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Customer Feedback
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"I used a website in very busy period - Xmas. I was very surprised, that I have an option to order with 1 delivery day. All my order items arrived in very good secure box in 1 day! I'm so impressed with the quality and service of drinkstuff. Well done guys, we need more reliable business like yours!!! Thank you!"
Jerzy Krokowski, Sun 6th January '13
"As advertised, in the run up to Christmas, arrived as promised on time, excellent service."
Jim Conlin, Sat 5th January '13
"I just wanted to say that the customer service I have received from drinkstuff has been brilliant. I have bought several items over the last year and the delivery has always been prompt and the goods exactly as described. On the occasion when there was a problem with damage in transit, drinkstuff responded promptly to my email and despatched replacements immediately. Thanks!"
Eileen W, Fri 4th January '13
"Very quick delivery and very well packed, would definitely order again."
Gail Jarrett, Fri 4th January '13
"A big thank you to your team for sending a replacement item so quickly and just before Christmas and with zero hassle. This is the kind of helpful approach that will ensure that you get repeat business in the future - as I have recommended you to all the people at our cocktail party. You really stand out from the crowd - 10/10"
Nick Bradley, Fri 4th January '13
"Lovely glasses, fast and efficient delivery service and easy to order online, very happy with my purchase, well wrapped for postage."
Louise Mcfarlane, Fri 4th January '13
"I could not have asked for better service - the glasses I ordered arrived in time and were of very good quality and reasonable price. I would not hesitate in using the service again. Gifts were a hit and people had taken the website address as they were all impressed with the glasses."
Jay, Fri 4th January '13
"The glasses were perfect and a great party gift. They are of very good quality at a very reasonable price. They were delivered in time for Christmas."
Jay, Fri 4th January '13
"I made a late order for Pina Colada and Margarita glasses, an ice crusher and a party accessories pack. All items arrived as planned and there was an excellent tracking facility. The items lived up to expectation and a great party was had. Thanks. Dave."
David Dugdale, Thu 3rd January '13
"Perfect, simple and stylish, perfect for our home made Xmas cocktail gifts!"
Jenn, Thu 3rd January '13
"Glasses arrived promptly, even just before Christmas. Packing was most amazing I've seen for such a small parcel, absolutely no chance of breakages there. Excellent service."
Chris Wilder, Thu 3rd January '13
"Excellent quality product and delivered quickly, particularly as ordered during the build up to Christmas. Would recommend to others."
Maggy Sainsbury, Thu 3rd January '13
"Very good service and value for money product."
Keith Carey, Thu 3rd January '13
"The wine glasses were excellent as expected and delivered on time in perfect condition."
Brian Jay, Thu 3rd January '13
"Last minutechristmas shopping but delivered as promised in a couple of days , goods as described , well packaged"
alan smith, Thu 3rd January '13
"I was very happy with my order as it came just at the right time in very good condition. It was a very last minute order and was desperately need. I will certainly use drinkstuff again."
Erica Henwood, Thu 3rd January '13
"Delivery was very fast! Would use again - brilliant service."
Rebecca Hinkson, Thu 3rd January '13
"Bought three sets of shot glasses for Christmas for the first time from drinkstuff so was not sure what to expect. Very easy to order and paid for next day delivery to ensure arrival before Xmas. The glasses were exactly as described on-line and packaged very well. Although the delivery took an extra day, it was very easy to track on-line and when I contacted drinkstuff to let them know of the delay they refunded the postage immediately. I would definitely recommend them for both their goods and customer service, many thanks."
Sue Rodway, Thu 3rd January '13
"No problems, good service."
Simon Godfrey, Wed 2nd January '13
"Fast friendly service. Order was not complete when delivered, although swiftly rectified. Part of product scratched, replacements dispatched, no quibble. Thus far, stem of one glass has broken off. Appears to have been either glued or soldered. Would consider purchasing from again but with caution."
Drinkstuff says: Thank you for your feedback, and we're sorry that you had these issues with your order. Thank you for making us aware of the problems you had with the glasses, we have passed on your issues to the manufacturer.
T. Baker, Wed 2nd January '13
"This was by far the cheapest Yard of Ale I found online and it was in the traditional shape which are hard to find, especially in plastic models. The postage was quick and the item was packaged well. I would use drinkstuff again."
Nicola Nibbs, Wed 2nd January '13
"Products arrived on time but when opened found there were 30% broken, when I contacted the company they replaced the broken glassware quickly and without a fuss. I will certainly use the company again for their prompt efficient service and after care."
David Hoyle, Wed 2nd January '13
"Good and quick service."
Sherika Bryan, Wed 2nd January '13
"My original order was incomplete as 2 of the items had not been included. However, these items were subsequently sent separately without quibble and they arrived quite quickly, well in time for Christmas. I would definitely order from drinkstuff again."
Ian Greensill, Wed 2nd January '13
"Excellent, service, price and products. I ordered with just 4 days to go for Christmas and received within 24 hours."
Sue, Wed 2nd January '13
"Many thanks for getting the beer glasses to me before Christmas. I had scoured all the likely shops and not found the product anywhere. You guys came up trumps and delivered very quickly at the busiest time of year. Thank you."
Chris Harvey, Wed 2nd January '13
"Great product arrived day after - service is amazing one hour time slot text to let you know when arriving, best service l have received in years."
Christine Thompson, Wed 2nd January '13
"I couldn't ask for better service or quality of product! Happy to recommend any time. Thank you."
Sue Naylor, Wed 2nd January '13
"Excellent service and delivery was super fast. Would highly recommend drinkstuff to friends and family and will be back myself!!"
Rhys Powell, Wed 2nd January '13
"Website easy to use. Item as described. Good quality and fairly quick delivery. Very pleased with item and service. Would definitely use drinkstuff again when required."
Rachel Essex, Wed 2nd January '13
"Very good service from drinkstuff. Glasses arrived in very good order. Thank you."
António Pedro Fachada, Tue 1st January '13
"Very satisfied with order. Was allowed to collect in person near Royston as delivery via Amazon was not very good over Xmas period 2012. Champagne flutes exactly as described on Amazon. Will use drinkstuff.com again."
Jasper van Dyk, Tue 1st January '13
"Really fast delivery even though I mucked up and put wrong postcode on order and had to contact courier who said I had to contact you. Called you, spoke to a really good customer service lady (think she was called Sue?), she sorted everything out and called me back as promised. Delivery arrived in good time for Christmas after all. Quality of goods... very good. Would definitely recommend this company."
Wendy Duncan, Tue 1st January '13
"I was very pleased with my order, the site was easy to use and I was impressed with the prompt delivery of my order, I would certainly recommend the company to everyone and would not hesitate to use it again."
Sam Rose, Tue 1st January '13
"Perfect product, delivered on time. Thanks."
Suzanne Welch, Tue 1st January '13
"1st time buying from this site, just before Christmas for a late present got the item very quickly and site very easy to use! Item was a great present that was very happily received!!"
Sharron, Tue 1st January '13
"I ordered 6 glasses from drinkstuff for a Christmas present. On receipt one of the glasses was cracked. I let the company know and within days I had received a replacement. Great service would definitely recommend. Thanks, Lesley."
Lesley Watson, Tue 1st January '13
"I personally am very happy with this company, quick order, quick delivery, it's really trusty."
Tamang, Tue 1st January '13
"Ordered 4 x Stella Artois glasses which were very reasonably priced and were despatched promptly, well packaged. Would order again."
Vicki Woolcock, Tue 1st January '13
"This is the second time I have used drinkstuff and would certainly buy from them again. Good choice, reasonable prices and efficient delivery."
Mike McGraw, Mon 31st December '12
"I was really pleased with the product as it was just as I expected from the online picture and was good quality for a very reasonable price! Delivery was fast and it arrived very well wrapped. Would definitely use the site again."
Anna Jones, Mon 31st December '12
"A prompt service and well packed glasses arrived unbroken and in good time for Christmas. I would have preferred to buy a smaller quantity than the minimum 12, however this does not detract from the good service."
Mel Stone, Mon 31st December '12
"Brilliant service, very quick, no fuss, recommended."
Derek Hulin, Mon 31st December '12
"I found the delivery to be very quick and the prices very reasonable. My only issue was I ordered a pack of 5 drink pourers and only received one. Other than that my order was perfect."
Drinkstuff says: Thank you for your comments Natalie, we hope you have now received the other 4 pourers.
Natalie Hogan, Sun 30th December '12
"Highly recommended! Smooth transaction, arrived very quickly! Thank you very much! My friend loved his Christmas present! :)"
Jenni, Sun 30th December '12
"I had used drinkstuff before, and received an email from them on the morning of 23rd December letting me know that I could still receive items before Christmas if I ordered by 1pm. What a surprise that was! I thought it was far too close to Christmas to get delivery in time, especially at such a low price! I had been dreading facing the shops that day for last minute shopping, and thanks to that email, I sorted stocking fillers for 4 people in under ten minutes!! I didn't even have to go out :) Excellent product range, much of which was on sale, and fantastic delivery. Very happy customer! So I would like to take this opportunity to extend a HUGE thank you to all at drinkstuff for making this possible, you have certainly saved me a lot of time and stress today! I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, I hope you all have a well-deserved break after the mad rush of last minute orders from people like me! All the best in 2013, and I will definitely be visiting your website again!"
Brigitte de Coriolis, Sun 30th December '12
"I ordered the Relax brandy glasses which are really good quality, good value and most importantly very quirky and different. As these were Christmas gifts, I was getting a little nervous when after ordering on the 10th Dec with items in stock, my order was not dispatched until 14th and then not received until 21st. My advise is order nice and early."
Laurie, Royston, Sat 29th December '12
"Excellent Xmas gift for the boyfriend. Wished I thought about buying a juicer press for the lemon & limes. Delivery updates were great! Thanks!!"
Elaine, Fri 28th December '12
"I used the website to place an order for next day delivery on a Thursday. The payment was taken from my account the same day, but a system glitch meant the order wasn't processed, After two phone calls where no one seemed able to help, the parcel miraculously appeared on Monday, (a working day late for my secret Santa) despite being told it wouldn't arrive until Tuesday and asking for a refund. Whilst the glass itself was as described and exactly what I was after, I won't use them again because I can't trust them to deliver on time."
Drinkstuff says: We're sorry that you have had this experience with our delivery service Samantha. Unfortunately during the festive period couriers across the country experience large quantities of parcels and delivery can be slower than expected.
Rest assured that we will bring up this matter with our courier, however we must stress that this was due to the busy Christmas period and is not a regular occurrence throughout the rest of the year.
Rest assured that we will bring up this matter with our courier, however we must stress that this was due to the busy Christmas period and is not a regular occurrence throughout the rest of the year.
Samantha, Fri 28th December '12
"Saw Welly Glass referred to in Telegraph article. Bought on a whim as a gift. Great glass, arrived super fast over Xmas period and it was very well packed. Great service. Thanks."
Amanda Worthington, Fri 28th December '12
"Fast and efficient service. Ordered a late Xmas present and it was delivered within 2 days. Thanks."
Mrs S Turner, Fri 28th December '12
"Clear and easy to order, prompt service - exceeded expectations."
S. Proudlove, Fri 28th December '12
"Bought this thinking it might be a bit cheap looking but was shocked at how well it looked, very classy, is a perfect gift for anyone or for yourself. Thank you."
Nicky Oliver, Thu 27th December '12
"I ordered these products and paid extra for early (Saturday) delivery. They didn't arrive until the following Monday by which point the purpose I had bought them for had passed. I was pleased that the delivery charge was refunded without hassle but I didn't receive the items in the time I required and paid for so on the whole was disappointed. I got no contact telling me the items would not be delivered on time and since your offices are not open on the weekend I couldn't follow it up myself."
Drinkstuff says: Thank you for taking the time to leave your comments Stuart, and we are sorry that your order arrived outside of the expected delivery period. Unfortunately the weeks leading up to Christmas can bring unprecedented delays. We are glad we could help with compensating for your late delivery.
Stuart, Wed 26th December '12
"I was very pleased with a speedy delivery well in time for Christmas. It had been difficult to find the shape of glasses I was after but luckily found just what I wanted on your website. Very well packaged too - obviously a necessity with glassware. Highly recommend."
Mrs D Binley, Wed 26th December '12
"Cocktail stirrers were as shown on the website and exactly what I was looking for. They arrived on the date specified, not fast delivery but fine."
Gabrielle Lloyd, Mon 24th December '12
"I think the standard of packaging was very good, the glasses were in there on boxes inside a large box and well padded out, they arrived well inside the delivery time I was told."
Mrs Jill Coless, Mon 24th December '12
"Excellent service...!"
Lori, Sun 23rd December '12
"Great and safe packaging and speedy delivery. With prompt emails on the progress of my order. Couldn't really ask for much more."
D Laheru, Sun 23rd December '12
"Delighted, will deal again."
Minnie Hodge, Sat 22nd December '12
"The item arrived quickly but was broken. A quick phone call to a friendly customer service lady was made and I was offered a refund or replacement. What I ordered was a gift for my father so I went with the replacement. This arrived just as quickly, with extra packing, and was in one piece. All in all I am very pleased with my order, the service and the price."
Adam Hollingworth, Sat 22nd December '12
"The item arrived quickly but was broken. A quick phone call to a friendly customer service lady was made and I was offered a refund or replacement. What I ordered was a gift for my father so I went with the replacement. This arrived just as quickly, with extra packing, and was in one piece. All in all I am very pleased with my order, the service and the price."
Adam firstname.lastname@example.com, Sat 22nd December '12
"Looks great on my home made table, most professional look you can get!"
Terry Dowsing, Sat 22nd December '12
"The two 50ml spirit measures I bought came very quick indeed. They are of very good quality too. I'm very happy and would buy from here again."
Paul Holmes, Sat 22nd December '12
"My order was received within a few days of ordering. On opening the package one glass was smashed. I called drinkstuff and left a voice mail message, a lady called me back almost immediately and said she would send a replacement. It arrived within a few days. Great service, brilliant product. My husband has wanted proper beer mugs for years, can't wait for him to open them at Christmas."
Caroline Morris, Thu 20th December '12
"Good service, prompt delivery."
J E Tinney, Thu 20th December '12
"I'm quite happy with the product, my title is because I ordered two of the same product but received only one. I ordered another one which was not a problem for you but I then had to waste another day waiting in. My delivery date was given as 18th but on the morning of the 17th you sent an email to say it would be that day which I did not see till around lunch time as I'd made arrangements for that day so I could stay in on the 18th so it ended up not getting here till 19th hence my title."
Drinkstuff says: Thank you for taking the time to leave your comments Margaret. We will of course pass on your delivery issues to our courier. Please see our email regarding this issue.
Margaret Mcarthur, Thu 20th December '12
"Great service, every item as described, good value for money, I am extremely happy with my order. Arrived very quickly also. I would definitely use drinkstuff again."
Maxine Collins, Thu 20th December '12
"Bought this as a gift for my brother, I'm sure he will love it."
John, Wed 19th December '12
"Great product. Prompt postage and my friend is so pleased with this birthday gift we are having cocktails at her place on Saturday night (result!). The book is great too, very informative and well illustrated. Will come back to this site for all drink related gifts."
Nic Walker, Wed 19th December '12
"Goods arrived promptly, well packed in excellent condition. I am happy to recommend your website to others. Thank you."
Jill White, Wed 19th December '12
"The delivery company I assume had difficulty finding our house as when I was tracking my order I saw that delivery had been attempted but I had not received a card to say I was out. I phoned drinkstuff and the person I spoke to was helpful and passed on directions and later that day I did receive my order which I am pleased with. It would be useful to have a section for special instructions when ordering as this seems to be quite a recurrent problem - admittedly because our house is difficult to find. This would save hassle for the delivery people and myself having to phone to give directions at a later date."
Anna, Wed 19th December '12
"So easy, just click and forget, very good service."
Jason Woodfield, Wed 19th December '12
"Wonderful and speedy service!"
Lisa, Wed 19th December '12
"A quality service from a company I had not previously used, my order was despatched quickly and efficiently and tracking the consignment was easy and helpful The products were exactly as described on the website and will no doubt be put to good use during the festive season!"
Stephen Nicholson, Tue 18th December '12
"Ordered and delivered within the time frame agreed. Easy web site to access and follow through after care. Would recommend the site."
J Young, Tue 18th December '12
"The first Mojito kit that I ordered reached the distributor but was damaged and the courier would not deliver it. I contacted drinkstuff and they promised to send out a replacement right away. This kit was received yesterday - just in time to wrap and give to my son for Christmas. The service I received was excellent and the disaster of breakages was turned into a successful delivery!"
Pamela Harrison, Tue 18th December '12
"Super speedy delivery. Products great. Thank you for being so reliable. This is a 5 star service."
JP Barnwell, Tue 18th December '12
"The stainless steel frying pan was bought as a Christmas gift so it hasn't been used yet. It is the only small SS frying pan I could find without paying approx £100.00! It appears to be good quality and excellent value for money. It arrived fairly quickly. I would buy from drinkstuff again."
Heather Armitage, Tue 18th December '12
"Quick delivery & great choice of items to choose from. I'm sure my hubby will be pleased with the items for his new bar!"
Mrs A Grant, Tue 18th December '12
"Really pleased with the service - called the company direct and paid over the phone - great customer service and the items arrived within 5 days - the packaging was excellent - delighted with my purchase and will not hesitate to recommend to others and will definitely be ordering in the future."
Julie Trever, Tue 18th December '12
"Originally ordered on line at Debenhams. Wrong item delivered then replacement order cancelled because out of stock and I was not advised. I only found out via a credit on my credit card account and then checking order tracking on their website - even though they had originally confirmed that it was still available when the replacement order was made. Internet search found one in stock at drinkstuff. Rang the order through as I wanted to confirm stock after Debenhams experience - and it was a couple of pence cheaper even allowing for postage cost. Excellent service and stopper received within 3 days."
David Dingsdale, Tue 18th December '12
"First class delivery service. Order received on time and was what I expected. Thank you very much."
Paul, Mon 17th December '12
"Have used the company several times and delivery times have been good, standard of item and packaging superb."
Jim Crawley, Mon 17th December '12
"Not a huge order, but still processed with the same excellent customer service. Prompt delivery and well packed ensuring no breakages en route."
Nadine Thomas, Mon 17th December '12
"Excellent service. Goods as described. Fast delivery - What else can you want ?"
Denise Carpenter, Mon 17th December '12
"Fantastic buy, loads off fun with the lads. Good quality product, doesn't feel like its going to smash or anything. Very good, quick P&P."
Jacob, Sun 16th December '12
"My items arrived very quickly, but upon opening, the box was damaged. I emailed drinkstuff, and received a replacement within 48 hours! Excellent customer service. Great product. Would definitely buy from them again. Thank you!"
Lisa, Sun 16th December '12
"I was looking for these glasses and found your website, amazing exactly what we wanted and more besides. We will be ordering from you again. Fast efficient process, packaging excellent."
Carol Lucas, Sun 16th December '12
"Ordered the Hula Cool Colours Vodka Glasses as a gift. Quick delivery, well packaged and V cool product. Recipient loves them and tries to drink everything out of them now!"
J Lane, Sun 16th December '12
"Everything delivered on time, and intact. Recommended by me!"
Nadine, Wed 12th December '12
"I ordered and was surprised to receive the goods a few days later. Quick and excellent service, packaged well and fantastic communication. Thanks."
Lindsay Turnerk, Wed 12th December '12
"Found your site when searching for traditional beer glasses. My order was really well packaged and arrived promptly. Also ordered some cider glasses for a present which were so lovely we decided to keep them. They make perfect chunky wine glasses. Excellent service I will shop with you again. Thank you."
Gill Scowcroft, Wed 12th December '12
"Cheap, good quality and efficient. Great service for a party emergency."
Emma, Wed 12th December '12
"Very pleased with the item I ordered. Fast delivery too :) Thanks, will definitely be shopping here again!"
Natalie, Wed 12th December '12
"The only thing that wasn't impressed with was the fact that the order was left on my doorstep in the open with no shelter in full eye sight of anyone from the pavement. Not very security concious."
Drinkstuff says: We're sorry that you had this issue with your order Gail. We have passed on your comments to our courier company.
Gail Whyte, Wed 12th December '12
"I am pleased with the quality of the glasses but for one thing. When drying one of the glasses I found a small shard of sharp glass in the bottom dimple which could have cut my finger. I managed to use a spoon and pick most of it off to the point where it is now a small raised area. I did not really want to go through having to repack the items and sending them back so I have kept them, but please make sure if I order some more glassware in the future that the areas are checked. This is the reason why I have given 4 stars instead of 5 stars."
Drinkstuff says: Thank you for your comments Paul. If you ever have issues like this with anything you purchase from us, please don't hesitate to get in contact with our customer services team who will be more than happy to help you with any problems.
Paul Goodwin, Wed 12th December '12
"Easy to use website, swift delivery, well packaged, good price. Overall cannot be faulted and will use again."
Gemma, Wed 12th December '12
"Wonderful service and speedy delivery. Great range of products. Highly recommend."
Toni Gilbert, Tue 11th December '12
"Really good service! Quick and well packaged delivery. Products are a gift, so haven't been able to give them yet, but I'm sure they will be gladly received. Will definitely be using the site again, lots of products at a great price to choose from!"
Kari Louise, Tue 11th December '12


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Global EconomyMoney and Banks
Euro governments are planning to use the banking system for widespread bailouts in the wake of the COVID-19 shutdowns. This could bring about a new financial crisis.
Cronyism and CorporatismThe EnvironmentMoney and Banks
The ECB, always happy to repeat the mistakes of Japan, is likely to start new programs of debt monetization for green projects and claim it is a different, radical and new measure.
Global EconomyTaxes and Spending
The string of spending increases announced daily in Europe disguise an extremely dangerous bet: that the ECB will bail out the eurozone forever.
Big GovernmentThe EnvironmentInterventionism
Europe is seeing the dangers of allowing demagogy to dictate energy policy.
Bureaucracy and RegulationCorporate Welfare
Elon Musk uses corporate welfare and "public-private partnerships" to create the false impression he is an actual entrepreneur.
Big GovernmentBureaucracy and RegulationGlobal Economy
Europe is falling behind North American and China in the tech sector. This is not by chance or bad luck, it is by design.
Big GovernmentThe EnvironmentGlobal Economy
The Eurozone's massive "green" policy plan has the EU facing high unemployment, stagnating growth, and energy bills of twice as much as seen in the US.
European bureaucrats thinks tax rates should be similar across the zone. But they naturally want all tax rates to "harmonize" at high rates, like those in France.

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Date Night: Grill 21
Spots for every kind of date.
Grill 21 says it serves Asian American fusion in Gramercy. In reality this tiny, no frills spot specializes in Filipino food, and its location, on East 21st Street between First and Second Avenues, doesn't quite qualify as Gramercy. Sitting outside, we brainstormed new names for the neighborhood. Our attempts at creating real estate portmanteaus included StuTay (Stuyvesant Town + Kips Bay) and NoEsVil (North East Village). Then our entrées came out, and we busied ourselves with eating. Regardless of where we were or what labels the restaurant uses to identify itself, this food deserved our full attention.
First up was a fried vegetable eggroll ($2). A golden oblong broke to reveal doughy insides stuffed with carrots, cabbage, and other vegetables, more clean-tasting than the take-out standard. The soy-esque dipping sauce had chunks of garlic. Sure, this isn't the world's sexiest appetizer, but it was a very enjoyable version, a cross between the overstuffed porky rolls available at Chinese restaurants and the dainty summer rolls available at Vietnamese restaurants.
We each opted for garlic rice, steamed white rice with fried brown bits of garlic. When it comes to garlic, of course, it's everyone in, or you risk going home alone. There's no extra charge for the flavored rice, or for the plain rice. However, the prices on our bill were $0.50 to $1 more than those listed for entrées on the menu. Worth noting, but no biggie.
Grill 21's tocino ($12.50) is a big bowl of Pinoy bacon, marinated in a wine, sugar, salt, and pepper, then fried. This is the only choice for Filipino Ron Swanson, for those who like their savories slightly saccharine, or their sweets full of protein. While the meat was delicious, it was a very simple dish. In retrospect, we might have ordered a third entrée to ensure a multiplicity of tastes, as well as leftovers.
The laing ($13) had shrimp, onions, chili flakes, jalapeno slices, and taro leaves in a sauce made from coconut milk. This dish existed at the other end of the spectrum from the tocino, a complex stew that looked somewhat like paisley wallpaper, calming in its crazy swirls. The taro leaves were slick like wakame but tough like kale.
Inside colorful murals depict sunshine and smiles. The cheery vibe is complimented by large vinyl chairs in orange and brown hues. Comfort counts here, and so does satisfaction, as the kitchen staff peered out occasionally at eaters, just to see what's what. With its concerned attitude and pleasing feed, Grill 21 is best for: a jubilant date.
Grill 21
346 East 21st Street #1, New York NY 10010 (map)
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Manilow on Broadway
Time Out says
Theater review by Adam Feldman. St. James Theatre. With Barry Manilow. 1hr 45mins. No intermission.
Barry Manilow's Broadway concert is what we might call a cheese-fondue set: an enjoyable gift to those with a taste for music that is gooey, savory and strongly evocative of the '70s. "We don't have any phantoms, we don't have any lions, we don't have any Spider-Men," Manilow announced on opening night. "All we've got is a bunch of hit songs, and I'm planning on doing 'em all!" That he does, in a nearly two-hour collection that includes tunes he wrote or cowrote—such as the campy melodrama "Copacabana" and a sample from his musical, Harmony—and others that he made famous, such as "Mandy," "Looks Like We Made It" and, ironically enough, "I Write the Songs." (The lovely "Could It Be Magic," from his 1974 debut album, borrows a melody from Chopin.)
Despite a recent bout of bronchitis, Manilow's voice remains pleasingly strong and familiar as he approaches his 70th birthday. Stiff of gait (after hip surgeries) and taut of face (after heavy lifting), his hair still bright and fluffy, the Brooklyn-born singer has a slightly embalmed appearance—but would we want it any other way? The Manilow persona was not designed to deepen with the creases of age. "Maybe the old songs will bring back the old times," he sings midway through the show, and that is the core of their continued appeal to a fan base more than happy to stand up and sing along to "Can't Smile Without You." Manilow is self-deprecating but not apologetic; and he does, after all, make a lot of people grin. (With its loud music, glow sticks and pixelated graphics projected on the back wall, Manilow on Broadway is a bit like a rave for middle-aged women in busy prints.) But the songs have an elemental sentimental appeal that transcends kitsch. Dip your fork in and enjoy.—Adam Feldman
Follow Adam Feldman on Twitter: @FeldmanAdam
|Event website:
|Venue name:
|St. James Theatre
246 W 44th St
New York
|Cross street:
|between Broadway and Eighth Ave
|Subway: A, C, E to 42nd St–Port Authority; N, Q, R, 42nd St S, 1, 2, 3, 7 to 42nd St–Times Sq


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Q:My husband is recovering from a ruptured appendix, and a nurse said the medicine cabinet isn't the best place to store his pain meds. Isn't that what it's for? -- Alice W., West Lebanon, N.H.
A:Medicine cabinets in the bathroom expose medications to heat and moisture from a shower or bath, and that can speed the breakdown of drugs, especially tablets and capsules. Generally, your best bet is to put all medications in a cool, dark place -- a lockable cabinet or a small, locked storage box in your bedroom are good choices, especially if you have kids or kids visit your house. (Thousands of children are hospitalized every year because of accidental poisoning.) Also, check the package insert that comes with each prescription to see if there are special storage instructions concerning temperature, moisture or light.
But your responsibility for safe handling of medications doesn't stop there. Once your husband is back on his feet, he may have pain medications left over. You need to dispose of them properly.
Rule No. 1: Don't flush any drugs down the toilet. Many meds can pass through wastewater treatment plants' filtration systems and end up in ground water, rivers and lakes. So far, the Environmental Protection Agency hasn't found evidence that pharmaceuticals such as antibiotics, hormones and steroids in drinking water harm people, but male fish have developed female characteristics because of exposure to endocrine disruptors, including pharmaceuticals, in rivers and streams. So play it safe:
1. Use a "Drug Take Back" program or "Pharmaceutical Collection Event." These are managed in cooperation with local law enforcement. Call your local precinct for details.
2. Ask your pharmacist if the store has a drug-disposal program; many do.
3. If you are going to dispose of meds in your garbage: Remove labels from pill bottles; dissolve remaining pills with vinegar to discourage foraging animals from ingesting them; tape the container closed; place that in a sealed, non-transparent bag. Don't take it outside until garbage pick-up day.
Q:I'm developing problems in the bedroom department. I know there are pills for that, but I don't want to take them. Help! -- Joshua T., Memphis, Tenn.
A:The advent of medications to help overcome erectile dysfunction has been an enormous help to many couples who found that sexual problems were damaging their relationship. However, around 80 percent of the time, erectile problems are a result of cardiovascular blockage in the small arteries that take blood to and the veins that move blood from your genital area. But there's often a lot you can do to prevent or even reverse ED without medications. That's great news for you and the more than 30 million men in North American with ED, especially since only about a quarter of them are getting treatment.
The sooner you take action, the better. Guys with ED have a 62 percent increased risk of heart attack -- often within three to five years of the first signs of erectile problems. Here are a couple of suggestions to help you avoid serious damage to your heart and circulatory system.
The first step is to take a look at your eating habits. A new study reveals that ED is associated with the typical Western diet, which often contains 45 percent saturated fat, 40 percent simple carbs and lots of inflammatory omega-6 fatty acids (in soy, sunflower, corn, cottonseed, safflower and mixed vegetable oils), as well as tons of added sugar. But a radical diet-ectomy (no trans or saturated fats, no grains that aren't 100 percent whole, and no added sugars or syrups) along with regular aerobic activity five days a week done with varying intensity, can give you the get-up-and-go that you're afraid is going, going, gone.
Don't wait. Your health and happiness depend on you taking action now. But the fact that you asked the question means you have what it takes to do this! You get a do-over; take advantage of that -- and enjoy!
Dr. Mehmet Oz is host of "The Dr. Oz Show," and Dr. Mike Roizen is chief medical officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. Submit your health questions at www.doctoroz.com.
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Growing up in poverty or being abused by parents can lead to accumulated health problems later in life, according to research from Purdue University.
"Childhood disadvantage has long-term health consequences—much longer than most of us realize," said Kenneth F. Ferraro, distinguished professor of sociology. "A novel aspect of this study is that childhood disadvantage was linked to the onset of new health problems decades later."
People who earn a college degree before getting married are much less likely to become obese than those who graduate from college after getting married, according to a new study.
Heavily marketed as a safer, healthful alternative to smoking, electronic cigarettes are under fire from California health officials who have declared "vaping" a public health threat, hoping to head off the type of deceptive manipulation that tobacco companies succeeded with for decades, according to researchers.
Accepting a job below one's skill level can be severely penalizing when applying for future employment because of the perception that someone who does this is less committed or less competent, according to new research from a sociologist at The University of Texas at Austin.
The traditional pressure in academia for faculty to "publish or perish" advances knowledge in established areas. But it also might discourage scientists from asking the innovative questions that are most likely to lead to the biggest breakthroughs, according to a new study spearheaded by a UCLA professor.
Schools placed on probation due to subpar test scores spurs transfer patterns linked to household income, a study by New York University (NYU) sociologists finds.
Their study of a school accountability program in the Chicago Public Schools reveals that families were responsive to new information about school quality and that those with more financial resources were the most likely to transfer to other schools in the district or to leave the district altogether.
A new study finds that many U.S. adults — roughly one in five — are deeply religious, know a lot about science, and support many practical uses of science and technology in everyday life, but reject scientific explanations of creation and evolution.
Same-sex couples encounter more obstacles to treatment for infertility than opposite-sex couples, suggests a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
A new study finds some surprising ways in which women's health at midlife is connected to when they had their first child and to their marital history. Researchers found that women who had their first child in their early 20s didn't report better health at midlife than those who had their first baby as a teen.
In an era where popular culture is increasingly recognized for its impact on lay understanding of health and medicine, few scholars have looked at television's powerful role in the creation of patient expectations, especially regarding pregnancy and birth.


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A private equity firm from New York is adding the Thilmany paper mills in Kaukauna and De Pere to its portfolio, positioning it as one of the leading specialty paper companies in North America.
When the transactions close, a new company formed by KPS Capital Partners will own the Thilmany mills and Wausau Paper's Mosinee and Rhinelander mills. KPS announced it was going to buy the Wausau Paper mills last month. The Thilmany mills are owned by Packaging Dynamics and employ about 800 people at the two Wisconsin mills. WLUK-TV reported with the Wausau Paper mills, the new KPS company will employ about 1,800 people.
The Wausau transaction is a condition of the Thilmany Papers deal. It needs ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement between the new company and the United Steel Workers.


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Local author Amanda Litz and her illustrator, Cynthia Garcia, will be at the Cedar Springs Library at 1 p.m. to throw a party on the library lawn to launch her "Sam and Pam can and you can, too!" books.
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Auction Fest Celebrates 25 Years
An opportunity to return to the auld sod with "A Touch Of Ireland" will fill the evening this Saturday for the 25th Annual Auction Fest at the Emmetsburg Catholic School. Auction Fest will take place this weekend, starting with a pair of preview events on Friday, April 5, and then the actual Auction Fest dinner and auction event on Saturday in Corrigan Hall.
The public will have a pair of opportunities on Friday, April 5, to see the wide variety of items that will be offered on the silent and live auctions on Saturday evening. The Emmetsburg Chamber of Commerce's weekly Chamber Coffee will take place Friday at Corrigan Hall from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
The public Preview Party event is then set for Friday evening from 5 to 7 p.m. at Corrigan. The public is invited to view the auction items, and participate in the Chest of Chance game, or to purchase tickets for the Luck of the Irish Drawing and the Half-Chance drawings. This year's Luck of the Irish game features a choice of an IPad or $400 in Emmetsburg Catholic School Hope Certificates.
Preview party guest will have an opportunity to win a 2013 E-Z Go RXV Freedom Golf Car. Guests will also have an opportunity to win a hand-made quilt.
Saturday's evening begins with Mass and Holy Family Church at 4:15 p.m. and the doors to Corrigan Hall will open at 5:15 p.m. The Silent Auction will begin at that time, along with The Luck of the Irish game and Field of Clover Board Game as well as the opportunities to win the Golf Car and hand-made Quilt.
Patty Cook will be the special Guest Speaker prior to the event at 6:45 p.m. and dinner, catered by SanDan's Catering of Graettinger, will follow at 7 p.m. The evening will be highlighted by the live auction, starting at 8 p.m., with Joe Temme of the Auction Specialty Group of Omaha, Neb., once again gaveling the auction items.
The Live Auction will feature 77 items this year, ranging in value from $300 to $1,500 to items that are truly "priceless".
Every year, students at Emmetsburg Catholic Schools raise funds by grades to acquire items for Auction Fest and this year, the students have once again worked very hard to come up with wonderful auction items. One such gift is a Black Hills Spruce Tree, donated by the three-year old Preschool class. The winning bidder will not only receive the tree, but will also have the memories of the three-year old preschool class coming to their home to personally plant the tree.
Another offering is the yearly Kindergarten Quilt. The ECS Kindergarten students design their own individual blocks. The ECS Preschooler class will also offer their own take on a quilt with name blocks.
But perhaps one of the most original auction items from the students at ECS is the Fourth Grade's Hot Air Balloon Ride. A one-hour hot air balloon ride for four people, along with a basket of goodies, and of course, a champagne toast at the end of the ride!
The Eighth Graders will once again provide a one-of-a-kind class caricature of their class, created by ECS Art instructor Erin Schany and the First Grade class is donating a shamrock shaped bookshelf with their thumbprints. The bookshelf will also be outfitted with a selection of books and a Kindle Paperwhite.
A home entertainment package is being offered by the Fifth Grade class, featuring a collection of their favorite DVD movies and a 39″ Insignia LCD HT TV, along with some hand-painted snack bowls to complete the package. Sixth Graders are donating a fused glass Celtic Cross, hand-designed by students in the class at Studio Fusion.
A Dress Up closet is the offering of the Second Graders, who have assembled a collection of dress-up clothes, shoes and jewelry, the perfect gift for girls. Cooking With the Third Grade is a collection of recipes in a recipe book, complete with photos of the class members showing off their dishes. A Kitchen Aid stand mixer and utensils will make preparing those Third Grade recipes.
The Seventh and Eighth Grade classes are combining forces to offer Praying Hands Art, a compilation of pieces created by the students that combine together to re-create the famous "Praying Hands" drawing of artist Albrecht Durer. The Seventh Graders are also offering an American Girl Doll and Bed, complete with Irish themed quilt and sheets, made by Karen Kauffman. The package also includes the 2013 American Girl doll, Saige.
Rounding out the class auction packages is the Sixth Grade's Lifetime Basketball System, complete with an autographed basketball, signed by the Sixth Grade students. The system also includes a complete portable basketball hoop.
Other items on the auction block include a Propel Malibu Scooter, Getaway Trips, a One-Week stay on the Mexican Riviera, a tour of the State Capitol Dome in Des Moines and a grocery shopping spree, among other items. Through proceeds from the annual Irish Open Golf Outing, a Daniel Boone Green Mountain Grill is being offered on auction.
Traditional Auction Fest items such as the Holy Family Street Sign, Christmas and Easter Church Seating also return along with the ECS Tuition Package.
The silent auction items are divided into various areas of interest: Kids Corner, with gifts for the younger set; A Bit O' Green on the Holiday Scene, which are decorating and dcor items with a holiday theme. Pamper Me Please items are geared toward the ladies, ranging from purses to jewelry items and more. Country, Garden and Home items include a variety of gifts, ranging from flags flown over the State Capitol to coffee makers, baking dishes and decorator items.
The Team Spirit section is devoted to collegiate and school clothing, gifts and packages, including a 1931 St. Mary's Academy Boxing Club Letter Jacket patch, along with team photo and newspaper accounts. Toys for Big Boys will feature goodies for the gentlemen, such as tools, binoculars, collectible toy cars and tractors. The final area of the silent auction is Services and Gifts, which features certificates for discounts on dining, entertainment, gift cards and other goodies.
The continued success of Auction Fest over 25 years has been the result of dedicated work by past and present committee members who have given of their time to serve on the Auction Fest Committee.
This year, Corinda Walker is the Chair, with Jessica Geelan serving as the Treasurer.
Committee Board members include Chad and Roberta Anderson, Marty and Jessica Geelan, Andy and Kim Joyce, Thad Louwagie, Scott and Teresa Murphy, Kim Rouh, Nick and Linda Steinkamp, Zach and Tami Treiber and Jon and Corinda Walker.


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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Hong Kong appear to have mapped out a formula that can delay the aging process in mice, a discovery they hope to replicate in people.
Their finding, published in the December issue of Cell Metabolism, builds on their work in 2005 which shed light on premature aging, or progeria, a rare genetic disease that affects one in four million babies.
Progeria is obvious in the appearance of a child before it is a year old. Although their mental faculties are normal, they stop growing, lose body fat and suffer from wrinkled skin and hair loss. Like old people, they suffer stiff joints and a buildup of plaque in arteries which can lead to heart disease and stroke. Most die before they are 20 years old.
In that research, the team at the University of Hong Kong found that a mutation in the Lamin A protein, which lines the nucleus in human cells, disrupted the repair process in cells, thus resulting in accelerated aging.
Conversely, in their latest work using both mice and experiments in petri dishes, they found that normal and healthy Lamin A binds to and activates the gene SIRT1, which experts have long associated with longevity.
"We can develop drugs that mimic Lamin A or increase the binding between Lamin A and SIRT1," Liu Baohua, research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Hong Kong, told a news conference on Thursday.
The team went further to see if the binding efficiency between Lamin A and SIRTI would be boosted with resveratrol, a compound found in the skin of red grapes and other fruits which has been touted by some scientists and companies as a way to slow aging or remain healthy as people get older.
Associate professor Zhou Zhongjun, who led the study, said healthy mice fed with concentrated resveratrol fared significantly better than healthy mice not given the compound.
"We actually delayed the onset of aging and extended the healthy lifespan," Zhou said of the mice.
Mice with progeria lived 30 percent longer when fed with resveratrol compared with progerial mice not given the compound.
Asked if their study supported the notion that drinking red wine delays aging and reduces the risk of heart disease, Zhou said the alcohol content in wine would cause harm before any benefit could be derived.
"The amount of resveratrol in red wine is very low and it may not be beneficial. But the alcohol will cause damage to the body," Zhou said.
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A severe indoor air quality problem at Jefferson Forest High School in Forest, VA, USA gave students a few extra weeks of summer vacation – a bonus for the students, but an unexpected problem for school officials. Due to the high levels of mold and fungus, the school was immediately closed and officials were forced to embark on a fasttrack project to renovate and repair the building before the new school year. The project involved remediating the damage and installing a ventilation system for bringing in dehumidified, fresh air.
The school was built in 1973 and designed for a capacity of only 800 students. According to teachers and former students, air quality problems had been a concern for years. Reports of respiratory problems, headaches and allergy-like symptoms rose dramatically 20 years later when construction occurred to replace the school's roof. That Spring, the school called in IMEC Engineers, an environmental and HVAC engineering firm in Lynchburg, to conduct air sampling of four classrooms where a greenish black fungus was discovered. Following the results of the air test, the superintendent closed the building for the rest of that school year, six weeks early in order to quickly address the mold issue. Officials believe the roof construction caused the airborne release of spores from the Stachybotrys mold, which commonly grows on wet wallboard and other building materials.
"The main thing we found wrong was the air flow," said Charlie Peterson, clerk of the works in safety and the environment for Bedford County Schools. "There was no turnover of air. When the kids were in classrooms in the Spring, I was finding humidity levels anywhere from the mid-70s to nearly 90%."
ASHRAE recommends humidity levels to be below 60% to prevent microbial growth.
After much deliberation, school officials decided to repair and reoccupy the building in less than four months.
"A lot of contractors and architects came out and said, 'No way. Impossible. You can't do it,'" Peterson said.
In addition to the time constrains, prospective dedicated outside air systems (DOAS) needed to provide 100% outside air and be pad mounted because the roof was not structured to hold the weight of mechanical equipment.
"Between the schedule and those requirements, Munters was the only equipment that could meet our schedule and criteria," Owen said.
During repairs and renovations, Munters' rental dehumidification units were brought in to provide short-term moisture and comfort control. Energy recovery units were installed to treat 100% outside air, while saving on operating costs and preventing moisture-related problems.
Three energy recovery units were installed outside, each capable of supplying 10,000 cfm of outdoor air aiming for 50% space RH and 47°F (8°C) dew point. A heat pipe heat exchanger forms the heart of the systems. Hot, moist outdoor intake air flows through one side of the heat pipe, while cooled, dehumidified air passes through the other. The resulting heat transfer between the two airstreams precools the inlet air before it enters the dehumidification coil, thereby reducing the load on the cooling coil and the size of the refrigeration equipment required, and it reheats the supply air to a more neutral temperature.
"We precondition all the outside air and dump it into the existing air handlers to be distributed throughout the building," Owen said.
Each unit has 600 MBtuh of DX cooling capacity with an integral air cooled condenser and 800 MBtuh indirect gas for winter heating.
"Everything went like clockwork," Peterson says. "We were able to get the administration staff back in before school started and have everything completely done."
As part of a first-year protocol, random samples and microbial tests were taken every two weeks throughout the building to ensure the mold issues were remedied.
"The problem was solved," Owen said. "The dew points in the building are actually very low. We're very pleased with how the building is performing from a humidity standpoint. I don't see them ever having a problem with it."
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Gnome Shell Configurability
There is a lot of low hanging fruit that Fedora could provide over the upstream Gnome Shell, which would help new users and entice disillusioned ones (from unity).
- Name: Pádraig Brady
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Current status
- Targeted release: [Fedora 17]
- Last updated: Novo 10 2011
- Percentage of completion: 0%
Detailed Description
With a few well chosen options and extensions to Gnome Shell, Fedora could be much more accessible to new and old users alike. I realise that providing options is often a cop out, and a sign of misdesigned or incomplete software. However it's a bit different with direct user interaction software like this, where the options reflect the diverse preferences and experiences of the user base.
Perhaps we might change a couple of upstream defaults too to help transitioning users, and I could mention my personal set of changes that I need to make, but the main thing is to provide the options to the users.
As a very concrete example of this see the Linux Mint Gnome3 transition strategy. They note there, some extensions they've developed and options presented to the user. They also note the large uptake of their Gnome2 based distro from annoyed unity users.
Benefit to Fedora
Low hanging fruit to get more users
This will basically be a collation of existing components already available. gnome-tweak-tool covers most settings. Perhaps we could make available some of the Linux Mint extensions and settings linked to above. Other extensions that overlap with the linux mint ones are: http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html
Personally I would only change a couple of window management options, but to cover all bases we would need to select which of the above extensions and options to make available and ideally integrate into the gnome-shell config settings proper.
How To Test
This change will apply to all hardware now, given Features/Gnome_shell_software_rendering, and apply to the default desktop build. It will require users to interactively select all the new options and verify that they work correctly. Given the disparate set of options used by each person, and the direct user iteraction changes of the feature, it's hoped that testing of various combinations will happen "for free" as the system is being developed.
User Experience
Most users should have their pet gnome-shell peeve addressed by this feature. Ideally the options and extensions would be grouped into additional setting panel items
gnome-tweak-tool and external gnome-shell extensions
Contingency Plan
At least install gnome-tweak-tool by default and make it easily started with an "extra settings" config setting panel item
I see minimal documentation required, as we can rely on the names and tips provided by each setting, and experimentation by the user. This approach is used by the existing gnome shell settings
Release Notes
- Better Gnome Shell integration, to cater for new and old users alike


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Analyst: Apple's Old Stuff Outsells Android's New Stuff
Though they've been surpassed in design and perfomance by their successors, Apple's iPhone 3Gs and iPad 1 are still quite popular–so popular, in fact, that they outsell some of their newer Android rivals.
Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley says his retail checks show continued strong demand for the iPhone 3GS at AT&T and iPad 1 at Verizon, even as the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 continue to fly off the shelves. At AT&T, for example, the iPhone 3GS is outselling newer Android phones like the HTC Inspire and Motorola Atrix.
Says Walkley, "At AT&T, our checks indicated new Android smartphones primarily gained share from Windows 7 smartphones but not from the iPhone. Our checks indicated modest share gains for the HTC Inspire, but the Inspire gained share from the Windows phone 7 smartphones and the Motorola Atrix. As such, the iPhone 4 remained by far the best selling smartphone at AT&T and the 3GS remained a strong selling smartphone due to its $49 price."
Not bad for a last-generation smartphone.
Of course, at $49 the 3Gs is half the price of the Inspire and a quarter of the price of the Atrix, so cost is obviously a big factor here. Still, the continued success of Apple's older devices in the marketplace suggests that the company, which is already winning at the market's higher end, has a good shot of winning at its lower end as well–particularly if it ever releases a lower-tier iPhone-–one free of the required $70+ a month voice-and-data service plan.


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AI Cookbook Competition - Month Three
A little over two months ago I wrote about the first round of the AI cookbook competition. Since then there have been two further rounds and a considerable amount of further progress. For the latest round I was able to get the error score down to 10.867 using an additional image pre-processing step and then a variety of text clean-up improvements.
Image Pre-processing
Ian, who writes the AI Cookbook, had the theory that the curved text present at the top of many of the plaques in the test set were causing tesseract, our OCR software of choice, significant problems in transcribing the main text. If we could automatically recognise the curved text and block it out the transcription should be significantly improved. In the diagram below the text we want to be transcribed is in green and the text we don't want is in red.
I couldn't think of a good method to actually recognise the curved text at the top so decided to use a 'dumb' approach. The curved text is in the same place on all the plaques so I built a system to apply the same mask to all the images. To do this I went back to what I could still remember from high school math lessons. To the probable delight of my old math teachers I quickly had some working code. The code I wrote cycles through all the pixels in the image and converts them to a distance and angle relative to the centre of the image. This process is hopefully easier to visualise in the image below. The distance is simple enough to calculate as we're dealing with a right-angle triangle; we simply square the x and y values, add them together and take the square root. The angle is a little trickier. The y-value represents the opposite length of the triangle and the x-value represents the adjacent length so from the mnemonic SOH CAH TOA we known the angle will be tan-1 (O/A). Knowing that we can then apply our rules for distance and angle.
Text Clean-up
The text clean-up was lots of little steps. Briefly I've,
- Made various improvements to the regexes for cleaning up the years
- Converted any instances of 'vv' (two v's) to 'w' (one w)
- Switched 0 (zero) to o (letter o) in words
- Removed any one/two character tokens from the end of the string
- Improved the selection of suggestions from the spell checker
- Broken up long words to see if a valid word can be found in the two halves
- Changed "s to 's
- Improved correction for endings where the ending is lived|worked|died here and the spelling checker returns bad results
- Removed any words containing three of lowercase, uppercase, digits and punctuation.
The regex for that last item is something of a monstrosity and as I'm far from an expert it wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't entirely do what I think it does. I've used whitespace to make it slightly easier to follow. Each line represents a sub-expression, if any sub-expression matches the string then the expression as a whole is considered to match. Each line matches a different combination of three from digits, lowercase, uppercase and punctuation. The .+ at the end means we match one or more of any character. The expressions in brackets starting with a question mark are look ahead assertions. The .+ still matches any character but the look ahead assertions state that at least one of the characters matched must be a digit for instance. It doesn't matter in what order the characters are present as long as they are present. If you suspect there is a flaw in the pattern or know some way to simplify it then I would really appreciate a quick note in the comments field below.
re.compile(r""" #matching a combination of digits, lowercase, uppercase and punctuation
((?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*['"-,\.]).+| #d,l,p
(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*['"-,\.]).+| #u,l,p
(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z]).+| #d,u,l
(?=.*\d)(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*['"-,\.]).+ #u,p,d
)""", re.VERBOSE)
That's all for now. I believe Ian is planning to run the competition for a further month and there are still considerable improvements to be made so it would be great to see more people taking part.
AI cookbook competition - transcription for the openplaques project
Ian Ozsvald over at aicookbook has been doing some work using optical character recognition (OCR) to transcribe plaques for the openplaques group. His write-ups have been interesting so when he posted a challenge to the community to improve on his demo code I decided to give it a try.
The demo code was very much a proof of principle and its score of 709.3 was easy to beat. I managed to quickly get the score down to 44 and with a little more work reached 33.4. The score is a Levenshtein distance metric so the lower the better. I was hoping to get below 30 but in the end just didn't have time. I suspect it wouldn't take a lot of work to improve on my score. Here's what I've done so far . . .
Configure the system
All the work I've done was on an Ubuntu 10.04 installation and the instructions which follow will only deal with this environment. Beyond the base install I use three different packages:
- Python Image Library
- Used for pre-processing the images before submitting to tesseract
- Tesseract
- The OCR software used
- Enchant spellchecker
- Used for cleaning up the transcribed text
Their installation is straightforward using apt-get
$ sudo apt-get install python-imaging python-enchant tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng
Fetch images
The demo code written by Ian (available here) includes a script to fetch the images from flickr. It's as simple as running the following
$ python get_plaques.py easy_blue_plaques.csv
Once the images are downloaded I suggest you go ahead and run the demo transcribing script. Again it's nice and simple
$ python plaque_transcribe_demo.py easy_blue_plaques.csv
Then you can calculate the score using
$ python summarise_results.py results.csv
Improving transcription
Ian had posted a number of good suggestions on the wiki for how to improve the transcription quality. I used four approaches:
- Image preprocessing
- Cropping the image and converting to black and white takes the score from 782 (the demo code produced a higher score on my system than it did for Ian) to 44.6
- Restricting the characters tesseract will return
- By restricting the character set used by tesseract to alphanumeric characters and a limited selection of punctuation characters further lowered the score from 44.6 to 35.7
- Spell checking
- Running the results from tesseract through a spell checker and filtering out some common errors brought the score down to 33.4
I'll post the entire script at the bottom of this post but want to highlight a few of the key elements first.
The first stage of cropping the image on the plaque is handled by the function crop_to_plaque which expects a python image library image object. The function then reduces the size of the image to speed up processing before looking for blue pixels. A blue pixel is assumed to be any pixel where the value of the blue channel is 20% higher than both the red and green channels. The number of blue pixels in each row and column of the image is counted and then the image is cropped down to the rows and columns where the number of blue pixels is greater than 15% of the height and width of the image. This value is based solely on experimentation and seemed to give good results for this selection of plaques.
The next stage of converting the image to black and white is handled by the function convert_to_bandl which again expects a python image library image object. The function converts any blue pixels to white and all other pixels to black. Ian has pointed out that this approach might be overly stringent and I might get better results using some grey as well. The result of running these two functions on three of the plaques is shown below.
The next step was limiting the character set used by tesseract. The easiest way to do this is to create a file in /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/configs/ which I called goodchars with the following content.
That selection of characters seems to include all the characters present in the plaques. To use this limited character set the call to tesseract needs to be altered to
cmd = 'tesseract %s %s -l eng nobatch goodchars' % (filename_tif, filename_base)
Finally I perform a bunch of small clean up tasks. Firstly I fix the year ranges which frequently had extra spaces inserted and occasionally 1s appeared as i or l and 3 appeared as a parenthesis. These were fixed by a couple of regular expressions including one callback function (clean_years). Then I seperate the transcription out into individual words and fix a number of more issues including lone characters and duplicated characters before checking the spelling on any words of more than two characters.
Where next?
There is still lots of 'low hanging fruit' on this problem. At the moment the curved text at the top of the plaque and the small symbol at the bottom of the plaques is handled badly and I think the bad characters at the beginning and end of the transcriptions could be easily stripped out. The spelling corrections I make do overall reduce the error but they introduce some new errors. I suspect by being more selective in where spelling checks are made some of these introduced errors could be removed.
The entire script
import os
import sys
import csv
import urllib
from PIL import Image # http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
import ImageFilter
import enchant
import re
# This recognition system depends on:
# http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/
# version 2.04, it must be installed and compiled already
# plaque_transcribe_test5.py
# run it with 'cmdline> python plaque_transcribe_test5.py easy_blue_plaques.csv'
# and it'll:
# 1) send images to tesseract
# 2) read in the transcribed text file
# 3) convert the text to lowercase
# 4) use a Levenshtein error metric to compare the recognised text with the
# human supplied transcription (in the plaques list below)
# 5) write error to file
# For more details see:
# http://aicookbook.com/wiki/Automatic_plaque_transcription
def load_csv(filename):
"""build plaques structure from CSV file"""
plaques = []
plqs = csv.reader(open(filename, 'rb'))#, delimiter=',')
for row in plqs:
image_url = row[1]
text = row[2]
# ignore id (0) and plaque url (3) for now
last_slash = image_url.rfind('/')
filename = image_url[last_slash+1:]
filename_base = os.path.splitext(filename)[0] # turn 'abc.jpg' into 'abc'
filename = filename_base + '.tif'
root_url = image_url[:last_slash+1]
plaque = [root_url, filename, text]
return plaques
def levenshtein(a,b):
"""Calculates the Levenshtein distance between a and b
Taken from: http://hetland.org/coding/python/levenshtein.py"""
n, m = len(a), len(b)
if n > m:
# Make sure n <= m, to use O(min(n,m)) space
a,b = b,a
n,m = m,n
current = range(n+1)
for i in range(1,m+1):
previous, current = current, [i]+[0]*n
for j in range(1,n+1):
add, delete = previous[j]+1, current[j-1]+1
change = previous[j-1]
if a[j-1] != b[i-1]:
change = change + 1
current[j] = min(add, delete, change)
return current[n]
def transcribe_simple(filename):
"""Convert image to TIF, send to tesseract, read the file back, clean and
# read in original image, save as .tif for tesseract
im = Image.open(filename)
filename_base = os.path.splitext(filename)[0] # turn 'abc.jpg' into 'abc'
#Enhance contrast
#contraster = ImageEnhance.Contrast(im)
#im = contraster.enhance(3.0)
im = crop_to_plaque(im)
im = convert_to_bandl(im)
filename_tif = 'processed' + filename_base + '.tif'
im.save(filename_tif, 'TIFF')
# call tesseract, read the resulting .txt file back in
cmd = 'tesseract %s %s -l eng nobatch goodchars' % (filename_tif, filename_base)
print "Executing:", cmd
input_filename = filename_base + '.txt'
input_file = open(input_filename)
lines = input_file.readlines()
line = " ".join([x.strip() for x in lines])
# delete the output from tesseract
# convert line to lowercase
transcription = line.lower()
#Remove gaps in year ranges
transcription = re.sub(r"(\d+)\s*-\s*(\d+)", r"\1-\2", transcription)
transcription = re.sub(r"([0-9il\)]{4})", clean_years, transcription)
#Separate words
d = enchant.Dict("en_GB")
newtokens = []
print 'Prior to post-processing: ', transcription
tokens = transcription.split(" ")
for token in tokens:
if (token == 'i') or (token == 'l') or (token == '-'):
elif token == '""':
elif token == '--':
elif len(token) > 2:
if d.check(token):
#Token is a valid word
#Token is not a valid word
suggestions = d.suggest(token)
if len(suggestions) > 0:
#If the spell check has suggestions take the first one
transcription = ' '.join(newtokens)
return transcription
def clean_years (m):
digits = m.group(1)
year = []
for digit in digits:
if digit == 'l':
elif digit == 'i':
elif digit == ')':
return ''.join(year)
def crop_to_plaque (srcim):
scale = 0.25
wkim = srcim.resize((int(srcim.size[0] * scale), int(srcim.size[1] * scale)))
wkim = wkim.filter(ImageFilter.BLUR)
width = wkim.size[0]
height = wkim.size[1]
#result = wkim.copy();
highlight_color = (255, 128, 128)
lrrange = {}
for x in range(width):
lrrange[x] = 0
tbrange = {}
for y in range(height):
tbrange[y] = 0
for x in range(width):
for y in range(height):
point = (x,y)
pixel = wkim.getpixel(point)
if (pixel[B] > pixel[R] * 1.2) and (pixel[B] > pixel[G] * 1.2):
lrrange[x] += 1
tbrange[y] += 1
#result.putpixel(point, highlight_color)
left = 0
right = 0
cutoff = 0.15
for x in range(width):
if (lrrange[x] > cutoff * height) and (left == 0):
left = x
if lrrange[x] > cutoff * height:
right = x
top = 0
bottom = 0
for y in range(height):
if (tbrange[y] > cutoff * width) and (top == 0):
top = y
if tbrange[y] > cutoff * width:
bottom = y
left = int(left / scale)
right = int(right / scale)
top = int(top / scale)
bottom = int(bottom / scale)
box = (left, top, right, bottom)
region = srcim.crop(box)
return region
def convert_to_bandl (im):
width = im.size[0]
height = im.size[1]
white = (255, 255, 255)
black = (0, 0, 0)
for x in range(width):
for y in range(height):
point = (x,y)
pixel = im.getpixel(point)
if (pixel[B] > pixel[R] * 1.2) and (pixel[B] > pixel[G] * 1.2):
im.putpixel(point, white)
im.putpixel(point, black)
return im
if __name__ == '__main__':
argc = len(sys.argv)
if argc != 2:
print "Usage: python plaque_transcribe_demo.py plaques.csv (e.g. \
plaques = load_csv(sys.argv[1])
results = open('results.csv', 'w')
for root_url, filename, text in plaques:
print "----"
print "Working on:", filename
transcription = transcribe_simple(filename)
print "Transcription: ", transcription
print "Text: ", text
error = levenshtein(text, transcription)
assert isinstance(error, int)
print "Error metric:", error
results.write('%s,%d\n' % (filename, error))


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- Slips on over the head
- Elasticated neckline
- Made in India
- Delicate dry clean only
- Do not wash
- Do not bleach
- Do not tumble dry
- Cool iron on reverse
- Due to the delicate nature of the embellishment on this garment please handle with care
- Relaxed fitting stretch tee
- Length finishes at top hip
- Model is 175cm / 5ft 9in and wears a Small
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