure a place on the course. He asked in his insouciant way, if I had been influenced by any book on crime and deviance in looking at my work in probation. With some hesitation, I mentioned Jack Katz's seminal text The Seductions of Crime knowing well that grounded ethnographic accounts of law-breaking had greatly shaped his own criminological outlook. I also took some of the insights from the 'seductions of crime' back to the probation office.
Meeting John (not his real name) at the probation office (then situated in a part of London that had been dubbed by the local press as 'London at its most lawless') was a memorable event. His considerable accumulation of deeds of 'theft by shoplifting', and what at the time I imagined was an almost Dickensian persona, heavy build and bewhiskered and often befuddled by copious alcoholic consumption! This meant that our meeting quickly descended into a confused and rambling exchange and offered only limited scope for my pre-sentence report. The magistrates' court, recognising that John was 'in need of probation support', placed him on supervision, and he dutifully reported later in the week. 'So what can you do for me?' he declared, 'I have been "at it" for 25 years, and know all there is to know about thieving!'.
We worked together over a period of 12 months and often our meetings resembled nothing short of bilious mutterings and half remembered reminiscences of the 'good old days' before the Harrods security systems improved! John made occasional racy references to his time when entrusted by a 'Mr Big' to manage Adult Shops in Soho. I noted in small ways that John was beginning to share parts of his richly textured biography that were most meaningful to him. Maybe here was a way to try to encourage and support a shift in his approach to stealing. Maybe behaving like a fieldworker, I might drop some of what I felt was the more distancing language that probation officers adopted to get to know John better. He steadfastly declined all my efforts to home visit, stating that he had to care for an ailing relative, and did not want me to disturb his domesticity! But I did reach a point in our meetings, when I sensed, some modest changes, arising from a better understanding of his life situation, more meaningful engagement and positive experiences of probation, in his pattern of acquisitive offending. At one of our final supervisory sessions, 'Mr Guilfoyle' (he always insisted on that conventional address), 'I am reaching retiring age, maybe I am not as comfortable about stealing from shops, after all, you know more about me, than I do'.
I did politely decline his offer a yuletide present, advising that he return the item to whence it came!
Reading Vicky Pryce's experiences in Prisonomics, I was struck by a number of references she made to the complex needs of some of her fellow prisoners, which brought to mind my former supervisory contact with Miriam (not her real name).
Miriam was a troubled and troublesome woman whose enduring struggle with alcohol dependency and domestic violence required a particularly sensitive approach. When she reported to the probation office, following a Crown Court appearance for assaulting a neighbour, I had already recognised the added pressures attendant on Social Services' involvement in relation to safeguarding her youngest child. Furthermore, that the way ahead in enabling the probation supervision element of a suspended sentence order (which meant that any further infraction or breach could result in custody) was to work alongside the family and enlist those best able to tailor their support to Miriam's sometimes combustible personality.
To this end, I made a particular point of arranging to make regular home visits so that she was better able to comply with the order. Arrangements were made for her to meet with the local Social Services manager, who it appeared had been recruited to bolster the work of the inexperienced social worker, whose relationship with Miriam had teetered on breaking down. When I arrived at the Social Services Office, the anticipatory tension was evident. Miriam arrived with her child - who was unusually fractious - which meant that I was called upon to offer some empathic support so that her threats to withdraw from the meeting subsided.
It was difficult for me to hold back from expressing my annoyance at what I saw as a patronising and, at times, unhelpfully didactic approach from the manager. Miriam did not have such scruples and we agreed to adjourn the meeting to allow feelings to cool. The manager indicated that a more robust supervisory input was needed: 'We could end up with you going to prison, if you fail to agree to mandated alcohol testing', he said. For a few uncertain moments I was convinced that she was about to scupper the planned intervention, the threat of custody was palpably present and the two years that I had worked with Miriam seemed to hang in the balance.
Miriam resolved with a confidence born of necessity to comply with the planned measures agreed at the meeting, with varying degrees of subsequent motivation. But what would it have benefited Miriam, her child, or the wider community to have sent her into custody? Shortly, the government aims to introduce a punitive element in all community sentences. With Miriam, as sole carer for her child, the challenge was to assist her in complying with an ever demanding order and care proceedings whilst strengthening her family ties and offering a pathway to employability. For Miriam being on a community sentence was very far from being the sloganising 'soft option' pandered by headline-seeking politicians. She offered her usually frank opinion at the time of her order concluding, 'Mike, I got through this order... just...my heads up and you ain't goin' see me inside anytime soon'.
Are you aware of any initiatives, policies, strategies or attitudes that contribute to improving conditions or enhance the rights of people imprisoned in the UK? If so, please get in touch and tell us what they are.
We are looking for examples of what can be said to constitute 'good' - or 'better' – practice in the management of prisons in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is the UK partner of the European Prison Observatory project , which monitors prison conditions in order to bring about improvements and to sensitise penitentiary systems to human rights issues in both adults and juvenile institutions. We investigate the way prisons are run in each of the partner countries, looking at how prison life, from admission to release, compares to the expectations set by European minimum standards.
The project is based on multilateral cooperation and aims to be the first step towards developing a pan-European network that keeps detention conditions under ongoing scrutiny.
We want to identify which models, experiments or parts of legislation could be said to be bringing about positive change in inmates' lives. We are interested in local as well as national initiatives in all aspects of prison life and conditions, e.g.:
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- Treatment of minorities, women, foreign nationals
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What are 'positive initiatives'? This is an issue for discussion, but we are thinking of policies and procedures which are characterised, for example, by
- Effective accountability systems
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- Fundamental safeguards against ill-treatment
- Treatment and risk assessments of prisoners which are individualised and proportionate
- Transparency.
So far the project has identified a number of key issues of concern that are common to all the partner countries. These centre around the following areas:
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- Juvenile detention conditions.
Also get in touch if you have any questions or would like more information about our project. We look forward to hearing from you!
I was measurably impressed after recently reading the refreshingly honest comments of Eileen Munro, Professor of Social Policy at LSE, following the serious case review on the tragic life and death of Daniel Pelka. She said that, having examined the work pressure on social work staff in the challenging environment of child protection, and with such a complex case, 'I can't claim I would have done better'. This brought to mind a particularly stressful parole interview that I undertook when working as a probation officer.
At the time, due to staffing and workload pressures at the probation office, timescales for the preparation of parole reports had worryingly slipped. In addition, allocation processes in which probation officers were assigned specific responsibility for preparing such reports, often amounted to a chaotic and seemingly arbitrary decision making process at middle management level. Through care and resettlement issues had, due to a faltering internal reorganisation at the time, resulted in poor levels of service provision for serving prisoners. In this context, I was allocated responsibility for preparing a parole assessment report on Jack (not his real name). The timescales for preparation were seriously overdue and Jack had sent numerous complaints and left phone messages at the office. I drove to the prison some distance from London with more than a smidgeon of apprehension and approached the interview with some considerable trepidation. This was amplified when I met a prison officer at reception on the prison wing. Officers invariably allow for such interviews within the prison to be conducted without too much ado unless safety issues intrude: he suggested that he stand at the door as he was fearful for my personal safety.
When I introduced myself to Jack, it was evident that his pent up rage was at what he perceived was the lack of timeliness from the Probation Service, and which might seriously impede his chances of possible release on licence. He launched into a visceral outburst that I had to concede almost made me press the panic button! I indicated to the prison officer who then entered the room with a view to terminating the meeting that I fully appreciated Jack's genuine upset. Then I suggested that we could find a way of preparing the report which would acknowledge that any delays were due to organisational shortcomings. In the subsequent two hours, in a stiflingly small interview room, I was palpably alarmed (Jack had intimated that his access to firearms might prompt some reprisal on the middle manager he attributed some of his present woes to!). But slowly and subtly his demeanour and utterances suggested that maybe this probation officer was prepared to hear him out, and in spite of his intimidating body language (he had a serious offending history involving the use of violence) was prepared to offer him an opportunity to reflect on his index offence, victim awareness and sentence progression with a view to resettlement on eventual release on licence.
When I left the interview room, the prison officer wearing something of a bemused expression noted that I had stayed the course and commended me on my perseverance in the face of Jack's withering onslaught! On returning to the office, I set about preparing the parole report and looked again at my notes from the interview. To my great surprise, amongst the scribbled notes I had written down was a comment that Jack had made, but overlooked in the highly charged interview: 'you didn't walk away when I dissed the probation service...looks like some probation officers are decent folk!'. Looking back, it was a challenging experience - dealing with a very difficult and volatile individual who, I was informed later, was released on licence to be supervised by one of my former colleagues.
I am left pondering just how the Probation Service will continue to survive if the current sell off plans materialise and wonder if Justice Secretary Chris Grayling would have done better?
The burgeoning literature on the role of compliance in criminal justice, and in particular probation, is finely captured by Fergus McNeil and Gwen Robinson in chapter 6 of Liquid legitimacy and Community Sanctions. Whilst perusing their contribution on how easily the legitimacy of the practitioner's influence can be lost after being hard won, it reminded me of supervising a community sentence.
Ian (not his real name) was directed to attend the probation office from one of my magistrates based court colleagues for the preparation of a pre-sentence report. The index offence was a breach of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO). I was pleasantly surprised to see Ian in the waiting room, as the accompanying paperwork had indicated that he was homeless and destitute. However, Ian had good links with a drop-in centre that provided a focal point of support.
The interview was a lengthy one. Ian , whose appearance and associated baggage (his prize belongings he noted) suggested that he had been living homeless on the street for some years. He preferred, he stated, to remain 'unwashed' as this was a protective measure on the streets and meant that he was less likely to be victimised!
The court followed the proposal in the report that his sentence be deferred for six months so that Ian could demonstrate some motivation to address, amongst other jointly agreed actions, his use of crack cocaine. The visible reminder of this was the crack pipe that he carried with him, and which appeared an all too easy trigger for 'over-zealous' police intervention (the breach related to him carrying his crack pipe on his person). Even though he identified our meeting as a positive one, I fully expected that Ian would find it too onerous to make his next appointment at the probation office.
So when the receptionist confirmed that Ian had indeed turned up for his follow-up appointment and was regaling other attendees (perhaps less disposed to engage him in discussion) in a crowded waiting area, I was measurably impressed. I gently asked him what he felt had been the reasons that he had kept our meeting, knowing he had to cope with the chilling uncertainty of finding another safe 'snug' for the night and securing whatever funds he had by begging. ('Too much hassle at the Job Centre', he said). He brushed aside my misgivings, stating that 'I told you I would come back'. Ian found that being able to share in a meaningful way some of his dilemmas about what giving up his periodic usages of crack, and what finding settled accommodation would mean for him, made his journey to the probation office seem a little less threatening.
Over the next few months, Ian attended three further appointments (with some time variation!) and at the planned court appearance he was sentenced to a short period of supervision. 'Would you remain my PO?' he murmured when I saw him next in the probation office. At the time, I was informed by local management that cases such as Ian's could now be handled by one of my probation service officer colleagues whose already excessive 'lower tier/risk' caseload left me deeply concerned. A couple of weeks later I tentatively enquired as to Ian's progress from my harassed colleague. 'Oh, that was his name!' was the offhand response, 'we have approached the court for a warrant (without bail) as he has not reported'.
A short while later when passing the drop-in centre I noticed Ian in the doorway. When I asked him how he was coping and what had prevented him complying with his community sentence he said, 'When I met you I thought here is someone who can help me, when I went to that other group I felt that I was there to be punished'.
There is no shortage of research exploring the relationship between involvement in the criminal justice system and increased problems in accessing housing. A substantially high proportion of prisoners are known to have accommodation needs at point of release; according to the Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction survey, 79 per cent of prisoners who reported being homeless before custody were reconvicted in the first year after release, compared with 47 per cent who did not report being homeless before custody (Williams et al., 2012). Evidence suggests that lack of adequate housing upon release counteracts the assistance that is provided whilst an individual is in custody; thus, a concentration on services focused towards accommodation offers not only practical solutions to a lack of housing, but holistic support for those who find themselves in unstable circumstances upon re-entering the community.
In January 2013, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS) undertook a research project for the housing charity, St Mungo's, on the housing needs of women from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups leaving HMP Holloway. Organisations such as St Mungo's facilitate services for those currently serving a prison sentence in order to help with the various challenges faced by individuals upon release; once 'beyond the gate', women in particular experience a variety of difficulties in finding accommodation for themselves and their families. The aim of the service for BME women is not only to help meet housing need, but additionally provide follow-up assistance to guide women beyond their housing placement and, if necessary, refer them to other services.
The goal of the research was to offer a series of recommendations which would assist St Mungo's in engaging with the current practical challenges facing its services, and to ultimately help resolve these issues in order to benefit both the staff and service users. This involved generating evidence about the housing needs of BME women leaving prison, and about the needs that may affect outcomes from its service. The research involved the analysis of data provided by St Mungo's in order to establish the nature of the relationships between housing needs and outcomes. The project team, led by Research Director, Dr Roger Grimshaw, conducted interviews with six service users to explore their views about the attributes of a good service, and the methods by which a good service should engage with its users. Interviews were also undertaken with St Mungo's staff in order to find out how they view the relationship between needs and outcomes, and what, in their view, could be changed to assist in the improvement of the outcomes for its users.
The final report from the research team at CCJS put forward a number of long and short term recommendations to the organisation regarding service user needs, outcomes and further service development. Figures obtained from St Mungo's demonstrated that the most frequent outcome for service users was assistance with a placement through a Homeless Persons Unit (HPU), followed by residing in temporary housing or staying with friends or family. The data revealed that those who had been sleeping rough before they were convicted had disengaged with the service; the report therefore suggested St Mungo's could consider how a service for those who had been 'rough sleepers' could be further developed. Evidence indicated just how complex and demanding it is for a service such as St Mungo's to access accommodation for its users. Many housing needs arose from the inability to retain a tenancy, resulting in the number of those in temporary accommodation upon release from prison considerably higher than the number of those in temporary accommodation beforeimprisonment.
The interviewing process noted the importance of continued 'beyond the gate' support as a significant attribute of a successful service, and it was clear that vital to most women was the assistance they received in helping to care for their families upon release from prison. Whilst palpable throughout the interviews with service users was the appreciation for the tireless perseverance and hard work of the St Mungo's staff, women frequently expressed a bleak and negative view of housing and the growing number of shortages caused by significant external barriers outside of the organisation's control. The research recognises that much of the housing instability is perpetuated and exacerbated through the implementation of short term, repetitive prison sentences, and the practice of 'recycling' convicted women through the prison system is resulting in the social punishment of not only the women themselves, but their families as well.
Williams, K., Poyser, J. and Hopkins, K. (2012), Accommodation, homelessness and reoffending of prisoners: Results from the Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SCPR) survey, Research Summary, 3/12, London: Ministry of Justice.
Andy Bain and David Pritchard: Soft skills and barriers to employment
Written by Andy Bain (16/08/13)In recent years there has been growing discussion centred on the need to work more effectively with those who have been sanctioned by the criminal justice system. Invariably the loudest voices call for job-placements or re-training to enable people to take on roles where there is a skills shortage. Yet, just as simply, it may also require offering opportunities to gain or improve an often far more important and yet frequently neglected 'soft skills' set.
Soft skills (defined variously as 'skills, abilities and traits that pertain to personality, attitude and behaviour rather than to formal or technical knowledge'; Moss & Tilly). are never more important to employability than for those individuals from a hard-to-reach background. These individuals often have low levels of education, little or no employment history, are disproportionately from ethnic minorities, and/or have a history of involvement with the cjs. Yet, Nickson et al., make the point that in terms of entry level employment it is often the soft skills that make the difference, rather than the usual requirement for qualifications and previous experience. Yet whilst there are many organisations across the sectors who are working with hard-to-reach clients who are unable or do not qualify to undertake accredited learning, it is something which is frequently missed from the funding stream.
Those sanctioned by the criminal justice system comprise an important and interesting group for discussions of employment, as this group exhibits the multiple deficits of both soft and hard skills variously reported by academic, NGOs, and ministerial departments. Indeed, it has been variously reported that a large proportion of those leaving custody have very low educational standards. Rhodes has added to this suggesting that sustainable employment can help reduce the chances of returning to custody. However, National Audit Office figures estimated that only 10 per cent of those leaving custody were in employment during the 13 weeks following release. And yet the revolution offered is still directed toward gainful employment and accredited learning. Directing funding in this way often neglects the argument that it also requires engagement with a system from which the individual is regularly excluded at an early age.
Concerns have recently been voiced by Chris Grayling who suggests that in order to aid the journey toward change, the individual needs to be supported and empowered to motivate the right future choices, as much as being punished for past behaviours. However, it would not be appropriate to seek a quick fix, and nor can it be achieved. Instead what is needed is a strategy for change, one which includes employment as an end goal, but which sets targets to achieve recognisable change in the skills level for the individual. Those who have been involved in the criminal justice system experience the same barriers when faced with unemployment levels in excess of 2 million people. In addition, they are also faced with the additional barriers of discrimination, social stigma and alienation associated with having a criminal record. However the majority have been convicted of petty and minor offences, which is often compounded by the associated lack of skills, qualifications, employment history and experience.
Those leaving custody or who have a record are much more likely to gain employment if they were equipped with the relevant skills required by local employers. Crucially, Nickson et al. argue that these 'relevant skills' are quite often the social skills that many of us take for granted, appearance, attitude, work ethic, team work, and communication, concluding that 'the focus on qualifications ignores some key issues in skill formation within the labour market'.
What we have tried to highlight here is that if barriers are to be successfully broken down and if the individual is to be successfully equipped for employment there needs to be a greater concentration upon the broader, social and life skills if there is to be a sense of success in tackling social exclusion and skilling people for life and work.
Dr Andy Bain is Associate Professor Criminal Justice, University of Mount Union, Ohio, USA. David Pritchard is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Social Policy ,Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth
In his provocative critique of how the American justice system concerns itself with the complicated relationship between sex-offender surveillance and punishment (Sex Panic and the Punitive State), Roger N Lancaster cautions the reader to keep track of the difference between rational fears and irrational ones. This insight brought to mind my initial meeting with Peter (not his real name) when working as a probation officer. He had been convicted of downloading sexual images of children and a Crown Court had requested that a pre-sentence report and assessment for his suitability to participate in a community based sex-offender treatment programme be prepared. He showed a great deal of discomfort and shame in our interview. At times, I struggled to suppress the recurrent urge to see in Peter all the most heinous and associative predatory aspects of sexual crime. I wondered how I might handle what many reading about such offences would see as the only proper response, namely an unremittingly punitive, controlling and surveillance driven approach to supervision.
The court accepted the proposal in the report and arrangements were made for Peter to come to the probation office (with a referral to the dedicated sex offender team in the offing). The early stages of supervision provided a foundation for what was to become a trusting and engaged professional relationship (recognising that it was important not to over-estimate the value of this type of intervention) at the expense of other aspects of his life which had disintegrated on the discovery of his sexual offending. Peter found himself without the meaningful relationship with his partner (as she had distanced herself from him when she discovered his downloading activities), and this was an area in which building hope for the future, and fostering the aim towards longer term desistance from these activities featured as joint supervisory goals.
Peter remained motivated and actively participated in the community sex offender programme (which had a specific component to address internet offenders) as well as cooperating with the Jigsaw team (specialist police officers working with sex-offenders). I endeavoured to pre-empt, what is sometimes referred to in the literature as, the 'golem effect', (low expectations leading to poorer outcomes). My expectations of Peter's efforts to successfully complete his community order (three years was the standard length for such offences), made this a challenging supervisory experience. Not least because Peter lost his job in the IT sector and found that his specific career path had to be rethought. In addition he was dealing with the often invisible stigma of such offences, including the ostracism from friends and family.
At the point at which the order was transferred to another area when Peter moved address he had not relapsed. He spoke to me by phone just after moving into his new address, 'Mike, you stayed with me when I thought that I had nowhere to go with my life, I realise that these offences are harmful but now I can see a different future opening up'.
Another element of prison life which came to light during the European Prison Observatory project was the prevalence in England and Wales of people on remand, awaiting trial, are expected to share the same spaces and undergo much of the same experience as those who have been convicted.
There is conflict between the Prison Rules, which says that remand and sentenced prisoners should under no circumstances be required to share a cell, and Prison Service policy which allows it on the condition that consent has been obtained. Neither guidelines seem to be put in effect, however, as few remand prisoners surveyed by the Inspectorate for Prisons recalled being asked for their consent. As remand prisoners are usually held in Category B prisons, this means that potentially innocent people are being held in the same cell as those convicted of serious crimes.
There are limited differences in their conditions. For example, those on remand are able to have three prison visits per week compared to one visit every two weeks for those who are convicted. The levels of amenities such as the quantity of cigarettes they are allowed also differ. People on remand are also allowed to wear their own clothes.
But in an environment as demanding as a category B prison, those who formally speaking are innocent until proven otherwise are being punished in similar ways.
Nic Groombridge: My failure to fix problems with crime statistics
Written by Nic Groombridge (23/07/13)It is a given that any criminologist - and next to no politician or media source - will give a health warning on the deficiencies of crime statistics as a measure of 'crime' or of the extent of our discipline. When discussing this with students I invite them - in their heads - to consider the numbers of crimes they have committed or have had committed against them. I might then invite them to say who has use of a car - show of hands, including my own - and accuse us all of being criminals.
Here I admit to two very recent 'incidents', 'problematic situations' (Louk Hulsman) or 'harms' crime/victimisations. According to Best and Furedi (2001: 111) I am an 'academic expert' responsible, amongst others, for spreading the phrase 'road rage' as 'an expression of destructive masculinity' (1998). They quote, as do I, comic Jo Brand on the topic, 'Road Rage? Isn't that blokes being arseholes in cars as well as everywhere else?' Well my incidents involve said arseholes, in which my family insist I have to include myself.
Sunday afternoon 23 June 2013 a main but single carriage way road in Essex:
I am driving my teenage son and his friend back home. In my mirror I spot a silver VW Golf hopping in and out of the slow, but steadily progressing, line of traffic. I believe he is going too fast and represents some danger but prepare to be overtaken with some resignation to avoid personal harm. However, as he comes up behind me I see he is also on his mobile.
So I slow down and motion for him to put his phone down. He hoots, flashes his lights and then roars past only to slam his brakes on. I avoid tail-ending him and he leaps out. Remonstrate doesn't do justice to the rage etched on his face and in his gym-honed torso but he doesn't attack the car. I centrally lock the car and sit this out. The queue may prove to be a deterrent and he's not to know my phone decided it was already full.
Sunday lunchtime 20 July 2013 a narrow B road in Norfolk:
My wife and I are on an extended walk of which about a mile and a half was on roads with no pavement. On the main road this was not pleasant. Later on a side road a caravan is towed at speed round a corner. We have to jump up onto a scrubby verge. I am frightened but have enough time to work out that the drawstring bag on my shoulder only has the map and a water bottle in it. I slap the caravan with it like I've seen cyclists do on car roofs in London when nearly killed by drivers. He screeches to a halt, jumps out and asks if I've ever towed a caravan at 60 miles an hour. He is clearly very angry and pushes me into that scrubby verge with its nettles. I get up, his female passenger urges him to come away. His final words to me, 'You prick'. Mine to him, 'That was assault'. Even though I had edited the phone's photos to take pictures in such circumstances I could not organise myself to do so and my repetitions of the license number failed to stick.
Now I obviously hope that they will both now drive full of consideration for the next 'prick' around the corner. I've no reason to believe that police action would have been quickly forthcoming or useful or any punishment 'work'. I'm not sure I was right not to report. I am sure that both incidents might be seen as 'road rage' and that my masculinity and their's was a factor. Strongly felt both saw themselves as 'victims' of my actions. Crimestats fail.


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Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #15 on:
August 30, 2008, 11:20:18 pm »
I just re-read your post and I realized what you were asking. I doubt that the ethernet was working without the new kernel. I installed the kernel (using the usb flash drive) before I was able to get any sort of outside connection. It may have been that the dhcp was killing the connection, or more likely based on posts from others, the nic just wasn't recognized at all.
Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
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August 30, 2008, 11:30:09 pm »
cool, nice job guys, sournds like you got this board working minus sound. Thats pretty awesome news, i might have to go buy this board for myself now. Can you guys tell me what cases you used and the pros and cons? Im using an asus m2n-mx-se plus and im not really satisfied with the performace. I think i'd like to try this board instead.
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Reply #17 on:
August 31, 2008, 01:38:45 am »
Thanks rodercot,
I followed the link you gave me and recompiled the kernel, adding in that Intel HD module option. I also added two options underneath that one that started with Intel, I don't remember what they were called, but maybe you could try those too if just the Intel HD option isn't working. That managed to get the analog audio working, which is good enough for me right now. At least this is something that I can work with.
As to what case I'm using:
. Everything seemed to fit just fine, and it doesn't seem to have any heating issues. Obviously I haven't done too much work with it yet, but so far I'm pleased with it.
Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
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August 31, 2008, 03:00:38 pm »
Yes the analog works, I have been working for a day or so, trying to get the Spdif to function I had to modify the 1.0.17 Alsa driver alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda_codec.c to get it to recognize the iec958 which now gives me switches in the mixer but still no luck. from a command line I can run a test wave file for the left and right front through the spdif header on the board but still cannot get anything out of the on-board spdif connector.
I have tried everything I can think of to get the snd-hda-intel to function, it comes up as NVidia HDA with a Via Analog and then a NVidia Hda with Via digital, I still think the problem is that the digital side of this board is in the NVIDIA chipset and the analog portion is the Realtek ALC880 codec. So really there should be two sound card setups for the NVidia hda VIA Digital and one for the Realtek ALC880 Analog, that is beyond me and my skill level without spending a lot more hours and learning.
It is just as easy to stick another sound card with spdif that works. like the C-media cards, X-plosion 7.1. kiyote that would be a good test to see if you can get the hdmi output (video) to work while audio is being sent to another pci sound card via spdif passthrough.
Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
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August 31, 2008, 06:22:18 pm »
Well now I am completely confused. I re-installed hardy with the stock kernel using a PCI-E intel card and the on-board nic disabled. An X-plosion 7.1 installed in a pci slot and the on-board sound disabled.
I used the all_generic_ide at boot, it installed fine. up and running let it run update completely this is still hardy. rebooted but forgot to add in the all_generic_ide again. Well IT booted just fine anyhow, So then I shut down removed the intel nic card and re-enabled the on-board nic booted up just fine and the network is working just fine using the forcdeth .060 driver other than defaulting to eth1 instead of eth0 this because I had the intel nic installed in the first instance.
So it looks like this board is running just fine with the stock hardy kernel. Other than sound at this point. I also installed the latest Nvidia driver 173.14.12 remember to do this using ctl-alt-f2 and to stop gdm before installing the driver. You also need to install build-essential or the drivers will not install. All this is on Hardy I have not tried to use this kernel with LMCE at this point.
uname -r = 2.6.24-19-generic (This is the stock kernel following the software update upon first boot)
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Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #20 on:
September 03, 2008, 11:20:23 pm »
I registered only for this thread so I have to get some help
I have no plans to install LMCE but I'm having the same struggle with the m3n78-vm on board sounds.
I would have got a pci sound card days ago but my pci slots are already taken by dvb tuners.
So, let's get to the point. I have successfully installed openSuSe 11.0. As a display I'm using my tv via hdmi with the latest nvidia display driver (works fine with 1080p).I get no sound from hdmi and I guess that is too much to ask at this point.
Well, since i didn't figure out how to get sound working, I compiled latest stable from kernel.org (18.104.22.168). Actually I'm running that one right now but same problem with the sound.
I got rid of some acpi related "unable to do something"-messages at the boot though. I get something out of analog output but it's a mess. Sounds like there is lot's of echo or something.
I was wondering could this hdmi connection mess up something or what? Could you tell how did you manage to get the analog audio working? BIOS settings for the AZALIA codecs etc.
Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #21 on:
September 04, 2008, 04:52:12 am »
Get a Creative with SPDIF PCI-E sound card or re-compile 2.6.25-5 with all the HDA-snd-intel turned on and then unmute everything in sudo alsamixer.
No the HDMI audio will not work, heck NVIDIA cannot even make the video drivers work properly yet in certain distro's let alone figure out how to pass audio and video via hdmi.
I am waiting for the ATI driver to mature a little more and I am pretty sure I will be switching back.
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Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #22 on:
September 04, 2008, 11:08:40 pm »
Hello -
I am trying to get LinuxMCE running with a similar board, the M3N78 Pro, and I can't even seem to get the installer to run. After the Kubuntu splashscreen where I hit f6 to add the all_generic_ide option, I see the kernel loading up, it switches back to text mode for a second or two, and then... blackness.
I've read all about the blank screen issue, but no combination of number keys gets me anywhere. I thought that generally happened after install and reboot, not during the install... at any rate, this case also doesn't seem to have an internal speaker, so I can't listen for the beeps to tell me what's going on. There's a lot of disk activity for a few minutes, and then nothing. Ctrl-alt-del at that point causes some more disk churning and then ejects the CD - so it seems like the installer is running and waiting for input, but I can't for the life of me see the display. I've tried the onboard HDMI & VGA ports, as well as DVI & VGA ports on an PCI-express GeForce 8400 GS. Come to think of it, that PCI-E card might be too new as well.
I'm using IDE hard drive & cd-rom; onboard SATA, sound, & lan are disabled. Any advice is appreciated.
My advice for others thinking about building lmce systems... Buy the components recommended in the Wiki!
Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #23 on:
September 05, 2008, 01:44:17 am »
When you hit f6 and type in all_generic_ide remove the splash and quiet commands and tell us where it is hanging up. This will show you the text of the booting procedure.
Did you try it without the all-generic_ide as well. Since you are using an ide cd-rom it may be different.
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Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #24 on:
September 05, 2008, 10:43:29 am »
Well, I don't want to get another card with poor support so I don't think any PCIe sound card is really an option.
Creative has released beta2 drivers for X-Fi series cards but ALSA is not supporting those yet.
I don't want to compile the kernel again just yet, I'll compile the latest ALSA driver and try different options for hda_intel module.
When it's working, should I be able to see Nvidia + Realtek ALC883 by running aplay -l?
Currently I get something like Nvidia + VIA analog. I have enabled only external codec from BIOS.
Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #25 on:
September 05, 2008, 12:05:42 pm »
Well then your options are limited. As I stated before I could never get it to see the realtek at all. I tried the 126.96.36.199 kernel and it would not work for me either hence why I used and recompiled 184.108.40.206 and that worked with HDA Nvidia and VIA analog, the digital side never showed up until I modified the hda_codec_c file and that did not work either.
I do not know what else to tell you other than you will need to take this to the Ubuntu forums.
Making baby steps
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Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #26 on:
September 05, 2008, 01:21:54 pm »
Alright, just one more question
When you say analog side was not working for you with 2.6.26-3,
did you hear any sound at all or, like me, some distorted and echoed sound?
I'm asking cause I don't know if I have had the correct module with right options but something else is still wrong.
Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #27 on:
September 08, 2008, 01:25:18 pm »
Nothing at any port.
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Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #28 on:
September 09, 2008, 01:52:50 am »
Thanks for the tip, Dave... I was traveling this weekend and just had time to give it a shot.
Things move along fine for a while. I now see the warning screen come up that asks which drive to use for the install and warns that all data will be removed, but the install just goes on without waiting for input... maybe because there's only one hard drive in the system, and it's brand new (empty).
Some text flies by after that and the last line of output is:
Running local boot scripts (/etc/rc.local) [OK]
There are several warnings above that about files not found and directories that don't exist. I'm not going to have much time to wrestle with this in the next few weeks, so I think I might just wait for the next version of Linux MCE and try again. I know the Hardy livecd will boot on the machine, so I'm hoping that will be less of a struggle.
Mark Jenks
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Re: Has anyone tried ASUS M3N78-VM
Reply #29 on:
September 17, 2008, 05:19:00 pm »
I have the MB working in Fedora 9, and everything is pretty much working pretty well.
I haven't tried doing anything with HDMI-Audio, but I have a pretty highend sound card also installed in this box.
I have been having problems with USB. I have a USB Remote (lirc_mceusb2) that I am trying to use, and it works for alittle bit, and then it seems to lock up the entire USB bus. Has anyone seen this?
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It's quiet out there. Too quiet. This is the time of year on the Vineyard when the Island shuts down and it can be hard to find even a cup of coffee on the morning rounds. But this winter it feels even quieter as the flu and its various cousin illnesses deplete schools and offices and whole families take to their beds.
At the Chilmark School this week over half the entire school was out sick. For those still standing upright the talk is all flu, all the time. Did you have the flu, what were your symptoms, who in your family is sick, did you get a shot, just how bad was it?
The reports of the severity range. There seem to be a few strains of sickness taking root. The sniffles. The hacking cough. The gauzy head. The persistent sinus infection. The flu itself comes with a blinding headache and high fever, most say. Aches and pains, throwing up, or a general malaise where just getting up off the couch feels Herculean are common too.
"I haven't felt this bad since I had amoebic dysentery in India," one sufferer noted.
A story makes the rounds of a young boy who woke in the middle of the night yelling, "I don't want to die. Take me to the hospital." His parents listened and sure enough he was severely dehydrated.
Especially for the young and the old, the dangers of influenza are very real, and all due credit goes to Island health officials for taking this year's early outbreak seriously. A week ago, local boards of health peppered residents with text, phone and email messages directing them to a special free clinic at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital.
Hundreds of adults and children answered the call. Last Sunday morning, the hospital was the most popular place on the Island. An orderly line of people — directed by a team of clipboard-wielding volunteers — snaked through hallways and out the door to get vaccinated against the flu. The process was friendly and efficient, and a Bruce Springsteen concert couldn't have sold out quicker — 813 doses in less than three hours. That represents a full five per cent of the Island's year-round population to receive vaccinations in a single morning.
It's easy to report bad things when they happen. It's harder to report on bad things that don't happen because of good advance planning and effort.
Vineyard health officials are seeking additional vaccine, but the well-organized steps they have already taken to forestall a bigger health crisis on the Island is impressive. The vaccination, we're told, can take up to two weeks to become effective, so it may be another week before we begin to see the Island wake up again.
In the meantime, where does a person go when sick? To the doctor or the bed when talking physical location. But mentally, when lying back in a feverish state, it is often to the past. Memories of a parent's hand on the forehead checking for a fever or placing a cold washcloth on the chest return with a sweet vividness. So, too, does that first successful nose blow when blowing out finally seemed possible and everyone cheered.
Being sick is never pleasant but being cared for registers deeply. Hang in there, patients; hang in there, caregivers.
Thank you, health officials.


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Sometimes I laugh at myself for fearing a disastrous outcome that will most likely not happen. It's equally ludicrous when I expect a perfect outcome knowing damn well the necessary preparations haven't been laid.
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Toffees could – and should – have broken into the top three, but after dominating the first half they let strugglers steal all the points. David Moyes claimed Everton cannot "mix it with the top teams" if they lose to strugglers like Reading.
Moyes's side totally dominated the first half, scored one goal through Steven Naismith and could have had two penalties. But just like at Fulham in their last away game, Everton threw away points when they should have won as they allowed the home side to come back after the break. Instead of moving within a point of third place, Everton drop out of the top four after only their second defeat in 21 Premier League games.
The Scot, who admitted he had never been so angry after a game, said: "I have told them I am not happy they are not winning those games. If we realistically want the opportunity to mix it with the top teams then we can't lose games like that.
"We will have games in which we'll play badly, not win and have to take it. But we have to win games when we are on top.
"Our play has been excellent but we are just not looking like we are going to get three or four goals at the moment. We should be, but we are not.
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The Pointers' lead reached as high as 29 points with six minutes left in the second half.
Preseason All-American Sam Barber (Schofield, WI/D.C. Everest/Winona St.) led all scorers with 26 points while finishing 10-for-15 from the floor.
Althoff added 16 points for UWSP and was a perfect 6-for-6 from the free-throw line.
UWSP shot 53 percent from the floor while connecting on 8-of-12 three-pointers.
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Tavern Road
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Great new spot in an area brimming with them. You'd barely know it's a new restaurant from the quality of service and food. Great beer list, really original cocktails, and wines for all price points. Couldn't be more pleased with my experience and looking forward to coming back.
Tavern Road is a great addition to the waterfront neighborhood. Good beer list and cocktail menu. Extensive foodie-friendly menu (vegetarians need not apply). Every plate we had - from Sea Bream to Pork, to the sides (spaetzel, beets, broccoli rabe) were all great. And our waiter was fantastic, made great recommendations.
Great start for Tavern Road, which has been open a month. Server provided a complete (almost too long) explanation of the food and drink. Service was attentive and friendly. Menu is really interesting. In-house chacuterie that was delicious. For mains, two of us had fish. One was a char, cooked just warm in the center. The other was a cobia, prepared as escabeche, so it was marinated not cooked. Both were outstanding. Sides are separate, but each one is enough for 3 diners. Great sauteed kale. A few hiccups as they work out the kinks - no cheese course yet, only 2 desserts of which one was 86. But overall it was really good and will only get better.
We had several different fish entrees - all were excellent!! The lamb was to die for!!
Tavern Road has fantastic food with an imaginative menu with something for everyone. Have been twice now and a different menu each time. The steaks are amazing along with the porchetta. You MUST get the spaetzle as a side - you will never crave mac and cheese again. I always get the steak tartar as it is amazing and the charcuterie is always a good split with the group.
The food and the service were both excellent. It was quality and innovative food at very reasonable prices. The lamb meatballs and porchetta were so tasty i can't wait to try them again.It was overall a very enjoyable experience.It is definitely a place I will recommend to my friends and that will become a regular patron of.
Really enjoyed Tavern Road- bar was hopping & the food was excellent
Wonderful, inventive, delicious menu. Really great service. Not much of a dessert menu (just ice cream and chocolate chip cookies).Music was too loud.
Amazing Chef Louis and brother Michael have a more amazing team and menu for dinner in Boston near Tea Party ship and waterfront
New to neighborhood. First time here and loved it. Everything we had was great. Loud, happening place most nights. May not be right place if you're looking for a quieter night. Mixed drinks are legit.
The food and atmosphere were great. However, the noise level makes it hard to hear the person sitting directly across from you. This place would be an absolute gem if they'd hire a sound engineer and dampen the noise even slightly.
Outstanding food, great service, nice setting. You should go with people you don't listen to anyway or get all your coversation over with before dinner. The noise level, people not music is, at times, intense. But you should be going to eat the food, it is well worth the effort.
The food was really excellent, as were the menu selections. The service was great. Each dish had a distinctive "voice", unlike so many places where everything just blurs together for the sake of some "concept." I know it's very fashionable for trendy places to be very noisy, but we thought this is just a little too loud. Maybe the music could be turned down just a bit? Very hard to talk to the other diners in the din.
Knowledgeable wait staff. Creative drink menu. Recommend ordering snacks as well as a ton of sides. Menu is short yet delightful. I highly recommend getting creative and ordering off the drink menu. I myself ordered the Heaven on Her Lips as well as the Pink Dutch Blunderbuss, both are sweet but good. Bar tender will customize drinks based on preference. Sides are the stars of the meal, split the Broccoli Rabe, Roasted Beets, and Potato Gnocchi. Rabe was definitely my favorite, made with hazelnuts and vanilla. Place is a hit. I ordered Sea Bream as an entree, comes as a WHOLE fish, but wait staff walks you through how to eat it. Dish is delicious but NOT a date night food (tons of bones, you've been warned!) GO HERE, DON'T WAIT.
We had a great experience at this newish Boston hot spot. The space is open and inviting, the menu is unique for both its items and its design and the service team is very knowledgeable and attentive. This only thing keeping this from being a perfect score is that the both the soup and porchette were served a little cool. Oh, and the 80s classic rock was a little out of place. Other than that a great night out.
The food was inspired, the staff friendly and knowledgeable, the wine and beer selections well-thought-out. We loved watching the kitchen. Louis was there in front all night, plating every dish. We were touched to see him carrying the manager's young boy around the kitchen, showing how everything's done. The music was loud, and so the crowd was too... boisterous.
Really awesome experience. Loved every minute of it!
Atmosphere is fantastic. The service as spot on - attentive and very knowledgeable about the food. I would definitely recommend. The place is trendy with great food, and love the open kitchen.
Really impressed by Tavern Road on first visit. Loved the atmosphere, such a cool scene.
I noted in my reservation that we were celebrating my best friend's birthday. When it came time for dessert, she didn't want any. Our server found a creative way to make sure she still got a birthday wish and many smiles. It was amazing! Sip on the Cruella or Fishnets & Fangs. Munch on fried chickpea bites and whipped feta. Indulge in the steak. Heaven.
I eye spied a port wine sour and pisco sour that I for sure need to try next time. In the meantime, I loved the Fishnets & Fangs. The steak tartare is an unexpected combination with peanuts in the mix but it's pure heaven.
Don't miss out on the appetizers - snowpeas bites is a discovery! Great selection of wines and cocktails. Came twice already, and will definitely come again!
Outstanding cocktail program, and they won't turn their nose up if you just want a shot and a beer. Love these people. Great food, and the beverage program is far above the norm. Definitely worth the trip!
We live in southie and are always looking for new and fun places to visit on the weekends. After hearing about Tavern Road, I decided to look them up online to see what they were all about. The menu seemed very adventurous and non-traditional, and the drink list was very unique. We went there for dinner on a nice Friday night and the experience was great. Our waitress was very friendly and the food was fantastic. One of us got the smoked chicken and the other got the bluefish. We also tried a few of the the specialty drinks on the menu (the down & brown is fantastic). Overall, everything was wonderful and I highly recommend Tavern Road is you're looking for a unique menu and good vibe.
Very nice menu, great food that was well prepared and presented, and wonderful service. Would definitely go back again.
Second time here was fantastic. We live in the neighborhood and ended up sitting in the bar area as we wanted to watch the Stanley Cup game and have a nice meal. Had great seats, great food and great service. Our server's name was Kelly and I want to give her a huge thumbs up for her attention to detail, her ability to engage us in conversation and to leave us alone when we were doing just fine. All of those are great skills and most servers don't have them. Restaurant has a great vibe and the little plates are well done and offer lots of great choices. Wine list is also quite good. Will be back a lot!!!
New place with a great feel. Went on a hot night, open air windows allowed in a refreshing breeze. Decor is hip -- huge original artwork, R&B on the stereo. Mouth-watering bread to start. A tasty chick pea starter, a creamy goat cheese offering. Carrot and pea and lettuce salad has two contrasting dressings. Citrus chicken: lovely, concentrated, complimentary flavors and textures. Young bok choi; a medley of roasted cauliflower and beets, oh boy. Moans of pleasure. Cocktail favorite: "Heaven on Her Lips" -- sweet but not too sweet, full of flavor. Floated out of there. Waiter Sean was great, service and vibe really good. Going back, taking our son, emerging foodie and cook. Next time we'll pocket bread for later, try dessert...
I found Tavern Road through a review, which was spot on. The place was high energy, suitable for foodies, and had a great bar. The food and drinks were fabulous--charcuterie, gnocchi, chicken, steak, and the cocktail down and brown. The server and bartender were attentive; however, the hostess forgot about us, which struck a nerve with me. Overall, this place was great and if I lived nearby, I would become a regular.
Incredible food and service, but extremely loud, even when bar area calms down. Need better ceiling acoustics. Design of the place is wonderful, except for that. I am eating great food, but we have to strain to hear each other even when dining away from the bar. Great that the windows open in good weather.
Small bites - especially the chickpea bites - were unexpectedly flavorful. Only downfall is that all dishes require you to order a side separately.
This was our first time at this restaurant. My husband ordered the bluefish which was fresh and delicious in it's simplicity. I ordered the yellow watermelon soup which seemed appropriate for one of the hottest days of the summer. It was delicious and refreshing. I also ordered the romano veggie side which was a delicious combination of beans, basil, fresh tomatoes and EVOO. We shared the fresh goat cheese spread on bagels. Tasty too. We had excellent service. Our waiter was cordial and informative. The hosts were friendly. Decor interesting and good to know that they are able to accommodate large parties. The only issue was the noise level. Loud, energetic sometimes hard to talk over the din. The delicious meal trumps the noise.
Checked it out last week with a few buddies. We had a great time. Food was great across the board. I found the prices reasonable and the rye whiskey special was excellent. My wife also went here a few weeks earlier and loved it. We both recommend the blue fish pâté - sounds terrible but its unreal.
We selected Tavern Road after a quick search on the web for top Boston restaurants. The review we saw mentioned that the restaurant specialized in local / seasonal ingredients. Overall the experience was good. The menu was very interesting and diverse and the food we selected was good. The service was excellent! Our server was very knowledgeable of all aspects of the menu, from the special drinks, wine list and food items.
Went with a group of 4 for a "low key" type of dinner. Overall the food was good however the portions are incredibly small, I would not recommend this place for dinner if you're hungry as everything comes ala carte starting with miniscule portions on up to moderate. We tried some things we'd never heard of before and the food was tasty, just didn't quite cover the bases though as we all left a bit hungry. That being said, I'd return for the bar alone - great cocktail menu and we tried just about all of them again not having a clue what some of the ingredients were. Our waitress was very knowledgable and helpful and overall it was a fun night and great music and energetic vibe. If they start serving bigger portions, we'll be back!
Whoa. It keeps me coming back over and over. It is awesome. I mean, everything is really good. Wine list is great, drinks are moderately priced and really interesting, but man-oh-man, that whipped feta is amazing. I've been in 3 times just for that.
Industrial art, urban chic atmosphere. A place to see and be seen. We sat by the wide, open window on Congress Street and took in the balmy, summer air and after-work glow on Congress Street. Michael helped us choose from their own signature cocktails and the stage was set for entrees and sides that were nothing short of delightful: surprising combinations of fresh, local ingredients for alchemies in cuisine that hit lots of notes all at once in short succession, lingering afterwards. My second time there. Definitely want to return at least once every season and then some.
Tavern Road had a few rare empty tables on a Monday night in August -- a mellow vibe, really fine creative food, attentive and informed servers, even reasonable noise levels (and a 70s playlist). Later in the week it becomes far more clamorous and crowded, but some people like that. Prices were a tad on the high side -- mostly because 2 starters added > $30 to the bill. But I'd go back again for sure. Congress Street has become a new foodie paradise, and with good reason.
Can't wait to return. The skate wing was incredible. Loved that there was a vegetarian menu with great options. The corn soup and sides of eggplant and beet salad were delicious. The warm rolls with parmesan were so good. The staff was wonderful. The windows are a unique design element and we were happy that they were open on a beautiful night. Tavern Road is a great addition to the neighborhood and to Boston.
We had a 30th birthday here. I was not thinking too much about what experience we would have, though I knew the staff were acclaimed and the restaurant was trying to bring some local and neighborhood flare. We were literally blown away and I cannot wait to go back. The staff worked well together and made great recommendations individualized for our group. Probably the most efficient place I have ever been regarding the clearing of plates and empty glasses. The food was unique, delicious and delivered quickly. The staff and ambience were fun and surprising. Our group agreed entirely that we couldn't have made a better choice for the birthday celebration. Rarely have a been to a new restaurant that nailed every aspect of dinning.
Some friends and I decided to check out Tavern Road for an early dinner Saturday night. We were greeted warmly greeted at the door upon arrival and escorted to our table in the hip, eclectic dining room. We started with the creative drink menu and the delicious Chickpea Bites - soft and warm, with hint of spice. We loved the smoked chicken breast and the night's special - a kale and sausage ravioli dish. Service was warm and friendly and the owners made it a point to check on us during our meal. With a drink or two each, entrees, and a few dessert to try, the bill was incredible reasonable for such wonderfully prepared food. The place was really buzzing by the time we headed out. Will definitely come again!!!
Party of four + 1 kid. Restaurant was very accommodating. Service was beyond excellent. Our server really went out of her way to make sure we understood the menu and that we were happy with both our bar and food choices. Great open area restaurant. Very clean and friendly. Again, food was excellent. Parm and rosemary bread to die for. Bar menu was quite comprehensive. Drinks amazing. Only a couple of suggestions for the restaurant: 1. Add more vegetarian entree options 2. Make drinks a little larger. Portions seemed quite small. Overall, place was great. Will definitely return!
I love Tavern Road. I've never had a bad drink, bad food, bad experience. The servers are enthusiastic and passionate, the food is creative and delicious and those cocktails are heaven. This time I tried the leg of lamb steak special. It was perfect. Can't wait to go back.
I had a great meal at Tavern Road with my husband while spending a weekend in Boston recently. The menu was interesting and the food delivered. We started with a few of the 'bites' first and shared the ricotta app, all yummy. For the main I found the pancetta to be a bit fatty but it was tasty, and the side with beets was really nice. For dessert we ordered the cookie plate, it was enough for 4 and all great especially their take on a chocolate chip which was very memorable. Our server was very friendly and helpful. I think the food scene in Boston doesn't live up to Brooklyn, but his place held it's own. Much better then some other spots we tried and thought were just ok.
We started with the chick pea bites. Two of us loved them. The other 4 didn't...adding a side sauce would be a good idea. Whipped feta was divine. We all loved it. Most had steak for dinner. We tried most of the sides. Squash couscous was yummy but sweeter than I'd expect for a side. Cheese pasta was good -- could have had more kick to put it over the top. The flavorings of the side dishes was unusual (citrus?) but good. Our waitress was lovely -- friendly and helpful. Very attentive staff to water and wine refills. Hostess gave me "the eye" when I asked her to seat us one table further away from the bar due to noise level. All the tables were vacant, so not sure what the big deal was. I'd definitely go back.
We sat at one of the high tops, which is a little louder and more constricted than the big booths or tables. Open kitchen and cool crowd helps the overall vibe. Very good food and creative menu.
Amazing experience at Tavern Road, from start to finish. Service was great from the moment we walked in the door and the food was exquisite! Fun, lively, open atmosphere but did not overwhelm our table conversation. The Duck Prosciutto was one of the best food items I have ever tasted. Great prices for the deliciously well thought out menu and experience! Highly recommend Tavern Road.
I've been to TR once before for dinner, (and many times to TR food for lunch) and it didn't disappoint this time. We had a 9:00 booking and the table wasn't quite ready, we were happy to stand in the bar area and have some drinks. While we waited they sent us some snacks to help tide us over (which was really nice). The cocktails were great (my favorite was a Waltham Experiment). There were four of us and we shared two appetizers, the ricotta and the heirloom tomato salad. The salad was nice and the ricotta was pretty spectacular. For entrees we had Osso Bucco, the porchetta and a flank steak. Everyone enjoyed their entrees as well. Great meal, great service, and I love the ambience there (I am partial to louder, happening kinds of places)
Some really great drinks, we loved the De La Vega cocktail. The menu has some outstanding items, I enjoyed the steak with chimichurri. My husband had the wild mushroom risotto which was delicious. Sides were so so, nothing memorable, I'm always a little annoyed by a restaurant that doesn't give one side dish accompanying the entree, so keep in mind that the the entrees seem really well priced but you have to add the cost of a potato/veggie. We always find an open kitchen so interesting, and this place seems well run and really clean. We'll go back .
We were a party of 4 one vegetarian... and three major foodies...we had super evening. We chose lots of small plates to start including the charcuterie board. All were so tasty! The ambiance is lovely, we enjoyed to mural....and the bar area is great. Cocktails were excellent. Our main dishes were so yummy! The risotto, out of this world. We had a great time with the cookie board. The service was 100% we never wanted for anything, everyone was personable, and efficient. This restaurant is a keeper. For Sure.
Very interesting menu that changes from day to day. Tasty and attractively served. If every days menu is as good as this one its a great find!


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My husband and I were heading up to Cape Ann for a christening a couple of weeks ago and decided to treat ourselves to an overnight in Rockport, one of our favorite destinations at any time of year. After a little research on tripadvisor, I chose the Beech Tree...well, who wouldn't want to give the top-rated B & B in... More
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