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It might be the most carefully hidden building boom in American architectural history.
Over the last 40 years, beginning with strict drug-sentencing laws introduced in 1973 by New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and quickly copied around the country, the number of prisons in this country has more than tripled, from 600 to nearly 2,000.
In California, where the inmate population surged a staggering tenfold from 1975 to 2010, the construction of jails and prisons has accelerated even more quickly.
Yet the buildings themselves have managed to stay shrouded. New prisons are often stashed in rural areas or in the lonelier corners of American downtowns, where in some cases they fill districts vacated in the postwar decades by residents and corporations decamping for the suburbs.
And just as prisons in the U.S. are now designed to look not just secure and largely windowless but so nondescript that they practically disappear, architecture firms often coat their prison-design work in several layers of euphemism.
Prisons and jails become "correctional facilities." On the website of the large corporate firm HOK Architects, which designed the 1997 Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown L.A., they are tucked into a broader portfolio of "justice buildings."
But thanks to a growing number of factors — some within the architecture profession, some political, others in pop culture — prison design is shedding some of that carefully managed anonymity.
An architect in San Francisco, Raphael Sperry, is calling on members of the profession to reject prison commissions on ethical grounds, especially the design of cells meant for solitary confinement or execution. "Corrections & Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime," a fascinating new book by Joe Day, an L.A. architect who teaches at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, charts not just the history of jails but the surprisingly broad — and telling — overlap between prison and museum design.
An exhibition organized by UC Riverside called "Geographies of Detention," running through Sept. 7, is relentless in its effort to force viewers to confront the products of what its curators, Catherine Gudis and Molly McGarry, call California's "prison-industrial complex."
Even as television series like Netflix's popular "Orange Is the New Black" bring scenes of prison life to our TVs and iPads, debates over the future of Guantanamo Bay and overcrowded California prisons have exposed the facilities — and the details of their architecture — to new scrutiny.
There is even a new video game from the British developer Introversion Software called "Prison Architect" that allows users to design and run prisons the way users of the popular game SimCity design and run cities.
As if to acknowledge that the great prison expansion no longer deserves automatic or unqualified support from the federal government, U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. argued in a high-profile speech last month that the Rockefeller drug laws have essentially failed.
"Widespread incarceration at the federal, state and local levels is both ineffective and unsustainable," said Holder, calling the American prison population "unnecessarily large."
For all the media coverage it generated, the immediate practical effect of Holder's speech is likely to be modest. The federal policy change it trumpeted, calling on prosecutors not to invoke minimum-sentence guidelines for minor drug offenses, won't do a thing to shrink prison terms at the state or local level. Federal prisons hold just 14% of American inmates.
And yet the speech reflects a marked new interest in American society in reexamining our national experiment, now nearing four decades in length, in hyper-aggressive incarceration.
We shouldn't overlook the role of pop culture in this shift. Sympathetic characters in the theater, in movies and on television often either foreshadow or pave the way for changes at the level of policy and law.
In "Oz," which ran on HBO from 1997 to 2003, inmates were threatening and aggressive — the show made us glad they were locked up. "The Wire," from 2002 to 2008, represented a middle ground: Some of its drug dealers were violent and incorrigible, but others were entirely sympathetic, and the show offered a sharp and sustained critique of strict Rockefeller sentencing and the war on drugs.
"Orange Is the New Black" represents the far end of this spectrum, an unapologetic attempt to humanize the prison population, replacing scowls with complex and often mitigating back stories. Most of its female inmates are about as far from menacing as you can imagine in a show set in federal prison.
A byproduct of these series — along with prison-based reality shows on the Discovery and National Geographic channels — has been to give Americans a newly wide and sometimes alarming window into how prisons are designed. Some viewers may notice what Day emphasizes in "Corrections & Collections": that the design of many modern prisons and contemporary museums, marked by a sort of concrete asceticism, flows from the same post-minimalist wellspring.
"A newly simplified architectural vocabulary," Day argues, now marks these "institutions of constraint and display." In his introduction to the book, the writer Mike Davis calls the "co-evolution of prisons and museums" over the last three decades a "conflation of collection and punishment."
Davis adds, "Day's thesis, refined to a single sentence, is that the warehousing of surplus people and over-valued objects on an unprecedented scale is the expression of a single social logic."
It may sound like a stretch, but Day makes a strong case. In its early chapters, the book often puts a photograph of a prison on one side of a spread and a museum on the other; it's often nearly impossible to tell which is which.
Is that Tadao Ando's 1992 museum in Kumamoto, Japan? Or is it the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Washington state, completed in 2008? Is that Gordon Bunshaft's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington — a building, not incidentally, that Ada Louise Huxtable condemned in 1974 as an example of "neo-penitentiary modernism" — or Cuba's Presidio Modelo?
Inside these buildings, the similarities continue. The art world's prototypical "white cube" gallery space is based on essentially the same design preferences — strict minimalism, fanatical control of sightlines and lighting — as the contemporary prison cell.
The new batch of lockup shows has also raised public awareness about twin crises in U.S. prisons: overcrowding, which has been at epidemic levels for more than a decade, and the manner in which many American prisons treat inmates in solitary confinement.
American prisons have usually included some separate rooms or wings for prisoners kept apart from the rest of the population. Thomas Jefferson, in his preliminary design for a jail in Nelson County, Via., that was built in 1823, included a small windowless room that he labeled "solitary cell."
Over time these solitary cells have grown sparer in their design and, as part of a more powerful penal system, more crushing in their effect on human psyches. It was the Pelican Bay state prison in Crescent City, Calif., completed in 1989 and designed by the San Francisco firm KMD Architects, that began to draw wide attention to the harshness of much contemporary solitary confinement. (KMD did not respond to a request for comment on this story.)
Pelican Bay's Secure Housing Unit, or SHU, helped usher in a new design approach in which violent inmates are separated not only from one another but largely from prison staffs as well. In a digital-age update of the panopticon-style prison in the round first designed by the British philosopher and economist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century, the small cells in the Pelican Bay SHU are largely monitored remotely, by guards watching video feeds of inmates in their cells.
To give the guards a crisp view of those cells at all times, the lights are never switched off. Inmates are allowed to leave only for exercise — which takes place in open-air windowless pens with concrete walls 20 feet high — and showers. Typically, they spend more than 23 hours every day in their cells. Across the state prison system, SHU inmates are 33 times more likely to commit suicide than other inmates.
Sperry, leading the prison-design boycott movement, has described long-term solitary confinement as torture. He has called on the American Institute of Architects to amend its code of ethics and professional conduct to ban members from designing them (or rooms where death-row inmates are executed).
But the moral questions here get tricky pretty quickly. The SHU at Pelican Bay is actually marginally better designed than solitary units at other prisons, in part because of details that the KMD architects insisted on, including a system to bring natural light through perforated doors into each cell.
In a broader sense, the kinds of architects who would sign a ban are also the ones who are most likely, if they were to design a prison, to fully consider the psychological health of inmates. Instead of parsing the details of a massively complex moral quandary, perhaps the goal should be simpler: to aim for a society that produces both better-designed prisons and fewer ones.
This is a debate, in other words, that needs to proceed on dual tracks, one about policy — about whether the Rockefeller laws have run their course, and if so how they ought to be most swiftly and intelligently reformed — and the other about architecture.
Still, as we begin to look more closely at the design of the prisons we plan to build and those we already have, we may realize that our binge of construction has affected not just how we house prisoners but how we shape and plan our cities — and in particular our downtowns.
Many large prisons, Pelican Bay among them, were built as far from metropolitan regions as possible. The large landscape paintings by Sandow Birk that make up the heart of the "Geographies of Detention" exhibition suggest the way so many California prisons are estranged from urban life and make up a new category of rural architecture in the state.
But as Day points out, we've also shoehorned many prisons and jails into overlooked corners of American downtowns, often adjacent to or literally connected to courthouses (and not far from new downtown museums). This has certainly been the case in Los Angeles, where HOK's Twin Towers complex, a county facility, went up 15 years ago on a site between Union Station and the L.A. River.
Now, as Los Angeles looks to remake both the station and the river — just as cities around the country are reimagining their waterfronts and downtowns — we find the location of that jail, and others downtown, is poised to become a major civic headache, if not an outright embarrassment. No one wants to spend millions of dollars remaking the section of the L.A. River running through downtown only to realize that one of the buildings most clearly visible from the newly green banks is a huge and infamous county jail.
We may have done our best as a society to camouflage the rush of construction that produced so many new prisons over the last 40 years. But that doesn't make the prisons themselves, once we do starting turning our attention to them, any less real or immovable.


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- Jackie and Bill took over the guest house in May 2010. In January 2010 the guest house was given a FOUR STAR grading and also a SILVER AWARD for quality in tourism by Visit Britain. Following inspections in January 2007 and May 2009 by an Isle of Wight Council Environmental Health Officer, a Food Hygiene Rating of Five Stars was given.
- In March 2008 we were awarded an Island Smoke Free Award by the Island's Healthy Business Partnership. It is a criminal offence to smoke inside the building and we kindly ask guests not to smoke in or on the grounds of the Birkdale.
- Disability suitability. There are 4 steps leading into the Guest House. Wheelchair access is therefore difficult. Once in the building there are no steps on the ground floor. The dining room tables are spaced well apart for easy access. For further details on accessibility please click on the link above.
- There are sufficient car parking spaces for all guests with easy access from the road to the parking.
- We can organise the car ferry for you. The closest crossing to us is Portsmouth to Fishbourne.
- There is a small reference library about tourist attractions on the island which may help you to plan your visits. The Tourist Information shop is within a short walking distance.
- We have a guest lounge available with wide screen TV and video. We also have a selection of books, jigsaw puzzles and games available on request.
- Incoming guests are welcome from 3pm and we ask leaving guests to vacate their rooms by 10am.
- The quest house enjoys views of the hills around Shanklin.
- For guests booking on a B&B basis we can confirm that there are many and varied restaurants and inns within a few minutes walk of the guest house.
- Our aim is to ensure you have a comfortable and relaxed holiday. When you tell us of problems we will deal with them immediately. If you are happy, so are we!
- Wireless internet access is available in the Guest House.
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- Osborne House - The island home of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their family.
- Isle of Wight Steam Railway. Go back in time with a ride on a steam train and visit the museum.
- Sandown Zoo where 'Tiger Island' is filmed. Rare species preservation of Tigers and Lemurs.
- Calbourne Water Mill. A working water mill with surrounding gardens.
- Waltzing Waters. An indoor show of water music and light.
- Arreton Manor and Gardens. A Beautiful Manor House with adjacent barns that include a shop, pub, and interesting old exhibits.
- Butterfly World
- Isle of Wight Pearl. A fantastic selection of pearl jewellery to buy.
- Several golf courses,
- Great sea fishing and many many many more
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Dakota Dillashaw, 18, Marion, arrested by Marion Police Department March 24 on a charge of probation violation.
Kimberly Funk, 24, Lehigh, arrested by sheriff's deputies Thursday on a charge of probation violation.
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Devon McGonigal, 18, Peabody, arrested by Peabody Police Department March 27 on a charge of rape.
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Remaining from previous weeks:
Daniel Bowes, 36, Wichita, jailed since Dec. 16.
Jordan Brundage, 18, Topeka, since Feb. 27.
Joseph Caudle, 36, Hillsboro, since Feb. 11.
Corbin Henson, 19, Newton, since March 11.
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I'm always on the lookout for cool new security devices, partly because I like whiz-bang, techno-gadgets and partly because I'm paranoid. Let's face it, short of a door lock that could be picked in a matter of minutes, most old trucks offer little in the way of theft deterrence. And these days, that's about all one can wish for when it comes to security devices—deterrence. The harder it is for a thief to make a quick getaway, the more likely your truck is to remain in your possession. Once they're gone, you'll probably never see that old pickup again.
I've seen a number of great security devices over the years, but one of the latest and greatest comes from a company whose specialty is one you wouldn't normally associate with alarms and the like—Classic Instruments. Familiar with their killer line of gauges, their latest product is actually a byproduct from another item they released a few years back. Utilizing space-age technology, literally, their GPS-enabled Sky Drive speedometer system communicates via satellite to a small, underdash device that relays the speed in which it travels up to 10 times a second. It was only after the fact that the guys at Classic Instruments realized the potential defense mechanism already built into it.
The Sky Fence is a programming upgrade that can be applied to Classic Instruments' Sky Drive system. When armed via a simple toggle switch, the Sky Fence can trigger any relay-controlled device when it detects movement past a chosen distance (65-, 130- or 200-feet). Hide the switch in the glovebox, for example, and trigger it to activate the horn. If your truck is moved past the programmed radius once armed, the horn will activate, alerting any would-be thief that it may be a bad idea to proceed any further. It can be triggered to activate a flasher connected to the lights as well or even to a battery kill switch, cutting off power completely, halting any progress of the vehicle. Installation is a snap, with only a few more wires necessary than it takes for the standard Sky Drive system.
If security is as high a priority for you as it is for me, consider an update to the Sky Fence system. It's a great addition if you're planning on a gauge update and the GPS speedo system makes sorting out a speedo cable, gear, et cetera a thing of the past. It also makes for a great standalone security upgrade to any vehicle. Over a million go missing each year, so don't end up a victim.


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Ever-classy 1970s TV anchorman Ron Burgundy (a.k.a. Will Ferrell) dropped by Conan O'Brien's show Wednesday night to talk about a lot of things, including his Dodge Durango ads and what to do in the event of a prison riot.
But what he was most excited about was being able to sing the new reelection campaign song for his "dear, dear, dear friend" Rob Ford. Remember? The crack-smoking mayor of Toronto?
"He is the best," Burgundy said.
"He's a controversial figure," O'Brien said.
"Controversial because he's so damn honest," Burgundy responded.
The song? A little ditty called "Working for the Weekend" by Canadian band Loverboy.
Besides Burgundy's crooning, there's quite an impressive flute solo in the middle of the song. So impressive that it left Burgundy completely out of breath.
Ferrell has a history of big classic rock moments on O'Brien's shows. He performed "Free Bird" dressed as Ronnie Van Zant for O'Brien's final episode of "The Tonight Show."
Rob Ford? You now owe Ron Burgundy big time.
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Culturally-Responsive Mathematics Pedagogy Through Complexivist Thinking
As part of the $11 million school project, the Band School Society negotiated with the Federal Aboriginal Affairs Ministry and the building contractors to include apprenticeships for Band members to join the work crew hired to build the new school. For an Aboriginal village of 2000 people and up to 80% unemployment, this was a great opportunity. Interested workers were invited to apply for the positions. All 15 of the respondents were hired immediately, and all needed mathematics upgrading courses to enter the apprenticeship training program. Skilled trades workers were in short supply in the community, and so future employment opportunities were virtually assured after completion of the school project. A local, non-Native adult education teacher was enlisted to run an evening prep course for these newly hired apprentices. The course offered focused training in mathematics skills needed by tradespeople, and indeed, these were prerequisite skills for entering the apprenticeship program. On the first night of class, eleven men and women arrived. By week two, the group had dwindled to six. When the course was completed at the end of eight weeks, two students earned completion certificates and formally entered the apprenticeship program.
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At the conclusion of every game, win or lose, all players on the Ballard High School lacrosse team line up and file past goalie Cooper Fogle.
Some offer their thanks; others commend him on a job well done or simply pat him on the back.
It's a ritual born out of respect.
No one on the field shoulders more responsibility for the outcome of a match than the goalie, and few in the state play the position better than Fogle.
In his first year as a starter, the junior captain has maintained an impressive 60.38 save percentage and led the Bruins (7-2) to a 6-0 record against in-state competition.
"He truly is one of the better goalies in the state, if not the best,†said second-year Ballard coach Brian Moore. "Everybody feels very confident with him in goal and they know that he's going to make some great saves and keep us in games.â€
After finishing as runners-up in the Kentucky Lacrosse Association's second division last season, the Bruins were promoted to the eight-team Division I for 2012. They have a 3-0 record so far in league play, including wins over Lexington Catholic, Collegiate and Paul Dunbar.
Before departing to Florida for spring break, Fogle took some time to discuss his approach to life in the cage.
Chris Cahill: You played baseball and lacrosse through middle school. What made you want to devote your time exclusively to lacrosse in high school?
Cooper Fogle: My freshman year I had my mind set on baseball and worked out with the baseball team until a week before lacrosse started. I got to playing both and I just liked lacrosse. I like the non-stop action a lot more than waiting for the ball to be hit or pitched in baseball.
C.C.: How did you become a goalie?
C.F.: I started out as a midfielder, but in eighth grade at Kammerer, our goalie got injured and our coach, Mark Downer, said "Who wants to be goalie?â€
I just raised my hand and said I'll try it out. From then on I stayed in the net.
I just love the way a team reacts to a goalie. I feel like the adrenalin runs off how I'm playing that day so I make sure my energy is always up.
Honestly most of being a goalie is in your head. You always have to have a positive state of mind. If you get down after a goal gets in, you're going to lose.
C.C.: Do you have any strategies for staying positive?
C.F.: This is going to make me sound really weird, but I have a fascination with the Buddha and what I do when I get scored on is come to my Zen.
If I get down, then the team will get down with me so I stay positive and forget about the goal and think about stopping the next one.
C.C.: Your parents, Rachel Platt and Gary Fogle, have been fixtures on local TV news for years. What has it been like growing up with them on TV?
C.F.: It's weird seeing them on TV because you're home with them all the time.
It's like they're two different people — one minute they're at home and then five minutes later you see them on TV. Also, it's hard to be sneaky when you're with them because my mom has covered stories on everything and knows everything. It's hard to sneak anything by her because she knows what's up.
I also have a younger brother, Logan, who is a freshman on the lacrosse team.
C.C.: What do you do in your free time?
C.F.: I listen to music a lot and I like reading. I'm a huge fan of Barack Obama and lately I've been reading a couple of books about him.
I like this Northwest rapper. His name is Sol. He's not really well known, but that's kind of why I like him. He raps about everyday stuff if you're a high school or college kid. I also like Maroon 5 a lot just because they're upbeat.
C.C.: Do you have any colleges on your radar?
C.F.: I'm visiting Jacksonville University (Fla.) over the break and I like Virginia Military Institute a lot because I want to go into the Marines after college and they have a competitive lacrosse team.
C.C.: How did you get interested in the Marines?
C.F.: One of my grandpas was in the Air Force (Harry Platt) and the other one was in the Marines (Avon Fogle) during World War II. Grandpa (Fogle) would always tell me about how being in the Marines and in the military overall is a brotherhood and it's not about you, it's about doing something for the person next to you. That's what I really love about the Marines and the military is not only protecting the country but fighting for your brother next to you.
That's what I love about lacrosse, too. A team comes together as a family and you can really do great things.
C.C.: You are one of four captains on the team. What is your leadership style?Â
C.F.: I'm more of a quiet leader but when the adrenaline gets going and, you know, it's a big game, I'll snap out of my shell and get the team pumped with a couple of screams or a little speech or something like that (laughs).
C.C.: You've been interested in Buddhism since your freshman year. Did playing a high-pressure position have anything to do with your interest?
C.F.: Actually there is a connection because with me being a goalie, I always have to have a certain state of mind on and off the field. With Buddhism, it's always about having a clear mind and keeping your mind calm. When I'm in the goal that's what I have to do 24/7 so that's why I'm so attracted to it and it really relates well to my position.
C.C.: Who do you look up to as a player?
C.F.: I guess my lacrosse idol would be Scott Rodgers. He played for Notre Dame two years ago and now he's the goalie coach at Marquette. He was just an insane goalie. His leadership skills were ridiculous. Throughout the game he would just never stop talking to his defense. He was the Peyton Manning of lacrosse.
Marquee Matches for Fogle and the Bruins:
April 18, St. Xavier, 7:30 p.m. (home)
April 26 at Trinity, 7 p.m.
May 3 at Christian Academy, 7:30 p.m.
May 9, Kentucky Country Day, 6 p.m. (home)
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Edward Bloom and Harriet House
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Edward Bloom was born in 1776 in Virginia. He died in 1855 in Indiana.
Edward married Harriet House in 1798 in Virginia. Harriet was born in 1779 in Berkeley County, Virginia. She died in 1824 in Indiana.
They had the following children:
Albert Bloom was born in 1799 in Virginia.
Cora Bloom was born about 1803 in Virginia. She died during 1873 in Virginia.
Josephine Bloom was born in 1803 in Berkeley County, Virginia. She died on 23 May 1864 in Virginia.
Joseph Bloom was born circa 1805 in Indiana.
Paula Bloom was born on 13 Oct 1805 in Hancock County, Indiana. She died in 1805 in Indiana.
Evelyn Bloom was born circa 1808 in Indiana. She died during 1860 in Virginia.
James Bloom was born about 1811 in Indiana. He died during 1850 in Berkeley County, Virginia.
Richard Bloom was born during 1811 in Indiana. He died on 29 Jun 1890 in Virginia.
Julia Bloom was born on 15 Sep 1814 in Hancock County, Indiana. She died in 1881 in Virginia.
Nicholas Bloom was born circa 1817 in Hancock County, Indiana. He died on 15 Jun 1879 in Missouri.
Leonard Bloom was born during 1819 in Indiana. He died on 28 Oct 1880 in Virginia.
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All eyes on Morsi
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Is Egypt's president behind the times or ahead of the game? While critics in the West find Mohamed Morsi's condemnation of US embassy attacks too slow in coming, he nonetheless secures aid from Europe.
- Adel GUINDY. President, Coptic Solidarity Association;
- Chérine FOTY. Egyptian-American Lawyer. Professor, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne;
- Omar ASHOUR. Director of Middle East Studies, Institutes of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution (from London);
- Bel TREW. Freelance Journalist (from Cairo).
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- The first thing that you are going to need to trade district0x (DNT) is some Bitcoin as that is usually your base currency for crypto trading. You can get that from Coinbase and we recommend starting with a small amount but an amount big enough to trade properly with so around $150 is good for that as it's also usually affordable and you can add more later when you are making good profit so you know it works well.
- You then need a Binance account which is the crypto exchange, you can't buy Bitcoin directly there and so you have to buy it from Coinbase and then send it over to Binance. So in Binance find your Bitcoin wallet address and use that on Coinbase to send your Bitcoin to your Binance account, make sure you get that address right.
- So once you have the funds in your Binance account you need to learn how to trade and indicators are what bots use to make decisions and so they are what you should study first. By far the best way of doing this is to go to TradingView and play around with the indicators (look at the chart for district0x (DNT)) as doing this you can see first hand what is going on, use indicators like RSI, MACD, SMA, EMA, Bollinger Bands and any others that you like and just experiment with the settings of each so that you can see the effects that your changes have and very importantly try to match up the lows and highs of the price with your indicator. So for example RSI is a nice simple one as when the RSI is low the price is usually low and when it's high the price is usually high, so setting the bot to buy when the RSI is low is likely to be successful and you can set the bot to sell when the RSI is higher or when a set profit percentage has been made. It's very important that you understand these indicators as they will drive your bot so put aside a lot of time to study them and use Youtube to learn more about them or the TradingView Wiki.
- So once you understand your indicators and have a good idea of the settings you want to use, you just need your crypto trading bot and by far the best is Profit Trailer. It's the best because it's so fast and feature packed, most other bots are slow and so miss trades which can leave you in a mess so it's worth having the best bot and it's also good value for money too which is great. It runs on your local computer (it can also run on a VPS server) so you just need to install it and enter your settings like the Binance API details and your other settings, have a very good read through the Profit Trailer Wiki and then read it again so that you are very familiar with all of the settings as that is very important.
- So once you have all of the settings set the bot will then run (it can run in test mode if you'd like so that you can see how it would work) and so make buys and sales using the settings that you have given it. From within the software (it runs in your web browser) you can see lots of useful information like the current status of your open positions and stats like the percentage of profit you have made (you can use that to forecast future gains if you are getting a similar gain per day using a site like Compound Daily to get some quite shocking future predictions).
- So by now you are making good daily gains so you will want to withdraw at some point and you can't do that directly from Binance and so you will need to send some of your Bitcoin back to Coinbase and then from there into your local currency and to your bank account.
So you can see how easy it is to trade altcoins like district0x (DNT) and make a great deal of money, if you are getting just two percent per day or more you will be making a great deal of money over time.
There are also a lot of scams in crypto so be sure not to fall for any of them, all of the companies listed here are 100% safe and very big companies and you can verify that very easily online.
More Tips on district0x (DNT) Trading
The basic motto which every trader should follow is that the best time to buy is when the prices are low. On the realistic terms, if you will be day trading the $1,000 worth of Ether for at least one week then you can make up to $200 per week.
You will be able to make the $8 profit off of your first of the 2 trades. Or you can often get into the options for making about $15 granted everything worked in the same way you have hoped for. It is focusing on so many payment methods such as bank transfer as well as credit card and debit cards too. It has 5% fees on credit and debit card purchases. Right now there are more than 1600 coins in the market and it's very hard for newbie's to find good coins to invest and most of the time they end up losing a lot of money. Even BTC is not a good coin to invest in 2018 but this market is not completely dead.
Now that you have selected the coins to invest in, you need to find an entry point for your investment. Technical analysis has forever been the top strategy for finding an entry point when investing in financial assets. This is needed for the reason that you do not want to deal with the exchange that is dealing with funds stolen while making the transactions.
So this is obviously all about district0x (DNT) trading but there are also other altcoins that you can trade so see our other pages about Trade with crypto. So choose the altcoin that you'd like to trade and you can trade and many as you would like.
The money will be on the whole get separated while you are into the money purchasing modes and you will often be getting the feeling as if you are donating it. There is a higher percentage of people who are getting involved in the crypto investment and are learning some new ways to make money.If you are looking to buy Bitcoin, then in this condition bullish engulfing candlestick pattern on top of the weekly chart that turns out to be the excellent indicator to make your way inside the market.…


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I wanted the pattern for a very long time, and knew I wanted a silk version rather than a tracksuity looking one, mainly because I'm a bogan and therefore already have about 23 fleecy zip hoodies that are similar.
Had so much fun putting the booklet together and I love the thicker brown paper.
I found the instructions easy to follow and the sizing was not so far off my measurements which I also love.
I almost fell over when I saw this silk remnant at a Lincraft sale.
1. Because I was looking for a bright floral Silk
2. Because it cost me like $7
(ps. thanks weekend husband, this 'Sale' cost me about $150, but I still love you for it)
couldn't wait to post about it.
I used a pink satin (also at the sale, $12) for the underlining as the silk was completely transparent. I used the same method for cutting the silk out as I did with my Anna Dress. Then hand stitched the silk to the satin pieces. UGH. Hand sewing. I then sewed the jacket together as instructed.
Welt pocket. Ahahah. Oh man. check this out. Errr not sure what is happening there..
I cut the seam alloance and pretended nothing happened, one pocket is smaller than the other but whatevs.
At this point I knew I needed a lining. I used a beautiful purple lining from Tessuti, which feels gorgeous against the skin.
I effectively made another jacket and joined it around the neckline/arms right sides together then flipped it in.
I left the ribbing till last and then overlocked the insides.
Also.. not sure what happened here, but I figure no one will see it.
(this is a lie, I always show people my c#*k ups first)
Also I wore my black Georgia to a friends Surprise 30th on the weekend. Here's some little piccies of the hubs and me :)
Oooh Attractive. Hmm I got some serious drunk eye happening there. My little hubs, what a cutie pants.
This ones my fav, naturally haha
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Why has it taken Andrew Cuomo so long to do something about LIPA?
In case you haven't heard, Governor Andrew Cuomo is very angry at the Long Island Power Authority, the government entity that is stumbling in its mission to transmit electricity to 1.1 million customers on Long Island and in the Rockaways.
Eleven days have passed since Hurricane Sandy made landfall, and hundreds of thousands of Long Island and Queens residents remain in the dark.
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Cuomo has pinned the blame squarely on the incompetence of LIPA, an organization that, according to him, is nothing more than a "nameless, faceless, bureaucracy," one whose performance warrants "the removal of the management responsible for such colossal misjudgments."
The governor, sounding very much like an indignant outsider, has in fact hinted that he might take steps to bring about such a removal.
What he hasn't mentioned, as he's channeled the public's growing outrage toward LIPA, is that he's had the ability to do something about it all along.
LIPA is a "political subdivision of the State of New York," as its bond books describe it.
Like the M.T.A, it is an authority, a creature of the state. (Unlike the M.T.A., the governor's office notes, much of LIPA's operational work is contracted out to a third party.)
That means Cuomo could have found a replacement for former LIPA chief executive Kevin Law, who retired in 2010, much as he established his ownership of other state authorites, like the M.T.A. and the Thruway Authority, by appointing the trustees.
He could have named trustees to the LIPA's board to replace those whose terms have ended during his tenure.
He could have reorganized it after Hurricane Irene, when he also skewered its performance.
But then, if he did any of that, Cuomo would very obviously own LIPA. It certainly wouldn't have been possible for him to pull off the feat he's managed so far, which is to benefit politically by calling attention to the failings of an entity he actually bears responsibility for.
In fact, it looks a lot like Cuomo is operating by the same playbook he used with the M.T.A. and the Port Authority, two authorities that he ignored and derided, respectively, before bringing in new leadership and, eventually, embracing them.
If that's the precedent, LIPA's about due for a retooling.
As of this writing, it's unclear what Cuomo's LIPA plan will look like. But anger over LIPA's incompetence is still building, as the governor is plainly aware, and it's only a matter of time before some of that anger attaches itself to him. So expect the announcement of some sort of plan soon.
There are a number of possibilities available to Cuomo, but all of them are complicated.
One option is to fine LIPA.
But unlike ConEd, a private utility, LIPA is not regulated by the Public Service Commission (whose leadership the governor also appoints, by the way), so the governor can't ask the PSC to fine or decertify LIPA without changing their statutory relationship, according to Jackson Morris, director of strategic engagement at the Pace Energy and Climate Center.
Also, LIPA's shareholders are Long Island ratepayers, and the fine would trickle down to them in the form of higher bills.
Another option would be to strip LIPA's license.
But it's not clear what would replace it. Since LIPA is an authority whose sole purpose is to transmit electricity, stripping its license would basically mean dissolving it. It's not a privately run energy company with business elsewhere.
The governor wouldn't want to dissolve it without first determining how to auction off its assets, and most importantly, figuring out what to do with its crippling $7 billion debt, a legacy of a nuclear power plant built by LIPA's predecessor, LILCO.
Another option available to the governor, which seems to be the most likely, would be to restructure the organization, an idea the administration floated in Newsday in August.
"Under such a scenario, PSEG, the New Jersey company that won the bidding to manage LIPA's electric grid starting in 2014, would be the outward face of LIPA, while other state agencies, such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency and the New York Power Authority, could take on renewable energy and power purchasing decisions," the Newsday report said.
Then Cuomo would claim, as he did with the Port Authority, that a bloated, unresponsive, unpopular agency was "finally on the right track."
A spokesman for the governor declined to comment for this article.
UPDATE: At a press conference this evening, the governor was asked multiple questions about LIPA and his role in overseeing it. He didn't answer any of them directly, choosing instead to direct attention to LIPA's contractor: "LIPA is basically a holding company and National Grid is the provider of the services, the way Con Ed is the provider of the services," Cuomo said.


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Let $A$ be a commutative ring with $1$ not equal to $0$. (The ring A is not necessarily a domain, and is not necessarily Noetherian.) Assume we have an injective map of free $A$-modules $A^m \to A^n$. Must we have $m \le n$?
I believe the answer is yes. For instance, why is there no injective map from $A^2 \to A^1$? Say it's represented by a matrix $(a_1, a_2)$. Then clearly $(a_2, -a_1)$ is in the kernel. In the $A^{n+1} \to A^{n}$ case, we can look at the $n \times (n+1)$ matrix which represents it; call it $M$. Let $M_i$ denote the determinant of the matrix obtained by deleting the $i$-th column. Let $v$ be the vector $(M_1, -M_2, ..., (-1)^nM_{n+1})$. Then $v$ is in the kernel of our map, because the vector $Mv^T$ has $i$-th component the determinant of the $(n+1) \times (n+1)$ matrix attained from $M$ by repeating the $i$-th row twice.
That almost finishes the proof, except it is possible that $v$ is the zero vector. I would like to see either this argument finished, or, even better, a nicer proof.
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Captain_Jack wrote:JOEL wrote:Captain_Jack wrote:I love this team...I want to hang out with them for like 1 day.
Loving Biedrins and Pietrus dancing down the hallway to come out for the second half!
today is season ticket holder lunchen entire team inc. coaches
should be tight
I'm SOOOO jealous!!!!
If you're going tell Matt Barnes I want to marry him
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joel.. hey wutz up matty?
barnes.... cant tell jus trying to survive in your world..
joel...yeah well hey ,,, did you you know captn jack wanted to marry you?
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Jennie Garth Gossip
Jennie Garth gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Beverly Hills, 90210 trailer birthday!
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Oh you beautiful dolls! First reaction – pure, giddy tween joy. Second reaction – am I being an uncritical stan? See for yourself: Maybe we should talk about the art of trailers on Show Your Work Full Story
Tori Spelling… Gets It?
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If you're like me, you still can't quite believe the 90210 reboot – or revival, or mockumentary, or whatever you want to call it – is happening. It seems like the kind of thing that people would drunkenly pitch over drinks and then realize, when they were sober, could never actually happen, right? Unless of course the people having those drinks were the stars themselves. Full Story
His & Her Engagements
PEOPLE has confirmed that Jennie Garth is engaged to Dave Abrams. I didn't even know she was dating anyone. Google tells me that US Weekly reported that they were dating in January. Apparently Dave waited until her birthday to propose. Full Story
Kelly and Donna: Mystery Girls
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Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling are back together on TV. I must have been totally out of it because this is the first I've heard of them doing a show together and it's premiering tonight on ABC Family. Or maybe no one cared enough to report it until now. In the last 10 minutes, I've read two articles about Mystery Girls and I'm still not sure whether or not it's a movie of the week or if it's a series but I don't want to spend the time to find out more. Full Story
Get It Together, Kelly
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I loved Beverly Hills, 90210. I was around 11-years-old when the show premiered, so that kind of goes without saying, doesn't it? But the endless 90s nostalgia is getting a little tiring – Kurt Cobain and Winona Ryder are one thing, but Candace Cameron Bure and Danica McKellar (both on Dancing with the Stars this season) are quite another. Full Story
Beverly Hills 90210 Reunion in Vegas
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Remember the modified version of the 90210 theme song they would play when the show came back from the commercial break for the last block of an episode? It wasn't exciting like the opening but really slowed down? Sort of sad and yet comforting, to indicate that Brandon or Brenda has learned a lesson the hard way? That's what I hear when I look at these pictures of this week's 90210 reunion. Full Story
Luke 'n' Jennie?
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My reactions, in order, were as follows: I got excited, then rolled my eyes, then got really warm and happy in my stomach, and then went to price out a pair of 3-hole docs that the kids are apparently wearing again. Luke Perry and Jennie Garth together? (Lainey: this according to the National Enquirer which everyone has already denied up and down but still…a LOT of you emailed. Full Story
A new dress size and a new man!
Click here if you missed last week's post, with photos, on Jennie Garth's divorce thinnification. Along with her new dress size, it appears that Jennie also has a new man - Noah Abrams, a photographer. According to PEOPLE Full Story
Jennie Garth's Divorce Thinnification
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This is Jennie Garth arriving at Fox & Friends this morning in New York. Garth and Peter Facinelli announced their divorce 5 months ago just weeks before her 40th birthday. Well that must have been fun - a new decade and suddenly single and, well, of course, it's what happens because it has to happen . Full Story
Brenda & Kelly do reality
Jennie Garth celebrated her 40th birthday yesterday and the launch of her new reality show A Little Bit Country. Shannen Doherty came to support her, as did Ian Ziering who will look like Steve Sanders forever. Shannen now has her own reality show too. I've not watched Shannen Says but I did see a clip of her giving the gears to her fiancé about wanting to play football on Sunday when they could be wedding planning. Full Story
Jennie Garth: On fame and perceived fame
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Jennie Garth and Peter Facinelli broke up. She's now doing promotion for her new reality show A Little Bit Country. So, you know, the subject of divorce is coming up a lot. Here's Jennie at The Today Show this morning. Us Weekly reports that Jennie is "resentful" of Peter's success with Twilight and, to a lesser degree, Nurse Jackie. Full Story


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The social sciences are intimately concerned with human behavior in all its complexity and with the many kinds of social relationships, which influence us as we grow and change as unique individuals throughout our lives. To adequately comprehend the state of the human condition, the interaction of humans and their environment--past, present, and future--must be examined. Social scientists are interested in discovering the ways in which people are affected by their associations with various human groups, both large and small, including the multiplicity of organizations and institutions that characterize modern society. Through the social sciences, the history of social institutions and the continuing process of social change are studied.
The School of Social Sciences at Sonoma State encompasses a particularly interesting combination of departments and programs. A student can choose from a variety of opportunities, ranging from the core of "traditional" social science fields with an emphasis on applications (Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology), to various cross-disciplinary programs (Environmental Studies and Planning, Global Studies, Human Development, and Women's and Gender Studies), to programs with a professional emphasis (Counseling, Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies, and Public Administration).
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You've got to credit the Friends of Weiner with persistence. Having failed to stop the closure of the Weiner school, the group is back with an application for a charter school.
The idea might work, but it faces an uphill climb. Meanwhile, the high school closed July 1 by order of the state Board of Education after a long-running battle waged by school patrons.
By all measures except one, the Weiner school, established in 1883, was successful in educating young people of the community. That one, though, was critical — the state's requirement that every school district have at least 350 students.
That minimum was set in Act 60 of 2003, a far-reaching reform of public education spearheaded by then-Gov. Mike Huckabee. The law has been responsible for many public schools going out of business. Weiner is just the latest.
The 350 minimum is low compared to what originally was proposed. The first version of the overhaul plan would have set the minimum number at 1,500 students. That would have reduced the number of school districts in Arkansas from 310 to 110.
That plan had no chance of passage, and an interim proposal for a minimum of 450 was later amended in a special legislative session to the final 350.
Weiner stayed above that level for several years, but with the town losing population, the school's fate was inevitable. Several attempts to amend the law have failed. After finally satisfying the court system with educational reforms made necessary because of the Lake View case, legislators are understandably reluctant to revisit the details.
When the district fell below 350 in 2008 and 2009, the state Department of Education stepped in to order a consolidation or annexation. Weiner school officials negotiated with all bordering districts, but didn't find a good fit.
In desperation the boards of the Weiner and Delight districts proposed an administrative consolidation — a novel idea because Delight, also under 350 students, is about 200 miles from Weiner. As might be expected, that plan was rejected by the state board.
Under pressure from the state, Weiner in February 2010 worked out a petition of annexation with Harrisburg. The agreement called for the Weiner campus to stay open at least through the 2011 school year.
A lawsuit filed by the Friends of Weiner to stop the annexation got nowhere.
While the alliance was uneasy from the beginning, Harrisburg kept the Weiner campus open through the past year. But it became a drag on the district's finances, and in December Superintendent Danny Sample recommended closure.
This time another magic number saved the Weiner school for a time. State law requires a unanimous decision of the board on such a closure, and the directors' vote was 4-1. That sent the issue to the state board, which in March voted 5-2 to close the high school. The elementary school at Weiner will stay open for at least another year.
The Friends of Weiner weren't through yet. The group persuaded state Rep. John Hutchison, R-Harrisburg, to sponsor a bill that would have established an Arkansas School for Agriculture in grades K-12, which presumably would have been located in Weiner. But the bill didn't get out of committee before adjournment.
Now the group has a more practical proposal, filing an application for a charter school to be called the Northeast Arkansas School of Agriculture.
According to an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette story, the school would serve up to 250 students in grades 7-12 and would provide an instructional program combining national education standards of teaching for college and career preparation with instruction of skills needed for working in the agricultural business industry.
In a letter of intent filed with the application, planners Michelle Cadle of Weiner and Greta Greeno of Fisher wrote: "The purpose of this school is to meet the needs Arkansas agri-businesses face with an aging work force and a lack of qualified candidates in a rapidly changing and increasingly sophisticated agriculture economy."
They pointed out that 17 of every 100 jobs in Arkansas are agriculture-related so the state's economy is still heavily dependent on an agriculture base.
One problem is the timetable for starting such a school. Filing the application is just the beginning of the process. The planners have until Sept. 3 to submit a detailed proposal showing how such a school would operate. If approved, the school could open as early as the fall of 2014.
But Weiner's is one of 11 new applications, and the process is demanding. The state will have only 17 open-enrollment charters operating this fall.
Meanwhile, the Weiner High School will be dark this fall. Most students will attend the Harrisburg High School, and some will transfer to other schools. The nearby Westside district has received 18 School Choice applications from students formerly enrolled at Weiner.
Teen-agers are famously reluctant to move once they get established and make friends.
Nevertheless, the charter school proposal may be the best answer to an injustice inflicted on the Weiner community by a law that puts a magic number above quality of education.
Roy Ockert is editor emeritus of The Jonesboro Sun. He may be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Autologous Stem Cell Transplant: What to Expect
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My 40 yr old son has just been diagnosed with stage III recurrent Hodgkin's disease. His oncologist has suggested a stem cell transplant as part of his treatment. Can you please tell us what to expect as a result of this in regard to how sick he'll be, what he will need in the way of care for how long, etc., so that we can best work out how to care for him?
Selina M. Luger, MD, Director of the Leukemia Program and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
An autologous stem cell transplant is a treatment that involves the use of high doses of chemotherapy (and sometimes radiation). The chemotherapy doses and drugs make the blood counts drop very low and sometimes actually destroy the blood and bone marrow permanently. In order to make that safe and feasible, before the high doses of treatment are given, some of the patient's own stem cells are taken (from the blood and or bone marrow) and frozen away. Then after the patient gets the high doses of treatment, the cells are given back in order to allow the blood counts and bone marrow to recover. It usually takes about 8-14 days for the cells that are put back to start growing in the bone marrow and blood. During that period of time, the blood counts are very low and patients can develop infections, fevers, bleeding or other symptoms related to low blood counts. Patients often require antibiotics as well as blood and platelet transfusions for some period of time. Sometimes patients stay in the hospital for the entire time (3-4 weeks); sometimes patients go home after the chemotherapy and have close follow-up as an outpatient with a lot of outpatient treatments. This depends on the regimen chosen by the doctor as well as other factors. The recovery time, risk associated with the transplant, time in the hospital, care needed at home etc is also variable and should be discussed with the patient's doctors.


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newsletter: month elevenWednesday, December 26th, 2012
Dear Nico,
You're eleven months old, and clearly done with immobility. No more wobbling across the floor; you still need the support of grownup hands, but given your druthers, you'd be running. Zoom! Unless you're practicing your drunken-sailor walk—there's still a lot of that. Whatever the speed, my hands are too busy holding you up to take photos.
My back gets pretty sore, you know. So your holiday gift from mama is a baby hand truck, the kind you can stash toys in and wheel around the house. You're slightly suspicious of it, and not quite steady enough to go freewheelin' yet.
The other day we were zooming around the apartment, and then you skidded to a stop to look at your reflection in the mirror. The reflection grinned and squealed with delight, and then you two very gently bumped your foreheads together. You learned that trick from your five-year-old friend Pip, or was it your four-year-old friend Syl? They both like playing the game where you ever so lightly bump foreheads and then the other kid flails and falls over onto his back. That's a fun game. But your reflection didn't fall over onto his back, so you just stood there giggling and licking the mirror, patting each other's hand.
Hard to say what the best game of the month is. There are so many, and everything is the best. Cats, CEILING FANS, curtains, people, building blocks, socks, drums, the cabinet underneath the bathroom sink, oh dear, I should really install baby locks on some of these things. Favorite game of the past week, though, is increasingly: sit down with a box full of blocks, take blocks out one by one, and throw them on the floor until they're spread out more or less in a circle around you, in a single layer. And then you're the king of all you survey.
Firsts for this month include antibiotics, oh did I mention you've been sick for five weeks? It's finally getting better, but not before we take care of this stealth ear infection. This part isn't awesome, but at least the medicine is tasty enough. And while having one or both of us be sick for weeks on end can get dispiriting for your caretakers, it's not like this has slowed you down much. We still had a completely lovely solstice with some of our favorite people, including sunrise on the river again. We still spend time with our friends. We still bounce and giggle and read books (your favorite right now is Little Penguin, which has a finger puppet right in the book, and Global Babies, which has photos of babies from around the world).
The baby NAZ fan club is ridiculous. That most of our friends are into you isn't surprising. But then there are supermarket cashiers, burly guys at the body shop, doctors, our new veterinarian. What I'm saying is: your plan for world domination is proceeding apace. Good going, babe.
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Disaster strikes for barroom's baseball mural
This is a tale of two San Francisco barroom paintings, one famous, one not.
The famous painting, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," is being restored to its rightful position behind the bar in the elegant Palace Hotel.
The other - a mural of the scene at the long-vanished Seals Stadium - is in the back room of the Double Play Bar and Grill at 16th and Bryant streets.
The Pied Piper was endangered for a time. The owners of the Palace took it down and planned to sell it on the grounds it was too valuable and too famous to be in a bar. They changed their minds after a huge public outcry, and the Pied Piper will be back in renewed glory this Thursday.
Artwork's days are numbered
But the Double Play mural is a different story. The owners of the building that houses the Double Play want to eliminate the restaurant's back room, the one graced by the Seals Stadium mural. The restaurant itself is not in danger; in fact, it seems to be prospering. But the mural's days appear to be numbered.
It's the usual San Francisco story. The landlord wants to build a 12-unit apartment building on the parking lot next to the Double Play, and the back room will have to go. There's no set date, but Rafael Hernandez, of the family that owns the Double Play, hears that work might start by the end of the year.
Thomas Coyne, who owns the building, couldn't be reached for comment, but plans for the site are on file with the City Planning Department - drawings, pictures, everything. It looks like a done deal.
Maxfield Parrish painted the Pied Piper especially for the Palace Hotel in 1909. It's a luminous piece of art, a cherished part of San Francisco.
Leon Carter painted the Seals Stadium scene maybe 15 years ago. Parrish's work is in the neoclassical style; Carter's style is what you might call American realism.
It shows Seals Stadium, the last home of the old San Francisco Seals and the first home of the San Francisco Giants, during a ballgame in the not-too-distant past.
In real life, Seals Stadium was just across the street from the Double Play. History was made there: Joe DiMaggio played there for the Seals. The first-ever major-league baseball game on the West Coast was played at Seals Stadium, the Giants against the Dodgers, in the spring of 1958.
But on a wall of the back room, the old Pacific Coast League still rules the sporting roost. And in the painting, the Seals are playing the Oakland Oaks. The Seals have taken the field. The game is about to start; the stands are mostly full. The Seals wear those old-time baggy uniforms - and wait a minute! In the painting all the Seals players are left-handed.
What a lineup. An amazing sight straight out of a daydream of the past. You can almost smell the hot dogs and the roasting peanuts - a big bag for a nickel. Or maybe it's the aroma of hamburgers and beer from today's lunchtime.
The rest of the restaurant is a shrine to baseball and other San Francisco sports. There are faded pictures of the All City football teams from 50 and more years ago. Posters from the Seals days. Dusty baseball mitts stapled to the walls.
"I love this place," said Jerry Taylor, an admirer of bars and colorful restaurants. "This one just oozes history and real things, like real old-time, three-fingered infielders' gloves."
"There's not many old San Francisco places like this," said Rafael Hernandez, who is the bartender. His father, also named Rafael Hernandez, is the cook, his mother, Lucia, is a waitress.
'Now this is the place to be'
Sixteenth and Bryant, halfway between the Mission and Potrero Hill, used to be a nowhere part of the city, especially after the ballpark was torn down. It had a faded look, like one of the old pictures on the wall of the Double Play.
"But now this is the place to be," the younger Hernandez said. He said it twice: "The place to be."
And progress always has its price: in this case, an apartment building on the site of the back room at the Double Play and its mural of an ordinary baseball day at Seals Stadium.
Carl Nolte is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist. His column appears every Sunday. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Tourism is defined as the act of travel with the intentions of recreational pleasure.
The World Tourism Organization defines a tourist is someone who travels at least 50 miles or 80 kilometers away from their home, for the purpose of entertainment and pleasure. There are a variety of ways that a traveler can get to their intended destinations. Shorter distances may be reached by automobile or bus, where longer distances can be reaches by airplane, train or boat. A newer form of travel that has recently become available involves having outer space as an option.
Travel elements
When traveling, tourists must keep in mind and plan for:
- Accomodation: a place to stay while traveling, whether it is a hotel, motel, apartment, resort, inn, hostel or guest house.
- Foods and beverages.
- Tours: getting to know the surrounding area that has been visited. This can be achieved through a walking tour, bus tour, coach tour, boat tour, even by helicopter.
- Souvenirs: bringing home a memory from the trip, such as a postcard, shot glass, keychain or snow globe.
Other elements of tourism might involve insurance, safety, security, culture, language and currency exchange. Many tourists travel for a number of reasons, including relaxation, escape, adventure, as well as experiencing new and different cultures.
Required factors
In order to travel, a person must possess four essentials:
- Disposable Income: money that can be spent on pleasure items.
- Time.
- Means of transport.
- Accommodation arrangements.
The history behind tourism and travel first referred to wealthy people who were interested in visiting distant parts of the world in order to view historic buildings or other works of art, as well as to learn a new language or sample foreign foods. The terms tourist and tourism were first recognized in 1937 by the League of Nations, whose definition involved a person who traveled abroad for more than 24 hours.
Types of tourism
There are different types of tourism that can be enjoyed. Some are listed below:
- Adventure tourism: involves travel to rugged regions so that tourists can participate in adventure sports such as hiking or climbing mountains.
- Cultural Tourism: involves visiting historical or intersting cities, such as Paris, Shanghai, Beijing or Warsaw. This is when tourists engage in cultural experiences, like visiting an art museum, theater or opera.
- Ecotourism: involves traveling that does not pose a threat to the environment, such as safariing in Kenya.
- Gambling Tourism: visiting destinations for the purpose of gambling, to places such as Las Vegas, Atlantic City or Monte Carlo/
- Sport Tourism: involves travel with the thought of a particular sport in mind, such as a ski trip during the winter season.


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Pall Mall Cocktail.
1 Dash Orange Bitters. (Angostura Orange Bitters)
1 Teaspoonful White Crème de Menthe. (Brizard White Creme de Menthe)
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Martini & Rossi Sweet Vermouth)
1/3 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Original Dry Vermouth)
1/3 Plymouth Gin. (3/4 oz Plymouth Gin)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Maybe I'm on crack, but I really enjoyed this cocktail. It was refreshing without being overwhelmingly sweet or over the top minty.
I suppose it is a sort of Martinez variation.
Not sure if the name is supposed to evoke Pall Mall cigarettes or what. But I have been known to be attracted to tobacco-ish or tobacco complementing flavors in alcoholic beverages.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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Why See Beautiful: The Carole King Musical?
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Tracing the career of Carole King, and endorsed by the beloved Grammy winner herself, Beautiful was the feel good hit of 2014, scoring two 2014 Tony Awards. Described by The New York Times as 'A complex, revitalizing portrait of the real, conflicted person within the reluctant star', we learn about King's inspiring, but rocky road to the icon she is today.
Featuring songs from her back catalogue, as a solo artist and co-writer, Beautiful revisits 'Uptown,' '(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,' 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling' and 'You've Got a Friend', amongst many more, with touching grace, proving it's much more than just another jukebox musical.
The road to stardom...
Before rising to one of the 20th Century's best-selling stars, plain Carol Klein was a talented teenager, living in Brooklyn and making music. But it's her co-writing, with husband Gerry Goffin that gets her noticed. Breaking through into the music business as a songwriter for some of the day's biggest artists, she discovers there is more to juggle whilst following her dreams. All is not what it seems with her fairy-tale life. It's only when we fall, that we learn to fly.
Lose yourself in the Tony winning Beautiful on it's first national tour, and see the journey that led to finding her true voice.
'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow', penned with Goffin, was Carol's first Number One hit, when she was just 17!
Additional Information
Opening night: 22 November 2019
Suitable for audiences aged 11 and upwards.
Run time
Two hours 30 minutes with one 15 minute intermission
Cast and Creative
Chilina Kennedy as Carole King
Dylan S. Wallach as Gerry Goffin
Alison Whitehurst as Cynthia Weil
Jacob Heimer as Barry Mann
James Clow as Don Kirshner
Suzanne Grodner as Genie Klein
Mckynleigh Alden Abraham, Jordan Edwin Andrew, Tynia Brandon, John Michael Dias, Matt Faucher, Kaylee Harwood, Willie Hill, Alia Hodge, James Michael Lambert, Traci Elaine Lee, Marla Louissaint, Dimitri Joseph Moise, Elena Ricardo, Avery Smith, Michael Stiggers, Jr., Alexis D. Tidwell, Kristopher Stanley Ward, Alison Whitehurst.
Book by - Douglas McGrath
Director - Mark Bruni
Producer - Paul Blake
Choreographer - Josh Prince
Musical Direction -Jason Howland
Set Design - Derek McLane
Costume Design - Alejo Vietti
Lighting Design - Peter Kaczorowski
Sound Design - Brian Ronan
Wig and Hair Design - Charles G. LaPointe
Orchestrations and Music Arrangements - Steve Sidwell
Music Co-ordination - John Miller
2014 Tony awards
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical - Jessie Mueller
Best Sound Design of a Musical
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical - Anika Larsen
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical - Brian Ronan
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Baked Mushroom Parmesan
From: Mushroom Council
Quick Facts
Servings: 4
Prep Time: 10 min.
Cook Time: 10 min.
Total: 20 min.
With hearty portabella mushrooms topped with melted mozzarella, this quick and flavorful dish will satisfy even die-hard of meat eaters.
- 4 large portabella mushrooms
- 2 Tbs olive oil
- 1 cup tomato pasta sauce, divided
- 4 fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced
- 1/4 tsp crushed red peppers flakes
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded part skim mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 cup (1 ounce) grated Parmesan cheese
- Heat oven to broil, with top rack about 4" from broiler. Brush both sides of mushrooms with oil. Place mushrooms, gill side down, in a 9 inch baking dish. Broil for 4 minutes, remove and turn gill side up, broil 4 minutes.
- Remove mushrooms from baking dish, drain excess liquid. Reduce oven to 400° F.
- Spread 1/2 cup pasta sauce on bottom of baking dish, then place mushrooms, gill side up. Sprinkle with basil, red pepper flakes and the remainder of the pasta sauce. Top with mozzarella cheese and parmesan; bake 5-10 minutes, until the cheese begins to brown. Remove and serve.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 230
Calories from Fat 138 (60%)
(25%)Total Fat 16g
(30%)Saturated Fat 6g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0g
Monounsaturated Fat 0g
(7%)Cholesterol 20mg
(22%)Sodium 520mg
(0%)Potassium 0mg
Total Carbohydrate 11g
(8%)Dietary Fiber 2g
Sugars 2g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(26%)Protein 13g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Congo rebel groups have killed over 260 people since April, UN says
GOMA, Congo – While the international community is focused on the M23 rebellion, other armed groups have taken advantage of the security vacuum in eastern Congo, and killed over 260 people since April this year, a United Nations report said Wednesday.
"In April 2012, army desertions and the subsequent creation of the M23 armed group led the Congolese army to focus on efforts to contain this new rebellion. Many armed groups have taken advantage of the security vacuum left by the redeployment of army units to expand their own areas of influence," said the report.
A series of six investigations by the U.N. has determined that the Raia Mutomboki and Nyatura armed groups were responsible for most of the 75 massacres in which at least 264 people died, including 83 children.
The actual number of victims is likely to be higher as not all massacres were investigated.
The Raia Mutomboki -- meaning "Angry Villagers" in Swahili -- is a Congolese armed group that was created in South Kivu in 2008 to defend the local population against the exactions of the FDLR, a Hutu militia of fighters who helped perpetrate the 1994 Rwandan genocide and who have operated in eastern Congo since then.
For several years the Raia Mutomboki restricted their operations to South Kivu, but in early April, they became active in the Walikale and Masisi territories of North Kivu as the Congolese army left these two areas to redeploy in the Rutshuru territory and fight the M23.
"If you want to put an end to red ants attacks, you have to go to their nest. When we finished operations here in (South Kivu) we thought that the FDLR can come back. If we neutralize Masisi we know we can put an end to the FDLR," said Juriste Kikuni, the RaJia Mutomboki second in command, to the Associated Press in September.
The RaJia Mutomboki's attacks have become increasingly vicious, killing FDLR fighters and Hutu civilians indiscriminately and hacking their victims to death with machetes and spears, or burning them alive in their homes.
"We attacked Ufamandu (a village in Masisi) because the population was with the FDLR, and we, we attack the FDLR and their allies," said Kikuni.
Children and elderly, unable to flee fast enough, are often the principal victims of the attack, U.N. investigators found.
In retaliation, the opposing Nyatura armed group has carried out similar attacks on Tembo civilians, one of the two ethnicities that make up the Raia Mutomboki.
The ethnic dimension of the massacres raises grave concerns, the U.N. report says, as conflicts in eastern Congo over the past 15 years have largely concentrated along ethnic lines.
"The systematic human rights violations committed by these armed groups, including the slaughter of so many children, are the most serious we have seen in recent times in the DRC," said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay.
In response to the attacks, the Congolese army has deployed several units to Masisi, with the support of the U.N. peacekeeping mission, known as MONUSCO, over the period of July to September, but several NGOs and the local population feel that not enough efforts are being made.
"While it is clearly necessary that civilians attacked by M23 be protected, this should not happen at the cost of innocent lives -- mainly women and children -- elsewhere in the region. The population feels abandoned by MONUSCO forces which has failed in its mandate," said a Jesuit Refugee Service staff member in Masisi.
In addition to calling for an increase in security measures to protect the population, the U.N. report recommends that Congolese authorities take in account the human rights violations detailed in the report when integrating armed groups in the future.
The Congolese army is currently in the middle of negotiations with the Nyatura armed group to integrate its fighters into the national army to try to stabilize the region.
The Congolese army has a history of integrating in its ranks armed groups responsible for human rights violations.
General Bosco Ntaganda, one of the leaders of the M23 rebellion that started in April, was already wanted by the International Criminal Court when he was initially integrated in the Congolese army in 2009.
Prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity remains largely nonexistent in Congo. The Raia Mutomboki's top commander, who goes by the name of Eyadema, was arrested in Kindu in September but no judicial procedure has begun against him yet.