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Police arrest man wanted in cab car-jacking, stabbing
Cab driver seriously injured in attack
Kansas City, Mo., Police officers chased and arrested a man wanted for stabbing a cab driver and taking her vehicle, a police spokesman said Friday morning.
The man was taken into custody by police after a brief chase that ended along the outer road of Interstate 49 in Grandview at about 10 a.m. Police did not immediately identify the man.
The cab driver was attacked at about 7:20 p.m. Thursday in the 5200 block of Sycamore Avenue. Police said the attacker requested a ride from the Northeast Branch of the Kansas City Public Library at 6000 Wilson Road and then refused to pay. Police said the driver was stabbed twice in the back, once in the arm, behind her ear, on her face and through her hand.
Investigators said after the driver was attacked, the assailant drove off in her cab.
Police said after looking for the cab all night, they found it in southeast Kansas City and chased the driver into Grandview. The chase ended in front of a pawn shop when the cab's bumper tangled with another car.
"A lady says, 'That's the guy that stabbed the cabbie and took the car,'" said Alex Dodds, an employee of Pawn World. "I can't believe it happened right in front of us."
Police said the man got out of the car but was captured after a foot chase.
Checker cab owner Craig Bates said his company's GPS tracked the driver at 117 mph at one point.
He said the driver's family said she is feeling better and recovering from the stabbing. He said cab drivers don't get robbed much these days because they don't carry as much cash.
"With the credit cards and the security and the tracking these days, it's not what it used to be," Bates said.
Police have not released the name of the person in custody because he has not yet been charged.


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They tramp across the broad, razed courtyard toward the buildings opposite where they can already see signs of activity. It appears that Ulric, Beringar, and Valorn have already put the dozen or so weary pilgrims to work clearing out the refectory; there is an ominous pile of broken furniture and rubbish amassing right outside the door.
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The city has had to destroy 21 of 90 Canary Island date palms that line Venice Avenue downtown.
A contagious, incurable fungus has been slowly killing many of the majestic palm trees that have reigned along downtown's Venice Avenue West for decades.
The city says it cannot afford the estimated $6,000 apiece it costs to replace the dead trees and the contaminated soil. That troubles city leaders and downtown merchants, who worry that — if the infestation continues to spread — the look the exotic palms give Venice's walkable business district could be marred.
So far, the fungus appears to have only infected Canary Island date palms.
The only way to try to stop the infestation is to remove and destroy the diseased trees, roots and all.
So far, the city has destroyed 21 of the 90 Canary Island date palms along the thoroughfare that leads from the Tamiami Trail to Venice Beach.
City officials hope they have eradicated the disease but, as they told the City Council this week, they cannot be sure.
"It could have been going on for years," John Veneziano, the city's public works director, said of the disease that spreads and kills slowly.
The Canary Island date palm is not a native species. Other palms in the downtown area are not showing symptoms, Veneziano said.
The fungus, known as Ganoderma butt rot, starts killing the Canary Island date palm from within.
By the time the palm fronds start dying and falling, the first noticeable sign of the disease, "most of the trunk has decayed," Veneziano said.
University of Florida researchers say there is no chemical or other means of treating a tree infected with Ganoderma butt rot.
The dead palms are removed, including the roots, by city crews. The city pays a contractor about $100 to grind each stump.
Despite those precautions, the soil could still have spores that would infect another tree planted in the same spot, Veneziano said.
The only means of preventing that is to completely remove the contaminated soil, then get new soil and a new tree.
If the city has not gotten the infestation under control, Veneziano said, it will have to continue removing infected palms and consider "some redesign" for much of Venice Avenue's landscaping.
Sandy McGowan, owner of Sandy's Designer Clothing and president of the downtown merchants association Venice MainStreet, hopes the remaining Canary Island date palms survive.
"We like trees and greenery," McGowan said of downtown business owners.
McGowan said she understands if the city says it cannot afford to replace each dead tree.
Venice MainStreet's board may need to work with the city in discussing alternatives that keep Venice Avenue with an attractive streetscape, perhaps with trees that are not vulnerable to the fungus, McGowan said.
The city has been willing in the past to invest heavily in trees.
In 2004, Venice ordered 128 Medjool date palm trees for $4,500 each, nearly $600,000, to flank U.S. Business 41. The Medjool date palm has proven to be especially hearty against disease.


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Blending Northern and Southern Indian Cuisine at Chote Nawab
Curry Hill has gotten a makeover - at least at the corner of Lexington and 28th Street. The New York City neighborhood known for its kitschy Indian joints strewn with seizure-inducing flashing lights welcomes Chote Nawab, a new restaurant presenting regional Indian cuisine in a contemporary, Bollywood-inspired setting.
Restaurateur Shiva Natarajan's "little prince" (a literal translation of the restaurant's name) stands apart from its neighbors with a movie poster mural painted by artist Ziggy Bober looming over the dining room. Natural wood furnishings and banquettes allow the vivid wall treatments to pop while vibrant yellows, corals and blues set the scene for the menu's Northern- and Southern-inspired dishes.
"Indian is such a vast country and each region has its own food," says Natarajan, "Though there are so many Indian restaurants throughout New York City, each is region-specific. Chote Nawab blends together northern and southern cuisine, without losing authenticity."
The Little Prince
The authenticity can especially be found in the Kababs. Chote Nawab is truly unique to the Indian culinary community in New York City."
If dining with guests, start your meal with Kabab Peshkash, an assortment of grilled kababs that offers an array of complex flavors and spice combinations. Skewered lamb rolls, chicken in green masala, and shrimp in a creamy marinade are but a few of the offerings that will whet your appetite.
Chote Nawab offers diners the opportunity to explore both northern and southern Indian cuisine. Generally, northern cuisine features roasted meats, mild curries, and because of the abundant wheat crops, delicious flat breads such as naan, poori and paratha.
Dairy also becomes an important ingredient and is used for raita, ghee (clarified butter), and buttermilk. In contrast, southern cuisine is often served with rice. Coconut is prevalent and typically used to thicken curries, which tend to have a more pungent or sour flavor.
Northern specialties at Chote Nawab include Dum Kokur (chicken curry served on the bone), Butter Murgh (a popular Punjabi creamy chicken dish), and Kashmiri Dahi Murg (chicken cooked with yogurt). Southern standouts include Mirapakaya Kodi (a spicy chicken dish with green chiles, coconut and curry) and Murgh Zafrani (an elegant chicken dish served in almond gravy with saffron).
While chicken may dominate the menu and appease a western palette, one of the most outstanding dishes on the menu is the Goat Madras, a fiery combination of tender meat, dried red chiles, and curry leaves.
Presentation at Chote Nawab is a mixed bag. Entrees arrive at the table overflowing from traditional silver serving bowls and steaming hot. The kababs, on the other hand, appear in a skillet atop a foil-wrapped platter, which feels less princely and more like street food.
Kingfisher beer - an Indian classic since 1978 - is served ice cold and straight from the tap but arrives in a Duvel glass, another incongruous choice.
In spite of these small missteps, Chote Nawab is a fresh coat of paint in a neighborhood restaurant scene in need of cosmetic touch-ups. It's also good to know that underneath the pretty exterior, executive chefs Manjeet Singh and Khollil Uddin are offering authentic dishes that span the immense geographic and cultural influences of India.
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Chote Nawab
115 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10016
(212) 679-4713
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First, it's 12 pages long and very well-researched (except on one point); it even includes screengrabs of the offending item from our site. And we know they're not messing around because they invested in the best and brightest legal minds.
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The premium subscription-based version of streaming TV and movie service Hulu has been available only to PlayStation Plus members since its launch on the PS3 this summer. Next week, that will change.
Sony Computer Entertainment America and Hulu will drop the barrier of PlayStation Plus membership next week, making paying for Hulu Plus content no longer an invitation-only affair. All PlayStation Network members will get access to Hulu Plus soon, geography permitting.
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Friday, September 4, 2015
2015 Federal Election Link Round-up, Week 5
Week 1: NDP 34.7% CPC 29.6% LPC 26.8% BQ 4.6% GPC 4.0%
Week 2: NDP 31.8% CPC 29.8% LPC 27.5% GPC 5.4% BQ 4.6%
Week 3: NDP 32.7% CPC 29.4% LPC 28.0% GPC 5.1% BQ 3.9%
Week 4: NDP 33.9% CPC 28.4% LPC 27.9% GPC 5.0% BQ 3.8%
Any trends yet? The NDP seems to be going back and forth, while the Liberals are better off now than they were at the start of the campaign. The Conservatives could be slipping, while the Bloc seems to be.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
- A few polls this morning. One from Forum (still looking strange, but less strange than the last one) and the other from Léger. I've updated the Poll Tracker with these new numbers, and my analysis of the EKOS poll's effects on the Poll Tracker that was posted on the CBC last night will be updated shortly with this new information. I'll also try to have the riding projections updated later today.
- I was on The House this morning, talking about Battleground Montreal.
- Hier, sur Phare Ouest au Colombie-Britannique (après la musique!).
Friday, September 4, 2015
- EKOS is out, and shows the NDP down. The Poll Tracker has been updated with it. An analysis will follow shortly on the CBC.
- Another quiet day! But we wait with bated breath for the poll from EKOS that is supposed to come out today. In the meantime, I've updated the By-Election Barometer with the results of last night's vote in Calgary-Foothills and Simcoe North, as well as the new forecasts for the ridings of René-Lévesque and Whitby-Oshawa.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
- I've profiled Edmonton Centre as today's riding to watch. Will it be a three-way race? An NDP victory to mirror the provincial win in May? Or will the Conservatives benefit from a split of the vote?
- Quiet day on the polling front, though there are some interesting numbers from Abacus Data here at Maclean's. Trudeau leads on fun, Harper on running a country and a business. But Harper's lead on those issues was not as large over Mulcair as he would like it to be, and Mulcair was up on things like giving career advice or negotiating a contract.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
- The latest episode of the Pollcast is out. This week, I'm joined by Bill Curry of The Globe and Mail and Josh Wingrove of Bloomberg - two journalists who know their stuff on the economy. So we talked about the economy and its impact on this campaign.
- I spoke with Prince George CBC radio about the importance of B.C. in the election.
- For the first time in a long time, British Columbia could be the decisive province in this election. I broke down the numbers in my column for the CBC today.
- Mainstreet has a poll concentrating on the island of Montreal today. Nothing too surprising. Close race between the NDP and Liberals overall, but NDP way ahead among francophones and the Liberals way ahead among anglophones.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
- The Poll Tracker was updated earlier today, and the riding projections are now updated to match.
- Provincial politics alert: the Angus Reid Institute is out with its quarterly assessment of the approval ratings of Canada's premiers. Nothing really striking. Brad Wall and Rachel Notley are the only ones with a net positive rating. Kathleen Wynne, who has been the premier the most present in the federal campaign so far, is a net -29.
- The Polls Panel debuted on Power and Politics last night. Rosemary Barton moderated a panel that included me, Dimitri Pantazapoulos of Maple Leaf Strategies, and David Coletto of Abacus Data. It will be a regular weekly segment. Check it out here.
- Nanos is out with its latest four-week sample (his last one before going to a nightly tracking poll?). Must have been a lot of movement in either the latest week or the week that was dropped off the poll to move the Conservatives from first to third.
- In case you missed it yesterday, check out the riding profile I did for Kenora yesterday.
Monday, August 31, 2015
- Throughout the campaign, I'll be taking a close look at some of the ridings projected to go down to the wire. Today's profile is of the northwestern Ontario riding of Kenora.
- Here's my analysis of the latest numbers. I took a deeper look at some of the interesting findings in Innovative's new poll.
- The By-Election Barometer has been updated, with the additions of Fabre and Saint-Henri-Sainte-Anne in Quebec. Both are forecast to be Strong PLQ holds.
- The Poll Tracker has been updated, along with the riding projections.
- Two polls out over the last few days, a massive report from the Innovative Research Group published over the weekend and a brand new poll from Abacus Data this morning. Both are showing the same close race.
- This weekend on The House, we talked about the economy and the polls.
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Éric, Check out your columns for the Greens and the Bloc... A little imp has doen some mischief.ReplyDelete
unless you're keeping them in order of results, of course.ReplyDelete
All parties have candidates who cant declare or actively campaign until after Labour day , due to statutes or union contracts - another reason why a long campaign has made for quiet campaigns in many ridings.ReplyDelete
The only reason to have an early election call was for Harper to get out in front of the Duffy trial.ReplyDelete
The weakest parties were compelled by their respective circumstances to expend some powder whilst the two stronger parties have been very conservative (sorry, Tom) in this regard. This is about to change.
May's voice has dropped a tone. A shot at gravitas, perhaps? Justin's is almost as low. The window for both is about to close as the big boys get ready to rumble.
In any case, the paring is done: Harper and May are the most dangerous for the country, so we all have to count on Tom and Justin to do as well as they can without splitting the anti-Harper-May vote. I get the horrible feeling that Greens numbers benefit from those who're frustrated---with little real understanding why---that Tom and Justin haven't formed a coalition yet, and not so much that they're really green Green.
May, recently campaigning out here in BC, has been disingenuous with her interpretation of balance-of-power prospects (swears Greens don't split votes)---but of course, when she's preaching to the converted, she's confident a significant number think we already have proportional representation. At least that's how she talks.
The whole shootin' match gonna look different in about a week-and-a-half. Can't wait.
PS: never heard so much talk about strategic voting as I have this time.Replies
Calling your stance on the Greens condescending may be putting it mildly. Your fear is that the Liberals and NDP are splitting "anti-Harper-May vote?" I don't see how May factors into that at all, this is just anti Harper...Delete
Though, if Harper had to have a coalition with anyone, my first choice would be May. Or Duceppe.Delete
But I'd prefer a majority.
What nonsense! A clean healthy environment is dangerous for the country? I guess you Dippers know that the NDP can't win on their policies so they must use scare tactics!Delete
Also for your reference Mr. Donaldson: Who're is a rather unpleasant word used to describe some women. It is not a contraction for "who are"!Delete
If you don't like vote splitting, then I presume you favour electoral system reform.Delete
Pete, amusing as your comment might be, the term "whore" is not confined to women.Delete
- Anonymous31 August, 2015 12:13
Statistical Noise or real movement?ReplyDelete
Hard to tell as oscillations look within MOE or a whisker more.
That said, a 1% shift in Ontario can swing several seats.
Poll tracker link is broken (cbcnew.ca rather than cbcnews.ca) and redirects to a junk site.ReplyDelete
Lac St Louis on Montreal island (West Island) is not going to be an 81% liberal win. There were 2000 votes between the Liberal and NDP last time and another 2000 votes between NDP and Conservative. What ever your method is,( I suspect you are extrapolating national averages ) this one is too close to call. As there are only 7 Liberal MPs from Quebec , all Liberal held ridings are precious and bear closer scrutiny than national tendencies provide.The NDP have a good chance to take this one.ReplyDeleteReplies
With the Liberals polling well above their 2011 election result, and doing that in every region, it's hard to justify a Liberal loss.Delete
I think the 81% states the probability of a Liberal victory not the margin of a Liberal victory! Eric posts his methodology it may be worth while having a look.Delete
Thanks for the tip.- I did read it over. I stand corrected on that. Talking with neighbours and friends - thou not a scientific survey - indicates that some voters in this riding are switching to the NDP and the NDP need a majority in the house.Delete
Hey, Eric, I don't suppose you could use a darker orange for the NDP numbers, could you? The orange you have now is almost yellow, and it's not enough contrast against a white background, which makes it hard to read. Thanks.ReplyDeleteReplies
If you compare within house instead of just assuming all pollsters have the same house bias, there trend seems clear to me...ReplyDelete
Abacus: CPC +1, NDP -4, LPC +2
Forum: CPC -5, NDP +1, LPC +5
Ipsos: CPC -2, NDP = , LPC +2
Nanos: CPC -1, NDP -1.3, LPC +1.3
CPC 4 out of 5 houses in the field more than once say down since start of campaign.
NDP 2 say up, 2 say down, 1 says about the same.
All 5 polling firms say the LPC is rising.Replies
Looks like it amounts to overkill with the Justin Not Ready ads. They reached the saturation point and have lost their value as regards impact on potential voters. Big strategic error by the CPC that could likely cost Harper the election. They started too early and ran too long. They've become a yawn.
It would be ironic, if Mulcair were to win a majority because of Conservative attack ads against the Liberals. In a two-way race, attack ads are strategically smart. In a three-way race, they might just upset the divide between the other options.Delete
That's an interesting point.Delete
Negative ads tend to drive down voter turnout for a attacked party. The attacking party typically sees no changes at all.
But in a three-party race, do those votes stay home, or do they go somewhere else?
I wonder if the CPC strategy was to push the Liberals out of the race, and once it was a 2-way race change their messaging to deal with the NDP.
So far, the only race between the Liberals and Conservatives has been for second place. Conservative attack ads directed against Trudeau have no bearing on the current frontrunner - the NDP, so they wouldn't be costing either the Liberals or the Conservatives a win.Delete
You're ignoring their opportunity costs, chimurenga. Running those ads prevents the CPC from running other ads, and those other ads might have had a more useful effect.Delete
That said, I'm not willing to call this election, yet. If the CPC manages to win, their strategists will look like geniuses.
Late to comment sorry, but the Conservatives pounding down the liberals, leaving the NDP untouched has the effect of forcing the Liberals to fend off the NDP, instead of merely attack the CPC. It has the effect of having them blow powder against themselves.Delete
"It would be ironic, if Mulcair were to win a majority because of Conservative attack ads against the Liberals."Delete
I do not believe that would deeply upset Harper; his objective is to keep the Liberals in third place. Over time they would then fade from relevance in Canada.
Paul Harper's objective, and he has stated it many, many times, is to destroy the Liberal Party. So the attack ads against Justin are just some of the latest stuff of assault !!Delete
Eric, just to let you know. Although you have been updating the poll on the CBC Polltracker it still says theReplyDelete
last time it was updated was August 28/15.
Re: New Ridings & ConfusionReplyDelete
It hadn't occurred to me before now, but the new ridings and general lack of incumbents will make the prohibition of advertising by Elections Canada even more effective at suppressing voter turnout.
If people don't know how to vote, they're less likely to vote.
Anyone have a sense of why the Greens jumped so much between week 1 and 2? Is it just a product of who was polling or did the debate have an impact or was it something else?ReplyDelete
I don't know how many of you saw last mights Power And Politics show? But the explosion by Chris Alexander against Rosie Barton was really, really a disaster !!ReplyDelete
And tody we find out Alexander has suspended his re-election campaign to rush back to Ottawa and try to fix some of the real screw ups his Dept, Immigration, has caused. In particular that photo circulated worldwide of a dead 3 yr old boy in the surf off Turkey. And guess who had rejected the boys application to come to Canada from Syria ??Replies
The so-called refugee crisis, I think, feeds into the CPC's ISIS narrative. These people are only refugees because their region is being destroyed by terrorists.Delete
The CPC can spin this. They haven't, yet, which troubles me, but I think they can.
Chris Alexander was back tonight as Rosie's first guest > She just "killed" him!! And the real attempt to spin has hit a brick wall as we find out from today's Guardian that Russian troops are in Syria fighting for Assad !!Delete
Fighting ISIS or Assad only produces more refugees !! Better to focus on getting those currently in that state out of harms way. Not fighting to produce more !!
Except that's not true at all. There was no application and they were on their way to Sweden.Delete
The bulk of the Syrian refugees are from the Assad civil war, not ISIS. Stop reading from Harpers talking points. Bombing ISIS will not stop this.Delete
Yes, CIC gives the option to "voluntarily withdraw" an application before they reject it, and you save the bulk of the application fee. I know people that have had their application lost by CIC, and their tracking is very haphazard.Delete
If not for ISIS, the Assad civil war would be over by now.Delete
I find this story extremely irritating, because the media ran with a bunch of details that turned out not to be true.Delete
They didn't apply to come to Canada. Canada didn't then offer them knee-jerk citizenship. None of that happened.
So why did the media report it?
The story is global and about the humanizing of the 2600+ deaths of migrants/refugees that have died in 2015 trying to enter Europe.Delete
There was a plan for them to come to Canada, but due to the complexity of our system it hadn't happened. CIC needs to be better funded and overhauled.
People I don't know die every day. I'm not more concerned about these people just because I've seen them on television.Delete
Its that uncaring attitude that has cost Harper the election. He is tanking.Delete
I would rather he fail sounding intelligent than win being an idiot.Delete
That uncaring attitude produces better results. Compassion without competence doesn't help anyone.
Luckily, we can have leaders that are capable of being both compassionate and competent. Harper is a lot less wooden nowadays, but compassion has never been his strong suit.Delete
There is a very real possibility that the picture of that dead little boy washed up alone on the beach will be associated with the Harper Government. If that's the case, their campaign is derailed and destroyed beyond any comprehension.ReplyDeleteReplies
If that happens I will be so disappointed in Canadians, because it has nothing at all to do with relevance issues of governance.Delete
There are legitimate reasons to dislike the Harper government. This is not one of them.
Except the made up story looks very bad on the NDP and Liberals who circulated false information and not the Tories.Delete
It's not a made up story. The photo was real and a child died. If the response from the Conservatives - or their supporters - was that this was "made up" they'll come away from this worse regardless of the narrative not being the same as what was originally said. This is why regardless of what happens I think the Conservatives are screwed.Delete
Which part is made up? That the boy is dead? That a NDP MP hand delivered the refugee application in March? Or that CIC denied the applicable in June as it was "too complicated"?Delete
At the very least, this should serve as a prompt for how obfuscated and subjective our immigration system is, but doesn't have to be. My wife and step-daughter are currently immigrating under the family plan, and I sponsored a refugee from Iran back in 2004. You put together your best package and mail it to Mississauga; you wait a month and then they send you an email saying they received it; you wait another month and they say you can be a sponsor; then they send the application to the source country and it takes between 10 to 36 months longer to be approved, all the while having no inclination of what to expect.
The part that the family was trying to get to Canada. They were trying to get to Sweden. And the part that they had applied for refugee status and had been denied. There was no application. Essentially any connection to Canada or the immigration Minister was completely made up.Delete
@ shoshana ...Delete
Please read the BBC - World News (Sept. 4/2015) about ' The story of the Alan Kurdis Family '.
The Kurdis family application was rejected by
this government in June 2015.
The Kurdis family did set out for Canada; a family member was attempting to arrange a private(family) sponsorship.
In June, Conservative Minister for Immigration - Christopher Alexander - did receive a hand-delivered Letter from an NDP Member of Parliament, requesting the Minister review and help the Kurdis family.
There was no reply from Immigration Minister Chris Alexander.
Will you please cite the source you used for your version of the details you have asserted here ?
Out of respect for the Kurdis Family tragedy will you please correct any/all mis-statements you may have made, inadvertantly, while defending this government's action/inaction ?
NO application was ever rejected for this family, and no application was ever made. The father stated they were trying to go to Sweden. Why don't you stop the political spin over a dead child.Delete
What is your source, please?
It doesn't matter either way. Harper looks awful with his stingy quotas and war mongering attitude.Delete
I agree with Fresh Orange. These responses are anything but sympathetic to the loss the Kurdis family is facing and I think you owe them an apology. If these are the talking points that Conservative Party Central is sending out to its supporters, they can expect to maintain the third place finish that polls are beginning to echo now.Delete
The facts always matter, Jimmy.Delete
As someone on the ground in Edmonton Centre this race will be interesting to watch because it pits 'momentum' (NDP, riding provincial victory) versus preparation (Liberal campaign identifying voters for more than a year with candidate in place). If it is a close race the year-long preparation will probably put the Liberals over the top.ReplyDelete
I just remembered there are byelections today.ReplyDelete
That's exciting!
I'm dying for a new poll to come out! lol. I just have this feeling that Liberals are eventually going to top a poll. If they start topping multiple polls and the media reports the Liberals in the lead, we could start seeing some ABC voters switching their vote back from NDP.ReplyDeleteReplies
In which case, you can enjoy all the economic policies of the Conservatives, but legitimated with progressive spin. We've been down that road too many times.Delete
This election is nutty. I'm betting if the Cons drop to 3rd for a few polls in a row we start seeing Greens grow as it becomes 'safe' to vote Green without fear of 'splitting the vote'. I am so sick of hearing that Greens split the vote when it is obvious if the Libs & NDP worked even a tiny bit together (run weak candidates when the other has a strong one for example, rather than a battle royale in places the Cons can sneak up and win like in Kenora) they could make more of a difference than any efforts by Green voters.Delete
The Liberals and the NDP are not interchangeable. Why would a social democratic party collaborate with a corporatist party (and vice versa)? They do not share common ground. Even the social programmes that former (distantly former) Liberal governments have been praised for simply took those policies from the NDP and watered them down.Delete
Basically the Libs & NDP both keep telling Green voters to 'stop splitting the vote'. My point is the vote split is more Lib/NDP than Green/anyone as Greens have yet to reach 10% overall in an election while the NDP had over 10% in all but 2 ridings last time. So no question if there is a split to allow Harper to win it is an NDP/Liberal issue, not a Green one.Delete
Your point is a fair one, I was just responding to this phrase : " if the Libs & NDP worked even a tiny bit together"... There's no basis for them to work together, nor should there be. The Liberals and the Conservatives have far more in common than the Liberals and NDP do. Even on social issues the Liberals have lagged far behind the NDP (for example, as late as the 1980s numerous and prominent Liberal MPs were openly anti-choice, whereas as choice had long been a key plank in the NDP platform). As for economic issues, the Liberals are an establishment, business party.Delete
No argument on how the Libs are more like the Cons and the NDP is more how the Libs used to be. The Greens are moving into the old NDP role of being the soul of Parliament. The ones you look to for ethical decisions instead of 'how do I win overall' decisions.Delete
In your By-election Barometer Track Record image, I think you've used two different colours for Wildrose.ReplyDelete
I've noticed a string of polls having the NDP slipping, but that doesn't seem to be having any kind of pronounced effect on your aggregated data. Everyone's more or less the same as before. Is there a reason for this? I find it odd that polls showing a reduction in the gap between the parties isn't manifesting itself here. The NDP's 4 point lead being shown here seems a bit inflated to me.ReplyDelete
Why is it when the NDP is polling high, like 5+% over the second and 9+% over third place it's a close three way race; but when the NDP drops 3 points in one poll it suddenly the NDP are loosing their comfortable lead?ReplyDelete
Not targeting you Eric, just frustrated at the optics that the MSM presents with the NDP. When we're up (for three months), all the news is how we're in the tightest race in history and it anyone's election, but a drop in one poll and suddenly it's, the NDP are in free fall.
I think, for me, it is because the seat count is still close.Delete
Because 18-30 year olds don't vote in the same proportion as their census data would suggest and the vote is concentrated In Quebec. In reality, the NDP would probably place 3rd, if an election were held today with a voter turnout model that actually reflected voter turnout and not a census.Delete
Most polls, in fact, now show if an election were held today, it is the CPC that would be third in both popular vote and seats. That includes the aggregate. Harper is doing very badly.Delete
shoshana, you should actually read the polls, rather than presuming you know what they say. The NDP has been polling in first or second in most polls in all age groups - their vote isn't concentrated in youth the way it has been in the past. And the NDP has been polling in first place or second in every region of the country, so their vote is not "concentrated in Quebec".Delete
Latest Forum poll has CPC in distant third with 24%.ReplyDelete
NDP 36 and Libs 32
The CPC campaign so far has been a complete disaster. There will be more bad economic news and the Carson trial. Perhaps even Wallin charges. I think this is where the election is heading.Replies
Those forum polls have been complete outlier's from the rest of the pack. Either they are catching something no one else is or they are completely out to lunch.Delete
It's unreasonable to say they are "out to lunch" when they are capturing the same trend as other pollsters. Their methodology may produce different raw numbers, but the trend is consistent - the Conservatives are down to third place, the Liberals are up to second and the NDP are bobbing along not much different from where they were before.Delete
It doesn't seem to matter which pollster you look at the numbers never even come close?? Sure margin of error but really ????ReplyDelete
308 Poll Tracker aggregate has CPC in third now also. Harper is tanking and the support is going to the Liberals.ReplyDeleteReplies
If the Cons stay in 3rd for long I expect to see Green support start to climb as people begin to feel safe to vote as they want since if Harper is in 3rd he'll have no chance to form government. It'll be interesting to see what the Cons do with that massive war chest if they keep dropping and the ads don't work.Delete
Globe and Mail Leger poll out todayReplyDelete
"The New Democratic Party has the support of 31 per cent of respondents at the national level, ahead of the Liberals at 30 per cent and Stephen Harper's Conservative Party at 28 per cent. However, Mr. Léger said the Liberals have picked up one point a week during the campaign, closing the gap with the NDP nationally."
The podcasts are a great addition this campaign for us political junkies. Great job, Eric!ReplyDelete
The results in AB and BC will be interesting to watch in terms of modeling: Eric is much more generous than I am with the Liberals, probably because geometric swing implies a much more efficient Liberal vote in those areas than arithmetic swing. As a result of that, my less aggressive discounting of older polls, and an adjustment I make to try taking into account voter turnout, I still have the Tories marginally ahead.
Eric, as Jimmy noted, the FORUM poll, again, seems wildly optimistic about the demise of the CPC compared to every one else, what in there methodology gets this result?ReplyDeleteReplies
Wildly optimistic? Even the Nanos tracking is showing the Tories in third. One can question the numbers Forum is putting out but the move to third is consistent among multiple polls.Delete
True but there is a big difference between the other polls which show them as a competitive 2nd/3rd and Forum which shows them as a Rump party with implausible numbers in Ontario. Forum clearly has something going on in it's samples, it's either catching something that no one else is, or is more likely they are just junk polls.Delete
It's hard to call the Forum polls "junk" when they are showing a trend consistent with other polls. Truthfully, the only people I've come across who outright dismiss these polls are the ones who are having a difficult time digesting the strong desire for a change of government and it being reflected in the current third place showing of the Conservatives.Delete
They aren't showing a trend consistent with other polls. Everyone else shows the CPC losing maybe 1-2 points, and in a competitive second or third place. With the margin between all the parties to be about 4-7 points. Forum has shown the NDP at 40% two weeks ago and 17 points up on the CPC. This week they still had the CPC 4 points lower than anyone else has.Delete
Truthfully the only people I've come across that don't outright dimiss these polls are the ones that have a hard time digesting the strong Conservative base that exists and have no desire to vote for two parties consistently trying to outflank one another on the left which is being reflected by the current competitive 2nd or 3rd place standing of the Conservatives in all but the Forum polls.
This isn't about Forum. It's about a consistent downward trend for the Conservatives across multiple polls. I'm afraid your partisan bias is showing, DouglasEdward. You guys really need to be supplied with new talking points.Delete
But....if there is a downward trend it is only of 2 points or so. There has been ever so slight movement so far in the polling. It is very close and often the differences between parties if within the margin of error.Delete
The Nanos poll (is it a proper poll, or their tracking?) shows similar numbers to Forum, so can we put this whole issue to rest finally? The Conservatives are in third.Delete
It's funny how when the CPC was at 28.3% and LPC was at 26.9% on the poll tracker, none of the conservatives on here were saying the LPC were a competitive 2nd or 3rd place, yet now the CPC is at 26.9% and LPC is at 30.2%.Delete
You have to go back to August 10 to have a bigger gap between second and third.
As best anyone can tell, they're having a very hard time digesting the reality of the campaign they have had so far. The Bubble will do that, I suppose.Delete
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The updated Poll Tracker shows LPC mini spikes in BC and ON at the expense of the CPC and a resulting big ON seat swing to the LPC.ReplyDelete
NDP looks flat in PT by comparison. Mulcair's balanced budget promise may be coming across as typical unachievable politician election promise. Trudeau's proposed deficits for infrastructure economic stimulus may have better appeal.
Next week's numbers will reflect the influence of the tragic photo of the drowned boy with Canadian relatives trying to get them to Canada and the so far wooden response of the CPC. Perhaps if they donned sackcloth and ashes and flew planes to Turkey to pick up refugees, they could beg forgiveness.Replies
That is an outright fabrication which I am surprised passed moderation here.Delete
No darren it's very close to both the media view and the general public view. Looks like Harper fubarred again ?Delete
It's going to be interesting to see how the public reacts to candidates urinating in homeowner's cups and mocking the mentally ill while the knowledge of the Kurdi family tragedy is still fresh in their mind. Party talking points are going to have a hard time dismissing those as "fabrications" or "lies" the same way they are with the tragic story of a family's death - which I must say, is the definition of poor taste and absolutely despicable!Delete
I am very, very curious how the mess in Syria will affect things as Harper coming out and saying that his solution is more military, which is opposite of what most seem to say/think/feel. He basically is pushing to his base and hoping that he'll get well over 50% to show up and vote while the Libs & NDP get sub 50% showing up to the polls.Delete
With the CPC in third, Harper has no choice but to gamble on red. His judgment, or lack thereof, will either make or permanently derail their campaign.
He has to go nuclear negative and if they go too far, it's John Tory and Kim Campbell from 1993, all over again. Are they finished? Maybe.
The solution is more military. The ideal solution to the refugee crisis is that these people no longer need to flee, and can maybe go home if they want.Delete
Ira for Heaven's sake !! More military equals more slaughter . Because this is a CIVIL war not an Islamic insurgency plus it has been going on for four years. Get your facts right !!Delete
More military rarely is the solution. The more the West is directly involved, the more radicalized the Middle East becomes. Canada should be concentrating on our historic role as peace-keepers and providing security in the border regions, so that people believe there is a viable alternative to ISIS control.Delete
This whole situation is a by-product of military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ideally they would be free and not have to worry about various factions fighting but this is the real world, not a fantasy one. No matter how much military we send in the fighting will continue. The US or Russia could solve it as both have the power (military and financial) to change things.Delete
Sadly our current PM doesn't seem to 'get it'. He thinks more bombs will sell to the Canadian public but early returns are not in his favour.
Historic role as peacekeepers? So you're choosing to define history only as the period from Pearson-Chrétien (and even Chrétien was behind one of our most successful combat missions - in Bosnia - where we went in as peacekeepers but then MADE peace by completely ignoring our UN orders).Delete
Canada's "historic" role as peacekeepers lasted 30 years.
What do you think Peacekeepers would do in Syria right now? Peacekeepers are just war fighters with different objectives, but they're still soldiers, and soldiers are tools used to kill people and blow stuff up. That's what soldiers are for. We don't want to have to use them, but sometimes we do.
Before ISIS came along and destabilised the region, Assad was losing that war. The civil war would be done by now if not for ISIS. And now ISIS, which as far as I can tell is a doomsday cult, controls a large area and isn't likely to negotiate with anyone.
"This whole situation is a by-product of military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan."Delete
No argument there. The idiotic borders drawn by the British, combined with the US overthrow of the democratically elected Iranian government in 1953 started a terrible cascade effect.
But I don't see how humanitarian aid and peacekeepers would help. My first choice would be to build a wall around the region and let them sort it out themselves.
We shouldn't be there. But nor should they be driving all their people away. I'm disinclined to let them.
John what everybody ignores and it is very important is the amount that Russia is involved in the Syria war. Russia has troops in Syria fighting in support of Assad!! Now after 4 years of Civil War this is a really bad development. Note Isis would like to get involved but are barely on the fringe. So Harper is, as usual, full of shite !!Delete
Militarially, I would define our history in four blocks: 1867-1899 Foundational Period; 1900-1955 Boer War/WWI/WWII/Korea (Closest to UK); 1956-1993 Peacekeepers; 1994-2015 Modern Period (Closest to US). Of these four, the Peacekeeper era is where Canada had the most global respect.Delete
The difference between fighting a war and keeping the peace is the scope and role of the mission. Yes, Peacekeepers kill and fight, but they do that to protect the civilians. A war of agression (against ISIS) means taking out the enemy is the priority.
One of my two best friends is a Captian in the Canadian Armed Forces. He is more than a tool, and he is capable of much more than just blowing stuff up. I agree that sometimes violence is the only response possible, but there is so much more we could be doing.
ISIS is a splinter group from Al-Quida, and now the two groups are in a global competition to say who is the more radical and should be the voice of extreme Islam. Saying the Assad Civil War would be done by now if not for ISIS, is like saying Harper would be PM again now if not for the NDP and LPC, they are part of the story. One reason ISIS controls a large area is because they are giving people safety and security that they didn't have in the months and years prior. People will put up with a lot if they can just live their lives.
Humanitarian aid and peacekeepers would help some of the 4 million displaced people. A wall would do little, but if your first choice is to let the sort it out themselves, that we shouldn't be there, why do you support more military action?
Harper's position is that the refugees are being caused by the military conflict, and the way to help the refugees is to end the military conflict.Delete
I have no particular need or interest in helping the refugees (we have immigration rules - let's use them), but if we're going to help them let's look at the root cause - the military conflict.
Why treat symptoms when we can treat the disease?
And if you could end the military conflict tomorrow, I'd agree, but these are real people with real suffering in the meantime.Delete
Our immigration rules have changed immensely under Harper, and it a bureaucratic nightmare. It currently takes about seven weeks for CIC to open a new immigration application and send a receipt email/letter.
Why ignore the symptoms when the disease may never subside?
There's suffering all over. We don't seem to be bending over backward to help other groups.Delete
Why should Syrians get special treatment?
If you think we should change our immigration policies generally, suggest that. But I'm not going to accept a knee-jerk reaction to a well-marketed crisis.
I have repeatedly suggested that we can do more just by changing the rules. For example, the financial requirement to sponsor a pre-approved refugee claim is a minimum of 5,000 in a chequing account for a minimum of 6 months.Delete
The Syrians shouldn't get special treatment, we should reform the system to that is choking off our ability to respond to this crisis. It's taken this well-documented crisis to raise awareness of the issue.
Is that a bad requirement? Would not having it be better?Delete
My goal isn't to accept more people. My goal isn't to accept fewer people. My goal is to accept the people we want to accept and reject those we don't, and do so quickly.
It's one example of the burden of proof in submitting an application. In general, it means there is a six month period of getting everything organized before an application can be submitted. So all the fundraising going on now means that maybe someone can be sponsored next year.Delete
I agree that the system should be independent of the quantity, but there is no capacity in the system to respond to bulges in the quantity of applications. There is nothing done quickly by the CIC.
I think we should be indifferent to bulges in the quantity of applications. We set immigration targets based on our needs.Delete
The system, as it is, is too slow and too expensive to administer. It makes it harder to import skilled workers. These are my concerns. My concerns are economic, not humanitarian.
Actually, that's not how the system actually works. They set staffing levels based on the targeted processing levels. If we are indifferent to bulges, we effectively are banning immigration from problematic regions.Delete
You are now separating "economic" immigrants from everyone else. Which do you prefer, equal access for all, or preferred access for skilled workers?
Economically, it makes more sense to allow family members to be reunited rather than having the continual outflow of remittance. We are great at importing skilled workers, but very poor at allowing those skilled workers to work in their field of study.
It appears the Forum polls were on to something.ReplyDelete
Nanos poll shows devastating poll numbers for Harper. CPC is distant third at 26% down 5 points -NDP 33% Libs 31%.
Harper is down drastically and firmly in third as best PM
@ Ira ...ReplyDelete
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' The solution is more military. '
- Ira and PM Harper
Sincerely, please explain how this can be good.
What would people have to return to except a completely bombed-out country and the misery this devastation carries with it ?
What could possibly be [I]deal or [r]ational about this, dear [a]gent ?
('WAR. What is it good for ? Absolutely nothing !' )
*Peace, dear agent.
(Pass it on to the PM and his troops...
...before October 19th.)
Pass it on to the PM, before OctoReplies
I'm indifferent the misery. I want an efficient solution to the refugee problem, and simply accepting refugees doesn't do anything to address the causes of the crisis.Delete
I'm going to guess that you are a third or more generation Canadian. Simply sending more military forces doesn't do anything to address the immediate needs of the crisis. Did you read any of General Hiller's suggestions on how we can do both?Delete
Can we send them back after the crisis is over?Delete
I want to apply our regular immigration rules to everyone equally. So any refugees who are accepted outside those rules need to be kept separate somehow so we can run them through the system later, or send them back if they don't want to apply.
What is the point of having immigration rules if these people aren't governed by them?
Many refugees do return to their country of origin if/when the conditions at home change. Our current immigration rules don't apply equally to all applicants, so there is nothing stopping a new catagory being created. In general, this would be a long-term temporary resident visa, similar to the parental super-visa (5 years, multiple entry, maximum 6 months at any time) with a few adjustments.Delete
We can change the rules to better reflect the reality of the world, rather than letting people die while they struggle to cut through needless red tape.
How well do we track them once they're here? Germany has a great system for that, but it works because the German government knows where everyone lives all of the time (you have to inform the government when you move). We need to find a way not to lose these people.Delete
Sure, let's change the rules. But I want those rules to apply universally. That the system is unfair (has multiple categories) now is not a reason to keep it unfair.
While I am in favour of a completely revamped system, it doesn't mean we can't make incremental changes to make it more fair than it currently is. As an analogy, if I object to tax credits in general and prefer a simplified tax code with a higher "tax-free" level, that doesn't mean that reducing/enhancing income splitting isn't worth doing.Delete
We can have immediate action with a band-aide solution, while working towards systematic reform.
As for tracking in Canada, CBSA does keep track of people as best they can on their budget, but enforcement generally only falls to Category A and B offenders, those that entered Canada under false pretenses and with a criminal record of violence/sexual offenses. In addition, they issue warrants for the arrest and deportation of people that violate their Record of Entry, but need to be detained for another offense.
With more resources, the CBSA could do much better.
We know where every single cow was born. We should be able to track refugees.Delete
There are a lot more controls on the free-movement of cattle than people. CBSA doesn't have the resources, authority, or infrastructure for wholesale monitoring of the immigrant population. I can't think of anything short of microchipping people on entry/birth that would be reasonably effective.Delete
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BALTIMORE -- The Orioles used three pitchers to close out the ninth inning on Wednesday night, with manager Buck Showalter opting to stay away from struggling closer Jim Johnson, but it was the arm of catcher Matt Wieters that stole the show.
With Baltimore clinging to a two-run lead and Tampa Bay threatening with runners on the corners, Wieters fired the ball to shortstop J.J. Hardy, who made an excellent pick to nab Kelly Johnson trying to steal second. The game-ending play put an emphatic ending on a crucial win for the Orioles, who used a pair of homers from Adam Jones and Chris Davis -- who extended his Major League-leading total to 46 -- and a solid outing from starter Wei-Yin Chen to show their resolve in a 4-2, sweep-avoiding win over the Rays.
"It was huge," Davis said of having Wieters erase a good jump by Johnson, who represented the potential tying run. "It fired me up. I thought my heart was about to explode in my chest there for a minute. We had another nail-biter. But that's what you expect down the stretch -- close games, [a] playoff-type atmosphere."
Losers of six of eight going in, the O's used a stellar seven innings by Chen to capture their second win in nine games over the Rays.
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"Did Wieters get the save?" asked Showalter in astonishment, pointing out that the throw to the bag was timed at 1.75 seconds. "That's sick. You can't do that. He's had a few of those. How about the tag by Hardy? I've got to tell you, he's the best tagger I've ever seen."
And although the game was punctuated by Wieters' and Hardy's defensive prowess, and highlighted by the power of Jones and Davis, it was the steady Chen who kept things in check.
"He knows what he's doing," Rays manager Joe Maddon said of Chen, who exited to a standing ovation after getting a double play to end the seventh. "He's a fastball pitcher, he's proud of his fastball. And I love that part about him. And he knows just how to elevate it enough at the right time."
Chen, who has allowed 17 of 34 runs this season in the sixth inning or later, navigated through the later frames without any issue and was finally a beneficiary of some run support. The Orioles gave the lefty more than three runs for just the second time in his last seven starts, and Chen -- who allowed one hit following Sean Rodriguez's leadoff blast in the fourth inning -- rewarded that effort. He scattered six hits and three walks, allowing two runs -- solo homers to Rodriguez and Jason Bourgeois -- in the 98-pitch effort.
"Emotionally and mentally, I had control tonight," Chen said through his interpreter, Tim Lin. "I didn't want them to hit a lot of foul balls off me, so I attacked the strike zone."
The Orioles went deep twice off Rays starter Jeremy Hellickson, with Davis' moonshot -- which landed on Eutaw Street -- starting the fifth. The blast, which came on Hellickson's 78-mph changeup, was the latest in Davis' assault on the record books, tying him with Jim Gentile for the third most in club history. Davis trails only Frank Robinson (49) and Brady Anderson (50) for the single-season record, and his 41 homers against the AL East since the start of last season are the most for any player against any division over that span.
"It means we put up one run on the board and we were able to get the win," Davis, who has 116 RBIs, said of what it means to tie Gentile. "That's the biggest thing. Obviously, team goals come before individual goals. I'm happy to be swinging the bat well. I'm even happier to get the win."
The O's eked out the victory after Darren O'Day -- who pitched a 1-2-3 eighth -- exited in favor of lefty Brian Matusz after allowing a leadoff single. Matusz issued an 11-pitch walk to James Loney, prompting Showalter to bring on Hunter, who recorded a pair of outs before Wieters' game-ending putout.
"I've seen him do that before," Wieters said of Hardy's pick. "He spoils you a little bit as a catcher because you know that if you just get in the vicinity, he's going to have a pretty good chance of making a play for you."
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However, for a brief period this morning, we experienced that Southern weather classic, where the sun is blazingly bright, behind a thin skin of cloud, and it's raining, so you can watch rain drops splatter the concrete in your own sharp-edged shadow. It's unsettling and weird, and the Southern colloquialism (albeit rather archaic now) for this weather is "The Devil's beating his wife."
James and I learned this awhile ago and have been using it with glee ever since, because it is So Damn Weird.
This morning, while bored and driving, I began pondering the theological ramifications. You never hear about the Devil's wife. Lilith, Adam's first wife, gets a lot of popular press, but one generally hears about Satan as a bachelor. Who's this battered spouse suffering untold indignities whenever it's sunny and raining?
Well, as it happens, there's an Italian fairy tale called "How the Devil Married Three Sisters." It's a Fitcher's Bird story, which is a subspecies of the Bluebeard story.
The Bluebeard story, as most of us probably know, is pretty straightforward, and found in variations all over the world. Heroine marries Weird Guy. Weird Guy often (but not always) has some peculiar disfigurement, like a blue beard or webbed feet or whatever. Sometimes he's a wizard or an animal. Anyway, he's Not Normal. Weird Guy and Heroine party like it's 1099, until Weird Guy says "Hey, I'm going on a business trip. Here's every key to every door in the house, but don't go in this room. Here. This one. See the one I'm pointing to? That one. The shiny, enticing, mysterious door. That's the key to it. Right there. The shiny enticing mysterious key. Right, I'm off. Remember to feed the cat."
Heroine, to no one's great surprise, opens the door. (Sometimes her sisters goad her into it, ala Cupid and Psyche.) And lo and behold, the previous dozen murdered wives are all packed in there, leading me to believe that Bluebeard was ahead of his time in refrigeration technology, or else Heroine had no sense of smell at all. Bluebead rushes home. Sometimes he knows automatically the door is open, more usually he's given the wife some kind of object--an egg, a flower, or the key itself--which gets a drop of blood on it and won't come out. Anyway, he knows the door is open, so he arranges to kill his wife. She asks for an evening to pray, sends word to her brothers, who ride up and kill Bluebeard just in the nick of time, and they all live happily ever after and convert the abbatoir into a wine cellar.
Fairy tales being what they are, and many fairy tale researchers being understandably thin-skinned about this, this is usually read as a repressive indictment against female curiosity instead of the rather more logical tract on the inadvisability of keeping one's murderered wives stored around the house.
Fitcher's Bird is a variation of the Bluebeard myth, and sometimes a pretty weird one. It's got a lot of other elements thrown into it, making it a kind of fairy tale jumble. There are three sisters who marry the sorcerer, and find the hidden room, and get blood on their keys/eggs/flowers/whatever. The first two are killed. The third and cleverer one leaves her egg or whatever in her room, finds the hidden room, and reassembles her dismembered sisters, bringing them back to life, and sends them home. When the sorcerer comes home, he finds his third wife still possessing an untainted egg (or key, or flower, or whatever) and is thus content. So they throw a huge party.
At this point, it gets pretty surreal. The heroine leaves a mannequin of herself at the attic window, dips herself in honey and rolls herself in feathers. (I know this always forms a vital part of MY escape plans.) She then walks out of the house. Along the road, she meets the sorceror's friends, who are coming to this party, and they address her, saying "Fitcher's Bird, what is the bride doing?" (Nearsighted friends, one assumes.) She says "She's cleaning the house, you can see her at the attic window," and continues on. There's three encounters like this, before the heroine gets home, gets a lynch mob, comes back, and they nail the doors shut and put the building and the sorceror and his friends to the torch.
The Fitcher's Bird story is really kinda creepier than the Bluebeard story. The Bluebeard story has a fairly ordinary heroine responding to a weird situation. In Fitcher's Bird, the heroine's just as weird as the villain, casually reassembling her sisters out of parts, and the whole feathers-and-honey thing has the sense of an element from another fairy tale being subsumed into this one.
In "The Devil Marries Three Sisters," a fairly good-natured Fitcher's Bird version, the groom is the Devil, and weirdly enough, despite keeping a door to hell in his house, emerges as the most likeable figure. He gives each sister a flower, and when they find the door to hell, it singes. The third sister leaves hers in a jar of water, hauls her sisters out of hell, and hides them. She then forces the Devil to carry three bags of laundry home to his mother-in-law, saying that he must never stop to rest or set the bag down, or she'll know. So the first sister goes in the first sack, and he carries her off, and it's incredibly heavy, but as soon as he goes to set it down, the sister in the sack yells at him "I see you! Don't you dare set that sack down!" "Holy crap," thinks the Devil, "my new wife can see around corners and through walls!" So he doesn't set the sack down, and ferries all three sisters home in that fashion, with the three "don't-set-down-the-sack" encounters standing for the three encounters on the road. The heroine leaves a manniquin of herself in the attic at the end, and since it's difficult to off the Devil, the story ends when the Devil discovers that he now has three wives, all of whom are very unreasonable about the distance one can be expected to carry the laundry without resting, gives it up as a bad job and returns to hell, where one assumes he has a swingin' bachelor pad with leopard-print furniture and mirrors on the ceiling.
I've always found the Bluebeard stories kind of intriguing--a lot of people do, obviously, that's why they're effective fairy tales! But Beauty and the Beast were of less interest to me, Sleeping Beauty and Cindarella were a snore, but there was blood and meat to the Bluebeard story that I found interesting. Somewhere there's about half a story kicking around that I've never gotten back to, about a self-absorbed woman who doesn't bother to open the door (on the principle that everbody deserves privacy, and it's probably some smoke-stained den with ugly wood panelling and porn lying around) and Bluebeard going slowly nuts trying to get her to open the door so he can kill her (since once a serial killer, always a serial killer.) Never went anywhere, but maybe some day...


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There was a bit of ballot stuffing in the last round so I've varied up the voting process allowing one vote every three hours and voting is open until Thursday at noon!
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Iran says plans to raise crude oil production
Iran's oil minister has said the country plans to increase its oil production capacity to up to 5.2 million barrels per day by early 2016.
A Sunday report by state TV quotes Rostam Ghasemi as saying this requires some $300 billion investment in the oil industry.
He says current capacity is about four million barrels per day.
The remarks come as the country is struggling to sell crude oil due to Western sanctions over its disputed nuclear program, which the West suspects has a military dimension. Iran denies the charge.
According to the International Energy Agency, Iran's oil exports plunged to 1 million barrels a day in July, after standing at the 1.74-million-barrel mark a month earlier. Crude oil exports account for about 80 percent of the country's foreign revenue.


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Looking at other photos of my mother, the younger granddaughter looks amazingly like my mother. However here, it is the older granddaughter who looks SO like my mother's older sister. We have been wondering where the sharp little chin comes from on Gab...now I see that my aunt had the same chin.
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7 surprising benefits of massage therapy to an expat living in Paris
Picture the scene …
You've had the longest week at work – another in a long line of long work weeks.
Travelling from one office to another, leading meetings and actively participating in others.
You've given presentations to your superiors, managed issues in projects and put out more fires than you can count.
The end of the week arrives and more than a glass of wine, you're looking forward to your massage.
This standing appointment, that happens every month, is your 90-minute luxury to rest and repair.
As you lie on the table under the warm blanked, gentle music allows you to mellow and relieve the stress of the week.
The scent of lavender fills the air, drawing you into a hushed calm as you feel the warm massage oil make contact with your back.
As the therapist's hands begin massaging your shoulders, your muscles begin to relax. The pain begins to ease, and you sigh a long, deep sigh.
When was the last time you had a massage?
Not as a treat, but as part of your health regime?
To say the life of an expat in Paris is stressful is an understatement.
It isn't just talking in a language that isn't your mother tongue that causes stress.
It's having to speak in this language both as a professional, when you go shopping, seeing friends or giving someone in the street directions.
You're constantly switching from different modes. Wondering whether you should eat that baguette or give your waist line a rest. It's metro-boulot-dodo on go go go all the time.
The pace of the city is fast, and you do everything you can to keep up with it.
Do your job and enjoy the city. Don't be a tourist but see as many sights as you can. Exhibitions, bars, patisseries and eateries.
Life in this city never stops.
But when do you stop? Do you wait for exhaustion to set in? Or do you make a plan to relieve the stress when it rises so you're relaxed and ready for another day?
Massage is one way to relieve this stress.
It isn't just about relieving the stress of the day. It can also help to combat illnesses, recover from sports injuries, help you sleep better, calm down your children, improve digestion … the list goes on.
Massage and human touch is incredibly important. It has been part of growth and development for centuries, and is part of many cultures.
From sports massage for athletes, to massage being a medicinal practice in the far East, massage historically has helped us recover from specific body and health issues.
Making it part of your monthly health rituals while living in Paris (or anywhere) means you take this rich history of the practice and reap all the benefits.
Why does massage therapy work?
Here comes the science bit!
You start to feel sluggish, both in your body and mind, when toxins start building in your muscles. The muscle tissue starts to become dehydrated and deprived of nutrients and this is what causes muscle pain, muscle tension, and that achy feeling.
This is the same whether you have bad posture while sitting or standing, or whether muscle pain is caused by exercise.
When you work with a massage therapist, they manipulate the muscle tissue with their hands to break apart the muscle tissues that are stuck. Sometimes this can be painful when the toxins build up.
Eventually, when you start to feel relief, it's because the toxins have been released and the muscles are separated again.
When I work with my clients, they sometimes start to cry or tell me they're feeling very emotional.
Your emotions and chemicals in the body are very closely linked. Just as the muscles are being 'unblocked', the same impact can be had on the emotions.
Often when a massage session is over, a client can cry and not understand why. Then, days later, they will send me message telling me they figured out where the emotion came from. It's enlightening for both them and me!
So it's safe to say that as an expat living in Paris, massage therapy is central to your overall health and wellness.
Before we move onto the benefits of massage therapy, a little piece of advice:
Drink water before and after your massage
To put it briefly, massage increases circulation and hydrates your muscle tissue.
Whether you receive massage with a light touch or a deep tissue massage, the motion itself makes the blood flow into the muscles that need it. This releases toxins and allows your muscles to relax.
Drinking water before and after your massage therapy session means your body is able to first hydrate the muscles quicker, and secondly it can get rid of the toxins quicker.
Often if you have a massage and get a headache shortly after, it's because your body isn't hydrated properly and you don't have enough water to get rid of toxins, causing the headache.
So – drink water before and after your massage therapy session to receive the maximum benefits. Allow your body to flush out the toxins so you are your most relaxed and stress-free self.
Now that we've covered the background to why massage therapy is important and why it works, let's move onto the benefits of massage therapy to an expat living in Paris.
1. Too much sitting
Hands up if you have an office job or spend the majority of your day sat on a chair.
Sitting puts pressure on your lower back, especially if your posture is not correct.
By massaging muscles, the tension in the lower back is relieved. Often, this can lead to the real root of the problem, which could lie in your bones.
2. Eases anxiety and depression
I talked earlier about how some of my patients become emotional and cry after a massage therapy session. Because toxins in the body and emotions are linked, massage has been known to help people fight anxiety and depression.
3. Reduce Stress
It is estimated that between 80 and 90 percent of disease and illness is stress related.
Massage reminds us to relax, and helps us to that. The massage motion lowers blood pressure and increases blood circulation.
The 1-1 attention, just for you, can feel indulgent.
But taking this time out to clear your head helps your body relax and find ways of combating illness and disease before it starts.
4. If you're single
This is a hot topic in the City of Lights !
One of the joys of being in a relationship is physical touch. If you find yourself without anyone around to hug, it can add to the feeling of loneliness and depression.
Massage works with your body's chemicals to help you with the feeling of closeness through physical touch.
5. The physical and medical benefits
In an age where the first thing most people do is run to the médecin for a quick fix, massage offers a free-from-drugs solution to use your body's own natural ways to heal itself.
Whether it's because you sit at a desk all day, walk around in heels, or have digestive issues, here is an entire list of surprising benefits of massage therapy:
- Increasing blood circulation, which allows the body to send more oxygen and nutrients to your muscles, keeping you alive!
- The body's natural defense system relies on the flow of lymph. Massage stimulates the flow of nymph, which increases defense against toxins. In some cases, massage therapy for breast cancer patients has shown an increase in cells fighting the disease.
- If you've injured yourself, massage reduces recovery time after tough workouts, or sports
- It's good for your skin! Fewer toxins means brighter color and fewer (or no!) spots
- The relaxation relieves overused or sore muscles
- If you have muscle spasms or cramping, massage helps with this
- Since flexible muscles don't pull, massage helps improve flexibility
- Your body has a painkiller it uses to reduce pain – endorphins. Massage release endorphins, which helps reduce muscular pain
- Since it increases blood flow, it can help to reduce scaring on the skin
- If you have lower back pain, releasing muscle tension means you can sit, walk and stand with ease, as well as increase your range of motion
- Some headaches are linked to pain in the back muscles. Massage not only relieves pain in the back, but also headaches linked to it
6. Removes toxins
If you find yourself having frequent headaches, try massage therapy. Some headaches are linked to toxins in the body, while others are linked to muscular pain in the back that leads up the nerves in the neck.
By releasing toxins and tensions in the muscles, headaches can also be cured.
7. Take time out … for you
There are many physical benefits to massage (listed above), but one of the major benefits to an expat in Paris is taking time out, guilt free, just for you.
Image that once a month, you had a full 90 minutes of a full-body massage to help you relax and recover from your busy life? It's possible! And here's how
So now you know the benefits of massage therapy, where do you go to get a massage?
At Quintessences Wellbeing Centre on December 11th 2016, you're invited to an exclusive massage therapy workshop hosted by me, Teresa Savoie.
In this workshop, I will teach you how to give shoulder and back massage to someone else by demonstrating on each student in the class.
This means that as well as learning how to massage, you will receive a shoulder and back massage too!
Seats are reserved to six people only at a discounted rate from 75€ to 40€ only.
Reserve your spot by clicking this link: http://www.elle-soin.com
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Teresa Savoie is a deep-tissue massage therapist living and working in Paris (4th Arrondissement). Her specialty is a 90-minute full-body massage (that often lasts much longer) for stressed-out expats looking for stress relief. Find out more here: http://www.elle-soin.com/pricing.html
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The U.S. Treasury's latest auction saw relatively weak demand Tuesday, with prices edging lower and interest rates moving higher.
"Overall bidding at the $31 billion U.S. Treasury three-year note auction on Tuesday fell to its lowest since November with the yield coming in at 2.664 percent, the highest yield at a three-year auction in 11 years," Reuters reported.
Peter Boockvar, chief investment officer at Bleakley Advisory Group, wrote to clients Tuesday, "Again, we have another US Treasury auction that garners lame demand," despite an 11-year high in yields. Boockvar cited three possible reasons for the poor performance:
1) rising inflation expectations,
2) a big increase in supply due to rising deficits,
3) trade conflicts reducing interest from investors overseas.
MarketWatch's Sunny Oh added a fourth potential factor: Driven by political concerns, traders were unloading Italian debt on Tuesday, and the selling pressure may have spilled over into the American market.


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Legislation passed in June allows school districts to form consortia that issue bonds, the magazine said. This then enables the consortia to fund renewable energy projects.
The school districts plan to use the wind farm to defray electricity costs, and do not expect it to turn a profit, the magazine said.
The consortium will have a funding and revenue split of 80-10-10 to District 300, District 20 and District 23, according to the Daily Herald of suburban Chicago.
That paper reported that a feasibility study for the project could cost the consortium up to $2 million, plus $150,000 in legal fees.
Developer Heston Wind would be responsible for about $2million in development costs, according to the Northwest Herald of McHenry County, Illinois. It said the project will be paid off in around 15 years.


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