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East Harlem
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|East Harlem
|Neighborhood of Manhattan
Second Avenue at 96th Street
Second Avenue at 96th Street
|United States
|New York
|New York City
|Population (2010)
|• Total
|116,000 (est.)
|• Hispanic
|• Black
|• White (non-Hispanic)
|• Asian
|• Median income
|ZIP code
|10029, 10035
|Area code(s)
|212, 917, 646
East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem and El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City roughly encompassing the area north of the Upper East Side, and East 96th Street and east of Fifth Avenue to the East and Harlem Rivers.[1] It lies within Manhattan Community District 11.[2] Despite its name, it is sometimes not considered to be a part of Harlem.[3]
The neighborhood is one of the largest predominantly Latino communities in New York City, mostly made up of Puerto Ricans, as well as a rising number of Dominican, Salvadoran and Mexican immigrants.[4] It includes the area formerly known as Italian Harlem, in which the remnants of a once predominantly Italian community remain. The Chinese population has increased dramatically in East Harlem since 2000.[5][6][7][8]
East Harlem suffers from many social issues, such as the highest jobless rate in New York City, teenage pregnancy, AIDS, drug abuse, homelessness, and an asthma rate five times the national average.[2] It has the second highest concentration of public housing in the United States, closely following Brownsville, Brooklyn.[9] The area has the highest violent crime rate in Manhattan.[10] Police services to the neighborhood are divided between the 23rd and the 25th Precincts.[11]
East Harlem is notable for its contributions to Salsa music and Hip-Hop.
- 1 History
- 2 Demographics
- 3 Transportation
- 4 Social issues
- 5 Education and medical services
- 6 Economy
- 7 Notable people
- 8 In popular culture
- 9 Gallery
- 10 References
- 11 External links
Early history
The area which became East Harlem was rural for most of the 19th century, but residential settlements northeast of Third Avenue and East 110th Street had developed by the 1860s.[12] The construction of the elevated transit line to Harlem in 1879 and 1880, and the building of the Lexington Avenue subway in 1919,[12] urbanized the area, precipitating the construction of apartment buildings and brownstones. The extension of cable cars up Lexington Avenue into East Harlem was stymied by the incline created by Duffy's Hill at 103rd Street, one of the steepest grades in Manhattan. East Harlem was first populated by poor German, Irish, Scandinavian[13] and Eastern European Jewish immigrants, with the Jewish population standing at 90,000 around 1917.[12] In the 1870s, Italian immigrants joined the mix after a contractor building trolley tracks on First Avenue imported Italian laborers as strikebreakers. The workers' shantytown along the East River at 106th Street was the beginning of an Italian neighborhood, with 4,000 having arrived by the mid 1880s. As more immigrants arrived, it expanded north to East 115th Street and west to Third Avenue.[14]
East Harlem now consisted of pockets of ethnically-sorted settlements – Italian, German, Irish and Jewish – which were beginning to press up against each other, with the spaces still between them occupied by "gasworks, stockyards and tar and garbage dumps".[14] In 1895, Union Settlement Association, one of the oldest settlement houses in New York City, began providing services in the area, offering the immigrant and low-income residents a range of community-based programs, including boys and girls clubs, a sewing school and adult education classes.
Italian Harlem
Southern Italians and Sicilians, with a moderate number of Northern Italians, soon predominated, especially in the area east of Lexington Avenue between 96th and 116th Streets and east of Madison Avenue between 116th and 125th Streets, with each street featuring people from different regions of Italy. The neighborhood became known as "Italian Harlem", the Italian American hub of Manhattan; it was the first part of Manhattan to be referred to as "Little Italy".[15] The first Italians arrived in East Harlem in 1878, from Polla in the province of Salerno, and settled in the vicinity of 115th Street.[16]
There were many crime syndicates in Italian Harlem from the early Black Hand to the bigger and more organized Italian gangs that formed the Italian-American Mafia. It was the founding location of the Genovese crime family, one of the Five Families that dominated organized crime in New York City.[17] This includes the current 116th Street Crew of the Genovese family. During the 1970s, Italian East Harlem was also home to the Italian-American drug gang and murder-for-hire crew known as the East Harlem Purple Gang.
In the 1920s and early 1930s, Italian Harlem was represented in Congress by future Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, and later by Italian-American socialist Vito Marcantonio. The Italian neighborhood approached its peak in the 1930s, with over 100,000 Italian-Americans living in its crowded, run-down apartment buildings.[18] The 1930 census showed that 81 percent of the population of Italian Harlem consisted of first- or second-generation Italian Americans. (Somewhat less than the concentration of Italian Americans in the Lower East Side's Little Italy with 88 percent; Italian Harlem's total population, however, was three times that of Little Italy.)[16]
Though small, Italian Harlem culture is still kept alive by the Giglio Society of East Harlem. Every year on the second weekend of August, the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the "Dancing of the Giglio" is performed while thousands of visitors and onlookers celebrate the once largest Italian community in New York City. Pleasant Avenue remains the center of the remaining Italian-American population, and the street is home to the famous Italian restaurant Rao's.
Spanish Harlem
Puerto Rican and Latin American immigration after the First World War[19] established an enclave at the western portion of East Harlem – around 110th Street and Lexington Avenue – which became known as "Spanish Harlem". The area slowly grew to encompass all of East Harlem, including Italian Harlem, as Italians moved out – to the Bronx, Brooklyn, upstate New York and New Jersey – and Hispanics moved in during another wave of immigration in the 1940s and 1950s.[12] Although in certain areas, particularly around Pleasant Avenue, Italian Harlem lasted through the 1970s,[20] today most of the former Italian population is gone. Most of these predominantly older residents are clustered around Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, mainly from 114th to 118th Streets. According to the 2000 Census, there were only 1,130 Italian-Americans still living in this area.[21]
Still, vestiges of the old Italian neighborhood remain. The annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the "Dancing of the Giglio", the first Italian feast in New York City, is still celebrated there every year on the second weekend of August by the Giglio Society of East Harlem. Italian retail establishments still exist, such as Rao's restaurant, started in 1896, and the original Patsy's Pizzeria which opened in the 1933. In May 2011, one of the last remaining Italian retail businesses in the neighborhood, a barbershop owned by Claudio Caponigro on 116th Street, was threatened with closure by a rent increase.[20]
The newly dominant Puerto Rican population, which reached 63,000 in 1950, continued to define the neighborhood according to its needs, establishing bodegas and botánicas as it expanded; by the 1930s[19] there was already an enclosed street market underneath the Park Avenue railroad viaduct between 111th and 116th Streets, called "La Marqueta" ("The Market").[12] Catholic and evangelistic Protestant churches appeared in storefronts.[12] Although "Spanish Harlem" had been in use since at least the 1930s to describe the Hispanic enclave – along with "Italian Harlem" and "Negro Harlem"[22] – around the 1950s the name began to be used to describe the entire East Harlem neighborhood. Later, the name "El Barrio" ("The Neighborhood") began to be used, especially by inhabitants of the area.
In the 1950s and 1960s, large sections of East Harlem were leveled for urban renewal projects, and the neighborhood was one of the hardest hit areas in the 1960s and 1970s as New York City struggled with deficits, race riots, urban flight, gang warfare, drug abuse, crime and poverty. Tenements were crowded, poorly maintained, and frequent targets for arson. In 1969 and 1970, a regional chapter of the Young Lords which were reorganized from a neighborhood street gang in Chicago by Jose (Cha-Cha) Jimenez, ran several programs including a Free Breakfast for Children and a Free Health Clinic to help Latino and poor families. The Young Lords came together with the Black Panthers and called for Puerto Rican independence and neighborhood empowerment. Still, as of the early 2000s, the Latin Kings gang was still prevalent in East Harlem.
Recent history
By the beginning of the 21st century, East Harlem was a racially diverse neighborhood, with about a third of the population being Puerto Rican.[12] As it has been throughout its history, it is predominantly a working-class neighborhood.[13]
Until 2006, property values in East Harlem climbed along with those in the rest of New York City. With increased market rate housing, including luxury condos and co-ops, most built on formerly vacant lots, there has been some decline of affordable housing in the community. A number of young professionals have settled into these recently constructed buildings. This influx of "yuppies" has caused rents to rise, more buildings in the area to get gut renovations and is changing area demographics.[23]
On March 12, 2014 at 9:00 EDT, a large explosion and fire at 1644–1646 Park Avenue killed at least eight people and injured more than 70.[24][25]
Manhattan Community District 11, which covers East Harlem in its entirety, is a mostly low and moderate income area. It is made up of first and second generation Puerto Ricans, African-Americans, Asians, West Indians, and a growing population of Mexicans, Dominicans, Salvadorans, and other Central American immigrants.
It has one of the highest concentrations of Puerto Ricans in all of New York City. In the 2000 Census, 52.1% District describe themselves as of Hispanic origin, 35.7 as non-Hispanic black, 7.3 as non-Hispanic white, 2.7 Asian and Pacific Islander Nonhispanic, 1.7% as Two or more Races non-Hispanic, and 0.5% as other. By New York City averages, the youth makes up a larger than normal percentage of the East Harlem population with 30.6% of residents age 18 or younger.[2]
93.6% of all housing units are renter occupied, and over 25% of the population resides in public housing units managed by the NYCHA. 46.5 percent of the population receive a form of income support by the government.[2]
According to a 2010 study, the number of Asians in East Harlem nearly tripled between 2000 and 2010, largely due to Chinese people moving to East Harlem. Increasing rents in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown have driven many into public and subsidized housing developments in the neighborhood. Advocates have been calling for Chinese language services to be available in the community centers to accommodate the growing number of Chinese residents in the area. In 2000, the Chinese population in the northern portion was less than one percent, but by 2010, it has gone up to being three percent in the area. In the southern part, it rose from 4.6% to 8.4%.[26][27][28]
As of 2010, the Puerto Rican population was 27.7% in zip code 10029,[29] and 23.4% in 10035. 10035 also has a large Mexican population, at 10.7%.[30]
The Harlem River separates the Bronx and Manhattan, necessitating several spans between the two New York City boroughs. In East Harlem, the Wards Island Bridge, also known as the 103rd Street Footbridge, connects Manhattan with Wards Island. The Triboro Bridge is a complex of three separate bridges that offers connections between Queens, Manhattan (Harlem), and the Bronx.[31]
Public transportation service is provided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. This includes the New York City Subway—the IRT Lexington Avenue Line (4 5 6 <6> trains) at 125th Street—and MTA Regional Bus Operations, as well as the Metro-North Harlem – 125th Street commuter rail station, connecting to Westchester County and Connecticut. Some local bus Bronx routes also serve Manhattan, to provide customers with access to both boroughs.[32]
Social issues
Social problems, including poverty, crime, and drug addiction, have plagued the area since the 1970s. Although crime rates have dropped from the historically high numbers of the past, East Harlem suffers from Manhattan's highest violent crime rate, with 15 murders in 2011.[33]
East Harlem has the highest concentration of shelters and facilities in Manhattan, with eight homeless shelters, 36 drug and alcohol treatment facilities and 37 mental health treatment facilities. It also has the highest jobless rate in the entire city, as well as the city's second highest cumulative AIDS rate. The asthma rate is also 5 times larger than national levels.[2] The neighborhood also suffers from a high poverty rate.[34] Union Settlement Association is one of the neighborhood's largest social service agencies, reaching more than 13,000 people annually at 17 locations throughout East Harlem, through a range of programs, including early childhood education, youth development, senior services, job training, the arts, adult education, nutrition, counseling, a farmers' market, community development, and neighborhood cultural events.
Fresh food
A lack of access to healthy food causes serious hardships to citizens of East Harlem, a neighborhood which is considered to be a food desert. According to an April 2008 report prepared by the New York City Department of City Planning, East Harlem is an area of the city with the highest levels of diet-related diseases due to limited opportunities for citizens to purchase fresh foods.[35]
With a high population density and a lack of nearby supermarkets, the neighborhood has little access to fresh fruit and vegetables and a low consumption of fresh foods. Citizens of East Harlem are likely to buy food from grocery stores that have a limited supply of fruits and vegetables, which are often of poor quality and generally more expensive than the same products sold at supermarkets. Compared to the Upper East Side, supermarkets in Harlem are 30% less common.[36] Without access to affordable produce and meats, East Harlem residents have difficulty eating a healthy diet, which contributes to high rates of obesity and diabetes.[37]
In 2011, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer announced a program which would send Veggie Vans to East Harlem senior centers and housing projects.[38] In 2012, Whole Foods announced two uptown locations, one being on 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, the other in the Upper East Side.[39] In 2010, Aldi's Grocery opened at the East River Plaza [40] located at E. 117th St. and FDR Drive, providing more jobs and access to affordable food for East Harlem's residents. In 2013, a new Super FI Emperior Grocery store opened up in East Harlem on 103rd Street and Lexington Avenue.[41]
East Harlem is dominated by public housing complexes of various types, with a high concentration of older tenement buildings between these developments. The neighborhood contains the highest geographical concentration of low income public housing projects in the United States. The total land area is Script error: No such module "convert"..[42][43]
After a wave of arson ravaged the low income communities of New York City throughout the 1970s, many of the residential structures in East Harlem were left seriously damaged or destroyed. By the late 1970s, the city began to rehabilitate many abandoned tenement style buildings and designate them as low income housing.
Despite recent gentrification of the neighborhood, large numbers of apartment buildings have been deliberately kept vacant by their owners. Although the businesses on the ground floor are retained, landlords do not want to have the trouble involved in residential tenants. In some cases, landlords are waiting for a revived economy, warehousing the apartments so that they can rent them later at a higher rent.[44]
In 2007, a survey of Manhattan's buildings found that 1,723 were significantly vacant, three-quarters of them north of 96th Street. A 1998 survey found that one-quarter of low-rise residential buildings on avenues or major cross streets in East Harlem had sealed-up residential floors, despite having commercial businesses on the ground floor.[44]
Public housing projects
There are twenty-four New York City Housing Authority developments located in East Harlem.[45]
- 335 East 111th Street; one, 6-story building.
- East 120th Street Rehab; one, 6-story rehabilitated tenement building.
- East River Houses; ten buildings, 6, 10 and 11-stories tall.
- Edward Corsi Houses; one, 16-story building.
- Gaylord White Houses; one, 20-story building.
- George Washington Carver Houses; 13 buildings, 6 and 15-stories tall.
- Governor Dewitt Clinton Houses; six buildings, 9 and 18-stories tall.
- Jackie Robinson Houses; one, 8-story building.
- James Weldon Johnson Houses; ten, 14-story buildings.
- Lehman Village; four, 20-story buildings.
- Lexington Houses; four, 14-story buildings.
- Metro North Plaza; three buildings, 7, 8, and 11-stories tall.
- Metro North Rehab; seventeen, 6-story rehabilitated tenement buildings.
- Milbank-Frawley; two rehabilitated tenement buildings 5 and 6-stories tall.
- Morris Park Senior Citizens Home; one, 9-story rehabilitated building.
- Park Avenue-East 122nd, 123rd Streets; two, 6-story buildings.
- President Abraham Lincoln; fourteen buildings, 6 and 14-stories tall.
- President George Washington Houses; fourteen buildings, 12 and 14-stories tall.
- President Thomas Jefferson Houses; eighteen buildings, 7, 13 and 14-stories tall.
- President Woodrow Wilson Houses; three, 20-story buildings.
- Senator Robert A. Taft; nine, 19-story buildings.
- Robert F. Wagner Houses; twenty-two buildings, 7 and 16-stories tall.
- U.P.A.C.A. (Upper Park Avenue Community Association) Site 6; one, 12-story building.
- U.P.A.C.A. (Upper Park Avenue Community Association) U.R.A. Site 5; one, 11-story building.
Other subsidized housing include:
- Taino Towers – East 122nd Street and Third Avenue. Four 35-story towers, 656 apartments. Opened 1979.[46]
Education and medical services
The schools in East Harlem are generally characterized by low test scores and high drop-out and truancy rates.[47] As in other parts of the city, some schools require students pass through metal detectors and swipe ID cards to enter school buildings.[48] Nevertheless, since 1982 the community has been home to the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics,[49] which replaced Benjamin Franklin High School, a school which had the smallest graduating class in the city at the time of its closing.[50]
Among the public charter schools in East Harlem are Success Academy Harlem 2 of Success Academy Charter Schools, the Harlem Village Academy, East Harlem Scholars Academies, and the DREAM Charter School.
Major medical care providers in the East Harlem area include Metropolitan Hospital Center and Mount Sinai Hospital, which serve residents of East Harlem and the Upper East Side. North General Hospital, which formerly served the area as well, is now closed. Many of the graduates of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai do local public health work, including work on asthma, diabetes, unsafe drinking water, lead paint and infectious diseases.
The neighborhood is home to one of the few major television studios north of midtown, Metropolis at 106th Street and Park Avenue, where shows such as BET's 106 & Park and Chappelle's Show have been produced. PRdream.com, a web site on the history and culture of Puerto Ricans, founded a media gallery and digital film studio called MediaNoche in 2003. It presents technology-based art on Park Avenue and 102nd Street, providing exhibition space and residencies for artists and filmmakers, and webcasting events.
Notable people
In popular culture
Music and music video
- Ben E. King's song, "Spanish Harlem" (1961)
- Bob Dylan's song "Spanish Harlem Incident" from his album Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
- Phil Ochs' song "Lou Marsh" from his album All the News That's Fit to Sing (1964)
- The Mamas & the Papas cover of the Ben E. King song, "Spanish Harlem" (1966)
- Louie Ramirez's song "Lucy's Spanish Harlem" from his album In the Heart of Spanish Harlem (1967)
- Elton John's "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" from Honky Château (1972)
- Frankie Cutlass's "Puerto Rico" music video was shot in Spanish Harlem (1994)
- Paul Simon's song "Adios Hermanos" from his album Songs from the Capeman (1997)
- Carlos Santana's songs "Maria Maria" and "Smooth" from his album Supernatural (1999)
- Jay-Z's "Death of Autotune" music video was shot inside Rao's Italian restaurant (2009)
- ASAP Rocky's "Peso" music video features footage of East Harlem (2011)
- Beirut's song, "East Harlem" (2011)
- Cocoa Brovaz, Tony Touch & Hurricane G's song, "Spanish Harlem" (1997)
- Patricia Cayo Sexton's book Spanish Harlem: Anatomy of Poverty (1965)
- Piri Thomas's memoir Down These Mean Streets (1967)
- Salvatore Mondello's novel A Sicilian in East Harlem (2005)
- Nora Roberts's novel Salvation in Death (2008)
- Ernesto Quiñonez's novels, Bodega Dreams (2000) and Chango's Fire (2005)
- Nelson Denis's film Vote For Me! (2003)
- Arthur Hiller's film Popi (1969)
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Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center, formerly P.S. 72
(1680 Lexington Ave.)
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El Museo del Barrio
(1230 Fifth Ave.)
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Tunnels through the Metro-North viaduct
(Park Avenue and 105th St.)
- 28th Precinct Hope Community Hall 177 East 104th Street from east.jpg
Hope Community Hall, formerly the 28th Precinct Station house
(177 East 103rd St.)
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New York Public Library 125th St. Branch
(224 East 125th St.)
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All Saints Roman Catholic Church
(47 East 129th St.)
- Church of the Living Hope 161 East 104th Street.jpg
Church of the Living Hope
(161 East 104th St.)
- Greater emmanuel Baptist Ch Harlem jeh.jpg
Greater Emmanuel Baptist Church
(325 East 118th St.)
- Hellenic Orthodox Church of Sts. George and Demetrios.jpg
Hellenic Orthodox Church of Sts. George and Demetrios
(140 East 103rd St.)
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Further reading
- Araujo, Richard, (5/3/03), Comedia Politica desde El Barrio, El Nuevo Dia
- Bell, Christopher East Harlem Remembered McFarland Publishing. 2013
- Bell, Christopher Images of America: East Harlem . Arcadia Publishing. 2003
- Bell, Christopher Images of America: East Harlem Revisited. Arcadia Publishing. 2010
- Bourgois, Philippe. In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1995 (2002)
- Cayo-Sexton, Patricia. 1965. Spanish Harlem: An Anatomy of Poverty. New York: Harper and Row.
- Davila, Arlene. Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and the Neoliberal City. University of California Press. 2004
- Jennings, James, and Monte Rivera (eds.) (1984). Puerto Rican Politics in Urban America (Westport: Greenwood Press).
- Mencher, Joan. 1989. Growing Up in Eastville, a Barrio of New York. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Moreno Vega, Marta (2004). When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in El Barrio (New York: Three Rivers Press).
- Navarro, Mireya, (2003-5-6). Smile, You're on Candidate Camera: With an Insider's Eye, a Film Skewers Harlem Politics, The New York Times
- Padilla, Elena. 1992. Up From Puerto Rico. New York: Columbia University Press.
- Quiñonez, Ernesto. Bodega Dreams. Random House (Vintage). 2000
- Salas, Leonardo. "From San Juan to New York: The History of the Puerto Rican". America: History and Life. 31 (1990).
- Thomas, Piri. Down These Mean Streets. Random House (Vintage). 1967
- Wakefield, Dan. Island in the City: The World of Spanish Harlem (1959)
- Zentella, Ana Celia (1997). Growing Up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York (Blackwell Publishers).
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CLIFTON, VA. -- In an astonishing brand reversal, KFC is about to stake its future on a red-hot concept that might have caused Colonel Sanders, himself, to see red: boneless chicken.
KFC, the chicken kingpin desperately in search of a new identity, on Friday, will announce plans to roll out Original Recipe Boneless – a chicken platform that executives insist may be the brand's most important step forward since it was founded more than 60 years ago.
The risky move, three years in the making, is KFC's very public admission that its core product -- a big bucket filled with fried chicken legs, thighs and breasts on the bone -- may ultimately be banished to the dust-heap of fast-food lore. Replacing it: boneless white and dark meat chicken chunks about twice the size of tenders -- but still deep-fried with the same super-secret herbs and spices. The target: an ultra-finicky generation of Millennials.
"This is the biggest new product introduction for KFC in modern times," says John Cywinski, 50, the former McDonald's brand strategist, who has been U.S. president of KFC for two years. USA TODAY was invited behind the scenes for one day at a nondescript, free-standing KFC store at a suburban strip mall, where the new chicken line was being tested for the day. "This will be one of the great American turnaround stories," says Cywinski.
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The national roll-out of Original Recipe Boneless, set to take place April 14, comes at a time the $200 billion fast-food industry is in turmoil, even as it emerges from the economic downturn. Fast-casual chains such as Panera and Chipotle have snatched serious market share, and much-improved supermarket take-out sections have lured away customers. At the same time, the cultural cry for a healthier and more nutritious lifestyle has left heritage chains such as KFC hobbling – if not crippled.
KFC, which has 17,000 restaurants globally, including 4,400 in the U.S., also has a timing problem: Most folks prefer to go there for dinner, not lunch -- yet, the fast food industry's mainstay is lunch. Just as crucial, the societal demand for the kind of convenience that lets folks drive with one hand while gobbling lunch with the other, has left KFC scrambling to create one-fisted foods that don't leave bones and gristle falling in customer laps.
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During the roll-out, a two-piece meal with a side, biscuit and drink will sell for $4.99. To get on-the-bone chicken lovers accustomed to off-the-bone chicken, it also will sell a 10 piece bucket -- six pieces on the bone and four pieces off the bone -- for $14.99
To get the word out, KFC is about to unleash one of its biggest-ever marketing campaigns with this stop-you-in-your-tracks tag line: "I ate the bones." In TV spots created by KFC's ad agency, DraftFCB Chicago, customers who buy and eat the new boneless line will be depicted, in sudden panic, as if they'd just swallowed whole chicken bones.
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Executives hope the phrase will instantly go viral and become a pop-cultural obsession, reminiscent of Wendy's old charmer of a slogan, "Where's the beef?"
The chain that's long been the butt of late-night comic jabs, is eagerly entering the 21st century. It's pondering a produce-rich sandwich line next year (maybe a wrap), and soups, salads, perhaps even smoothies, the year after that. No one's ready to call it a better-for-you fast-food joint, but KFC has no choice but to enter the brave new world of boneless. About six in 10 consumers prefer chicken without bones, reports Technomic, the research firm.
"Our Holy Grail is chicken on the bone," says marketing chief Jason Marker. "We are taking our hero product and drastically changing it."
Most Millennials don't know that chicken has bones in it, half-jests Marker.
That's partially thanks to McDonald's Chicken McNuggets and Chick-fil-A, the wildly successful, chicken off-the-bone chain with strong Southern roots that surpassed KFC in annual U.S. sales last year and emerged as the nation's biggest fast-food chicken chain.
Cywinski says he can apply to KFC the same sort of turnaround plan that successfully helped reinvent a struggling McDonald's nearly two decades ago.
"It won't happen overnight, but we will transform how people think about the brand," says Cywinski. While recently struggling in the crucial China market, KFC already appears to be in a mini-turnaroundm along with much of the fast food industry in the U.S., where KFC's same-store sales were up about 4% last year, says Cywinski.
But there are skeptics. Among them, Robert Passikoff, president of Brand Keys, a researcher that measures consumer loyalty. It found that even KFC's best customers only rate the brand as average, scoring a 76 out of 100 ranking. By comparison, Subway's best customers ranked the brand at 95 out of 100.
"KFC is a brand with a lot of baggage," says Passikoff. "You walk by the place, and it may smell good, but you just know it's not good for you."
But Ron Paul, president of Technomic, thinks KFC may finally be on the right course. "The idea of going to get the family a bucket of chicken from KFC is so 1950s," says Paul. "Sunday dinner with a bucket of KFC just doesn't work anymore."
While KFC isn't kicking the bucket, it will certainly de-emphasize it. Going forward, the brand will focus on individual meals made with boneless chicken.
At least one customer gives it a thumbs-up. Virginia Massie, a 24-year-old stay-at-home mom from Charlottesville, Va., with kids ages two, three and five, stopped in the Clifton store that was handing out free plates of the boneless chicken. Her kids scarfed it down, and she says that she likes not having to worry about bones -- even though the new boneless offerings cost about 25 cents more per piece.
"I don't mind paying more for some more convenience," she says. "I choose my battles."
That sentiment was echoed by 20-year-old Walter Perez, a Centreville, Va., resident and student. "It's less work for me and less messy," he says. "I'd buy it."
This isn't where KFC stops, but where it starts.
The brand plan will replace the current chicken fillet in its chicken sandwiches with boneless.By next year, says Cywinski, KFC will begin to roll out an expanded line of chicken sandwiches. A wrap version, with lettuce and tomato, is currently in testing, too. KFC will stop rolling out new chicken products on the bone.
Within five years, chicken on the bone products of all kinds may ultimately disappear from KFC, says Cywinski. "Our consumers will decide that."
What would Colonel Sanders say? That might depend on who you ask.
Many Millennials don't realize that KFC's founder, Colonel Harland David Sanders, was a real, honest-to-goodness person. "The guy with the goatee -- I thought he was made up," says Eduardo Baralt, a 19-year-old student from Centreville. "You gotta be kidding."
Nope. He was real, all right. And if The Colonel were here today, insists Cywinski, "this is exactly what he'd do."
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July 11, 2008, 06:50:59 PM »
Probably a silly question, but I picked this up & figured it was Czech...a tiny little metal tag on what I think might be Nickel silver was attached & it says "Made in Germany". Would this be one of those deals where its Bohemian/Czech, but still was considered Germany? I think its 30's era. Thanks, Ken
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Sorry to disappoint you but we're probably looking at a contemporary Moroccan item here - no idea what a made in Germany label would be doing there...
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Thank you for your opinion Ivo. Forgive me. however I respectfully disagree, 100% as a matter of fact. Not to say that you may not have seen something like this that was contemporary Moroccan, however this isn't Moroccan, but again in all fairness you are not able to examine it in person. The shape & obvious color is Czech, multiple examples of the shape can be found in Robt. Truitt's Bohemian Glass. Actually quite common color for them with typical ground rim. I do have some small experience in glass (34 years) & am not a complete dolt although granted its mainly US glass & although I am not an author I am mentioned as a contributor in a couple of glass references, again US references. As for why a "Made in Germany", metal tag (not a label) is on the piece, well since Nickel Silver is commonly known as German Silver (since it was developed in Germany over 200 years ago) & this is Nickel Silver with your typical silver loss associated with years of ill care/neglect. No suprises that it has a German tag, just thought it interesting. The tiny tag by the way is quite firmly attached by pinching two protrusions under the vining. I was looking into German/Czech relationship since Czechoslovakia was in fact formed within confines of Bohemia & bordered by Germany & simply thought it interesting. In retrospect it was a meaningless question that was not worth posting. Regards (as the British say) Ken
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Is the woven stuff metal, is that what you mean? Wow.
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Yes Kristi its typical German Silver copper, zinc & nickel combo. This one shows the silverish/goldish toning when the finish is pretty much on its last legs. Found out its called a cage vase (although from a US source so it probably won't count) & a dealer swears this one was pictured in one of Heacock's Glass Digest monthly mags back in the early mid-80's. Fitting my post is to you as you are the patient, scholarly one. I'm headed back home...simply tired of the condescending right or wrong, my way or the highway answers although 99% of the folks here are simply teriffic. Adiós....Ken
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That is a very bizarre reaction to say the very least. You want the piece to be something which it isn't and seem to think Czechoslovakia was part of Germany. Not so. Then you want it to be old, which it is not, citing Truitt and NS wire alloy. :huh: Then you identify it as a product from the eighties - which would be correct - but you miss the Moroccan connection. Metal weave around glass and pottery is a traditional Moroccan craft, so one one of the decorator companies did a line of moroccan inspired vases. And even in the eighties he would have been wise to have them assembled in Morocco. That's all there is to it and there is no reason at all to get worked up.
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No idea on the origins of this piece but Morocco seems to pop up a lot as a low-cost location of decorating companies, many French owned and back to 1900 at least. Equally, a lot of German companies owned glassworks in Czechoslovakia until WW2 a side effect of which that as the Germans got kicked out at the end of the war a lot of documentation was destroyed.
With blanks and other aspects of technology, such as nickel silver, being exported that does only leave a knowledge of the end products as often the only means of identifying where the finished product was produced. This for Europe is certainly one of Ivo's most impressive strengths. Decorating companies always have sourced based on cost and it is possible that a German company commissioned these and tagged as German made. Similar things are reported going on in Murano too. So the glass could come from Czechoslovakia, or elsewhere, the wire could come from Germany. Using such a tag makes a lot of sense on a metal covered product, paper labels would be very temporary. Metal can decay very quickly if not stored in ideal conditions.
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"since Czechoslovakia was in fact formed within confines of Bohemia & bordered by Germany"...no Ivo I do not believe I stated that Czechoslovakia was part of Germany anywhere in my last post, but if you choose to interpret it as such so be it. Maybe its another of those US-European verbage deals. Heacock's Glass Digests were published 1987-91 until his passing & dealt primarily with glass from 1800 to the mid-1950's, but you may not be aware of that fact since it was a US publication. I was citing the publication & a source that I'll have to review since I have two suggestions that the piece appeared there. I did not identify it as a product from the eighties, I was speaking of the magazine's date as a search resource, but again it may be another verbage deals. Frank's explanation does help though as we too had decorating companies here in the US that acquired blanks & either returned them to the original manufacture or retailed the finished product themselves. What provoked my response was your comment "contemporary". Now I see you've added "Metal weave around glass and pottery is a traditional Moroccan craft, so one one of the decorator companies did a line of moroccan inspired vases." Now if metal weave is a traditional Moroccan craft" when did this start? In the 1980's? or has this been going on for let's say a century or more? Is it improbable/impossible to imagine that a German concern supplied the NS, a Czech concern supplied the blank & a Moroccan firm did the decoration even in the 1930's & either marketed it themselves or returned the finished product to either the German or Czech firms for retail? or does it have to be exclusively the 1980's because that's the only documentation you've found? Although this may not be surprising since the extensive loss of written information destroyed in WWII. Ivo my response was predicated on what I viewed as your initial response being as we Americans say "a little quick on the trigger" with the word "contemporary". Now if you meant that this practice (Moroccan wire weave decorating of glass) has gone on for decades & is ongoing even today then it become a different matter. One of the things we embrace over here is never say never when it comes to glass, but granted that's over here. Perhaps these are legitimate questions, perhaps not. Ken
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Just a thought - wouldn't the fact that the tag says "Germany" mean it was produced before 1949 or after 1990?
Ivo, do you mean to say the glass was made in Morocco, too? In your first post that's the way it sounds; in your second it sounds more like the metal work was "outsourced." Is it possible German companies had Moroccans trained in this type of decoration working for them? Seems a long way to send a glass vase!
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When you warm yo Hot Pockets up on 4 minutes and bite into a part that's still cold pic.twitter.com/uMDx7HCvMx
— (@iAintEemDoNun) February 8, 2014
There is, unfortunately, no way to know if these people survived their unfortunate choice of semi-cooked frozen food made from dead animals described by the USDA as "diseased and unsound."
Hot pockets. Cause it's 3:45 AM and I'm stoned
— (@StonedWonka) February 11, 2014
What does "unsound" even mean in the context of industrially raised animals that live their entire short lives in unfathomable horror? And is "Stoned Wonka" now more accurately described as "Dead Wonka"?
since I can't be with ty tonight I guess hot pockets are a good replacement ������ pic.twitter.com/iS9Xkxz9GK
— Chewbacca (@carolyn_rosiie) February 15, 2014
Another young victim. The question is whether or not she survived.
Hot Pockets should come w/ a warning:"Take a bite w/in 10 min of being cooked & fire will reign down from the depths of hell on your mouth"
— Derek Tyson (@DerekTysonESPN) January 25, 2014
Here's another idea for a warning: "May be stuffed with rotten and diseased flesh from animals that collapsed and died in a pool of their own vomit and feces."
Put Molly in her hot pockets, she ain't even know it
— (@69hunna) January 12, 2014
Eating a Hot Pocket dosed with powerful mind drugs is only one of the risks involved with eating the diseased bits of animals that were tortured to death in factories.
all you really need in life to be happy is hot pockets & Netflix
— ♡rachael♡ (@rads0ul) January 6, 2014
Just Netflix and Hot Pockets, that's all anyone needs. And burial insurance. Did you know burial insurance can be purchased online, probably! But people who are actually proud of eating Hot Pockets are the kind of people most likely to be dumped in the trash after they die.
A great cost saving gift is to buy a 12 pack of Hot Pockets then individually gift wrap each one to the 12 people you love the most.
— Brent (@Brentweets) December 18, 2013
"Love" in this context is "wanting you to die of food poisoning."
making some hot pockets b4 bed!(: pic.twitter.com/wYFjjDkMuy
— ◎◎◎ (@localplant) December 8, 2013
Granite countertops. The 1950s had rockabilly, the '60s had the Black Panthers, the '70s had punk, the '80s had The Smiths, and the interminable period between the late 1990s and today has granite countertops. Also what is that, a diseased intestine escaping the Hot Pocket in the microwave?
Thanks to the World's best Twitter account for inspiring this post, which we hope will inspire you to be a better person who doesn't eat vile garbage such as Hot Pockets. Top image by Jim Cooke, who can't stop putting skulls on my posts.


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Japanese tuning company DAMD, under its Ancel brand, created the ultimate expression of automotive girlishness using the simply darling Mitsubishi i as the subject. Stopping short of covering it in scented Strawberry Shortcake stickers, the company went with an ambrosial pink-on-pink color scheme, and installed a beauty kit in the glove compartment. As Nihon Car and Bike posts, "It's clear that colour has been used to seduce ladies either on the outside and on the inside, also you really feel like Louis XVI (or his wife) in the pink seats..." Of course... The Ancel guys are going for the combined girl/fop market. We heard about that on "60 Minutes."
Pimp my Mitsubishi i by Ancel [Nihon Car and Bike]
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I received questions about kimono for small felt doll.
So I show how to make.
Pattern is on this page (I improved it a little).
Sew up the middle of the back from inside.
Sew sleeve (A to B) from outside. I used blanket stitch.
Sew the side (D to E).
Unsew B to C to D.
If you make boy's kimono, sew B to C and C to D. It is a rule. You may ignore.
Sew the collar to the bodice. Overlap 1 or 2 millimetres.
Obi is 1.5 × 32 centimetres. You may use a ribbon.
Aug 21, 2010
Mini kimono
I received questions about kimono for small felt doll.
Aug 20, 2010
Origami rose
This is famous Kawasaki Rose designed by Dr. Toshikazu Kawasaki.
A flower is made with a square sheet of paper without cutting.
The process is too complicated to explain.
White rose and rosebud.
These are Fukuyama Rose.
It is easier than Kawasaki Rose but still difficult.
Fukuyama rose folded with cloth.
This is a Rosebud Cube designed by Mr. Kunihiko Kasahara.
It's only a cube but difficult.
Origami is easy and abstruse paper craft.
If you have interest, you may find how to make by search.


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Baseball Digest is the oldest baseball magazine in the US, currently published 6 times a year. They are trying to expand their on-line presence, which includes content different from what appears in the magazine. Thanks in advance for reading.
Back to the Padres. Since the news came out a week ago, on the day before Thanksgiving, I missed it, but it included some of the news we've been waiting for. San Diego offered arbitration to Heath Bell and Aaron Harang.
The Bell decision has been discussed ad nauseaum both here and on other forums. Based on how the closer market has initially played out (see the contract offer to Ryan Madson and contract signed by Jonathan Papelbon), Bell will likely make around $10M to pitch in 2012 regardless of where he toils. For a Padres team likely to not have a payroll north of $50M, his salary represents at least 20% of the total team payroll. That is a lot - especially considering he will throw less than 80 innings next season.
From a PR perspective the Padres were forced to offer arbitration to Bell. He is the biggest name draw currently on the roster. He has previously stated he wants to pitch here and the Padres can use all the good PR they can get. From a practical perspective, because of their limited financial assets this team has to build through the draft, and getting the 2 compensation picks for Bell is a must. Now the team has to hope he both does not sign a free-agent deal with someone else before 9 December and declines arbitration, so they get those picks.
Which brings us to Harang. Did you know he was a Type B free agent? He led the Padres in wins but was only worth 0.6 WAR according to Fangraphs (1.9 by Baseball Reference). This arbitration offer is really interesting to me, but from a social perspective vice a baseball one. Recall that the Padres held a mutual option on Harang for 2012, at $5M. Aaron wanted to return but San Diego declined to pick up his option. Now they've offered him arbitration.
So basically what they're saying is, 'We wouldn't mind having you back, but we think you're worth less than $5M, and what we really want is the draft pick.' I'd have loved to be a fly-on-the-wall for the conversation between GM Josh Byrnes and Harang's agent. Can you even have that discussion without insulting the player? The poetic-justice outcome here would be for Harang to accept arbitration and get a pay bump north of the $5M he was to have received if the option had been honored.
Heath Bell's contract resolution will be more extensively covered, but I for one can't wait to see how Harang's arbitration case plays out.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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Miami Heat
Miami Heat's Pat Riley courts prospects amid report LeBron James' agent met with four teams
Amid news that LeBron James' agent has been listening to pitches from several teams, the pressure has escalated for Miami Heat president Pat Riley, who — along with coach Erik Spoelstra — is meeting with center Pau Gasol and others in Los Angeles, hoping to convince a high-end free agent to take considerably less money to sign with Miami.
Problem is, James to this point hasn't made a commitment to return to the Heat, and his agent, Rich Paul, this week met with at least four teams (Phoenix, Houston, Dallas and Cleveland), according to ESPN, which also reported that Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak is flying to Cleveland to meet with Paul. Yahoo! said Houston was not granted a meeting, spoke to Paul by phone and has moved on.
Yahoo! reported that Paul suggested to Cleveland, Dallas and Phoenix that they might be brought back to Cleveland to meet with James next week if Riley doesn't quickly improve the Heat's roster. James was on vacation this week and did not meet with any teams.
The Heat expects that James will re-sign. An associate of James said Thursday he still sees the Heat as the clear favorite to sign James but that James "is weighing all his options" and wants upgrades to the Heat roster. If Riley cannot lure a high-end free agent such as Gasol or Trevor Ariza or Luol Deng, the Heat instead will focus on adding several reasonably priced players.
The Heat's cap space is projected to be substantially less than the $12 million cited in one national report. If Chris Bosh accepts a first-year salary of $15 million and Dwyane Wade $13 million, the Heat would have in the range of $6 million to $7 million in space, if James signs at the maximum $20.7 million.
Miami also would have a $2.7 million "room" exception in this scenario.
Unless the Heat can convince one of the pricey free agents to take considerably less than market value, the Heat might be better served by operating as a capped-out team.
Under that scenario, the Heat could not use cap space but could use a $5.3 million midlevel exception, a $2.2 million trade exception and a $2 million bi-annual exception and also preserve Bird Rights to re-sign its own free agents, which would allow Miami to give raises to Ray Allen (who earned $3.2 million last season) and Chris Andersen ($1.4 million).
The Heat has strong interest in adding one or two veteran wing players. Among free agents that Miami has reached out to: New Orleans' Anthony Morrow (8.4 points, 45.1 percent three-point shooting last season); Oklahoma City's Caron Butler (10.5, 39.4) and Utah's Marvin Williams (9.1 points, 35.9 percent).
Other affordable wing players potentially in play include Alan Anderson, Shawn Marion, Jordan Hamilton and restricted free agent P.J. Tucker. The Heat and Nick Young's agent also had a preliminary conversation. The Heat so far has not pursued Dallas free agent Vince Carter beyond an initial inquiry.
Among point guards, the Heat has been in communication with representation for a few veterans, including Jameer Nelson and Kirk Hinrich.
Among power rotation free agents, the Heat called to express interest in Charlotte power forward Josh McRoberts, among others.
As for Gasol, Oklahoma City, San Antonio and New York also are trying to obtain him at a bargain-basement price. Ariza has instructed his agent to try to work out a deal with the Wizards before engaging other teams, The Washington Post reported.
The Heat is interested in Deng, and Deng likes the Heat, but agent Herb Rudoy said "we don't know yet" if Miami will be a serious contender for him or whether Deng will even meet with the Heat.
"We haven't talked money [with Miami]," Rudoy said. "We're waiting for the Big 3 to sort out." Deng also has interest from the Clippers, Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas.
Bulls power forward Carlos Boozer would have interest in the Heat if Chicago uses the amnesty provision on him, according to an associate. The Bulls have until July 18 to decide whether to wipe Boozer's $16.8 million salary off their cap.
But if the Heat uses all its cap space before the amnesty period, or if uses its cap exceptions instead of cap space, then the Heat would not have the money to make a bid for Boozer in the amnesty process unless it somehow got back under the cap, according to cap expert Larry Coon. The team with the highest bid would get him, and Boozer would become a free agent only if there were no bids.
• Bosh has told associates he plans to re-sign with the Heat, and Wade is also expected to return. Allen has been leaning toward playing but hasn't informed the Heat definitively. The Heat wants Andersen back, as well. James Jones is expected to be offered a minimum deal, though that has not been conveyed. The Heat called about Rashard Lewis, Greg Oden and Michael Beasley early in free agency and indicated interest in speaking further next week or beyond.
"They didn't commit to bringing Greg back but they were happy with his progress," said Oden's agent, Mike Conley Sr. All three players have interest in returning.
• As for Mario Chalmers, the Heat called him and made clear the door has not been closed regarding his return. But Chalmers is unsure of Miami's level of interest, according to a close associate.


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A Tour of the Games:
Tour the Games
The Wisconsin Highland Games can be a whirlwind of activity sometimes – most of the time, in fact – so here's a little virtual tour to give you an idea of all the different cool and fun activities there are for visitors of all ages.
Here's a menu of links to all the different areas of the Wisconsin Highland Games. Take a stroll through the grounds and discover all the different things to see, do, learn, buy, eat, or drink at the Games!


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Jan 18, 2013
By George Mauzy
Ohio University's Athens campus will test its emergency communication systems on Friday, Jan. 25 at noon.
The University will test its text messaging, emergency page, outdoor notification and CATVision emergency notification systems.
Like all of the university's emergency communication tools, the systems are tested periodically to ensure they are working properly and to help familiarize the campus community with how they will operate in an emergency.
During the outdoor notification system test, the system will broadcast a tone, followed by a pre-recorded test message over speakers located at various points on campus. The system is designed to notify people who are outdoors at the time of an emergency and is not intended to inform those who are indoors.
For more information on emergency preparedness or to sign up for emergency notifications, visit www.ohio.edu/emergency.


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Your excellency Mr. Chen Yuming,
This petition has been disseminated world wide to educate of the grave injustices many animals face in China, and gain support for animal rights. Dogs, cats and various other animals, many of whom have families (as evidenced by their collars) are being abducted and thrown into tiny cages. They are tortured horrendously to force their submission and extract their fur, after which their bodies are discarded. Animals do not deserve to suffer like this, and that it is for a nothing but a status symbol - their fur - only adds insult to many, many injuries.
We respect the republic of China and Chinese-Australian relations but alas we cannot stand for this cruelty.
We beseech you to stand with us, and hope you may utilise your authority and reputation to help the voiceless. Please help us to criminalise these barbaric fur farms.
Thank you.(Will be revised for clarity before sending)
Katherine Hellsten
This petition closed over 5 years ago


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Showing the iCade 8-bitty blue-tooth game pad controller that works with the Nexus 7 - straight out of the box without having to root it or anything. It is primarily designed for use with iOS but works great with Android as well as you can see. Read more below.
The Emulators shown here made by mr Broglia all offer native iCade / iPad controller support which makes response times very fast. Remapping the buttons doesn't seem possible yet and you have to make due with the layout mr Broglia has decided upon. Most work great and some are a bit off. But that is all down to personal taste. Mr Broglia has done an excellent job on those emulators and they are definitely money well spend.
Sadly the Playstation emulators I tried are not supported by the 8-bitty or vice versa. Still you'd probably would want to use a proper dual analog controller for that I reckon. Playstation emulation is full speed and it is possible to hook up controllers over USB (Playstation3, Xbox 360 but I have had very little luck in getting those to work after the Nexus updated to the Android 4.2.1 OS. Rooting (again) should fix that.)
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Accommodation details
- 2 storey - entry is on the first floor via an external stairway
- Sleeps 5 - 1 double, 1 twin, 1 single
- Sitting room/dining area
- Kitchen
- Spacious bathroom with bath and shower over bath
- Downstairs WC with wash basin
- Gas central heating
- Electric fire in sitting room
- Private parking available
- EPC Rating: D55
... Our guests said...
"... a beautiful property in a beautiful setting...As my wife wrote in the visitors book, it is like a suburban oasis. Thank you so much." (Mr.Knowles, Wallasey)
About Holmwood House
James Couper, a local paper manufacturer commissioned the building of Holmwood House in 1857. By 1858 it was complete, designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson and widely thought to be his finest domestic work.
Richly ornamented with neo-classical motifs and acres of surrounding greenery, the house is a symbol of how mercantile wealth grew to compete with aristocratic inheritance during this fascinating period in history.
About the area
Glasgow is a vibrant cultural hub, home to world-class art exhibitions, pioneering theatre practitioners and Scotland's national ballet company.
Holmwood is ten minutes away from Glasgow city centre by train, with a walk of ten minutes to the station.
Things to do
- Cook up a storm with fresh vegetables purchased from Holmwood's own vegetable garden.
- Spend a night at the theatre. The Citizens Theatre offers traditionally staged plays, the Arches has great atmosphere and an avant garde programme, while the Tramway is a fantastic contemporary space created from an old tram shed.
- Visit the Tenement House to see a different side of Glasgow life, from the early 20th century. This four room house was lived in by independent woman, Miss Agnes Toward for over 50 years.
Getting there
Holmwood is on Netherlee Road, Cathcart, Glasgow and is 4 miles south of the city centre. Netherlee Road is off Clarkston Road (B767). The nearest station is Cathcart, 1 mile away.
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The Reader-Picked Rods and Customs of Asphalt Ego-Rama IV
The event is not scheduled until October, but the competition started several months ago when several hundred ROD & CUSTOM readers stepped up to battle it out in Asphalt Ego-Rama, R&C's annual invitation-only road trip/performance flog. We chose our favorite 20 and left it up to you to pick the six finalists. Today, more than 1,200 ballots later, it comes down to these six cars.
This elite group of reader-selected rods and customs will meet in California in October for a week on the road with the R&C staff. We'll evaluate each car in nine categories: acceleration, braking, cornering, driveability, engineering, people's choice, budget, mileage, and participant attitude. When it's over, one of these rodders will go home the Asphalt Ego-Rama 2004 Champion, along with the glory, honor, and cheap trophy that accompanies such victory.
Who will it be? You will find complete and exclusive coverage of Asphalt Ego-Rama IV in the April 2005 issue of R&C.
Help Us Pick The Winner
You can help determine the winner of the Asphalt Ego-Rama shootout. Competitors will spend Saturday, October 9 in Pismo Beach, California, at the 2nd Annual Woodies & Rods Show held on the pier. Everyone in attendance at this great car show will have the chance to vote for their favorite Asphalt Ego-Rama car.
Woodies & Rods is open to all pre-1989 woodies, rods, customs, and classics. For more information, visit the Central Coast Car Shows website at www.centralcoastcarshows.com.
Ross Roloff's '39 Plymouth Coupe
Wausau, Wisconsin
Ross bought the Plymouth more than 20 years ago, moving it from "shed to shed and barn to barn" before finally finishing it last year. Built by the owner (with help from his family) in his home shop, the project took 5 years. "But," Ross insisted, "I only worked on it at night and on weekends during deer hunting season." But the pretty paint, power windows, stock bench seat and woodgrain dash can fool you. Under the hood lies an 454 Rat motor with a roller cam, Ross pistons, and a Demon 850 carburetor. Then we find out that Ross was a fabricator and machinist building racecars for Bemco Engineering from 1972 to 1984. Think any of that experience has trickled into the build-up of this fat-fendered Plymouth? Wait and see.
Willie Martin's '55 Chevy Sedan
Yucaipa, California
This '55 150 Sedan has been in Willie's family since 1964 when his father, a professional mechanic, bought it for $150 and overhauled it for use as a loan car at his garage. Willie got the '55 in 1970 and worked on it for 3 years before he was old enough to drive it to and from high school everyday. In the years since then, it has had a variety of Chevy small-blocks, and has been through more adventures than Paris Hilton and Bullwinkle combined. After burning up the engine racing in 1979, Willie parked the '55 until 1983, when he sold it. He bought it back in 1992, and rebuilt it after an accident in 1997. It now runs a ZZ4 crate motor with Edelbrock injection and a Paxton blower. Willie says the car is almost finished.
Kris Elmer's '31 Ford Coupe
Clearfield, Utah
Believe it or not, Kris originally set out to build a mainstream street rod–small-block, wide tires, custom rims, the whole package. A trip to the Hot Rod Reunion in Bakersfield took his taste into a more old-timey direction. Kris bought the car from an old couple, who had it in their backyard for years. The husband believed he would one day build the car, until the wife buried it in dirt and planted flowers all around it. After chopping the top, he decided that his daily driven '31 five window "needed more grrr," and stuffed it with a '51 331 Hemi. In his youth, Kris drag raced a '67 Camaro and held the state record for e.t. and top speed for a while. He says hot rods are fun and he gets a lot of thumbs up, "especially from police officers."
Bob Klessig's '52 Chevy Convertible
Antigo, Wisconsin
Bob originally thought Ego-Rama was more for hot rods than customs. Our readers disagreed and voted his dark green '52 ragtop (once a hardtop) into our six-car field. The '50s-style custom wasn't quite finished when Bob sent in his application, and doesn't even have a windshield in his originally submitted photos. After four years, it's done and ready to run. It's the only six-cylinder car (a 292 I-6 with a 200-4R trans) in the competition, and Bob's been down-playing the car's capabilities. "It's heavy so I probably won't do well in the braking or acceleration tests. I am sure it won't excel in the handling competition as it is built as a cruiser." Is he really that modest or just talking that way before pulling out all the stops during competition?
Herman Gantt's '53 Studebaker Coupe
Ashland, Virginia
Serious Studebaker fan Herman Gantt has owned a bunch of them over the years, including the pair he bought for $600 in October 1997. "People just shook their heads as if to say there is no way I could restore either one," he remembers. This '53 Champion coupe is one of those two Studes, treated to a body-off build-up than included transplanting a 350 Chevy small-block and Turbo 400 automatic transmission, four-wheel disc brakes and too many mechanical mods to list. Herman did all the bodywork and mechanical chores himself, finishing the car early in 1999. He hit a deer on his first road trip in the car, but his luck has been improving since then. Since he sent us this photo, he has replaced the 17-inch '96 Corvette rims.
Don Dillard's '30 Ford Coupe
Irwindale, California
It's unusual to go to a West Coast event and not see Don's red-oxide primered '30 Ford coupe somewhere on the grounds. He built the car himself and has been driving it regularly for seven years. A year ago when the full-fendered coupe was selected as a participant for Asphalt Ego-Rama '03, Don went through the entire car in preparation for the event–swapping heads, tuning up the 327 small-block, and making some test runs on the strip. He showed up ready to compete, but never got the chance. He's back for year's event, which means he's had 12 months to continue getting his coupe in fighting shape. It's a beater by his own admission, but we'll find out who gets beat and who does the beating at Ego-Rama '04.


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Finally got oven spring, question about crust...
Hey everyone, brand new for the most part, only made half a dozen loaves or so, concentrating on just an artisan round bread, I think they call boule? Anyway so tonight was the first one I'm really proud of I guess, i'm only using APF as my starters are no where near ready, so I'm just practicing. I'm concentrating on crum texture and a nice crust and this is what brings me to my issue. The recipe I'm using is the master recipe in "artisan bread in 5 minutes a day", however I feel like their recipe is sooooo wet that most of my boules are just flat, only a few inches high at best b/c they spread out instead of up. I figured this was due to being unable to "tighten" the gluten enough to get it to fight the spread and b/c my stone was not getting hot enough due to a large water pan I use for steam. Even though my crumb has gotten really nice and the texture and feel of the bread when eating is great as well, I just haven't been able to get that elusive "oven spring" they talk about.
So I made 3 changes today after measuring my stone with an IR thermo and seeing that the steam was killing the heat so that the bottom was still white and the top would burn. I decided to nix the steam pan completely after several "different" tries with it, and my stone came right up to temp. The second thing I did was put a roasting pan over the bread for the first 15 minutes to create a makeshift "dutch oven steamer" using just the moisture in the dough. The last change was I added a bunch more flour to the mixture after taking it out of the fridge to mix it up for the proofing. I made it much dryer and kept stretching the dough around until it was tighter than I had ever gotten it and held more of a "ball" shape. The result was the picture below, almost exactly what I was aiming for!
This is the crumb from my last one that was much flatter:
The crust didn't have that "shine" that when I use the steamer pan and spritzer has. Should I have maybe spritzed the dough a good amount right before putting the pan over it? I'm guessing maybe there wasn't enough steam inside the pan from the dough, maybe b/c I made the mixture much drier than ever before. I'm looking for that perfect crust and thought maybe some of you all could tell me what would get me there. Also how "crusty" should the bread be, I mean when it cools down should make a bunch of "crackly" noise when you tear or cut it? Mine does right after it comes out of the oven, but when it cools down the "hardness" of the crust is substantially reduced, is this normal? Thanks for any insight!


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NEW YORK — The current two-leg conference semifinal playoff format was adopted in 2003.
Between then and 2009, there have been 28 home-and-home Conference Semifinal playoff series. In the first legs of those series, there have been nine draws, meaning 19 first-leg matches have ended with a winner and a loser.
Of those 19 winners, 10 have advanced, while nine of those results have been overturned in the second leg. In other words (or numbers), teams with a lead heading into the second leg have gone on to advance 53 percent of the time.
However, of those nine overturned results, eight of them occurred following a win by the home team in the first leg. Only once has a team that lost the home leg gone on to win the away leg and the series.
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What does all of this say about this year?
This year is the first time since 2006 that all four conference semifinal series have a leader after the first leg. FC Dallas, the LA Galaxy, New York Red Bulls and Colorado Rapids all carry a one-goal advantage heading into the second leg.
Odds are that two of these four will not maintain their lead this weekend. Colorado and FCD, who won their home legs (and now hold a slim one-goal lead), are the most likely candidates to capitulate.
Meanwhile, New York and LA, each playing at home in the second leg and each carrying a one-goal lead, have an overwhelming chance of advancing. Of the six times that a team has won the away first leg, they have come home and advanced five times.