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I have a Freedom Ryder LC1 lean-steer handcyle that I bought used about 6 years ago that I no longer ride. It needs new tubes/tires and it has a few scuffs from the previous owner apparently leaning it a tad too much, but otherwise the bike is in good condition. Asking $900.
I live in Central Alabama about 30 minutes from downtown Birmingham. It would obviously be easier to pick the item up as opposed to shipping it, but I could look into shipping options if the buyer is willing to pay shipping costs.

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How do the Patriots maintain a dynasty? With offseasons like last year
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — The New England Patriots are back in the Super Bowl, but it's not exactly the same team that was in Houston a year ago.
New England had an aggressive offseason, with big signings and surprising trades. Not every move worked out, but they're in another Super Bowl. They must have done some things right.
"The personnel department has done a great job through the years of building a team," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. "That comes in a lot of areas."
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Let's look back and grade some of the Patriots' biggest moves as they tweaked the roster to get right back to Super Bowl LII:
Brandin Cooks trade
The biggest move was probably the trade with the New Orleans Saints to land Cooks. The Patriots traded a first-round pick to the Saints, and that pick became starting offensive tackle Ryan Ramczyk. That move worked out well for the Saints, too. Cooks posted a career-best 16.6 yards per reception and had his third straight 1,000-yard season. His biggest moment was probably a game-winning touchdown catch in the final seconds of a Week 3 game against the Houston Texans, though a 100-yard game in a comeback against the Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC championship game was huge, as well.
Cooks gave the Patriots an outside receiving threat and another dynamic playmaker to go with Rob Gronkowski, though there was no guarantee the transition would be easy. Many receivers struggle coming over to the Patriots' offense. Cooks credited quarterback Tom Brady for working with him in the offseason.
"He did a great job in the offseason on catching me up, so I wasn't left behind when the season came," Cooks said.
Verdict: Worked out for the Patriots (and the Saints too)
Signing cornerback Stephon Gilmore
The Patriots don't often give out big-money deals, so the five-year, $65 million deal to Gilmore was a surprise. Gilmore started a bit slow but came on strong, and he made one of the biggest plays of the Patriots' AFC title game win when he knocked down a fourth-down pass by the Jaguars in the final minutes.
The Patriots offered him a ton of money, but there were other reasons for him to join the Patriots. Once again, the lure of joining a championship contender helped the Patriots land a key player.
"To be in this position, to be able to win a championship, that's the reason I came here," Gilmore said.
Verdict: Expensive but paid off handsomely
Not trading Malcolm Butler
The trade rumors with the Patriots shipping Butler to the Saints were so far along, the Saints and Butler actually agreed to the parameters of a contract. But the Saints reportedly backed out, which turned out to be a good thing for the Patriots. Butler is a good cornerback and the tandem of he and Gilmore was a reason the Patriots defense improved as the season went on. When asked at the Super Bowl if he was happy how things turned out, Butler replied "most definitely, 100 percent." The Patriots were certainly a better team with him.
Butler can become an unrestricted free agent next offseason and it'll be tough for the Patriots to re-sign him, although he said he wants to return. The Patriots are probably happy they ended up with at least this season with Butler before he hits free agency.
"It was something I never experienced before, and it wasn't nothing I couldn't handle," Butler said. "The past is the past, and I'm just glad to be here playing for the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII."
Verdict: Blessing in disguise
Signed running backs Rex Burkhead and Mike Gillislee
Gillislee seemed to be a priority, considering he was a restricted free agent and the Patriots had to give the Buffalo Bills a fifth-round pick when they signed him. Gillislee started out as a big part of the offense, but since Oct. 29 he has received carries in just one game, a six-carry game on Dec. 24 against Buffalo.
Burkhead ended up being a better fit on a one-year, $3.15 million deal. He had 518 yards and eight touchdowns, his versatility fitting well in the Patriots' deep stable of running backs, before an injured left knee set him back. Burkhead had other offers, but like many others who choose the Patriots, Burkhead wanted a chance to win. It's a huge edge for the Pats that players want to come to them for the chance to make a Super Bowl.
"I wanted to come to a team that had an atmosphere of winning, and a team mindset and understood what it took to be playing in this game," Burkhead said. "Being here now is something I've always dreamed about."
Verdict: Not great, though each had their moments
Patriots sign DL Lawrence Guy
In terms of the total amount of the contract, Guy got the second biggest deal among players the Patriots signed from other teams. He got a four-year, $13.4 million deal to leave the Ravens and did what the Patriots expected, starting 15 games and being a solid run stopping end in their rotation. It wasn't as exciting as the Cooks or Gilmore additions, but one that helped.
Verdict: No regrets
Letting go some veterans (some of whom ended up with the Eagles)
You can't keep everyone. The Patriots had to move on from some veterans. The three most notable departures in free agency were probably tight end Martellus Bennett, running back LeGarrette Blount and defensive end Chris Long. Bennett turned out to be a monumental mistake for the Packers (the Patriots brought him back after he was cut, but shortly after he landed on injured reserve). Long and Blount … what happened to those guys? Oh right, they're playing against the Patriots in Super Bowl LII as members of the Philadelphia Eagles. Long and Blount have been solid contributors for Philadelphia.
Verdict: The Patriots found replacements for the vets who left
A quiet draft
The Patriots didn't get much help from the draft. Their top pick was defensive end Derek Rivers in the third round, and he tore his ACL in August. Fourth-round pick Deatrich Wise was the only draftee to play more than three games, and he ended up being a nice find with five sacks. This draft doesn't seem like it will be a boon in the future, but the Patriots usually bolster the roster with undrafted talent anyway (undrafted defensive tackle Adam Butler, with six starts, is a good example from this year's class).
Verdict: Not too great yet, though Wise is a keeper
Two meh trades
Two trades that looked pretty good on paper didn't work out. The Patriots moved a fourth-round pick to Indianapolis for tight end Dwayne Allen and a sixth-round pick. Allen had almost no impact, with 10 catches, 86 yards and a touchdown. The trade for defensive end Kony Ealy was worse. New England traded a second-round pick to Carolina for Ealy and a third-round pick. Ealy was cut in training camp. The Patriots moved down only eight spots in that deal, but it still wasn't pretty.
Verdict: Can't win them all
Phillip Dorsett for Jacoby Brissett, and Jimmy Garoppolo goes to the 49ers
Both of the Patriots' backups through the preseason ended up being starters on other teams by the end of the season. Brissett for Dorsett might hurt down the road, especially if Tom Brady doesn't play forever. Dorsett had just 201 yards on 13 touches during the regular season, though he had a big 31-yard catch in the AFC championship game. Garoppolo had to go before he hit free agency and did to San Francisco in midseason, a trade we'll hear a lot more about as years go on. Then again, maybe it doesn't matter if Brady plays until his mid-40s, as he claims he will.
Verdict: Not ideal, though it didn't hurt this season
Other moves for depth
The Patriots hope for contributions from everyone, so no deal ends up being too minor. Defensive end Eric Lee was signed off Buffalo's practice squad during the season and had 3.5 sacks in six games. Johnson Bademosi was signed from Detroit, and helped at cornerback and on special teams. David Harris was a veteran pickup after the New York Jets let him go, and he started six games. Late in the season the Patriots snapped up outside linebacker James Harrison after things went sour for him and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Patriots have found contributions from many players, as usual.
Verdict: No home runs, but some solid additions
This is how successful offseasons look. Nobody bats 1.000, and that's fine. The Patriots used draft picks in trades to add veterans, then took their cap space and made one big outside investment in Gilmore. They added a major piece on offense (Cooks) and defense (Gilmore) and used the rest of their resources to build players who fit specific roles. It helped to have a championship core in place, but the Patriots deserve an A for an offseason that helped them get back to another Super Bowl.
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I have to say that if I were to choose a company whose products blew me away at CHA it was Tattered Angels. While there, I met Liz Hicks and she was kind enough to take me around their booth. She also demonstrated her mad skillz with Glimmer Mist. I was so impressed that I took their 201 class while at CHA and I loved it! So now comes the fun part!
What I liked: I love the mists, really I do. There is a learning curve to it, but once you get it, you will never stop! It is so versatile. You can do almost anything with this stuff. I am in love, sigh... The chips are great as well.
What I didn't like: I would like to see more clean and graphic images to work with, but then I think that might go against their name of Tattered... The learning curve of the mists. Trying not to get the splotches on your page takes practice, but nothing you can't over come. Here let me show you how!
This tag I misted with Chalkboard Mist in Peacock. I also misted the chip frame at the same time to get the masked look. I then painted over the frame with Glimmer Glam in Mermaid a couple of times to get the color I wanted.
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The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt, starts off at a luxuriously leisurely pace. Time, to start, is measured in parties, social gatherings, lasting interminable hours, days. Byatt comments directly on the passing of time, midway through the novel — how time passes at different speeds for different people, how its passing is measured, how for the two-year-old a year is half a lifetime.
Well, this novel moves like that, like life. It doesn't pick up speed exactly, it just goes more quickly; the summers of childhood are languorous and eternal, but the years begin to flit by, you wonder what happened to youth, and suddenly there is war and it's a blur, and you find yourself middle-aged wondering how you got here so soon.
Particularly in the latter half (and this is a hefty book: more than 600 pages), there are bits that read like pages out of almanac: the death of so-and-so, some landmark publication, news items, political happenings. I came to be grateful for this context of a very particular time and place, and it took on increasing significance for how Byatt's characters evolve.
When I first picked up this novel, I thought it was about a woman, a children's author, who kept private notebooks for each of her children, in which she told their stories. I anticipated being led through these stories, being enchanted. But it's not like that at all. I mean, it is, but it's much, much grimmer (read: Grimm-er) and so very vast and clever.
The novel begins in a fairy tale setting; subterranean and exotic; surrounded by treasures enameled and encrusted with jewels. The secret passageways of a museum. From there we move by train to a sprawling, modernized farmhouse called Todefright. What better place to meet the cast than at a midsummer party.
Everything is under keen observation, but imbued with awe. It is a magical and enchanted veil through which reality seeps. It is gentle and natural, pastoral and reverent of nature. All are berobed as gods and goddesses, artists and witches.
Dorothy tires of the whimsy; her respect for nature is more scientific; yet she belongs here:
Dorothy was waiting for Cousin Griselda. Cousin Griselda came into her mind when she had to use the word "love" which she tended to be careful with. Griselda was the same age as Dorothy, and was closer to Dorothy than her sister Phyllis. Dorothy, a realist, rather thought she did not love Phyllis, though she knew she ought to. Perhaps because of this she loved Griselda — whom she did not see very often — a little more emphatically. Dorothy was sometimes afraid that she had started out with a smaller capability for love than most people. Phyllis loved everything — Mother, Father, Auntie Violet, Hedda, Florian and Robin, Ada and Cathy, the ponies, the fluffy kitten, dead Rosy in the orchard, the Todefright toads. Dorothy had varying feelings for most of these people, some of them loving. But she did love Griselda, she had fixed on Griselda to love.
For the most part, the novel's inhabitants are intellectuals, and as I remarked early and often, to anyone who would listen, they are very ineresting people. They are impassioned. They have esoteric knowledge. They have opinions. They have political and social agendas.
They are flesh and blood.
Olive is a writer and mother, but she is a woman too:
Olive Wellwood was thirty-eight. She came from a class where many, perhaps most, women did not live much beyond that age, where what was in women's minds was diminishing strength and the looming of real death. Yet here she was in the magical Garden of England, with a good body, and a face that was, she thought, more interesting, more defined, yes indeed, more beautiful, than when she had been a green girl. And spider-webs of sexual attraction floated everywhere, and touched their skins, like dandelion seeds on white spiralling parasols, like ozone wafting in from the sea. It was still her time, she thought, looking out at the Channel and the children — and Toby who was leaping with them, and Violet camped with nanny and pram — and Prosper who was striding towards them in a smart panama hat. The children were children, blessed children, not yet formed. Though she saw that Herbert Methley had detached his attention from her, and was staring with a pleased expression at the gaggle of girls, pale, fine Griselda, brisk dark Dorothy, dreamy Pomona and inhibited Imogen, pretty Phyllis and composed Florence, the only one in whom could be seen a shadow of the woman she would be. "Aren't they lovely?" she said to Methley, who gave her a sharp look, smiled conspiratorially, and agreed.
They are, for the most part, Fabians.
They mean to advance socialism and change the world incrementally. They mean for the tortoise to win the race.
The plot for a time follows Art and Crafts, specifically pottery. Byatt may be saying this is modernity: interesting oneself in the real-world application of something pure.
We see the meetings of minds. We follow a party to the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris (which I mentioned previously). We go to puppet theatres, in Germany.
Throughout, the likes of Oscar Wilde, Rupert Brooke, and others, make cameo appearances.
In 1901, Queen Victoria dies:
There was a sense that fun was now permitted, was perhaps obligatory. The stiff black flounces, the jet necklaces, the pristine caps, the euphemisms and deference, the high seriousness also, the sense of duty and the questioning of the deep meanings of things were there to be mocked, to be turned into scarecrows and Hallowe'en masks. People talked, and thought, earnestly and frivolously, about sex. At the same time they showed a paradoxical propensity to retreat into childhood to read and write adventure stories, tales about furry animals, dramas about pre-pubertal children.
So the modern age is marked by a refusal to grow up. No, that's too harsh. A disinclination to let go of childhood. Perhaps while recognizing a value in childhood that had long been neglected (or sent off to boarding school).
The children of this novel make decisions (or not), make their own way in their very different worlds, more often than not in spite of their parents.
One family disintegrates, but a new family center is forged. It's the Fabian family, the free thinkers dabbling in free love, freedom of all kinds, who fail to thrive.
I wonder if Byatt isn't commenting that the Fabian way was a perpetuation of childhood, that sometimes the best way to social progress isn't in gradual increments but in one fell swoop. The tortoise is losing.
Too, there is the women's question. While these Fabians support, of course, women's rights, for education, for lives, the vote is tangential to this. In and of itself the vote is not so important as establishing an intellectual or moral equality.
A hundred years on, women vote, but we still struggle for rooms of our own, and always (evidenced to an extreme in Olive) at a cost:
"The truth is," said Florence, "that the women we are — have become — are not fit to do without men, or to live with them, in the world as it was. And if we change, and they don't, there will be no help for us. We shall be poor monsters, like Viola in Twelfth Night, or Miss Harrison's harpies and gorgons. Do you not think it might be harmful to ignore the sex instinct? Don't you think that after twenty years of studying Cinderella you might be seized by the idea of the children you never had?"
"Quite probably," said Griselda, lifting a dripping oar and suspending is, so that the boat swung in the current. "But after twenty years of childbearing and fever and confinement and being shut in a house I might be seized by the idea of Cinderella."
Poor Olive, early on so sympathetic, breadwinner and of independent mind, but ultimately to the detriment of her children.
The tortoise has a long way to go.
Most everyone grows up in the end, or dies. The Great War did that, made the world grow up.
On readers and writers
Olive, the writer of children's books:
She thought about the relation between readers and writers. A writer made an incantation, calling the reader into the magic circle of the world of the book. With subtle words, a writer enticed a reader to feel his or her skin prickle, his of her lips open, his or her blood race. But a writer did this on condition that the reader was alone with printed paper and painted cover. What were you meant to feel — what was she meant to feel — when the originals of the evanescent paper persons were only too solidly present in flesh and bone and prosaic clothing? A gingery tweed jacket, a faded cotton skirt with lupins on it, and an elastic waist that clumped oddly?
Olive is not the only writer in this crowd. Herbert Methley writes many lives onto courses they themselves never imagined:
[...] Frank withdrew into his own mind for a moment, wondering whether to thank Methley for Marsh Lights, or at least to tell him how it had moved him. He decided against this. He found he was annoyed that this robed person, with his electric black hair, was more the owner, so to speak, of the imagined rocks and stones and elder bushes than he, the reader. Readers ought not to meet writers, he thought. They are meant not to.
Do you think she means it?
A.S. Byatt, writer, launches her new book, The Children's Book, April 22 at the 11th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival, and is scheduled to appear before readers at various other events throughout the festival.


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Sunday, I spent the day at Beaders Best teaching my Luminous Tweed class to a fun group of enthusiastic beaders.
Sunday's Luminous Tweed class at Beaders Best
My intrepid beaders included Yvonne from England, a cheerful lady who made great progress on her bracelet; Cornelia and Andreina from Switzerland, who led us in an interesting discussion of the differences between German and Swiss German; Anita, the speedy beader who finished everything but gluing her clasp to the finished bracelet, Susanne, who was brave enough to try Right Angle Weave as her second bead class ever; and my talented translator Marianne.
What a nice surprise to find Zoya Gutina was sharing the room with me on Sunday! Here she is teaching her Saturday class (for those of you who haven't had the pleasure of meeting her).
After class was over, I went back to the shopping floor for a last look around. I forgot to post this sooner, but here is an example of how busy the Preciosa Ornela booth was all weekend.
Preciosa booth. Photo by Freddie Ott.
Kerrie Slade and part of the Preciosa team. Photo by Freddie Ott.
The best part was that I got back to the show floor in time for the fashion show of the finalist jewelry. It was a lot of fun to see the volunteer models walk the runway and a loop through the show floor.
Some of the models wearing winning entries. Photo by Freddie Ott.
The best necklace of the weekend had to be Dreams of Japan by Nadya Gerber.
Front view of Dreams of Japan
Back view of Dreams of Japan.
While I was having fun teaching, Don explored more of Hamburg. First stop was the Elbephilharmonie, the new symphony hall built on an existing warehouse that is reported to be 10 times over the budget and years behind in opening time. The latest estimate is a final cost of 789 million euros and an opening date of January 11, 2017-10 years after construction began. For the ins and outs of this project, take a look at Elbephilharmonie.
The big, swoopy building is the Elbephilharmonie building.
Then it was a stop at the Speicherstadmuseum, a space devoted to the story of the workings of the warehouses.
The coffee section of the Speicherstadmuseum.
Then some wandering around the water front.
After that, Don visited the Altonaer Museum to see barges, old fish cutters, models, period rooms, and lots of carved figureheads. This museum has a number of dedicated supporters because when this museum was about to close in 2010 due to lack of funds, a local action group occupied the rooms and organized sit-ins
A neat dress made out of work gloves; I have no idea why.
The impressive fountain outside the Altonaer Museum.
Don met me back at Beaders Best just as the show was closing and took me over to see the protected nature area that he had discovered on Saturday. After that, not wanting to face the hotel restaurant again, we walked around to find the rumored Chinese restaurant. Even though most of the shops in the little commercial area were closed, we did find the Chinese restaurant and had a nice dinner (complete with a fortune cookie made in the U.S.)
Then it was back to the hotel to pack because we were off to London early the next morning, but that's a story for the next post.


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1940 and the world is at war again. WWI veteran Jack, laments the sacrifice of good friends gone. His self-destruction comes to a halt when he encounters Masaru, a Japanese prisoner of war. For Masaru the decision to stay alive is as difficult as the decision to die. These two men find a bond: unknowingly there is a desire for hope. The film is not about heroism. It's about the legacy of war through the eyes of the ordinary men who survive it. For Masaru the film ends in ineffable tragedy, and for Jack, life is once again completely altered.
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The Bliss series of Bidet Seats inspired by Bio Bidet.
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Experience the difference between the limitations of the past and the technological freedom of the Premier Bidet Class with a variety of cleaning methods and see the latest level of unprecedented cleanliness with its exclusive inside-out nozzle cleaning technology.
Find total freedom and overcome all boundaries in reaching your highest level of personal hygiene with a Bliss series bidet.
The new bliss advanced bidet toilet seat adds everything you wanted in a Premier Class Bidet.
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A bathroom appliance that is truly lovely to look at and to use.
Monochromatic designs feel distant and isolating so the new design has added a luxurious pearlescent finish to the top bar to modern and brightens its ambiance.
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The A-Train Data Depot (ATDD) has been developed to process, archive, allow access to, visualize, analyze and correlate distributed atmospheric measurements from A-Train instruments. The ATDD portal provides easy on-line data access and services for science, applications, and educational use so that users get exactly the data they want, and not large files of data which would take much time and effort by individuals to be co-registered and refined.
On September 15, 2009, the A-Train formation happened to fly over the super-typhoon Choi-wan. Just one such event can yield enormous amounts of data of various science content and format from the diverse A-Train sensors. Plotting quickly retrievals like cloud profiles, cloud top temperatures, rain rates, water vapor content, etc., for head-to-head previews, is the strength of the Giovanni web tool. An example of the tool output is shown on the left. Apart from these 2-dimensional plots, Giovanni provides KMZ (GoogleEarth) format of the vertical atmospheric profiles (far left). Thus, it is now possible to combine horizontal and vertical data layers in one three-dimensional object, and preview data from different geometrical aspects. The far left plate shows a snapshot from a GoogleEarth KMZ file where CloudSat profiles are pictured together with MODIS/Aqua true-color image, and AMSR-E rain rate.
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The Journey (Ije) (2010)
- Studio: Independent
- Release: April 26, 2010
- Director: Chineze Anyaene
- Writer: Chineze Anyaene, Samuel Tilsen
- Cast: Genevieve Nnaji, Odalys Garcia, Omotola Jalade, Ulrich Que
Video archive for the film The Journey (Ije), which has a domestic theatrical release in the year of 2010. There is currently one video available for the film, of which one and only one is a trailer, as listed below. Happy viewing!
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I Adore You (SSAaB - L4.5)
Both mesmerizing and dance-inducing, this 3/4 wordless samba from Esperanza Spalding has fun and angular lines and a great vamping groove from the ensemble. The rhythm section can be as full of auxiliary percussion as you like...shakers, bongos, timbales, shells, tamborine and more to color the underlying groove, on top of which the piano and bass have great material to play to support the vocalists. Certainly a strong closer for any talented groups' set!
Fully notated bass part, mixed notated and chords/slashes piano part, drums and auxiliary percussion
Commissioned by Folsom High School Jazz Choir, Curtis Gaesser, dir. (2018)


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Pros: Entertaining thrill ride with two characters who continue to grow
Cons: One sub-plot under used
The Bottom Line:
Ceepak and Danny
A wonderfully real team
Plenty of thrills, chills
Strap in for a Roller Coaster Ride Aboard Rolling Thunder
Rolling Thunder is the sixth book about John Ceepak and Danny Boyle written by Chris Grabenstein. John and Danny are police officers in Sea Haven,
New Jersey.
The town is your typical tourist town on an island just off the
that survives based on its summer tourist season. Unfortunately, it seems to have a propensity
for rather gruesome murders.
Fortunately, Ceepak is there to solve them, with the growing assistance
of Danny. Jersey Shore
This book opens on Memorial Day Weekend as Ceepak and Danny are working security for a new wooden roller coaster. Rolling Thunder has been built on one of the abandoned piers in Sea Haven. The first car is filled with the owner, Paddy O'Malley, and his family. But the car never makes it completely around the track because Mrs. O'Malley has a heart attack and dies.
Only one of the O'Malley kids seem broken up about dear mom's death, which raises Ceepak's suspicions. They are just about to rule it a death by natural causes when a second body turns up, chopped into pieces and left in some luggage. With a definite murder in town, Ceepak and Danny are out to find the killer. Is there a connection between the two deaths? Where will the trail lead?
I was only a few pages into the story before I remembered just how much I love these characters. I was grinning like an idiot as I watched Ceepak and Danny keep people in line for a roller coaster, for pete's sake. As other series regulars like Ceepak's wife showed up, I would find myself grinning again. Amazingly, the characters continue to grow in this book. While Ceepak is still the star, Danny really grows here. He provides several vital clues and takes center stage in the gripping climax. This character growth is most noticeable if you have read the books in order, but nothing is really spoiled if you decide to start the series here.
The plot provides some great twists and dips, living up to its name sake. I thought I had it figured out a couple of times, only to be proven wrong. I did catch a vital clue before Danny did, although I'm not so sure about Ceepak. Any time I had to put the book down, it was a struggle. I did feel a sub-plot involving Ceepak's dad wasn't really developed to its full potential, but that's my only complaint with the book.
Danny narrates the story in the present tense. It's an unusual choice, but once you get used to it, it actually works very well, especially for the more intense scenes.
And the sense of humor is back in full force with this book. Danny has a pretty sarcastic streak that comes out at times in the narration if not out of his mouth. I laughed a few times and smiled at many, many more.
These books can be dark, in stark contrast to resort town setting. They aren't my normal reading choice, but I love the characters so much, I can't even think about stopping to read them. Heck, I'm already wishing book seven were out.
So if you are looking for a good mystery with interesting characters, look no further than Rolling Thunder.
Because of how the characters evolve, you'll want to read the John Ceepak Mysteries in order.


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How Geoff's cancer turned my street into a true community
Last Sunday, 16 people came round to my home to eat cake, drink wine and celebrate the birthday of a mutual friend. Nothing unusual about that, you may think.
Except that until a few months ago, we had been virtual strangers; a random group of people who just happened to live in the same street, our contact confined to familiar neighbourly disputes over noise-nuisance, dripping drains, parking woes and upturned bins.
A recent survey found that 70 per cent of Britons don't even know their neighbours' names. A shocking statistic, but one that I could certainly relate to.
A friend in need: Amanda lived in the same London street for more than two years before she began to really get to know her neighbours
I've lived in the same small mews street in North London for more than three years, and while I had learned a few neighbours' names in that time, I knew precious little else about them.
But now, after an incredible six months, I not only know them a great deal better, but am proud to call them my friends.
And I would like to tell you how that came about. Not as some self-congratulatory or self‑righteous testimony, but in the hope that it might - just might - encourage others to get to know their neighbours better, too.
For I believe that Britain would be a far, far better place if we were able to build stronger communities through the simple bonds of neighbourly friendship.
We were there last Sunday to toast Geoff's 68th birthday - a celebration made all the sweeter for the fact that it was he who had brought us all together in the first place, albeit in rather sad circumstances.
It all began back in early September. I was rushing home to write a piece for this paper and to prepare for a dinner party for ten people when I spotted a neighbour walking aimlessly down the small road that connects our cottages.
Jumping out of the cab, a pile of groceries in one hand, newspapers in the other, I was busy; in a rush; no time for social niceties. The usual excuses for ignoring those around us.
I nodded and waved hello, but this time something seemed amiss. There was a sadness in the stoop of his shoulders. Nothing dramatic, but when he caught my eye, I could see he 'wanted to chat'.
My first instinct, I'm ashamed to say, was to rush on by, thinking to myself: 'I'm a busy woman. I don't have time for a roadside chat.'
But then Geoff spoke. 'There's something I want to tell you,' he began.
Oh dear, not another problem with the foxes in my rubbish bins or noisy dinner parties.
'I've got cancer,' he said.
That's the spirit: But research suggests that 70 per cent of us don't know our neighbours' names
We stood on the pavement as he told me what had happened. He hadn't been feeling well. His GP had sent him in for tests and, before he knew it, he'd been sent to a bowel cancer unit at University College Hospital to be told the grim news.
'The specialist told me: "It's a tumour and you'll need a course of intensive radiotherapy and chemotherapy to see if we can shrink it and make it easier to operate, when we decide to operate . . . if we can operate." '
Geoff and I were not friends, still less confidantes. But it suddenly struck me, as we stood outside my home, that the reason he had stopped me in the street might be that he had no nearby family to fall back on.
His wife had died three years ago and they had no children. That much I knew. I was later to learn his siblings were scattered across the globe, too. In other words, he had no one. And he had cancer.
So I asked him in for a coffee, the first time he'd been inside my home apart from for a hastily arranged drinks party a couple of years previously.
We sat and talked, him mostly in that disarmingly honest way people do when they've just been told they have a life-threatening illness.
Worthwhile: It doesn't take much to strengthen a community
'I've told the doctors unless there is a good chance of extending my life, I won't go through with any treatment,' he explained. 'I'd rather live out my natural life than be butchered for nothing.
'But if there's a good chance . . .' His voice trailed off. 'There's so much more I want to do.'
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I realised in that moment that I knew hardly anything about Geoff, except his name and address and that he'd been widowed. No idea of his past achievements; his hobbies; his loves and hates; his hopes for the future; the things that made Geoff Geoff. Nothing.
Ah, but that's not quite true. I remembered that my parents had come to stay with me the previous month. I'd been out for the day and they had forgotten their keys again (no mobile phones, either) and had returned home in the pouring rain with no way of getting into the house. Goodness knows how long they'd stood there before Geoff had walked past, turned around and come back to ask if they'd like to shelter in his house until I returned. Yes, they would. Very much indeed.
Over the ensuing hours, Geoff had given them a tour of his wildly, wonderfully eccentric home — an Aladdin's cave of his and his late wife's eclectic antiques and curios, collected over decades of their life together. He'd made my parents tea and chatted away with them until I got home.
Yes, Geoff had a good heart. That much I did know.
So on the day he told me of his terrible news, we sat and drank coffee and then a glass of wine or two (the dinner party would have to wait) and then he left. Back to his empty home which, while it may not have been a lonely place when he was well, was now shadowed with cancer.
Over the ensuing weeks, as Geoff underwent his gruelling course of chemotherapy, we started to chat on the phone. We texted; I popped around with flowers and tidbits of food to try to tempt him as the treatment took its toll.
Then one day I noticed his fridge was not as bare as it had been. It was full of delicious homemade dinners and treats, juices, fresh milk and bread. What's more, the house now had flowers in it.
The reason, I soon discovered, was that I was not the only neighbour now watching over him.
My immediate neighbour, Sophie, was Geoff's first port of call in an emergency. However busy she was, she always found time for him; for tea, for sympathy.
The man directly behind my home — the one who hated the squirrels that often visited our gardens — was coming over, too, and collecting Geoff's rubbish, making sure it was out in time for our bin collections.
Everyone did something. And, in the process, we became true neighbours
Catherine was newly arrived in the street — she'd been here only a few months — but she was bringing flowers and delicious home-cooked soup, too. It was later I learned it was her husband Adrian who was the cook.
In a way that I imagine (perhaps naively) was more commonplace in the 1950s, everyone started 'popping in' to make sure Geoff was fed, flowered and comforted.
There were 16 neighbours in all, whom Geoff dubbed his guardian angels.
We were very far from being angels. Just ordinary people who sometimes came to sit and hold his hand during the darker days, either in hospital after the major operation or when he came home. People who could help do the practical things that Geoff now found harder; making sure he had what he needed, whether it was toothpaste or tulips.
On the two occasions after the operation when Geoff was unexpectedly rushed back into hospital, one of us would grab his things, another take them to hospital for him. We had a couple of sets of keys we passed around. We all worked, but somehow we made it work.
An example? One evening, I dashed home to get dressed for a formal drinks party and there was a message from Catherine saying Geoff had been readmitted to hospital during a routine visit.
He'd called her to see if she could bring his things in. She'd collected his overnight bag, but had now got stuck at work. Could I take Geoff's stuff in for him?
Of course I could, although I'm ashamed to say that when I arrived at the hospital, I still didn't even know his surname and had to wander from ward to ward trying to spot him.
Everyone did something, little or large. And, in the process, we became true neighbours - not just in the sense that we happened to live next door to one another, but in that we were doing the little things necessary to look after a member of our community.
There's so much talk these days of how ghastly life has become: the breakdown of civil society, the death of courtesy, the absence of community values. It's easy to blame feckless families - and, yes, they have certainly played a big part in shaping 'Broken Britain'.
We just needed someone like Geoff to bring us together
But even the most civilised of neighbours can be guilty of a failure to care; of being so wrapped up in our own lives that we fail to consider the man or woman next door. We, too, are culpable of creating a care-less society.
A survey recently found that the majority of people say they are 'never-neighbours'; in other words, they would never consider dropping in on the person next door.
But, as I discovered, it doesn't take much to make amends, to strengthen a community.
The people in my street didn't need lectures from No 10 about the Big Society, or hectoring from the Left about social welfare. We just needed someone like Geoff to bring us together.
Last Sunday we celebrated Geoff's birthday. But we were also celebrating something else: the new friendships we had never envisaged.
We are truly good neighbours at last.
Who are yours?
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Berlin-Utrecht Reciprocals Survey
Welcome to the Berlin-Utrecht reciprocals survey, the database of the project A typology of reciprocal markers: Analysis and documentation.
The database is now in the data collection stage, but its content is still evolving. You are now looking at a temporary public version of the database, with a small subset of the collected data. Documentation and extra functionality will be added when the data is ready for public release. You are welcome to browse the data available here, but be aware that the correctness or completeness of the data has not yet been verified. Please double-check the accuracy of any information you find here.
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text: Nicole Bastet win's Canadian Women's Championship- perhaps following in the great family sailing tradition that includes renowned Canadian yachtsman, Evert Bastet, Nicole showed the girls in Canada how to sail J/22s fast and with fewer mistake than most to squeak out a win for Hudson Yacht Club despite lots of drama going on behind her for the next three spots. Hosted by Hudson Yacht Club (near Montreal, Quebec) and sailed in J/22 One-Designs, the top teams that sailed this year's Women's Keelboat National Championship in J/22s were also looking forward to attending this fall's Rolex Women's World Championship sailed in J/22s at Rochester, NY. In a rather dramatic turn-around, Nicole Bastet won despite having two bad races on the first day, starting off with a 1-9-8, then closing with three firsts to win by two points! Her drama was nowhere near what was experienced by the next three boats, fighting hard to beat one another going into the last day. When the dust and scores were settled, Marg Hurley from NSC sailed a consistent a 4-5-1-5-2-2 for 14 pts to win on a tie-breaker over Melodie Gummer with a 3-2-2-4-3-4. The top teams are already looking forward to their trip to Rochester to hopefully win the Rolex! For more Canadian Women's Keelboat sailing information


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Following David Bowie's Love Affair With Berlin
|Bowie with Fripp, Eno and guest during the recording of ''Heroes'' Photo by Christian Simonpietri.
Few artists cast so long a shadow as David Bowie. For the past five decades Bowie was restless, constantly changing his sound, his look, his entire style. He changed so many times and in such dramatic ways that his audience continually expanded, taking in people from all walks of life and all parts of the world. He smashed gender boundaries as easily as he did musical boundaries, cutting a path from mod to hippie to androgynous spaceman and everything in between. He was utterly unique, an icon for misfits everywhere who were drawn to his effervescent strangeness. It was as if he had come along to show everyone that it was ok to be a freak, to be whatever it was that you truly were inside, and for that he was adored.
Bowie lived in many places over the years, but his attachment to Berlin is one of the most important of them all. It began with a fascination for the Kosmische Musik that began to emerge from Germany in the late '60s and early '70s with bands like Cluster, Neu, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. Bowie became obsessed with this sound and soon began talking about it to anyone who would listen. He loved Kraftwerk so much that they gave him a mention on their seminal album Trans-Europe Express, and he would later repay the favour by naming a track from "Heroes" after their founding member Florian Schneider.
By the mid '70s, five solid years of drug abuse had taken its toll on Bowie's health and sanity. Notoriously, he was living on a diet of "cocaine and milk", which made him physically weak and extremely paranoid. He grew increasingly delusional and made a series of controversial appearances during which he was barely able to speak properly. Realizing that if he continued in that manner for any longer he would soon be dead, Bowie made the decision to get away from all the drugs and hangers-on. After briefly moving to Switzerland, he decided to relocate to Berlin with his friend Iggy Pop, as neither of them knew any dealers there and they could support each other through the detoxification process.
First, they made a detour to France to begin recording new albums. They were joined by producer Tony Visconti and the enigmatic Roxy Music keyboardist Brian Eno, who assisted Bowie to record his strangest music yet. Meanwhile, Bowie assumed production duties for Pop's first foray into music outside of his band The Stooges. They'd recorded a large amount of material for both albums when Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream managed to secure apartments for them at Hauptstraße 155, Schoeneberg. And so it was that in late 1976, Bowie and Pop moved to Berlin.
Once they were settled, Bowie reconvened with Visconti and Eno at Hansa Tonstudio to finish recording and mixing his new album. This was Low, and despite an initially hostile response, it became one of the most influential and acclaimed albums of Bowie's entire career. A quantum leap from his earlier records, Low was the first album to reflect Bowie's obsession with German electronica. Side A comprised of seven deranged pop songs while Side B was entirely instrumental, containing four hauntingly beautiful ambient pieces that were like nothing that anyone had ever heard from him before.
Following this, work resumed on Iggy Pop's debut album, The Idiot. When their job was done, Bowie joined Pop on tour (as his keyboardist!) and then returned with him to Hansa to make Lust For Life, which was completed in a mere eight days and cemented Pop's status as a towering icon of filthy rock music. Pop had proven to be a somewhat difficult neighbour - reportedly making a pest of himself by regularly emptying the contents of Bowie's fridge - but the two of them were together constantly in Berlin. Aside from hanging about in the local bars and clubs, the pair took in a lot of art and made countless trips to the Brücke Museum.
Eno and Visconti got back on board for Bowie's next album, and they called in King Crimson mastermind Robert Fripp to add his distinctive brand of guitar wizardry to the mix. The record that they crafted became perhaps Bowie's best known album, and set a high-watermark that he would be judged by for the rest of his career. This was "Heroes", the only album in Bowie's somewhat misleadingly named "Berlin Trilogy" that was entirely recorded and mixed in Berlin. The famous title track was inspired by the threatening situation at the studio - Hansa was situated directly beside the Berlin Wall and was under constant surveillance by the Russian military, who stood with their rifles mere meters away from the control room window.
Never one to worry about lyrics early, Bowie worked himself into quite a state while writing the words for "Heroes" immediately before he was due to track the vocal parts. Sensing the air of desperation, Visconti left the studio and went outside with backing vocalist Antonia Maaß. Bowie momentarily stopped writing to have a cigarette, and while looking out the window to the Wall below, he caught sight of Visconti and Maaß sharing a covert embrace. Inspired, Bowie completed the now legendary lyrics "I can remember, standing by the wall. The guns shot above our heads, and we kissed as though nothing could fall".
|The Blackstar launch party at Hansa Tonstudio, Friday, Jan 8th, 2016. Photo by Greg Reason.
Having successfully kicked his drug habits, absorbed vast amounts of visual art through regular trips to Berlin's countless galleries and released two highly innovative albums, Bowie staged an epic world tour before moving back to Switzerland to record Lodger. Despite living in Berlin for only two years, it remained special to him for the rest of his life. Notably, he would return to perform in front of the Reichstag in 1987, prompting thousands of East Berliners to clamour to the Wall's edge to listen. Western music was banned by the Russian administrative government, and it was considered a subversive act for the crowd to gather for the concert. The performance left a very strong impression on Bowie, as he later recounted:
"I'll never forget that. It was one of the most emotional performances I've ever done. I was in tears. They'd backed up the stage to the wall itself so that the wall was acting as our backdrop. We kind of heard that a few of the East Berliners might actually get the chance to hear the thing, but we didn't realize in what numbers they would. And there thousands on the other side that had come close to the wall. So it was like a double concert where the wall was the division. And we would hear them cheering and singing along from the other side. God, even now I get choked up. It was breaking my heart. I'd never done anything like that in my life, and I guess I never will again. When we did 'Heroes' it really felt anthemic, almost like a prayer. However well we do it these days, it's almost like walking through it compared to that night, because it meant so much more."
The following night, a riot broke out on the Eastern side of the wall and police responded with brutality. The heavy-handed response reportedly helped shift public perception about the state of affairs in Berlin, and after another two years of activism, political intervention and sustained criticism from public figures the world over, the Wall was finally brought down on November 9, 1989. Complete German reunification followed less than a year later, despite attempts from British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President François Mitterrand to maintain the segregation.
|David Bowie's former apartment in Schoeneberg shortly after his death was announced. Photo by Greg Reason.
Good-bye, David Bowie. You are now among #Heroes. Thank you for helping to bring down the #wall.
https://t.co/soaOUWiyVl #RIPDavidBowie
— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) January 11, 2016
Bowie would go on to play Berlin again and again, most notably for the launch of his brilliant 2002 album Heathen, during which he performed not only that record in its entirety but also the album that started the whole adventure, Low. After a decade out of the spotlight, he made his comeback in 2013 with the single 'Where Are We Now?', with both lyrics and video based heavily on his time in Berlin. Evidently the feeling of love and respect was mutual, and when Bowie's death was announced on the morning of January 11th 2016, the German Foreign Office tweeted a send-off which stated "Good-bye, David Bowie. You are among Heroes now. Thank you for helping to bring down the wall"
By Greg Reason


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Pusher (railway station attendant)
A pusher (押し屋 oshiya) is a worker who pushes people onto the train at a railway station during the morning and evening rush hours.
New York CityEdit
New York City conductors were well-known for using the phrase "step lively" to exhort passengers to clear space by the doors of streetcars and subway cars during the early 20th century,[1] dating back to the opening of the subway in 1904.[2] "Step lively" was seen as an overly imperative phrase that "flusters the timid and uncertain and angers those who desire to be courteously treated".[3] The New York Times advocated the use of "press forward" instead of "step lively" in 1908.[4]
Why, from the moment of starting, I have been mauled and hauled about by the crowds, and every conductor yelled at me, 'Step lively, step lively, lady,' and some even caught hold of me and jerked me on the car and then pushed me into the struggling crowd of passengers inside. 'Step lively,' indeed!— anonymous widow describing her New York City streetcar experience, The Spectator, c.1890s[3]
Early legal precedent in New York held railway operators liable for injuries resulting from overcrowded platforms; since the operator controlled access to the platforms, they could limit the number of passengers on the platform and prevent crowds from pushing and potentially injuring unwilling passengers.[5][6] Another New York decision held the operator would be blameless for the pressing action of the crowd, but noted that since the car had been subject to "forced augmentation" by an employee (the guard), the operator was held liable.[7] In Boston, a court ruled the schedule and convenience of other passengers meant that efforts to minimize station dwell time were justified, although physically packing passengers on trains was not mentioned.[8][9]
A New York Times article from August 8, 1918, mentions subway guards and police trying to direct and push crowds onto trains operating along the new 42nd Street Shuttle service between Times Square and Grand Central.[10] By the 1920s, pushers in the New York City Subway were known worldwide, but were not well-liked due to their reputation as "sardine packers".[11][12]
New York City subway pushers are depicted in the 1941 biographical movie Sergeant York; George Tobias plays the character "Pusher" Ross, a soldier from New York City. In the film, "Pusher" has to explain his nickname to Alvin York – which he got because he pushes passengers onto the crowded subway cars during rush hours. The story takes place during World War I, which establishes that "Pusher" was a subway pusher in New York City prior to 1918. Also, in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hurdy Gurdy Hare, Bugs dons a conductor's cap and pushes a gorilla while saying, "push in, plenty of room in the center of the car!", pausing to tell the audience "I used to work on the shuttle from Times Square to Grand Central". The cartoon was copyrighted in 1948 and released in 1950.
The term oshiya (押し屋) is derived from the verb "osu" (押す), meaning "push", and the suffix "-ya" (屋), indicating "line of work." Oshiya ensure every passenger has boarded and does not get caught in the doors, as described during a CNN interview with Sandra Barron, an American living in Tokyo.[13]
In Japan, when pushers were first brought in at Shinjuku Station, they were called "passenger arrangement staff" (旅客整理係 ryokaku seiri gakari), and were largely made up of students working part-time; currently, station staff and/or part-time workers fill these roles during morning rush hours on many lines.[14][15] During the run-up to the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, a special issue of LIFE magazine described a photograph by Brian Brake as showing "the Tokyo commuter trains where riders are squashed aboard by white-gloved official pushers."[16] In 1975, oshiya packed commuters into rush-hour trains that were filled to an average of 221 percent of designed capacity.[17]
A 1995 New York Times article noted white-gloved oshiya were still being deployed during rush hours, but called them "tushy pushers", or shiri oshi (尻 押し).[15] By 2000, rush-hour trains had become significantly less crowded, running at an average of 183 percent of capacity; this was driven partially by increased capacity (a system-wide 60% increase in 2000 compared to 1970), by the prolonged recession which started in the 1990s, and by commuter incentives designed to make off-peak hour trains more inviting.[17]
Current useEdit
At least three cities in China have employed professional train pushers. The Beijing Subway has hired employees to help pack commuters onto the train carriages since 2008.[18][19] On the Shanghai Metro, trains running on Line 8 at up to 170% of capacity during peak hours in 2010 have used volunteers to help fill carriages.[20] In 2012, seven years after opening, crowds on Chongqing Metro trains were so thick that pushers were used during peak hours.[21]
Madrid MetroEdit
In February 2017, Madrid hired "pushers" in its Metro to cope with increased numbers of passengers. Line 8, which connects the Madrid–Barajas Airport to Madrid's city center, was temporarily closed due to maintenance works, which caused a surge of passengers on other lines. In Spanish, subway pushers are literally called "pushers" (empujadores); they help passengers embark and make sure that carriage doors are properly closed. Some observers immediately made comparisons with the Japanese oshiya.[22][23]
New York City SubwayEdit
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority hires "platform controllers" to direct crowds to minimize platform dwell times, although their duties do not include physically moving passengers.[24][25] They perform similar duties as the subway guards, who performed similar duties in the subway through the 1940s.[12][25]
Frankfurt am Main S-BahnEdit
Since 2015, Deutsche Bahn AG has been using pushers at the city's main train station (Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof) and at times at the S-Bahn station "Messe" (trade fair) and other highly frequented metro stations (e.g. Eschborn Süd). These platform attendants are called Einstiegslotsen (boarding guides, initially they were called Fahrgastlenker, i.e. "passenger steerers"). As it was considered delicate to really "push" people forward physically, as is standard procedure e.g. in Tokyo-Shinjuku station, the Einstiegslotsen try to avoid direct physical contact. They concentrate on boosting passenger entry and barring the access to the closing doors to stop people trying to enter the full train.
- ^ Larned, Augusta (9 January 1902). "Little Dramas of the Street-cars". The Christian Register. Vol. 81. pp. 35–36. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Kennedy, Randy (20 March 2001). "Tunnel Vision; The Subway Voice of the Future Is a Recording". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ a b "The Spectator". The Outlook. 14 July 1906. pp. 597–598. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- ^ "New Subway Admonition" (PDF). The New York Times. 11 November 1908. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Dawson v. New York Brooklyn Bridge, 31 App. Div. 537 (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department 1898) ("Nevertheless, it clearly appears that the mass of persons desiring to board the train was allowed to crowd upon the car platform so rapidly and with such force that the plaintiff was unable to control his own movements, and was thrust hither and thither against his will, until one of his legs sank into the space between the third and fourth cars. Fortunately for himself, and fortunately for the defendants, so far as the amount of damages is concerned, the plaintiff succeeded in withdrawing the greater part of his leg before the starting of the train brought the bumpers together, so that he suffered only an injury to his foot, which has resulted in the loss of a portion of two toes.").
- ^ Dittmar v. Brooklyn Heights R.R. Co, 91 App. Div. 378 (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department 1904) ("There were few people on the platform when she first reached it, but before the train arrived a crowd of passengers had collected so dense that there was no room to move, to escape, or even to turn around. She chanced to stand within a foot of the edge of the platform, and when the train finally came was pushed by the crowd with considerable force against the side of the car where she was held for a moment or two and was then thrown by the crowd violently into the car, sustaining the personal injuries which form the basis of her recovery.").
- ^ Viemeister v. Brooklyn Heights R.R. Co, 182 N.Y. 307 (Court of Appeals of the State of New York 1905) ("But the court did charge that if the accident was caused by a voluntary rush of other persons who wanted to get on board the car, the defendant could not be held liable, and plaintiff's counsel, instead of contenting himself with an exception to that part of the charge, emphasized his adherence to the theory of the action set forth in the complaint by requesting the court to charge that, even though plaintiff was forced upon the car by other persons, yet, if he boarded it in safety, and the accident was caused by the guard's subsequent forced augmentation of the crowd, the defendant was liable. This request was granted.").
- ^ Hannon v. Boston Elevated Ry. Co., 65 N.E. 809 (Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts January 8, 1903) ("The stations are not far apart, and during the busy hours of the day throngs of passengers are very great. In order to accommodate them with rapid transit, it is important that arrangements be made for their exit and entry at the stations with the least possible delay.").
- ^ Willworth v. Boston Elevated Ry. Co., 74 N.E. 333 (Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts May 19, 1905) ("The nature of the business in which the defendant is engaged and the convenience of its passengers, who cannot afford an unnecessary loss of time, justify efforts to make the transfers at stations quickly.").
- ^ "Drop Shuttle Plan as Subway Crush becomes a Peril". New York Times. August 3, 1918. pp. 1 (continued on page 7). Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Tracy (1967). Art and the Subway: New York Underground. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-8135-4452-6. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
- ^ a b "Subway Guards are Versatile". The New York Times Magazine. 1930-02-09. p. 22. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
- ^ Said-Moorhouse, Lauren (29 October 2012). "How to survive Tokyo's subway sandwich". CNN. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ Mito, Yuko (2001). 定刻発車 (Teikoku Hassha). Tokyo: Shinchosha. pp. 113–118.
- ^ a b WuDunn, Sheryl (17 December 1995). "On Tokyo's Packed Trains, Molesters Are Brazen". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ "A serene love of nature and a frantic side to life". Life. Vol. 57 no. 11. Time, Inc. 11 September 1964. p. 13. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ a b Schaefer, Gary (27 April 2000). "Tokyo commuters breathe easier". The Advocate-Messenger. Danville, Kentucky. Associated Press. Retrieved 11 April 2017.(subscription required)
- ^ "Beijing subway: a commuter's story". China Daily. 28 November 2014. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ Jiang, Steven (22 May 2008). "Beijing commuters feel the squeeze". CNN World. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
Busy stations not only deploy "door pushers" to help commuters squeeze into the carriages during peak times but also limit the number of passengers on the platforms out of safety concerns.
- ^ Bao, Daozu (4 February 2010). "Shanghai metro hires people to shove commuters into trains". China Daily. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ Chang, Star (7 February 2012). "Subway in Chongqing Hires Pushers to Stuff Passengers into Trains". M.I.C. Gadget. Archived from the original on 14 February 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
- ^ Ramírez, Daniel (8 February 2017). "Los 'empujadores' del Metro de Madrid: "No somos como los de Japón"" [The 'pushers' of the Madrid Metro: "We are not like those of Japan"]. El Espanol. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "El Metro de Madrid camufla el uso de 'empujadores'" [The Madrid Metro camouflages the use of 'pushers']. La Vanguardia. 7 February 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ "Your Ride Matters: Platform Controllers". Metropolitan Transit Authority. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ a b Fitzsimmons, Emma G. (3 May 2016). "Surge in Ridership Pushes New York Subway to Limit". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
External linksEdit
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- Republished from Century Magazine (June 1906). ""Step Lively, Please!" (poem)". The Railway Conductor. Vol. XXIII no. 6. p. 479. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
- Kaushik (24 August 2016). "Subway Pushers of Japan". Amusing Planet. Retrieved 6 April 2017.