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Cornwall Tourism Magazine - Newlyn.
Newlyn is a small town and fishing port located on the shores of Mounts Bay, just to the south of Penzance. Although it is a town in its own right , today it really forms part of the extremities of nearby Werrytown which is itself an urban extension of Penzance. Newlyn also hold the title of being England's most southerly town, although there are other settlements further to the south so I guess it depends on your definition of a town. It has a very long association with fishing so it is no surprise to know that today, fishing is still its biggest industry, but it also attracts a fair number of visitors because it is a very pretty town and being on the sea front, offers stunning views and everything that goes with a working fishing port and it also has a long history and was at one point,one of the most important towns in southern Cornwall. From a visitors perspective, it has a nice harbour, lots of Victorian and older buildings with narrow streets and is very popular with boat owners due to its protected harbour area. And given the stormy nature of the sea in that area, this is a very necessary element. So in many ways Newlyn is the classic seaside fishing port and is well worth a visit.
Newlyn's history.
The name Newlyn is an evolution of the Cornish word Lulyn which means a " pool for a fleet of boats ". The relevance of this is that the bay Newlyn, Penzance, Marazion and St Michael's Mount are located in is also known as Gwavas Lake which probably goes back to Neolithic times when the sea levels were a little lower than today and the bay would have been a tidal lake, almost like a lagoon in effect. Indeed when the tide goes out on the Marazion side, you can walk all the way to St Michael's Mount and further along the beach without getting your feet wet so you can see where the lake analogy comes from. Newlyn was first recorded as being called Nulyn back in 1278 and as Lulyn in 1292 so some where along the line, the two names were merged and Newlyn was the adopted name. But it was a settlement long before that as it belonged, along with Penzance, to the Manor of Alverton which was the manor of a Saxon Lord called Alward as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. After the Norman invasion, the Manor of Alverton passed to Robert, Count of Mortain who was William the Conquerors ( William 1st ) half brother. We also know that the Manor of Alverton was also very influential in the development of Penzance so it is very likely that it helped in the development of Newlyn as well and as mentioned above, we know Newlyn was definitely around in the 13th Century.
How Newlyn came about.
It is very likely that due to Gwavas Lake and the shallow beach areas back in the medieval period, Newlyn became a fishing port because it was very easy to land fishing boats on its shores and as all the landing rights and other property in the Newlyn area were owned by the Manor of Alverton, the ongoing income potential of this would have been pushed by the owners of the manor. In addition, it was protected from the worse of the seas anger by the large sea lake and it quickly became a very popular place for the fishermen to land their boats and this lead to its importance as a fishing port. A dedicated harbour was built up over a period of time and Newlyn was first recorded as a harbour in 1435. The harbour area was further expanded and turned Newlyn into the main fishing port in Mounts Bay. Although there was a small scale fishing industry all around Mounts Bay, Newlyn prominence meant that most of the catches were landed there and thus its success was guaranteed.
The expansion.
Up until the early 19th Century, the name of Newlyn only applied to the actual harbour area, not the settlement behind it, which was known as Streetanowan, ( this is where the current fish market is located today ). There was also an area known as Newlyn Town though because Streetanowan is recorded as being separated from "Newlyn Town" at high tide. Newlyn Town was located where the lower part of the modern harbour is located today. Newlyn is actually an amalgamation of three small hamlets that were all, at one time, separated by bodies of water. These being Tolcarne, Street-an-Nowan and Trewarveneth, so you can see where the name Streetanowan came from, however, the stretches of water between the three hamlets disappeared over time as the land was reclaimed and eventually they all merged into a single settlement.
Newlyn and Paul.
Newlyn also had a very strong association with the nearby small town of Paul which was also the local parish church is located and the villagers used to climb Newlyn Cliff to go to Paul through an area which is now known as Gwavas, to worship at Paul Church. In fact, up until the 1950's, an ancient stone cross stood on this route at Park an Grouse which translates to The Field of the Cross. However,this cross wasn't related to a Christian site, it was actually a homage to a Cornish Fairy called Bucca, who according to 19th Century Cornish folklore, was supposed to be a spirit that lived in the mines and coastal areas and took the form of a hobgoblin who would bring on storms. However, Bucca goes much further back in time than that and it is believed that he/she was actually an ancient pagan deity of the sea. But as with all things folklore related, this is disputed and rumour has it that the term Bucca actually relates to a pagan deity called Puca which is itself an abbreviation of the name of a deity called Pwca who originated from Scandinavia.
Pagans deities ...don't you just love them.
See, nothing is ever straightforward when it comes to folklore and it doesn't end there either. Evidently there were two Bucca's. A white Bucca called Bucca Widn who was, you guessed it, the good Bucca and a black Bucca called Bucca Dhuc who was responsible, amongst other things, for storms and the wind. In Penzance for example, it was customary to refer to storms that came from the south west as Bucca calling and sailors and the fishermen believed that they could hear Bucca's voice in the wind during storms. This is very likely related to the tail of the Sirens who according to legend where Mermaids who would draw ships and their crew onto rocks ( and their deaths ), with their irresistible voices.
Other Bucca legends.
Well we are not sure about that, but there are other legends associated with Bucca, one being that he/she was also a fertility deity in a more general sense and completely unrelated to the sea. However, as with many folklore deities, it is very likely that Bucca was not a single entity, but an amalgamation of a number of separate ones who have, over the millennia, been merged into a single one. Bucca is also used as a nickname for people who live in Newlyn, but whatever the truth about the origins, the Bucca cross has completely disappeared and its location is unknown, except that Bucca was also associated with the witch's coven of Ros An Bucca so maybe they have the cross?
The site of Street-an Nowan - the fish market today
Fisherman statue on the site of the hamlet of Tolcarne
Trewarveneth Street in Newlyn - the only mention of Trewarveneth today
Newlyn viewed from the top of Newlyn Cliff at Paul
Spanish raiders in the 16th Century.
The Spanish raided and destroyed Newlyn along with Penzance, Mousehole and Paul in 1595. Also known as The Battle of Cornwall, the 1595 raid was part of the Anglo-Spanish war that raged between 1585 - 1604. Led by a Spanish naval Commander called Carlos de Amésquita, three companies of men ( around 400 solider's ) with four war galleys arrived in Mounts Bay on 2nd November 1595 and proceeded to sack and destroy the nearby settlement of Mousehole.They then set sail again and landed between Penzance and Newlyn and attacked both settlements. On seeing the Spanish raiding party, the local militia who were employed to guard and protect Penzance, dropped their weapons and fled leaving the raid virtually unopposed.
A dozen good men.
Only one small group of 12 soldiers led by Francis Godolphin, Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall offered any kind of resistance, however, they stood no chance against the 400 Spanish raiders and once they were incapacitated, the raiders marched into Penzance and then ransacked it and destroyed Newlyn and Paul. Carlos de Amésquita also took a number of cannon from the various defenses as well as bombarding Penzance from his ships causing the destruction of over 400 houses. he then left all the prisoners ashore and fled back towards Northern France to avoid two English Fleets sent against him.
A battle with a Dutch Fleet.
On the way back on 5th August Amézquita ran into a Dutch squadron of 46 ships and after a battle, he sunk two of the Dutch ships and damaged a large number of the others, but being heavily outnumbered, his ships had also suffered significant damage and he had also lost over 20 men dead and a much larger number wounded so he stopped off at Penmarch in northern France, just down the coast from Brest, to repair his ships and then finally arrived back at Port Louis which further along the French coast by Lorient and also his original point of departure, on the 10th August. Carlos de Amésquita was an excellent soldier and commander and the fact that he took on 46 Dutch ships with just four of his own, shows you the character of the man. Also his raid on Penzance, Newlyn and Mousehole also shows his skill as a soldier and although he was greatly aided by a British turncoat called Richard Burley from Weymouth, to attack the Cornwall coast near to Falmouth and Plymouth where two English Fleets were based with just 400 men and 4 ships shows great audacity and courage. It also shows the vulnerability of Cornwall to attack which explains the great fear of a Spanish invasion during that whole period.
The Mayflower arrives in Newlyn.
A little known historic fact is that the Mayflower which took the first settlers to America arrived at Newlyn in 1620 to take on water. It had already stopped at Plymouth for water,however that water turned out to be contaminated so it stopped at Newlyn to replace the dodgy cargo and thus,Newlyn was the last place the Mayflower stopped in England before it sailed to America and eventually landed at Cape Cod on the US eastern seaboard. Today, there is a small plaque on the quay at Newlyn dedicated to a Mr Bill Best-Harris who was the historian who's research uncovered this fact. The Mayflower took 102 passengers and its 30 crew members to America to begin the Colony of Virginia.
The 18th Century Tsunami.
On the 1st November 1755, there was a massive earthquake about 120 miles out in the Atlantic off the Portuguese coast to the south west of Cape St Vincent. The earthquake was of a magnitude of between 8.5 - 9 on the MMS scale, which compares to the 2011 Japanese earthquake which had a magnitude of 8.9.,making it one of the most powerful earthquakes in Europe and just like the Japanese earthquake of 2011, a huge Tsunami was created that virtually destroyed Lisbon and most of the coastal settlements in and around the Algarve region killing in excess of 60,000 people. The Tsunami was over 60 ft tall and came as three separate waves, also hit the shores of Moroccan and the African West coast further south and caused huge destruction and lost of life over a huge area. The earthquake was also felt all over Europe as far north as Finland and waves of 40 ft also hit the Caribbean. But it didn't stop there.
A 10ft Tsunami hits Mounts Bay.
The Tsunami also travelled over 600 miles to the shores of Cornwall and hit Newlyn and Mounts Bay with a series of waves that were over 10 ft tall. Although, it was not as bad as the 60 ft waves that hit Portugal, Spain and North Africa, the 10ft Tsunami still caused substantial damage and loss of life along the Cornish Coast and all but washed Newlyn away. Whilst a 10 ft wall of water doesn't sound that bad, it was a surge of water that lasted almost 10 hours in duration and as the coastal area along Mounts Bay is actually quite flat and low in level, the wave surged inland to a distance of up to 20 miles in some places so the destruction was enormous and would have compared with the flooding seen in Japan in 2011 and the Indian Ocean Tsunami on Boxing Day in 2004. The Lisbon earthquake was, until the 2004 Boxing Day earthquake in the Indian Ocean, the most destructive earthquake in recorded history and globally killed in excess of 200,000 people and also displaced nearly 250,000 people in Europe and Africa.
Yeah, but when is the next one due?
The 1755 Lisbon earthquake occurred along the Azores-Gibraltar Transform Fault which is the boundary between the African and Eurasian continental plates and runs westward from Gibraltar out into the Atlantic. It has been quite active over the last 1000 years and has been responsible for a number of other earthquakes that hit Lisbon before 1755, including eight in the 14th century, five in the 16th century including one in 1531 that destroyed over 1,500 houses and another one in 1597 that caused three streets to completely vanish without a trace. It caused another three in the 17th century and a series of earthquakes between 1720 and 1750 before the really big one in 1755. As can be seen, there has been a lot of teutonic activity along the Azores-Gibraltar Transform Fault and although this has died down a lot since the 1755 earthquake, by looking at the pattern of earthquake related activity over the last 800 years, the possibility of another big one cannot be ruled out. However, as major earthquakes on the scale of the 1755 one are very rare, the likelihood of a huge wave hitting the Mounts Bay shore line any time soon is pretty remote, but given the nature of earthquakes along teutonic fault lines under the sea, we can never say never especially as Tsunamis have a habit of catching us out and are also unstoppable. Makes you wonder doesn't it?
Spanish helmet relic from the 1595 raid on Mousehole and Newlyn.
Full size replica of the Mayflower
Lisbon city walls today showing damage from the 1755 Tsunami
Artist impression of the 1755 Tsunami that hit Newlyn
Newlyn in more recent times.
Newlyn harbour is the largest fishing port in the UK and this reflects its long dependency on the fishing industry. Its major source of income during the 19th and mid 20th Centuries was Pilchards and Newlyn was perhaps the largest catchers of Pilchards in Cornwall up until the1960's. PIlchards were a major source of income for many fishing ports in Cornwall during he mid 19th Century onwards, but just as with Newlyn, the Pilchard eventually lost its importance in the mid 20th Century and many fishing communities effectively ceased to exist after the 1960's. However, a number of vessels have resumed pilchard fishing again from Newlyn and now use a modern version of the ring net which enables them to catch more fish and thus make Pilchard fishing a viable option again. There are also fishing vessels in Newlyn who focus on Lobster and Crab fishing which is a sector which continues to grow and ensures that Newlyn will remain a fishing port for the foreseeable future. In addition, its sheltered harbour is also very popular with boat owners and you will find many boats moored there throughout the year.
Riots over fish being landed on a Sunday.
On the 18th May 1896, Newlyn was the scene of a series of riots that lasted for three days between Methodist and Non-Conformist religious groups and outsiders over fish being landed on a Sunday, the Sabbath. Most if not all of the Newlyn fishermen practiced a ban on not landing fish on the Sabbath, however, as Newlyn attracted fishermen from all around the UK and a large number of non-Cornish fishing crews came from Lowestoft who did not recognise the ban of landing fish on Sundays. The Lowestoft fishermen would often land their fish on a Sunday because they could obtain a higher price for their catch than if they landed it on a weekday and this created a conflict between the two sides that erupted on 18th May 1896 when around 40 Newlyn fishermen, supported by a mob of nearly a thousand others, boarded the boats of the Lowestoft fishermen and destroyed their catch.
The riots begin.
After seizing 16 boats and destroying their catches ( records state that around 100,000 Mackerel were thrown overboard ) the Newlyn fishermen then send messages to other fishing communities ( St Ives, nearby Mousehole and Porthleven ) to intercept the non-Cornish fishing boats off their own shores ( around 1 00 in total ) to stop them landing their catches. However, within minutes of the riots starting, messages were also sent to local Police stations asking for assistance and reinforcements and by mid morning a large number of Police from all over Cornwall had arrived and were formed up in the town. The Newlyn Harbour Master also sent out a small steamer to warn the 100 non-Cornish fishing boats about what was happening and this was chased by a Newlyn Trawler. By Mid-afternoon things took a turn for the worst when the Porthleven fishing fleet arrived to support the Newlyn fisherman and on the next day, a full scale riot began.
The riots expand to Penzance and the army are called in.
On the 19th May, the local fishermen and the Police were involved in a number of violent skirmishes around Newlyn harbour with injuries being sustained on both sides. As the riots were erupting in Newlyn, the 100non-Cornish fishing trawlers still out at sea made for Penzance to land their catches and on learning this, around 300 Newlyn fisherman and their supporters made for Penzance to attack the Lowestoft crews but were met on the outskirts by a detachment of the Penzance Borough Police who were also supported by a large group of youths from Penzance and the size of the resistance against them, forced the fisherman to retreat back to Newlyn. BY now, the size of the riots had become almost unmanageable so the Army were called in and 400 soldiers from the Royal Berkshire regiment arrived that afternoon at Penzance railway station and awaited orders.
Things get serious.
It had been hoped that the arrival of an army regiment at Penzance would quell the riots, but this didn't happen and that evening, a huge riot broke out between the Newlyn, Porthleven and St Ives fishermen and the Penzance fishermen supported by the Lowestoft fishermen. The Police tried to intervene, however, they themselves were beaten back and then called in the army. The soldiers immediately made for Newlyn supported by around 300 Penzance fishermen and when they reached Newlyn bridge they met with some resistance, however, the Newlyn men stood no chance against a professional army and were quickly overwhelmed and the army then took possession of the Harbour and Piers. In addition, the Navy has sent HMS Ferret into Newlyn harbour which was a torpedo boat destroyer and made it very clear that if the Newlyn men and the others didn't cease their activities, their fishing boats would all be sunk. This effectively stopped the rioting in its tracks and by midnight, everyone had dispersed.
What was it really about?
It is only when you read contemporary reports from the time that you see that rather than being about breaking the Sabbath, it was more about the Newlyn fishermen's income. By the Lowestoft fishing crews landing their catches on the Sunday, their catch would have been the first fish sold on the Monday morning fish markets and as such they were able to command a higher price than the catches sold on the Tuesdays which would have been landed by the Newlyn fishermen, so we think the religious politics were used mainly as a smokescreen to draw the other fishing settlements in to support the Newlyn men. Territorialism was also involved. Cornish fishermen considered the fish stocks around Cornwall as being theirs and the Lowestoft fishermen as trespassers so the riots probably the result of long standing anger over outsiders taking away livelihoods, but given that Newlyn was the largest fishing port in the UK, it is hardly surprising that outsiders would want to land their catches there. The prices would be a lot higher than elsewhere for one thing and everyone wanted the highest prices for their catch, but the Newlyn men wanted it both ways as in, they get the highest prices but they only wanted their fish to be sold at the markets. Of course this was unrealistic and the riots didn't solve anything except get a few Newlyn fishermen arrested and convicted.
Newlyn at around 1896
HMS Ferret used to quell the 1896 riots
Newlyn fishermen in the 1890's
Newlyn inner harbour today
Newlyn in World War 2.
During the 2nd World War ( 1939- 1945 ), Newlyn was an important Air Sea Rescue base for fighter and bomber pilots and crews who were shot down or had to bail out over the channel due to damage sustained on bombing mission over Europe and the Air Sea rescue craft saved many airman's lives. The harbour was also bombed by the Luftwaffe during the war and the Germans hit a coal collier called the Greenhithe. They didn't sink it though and the crew beached the ship in the harbour. However, the Germans said on their Germany Calling propaganda broadcast, run by the infamous Lord Haw-Haw, that the Luftwaffe had sunk a British cruiser in Newlyn harbour. But as a collier which carried coal and a Royal Navy heavy Cruiser looked completely different in every way and there is no way you can mistake one against the other, the German bomber squadrons either got it wrong or exaggerated or the German Ministry of Propaganda simply , which was not unknown in those days. But whatever the reason, all they did was damage a coal ship which then beached and most of its cargo was salvaged. The Luftwaffe also bombed Roskilly Beach in 1942, but only very slightly damaged seven houses and blasted a few electricity cables. There were a few other bombs dropped on the area as well and in total, around 70 houses were damaged by bombing in Newlyn during World War 2.
A Collier similar to the Greenhithe
A Royal navy Cruiser from 1939
Newlyn bomb damage 1941
Roskilly Beach today
In the late 19th Century Newlyn became famous for its Newlyn School and Artists' Colony which included important painters such as Thomas Cooper Gotch, Albert Chevallier Tayler and Henry Scott Tuke. The largest collection of work done by the painters at Newlyn School is held in the Penlee House Gallery today which is located in Penzance and they have a collection of Newlyn Copper's work on display that was produced between 1890 - 1920. Newlyn also has its own gallery, the Newlyn Art Gallery which houses a collection of modern art that is well worth seeing. It is not hard to see why Artists were attracted to Newlyn, being a busy fishing port and by the sea would have given them lots of compositions to work from and they only had to go out a few miles in those days to be right out in the countryside and whist you couldn't really call Newlyn a " little Bohemia "in those days, the Artist Colony definitely added to its rich tapestry. I just wonder how the hard fishermen took to them. It would have made for some interesting dynamics I think.
Painting by Thomas Cooper Gotch
Painting by Albert Chevallier Tayler
Painting by Henry Scott Tuke
Another painting by Henry Scott Tuke
Newlyn today.
Today, Newlyn is still an important fishing port and you can often see many trawlers and fishing boats in the inner and outer harbour's, but it is also a very popular holiday destination with its small narrow streets, small fisherman's houses and of course the harbour area. Whilst it is not quite the same size as Falmouth, the harbour is very popular with boat owners due to its protection from the outer harbour wall which provides very still water, even when the seas are running very high. And whilst the harbour area is not suitable for swimming, there are a couple of beaches nearby, but the reason most people go to Newlyn is because it is like stepping back in time, in the architectural sense and you really get a feel for what it must have been like living there in the 18th and 19th Centuries. So if you are in the area, we recommend you definitely come and visit Newlyn.
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Susquehanna students lauded for athletics, academics
Susquehanna Community High School senior Andrzej Tomczyk was recognized for his athletic and academic achievements during an assembly held on Wednesday, March 20.
Students from senior high school and Tomczyk's family and close friends assembled in the auditorium as his basketball coaches and members of the administration gathered on a stage, decorated with blue and white balloons, to present the SCHS star basketball player with a basketball recognizing his 1,500 points.
The basketball team, seated in the front rows of the auditorium, gave their teammate a standing ovation for not only his basketball honor but also to celebrate his 18th birthday.
According to Coach Lawrence Tompkins, Tomczyk is only the second basketball player in SCHS history to achieve this accomplishment.
It was also announced that Andrzej and Cole Mallory would be playing in the Lackawanna League All-Star game held at Valley View High School on March 26.
Coach Tompkins was accompanied by assistant coach Rich Emmons for the presentation.
As the blue and white balloons were removed from the stage they were replaced by black and gold balloons, the colors of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
Principal Mark Gerchman had the honor of introducing Col. Daniel G. Braun who said he never comes to a birthday party without a gift, and what a gift.
Braun, a USMA admissions representative, brought Tomczyk an "Offer of Admission" to join the U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School Class of 2014.
According to Col. Braun, this is the beginning of a 5-year journey for the SCHS senior as there are two congressional appointments waiting for him when he completes his first year.
Braun said this was not really a present as Tomczyk, who is in the top fifth of his class, earned this offer.
As a member of the four-man panel interviewing the applicant for the congressional appointment, Braun described Tomczyk as a young man of character deserving recognition and welcomed him to West Point.
Attending the assembly was Griffin Gerchman, son of the high school principal, who will also be attending West Point.
Young Gerchman attends Dunmore High School but arrived at SCHS with congratulations and a USMA cap for the "birthday boy."


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In 2006, Alana Zimmer made her debut appearance on the catwalk, walking for the likes of Proenza Schouler, Dolce & Gabbana and Chanel at New York, Milan and Paris fashion weeks. Throughout her career, the Canadian model has collaborated with almost every great designer and label in the fashion world, to include Giorgio Armani, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Marc Jacobs amongst others. She has modeled for both ready-to-wear and haute couture collections.
Zimmer earned her first advertising campaign in 2007, when she was chosen as the face of Missoni Sport. She was later booked for many other ad campaigns, such as Marc Jacobs (2007), Moschino (2008), Armani Prive (2008), Jean Paul Gaultier couture (2008), DKNY Jeans (2009), Hermes (2011) and others. Her most recent campaigns were in 2012 for Jean Paul Gaultier and Ports 1961.
Asides from working as an international top model, Zimmer likes to spend time with her closest friends, as well as knitting, running and practicing yoga.


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This image shows the forces recorded while opening four mechanisms. The pictures on the top highlight a key mechanical element of each mechanism. Bottom plots show forces tangential to the motion of the handle as a function of the device's configuration. Lighter green indicates trials with higher average velocity. Left: Refrigerator. High initial force due to low pressure interior. Middle Left: Springloaded door. Large forces throughout movement due to linkage at top. Middle Right: Kitchen cabinet. Non-linear spring keeps it closed with max force at about 4 deg. Right: Toolchest drawer. Larger force halfway due to 2nd stage of telescoping rail.
Instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) involve physical interactions with diverse mechanical systems found within human environments. In this paper, we describe our efforts to capture the everyday mechanics of doors and drawers, which form an important sub-class of mechanical systems for IADLs. We also discuss the implications of our results for the design of assistive robots. By answering questions such as "How high are the handles of most doors and drawers?" and "What forces are necessary to open most doors and drawers?", our approach can inform robot designers as they make tradeoffs between competing requirements for assistive robots, such as cost, workspace, and power.
Using a custom motion/force capture system, we captured kinematic trajectories and forces while operating 29 doors and 15 drawers in 6 homes and 1 office building in Atlanta, GA, USA. We also hand-measured the kinematics of 299 doors and 152 drawers in 11 area homes. We show that operation of these seemingly simple mechanisms involves significant complexities, including non-linear forces and large kinematic variation. We also show that the data exhibit significant structure. For example, 91.8% of the variation in the force sequences used to open doors can be represented using a 2-dimensional linear subspace. This complexity and structure suggests that capturing everyday mechanics may be a useful approach for improving the design of assistive robots.
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Last week's controversy about a homeless camp at the Hamilton County Courthouse and the subsequent proposal to tax panhandlers reminded a history buff like me of Barry Goldwater.
For readers who aren't familiar with Goldwater, he was yet another Republican senator from Arizona who was the GOP's presidential candidate, this time in 1964.
Because Goldwater was a strident anti-communist who also supported states' rights and wanted to abolish the United Nations, he scared many people who viewed him as a loose cannon that could make the Cold War go suddenly hot.
When Goldwater accepted his party's presidential nomination, he famously said, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." Wrong.
Extremism in any form — even for a noble cause — almost always causes problems. When blinded by their beliefs and passion, people tend to put aside reason and do crazy things.
During the past two weeks, Cincinnati has seen an extremist attack from the political right on panhandlers and a self-defeating extremist reaction from the left defending indefensible behavior.
The situation began when homeless people started sleeping overnight near the Hamilton County Courthouse. Up to 30 people have started napping there, causing complaints because some also are urinating and defecating on the property.
Hoping to grab headlines in an election year, Cincinnati City Councilman Jeff Berding proposed imposing a 2.1 percent tax on the money collected by panhandlers. Asking for money on the street amounts to commercial activity, Berding alleged, which he believed could legally be taxed.
Also, Berding wanted to license all panhandlers and require them to wear a standardized sign detailing how much the municipal budget allocates each year for social service agencies.
Berding said his proposal was a response to "aggressive panhandling." Apparently, having people just say "no" to beggars who are overly pushy or mean is too much of a Libertarian solution.
We suspect what Berding really wanted to accomplish was hiding the problem of homelessness so he and like-minded people don't have to be reminded of it.
In 2004, the Washington-based National Coalition for the Homeless ranked Cincinnati as the third-meanest city toward the homeless. The group said some cities try to criminalize homelessness to force homeless people off public spaces.
Two days after he proposed the panhandler tax, Berding chose right-wing shock-jock Bill Cunningham's show on WLW (700 AM) to explain it.
The conversation between the pair took an odd path with Cunningham advocating that panhandlers and homeless people should be subjected to caning, paddling and being locked in stockades — all done publicly.
Cunningham: "Make their ass beet-red and they'll get moving."
Berding: "I think you're really getting a good discussion going there, Bill."
Cunningham: "Jeff, most people think like me."
Berding: "... I can't imagine the reaction if an elected official proposed what you suggested."
Cunningham: "Get back to work, Jeff. You're normal."
Later that same day, however, Berding quietly dropped the proposal after the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio issued a statement promising a lawsuit.
"This is a transparent attempt to backdoor restrictions on the free speech rights of the poorest people in Cincinnati. Soliciting donations has time and again been classified as free speech, not as a business," said Gary Daniels, the Ohio ACLU's associate director.
No shit. It also was probably unenforceable, two points I'm sure Berding knew beforehand.
Just as Berding's reaction was foolish, so too was the reaction from a staff member at the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless.
Writing on a Homeless Coalition Web site, staffer Lynne Ausman stated that because there are bigger problems in the world we shouldn't get upset if homeless people take a dump downtown.
"Frankly, we have bigger problems to worry about than people peeing and pooping near the courthouse," Ausman writes. We can address it, she adds, "when we have enough affordable housing and permanent supportive housing to meet the need. When we have enough living wage employment available so no one is unwillingly unemployed. When we have the ability to prevent homelessness."
The world has never been perfect and never will be. Citing other problems doesn't justify dysfunctional behavior by people with mental health or substance abuse issues. What the blasé attitude does accomplish, though, is giving people who are already inclined to ignore the problem a further excuse to be uncaring.
Ausman states the only available public restrooms downtown close at 7 p.m. and the lack of facilities is the real culprit. The Homeless Coalition has looked into buying a portable toilet, but they cost $85. I bet someone will donate $85 to the Coalition if they give the Port-a-Potty a home on their property.
Meanwhile, if using the restroom is no big deal, I suggest the Coalition keep its 12th Street offices in Over-the-Rhine open overnight so those facilities are accessible.
All the brouhaha over panhandlers did inspire one of the best ideas I've heard in a while.
Jason Haap and Justin Jeffre, bloggers who operate The Cincinnati Beacon Web site, want a new law that would require all City Council members to wear a city-issued name badge whenever conducting public business. The badge would include their names, the amount they raised during their campaign and how much that equals per vote.
"We deserve to know the difference between the ideas coming from the big-money candidate who raised a quarter of a million for his seat or from someone with less ties to special interests," Jeffre said.
It's unclear if Haap and Jeffre might consider amending their proposal to include public canings of City Council members. But we can hope.
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Posted By Jim On 10/18/2005 @ 8:04 pm In Insurance | No Comments
In poking around the Smart Money Personal Finance website I stumbled upon another one of those X tips for reducing your payment for Y, this time it was six tips for reducing auto insurance [3]. For the experienced shoppers in the room, these will be familiar tips but for those of you who haven't seen this before you can save yourself some big bucks with these six simple tips. To sort of augment the original article, which is a little vanilla, I've also listed some previous articles I've written about auto insurance to sort of put a "reality check" on some of their tips. You may find tip 6's addition particularly interesting if you didn't see the post the first time.
2. Get All Available Discounts – They list Combination Discounts, Defensive-Driving Classes, Good-Student Discounts, Retirement Discounts, Association & Group Discounts, College-Kids-Who-Are-Far-Away Discounts, Safety Discounts and Loyalty Discounts.
3. Increase Your Deductible – You've heard of those stories where someone gets into a fender-bender and rather than deal with insurance, someone offers to pay out of pocket. Well, how much would it take for you to opt for dealing with the insurance company (and an increased premium)? If you say $500, then your deductible shouldn't be lower, raise it.
4. Drop Some Coverage – If you had a chance to read some of the articles about my experience, comprehensive and collision represent huge premiums but removing either is very risky.
5. Clean Up Your Credit Report – from the article:
"Somebody who is extremely poor in their payment habits could pay 30% to 40% more than somebody without those problems," says independent agent John Costello, a partner at Costello Dreher Kaiser Insurance, based in Rochester, N.Y.
6. Get the Right Car – The article doesn't give you actual numbers to match what they claim (and neither will I, I don't know) but I will give you this article – which details the ratings State Farm puts on various cars [7].
Good luck!
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I have the wonderful opportunity to do a review and giveaway for RedEnvelope! Though I can't do a proper review because this giveaway has to be up ASAP and end soon so that my winner can order before Valentine's Day! But I am going to tell you about the awesome gifts I picked out for Valentine's Day at RedEnvelope, which I am super excited for.
I was able to pick 2 things with the coupon code I was given. The first is the Couples Conversation Table Topics! I thought it would be great to have this to spark some conversation between my husband and I. We spend out nights apart, like right now I'm busy working on the blog and he's putting away his coins that he collects. So I would love to have something that would help bring us together, and not just sit in silence looking at the ceiling when we are trying to spend time together. Haha.
I also chose this beautiful LoveBird Tea Light Holder. I think it's gorgeous and I know I have a lot of tea lights just hanging around the house not being burned. It would be wonderful to burn it in something beautiful, and to think of my husband and I while I'm burning it. We are love birds.
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Sgt. Larry Ryan, assistant operations sergeant with the 1st Cavalry Divisions Rear Operations Center, shakes hands with Brig Gen. Jeffry Hammond, 1st Cav Div. assistant commander for support after reciting the oath of re-enlistment Jan. 20. Ryan, of Tupelo Miss., took advantage of the Armys new re-enlistment bonus of $15,000 which he intends to save for his childrens? college education. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Tony Sailer, 122nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
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The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries Burning Question: Does Caroline Hook Up With Klaus in the 100th Episode?
According to the episode synopsis for Vampire Diaries' 100th episode, Caroline (Candice Accola) will be "indulg[ing] in a little scandalous behavior of her own" in the wake of Steferine's steamy hookup. Does this mean Caroline will also be knocking boots with someone? And who might it be? We speculate below!
Guess who is still in the running to be the couple who kisses in E! Online's spoiler bomb? Long-time besties Caroline and Stefan! It's hard to imagine these two locking lips while Katherine's on her death bed, but if the sassy vamp-turned-human does bite it, we could see a kiss happening in a moment of comfort. According to the spoiler bomb, the couple in question: "Kiss[es]. One of them freaks out. And then one of them gets a new love interest." We could totally see a Steroline liplock playing out like this.
But, seriously, how amazing would it be if these two finally hooked up in the much-anticipated 100th episode? Talk about epic! And it's not completely out of the question, considering Klaus is confirmed to come back to Mystic Falls soon — possibly in the 100th episode. Will Caroline finally respond to Klaus' advances? Or are these two still out-of-the-question, as they reside on different shows? Television gods, make it happen!
Caroline's ex-boyfriend will also be returning to Mystic Falls in the near future. These two left a lot unsaid when Tyler took off to seek revenge on Klaus and we can't imagine Caroline falling back into bed with Ty after she gave him that ultimatum, but you never know. Emotions will be running high with Katherine's demise imminent and the TVDers taking a walk down memory lane. Might one of the phases Caroline explores be her relationship with Tyler?
Is it weird that we're still kind of pulling for these two? We thought Caroline and Matt were oh-so-sweet when they were a couple in early TVD, and now that they're both single again, anything could happen. We've been dying for these two to get more screen time, and a romance might just be the ticket. Considering their breakup had more to do with Caroline's vampire status than anything, we've always thought there was something left unexplored about their love.
Who do you think Caroline might be hooking up with in the 100th episode? Sound off in the comments below!
The Vampire Diaries returns Thursday, January 23 at 8 p.m. on The CW.


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On Monday, March 26th, 2012, the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius and two linked cases, the lawsuits against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA; signed into law by President Obama on 3/23/2010). The court announced on February 21st that it would hear 6 hours of arguments over 3 days, an historic and unprecedented amount of time. The last time the Supreme Court heard more than 2 hours of arguments was when it considered the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law in 2003.
Ever since Obama took office, the avowed purpose of the opposition party has been to limit the president to one term in office, regardless of the consequences to the nation as a whole. It's no surprise that passage of the ACA has generated a fierce backlash among the "red state" crowd. The results of the severe congressional intransigence and obstruction toward any legislation put forward by the Obama administration include a 14% approval rating, which ties the lowest approval rating for Congress ever recorded.
At issue in the cases before the Supreme Court is the constitutionality of federal involvement, interference, or interposition (depending on who's doing the interpreting) regarding activities of private citizens and activities of the states. The question of constitutionality of the ACA relates specifically to the Commerce Clause (U.S. Constitution Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3). The Commerce Clause states "Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes". As with all clauses of the Constitution, the Commerce Clause must be interpreted and applied. The Supreme Court is the final arbiter and interpreter of all such applications, declaring the constitutionality (or lack thereof) of congressional and state legislation.
The Affordable Care Act legislates three things. First, the ACA establishes an "individual mandate" which requires most citizens (those whose income is above the threshold for filing federal income tax) to maintain health insurance or pay a financial penalty. Second, the act authorizes the creation of insurance exchanges (mostly state-administered) by which individuals and small businesses may purchase health insurance policies. Importantly, the act specifies that insurance companies may not charge higher premiums or deny coverage to those who have preexisting medical conditions. Insurance companies are limited in their ability to cancel policies and they may not impose annual caps on benefits. Third, the act extends Medicaid eligibility to 16 million people by expanding the availability of the program to those with incomes up to 133% of the poverty level. States must comply with the expansion or risk losing all federal Medicaid monies.
The challenges to the ACA state that the federal government has exceeded its constitutionally enumerated powers. The Tenth Amendment states "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The challenges suggest that the ACA attempts to wield a federal power that does not exist under the Constitution and attempts to interfere with powers appropriately "reserved" to the states and to "the people". The challenges assert that it is the right of a citizen, rather than a prerogative of the federal government, to determine whether she will purchase health insurance. The challenges also assert that the federal government cannot dictate how a state conducts its Medicaid program.
The federal power to regulate commerce "among the several states" has been challenged frequently. Wickard v. Filburn is landmark case decided in 1942 which bears directly on the individual mandate section of the ACA. The Supreme Court's majority (8-0) opinion was written by Justice Robert H. Jackson (who several years later served as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials). Justice Jackson provided a history of Supreme Court decisions related to the Commerce Clause, specifically citing the Shreveport Rate Cases. In Shreveport the court held that although railroad rates were an intrastate matter and fixed by authority of the state, the federal government could revise those rates "because of the economic effects which they had upon interstate commerce". Further, Justice Jackson cited United States v. Wrightwood Dairy, which held that "the power of Congress over interstate commerce is plenary and complete in itself" and "may be exercised to its utmost extent".
Such broad interpretations of the powers available to the federal government under the Commerce Clause date back to Gibbons v. Ogden, a case decided in 1824. Chief Justice John Marshall (appointed by President John Adams in 1800) wrote the majority opinion (8-0). The chief justice emphasized that "our Constitution [is] one of enumeration, and not of definition". Regarding "strict construction", a term frequently used by the current opposition party and conservatives generally when they intend to oppose federal legislation, Chief Justice Marshall wrote that "we cannot perceive the propriety" of "narrow construction which would cripple the government and render it unequal to the object for which it is declared to be instituted". Regarding the power enumerated in the Commerce Clause itself, Chief Justice Marshall wrote "It is the power to regulate, that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution".
At issue in Wickard v. Filburn was whether the federal government had the power to regulate how much wheat Mr. Filburn grew on his farm. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (1938) had established limits on wheat production in an attempt to stabilize wheat prices during the Depression. Filburn claimed that such interference would move the nation toward a centralized government and "lead to absolutism by successive nullifications of all Constitutional limitations".1 Concerning Mr. Filburn's farming activities, Justice Jackson wrote "though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce". Thus, the power of the federal government to require individuals to purchase health insurance may be construed in the same light, i.e., the enumerated power of Congress to regulate commerce.
It is appropriate to address the motives of opponents of the ACA in raising the question of constitutionality. The primary focus of elected officials should be the welfare of their constituents. It is patently obvious that the U.S. health care "system" is badly broken. We are the only developed nation in the world whose primary means for implementing health care is that of the private marketplace. Fifty-nine million Americans do not have health insurance because they cannot afford it. In a brief two years, the ACA has resulted in more Americans receiving life-saving preventive care, more affordable prescription drugs for senior citizens (saving $3.2 billion for 5.1 million older adults), and millions of young adults being able to remain on their parents health insurance until age 26.
The ACA's individual mandate will benefit all Americans, not only those presently in need of health care coverage. For example, utilization of emergency room services should drop dramatically, saving taxpayers billions of dollars. Utilization of primary care and preventive services will increase, resulting in a higher general level of health and a concomitant increase in productivity and participation in family and community activities. As the general welfare of citizens improves, the overall welfare of society improves. Social welfare makes economic sense.
The Affordable Care Act should be a legislative slam dunk. Obstructionists need to consider the health and well-being of the United States itself or resign their posts.
1Chen J: Filburn's Legacy. Emory Law J 52(4):1719-1769, 2003
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why do people try to sell crap lmao
Why do people try to sell crap and not just toss it..seriously..I have seen people on here selling rims like oh yea are they bent or cracked? yea..I mean seriously who wants bent or cracked rims..like just throw it out or ride on it lol but to try and sell that..whose with me? lmao...give me some examples I think its funny and interesting..


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Wow... long time since my last entry.
I got a new laptop.... a few years ago.
I figured out that I could use Puppy Linux to get my crashed computer working enough to copy everything to an external USB Hard Drive. So Yay!
Karysha and I have been happily married some 5.5 years as of early December, 2011.
I've lost touch with many (most) of my online friends in that time, much to my chagrin and regret, but life's priorities naturally change. I'd love to reconnect with them though.
I switched jobs from Wal-Mart to a place called the Valley Center for Advanced Personal Success, which is a behavioral/vocational day program for developmentally disabled adults. It was hard at times, and a real learning experience. It stretched me in many ways, taught me new levels of patience and compassion, and provided a decent contribution to mine and Karysha's living. Meanwhile, she stepped down from her position so we could have more time together, and eventually quit the company she worked for. She got a job as a security guard, and we made ends meet, usually... mostly. And I still needed to find a better job.
We also worked/volunteered in the children's ministry at our church, which was a lot of fun, and a real blessing to be a part of. I received a lot of positive feedback from the other workers, children, and parents, which was gratifying, but the real reward was getting to work together with my bride as a team, in the service of the Lord.
We lived in the central valley of Northern California for close to 4 years, give or take a few months, and then a number of factors prompted us to move across country to Virginia, as of about 6 months ago, give or take a week or two. Her job transferred. Mine didn't.
I eventually got a part time job with an electronics retailer, selling cellphones and such. I like it. A lot... but I don't get enough pay or hours to make ends meet.. So I still need a better job. But I'm applying, and I'm hopeful.
Meanwhile, I finally made my home-schooling education (elementary through high school) official by obtaining my GED! (Don't ask how I managed to earn a associate's and a bachelor's without one. Only God knows.)
Since we got married I haven't really photographed many new sunsets or clouds. We haven't lived anyplace with quite the same kind of view... but one never knows what the future holds. Perhaps I'll take up writing...
Another thing I've realized is that I need to get more serious with God... as is always going to be the case. For every new level my relationship with Christ reaches, I realize that there is so much more to Him, and so much more I ought to be doing in response to what He has done for me. I am also more convicted of my sin, and more amazed by His ceaseless love and lavish grace to me, the complete opposite of what I know I honestly deserve.
So yeah.... that's a rough summary of what's been going on since my last journal post... of course, in 5+ years, there's a ton of stuff I could add, but.... for now, I need to go fill out some job-applications.


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Watch The First Trailer For Mexicali Action KISS OF VENGEANCE
Atrocious director Fernando Barreda Luna has something very different in mind for his next film. No more bumps in the night or shaky point of view camera here. No, instead he is cooking up a violent and stylish tale of action and revenge.
A short film project designed as a precursor to a planned feature involving the same characters, the first trailer for Kiss Of Vengeance is now here and - yes, indeed - it leaves me wanting to see more. Take a look below.Kiss of Vengeance is a western tale about a girl who becomes a true hero that fights the Mafia, inspired by a deep desire of pursuing the killers who executed her family in a horrible massacre back in the 90's. This is the lonely journey about a renegade young rider who can't trust anyone but her own skills. Set in the outlawed border of Mexico and U.S. ruled by the Cartels.
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Once the evaluation is complete, the transplant team will recommend treatment options and discuss if liver transplant is the best option. The risks and benefits will be discussed with each patient. After a candidate is accepted for transplantation, the patient is then placed on the national transplant waiting list maintained by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Because of the ongoing shortage of donor organs in this country, candidates may be on waiting lists for a year or longer. The time may be shorter or longer depending on the donor supply and the patient waiting list. While waiting, the patient is followed in the liver transplant clinic periodically to assist with any medical issues that may arise.
The transplant coordinators are involved in the pre-transplant screening and stay involved throughout the years of follow-up care. In this way, patients benefit from having the same people throughout their participation in the program. Our patients tell us that the transplant coordinators, because of the range of their involvement and the depth of their concern, are essential participants in the support network.
Our social workers are a resource, advocate and a link between patients and all the services designed to assist them. The social worker helps patients and their families address the many complex social and personal that arise for transplant patients. The services range from helping with personal and psychological issues that result from living with a chronic medical condition, to lodging, joining support groups and receiving vocational rehabilitation.
The financial coordinator assists patients with financial and insurance issues related to transplantation. The services include assessing patient insurance for hospital and pharmacy benefits, identifying and attempting to resolve patient financial problems, and helping patients in requesting and applying for assistance from transplant resource programs.


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Sledding on the beach is certainly an odd combination. It's also something that brings an adrenaline rush to son Chris and his brother T.J. Samojedny.
Chris says, "It's dare devilish sometimes."
On Thursday night, the sand dune turned snow hill was the main attraction on Atlantic Beach.
Tom says, "For a week ahead of time they were saying, 'Okay, we gotta get the sleds out. It's gonna snow.'"
Tom says the family has lived in Carteret County for four years. Originally they're from New Jersey.
Typically, Tom takes the family up North to get the boys their snow fix.
Tom said, "Last year at Christmas break we decided to visit friends up in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, and we took the sleds."
Of course, they're a bit out of practice.
Chris said, "It's also very hard to get up them once it's snowed a lot, because it's slippery. There's more ice than snow."
Tom told us the last time there was enough snow for his boys to get a good sled ride in here in Eastern Carolina was back in 2010.


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Networking by numbers
Filed under: Social Economy
RSA Connected Communities has started a new project with Nathan of the MIT Center for Civic Media to create a new, cost-effective way to measure the social impact of public services and civic interventions and to allow people to see their own personal networks. We're designing a mobile and tablet app for recording real-life social networks: your friends, families and contacts. The open source software we build will also be useful to journalists, ethnographers and anyone trying to make sense of rapidly changing social phenomena. Here I illustrate how we are currently recording this data, and why I think it is important that we change the way that we do it.
What is data?
Data is a rushed researcher putting together a survey to capture the full extent of a human life on paper. The scales are based on someone else's testing. The newly combined scales are then re-tested on new people. Any newly invented questions can change as a result of piloting; the old questions – based on someone else's testing – must remain constant. These newly tested combined scales – with the odd bit of cut and paste – are then recalibrated and re-launched.
A community researcher goes door to door. "Hello! My name is… " Door shuts. "Hi! I'm… Some version of a person's social network and social world is transferred from local person, to community researcher's ear, to RSA paper survey. Interesting anecdotes and unusual answers are scribbled in the margins, for few paper-based-surveys have the space to fully annotate human complexity.
Back at the RSA HQ a data entry scribe enters these reams upon reams of human data. Comment boxes are full of the annotated scribbles, although some anecdotes are lost to time, bad weather and even worse handwriting. Data entry becomes data book; data book becomes social network; social network might become a Guardian Society supplement.
We have found that allowing people to see their own networks and understand them allows them to feel they can change them.
And so what? Your social network, your human network, is a map of you. And maps need to be used in the now, not in a year's time when the roads have changed and bridges have been broken. The social app I am working on with Nathan from the MIT Center for Civic Media might allow us to do just that. It will be a means of researching somebody's human networks and then playing it back to them, in real time.
Here in the RSA Connected Communities team – when not dealing with 4000 peoples' worth of social networks and wellbeing, community health networks and the innovation networks of various councils – we are trying to help social network analysis become a real life tool. For this to happen it needs to make sense to people.
We already know that people with more diverse networks are healthier and happier. Our human networks help us to find work, with those with more diverse networks tending to have higher status and better paid jobs. We have found that allowing people to see their own networks and understand them allows them to feel they can change them. Poor networks are a real form of poverty: lack of mainstream social capital slows you down and closes off options.
You can paint me your social picture and I can ask "Does this look right, does this look like you?" before I join up the numbers
Through visualisation work to make network outputs more intelligible and the creation of network toolkits that hopefully make the subject more intuitive to people, we are trying to open up social network knowledge so it can be part of every individual's personal toolkit. I really hope that the tool we are working on with Nathan will be a big part of this.
It will allow researcher and researched to really co-produce.You can paint me your social picture and I can ask "Does this look right, does this look like you?" before I join up the numbers. It will make the data better and it will do what the data protection act tried but failed to do: it will make you own your own data, because you can see, feel and change it.
This might become a way for people to check in on their own social networks every once in a while, or a tool that might measure your isolation and suggest a local reading group or walking club. I can imagine GPs using this kind of tool to help them socially prescribe local activities. Any organisation which acts with social networks – such as the NGO Tostan- could use this as a low-cost way of measuring the impact of their interventions.
Organisations which rely on interviewing broad sections of people to understand new social phenomena – such as Human Rights Watch or any news organisation worth its salt – could use the tool as a prompt in interviews, a means of recording data and a way on ensuring that they have actually managed to ask a diverse group of people and not just people who float in similar circles.
So over to you. These social networks are your human networks. And these human networks delimit that which is possible in your life. What does this tool need to do, if it is to be of real use?
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CHENEY – Intangibles – and there will be many of them Saturday at Roos Field – are just that.
None of them will make a tackle or throw a key block in Eastern Washington's FCS semifinal game against Towson.
As Tigers coach Rob Ambrose said: "That's for guys with pens and computers."
It's also for fans, who are fond of discussing everything from the weather (snow is possible) to the 11 a.m kickoff to the Eagles' hefty playoff experience compared with Towson's.
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And, of course, they feel the need to bring up the Eagles' semifinal loss last year to Sam Houston State – the product, more than anything, of an abysmal start.
As if the Eagles wanted to trail 35-0 at halftime.
"It wasn't a lack of focus," Eastern coach Beau Baldwin said. "I think if anything, we were wanting to press and make plays."
Against a confident, road-tested Towson team that thrives on adversity, the Eagles (12-2) will have to make plenty of plays to advance to the FCS championship game against North Dakota State, which beat New Hampshire 52-14 Friday night.
A few keys:
• Bring enough helmets to the line of scrimmage to slow Towson's superb running back, Terrance West.
• Limit the open-field running opportunities of quarterback Peter Athens.
• Win the battle on the edge for Eagles running back Quincy Forte.
• Limit mistakes, or at least stay even in the turnover battle.
West, the leading rusher (2,295 yards) and scorer (38 TDs) in the nation, is priority No. 1 for the Eagles defense, which two weeks ago shackled South Dakota State's Zach Zenner and forced a running team to throw.
"He's (West) one of the best running backs I've seen since I've coached at this level," Baldwin said. "He's very effective inside, but he can hit home runs."
West can expect a variety of blitzes, which also should limit the options for Athens. Towson (12-2) already has lost top receivers Leon Kinnard and Spencer Wilkins to injury.


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but keep getting this reply :
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Tasteful Le Marais Apartment
Size33 m²
Floor No.4
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Towels
|Rue Michel Le Comte, 75003 Paris, France
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|Property ID
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In this apartment, guests can enjoy historic charm and modern comfort. It has one double bedroom, a bathroom with a walk-in shower, a compact, but full kitchen, and a dining and living room with a double sofa bed. A lovely wooden dining table for 4 allows guests to sit together for home-cooked meals.
With a metro station less than 3 minutes' walk away, guests can reach the River Seine, the Île de la Cité and Notre Dame Cathedral in 2 minutes. Beautiful and artistic Montmartre is 15 minutes away, as is the Louvre Museum.
The Pompidou Centre, which houses the largest modern art museum in Europe, is less than a 5-minute walk away. Guests can find a huge number of restaurants and shops within 5 minutes on foot, as well as a cinema and some galleries.
A €30 fee is required for check-in between 9:00 pm and 11pm.
A €50 fee is required for check-in after 11pm.
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Appartamento in posizione centrale, zona silenziosa, 15 min. a piedi da Notre Dame, con garage. Tutto perfetto, moderno e funzionale. Complimenti Alex! (anche se non ci siamo conosciuti perché a portarci le chiavi e' stato un suo amico).
Eravamo in 4 e siamo stati comodamente. Inoltre tutti i servizi (metro, negozi, supermercati e ristoranti) sono nel giro di 2 min. a piedi!
We had a great stay in one of the best areas of Paris and this apartment was just perfect for it. 100 from the metro and in walking distance of all the fun stuff in Le Marais. Booking was easy, smooth and the owner was there waiting for us. Everything you need is in the apartment for if you want to have a breakfast or dinner at home. Modern shower, good bed and very quiet. So I can totally recommend this apartment to any group between 2 and 4 people.
wonderful Appartment in good area. Alex is very friendly and we had a great time there . will defenetly go there again.
all right.
todo bien.
Wonderful. Is centrally located on the vibrant heart and is still incredibly quiet. Also the parking space in the underground garage belonging to the house is worth gold because outside is virtually no parking.
The apartment is equipped with all necessary and tastefully decorated.
We would take this apartment at any time immediately again!
Wunderbar. Liegt zentral am pulsierenden Herzen und ist dennoch unglaublich ruhig. Auch der Stellplatz in der zum Haus gehörigen Tiefgarage ist Gold wert, da außerhalb so gut wie keine Parkmöglichkeiten sind.
Die Wohnung ist mit allem notwendigen ausgestattet und geschmackvoll eingerichtet.
Wir würden diese Wohnung jederzeit sofort wieder nehmen!
It is a small but charming room located in the lovely neighborhood of Montmartre, suitable especially for couples or singles.
You will reach the sightseeings easily takeing the metro.
Was all in line with our expectation, at any time to be recommended.
War Alles unseren Erwartung entsprechend, jederzeit weiter zu empfehlen.
Good apartment with excellent value. Ideally located next to the metro station Villiers that leads to anywhere in Paris in 10 minutes. The apartment is simple, clean, well equipped with everything you need, is as it appears in photos. Only drawback is no elevator as indicated on the web, we were two adults and a small child and a little uncomfortable stairs.
Alex, very polite and approachable. Undoubtedly recommended.
Buen apartamento, con excelente relación calidad-precio. Muy bien situado pegado a la estación de metro de Villiers que permite llegar a cualquier sitio de Paris en 10 minutos. El apartamento es sencillo, limpio, bien equipado con todo lo necesario, es tal y como figura en las fotos. Unico inconveniente que no tiene ascensor como indican en la web, nosotros eramos dos adultos y un niño pequeño y un poco incomodo las escaleras.
Alex, muy educado y accesible. Recomendable sin lugar a dudas.
The apartment is centrally located and quiet. Everything you could need!
Das Appartment ist zentral und ruhig gelegen. Alles da was man braucht!
If you like a lively area with many terraces, nice eateries and kroejes, then this apartment is ideal. Near the Place de la Bastille and a half hour walk from the center. The apartment itself is excellent. Everything you need for a short stay. Not unimportant is the parking which is included.
In short, highly recommended.
Hou je van een levendige buurt, met veel terrasjes, leuke eettentjes en kroejes, dan ligt dit appartement ideaal. Vlakbij de Place de la Bastille en een half uurtje wandelen van het centrum. Het appartement zelf is uitstekend. Alles wat je nodig hebt voor een kort verblijf. Niet onbelangrijk is de parkeerplaats die inclusief is.
Kortom een echte aanrader.
- Quality assured accommodation
- Every host is verified by telephone
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The Air India board on Tuesday approved the sale of five Boeing 777-200 LRs to Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways. The transaction is likely to fetch around $350 million (Rs 2,100 crore) to the airline. The proposal will now require clearance from the Union Cabinet.
The delivery of aircraft to Etihad Airways is scheduled to commence from January 2014. A note would now be prepared and sent to the Cabinet for approval. said a senior official.
Air India owns a fleet of 20 Boeing 777 200-Long Range and Boeing 777 300-Extreme Range that are operated on the routes to the US, Europe, China, Japan, Korea and Saudi Arabia. Out of the 20, eight 200-LRs are flown to Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Osaka but operational profitability has been a concern.
The accruals through sale would be utilised to settle outstanding loans against the aircraft.
There will be savings in principal and interest payment of about Rs 370 crore a year after the planes are sold, informed a senior Air India official.
The sale of the aircraft will also help improve Air Indias financial performance as these planes have high operating cost and the airline has been struggling to achieve break-even on routes, where it has deployed the aircraft.
The national carrier plans to replace these Boeing 777s with Boeing 787s to Europe and Far East routes to address the route and plane mismatch in its operations.
Air India will deploy Boeing 777 300-ER to Newark, while Dreamliners will replace 777 200-LRs to Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Osaka.
Etihad Airways has said it plans to deploy the aircraft on a new route between Abu Dhabi and Los Angeles starting June 2014. The Boeing 777-200-Long Range has a design range of 17,370 km, allowing it to connect almost any city in the world from Etihad Airways hub at Abu Dhabi, Etihad had said in a statement.
Etihad Airways currently flies to New York, Chicago, Washington DC and Toronto in North America, and to São Paulo in Brazil, and has stated its intention to add new services to both continents using the new aircraft.


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DR Congo: UN envoy tells Security Council of improving security, remaining threats
|UN News Service
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|9 June 2011
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|UN News Service, DR Congo: UN envoy tells Security Council of improving security, remaining threats, 9 June 2011, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4df20a0c2.html [accessed 30 May 2016]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) told the Security Council today that there have been significant improvements in security in the central African country, but many challenges remain before stability is restored in conflict-affected areas.
"There has been significant progress regarding the security situation in recent years in eastern DRC," said Roger Meece, the Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), in a briefing to the Council.
"The security environment and the related threat to the civilian population, our highest priority concern, must be viewed on a localized basis to obtain a full understanding of the remaining threats," he added.
In the country's Orientale province in the north, members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) continue to threaten civilians using brutal tactics during cross-border movements between the DRC, the Central African Republic (CAR) and Southern Sudan. Their numbers have, however, fallen and they have tended to be poorly equipped, Mr. Meece told the Council.
"I believe the only strategy that will significantly reduce or eliminate the LRA as an ongoing threat in the region is one that focuses on the LRA leadership, three of whom are under indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC). That strategy, however, requires a broad effort that goes beyond MONUSCO's scope and mandate, but which we are ready to support to the maximum extent possible," he said.
In the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu, Mr. Meece said the Rwandan rebel group, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), has been weakened, a development that has led to encouraging numbers of combatants, some of them senior figures in the group, being repatriated.
Former rebel fighters who have not been integrated into the DRC's national army also continue to pose a threat to civilians in the two Kivu provinces, Mr. Meece told the Council, adding the MONUSCO was in dialogue with the Government to address the issue.
He noted that MONUSCO's military operations are being negatively affected by a shortage of helicopters and voiced appreciation for South Africa's pledge to provide additional choppers. The mission is in discussions with other Member States in an effort to acquire more helicopters, he added.
On the illegal exploitation of mineral resources in the east, Mr. Meece said MONUSCO and the Government are continuing with their "Trading Centres" programme that involves establishing areas where such minerals can be certified as originating from legitimate mining.
"For tackling illegal exploitation of mineral resources, as with all regional security issues, the greatly improved dialogue and ongoing contacts between countries of the region are of critical importance," Mr. Meece told the Council.
On the preparations for the presidential and legislative elections scheduled for November, he said that MONUSCO has been supporting the process, transporting thousands of tons of poll materials and providing other forms of technical support. He said the mission will need additional funding for its electoral support activities.
"I know of no reason at this point why Congolese elections for the next election cycle cannot represent the kind of democratic and successful exercise that the Congolese nation and the people both deserve and need, and I would call on all parties to take the necessary steps to ensure that the upcoming elections are conducted in a peaceful democratic and successful manner. I strongly urge this Council's continued support for the process, and for MONUSCO's essential support," he said.
Mr. Meece called for further support to strengthen the capacity of the Congolese national police, as well as the country's judicial and military institutions.
DRC's Ambassador to the United Nations, Ileka Atoki, told the Council that his country was taking measures, both military and non-military, to re-establish security in the entire country and to ensure good governance, while strengthening the rule of law and economic development.


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That's a lie. The only holiday we're having is a holiday from the school run but I'm pretending we're going on a Summer holiday just because I can. Thus far we have weathered 7 weekdays and two weekends on our Summer holiday and I can report that while there have been moments of tension, frustration and grumpiness, there have also been many more moments of laughter, glee and happiness.
I love my kids. They really are very good and while they both have their moments, 98% of the time we get along and have good fun together. Ella is a brilliant big sister and Sam adores her. I cannot complain. I can whinge every so often but in the grand scheme of things, my children are pretty damn lovely.
Here are our best bits from the last week and a half…cue the photo montage…
Not too shabby eh? We've had some good times, plenty of everyday times and a few poo moments. I've personally been seriously lacking in adult companionship and personal time but hey ho, it's what being a Stay-at-Home-Mum is often about. The kids, however, have had fun and we have more exciting times to look forward to this week. What fun have you been up to? Share your best bits from the last week with me; make me smile!


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Former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta will be brought into the White House fold once again to serve as a counselor for President Barack Obama, according to a report in the New York Times Monday evening.
Podesta comes as problems mount for the administration, highlighted by the continuing struggle over the implementation of health care reform.
Podesta is currently the chair of the Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank that he founded. He previously served Obama as the head of the transition team following the 2008 election.


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Lincoln 'Banjo' Daily doesn't see what slavery has to do with music. He plays the banjo because he likes to. He is just one of a colony of drifters who have settled on the tough waterfront of Marseilles in the 1920s. They panhandle by day, and at night do the rounds of the brawling bistros. They drink, look for women, dance, play music, make love and fight, and they talk about their homes in Senegal, the Caribbean and the United States: about Garvey's 'back-to-Africa' movement, and about being black. A journey which leads some of them to discovering their African roots and a sense of belonging to a race 'weighed, tested and poised in the universal scheme'.
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