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One common point of confusion for car accident victims is determining when it might be a good idea to settle a personal injury claim with an insurance company. While the length of any personal injury case can vary depending upon the specific facts of the matter, the one commonality in all personal injury cases is that the injured claimant should reach Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI) before settling or resolving their case.
The American Medical Association defines MMI as "a condition or state that is well stabilized and unlikely to change substantially in the next year, with or without medical treatment."
Why Is Medical Treatment Important?
If you have been injured in a car accident or are pursuing a personal injury claim for some other type of legal matter, the most important thing you need to do is get medical attention for your injuries. This is arguably the most important step in your personal injury case, as it creates documented evidence that you have been injured and that a doctor or other type of medical professional has provided treatment you for those injuries.
Without documented medical records to serve as evidence and proof of the causation of your injuries, making a personal injury claim with an insurance company may be difficult. One of the most important factors affecting how insurance companies handle claims is the amount of evidence there is to support the claim. Without sufficient medical evidence, the insurance company is unlikely to feel any pressure to take your claim seriously and offer you fair compensation for your injuries and other damages.
Once you begin medical treatment, your doctors and other medical providers will track your progress and should continue to evaluate your recovery to determine how much more treatment you might need to heal. Doctors may also prescribe additional types of treatment such as chiropractic, physical therapy, and possibly even surgery in extreme cases. The medical records for all of your treatment, when analyzed by an attorney and his or her team of medical experts, can paint a complete picture of the before-and-after of your car accident or personal injury case.
Reaching Maximum Medical Improvement
The ultimate goal in receiving medical treatment for your injuries is to return your physical and psychological health to the state it was before the accident occurred. In legal terms, this is called being made whole. If you are injured in an accident which was caused by someone else's negligence, the law dictates that you have the right to be made whole, which is the purpose of filing a personal injury claim against the at-fault party and his or her insurance company.
In some cases where the injured victim has suffered more serious injuries, the time of recovery can either be very long, or difficult to determine. In very extreme cases, it is possible that an accident victim may not be able to fully recover – or be made whole – at all.
Reaching Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI) for injuries resulting from an accident means that the injured person has either fully recovered, or has recovered to the fullest possible extent based on a medical doctor's expert opinion. In cases where a person has reached MMI but will not fully recover from his or her injuries, the pain and suffering component of their claim is usually much more significant and could result in a larger settlement, depending upon the availability of insurance coverage and other factors.
Why Hiring An Attorney Can Help
The process of identifying and proving Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI) for a car accident or other type of personal injury case can be difficult for the average person. If you do not have a complete understanding of your legal rights, navigating the personal injury claims process on your own can be very challenging and there are many common mistakes that accident victims regularly make.
If you or a loved one has been injured in an accident and you are unsure about how to handle the claim, it may be in your best interests to consult with an attorney who is experienced in handling serious personal injury claims. Our attorneys work on a contingency fee basis, and we offer free case evaluations to anyone who has questions about their own personal injury case.
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Where do you want to roll today? Accessible travel writer, explorer, photographer, and PreJax Foundation founder Sylvia Longmire asks herself this question every day as she lives her very active life from the vantage point of a power wheelchair. Despite having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2005 and being completely unable to walk, she refuses to let that slow her down. With her sense of adventure and camera in hand, she and her electric scooter have set out to see what the world has to offer while her body still lets her.
In most cases, it's impossible to truly walk in someone else s shoes. But in The View from Down Here, you can finally see the world through the eyes of a wheelchair user. From the glaciers of Iceland to the ancient ruins of Greece, you'll be amazed at what a person with a physical disability can observe and experience today, despite all the obstacles that still remain. She has captured all the raw emotion of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the soothing sounds of crashing waves in Crete, and the patience of an elderly accordion player waiting for tips in Ljubljana. After absorbing Sylvia s stunning images from across the globe, you'll want to know how you can get there, too.
Sylvia became a full-time power wheelchair user in 2014, and while she traveled extensively prior to her diagnosis, she only started traveling internationally with her electric scooter in 2016. Refusing to wait for someone to be available to accompany her, Sylvia usually travels the world alone. She has documented several of her wheelchair accessible destinations in vivid photographic detail in The View from Down Here, and also writes about their wheelchair accessibility in her travel blog, Spin the Globe.
All proceeds from the sale of The View from Down Here are being donated to The PreJax Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Sylvia Longmire to provide scholarships to college students who either have MS or a parent with MS.
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Over four sessions this past July, WoodGreen's Community Connections team and a group of participants escaped the unruly summer heat in favor of some creative expression. With the assistance of Teresa Tao, Community Connections' Group Activities Coordinator, a group of creative and curious participants descended upon WoodGreen's Coxwell and Danforth location to uncover the new world of digital storytelling. Read on to hear about this Digital Storytelling Club Program. Enjoy!
The recent popularity of digital storytelling has provided a format for creative individuals to think outside the box, and use text, photography, video and interactive media to produce a message that resonates more than just words. With the help of Community Connections' volunteers Midori Kurts and Sally Bockler, each week participants explored this new creative world, learning essential photography and writing techniques to further their creative expression. Each session was structured to provide a tangible knowledge of these techniques, and to test these techniques through engaging activities that emphasized integration with the local community.
Participants familiarized themselves with techniques employed by traditional Photojournalists like Dorothea Lange, and vanguard movements such as Humans of New York, finding value in both traditional and digital vehicles of storytelling. For instance Sammi, a Computer Software Engineer, drew from her experience that there is no 'one-size fits all model' when it comes to storytelling; in fact, the sky's the limit! "In the Digital Storytelling Club, I learned that my photo essay can be presented in many ways, and that the Internet provides a host of free platforms where I can share my work with others."
For other students, harnessing these techniques aided them in getting over the initial nervousness of adapting to a new realm of technology. Taeko, a Registered Massage Therapist, initially found social sharing a daunting task: "I took this course because I want to start a blog and upload pictures to share my experience with others. I have never used social media, so I found it difficult to learn on my own. This course provided me with the step by step instructions I needed in terms of learning new writing techniques, creating various types of photo essays through the use of digital tools."
The aim of the Digital Storytelling club was to provide a collaborative, fun space chock full of valuable tools where participants could safely explore their creative side; it seems that the participants succeeded in finding just that! From field trips to Evergreen Brick works and photography shoots in WoodGreen's local Robertson Parkette, the digital storytelling team found creative inspiration in many areas within the vibrant Toronto landscape.
We wish our participants all the best in their creative endeavors, and hope they have a great year!
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By Dr. Lawrence Wilson
© September 2018, L.D. Wilson Consultants, Inc.
All information in this article is for educational purposes only. It is not for the diagnosis, treatment, prescription or cure of any disease or health condition.
This important article explores why we suggest mainly cooked, and not raw food. It also discusses the topic of juicing.
We were once fierce advocates of raw food. However, with 38 years of experience with thousands of clients, we have learned differently.
These are:
1. Very low mineral and vitamin absorption. Many nutrients are locked within the tough fibrous matrix of vegetables. These are biounavailable if eaten raw because:
a) Human beings cannot digest cellulose and other fibrous starches. Humans lack the enzymes to digest cellulose and other vegetable fibers. This is a fact, even if one does not like it. Taking a cellulase enzyme might help a little, but will not overcome this problem.
Many people also have very weak digestion, making it even harder to digest vegetable fibers.
Some health authorities advocate eating raw food because animals eat their food raw. However, the comparison is not valid and these authorities are wrong.
Vegetable-eating animals tend to have longer digestive tracts than we do. Some also have three or four stomachs to assist digestion. Most spend all day chewing their food. A few such as cows regurgitate the food several times to help them digest raw food.
Cooking breaks down the starch and cellulose and other fibers, releasing the minerals and dozens of other phytonutrients such as vitamin A and others.
While raw food provides more of a few vitamins such as vitamins C, the lack of mineral and phytonutrient absorption is a much more serious problem.
2. All raw food is too yin. Yin is a word in physics that means cold, expanded and with slow-moving energy. Cooking makes food more yang – or warmer and compact.
A severe problem today is all of our bodies are already too yin. This is due to radiation toxicity, poor quality food, toxic chemicals, toxic metals, and electromagnetic stress in the environment.
Adding more yin energy is quite harmful and unbalances the body, even if the food itself is of very good quality. This problem is much worse than in the past due to ionizing radiation in the environment and contamination of the planet with toxic metals, toxic chemicals and electromagnetic stress.
3. Cooking concentrates many foods, allowing one to eat more of the food. This is very important because most people are very deficient in vital minerals and dozens of other phyto-nutrients found in vegetables.
4. Some raw foods contain much more lectins. These are potent poisons found in grains, beans, and some other foods. Cooking destroys most lectins.
5. Cleanliness. Raw food is rarely clean and spreads infections easily. It is a serious problem with fruit, vegetables, and all meats, fish, eggs and seafood. Please do not eat these raw, no matter what anyone claims! They contain bacteria, parasites and other microorganisms, many of which are killed by proper cooking.
Exception. The exception to avoiding all raw animal products are raw dairy products from reputable sources. These are generally very healthful if they are produced properly.
Certified dairy products. We find that raw dairy needs to be certified. Certified raw dairy is a federal government program in the United States, and perhaps in other nations. It is very costly for the dairy farmers, so small dairy operations simply cannot afford it. This does not mean their products are not good, and the milk and other dairy products may even be better than those from certified dairies if the farmers are caring in the way they raise and treat their animals and their milking equipment.
6. Raw foods are irritating to the digestive tract. This is due to its content of tough fiber, and perhaps for other reasons, as well.
Note. The Talmud, an important Hebrew text, notes that undercooked food is irritating to the digestive tract. (see Medicine In The Bible And Talmud by Fred Rosner.)
Sugars and fruit acids found in fruit and other sweets are also irritating. One reason for this is that they feed improper intestinal microorganisms such as yeasts and parasites.
Another reason for irritation is simply that raw foods are too 'yin' in Macrobiotic terminology. This concept is explained above.
Green drinks. These are particularly irritating to the intestines. They are often bad food combinations, they contain too much liquid, they are very yin, and are often sugary, as well.
Exception. An important exception is raw dairy products. These are far less irritating than pasteurized or cooked dairy for most people, unless one has an allergy to them. Raw milk needs to be eaten alone, however, not in combination with other foods. Also, we only allow up to 4 ounces of all dairy products per day. More seems to be somewhat toxic.
7. Raw food fills up the stomach, reducing the amount of other food that one can eat. This may sound like a silly reason to avoid raw foods. However, the bodies today are so nutrient-deficient that filling your stomach with salads, for example, is not healthful at all. One does not obtain enough minerals from salads, and there is little room left for other more nutrient-dense foods.
Many who want to lose weight eat lots of salads. We maintain this is a serious mistake. We find it much better to eat mainly cooked vegetables with a little animal protein, some blue corn (usually as blue corn tortilla chips), no wheat products and no sugars. Weight comes off rapidly and safely. You can read more about this in the article entitled Weight Loss And Weight Gain.
8. Raw foods are lower in etheric energy. Correctly cooked food has a higher level of subtle energy called etheric energy. Very fresh food also has more of this energy or quality, whereas frozen or canned food has less of it. For more on this topic, read Etheric Energy.
9. Raw food often has contains less "elixir'. Cooking adds more etheric energy to most food, as stated above. When this occurs, certain souls are more attracted to the food and enter it. This enhances the nutritional and other qualities of the food. This is the meaning of elixir, in this instance.
10. Raw food must be "warmed up" in the stomach, unnecessarily using up energy. This is related to the yin quality of raw foods. It just takes extra energy to consume it. This is a less important reason for avoiding most raw food, although it is important for people who are ill and whose "digestive fire" is low to begin with.
Here is another interesting perspective on raw foods:
No. Proper cooking enhances most food. The damage to food that occurs due to proper cooking is minimal compared to the benefits of cooking. Here is a summary of damage done by cooking.
Protein. The structure or shape of proteins is changed, to some degree, by cooking. Some protein becomes less digestible such as egg white, and milk protein.
For this reason, cook eggs by soft-boiling or poaching only so that the yolk is runny. Never cook meat more than one hour, and usually less is best. Eat dairy products in the raw state if you can find them.
However, the amino acids themselves are not damaged much, if at all, by cooking.
Most protein is quite yin, and in this regard cooking helps it to be a more balanced food. This is one of the problems with protein powders, for example.
Fats and Oils. Some fats are altered by cooking. However, if the cooking is mild – less than an hour, for example, at low temperature, the fatty acids are not damaged and become more yang, which is healthier.
For this reason, meats and other fat-containing foods should not be overcooked.
Butter is quite stable when cooked, as are some vegetable oils. Do not cook olive oil. It becomes somewhat toxic when heated to a high temperature.
High temperature cooking does more damage, and the longer one cooks food the more damage to fats and other nutrients. Fast cooking, as in making blue corn chips, actually seals in some nutrients. Steaming is gentle and does less damage to fats and oils.
Starches. Uncooked and even most fermented starches found in grains, cereals and vegetables are not able to be digested well at all by human beings. Most starches are not damaged by cooking at all, and should be cooked until they are soft.
Avoid granolas, trail mixes with raw oats, muesli cereals, many food bars, and other foods containing raw or undercooked grains.
Sugars. We suggest avoiding all sugars in the diet today for many reasons. Read articles such as Fruit-Eating and Sugar Addiction on this website for more on this topic.
Minerals are not too affected by cooking. In fact, they are often made much more bioavailable by cooking because the cooking breaks down fiber in the food so that the minerals contained in the food can be absorbed more easily. This is the main reason for cooking vegetables and some starches, for example.
Vitamins. The vitamins most damaged by cooking are C and E. Cooking for about 10 minutes begins to destroy vitamin C, but plenty remains for about half an hour. Vitamin E is destroyed in about 20 minutes or a little more, depending on the temperature of cooking and the way the food is cut up, at times. Pressure-cooking, the cooking method we suggest, is excellent because it is fast. Steaming for 20 minutes or so also preserves some vitamin C and E.
Enzymes. Man people advocate eating raw foods to obtain the "food enzymes" they contain. We do not accept this concept. Most enzymes used to digest food come from inside our bodies, not from the food.
The assertions in this article have been studied by scientists and researchers. Here are a few articles that support eating cooked, rather than raw foods:
1. Link LB ; Potter JD. Raw versus cooked vegetables and cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2004; 13(9):1422-35.
2. Ismail A ; Lee WY. Influence of cooking practice on antioxidant properties and phenolic content of selected vegetables. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2004; 13(Suppl):S162.
Cooked food is best, except for Raw dairy products from reputable sources are definitely better than pasteurized and homogenized dairy products. In fact, pasteurized and homogenized dairy products such as cheese, milk and yogurt are often of poor quality and should be avoided. Also, cooking milk and cheese at home in dishes such as quiche should be avoided, as well. Cooking the fats in cheese and milk destroys most of their benefits.
However, do not overcook food. Vegetables should be soft, however, for best digestion. Meat should be cooked enough to make it safe to eat. Eggs should always have the yolk runny – never hard.
Juicing with only 10-12 ounces of carrot and a leaf or two of a green vegetable such as Swiss chard or spinach each day is recommended in nutritional balancing science. An alternative is to have one or two ounces of wheat grass juice, which is an excellent source of some nutrients. However, most people need mostly the carrot juice, so I would only suggest wheat grass juice once or twice a week, at most, if you wish.
More juicing than this is highly detrimental in most cases as it is too yin, too sugary and upsets the digestive tract in many people. While juices have many benefits, they have these drawbacks that causes me to want to limit them.
Benefits of juicing are that it concentrates the vitamins, minerals and other phyto-nutrients by eliminating the fiber, and it allows one to consume a lot of nutrients quickly and easily. Unfortunately, juicing also has many of the problems of raw foods. These are described below.
1. Cleanliness. This is the same as with other raw foods. For example, never have carrot juice from a juice bar unless you are sure the carrots and other ingredients are thoroughly washed in very clean water and soap.
Also, juicing machines must be washed well after every use, as it can harbor molds and bacteria. Otherwise, you could easily pick up parasites, bacteria or worse from a glass of even very fresh juice. Packaged or store-bought juice can have the same problems, and can become moldy easily if not consumed in a few days at the most.
2. Very, very yin. Juices are extremely yin products, even more so than other raw foods. The food is fragmented and more watery, and this tends to make it a lot more yin. Fruit juices are even more yin than vegetable juices due to their sugar content, and this is one reason to avoid all of them. A little goji berry juice or other berry juice may be okay once in a while, say once a month, but not more often as it is very yin. It is simply not needed in our experience, although it can be nutritious. This is an aspect of nutritional balancing that is not well understood, but quite important if one is to heal at the deepest level. Very nutritious products may need to be avoided. This may seem stupid or needless, but I find it works.
3. Very low in etheric energy. This is essentially the same as the problem with raw foods.
4. Too much is very upsetting to the digestion, especially when taken with food. Some people drink a lot of vegetable or fruit juice. It is very high in sugar and overloads the system with certain nutrients. Therefore always limit the amount and do not add sweeteners or fruit to vegetable juices.
Also, always drink vegetable or wheat grass juice alone, and not with a meal.
5. Juices can concentrate toxic substances found in fruits and vegetables. This is often a hidden problem with juicing today, even when organic vegetables are used. It is hard to overcome. For example, pesticides may be concentrated in juices. Fiber in foods helps prevent absorption of some of these chemicals. To help prevent this, use only organic carrots and other vegetables for juicing.
6. Juices with high sugar content, including even carrot juice to a degree, can upset the blood sugar level. Be careful with juicing if your blood sugar is unstable. Ideally, carrot or green juice should be taken without other food for about 15 minutes on either side of it for best absorption. Ideally, swish the juice in your mouth to help you absorb some of it in your mouth.
If your blood sugar is unstable, drink half and leave the other half in the refrigerator and drink it later in the day. This is not ideal, either, because fresh is best. However, it may avoid upsetting your blood sugar too much if this is a problem for you.
The milk industry, which often sells unclean milk that is 'fixed' by pasteurizing it, lobbied heavily to eliminate the competition of the raw dairies throughout the world. Today, certification of dairies is costly and small farmers may not be able to afford it. For this reason, I recommend all raw dairy products, as I have not heard of any problems with these raw dairy products, even when the farm is not certified by the government.
I suggest that two to three cups of cooked vegetables should be the major part of each of three meals each day. That means eating 6 to 9 cups of cooked vegetables every day. Here are some tips for cooking vegetables:
1. Low temperature cooking is best. This includes steaming, crock pots, and some boiling. Stir-frying, roasting and baking use higher temperatures. I would not do this all the time, though some is fine. Pressure cooking is at a somewhat higher temperature but is generally fine.
2. If you cook with water, generally drink the water rather than throw it away. This is not necessary with steaming, however.
3. Ideally, add sea salt and spices after cooking, not before or during cooking. Some foods do not react well to the addition of salt, for example.
4. Cook vegetables until they are soft, and no longer crunchy. This is important because some people do not cook food enough to break down the tough fibers so the minerals can be absorbed easily.
5. Do not overcook food so that it is just mush. Food should be cooked until it is soft, but not falling apart.
Eggs. Most adults may eat 6 to 8 eggs per week – and no more. Eggs are best eaten soft with the yolks runny. The yolk is a fat and fats are best eaten raw or very lightly cooked. Also, hard boiling an egg makes the protein very difficult to digest, as well. Good ways to cook eggs are poaching, soft boiling, soft-scrambled or even lightly fried over easy. However, do not overcook the egg so it is rubbery.
Meats. Most adults need to eat meat once daily. Please do not eat meat or eggs with every meal! The best meats are lamb, chicken, turkey and a little free-range beef. Canned sardines also count as meat.
Meat should be lightly cooked, just enough to kill all surface bacteria and parasites, and cooked through enough to kill most germs in the meat itself. Do not overcook meats. None need to be cooked on a stove top more than 10-30 minutes or in an oven more than about 2 hours. A problem with crock pots is it is easy to overcook food, though otherwise crock pots are excellent. Add the meat near the end, or take out the meat when it is cooked.
Whole grains. Most adults should eat some whole grain once a day or a little more, especially slow oxidizers. Fast oxidizers must not eat much grain.
Avoid all wheat in all forms, although pasta is better than most breads. Grains such as rice, millet, oats, rye, barley and quinoa should be cooked thoroughly so they are soft and easily eaten.
Avoid all raw grains. These are found in museli, trail mix, granola, and some health food bars.
I do not recommend most sprouts. Some are slightly toxic. Mung sprouts are fine, however.
In restaurants. I do not recommend eating any raw food in restaurants. Most is not fresh, and it may not be washed well, either. In America, you can safely drink carrot juice from a health food store or most juice bars. I would not do this in Mexico, however, or some other nations.
Bottled fresh juices are usually cleaner than most juice bars, if the juice is produced under healthful conditions. Unfortunately, however, it may be pasteurized to preserve it. This is not as bad as pasteurized milk, because carrot juice does not contain much fat, but it is not ideal.
For more about The Essene Gospel Of Peace, Volume I, which recommends a raw food diet, read The Flood Of Noah And Your Health on this website.
Fermented foods are similar to raw foods in some ways. They are very yin, unclean in some cases, and somewhat toxic in many cases. For these reasons, I only recommend eating a little of them, and only a few that do not seem to contain aldehydes or other toxic chemicals.
The ones that are okay are yogurt, kefir, raw cheeses, miso, and sauerkraut. Please avoid kombucha tea. For more on this topic, read Fermented Foods on this website.
Soaking any food makes that food even more yin. This is the big problem with soaking your foods before eating them, no matter what benefits it provides. For this reason, I do not recommend soaking foods, in general.
An exception is soaking seeds overnight, if you wish, but it is not necessary. Soaking seeds destroys enzyme inhibitors that prevent the seeds from sprouting in dry areas. Getting rid of these chemicals is helpful. However, seeds are not part of the nutritional balancing diet because they are quite yin. So please do not eat many seeds.
Soaking grains overnight does not break down the fiber enough, and leaves the food very yin, so I do not recommend it. Soaking nuts makes them a little easier to digest, perhaps, but also makes them even more yin, and thus less healthful.
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Perverted Law Causes Conflict
As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose -- that it may violate property instead of protecting it -- then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting at the door of the Legislative Palace, and the struggle within will be no less furious. To know this, it is hardly necessary to examine what transpires in the French and English legislatures; merely to understand the issue is to know the answer.
Is there any need to offer proof that this odious perversion of the law is a perpetual source of hatred and discord; that it tends to destroy society itself? If such proof is needed, look at the United States [in 1850]. There is no country in the world where the law is kept more within its proper domain: the protection of every person's liberty and property. As a consequence of this, there appears to be no country in the world where the social order rests on a firmer foundation. But even in the United States, there are two issues -- and only two -- that have always endangered the public peace.
Slavery and Tariffs Are Plunder
What are these two issues? They are slavery and tariffs. These are the only two issues where, contrary to the general spirit of the republic of the United States, law has assumed the character of plunder.
Slavery is a violation, by law, of liberty. The protective tariff is a violation, by law, of property.
Its is a most remarkable fact that this double legal crime - a sorrowful inheritance of the Old World - should be the only issue which can, and perhaps will, lead to the ruin of the Union. It is indeed impossible to imagine, at the very heart of a society, a more astounding fact than this: The law has come to be an instrument of injustice. And if this fact brings terrible consequences to the United States - where only in the instance of slavery and tariffs - what must be the consequences in Europe, where the perversion of law is a principle; a system?
Two Kinds of Plunder
Mr. de Montalembert [politician and writer] adopting the thought contained in a famous proclamation by Mr. Carlier, has said: "We must make war against socialism." According to the definition of socialism advanced by Mr. Charles Dupin, he meant: "We must make war against plunder."
But of what plunder was he speaking? For there are two kinds of plunder: legal and illegal.
I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling -- which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes -- can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 -- long before the appearance even of socialism itself -- France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.
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Sydney, CBD – Who doesn't love a funky bar? When my lovely flatmate told me of a bar and restaurant in Sydney CBD called Frankies Pizza, it gave me a good excuse to get a group of girlfriends together for an after work drinks or two.
When I discovered that Frankie's Pizza is the baby of the owners of Shady Pines and Baxter Inn (two of my other favourites Sydney bars,) I knew I was in for a treat.
Frankie's Pizza is located on Hunter Street, look out for the flashy neon sign, as the entrance can be easily missed. Stepping down the stairs you could easily think you have gone back in time to a small Italian pizzeria in the olden days of New York. Red and white checked table clothes greet you, garlic hangs from the ceiling, candles burn from old wine bottles and old pictures from Sinatra to the mafia adorn the walls. Here you will find the cosy couples sitting around the tables and suits sitting around the bar, no doubt debating between the 50 of the beers on offer.
But don't stop here, keep walking through the dark, double swing doors through to the dive bar. Here you will find all the 'cool' kids, the Surry Hills/Newtown crowd who are so excited to finally have a bar of their own style in the City. The scene is totally different in this bar, a juke box and pool tables fill one section of the bar and great 70/80 music blasts throughout.
Feeling peckish? Well the menu has one item, and one item only and that is Pizza!!! I definitely recommend the Spinach Pizza with Boccocini – and this recommendation comes from a non-vegetarian! If beer is not your thing, there is a good array of wines on offer and don't miss the frozen margarita (I definitely didn't).
What I loved the most about Frankie is the fantastic service from the smiling bartenders, bearded, tattooed and all! This kind of old fashion hospitality is so often missed in the CBD. Oh and Frankie's Pizza is open 7 days a week from 4pm to 4am. Finally, a late night bar in the city that also serves food. I had my expectation high for Frankie's Pizza, and boy was I not disappointed.
Visit: 50 Hunter St, Sydney, NSW, 2000; Open: 7 days a week, 4pm-4am; Wallet: Beers from $8, Pizza slices from $5. (Sorry! Frankies doesn't have a website yet)by


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Whether you're looking for a large hotel and conference center, quaint bed and breakfast or a place with a great pool to bring the kids for the weekend, there's a something for you in the Fox Cities. Many of our accommodations have special lodging deals available.
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AmericInn by Wyndham, Appleton West
Conveniently located off I-41 at exit 137. Our hotel is minutes from downtown Appleton, where you'll find Lawrence University, plenty of shops and restaurants, the History Museum at the Castle and the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. We're just two miles from Appleton International Airport (ATW) and 30 miles from Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport (GRB). Whatever brings you to eastern Wisconsin, you'll enjoy comfortable guest rooms, free breakfast and WiFi, and an indoor pool.
AmericInn of Appleton
Comfortable guest rooms including family suites Spacious indoor recreation center with pool, wading pool, whirlpool & steam room.
Baymont Inn & Suites
Located minutes from Outagamie County Regional Airport (ATW) and within driving range of Austin Straubel International Airport (GRB). Special amenities include a seasonal outdoor pool as well as free coffee 24/7, WiFi, Free Breakfast and free parking. Our non-smoking location offers access to the area's top attractions.
Best Western Premier Bridgewood Resort Hotel
The award winning resort hotel features beautifully appointed guest rooms and suites with upgraded amenities including free high-speed Internet, microwave and refrigerator. Many of the suites have fireplaces, golf course views and whirlpool tubs. Enjoy the picturesque nine hole golf course, mini golf, indoor aquatic fun center with four pools, fitness center and platform tennis. The popular Ground Round Grill & Bar is connected to the hotel. Conveniently located near I-41, area attractions, businesses and shopping.
Cambria Suites
Oversized suites with luxurious bedding and upscale bath amenities. Pull out sleeper sofa. Microwave, refrigerator and coffee service. Over 650 sq. ft. of conference and meeting space with capacity for up to 46 people.
Candlewood Suites
This extended stay property offers 82 spacious studio suites all featuring full kitchens (large refrigerator, microwave, stove, pots, pans, dishware and even the kitchen sink!) Enjoy such amenities as the Candlewood Cupboard for convenience items, complimentary laundry, fitness center, business center, free local calls, high speed internet, and meeting facilities. We are pet friendly! Located within minutes of Appleton International Airport and next to the Fox River mall.
Comfort Suites
Located just 3 miles from both Appleton International Airport and the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, this all-suite hotel features flat-screen TVs and complimentary Wi-Fi. The relaxed rooms with neutral decor also have microwaves, mini-fridges and pull-out sofas; some have whirlpool tubs.
Free perks include hot breakfast, an airport shuttle, and parking for cars, trucks and RVs, as well as early evening drinks at the on-site pub. There's also a heated indoor pool with a Splash slide and whirlpool spa, and a coin laundry. Pets are welcome for a fee.
CopperLeaf Boutique Hotel & Spa
An elegant boutique hotel located in Appleton's vibrant downtown and within walking distance of many restaurants, clubs and shops. One block from the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center and less than one mile from Lawrence University. Only four miles from Appleton International Airport and the Fox River Mall. Enjoy cocktails at the lobby bar, exceptional dining at RYE and spa services at Spa BenMarNicos. Meetings for 5 – 80.
Country Inn & Suites Appleton
All rooms feature a complimentary breakfast ,Free WIFI, business center, Pool/whirlpool area open until midnight, 106 Guest Rooms. In the Fox River Mall area.


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does anyone know if there is anyway to extend the video i can only record something for 8 secs even though i have loads of memory
the phone only comes with PC sofware, does anyone know if there is Mac software for it.
@ James. I'm using 2gb sony magicgate MS pro duo on my w900 and it works fine. no problems at all.
hi with all this kool feature deos this thing come with bluetooth let me knoe soon because im about to buy it soon
Wow, wat a phone, many features? does it have a frost free features or cable ready and auto reverse function? lol? crap
i bought this fone and then got a sandisk 1gb pro duo memory stick and it works gr8, has any1 tried it with a 2gb?
im getting this phone tomorrow, and just cant wait, hope the thing about the spring is weak and damages isnt true
i have k750i and its sooooooooooo good but this is a bit better so this will be sssooooooooooooooooooooooo good!!!!!!!
they do put exactly the same camera in a small fone ,,its called the s/e k7501...every single phone ive had with a camera on it lags when you start to put in loads of fotos AND its going to get worse the more megapixels the camfones start to get !!! if you had a fresh memory card and took all your shots on the lowest mode 160 x 120 then they would all open up fairly quickly..ive never had a digital camera so im not familiar with whether they lag when opening up all it contents,,,Had this fone a good while now and with its excellant properties and great video as ive posted earlier will not get anything better on the market at this moment,,even when fones are offering cif and vga resolutions the nvidia graphics chip allows 30 frames per second recording so im keeping this powerhouse of a phone
look at these photos:
they are really good. i wish they put this camera in a smaller phone
hrm.. do u think it lags? when u like scroll through pictures and stuff? yea SE are great fones but just laggy when u srcoll through fotos.. = P
To: Daniel Xavier
Yes, I have speaker phone. Oh man, the sound quality is sooo goood. I'm lovin it
Hi, I`m looking forward to buying this model but Have a very single question Does it have speaker phones in it the way I don`t need to use earplugs to listen the music. the nokia 6270i does have, is it the same ? thank you.
Hi all , I just got my W900i (BLack)
I wanna ask something , is the Speaker really that soft ?
Or mine got problems ?
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Oh man.. This phone's GREATTT. Just got my W900I(black) less than an hour ago. I could only use one word to describe the sound quality - Excellent. The pictures taken with the Auto-focus function is definitely MORE superior than my (discarded)Nokia 7610. However, I could see my greasy finger print on the phone, but it's no a hinder to me. What I don't like about this phone is when I'm listening to music and a phone call interupts, it pause the music and phone rings. The plastic socket protecting the pin-hole was a hinder whenever I'm plauging in the ear piece/data cable. To conclude, this phone is Great.
i think the memory card is inside the box. because last time i bought my k750 also included the memory card


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When is it appropriate for a leader to change their opinion? Both sides have been accused of flip-flopping on important issues - President Bush on establishing the Dept. of Homeland Security and steel tariffs, Senator Kerry on the Iraq war. But changing opinion due to thoughtful reconsideration ought not to be derided as flip-flopping. Tell us about a time when you had an honest change of opinion on a topic of national importance.
- Jeremy, 30, of WA
Mr. Ralph Nader Responds:
When I first arrived in Washington, DC, one of my first meals was a hot dog. After I discovered what were in hot dogs I never ate another one. I changed my mind. When we get new facts or new information, it is foolish to continue on the same course as if the new information did not exist. The Bush administration has been among the most anti-scientific, anti-fact based administrations we've ever seen. They are willing to amend the facts in government reports in order to justify the policy choices they make. We've seen this with critically important issues like global climate change and the war in Iraq. In truth, facts matter - science matters and we need to seek it out, understand it and make decisions based on it.
Senator John Kerry Responds:
It is important for leaders to tell the truth to the American people. If the leaders get the facts wrong then they should admit it. If leaders form their opinions based on a set of facts and they learn that those facts are wrong, it is appropriate to change their position. American government works best when it works based on trust and honesty.
President George Bush Responds:
President Bush declined to answer this question. - Editor
i think Bushes opinions may change after (if) he loses this election, hehe


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i've had mine for about 4 hours and i've expirianced some really bad stuff, like when accesing online videos via wi-fi it stays on 01% buffering for a wile ant then it says "connection failed" "exiting"... any ideeas, otherwise is a great phone, the camera with propper settings makes great photos and the menu is pretty fast
Is there an antivirus for this phone? Where can I download it? Also need to have an answer for I have this phone since December and now I experienced having my phone calls cut everytime I use it. The call will end up most probably after a few seconds. It's like I'm experiencing a drop call. I tried to use other simcard from other network, I experience the same scenario. Did someone experience this too? Is this common to all LG renoir or my phone has a defect?
I've had mine for about three weeks and the phone itself is fine, the camera is great but the volume for the ringtone sucks. Absolutely rubbish. Have complained to T-Mobile and am awaiting the outcome. Unless you have the hearing of an alsation I wouldn't touch an LG phone if I were you.
I am not sure if their camera will deliver something intersting. I know the KU990 with a 5mp and its pictures are like taken with a 2mp camera from moto. I would go for my C905 not LG.
would this phone be worth it? im looking for a nice phone that has a wifi, 3g, and a nice touch screen..
8 megs...whooo that is cool and the touchscreen also.and it's relatively cheap for what he offers.looks just like my girlfriend's Cookie:):)
emaildizzy, 08 Mar 2009thw phone works great i can't fault it apart from the flash? why have a good xenon flash and i... moreIt means that the LG KC910i is not good in flash!
thw phone works great i can't fault it apart from the flash? why have a good xenon flash and it doesn't work? i try taking a photo in the dark but it looks like it only half worked? its as if its not bright enough just the same as the LG KU990 Viewty, that had the same problem, so thats why i put it back on the shelf and said no thanx to it.
inesm, 07 Mar 2009i want to know can you turn off T9 on LG RENOIR!???yes, t9 can be turn off
inesm, 07 Mar 2009i want to know can you turn off T9 on LG RENOIR!???simply press on t9 tab it will turn off
Is the xenon flash has improved in the KC 910i?
Because in KC 910, it was not impressing.
it so hard to differentiate between cookie and Renoir. but still it look style n lish. luv it!
i was just wondering how much exactly does this phone run for cuz im about to buy it but want to know if im gunna get ripped off.
atena, 05 Mar 2009hi, i am from athens, greece and this telephone is already on the market...why are they writti... morethey say it is to be release, because this is the later model of the lg kc910. this version is the all-black version. the first model was black at the back and had a silver front, this one has a silver front.


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FBI agents were briefed Monday by one of the world's leading cyber intelligence firms, who claim that the evidence being gathered in connection with the November 24 cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment points to a former employee of the studio, rather than North Korea, as the perpetrator of the hack.
The cyber intelligence firm Norse told the FBI in the afternoon briefing that evidence suggests the hack, which saw thousands of sensitive company documents as well as five unreleased feature films leaked online, was a coordinated effort between a former Sony employee and hackers for piracy groups, according to Politico.
"When the FBI made the announcement so soon after the initial hack was unveiled, everyone in the [cyber] intelligence community kind of raised their eyebrows at it, because it's really hard to pin this on anyone within days of the attack," Norse senior vice president of market development, Kurt Stammberger, told Politico.
Stammberger added that the FBI was "very open and grateful for our data and assistance."
The FBI issued a statement Monday reiterating its conclusion that North Korea was behind the cyberattack.
The FBI has concluded the Government of North Korea is responsible for the theft and destruction of data on the network of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Attribution to North Korea is based on intelligence from the FBI, the U.S. intelligence community, DHS, foreign partners, and the private sector. There is no credible information to indicate that any other individual is responsible for this cyber incident.
A hacking group called Guardians of Peace has claimed credit for the cyber attack. On December 16, the group posted a message threatening "9-11" style terror attacks on movie theaters that had signed up to screen the Sony Pictures comedy The Interview, which depicts the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
According to Politico, the FBI considered that a former Sony employee could be behind the attack, but ultimately rejected the possibility.
Other private security firms are reportedly questioning the FBI's key evidence; namely, that the malicious code used in the attack against Sony was also used in a 2013 cyber attack against South Korea, and that the language settings of the computer used to write the code were set to Korean.
Errata Security's Robert Graham previously called the FBI's evidence "nonsense," arguing that hacking groups were likely to share code with each other. CloudFare security researcher and DefCon official Marc Rogers agreed, writing that "while some of these similarities certainly strongly hint at a similar operation and a shared DNA between these pieces of malware, it is hardly a smoking gun."
Norse's Stammberger told Politico he agrees with his peers in the intelligence community.
"We think that we would have seen some key indicators by now in our investigation that would point to the North Koreans," Stammberger said. "We don't see those data points. So if they've got them, they should share some of them at least with the community and make a more convincing case."
The FBI is reportedly still treating the incident as an "active criminal investigation," and, as policy, will not comment further until the investigation is complete.


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Blunders and misjudgments
RUMSFELD: An American Disaster by Andrew Cockburn
Verso £17.99 pp248
WASHINGTON'S WAR: From Independence to Iraq by Michael Rose
Weidenfield £14.99 pp212
You know, I don't think Andrew Cockburn likes the former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld very much. The clue is in the title of his book - and also in some of the chapter headings, such as A Ruthless Little Bastard and Warlord. Indeed, the loathing and bile drip from pretty much every page, the tone a sort of quietly amazed revulsion at its subject matter. I suppose Rumsfeld: An Objective Study would have been a much less entertaining read - but I suspect it would come to pretty much the same conclusions as those reached by Cockburn. The Rumsfeld that emerges here is almost…


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Illegal Buildings a big issue in Vasai-Virar
Monday's incident highlights the gravity of the problem of illegal structures along the Vasai-Virar belt.mumbai Updated: Jul 05, 2011 01:35 IST
Monday's incident highlights the gravity of the problem of illegal structures along the Vasai-Virar belt.
More than one lakh such structures dot this belt, according to the NGO, Harit Vasai Saurakshan Samiti, which filed a public interest litigation (PIL) against these illegal structures in 2007. "The whole place is in shambles as such structures have mushroomed. The quality of life has deteriorated," said the Samiti's advocate, Uday Warunjikar.
On Monday, the buildings demolished had come up very close to the railway tracks in Nalasopara (east).
Last year, the Bombay High Court came down heavily on the issue of illegal structures and ordered civic authorities to take stringent action against them.
After issuing notices, the civic body is now undertaking a demolition drive.
Residents blame the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation for allowing so many illegal constructions to crop up. "Over the past decade, the civic body turned a blind eye as illegal structures mushroomed in this belt," said resident Sadanand Rawle. "It was clear cut nexus between the builders, politicians and authorities," he said, adding that such constructions have systematically destroyed the area's green cover. "There was absolutely no planning and structures were coming up everywhere."
Officials complain that they face many hurdles. "Politicians interfere in our work and provoke people against us," said a senior official who does not wish to be named. "We are often denied police protection and so have to postpone demolition."
In May, when chief secretary Ratnakar Gaikwad visited Nalasopara, he had criticised the presence of illegal structures in the belt, and since then demolition has been in full swing.
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In the old military city of Badajoz the sound of drums and trumpets that welcomed Spanish troops home from Iraq had given way yesterday to a discontented silence among men who feel they have let down their allies.
Senior army officers are guarded in their response to the decision of the socialist prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, to withdraw soldiers from Iraq.
But as a small contingent of Spanish troops prepares to remove the last vestiges of the country's 1,300-strong presence, there are whisperings of discontent from those now returned.
The previous prime minister, José María Aznar, contrary to 90 per cent of Spanish public opinion, committed the force in support of US policy.
Yet soldiers now regret leaving Iraq so hastily following Mr Zapatero's election victory on March 11, three days after the terrorist train bombs in Madrid that killed 190 people and wounded 1,900. They also expressed disappointment over a lack of official recognition on their return and the public's seeming willingness to forget them and their mission.
Cpl José Francisco García Casteñeda, who previously completed three tours in Bosnia, said: "We left our coalition colleagues behind and abandoned the local people, who are living in wretched conditions."
Sitting at the same cafe table, Sgt Manuel García, 31, went further in his criticism of the withdrawal. "We felt used and let down by the politicians. Zapatero made the move purely for his own popularity," he said.
Two weeks ago a beaming Mr Zapatero went to the Botoa base, 15 miles outside Badajoz, for the ceremony to disband the Plus Ultra II brigade after its return.
Extremadura, the region around Badajoz, provided 80 per cent of the troops in the brigade, stationed mainly in Diwaniya and Najaf.
Mr Zapatero arrived after fulfilling his election pledge to withdraw troops if the military mission in Iraq was not put under United Nations command by June 30.
"It was just a photocall. He did not address us and the king did not come. No thanks were given. There was no encouragement for the job we did," said Sgt García. "It was a celebration for Mr Zapatero."
Some soldiers disagreed with Spanish involvement from the outset but felt that it was wrong to pull out.
Sgt Sergio Sanesteban Peña, 29, said: "There are two aspects to it. As westerners, we entered an Arab country not on a humanitarian mission as we were told but an imperial mission in a very hostile environment. The result is as we see it today. On the other hand, speaking from a military point of view, we should have finished our job to help the Iraqi people."
He echoed a commonly held opinion that the Spanish mission was undermined by the American decision last month to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr's number two, increasing violence in the Shia region where Spanish troops operated. On patrol in Diwaniya in February, Sgt Sanesteban was wounded in an arm and leg in a grenade attack. He will have more surgery next week.
But he feels that his sacrifice has been in vain. "We had the ceremony and now our work is forgotten. But for us it will not be easy to forget.
"I would not want to exaggerate but it is a little like the American troops returning from Vietnam. There were no thanks. You came back and you could feel the indifference."


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Donald J. Trump reminds me of a classic "Twilight Zone" episode titled, "It's a Good Life."
In this episode, we see an adorable 6-year-old boy named Anthony Freemont. Anthony lives in a farmhouse with his parents in a small village named Peaksville in what used to be rural Ohio. In the beginning, everything seems peaceful on the quiet farm until we realize Anthony has special powers that are causing quite a bit of disturbance within the community.
Anthony has the ability to cause a blizzard on a summer day, ruining the crops. He has the ability to turn a gopher into a beast with three heads, turn pigs into monsters and wish playmates who challenge him into the corn field. He took away the cars, electricity, machines and soap, because he doesn't like them, flinging the Village back into the Dark Ages. He can command anything he wants by simply thinking it. He knows everyone's thoughts and can feel everyone's emotions. He hates anybody who doesn't like him or thinks bad thoughts about him.
Anthony has destroyed the rest of the world as he holds the few remaining residents of Peaksville imprisoned with his demands. His parents and neighbors are so terrorized they cater to his every whim and must CONSTANTLY reassure him his monstrous deeds are "Good, they're REAL Good." They must express their unconditional love for him, because they don't want to be his next victim.
One evening a surprise birthday party is held for one of the few remaining neighbors, Dan. Dan receives a bottle of peach schnapps (one of the last bottles of liquor in the Village) and a Perry Como album. He desperately wants to listen to the record but Anthony doesn't like music with singing.
Dan starts to get drunk from the schnapps and is fed up with the control Anthony has over them. He begs someone, ANYONE to kill the child, put a lamp or a bottle over his head when he's not looking, ANYTHING to end this nightmare once and for all.
The adults in the room are begging him to stop talking but it's too late. With a scowl on his face, Anthony turns to Dan and transforms him into a hideous Jack-in-the Box, his head bobbing up and down on a spring as his wife watches, SCREAMING in horror.
Anthony's father tells him to wish it into the corn field, so the grotesque image disappears and the room returns to normal, everyone desperately trying to control their emotions so as not to upset little Anthony as he continues his reign of terror.
Anthony's father looks out the window and sees snow falling. He looks at Anthony and says, "It's snowing outside. Antony, are you makin' it snow? Why that'll ruin half the crops, ya' know that, don'tcha, half of the crops!!!" Anthony looks back with a scowl and his father replies, "But, it's good that you're makin' it snow, Anthony, it's REAL good and tomorrow, tomorrow, is gonna' be a REAL GOOD DAY!"
A monster is about to move into the White House. A childish, ignorant, illiterate, petty, vindictive, out-of-control, mentally unstable, emotionally damaged, destructive, psychopathic monster with no filter, no conscience, no discipline and no restraint. The weak and the ignorant put him there and it seems there isn't a damn thing we can do about it.
But there is.
Are we going to fight back or are we going to roll over and let this MONSTER destroy everything we have fought, bled and died for, for the past 240 years?
I know I am prepared to figuratively smash a lamp over his head, but I can't do it alone.
He must be stopped and he must be stopped BEFORE he is inaugurated.


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Volunteers keep history alive at Shoreline Trolley Museum in East Haven
Volunteers keep history alive at Shoreline Trolley Museum
EAST HAVEN >> In 1945, when buses were replacing trolleys as the main mode of public transportation in Greater New Haven, members of the local trolley-loving community worked together to create the Shoreline Trolley Museum.
Today, more than 300 volunteers continue to keep the museum's precious historic collection of nearly 100 vintage vehicles, artifacts and documents from the trolley era from being forgotten. One volunteer, George Papaga, has been doing it for 63 years.
"The original generation of members at the museum, they got out after the Second World War. I was 10 and they were about 20 years old. Looking back I'm surprised they even let me hang out with them, being just a kid."
Decades later, for about four days a week, Papaga says he visits the old track and helps in any way he can. He and other volunteers restore the old trolley cars by painting, fixing mechanics, and other damaged parts. They also lend a helping hand at museum events like the Haunted Isle, Pumpkin Patch, the Fire Truck Show, and Santa's Trolley Winter Wonderland, among others.
Most volunteers, according to Pagaga, just like trains. They like being a part of the history of the trolleys, as some even date back to the 1800s.
"It's a funny thing when railroading gets under your skin," he said. "It's just so fascinating to see the craftsmanship of the cars, knowing the stories behind them. They mean a lot to people."
Papaga, who is also the former station master of New York City's Grand Central Station, said working on trains was always an interest of his and he was able to learn about them at an early age by volunteering at the museum. By the time he was a student at East Haven High School he knew so much, it was made part of his curriculum.
"My last two years of high school I took metal shop and wood shop. The teachers saw how much I liked it, they let me go down to the trolleys for school and graded me for my work at the museum," he said.
After returning from the service in 1963, he got a job working for the New York, New Haven, Hartford Railroad line and even then, continued to volunteer at the museum.
"It's one of the few places you can get away from the noise of the city and highways. It's just you riding along the Farm River, and Beacon Hill and the tall grass."
Located at 17 River St., the museum is a National Historic District, preserving the oldest continuously operating suburban trolley line in the United States, and is run by the Branford Electric Railway Association, according to John R. Soehnlein, volunteer trolley conductor and marketing manager of the Shoreline Trolley Museum.
"It's great to have people like George who really have so much passion for what we do here. It amazes me how we are able to attract interest even after all this time."
Soehnlein said there are about 1,100 members today; the youngest is a boy approximately 12 years old who comes in with his mother, according to Soehnlein.
Soehnlein, also a long-time volunteer, said keeping the history of the trains alive is important to him and the rest of the passionate volunteers from East Haven, Branford, and other surrounding towns.
For Papaga, the tracks have been a part of his life for so many years, now that he is 72, he says it's going to be that way until the end.
"I'm going to be there for the rest of my life," he said, "and when that comes to the end they're going to sprinkle me along that tracks."
But before that, Papaga hopes he can pass his stories and knowledge of trains along.
"I want to make sure the kids know all about it. They are going to have to take over and keep the history going."


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text: white-rose Report post Posted November 1, 2007 Have you ever stopped to read the comments on youtube? Some of them are pretty hilarious. I was watching this coke bomb video and an argument started among the brits and american members. This is just one of the comments. For example, if Fox or CNN decided to do a report on "2 + 2 = 5 " , most Americans would instantly agree. If Bush says "Iraq has wmds" all americans instantly agree, and if I told an American guy on the bus his name was David Beckham, he would agree. The David Beckham bit made me lol. There were others but full of swearing. So post those funny comments! 1 Perrin reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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For those seeking local lore and some of the area's most valiant heroes, East Feliciana and its cemeteries are just reward. The La-Cemeteries website lists more than 150 cemeteries in the entire parish. The small town of Clinton owns a rich history of cemeteries that are home to Confederate heroes, and many families that helped build this region of Louisiana.
The Clinton Confederate Cemetery stretches four acres under a grove of shady oak trees. It is home to both Union and Confederate soldiers as the Clinton-Port Hudson Railroad brought wounded from the battlefields of Port Hudson and Jackson to Clinton's Sillman Institute, once a girls school, and a military hospital during the Civil War. Many died of disease or battle wounds and Clinton became their eternal home.
According to a Geocaching website, infrared thermal imaging was done in 1999 and the number of soldiers buried in mass graves exceeds 400. It noted that there are approximately 345 marked graves, many early settlers of East Feliciana Parish.
The cemetery is located two blocks from the Sillman Institute, and near the historic Marston House. Henry Marston helped build Clinton's thriving 19th century commerce industry. He also lived close to the railroad station and was one of the major investors of the railroad in 1837.
Convalescent soldiers rested inside the Marston home and it is said graffiti marks their signatures on the walls today. In the still of the night, Marston could hear the battery of naval guns pelting Port Hudson, and days after, the rumbling of the train. Sounds of the piercing whistle pulling into the station, its cars filled with thousands of soldiers laid to rest at the Clinton Cemetery, their headstones clearly visible from Marston's back door.
Travel Notes:
For more info on traveling through East Feliciana Parish, visit their tourism website.
For more historic sites throughout the Feliciana Parishes visit the state website on the Port Hudson Historic Site. www.crt.state.la.us/louisiana-state- parks/historic-sites/port-hudson-state-historic-site/index


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If that wasn't enough, Indian pacer Mohammed Shami recently became a victim of religious bigotry online, after being attacked by the moral police over a photo himself with his wife, in which she was accused of wearing an 'immodest' attire.
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In yet another instance of intolerance and online trolling, stand-up comedian and Kolkata RJ Mir Afsar Ali was criticised after he posted a picture of his family celebrating Christmas. The comments he received were in Bengali, criticising him for celebrating Christmas and reminding him he is Muslim.
The RJ retaliated by posting screenshots of some of these remarks, along with a strongly-worded message. His post has gone viral since, getting over 7,000 likes and over 1,000 shares.
In the midst of this s**tstorm, Mir didn't lose his cool or his famous sense of humour.
He wrote:
Wishful thought of the season:
Yeh Christmasjitni 'Merry' hai, utni hi hai 'Teri'..
ParAfsos, tusamjhegaanahin... 🙏 🙏 🙏
Here's the entire post:
Had a great Christmas this year... well almost..
Posted a pic of my family on my official page this morning wishing everyone on this very special day...
Over 28k likes, 400+ comments and close to 200 shares in a matter of 12 hours (at the time of posting this one)..
But that's NOT what this post is about.. 😊
It is about a few morons who started giving me advice on why a MUSLIM should not be 'celebrating'/'wishing' on Christmas...
I was advised by one to seek forgiveness from the almighty Allah..
I was told by another that this certainly was very unsuitable for a person who's religion is Islam..
(screenshots attached of 3 such imbeciles; there are many more that I had to delete/block for obvious reasons)
NO... I am NOT angry.
I am not even retaliating.
I am just thoroughly amused at the state of affairs all around.
I sadly realise where we stand today..
I realise that tomorrow if I wish to donate something to The Missionaries of Charity or Ramkrishna Mission, I will most certainly be criticised by some fellow Muslims...
"Arrreee... Tauba! Tauba! Aapkisi Yateemkhaane (orphanage) yaa madrasah ko paise de sakte the!!!" (let me not get into an explanation on this as I don't want to disclose anything on my philanthropic commitments)
I also do realise that tomorrow if I wish to donate something to a Muslim organisation (which should be the norm, according to several fellow Muslims), I would be criticised yet again by several 'others':
"Arrreee.. He's a Muslim; obviously he would only patronise his own caste.. what else could one expect of him??!"
Friends.. it is a strange world indeed and we are living in stranger times.. and maybe the people who have commented are from a neighbour country, but believe me...
Believe me.. there are truly no boundaries/borders for religious fanatics... this is a worrying trend all over the world..
And trust me, it was always there.. the minds were always this narrow... it's just that today, you get to read/speak about it more often than you breathe air and drink water!
I spent 15 years of my life at a Christian missionary school: The Assembly of God Church..
I went to a masjid on Ripon Street and learnt the Holy Quran and several other Islamic books for 3 years..
And I married a Hindu Brahmin who was NOT forced to convert to Islam...
All I can say at the end of this post for these scumbags is ironically in the words of Lord Jesus Christ...
"Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing"
(Book of Luke; Chapter 23, Verse 34)
Wishful thought of the season:
Yeh Christmas jitni 'Merry' hai, utni hi hai 'Teri'..
Par Afsos, tusamjhegaanahin... 🙏 🙏 🙏
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Kia Ora Whanau!
It's a beautiful day. I am loving fall while you are all loving spring. It's great though! I am serving in such a super beautiful area! Last night the sun was setting and we were driving across the water on the really, really long bridge to Welcome Bay and we could see the green hills and the cute houses all nestled around and I was just so blown away! I LOVE this country down here at the bottom of the world!
So I have a lot to say. I was realizing that I forgot a detail last week that goes with my blog name (Called to Swerve). On exchanges with Sister Urgel we got a flat tire! Luckily we called their district leader (because we were in Greerton), Elder Misi, to come change it. He's a big, strong Samoan so it took him like three seconds so that was good. Haha! That would happen to me and Sister Urgel together!
But life has been good! It's been a busy week! I always over stress about learning areas but now I'm finally realizing that I know a lot of people and places and that there's nothing wrong with using a map once in a while. :) I'm starting to really love everyone here.
So my companionship is going so, so well! We had a good heart to heart and are doing better than ever. I love her so much! I'm sad that she's leaving me so soon. She goes to Hamilton in two weeks from today and then flies to Tonga the day after that. And she's so lucky. Her flight is only 2 hours and 50 minutes!
But we are getting so excited for our baptism this weekend!!! The girls are doing so well. We made cute little invitations and the girls decorated them and are handing them out to their friends at school and we handed out a million at church. It's going to be wonderful!
We also have two other progressing investigators that are doing well. The first, I think I talked about last week. Her name is Kathy and she's great! Sadly, she had family stuff in Auckland so she was sad to miss church, but we have high hopes for next week. She is such a cute lady and SO prepared for the gospel! The other is a girl named Chasidy. She's like 24 and as tall as Sister Havea and me (isn't that fun?). But she has this adorable son, Arepa. She has been learning from the sisters for ages but she has this darn partner that is such a super bad influence for her. I can just feel her spirit so strongly and I just want her to be happy so much. You know how that happens? People think they need a man in their life to be happy? And she's been with him for four years. But we went on splits with the Prestons (the American family that I love so much) and Sister Preston and I went there and had the best lesson with her. Then later we watched the Testaments with her and were really bold about the blessings the gospel would give her if she would only stand up for herself and then choose to live the gospel. The Elders gave her such a powerful blessing with amazing promises in it. Then she said such a Spirit-filled prayer. The Spirit was just definitely there. But finally she kicked her partner out and will be at church on Sunday! She is still working on her drinking but is going to Addiction Recovery so that's so good. And she has lots of member support which is so good.
I've been thinking a lot about how we treat investigators and less actives. So often, we just love them so fiercely and want the best for them. It's easy to look over their flaws and just try to help them improve so they can be happy and blessed. If everyone could treat everyone the way missionaries can treat investigators, the world would be a good place. That's why they say to treat members and your companion like an investigator. That's how God sees us, I'm sure.
Also, this week we met the coolest guy while tracting. (We actually met a couple of cool new people.) But this one is an old Maori guy named Wayne that is so, so, so into faka papa (family history). He has 32 generations on one line and does it all without a computer! Also, his mom and older siblings were all members of the church and he used these old temple information cards to put his records on, just leaving the ordinance part blank. While we were talking with him I had the coolest experience! I was just thinking about all of Wayne's ancestors who are waiting to have their temple work done in the Spirit World. They were all probably praying that he would meet missionaries and God sent him us. I thought of all of those people listening so intently to our conversation and maybe even my ancestors and Sister Havea's ancestors on the other side of the veil. I felt the Spirit so strong! We invited him to do family history online with us at the Stake Center next week. We are so excited! Isn't that cool?
I really have had a spiritual week. I also went on exchanges to Rotorua! That was fun. It's a different zone an hour away from here and there's only one set of sisters there so I cover them as their Sister Training Leader. But Sister Judd is such an amazing, amazing missionary from Arizona! We had the greatest time and had the best talks. We were talking about the fourth missionary and how it makes sense now. I was just reflecting so much on all that I learned on my mission so far! The "Fourth Missionary" is a talk about giving your will to God and being obedient and following God's plan for you and becoming like Christ not because it's your duty, but because you understand that God can make so much more of you than you can make of yourself. It's all about trusting God. I read it yesterday and just cried because I realized that I "got it" now, when I didn't at the beginning of my mission. You should all look it up! It will change your life.
Anyway, church was great yesterday . . . both of them. :D We have such great ward mission leaders and bishops. We are really blessed.
And finally, today is Sister Havea's birthday! I have some more surprises planned for the rest of the day! Haha But last week I had the Greerton Sisters buy me all these balloons and streamers and decorations. I was going to put them up as soon as Sister Havea fell asleep last night, but she was up really long and I ended up falling asleep before her. :P But I woke up at like 12:30 so I snuck out of the room. She heard me and asked if it was morning. I said no, I was just going to the bathroom. Then I waited for her to go back to sleep! I was so scared she'd wake up but I put streamers EVERYWHERE in the living room and blew up a million balloons. I was so proud of myself. But I never turned on the light because I didn't want her to wake up. So I was just using our phone as my light.
But I have an unfortunate/embarrassing story! Well the first number of our contacts in our phone is President Rudd. So somehow I accidentally clicked the button twice and was calling President Rudd at 1 in the morning!!!! I hung up super fast and thought that it hadn't actually gone through.
Well this morning Sister Havea loved her surprise and I made her breakfast and we studied and life was good. Until . . . we got a text from President Rudd asking why we called him at 1 in the morning. Of course I felt so bad and was all stressed! I finally just called him and told him the whole story and that I was so sorry for being up in the night! He just laughed and said that when he saw that at 1 in the morning he thought it was some Elders messing around and that he was going to have to solve a big problem but then he saw it was just me and he wasn't worried anymore. He told us to have fun with our frivolity today. I said thanks and ok! Oh gosh! Isn't that funny! I definitely have the best mission president in the world.
I am just so grateful to be here. I love my mission! Oh, and I LOVED talking to my family last week! I am one lucky duck (well "blessed duck" is more accurate). The church is true and I am so thankful for the power of the Holy Ghost. It is so real and it witnesses to me that Heavenly Father, the priesthood power, and the scriptures are real too! It will tell us where to go, what to do, and it will help us grow. What a huge blessing.
I think my emails get longer every week! Sorry they are such novels.
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The Importance of Manners in Society
I Couldn't Say it Better
Basic Easy "Rules"
Manners Cost Nothing but Reap Great Rewards
Manners are an Important Part of the Foundation of Society
When I was trying to think of a topic to base my 25th article on, I thought of all the interests and passions I have. My answer came to me during a class I volunteer/teach topics for adults trying to acquire their GED. The simple statement of how important manners and etiquette would be and will be when they, the students, start interviewing for jobs utilizing their newly acquired GED took up the entire class. I was amazed how many of my students disagreed. I was "not so mildly shocked" in how many students questioned this. This got me to think of how I have seen "lack of manners" change drastically in my 30+ years of life.
I often think back to the day my father gave me positive reinforcement that would solidify my usage of good manners my entire life. I was 7 years old and I remember it 26 years later like it happened yesterday. It was a Saturday morning. We lived on a farm which had 6,000 chickens along with other livestock. We had just returned from a delivery of eggs and dressed chickens when my father turned into our long driveway. He stopped the car once he was off the road and turned to me. Without missing a beat, he put his arm around me and said how proud he and my mother were after their latest parent/teacher meeting. He said my grade school teacher, Mrs. Kirkland had told my parents that I was the best mannered student she ever had in her 30-40 + years of teaching. He said he felt the "manner report" was as important as my all A's grades. Then he swept me up and placed me on his lap and let me steer the car up the driveway. The excitement of driving the car and making my parents proud is a feeling I will never forget and ingrained into my very being to always use manners and be respectful of others. What a simple but ever so effective teaching tool.
The list of manners that I feel are important for a civilized world is long. I will touch on those that I feel are basic. Always remember: manners/social skills cost nothing to learn or teach but when they are incorporated into ones life, the rewards are invaluable and make the tapestry of life so much richer and beautiful.
A simple thank you should be so ingrained in ones psyche that it should leave the mouth almost without thinking. Remember, when one does something to help someone, a simple thank you not only shows gratitude to the person who showed kindness but helps cultivate that person to continue to do kindnesses. I'm sorry ladies, but I get so irritated when I hold a door open for a female- or even a male- and not only is there no thank you but sometimes I get an angry look. If you don't want someone to hold a door open for you, then don't pass through. Someone with their hands full and drops something. No one is required to pick it up for that person. When someone does, a smile and a thank you should be given. A phone call received from someone to see how they are doing should merit a thank you. On and on and on and on as the list of examples is endless.
Saying "you're welcome" is a nice way to acknowledge someone who said thank you which encourages the person who did the kindness to continue doing kindnesses. A smile or a nod of the head to the person who said thank you will suffice instead of the words.
In this hustle bustle life, running into people, smacking someone with their grocery cart, "accidently" jutting ahead of someone in line, burping in public, leaving a dining table to run an errand, accidently allowing a door to close on someone's face, and many etc. should always be followed by an excuse me. This to me is as important as thank you. I think having empathy and putting oneself in the "victim's shoes" will help reinforce using these two words.
One could write an entire book on this but I just wanted to hit on a few that bother me. When one is in public, be it on a bus, waiting room, etc. , talk in a low voice. No one wants to hear about how you hate someone, your sexual exploits, complaints, fighting with whoever you are talking to, etc. That, to me, is just common sense. The icing on the cake is when the person has to yell out four letter words as if they are reciting a nursery rhyme.
Do not have your face in your cell phone walking down the sidewalk oblivious to everyone else
on the sidewalk. The world does not orbit around any one single person. Sidewalks are to be shared. That means not expecting everyone else to get out of your way.
This one is pretty simple. Again, sidewalks are meant to be shared. One basically walks the same way one drives a car. Stay to the right and pass to the left, opposing "traffic" allowing. When walking in groups of two or more, the larger group need to compromise when opposing pedestrians are coming towards them by breaking formation and allowing the opposing pedestrian traffic to pass. Keeping one's face out of one's smartphone and being aware who and what is around them is self-explanatory. To expect one to move because what one is looking at on their screen is more important is beyond ignorance.
Basic Table Manners
Good social graces- manners- are a topic close to my heart. When I was younger, it was something I took for granted. It seemed most people understood and utilized common sense courtesy. There were always some people who lacked those skills but it seems in the last decade, that group of people has grown exponentially. I have always followed the basic rule that it is better to focus on the we and not the me. Showing courtesy and respect for others takes so little effort and time but it reaps great awards. I will either amend this article to add more topics or write entire articles on other aspects of manners. A good rule of thumb as I alluded to earlier is to put yourself in the other person's shoes. If you have been lacking in manners, maybe with practice, they will emerge again on their own. Thank you!
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I enjoyed your article- I have really noticed manners going down hill with the current political rhetoric.
Nice article - I too am tired of the growing lack of manners in our country. It all gies back to the way children are raised today!
Hey- great article- I'm with you - great artist-great frequent theme= ballet. I see you also wrote about Caravaggio - Will come back to read that too. Keep up the good work.
Hi- I live out in the country on a farm. I have lived here a long time. I always thought bad manners were corralled in the cities but in the last 10 years I have found some of my new neighbors and the school children more and more rude and selfish. I agree with your article - that manners are important buy unfortunately are getting worse. Thank you
I agree with you 100%. The lack of manners and respect today is terrible. I get irritated when I express a kindness and the receiving person looks at me like I am from another planet.
I look forward to reading more of your articles.
I enjoy reading your articles. I agree with you- people are ruder, angrier and less patient now. People are more courteous to their cell phones than the person sitting next to them,