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Waitering, Part Two
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Note: This is the second of two parts. Read Part One here.
"There's an Emory professor here," said Annette, my friend who took over my job as host. "I'm putting him in your section."
I was in the weeds. That was a term I learned quickly"Let us know if you're in the weeds," Jade saidand it meant in over your head, overwhelmed by work, completely lost in your job.
"OK," I said, brusquely, preparing to make another giant vat of coffee for all the servers to use. It was Sunday brunch, and the place was a madhouse.
The Emory professor sat with his little daughter at a table in the corner. I quickly went over to him, welcomed him to Milton's, and asked him what he wanted to drink.
"I hear you go to Emory," he said.
"I do."
"Good school, isn't it?"
I didn't have time to talk so I said yes and asked again for his drink order. I brought him coffee, brought his daughter orange juice, and dove into the kitchen to put hot muffins into a basket.
"Are you in the weeds?" Jade asked, lording over me with a raised eyebrow.
"No," I said. "I'm doing fine."
The professor ordered an omelet; his daughter ordered oatmeal and a side of bacon.
I put it into the computer, brought it out when it was ready, and took another table's order.
After about 20 minutes, the professor waved me over.
"Excuse me," he said, "my daughter wants just one more piece of bacon."
I looked at him with desperation.
"I don't think we can do that," I said. "I get bacon by putting it into the computer. I can order another side of bacon..."
"She just wants one more piece of bacon," he said. "Can't you do that?"
"No," I said. "I'm sorry. I don't know how to do that."
The professor shook his head. "Forget it," said.
Later, after I dropped the check, I returned to find that he was gone, having paid with exact cash.
And leaving me no tip.
No Lazy Sundays Here For Sunday brunch, you were to arrive at 7 a.m. and then, when it was over at 4 p.m.when you were exhausted, demoralized, and debilitatedyou had to roll silverware. Two crates.
You sat at a table and laid a square cloth napkin so the corner faced you. You placed two forks, a knife, and a spoon clustered in the center, and then you rolled the napkin around it. And then you placed the finished roll into a crate.
At first it was calming, but after a few weeks of silverware rolling, you couldn't imagine a task more excruciating. All you wanted to do, after Sunday brunch, was go home and pass out. But there you were rolling silverware.
Jade was always the first to finish.
"I'm out of here," she'd say, done with her two crates when my first one was only a quarter full.
She shot out of the door and put Sunday brunch immediately behind her.
Working for the Man The owner of Milton's was an evil Walt Disney figure named Tom Milton. He would come in, now and again, and walk around in his red sweater with his thinning silver hair and shiny silver mustache and say things to the staff to show that he was boss.
Once I was entering an order into the computer and there was a fork by my foot. I didn't see the fork by my foot but I saw Tom Milton standing a few feet away watching me.
When I was done entering the order, I turned to look at him. I smiled and said hi. He didn't smile back.
"Son," he said. "Milton's vision goes all the way to the floor."
He pointed to the fork. I saw the fork and bent down to get it. When I stood up, he was gone.
More frustrating were the managers. In addition to the two who ran the restaurant, there was another who was tall and blond and looked like the beloved son of a wealthy East Coast family. His job was to sit at a booth all day and drink wine. I'm not kidding.
The restaurant was known, I suppose, for its wine selection, and his job was to interact with wine distributors. He would sit at a booth, a distributor would come in with a case of wine, and they'd sit and sample and laugh and sample some more.
And the way he pranced around the restaurant, you would suppose he was God's gift to fine dining. His gaze would travel right past the waiters and kitchen staff and only acknowledge other managers or customers or Tom Milton, whom he'd pat on the shoulder as if they were best friends.
Of all the people there, I resented him most. I'm not a political person, but he aroused feelings of revolution in me. I wanted to stand on a chair and expose him as a fraud, a charlatan, a blight on the human race.
And yet, as much as I resented him, I didn't hate him as much as I hated the chef. The chef, as far as I was concerned, was the essence of evil.
If You Can't Stand the Heat After Kitchen Confidential and Heat and Top Chef and all the books and TV shows that reveal how chefs operate and the high-testosterone environment in which they work, you won't be shocked to learn that the head chef at Milton's was a loathsome, fiery creature.
If the restaurant was set up in a certain way, I may not have felt his wrath. But because the servers had to put the final touches on a dish, to serve the soup, he was frequently there to humiliate you and put you in your place.
And so it was that while garnishing a portobello soup, he stared at me in shock and said, "That's way too much Sherry. You fuckin' ruined it."
He grabbed the bowl from my hand and threw it in the sink.
"Do it right," he said, giving me another empty bowl.
I did it again, and he watched as I drizzled a small drop of Sherry in.
"Now that's not enough," he snapped. "Are you mocking me?"
No. I was pissing my pants and wanting to get out of there. So I drizzled a little more in and quickly fled the kitchen.
I was too sensitive for this shit. I'm a writer, damn it, not a punching bag.
The next week, on a Tuesday morning, I called in sick.
And, I'm ashamed to say, the next day I called in sick again. And then I made up a story about a family emergency.
And never went in again.
As I relive all this, writing this story, I'm realizing how dehumanizing the whole experience was. Restaurant culture mirrors real-life culture, and if you have any delusions about how the world works, about absolute power corrupting absolutely, go work at a restaurant. Your romantic bubble vision of the world will burst.
Of course there are exceptions. Of course there are restaurants that treat their staff better, that try to create a family environment, that make servers and managers feel equal.
But for the most part, it's a brutal business. And one that left me never wanting to go back.
Yoga may have led me to waitering, but waitering led me back to yoga. Sitting there in a lotus position, the loud, scary world of the restaurant business flew away.
In my head I repeated a mantra. There was Tom Milton pointing to a fork and there was me, on an endless loop, sassing back: "Kiss my grits. Kiss my grits. Kiss my grits."
Inner-peace at last.
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Video: Mullet, the Sustainable Seafood Kind
There are two types of mullet in Florida: One is a hairstyle made popular in the nineties, the other is a type of fish. We chose to focus on the latter in our latest Perennial Plate episode. Some people love the fish, others hate it (whether for good reason or no). But one thing's for sure, there's a ton of it.
We went out with Captain Anthony Manalli in the waters off the coast of Anna Maria Island in Florida. He taught me to throw a net, and I convinced him to eat raw mullet and white roe (you'll have to watch the episode to see what that is). All in all, it was a good day of fishing.
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Soy and gluten-free vegans have tons of great and easy stuff to make! I suggest learning a handful of fast and tasty meals and then making large batches, so you have them to eat throughout the week. I do the bulk of my cooking on Sunday and freeze meals for the week. It's a fun project, I love taking 1/4 of a day to cook big batches of beans, rice, sauces, whatever. It's very satisfying!
If you're looking for more grab and go snacks, there are lots of great soy and gluten-free vegan treats -- just start exploring the site and the forums and you'll find an abundance of suggestions!
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So, we didn't have a lot of movie time this weekend (some of the women went to see Oceans at the theater, but I opted to stay behind for games! They said it was excellent). Ken and I watched one movie on Friday night:
- One True Thing. Quick summary: I loved it; Ken didn't! He felt it was too depressing, but I love movies that are based on real life, with all of its joys and sorrows. Besides, crying over a movie sure beats crying over your own life. Yes, I both laughed and cried! The movie has an all-star cast, with Meryl Streep, William Hurt, and Renee Zellweger. Renee plays a grown daughter who lives in NYC and works as a writer at New York magazine. She comes home for a while when her mother (played by Meryl Streep) gets cancer. She has always identified with her father who is a college literature professor; her goal in life was to not become her mother who is a very happy homemaker. So, of course, this makes for a complicated - and sometimes comical - situation when she returns home to care for her mother full-time. I really liked this movie.


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My lovely wife, Christina Lapchynski, has been an artist since she was a little kid. She recently decided to go to school to study. One of her classes, on 3-D design, has been challenging her to try new media. Her unique vision continues to shine through despite this difficulty, as you can see in this work, "Flying" which is a static sculpture that has a moving element (the front wheel). In this sense, it not only implies motion but has motion. Please check out (and comment on!) her other works on her new blog, "arousing the inner child."
As an aside, we went to a show of Kenneth O'Connell's work at DIVA recently. Christina was really excited about this because they both work with Copic markers. When we were there, we bumped into ex-customer service guy Hugh Larkin & his wife Sandy (who has some great art herself). Turns out they took one of Ken's classes on a trip to Italy. Small world! Ken's stuff is INCREDIBLE, by the way. He takes sketching and elevates it to a whole new level.


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As consumer spending is the key to the viability of any economy, the health of the retail industry is an important economic indicator. According to the National Retail Federation, retail accounts for about $2.5 trillion of annual U.S. GDP and acts as a barometer for measuring the health of the nation's economy.
The United States provides ample growth opportunities for all types of retail companies. Retailers of all sizes -- individual direct marketers or direct sellers, small- to medium-sized franchise unit owners, and large "big-box" store operators -- compete in the U.S., fostering increased growth opportunities.
The retail industry provides enormous employment opportunities, accounting for nearly 42 million jobs. Annual sales turnover of the retail industry is more than 12% of total trade volume of all the U.S.-based businesses.
Recent Industry Trends
Retailers had a robust 'back to school' and 'back to college' season with most companies posting positive comparable store sales (a key metric in retail industry analysis as it excludes sales at newly opened and closed stores) in the months of July, August and September. The back to school season had an encouraging start as consumers began shopping early July instead of August. Further, the spending appetite of shoppers also scaled up.
October comps for most retailers escalated as the U.S. unemployment rate declined in September, while property values improved, boosting consumer confidence and ultimately driving consumer spending levels to grow. Additionally, cool weather, strong store traffic and Columbus Day promotions helped sales growth in the beginning of the month.
The Conference Board's reading of the Consumer Confidence Index -- a barometer of U.S. consumer health -- rose to 72.2 in October from 68.4 in September, marking the second consecutive improvement after a long time. The unemployment rate in the United States, reported by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, remained static at 7.9% in October, following a decline in September.
Comps results for apparel retailers like Limited Brands ( LTD ) up 3%, The Gap Inc. ( GPS ) up 4%, Ross Stores Inc. ( ROST ) up 4% and TJX Co. ( TJX ) up 7% remained positive. Additionally, discount store operators such as Costco Wholesale Corp. ( COST ) and Target Corp. ( TGT ) came in strong, posting a 7% and 2.4% increase in October comps, respectively.
On the other hand, department store chains like Macy's Inc. ( M ), Kohl's Corp. ( KSS ), Nordstrom Inc. ( JWN ) and Stage Stores Inc. ( SSI ) continued to exhibit potential with 4.1%, 3.3%, 9.8%, and 6.5% increase in comps, respectively. However, results at the drugstore chains were disappointing, with Walgreen Co. ( WAG ) posting a 5.9% decline in October comps, and Rite Aid Corp. ( RAD ) dipping 1.1%.
October comps for the teen apparel retailers remained mixed with The Buckle Inc. ( BKE ) and Zumiez Inc. ( ZUMZ ) posting increases of 3.8% and 0.6%, respectively; while comps for Wet Seal Inc. ( WTSLA ) were down 7.6% and Cato Corp. ( CATO ) remained flat.
The upcoming holiday sales season is expected to be rewarding for retailers as the consumer sentiments remain positive, improving unemployment rates and soaring home prices. The National Retail Federation expects holiday sales this year to rise 4.1% to $586.1 billion, above the 10-year average holiday sales increase of 3.5%, still remaining lower than the 5.6% growth recoded in the 2011 holiday season.
Optimism for the holiday season remains intact as retail promotions are expected to hit the right chord with holiday shoppers. Retailers have pulled up their socks to make the most of the busiest shopping season of the year from offering lucrative discounts to flexibility of shopping through smartphones and tablets to free shipping and 24-hour shopping.
Certain retailers including Target Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ( WMT ) and Sears Holdings Corporation ( SHLD ) have announced their plans to kick start the holiday season by opening their showrooms to public earlier at night on Thanksgiving Day, instead of the usual practice of opening at midnight.
The latest trend this holiday season is the policy of matching prices being offered by online retail giants in order to be a part of the competition. Discount retail chain, Target Corporation and beleaguered consumer electronics retailer, Best Buy Co. Inc. ( BBY ), announced that they will offer their patrons the facility to match the prices being offered by Amazon.com Inc. ( AMZN ), Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s Walmart.com and ToysRus.com.
Further, to better serve the shoppers, the retailers are ramping up their hiring plans. Retail giants such as Macy's, Target Corp., Wal-Mart Stores, Kohl's Corp. and Toys "R" Us have announced their hiring plans for the upcoming holiday season.
However, the consumer spending plans this holiday season may be affected to some extent as macro challenges remain prevalent in the U.S. economy and the consumers have adapted a budget-conscious method of spending, which has become the population's 'New Normal.'
Hurricane Sandy's Impact on Retailers
Hurricane Sandy, which hit the U.S. East Coast on October 28, led to a two-day shut down of the U.S. stock trading, marking the first back-to-back shutdown owing to weather related adversities since 1888. The storm, which is estimated to have caused more than $20 billion of economic damage, had both a positive and negative impact on the October sales data of retailers.
In general, the October sales data of retailers remained largely unaffected by the storm as most retailers closed books for October sales on October 27. However, October sales for food, beverage and personal care stores seemed to have gained a little as consumers resorted to some stocking up of essentials before the storm.
Further, reports suggest that the overall impact of Sandy on retailers should be minimal as most of the damage occurred on a Monday and a Tuesday instead of the weekend, and it was well before Black Friday and the onset of holiday shopping. However, the real impact is expected to be reflected in the November sales, and will depend greatly on the timing of the recovery and opening up of the damaged stores. Delayed come back may cause retailers to lose on the sales in the upcoming holiday shopping season, substantially affecting their quarterly results.
As a common belief, storms are considered to be beneficial for food merchants before the occurrence of the calamity and for home improvement stores following the disaster, as people need to repair their homes. On the other hand, specialty-apparel chains and department stores get little chance to make up for their lost sales due to the storm.
Some of the department store chains that are believed to be hit hard by Hurricane Sandy are Macy's and Saks Inc. ( SKS ). Macy's houses about 30% of its stores in the states affected by the storm, while Saks has about 27% of its stores there. Further, drugstore retailers, Walgreen and Rite Aid, reported great damages to their stores. Walgreen, which owns the Duane Reade chain, pointed that about 750 of its 1,400 stores in the affected region remained closed during the storm.
Rite Aid reported that about 188 of its stores were either closed or operating without power as of October 31, down from about 790 stores that were closed during the storm. Other companies having high percentage of stores in storm affected areas include American Eagle Outfitters Inc. ( AEO ), Limited Brands Inc. and Urban Outfitters Inc. ( URBN ).
Backdrop Still Weak
Uncertain and sluggish economic conditions continue to weigh upon the retailers, indicating a grim outlook in terms of profitability and consequent growth. However, continuous efforts on their part to offer innovative products and value pricing have been paying off in an economy which is still in the doldrums. It is still a tough time for retailers, who are using all their resources in order to combat the sluggishness.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. retail and food services sales declined 0.3% from the prior month sales to $411.6 billion in October.
The "Re" is Back in Retailing
'Transformation' is the new mantra for the retailers. Despite rapid technological advancements, which are influencing consumer behavior, the retail industry continues to reinvent, redesign and revitalize its physical store formats to maintain their dominance.
Of late, retail giants including Best Buy Co. Inc., Target Corp., J. C. Penney Co. Inc. ( JCP ) and Build-A-Bear Workshop Inc. ( BBW ) are focused on revisiting and re-evaluating conventionality and traditional business traits, while also envisioning its brick-and-mortar store merchandise offerings. Additionally, these companies continue to actively re-engineer and re-tool various systems and processes.
Moreover, the retail groups are coming up with strategic initiatives to boost operating efficiencies, drive growth and enhance shareholder's value. Most retailers are focusing on abridging costs drastically to ensure competent operating channels. We believe that such measures are necessary to gain competitive advantage over peers. However, focus on improving the top line should be prioritized to accelerate long-term growth.
The above mentioned traits are evident from the efforts of J. C. Penney, which has left no stone unturned to bring the company back on the growth trajectory. Management has taken up everything from implementation of new pricing strategy, fresh logo and strategic merchandise and cost reduction initiatives, while enhancing the shopping experience of customers.
Moreover, the leading specialty retailer of consumer electronic products -- Best Buy intends to get rid of stores that are not contributing to its growth, while modifying others are also on the cards. The company plans to transform its big-box format to a big profit center by redesigning its prototype stores to mimic Apple Inc's ( AAPL ) retail store format. Best Buy is not the first one to resort to such mimicry as Microsoft Corp. ( MSFT ), Walt Disney Co. ( DIS ), Tesla Motors Inc. ( TSLA ) and AT&T Inc. ( T ) have already opened stores emulating the Apple format.
Target Corp. is another retail chain that has resorted to a major redesign by developing the 'City Target' format, which aims at tapping the urban markets, where real estate remains a constraint. These stores are designed to fit in urban locations, both in terms of size and store design aesthetic. The has already company opened its first City Target stores in Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle with 80,000 square feet, a lustrous urban background, no lawn and garden department and smaller back rooms.
In a similar move, Cabela's Inc. ( CAB ) -- one of the leading specialty retailers of hunting, fishing, camping and related outdoor merchandise - had unveiled its new 'Outpost' store format. The relatively smaller-size store will provide shoppers with Cabela's retail experience and will facilitate the company to capitalize on the under-penetrated markets.
Challenges and Some Remedial Measures
The retail industry is highly competitive and has significant challenges. Although the U.S. economy has started witnessing a soft recovery, we still believe that 2012 will not fully mark the return of the retail market, and 2013 may also have a somewhat similar story to tell, unless concrete steps are taken to bring the economy back on the growth trajectory. Consumers are slowly regaining confidence and cautiously increasing their spending.
Moreover, consumers remain sensitive to macro-economic factors including interest rate hikes, increase in fuel and energy costs, credit availability, unemployment levels and high household debt levels, which may negatively impact their discretionary spending, and in turn, adversely affect the growth and profitability of retail companies.
Macroeconomic Conditions: Retail is no different from other U.S. industries, which remain affected by the slow economic recovery. While the unemployment rate has decreased considerably over time, consumers are now beginning to draw out their savings to spend, in the hope of some economic recovery.
Though this is a positive sign, there has been a considerable rise in prices of commodities, which is making it difficult for consumers to make ends meet. On the other hand, the retailers are struggling as they are unable to pass these increased costs to consumers and their employees, given the already shrinking income levels.
Changes in Consumer Needs, Attitudes and Behavior: The growth of modern retail is linked to consumer needs, attitudes and behavior. Adapting to the sluggish economic environment prevalent over the last few years, consumer behavior has shifted to being more conservative. This has now become the normal behavior of consumers as they remain budget conscious, seeking more and more value. In the process, buyers are swiftly switching to the less expensive brands and consolidating shopping trips.
Retailers are offering trend-right and well-designed assortments at compelling prices, without compromising on quality, in order to drive traffic.
Higher Fuel Prices: As a new trend, shoppers are making fewer shopping trips. This has emerged from the rise in gas prices as well as the hectic lives of consumers, while income remains constricted. Looking ahead, we expect this trend to continue for the next few years.
Apart from cutting down on the number of trips, shoppers also chalk out their shopping mission before stepping out. Today, consumers look for multichannel retail outlets, which offer variety of goods, rather than making separate visits for paper goods, health and beauty items, grocery, etc. Thus, retailers now need to understand the consumers' shopping missions and get the most out of their visits by broadening their assortments with the appropriate depth, breadth and freshness to appeal to their customers' requirements.
Staging Stores: The waning popularity of brick-and-mortar store formats has made it essential for retailers to adopt new techniques like 'staging stores' to woo customers. Staging basically refers to the act of making the company's stores attractive destinations, where people like to spend their time. The idea behind this strategy is to make shopping interesting for consumers, so that they would want to walk into the stores, rather than shop online.
Use of Internet and Mobiles in Shopping: With shoppers becoming more and more tech-savvy these days, a new era of shopping via internet, smartphones and tablets has emerged. Today, consumers are increasingly using the tech-media to make purchases, find coupons and search for the best deals. This growing trend has guided major U.S. retail chains to downsize their physical retail operations, and in turn, develop their e-commerce and m-commerce sites to attract customers.
The rate of electronic retail shopping is expected to increase significantly over the next four to five years. To take advantage of this growing trend, retailers need to identify the best possible means of benefiting from the use of technology in shopping while implementing relevant strategies. By integrating the digital mode into the shopping experience, retailers can earn rewards in the form of increased shopper demand and greater shopper loyalty.
Retailers are trying to remain competitive primarily by shifting focus to the long-term horizon and finding innovative solutions to create value, reduce operating costs and mitigate risks throughout the enterprise.
Right-sizing inventories, enhancing efficiency and competence and bringing in technological advancements are the key agendas that the retailers are focusing on. Moreover, cost-containment efforts and merchandise initiatives to improve margins are top priorities.
Further, retailers are largely concentrating on buyers' needs, which in turn, will usher in huge potential for growth and is likely to augment sales in the long run. Additionally, exploring all possible opportunities to create premium as well as value products to suit the different income groups should help improve returns. Considering the current macro-economic environment, this strategy should be a smart move to better position companies to attract consumers.
Retail, owing to its huge spectrum, remains a lucrative investment avenue for investors. The sector reflects consumer spending trends, an important parameter to gauge the health of the economy (consumer spending accounts for approximately 2/3rd of the economy). Thus, identifying future winners from this sector would be a good investment decision.
We recommend few stocks in the sector at this point, as these companies are showing significant growth despite the secular headwinds. Adaptability to the buying habits of the consumers and strengthening the loyalty base helped these retailers post strong results. The stocks in our coverage with a Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) include Dillard's Inc. ( DDS ), Aarons Inc. ( AAN ), Stage Stores, Conns Inc. ( CONN ), The Gap Inc. and ANN Inc. ( ANN ).
Additionally, we are also bullish on stocks with a Zacks #2 Rank (Buy), namely American Eagle Outfitters Inc., Petsmart Inc. ( PETM ), Macy's Inc., Home Depot Inc. ( HD ), Nike Inc. ( NKE ), Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. ( BGFV ), Lululemon Athletica Inc. ( LULU ), Constellation Brands Inc. ( STZ ) and Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. ( DKS ).
On the other hand, we are bearish on retailers with a Zacks #5 Rank (Strong Sell) and Zacks #4 Rank (Sell) including J. C. Penney, Deckers Outdoor Corp. ( DECK ), Cache Inc. ( CACH ), Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc. ( SPB ), Avon Products Inc. ( AVP ) and Best Buy.
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Things have been a little too furry around here lately, so we decided to break our months long mammal streak and post a bird this week. Keep an eye out for even more dinosaurs in the coming weeks.
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Things have been a little too furry around here lately, so we decided to break our months long mammal streak and post a bird this week. Keep an eye out for even more dinosaurs in the coming weeks.
This is the skull of an domestic dog (Canis familiaris). Dogs were domesticated over 10,000 years ago and today there are over 300 different breeds around the world. Despite this variation, the skeletons of all dogs show many similarities with their wild relatives, wolves and coyotes.
This is the skull of an opossum (Didelphis virginiana). These animals are usually around 9-13 lbs and just under two feet long. They also have a hairless prehensile tail that aids in climbing and carrying objects. They have unique prints as their rear feet have opposable "thumbs". The phrase "playing possum" comes from these animals, when faced with a threat they will sometimes feign death and even excrete a fluid that has a putrid odor.
We have another sample from the Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis specimen. This is the scapula (shoulder blade) of the animal. Compare this to the scapula of the Cougar and the Brown Pelican and see the remarkable variation. Think about how life in different environments (ocean, land, and air respectively) could lead to this variation.
This week we have the otic capsule of the Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis. The otic capsule is the section of the skull that surrounds the inner ear. This is part of the Dolphin's famous echolocation system with which the dolphin can "see" with sound. This system acts very much like active sonar on submarines.
Staying with are vertebrate streak we present the humerus of one of two species of Common Dolphin Delphinus delphis. Common Dolphins (aka Saddleback Dolphins), are aquatic carnivours mammals that feed primarily on fish. They are highly social animals and travel in groups of 10-50 and have been spotted in schools of over 1000. They, like their Bottlenose cousins, are also extremely fast swimmers reaching speeds of around 40km/hour.
We continue our streak of cephalic mammalian updates with the skull of a —Muskrat. Muskrats, as their name would imply, are members of the rodent order, however they are not a species of rat. These animals are medium sized (0.7-1.8 kg) and semi-aquatic. They are native to North American but have invaded much of Europe and Asia. They get their name from an odor they produce from two scent glands that they use to mark their territory.
We hope everyone had a great holiday season which we are celebrating with our first addition of the new year —Sea Otter. Sea Otters are a species of marine mammal and are the largest member of the weasel family. They live near the shoreline feeding on sea urchins, molluscs, crustaceans and fish. These animals are one of the few species of animals that use tools as they use rocks to crack open the shells of their prey. Sea Otters are one of the few marine mammals that do not have a layer of blubber to protect themselves from the cold water, instead they fluff their thick fur to trap an insulating layer of air within similar to styrofoam.
We have our sixth round of weekly additions—Mule Deer. Mule Deer an extremelly abundant herbivorous ungulate found primarily in Western North America. These animals can live in a wide variety of habitats and persist on a diet of grasses and shrubs. The males, like this example, are highly territorial and grow antlers for display and competition in the breeding season.
We have our fifth round of weekly additions—Bottlenose Dolphin. Bottlenose Dolphins are fully aquatic oceanic mammals and are closely related to porpoises and whales. These animals are highly intelligent and have even been trained to locate sea mines and divers. Bottlenoses use a form of sonar called echolocation to stalk their prey which consists mainly of small fish crustaceans and squid. These animals are cosmopolitan across the worlds oceans.
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Macoumba Kandji struck twice and Bobby Boswell added a third as the Houston Dynamo ran away with a 3-0 win over visiting Montreal Impact on Saturday night to rise to third place in the Eastern Conference.
After a testy 4-2 loss to the Impact nearly a month ago, Houston returned the favor and handed the expansion team their 10th loss on the road while extending their unbeaten streak at home to 18, which dates back to June 2011.
Kandji was the star, scoring the bookend goals in Saturday's rout. His first tally was a seventh-minute goal that took five touches to find the back of the net. On a sequence that included two touches from Kandji, two from Montreal goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts and a final one from a Impact defender Zarek Valentin, the Senagalese winger put Houston up early.
After a testy and at times subdued 72 minutes, Kandji capped his brace by streaking down the left side and hitting a powerful right-footed shot into the far upper 90 to cap the scoring in the three-goal victory.
In between Kandji's exploits, Boswell put the game away in the 84th minute when the center back snapped home a corner kick from second-half sub Brad Davis to make it 2-0. The goal capped a special night for Boswell, who sported the captain's armband in MLS play for the first time since May 29, 2010.
Houston's win caps a nine-point week for Houston and, combined with a Saturday loss from D.C. United, propels them to 34 points and sole possession of third place in the Eastern Conference.
Montreal fired the opening shots in the match, pushing the ball up the field early and putting the Dynamo defense on notice with Designated Player Marco Di Vaio pulling the strings and releasing his teammates into dangerous areas.
In the first 10 minutes alone, Montreal had two crosses and two shots from inside Houston's 18-yard box, with Lamar Neagle a fraction away from giving the visitors an early lead. In just the 2nd minute of play, the winger found space on a corner kick and headed a shot to the far post, beating Houston goalkeeper Tally Hall but not the post.
Houston settled quickly, however, and took the lead on Kandji's goal and had another waved off in the 12th minute, when Andre Hainault latched onto a headed ball in the box and snapped it home. The far-side assistant referee, however, had his flag up for offside.
The second half started on a more subdued pace and did not pick up in the form of chances until the 65th minute, when Montreal's Shavar Thomas made a goal-saving play to keep Kandji from scoring again. Houston's 6-foot-4 winger beat an offside trap and a charging Ricketts to get in on goal only to have Thomas make a well-executed tackle from behind to keep the score 1-0.
OPTA CHALKBOARD: Dynamo controlled Impact in rout
With the effects of a congested schedule and humidity setting in, the Impact's speedy Sanna Nyassi took two attempts in the 76th and 78th minute from inside the 18-yard box only to see the Dynamo's compact back line and Hall stand tall.
Hassoun Camara attempted to pull one back for the Impact with a powerful header in stoppage time but was rebuffed by a leaping save from Hall.
Houston extended their undefeated streak to six and will travel to BMO Field next Saturday to face Toronto FC.
Houston Dynamo (9-5-7) vs. Montreal Impact (7-13-3)
July 21, 2012 BBVA Compass Stadium, Houston, Texas
Attendance: 20,396
Scoring Summary:
HOU: Macoumba Kandji 2 (Will Bruin 3, Calen Carr 1) 7
HOU: Bobby Boswell 2 (Brad Davis 7) 84
HOU: Macoumba Kandji 3 (Brad Davis 8) 89
Houston Dynamo: Tally Hall; Andre Hainault, Bobby Boswell, Jermaine Taylor, Corey Ashe; Boniek Garcia, Warren Creavalle, Luiz Camargo (Brad Davis 68); Calen Carr (Je-Vaughn Watson 58), Will Bruin (Brian Ching 82), Macoumba Kandji
Substitutes not used: Tyler Deric, Nathan Sturgis, Brian Ownby, Alex Dixon
Montreal Impact: Donovan Ricketts, Zarek Valentin (Karl Ouimette 26), Hassoun Camara, Shavar Thomas, Dennis Iapichino, Davy Arnaud, Collen Warner, Felipe Martins, Lamar Neagle (Justin Mapp 74); Sanna Nyassi, Marco Di Vaio (Patrice Bernier 61)
Substitutes not used: Evan Bush, Josh Gardner, Eduardo Sebrango, Sinisa Ubiparipovic
Misconduct Summary:
MTL: Shavar Thomas (caution) 67
MTL: Dennis Iapichino (caution) 74
Referee: David Gantar
Referee's Assistants: Adam Garner, Scott Kachmarik
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United War Work Campaign : Railroad Army Fundraising WWI
The United War Work Campaign, Inc., was organized by request of President Woodrow Wilson for the purpose of joint fund raising among seven welfare organizations serving the American Army and Navy, including: National War Work Council of the YMCA; War Work Council of the National Board of the YMCA; National Catholic War Council (Knights of Columbus); Jewish Welfare Board; War Camp Community Service; American Library Association; and the Salvation Army. Series includes the certificate of incorporation, UWWC Bulletin nos. 1-13 and 15, financial report (1921) and the report to subscribers listing the budget estimates of the seven organizations, percentages of UWWC funds allocated per organization and agreements between the organizations (1919). The file includes minutes, circular letter, organization manual, publicity campaigns, committee member lists, by-laws, conference attendance lists, Committee of Eleven (composed of representatives of the seven organizations) minutes and recommendations and news releases.
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735th Railway Operating Battalion Reunion group
Again, we have Capt. Francis Lewis' wonderful photos from 735th reunions and a mailing list from 1988. ( thanks John ) Here is a member mailing list from 1988
735th Reunion Mailing List ... by Nancy on Scribd
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735th Railway Operating Battalion Capt. Francis N. Lewis
John has worked really hard reproducing some amazing 735th photos from his dad,Capt.Francis N. Lewis
He writes ...It's my hope that members (the few that are left) and decedents of members might find a name or photo that will bring back some memories. If you do post any of my pictures/documents on the internet, all I ask is that some credit be given to my father, Capt.Francis N. Lewis. He went to great lengths to photograph and document not just his activities during the war, but also our personal family history. He has made my job much easier in sharing his photographs with others. It's the least I can do for all the efforts he made. Thanks so much for asking.
Here is a fascinating list of 735th soldiers who went through firearm qualifications in 1944
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I usually like Scientific American's short science explainer videos, but this one — Instant Egghead – Are We Facing the Sixth Mass Extinction?" — bothers me for a few reasons.
Fred Guterl starts off by saying that we don't know yet whether our current extinction event qualifies as a "mass extinction." It's a bit of a semantic question, as the threshold for what constitutes a mass extinction is debated, and some rankings put different events in the top five. But let's just take Guterl's statement as meaning "we don't know whether this current extinction is as big as the really big ones we've had in the past." It's an excellent point. It's become received wisdom among a certain crowd that we're facing Big Dieoff 6.0, and reminders that this isn't necessarily any worse an event than, say, the extinctions at the end of the Eocene are always good. Not that the end-Eocene extinctions were a kitten romp.
The video goes off rather quickly, though, starting with the quick "citation" of a UNEP estimate of up to 200 species extinctions per day, which seems to have been taken urban legend style from an estimate Norman Myers made in the 1970s. Myers gave the range as 50-200, and he was saying 50 in 2006. We've seen a lot of estimates by different biologists. In 1993 E.O. Wilson offered an estimate of 30,000 species per year going extinct, about 85 a day. It depends on what models you use, and those models are the topic of debate.
Still, that's more an editing quibble than anything. Few maintain that species aren't going extinct faster than is "usual" for the Cenozoic.
There are a couple other WTF moments in the video, chief among them the statement that the end-Permian extinction was caused by Siberian lava flows igniting large coal deposits, creating a atmospheric CO2 spike "on the order of what we're seeing today." There's certainly lots of evidence to support the idea, but it's not a slam dunk, and other mechanisms remain possible.
There's also an interesting mention of passenger pigeons that goes nowhere. In the context of species extinction rate models Guterl mentions that there was a population of billions of passenger pigeons in North America for who knows how many millions of years, and yet only two fossils of the species are known. And then he drops it, not explaining the fact's relevance. I mean, I got there, and you probably did too — it implies that for each species we know went extinct back in the day, there were likely many we don't know of whose fossils we have not yet found. What that implies in terms of past extinction rates I'm not sure: it'scertain that species we don't know of went extinct and aren't counted in the totals, but it would seem equally plausible that species we don't know about survived the extinctions of the past, or that species we do know about that we now count as victims of mass extinctions actually survived those extinctions but left no trace for a few millon years afterward. Perhaps someone here with a better understanding of paleontology can help me out with this. In any event, it would have been nice to have Guterl finish his thought there.
My biggest problem with the video, though, is in Guterl's suggestion that our changing the atmosphere's composition — referring to the end-Permian extinction, as well as the "Great Oxygenation" of the Paleoproterozoic — is what's got scientists worried about mass extinction these days, given that we happen to be adding CO2 to the atmosphere faster than the Siberian Traps did 252 million years ago. And scientists are indeed worried about the effects of climate change on biodiversity.
But scientists working on studying and preserving biodiversity — which after all is the positive way of saying "not having a mass extinction' — are worried about a whole lot more than climate change. We could completely solve the atmospheric CO2 overburden on Tuesday and still be faced with an extinction crisis as we plow up grasslands, cut down forests, bottom-trawl the oceans, and build new sprawling cities on land that once supported wildlife.
The IUCN identifies habitat loss as the main threat to 85% of the species it lists as "Threatened" or "Endangered" on its Red List. The Red List includes 391 terrestrial plant species of all threat levels described as potentially threatened by climate change or severe weather, compared to 5,582 that may be threatened by human disruption of their habitat. The equivalent numbers for terrestrial animal species are 1,991 potentially threatened by climate change and 13,388 by habitat disruption.
There are errors inherent in the IUCN data that stem mainly from lack of resources to assess species, but the implication is clear. Climate change is thought to pose a serious threat to many species. Human-caused habitat disruption is likely a more serious threat.
One of the problems I have with the mainstream environmental movement these days is that "environmental protection" has been conflated with "climate change mitigation." You can search environmental publications in vain for a long time for mentions of other issues. When I started editing environmentalist publications in 1992 — the year of the first Earth Summit, in Rio — public attention was about evenly divided between the importance of preserving biodiversity and the threat of climate change. You can see evidence of this in the newly revamped Google Ngram viewer, by comparing mentions of the relevant phrases in books archived by Google as a function of time:
Expressed as a percentage of text in all books in the database, "biodiversity" peaks relative to "climate change" in 1997, then actually starts to decline in 2003. "Climate change" gains the lead the year the Al Gore's movie came out. Google's data runs until 2008. My personal anecdata would suggest that the lead "climate change" started developing in 2006 probably grew dramatically after 2009, with biodiversity likely to catch up a little bit sometime next year due to renewed attention to the issue on the UN front.
The point is that environment has become synonymous with climate in many minds. Thinking of biodiversity as of secondary importance (at best) to climate change has resulted in proposals to stem climate change that would actually harm biodiversity. They include everything from seeding oceans with iron to cutting down rainforests for biofuel soy plantations to siting utility-scale solar plants on intact and biodiverse desert habitat when there are former alfalfa farms in the neighborhood.
By mentioning only climate change in a video that purports to address whether we're facing a mass extinction, Scientific American helps promote this emphasis on climate change — which is obviously a huge threat — to the exclusion of the greater causes of current extinctions. Yes, it's a video lasting less than three minutes, but one could easily mention agricultural conversion and overfishing and forest clearcutting in a short video. They aren't complicated concepts.
By all means, SciAm should rail against climate change. SciAm should persuade people to look at their carbon footprints, to demand changes in the way we run our industrial society, and to challenge the idiots in charge who'd deny any climate problem exists. But this was supposed to be a video on the current extinction event, and you somehow failed to mention the larger causes of that extinction. That does a disservice to SciAm's viewers — and to the science.


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Wild Winds Are Blowing was included.
'The time is right for us. The mass audiences want it. We'd always done the same act, but the audiences didn't want it before. They just wanted to be cool and sit down and dig the music and read deep things into it. But finally everybody got sick of that.'
Thus, in a few succinct sentences, Noddy Holder sums up the success of Slade. The right band at the right time playing to the right audiences.
Now that rock or pop (you tell me where to draw the line) has been around long enough to have acquired its own historians and archivists, perhaps we should have expected a band like Slade to appear when they did, stomping audiences out of their lethargy and drawing kids to concert halls who thought grass was something only professional footballers played on.
Slade emerged from their Wolverhampton fastness like Attila the Hun hightailing it down the Appian Way towards a moribund and defenceless Rome. As rock became more ethereal, more intellectual, all down to sitting round a BBC studio to watch the latest American aesthete unburden his soul, perhaps we tended to forget that out there, north of Potters Bar and east of Portland Place, the dark people were huddled round their trannies (transistor radios), thirsting for something to get them going.
They were getting it all right, for it was at this period that Slade were labouring up and down the country in the time- honoured fashion. The only thing they lacked was the Open Sesame to the media, which is called a hit record.
'We built up a following by our stage reputation long before we had a hit,' Dave Hill points out. 'So when we had a hit, it brought more and more people in to see us.'
Show business and sport have long been the accepted escape routes for working class kids. This knowledge was acquired at an early age by Noddy Holder.
'I'd already sussed out at the age of 13 or 14 that I wanted to be in the group business. Nothing else would satisfy me. I knew I had to put my foot down and say, "I'm leaving school".'
Which he did and it must have been a traumatic experience to his parents as he'd already collected six 0 levels.
'I'd rather do something that makes me happy. If it only lasts five years, I'll know I've done what I wanted to do, and if I've shit it up, then it's purely my own fault and nobody else's.'
There speaks a whole generation with an attitude that rejects society's plans for them much more vehemently than most of us think. Unfortunately, it's only given to the few to carry it out, Slade were among that chosen few.
But the game is littered with the corpses of individuals who have risen from the same soil only to reject their backgrounds. Slade have kept the in-puts plugged in to bak 'ome.
They still live in the Wolverhampton area, which must be very nice for Midlands fans, but means that the London branch stores up enough energy to storm Holiday Inns when the group actually stay together in London. Don maintains:-
'I'm very conscious that I'm a working class bloke. In this business you meet a lot of people who are not working class and you know that you're different. Your outlook on life is different to what theirs is. You either decide you want to be part of that clique, or you don't. And I don't.'
But what is it about Slade's music and stage act that has made them the most unique British band of the Seventies so far? In the flesh, it's undoubtedly that they are living out the kids' own fantasies and ambitions. There's an empathy between group and audience that is rare in the pop concert hall, a climate that is more easily recognised in football grounds. They may be stars, but they're our stars.
But Slade are not just straight excitement. Their manager, Chas Chandler, who played bass in one of Britain's most influential bands of the Sixties, the Animals, has always insisted: -
'From the moment I heard Slade, I knew they were better musicians than we ever were.'
And he should know.
As an illustration of how a band like Slade moves towards a style which captures the imagination of a generation, let's look at the 14 tracks here in chronological order.
WILD WINDS ARE BLOWING was the first single that Slade made with their manager, Chas Chandler. 'It came out just at our skinhead period,' says Jimmy Lea.
SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME also dates from that period, and was the theme tune from a film, 'Wild In The Streets'. It was also the first song that the group played on Top Of The Pops.
POUK HILL is a local beauty spot just up the road from Noddy's gaff in Wolverhampton. Don't bother to look it up in the guides to Beautiful Britain. Some bright photographer, they recall, had the idea of dragging the group up there to photograph them for an album cover. The difficulties arose when the snow was thick on the ground and the photographer insisted on shooting them naked from the waist up. They froze and subsequently all went down with 'flu. 'You couldn't even see the bloody snow when the cover was printed,' they remember.
ONE WAY HOTEL is the kind of song that any band who've survived the miseries of being on the road with barely the price of a fish supper are bound to dredge out of their consciousness sooner or later.
'There were the four of us, plus two roadies, in one hotel room. Six beds. It was pouring with rain, and we were skint not even the price of a pint between us. So we wrote this to pass the time.'
GET DOWN AND GET WITH IT was Slade's first Top 20 single, and it had boon thoroughly market researched before it was issued.
'The first time we played this on stage, the reaction was so fantastic that we knew it had to be a single. It was also the first time that we had laid down the vocals and backing at the same time to try and capture the feel.'
They got the feel all right. and this is the song still tremendously popular on stage, which has become the group's national anthem.
COZ I LUV YOU was that fearful animal, the follow-up single.
'This was the first time that we deliberately sat down to write a commercial song. We hadn't had to worry about follow-ups before ... we hadn't had bloody hit singles.'
Jimmy recalls.
'We wrote it in about half-an-hour. We just got the feel right early on, we seemed to have found the right formula, simplicity and atmosphere.'
It got to NO.1 after two weeks, and stayed there for four weeks.
LOOK WOT YOU DUN was a song that the group had lying about for some time. Jim and Don wrote it originally, but it was thought the chorus wasn't strong enough to do much with it. So it was recast, and it went to No. 2.
TAKE ME BAK 'OME was a deliberate exercise to recapture the stage act on record. The group had felt that the previous two singles were not representative of the stage act; this was.
MAMA WEER ALL CRAZEE NOW found its inspiration in the scene after a Slade concert.
'We went to look at the hall after a Dig. It was devastated. Everybody seemed to have gone crazy that night.'
They also went crazy over the single; it went to NO.1.
'It was during our American trip in September 1972. We were on this telly chat show in San Francisco and there was this chick who just sat beside the compere - that's all she did, just sit there, looking gorgeous. She had this pair of shoes, called them her "Forties Trip" shoes. She thought they were marvellous, though you could buy them in any Oxford Street store over here. She lost them just before the show and we helped her turn the place over to find them.'
When the group recorded the song, it hadn't been rehearsed. There was some spare time during an album session. They played it through and laid it down in half-an-hour. It made No. 2.
LOOK AT LAST NIGHT indicates that Slade are well aware of the fickleness of fame. It's about the people and show business has more than its fair share of them who seek out the successful but disappear into the night when the good times are over.
CUM ON FEEL THE NOIZE is yet another song inspired by the Slade audience.
'We did this gig, in Liverpool I think, whore you could actually feel the noise of the audience in our bones.'
So could the public ... it went straight to No. 1, the first time that had happened since the Beatles.
SKWEEZE ME PLEEZE ME did the same straight to the top of the charts, and was again conceived as an audience participation song.
Wild Winds Are Blowing
Shape Of Things To Come
Know Who You Are
Pouk Hill
One Way Hotel
Get Down & Get With It
Coz I Luv You
Look Wot You Dun
Take Me Bak 'Ome
Mama Weer All Crazee Now
Gudbuy T'Jane
Look At Last Night
Cum On Fee The Noize
Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me
I believe Sladest was probably released to buy time while Don recovered and the band, hopefully, got back in the swing of things. It was most definitely not just a greatest hits album, although it did fill all the criteria. After Slade Alive! the group became idols for unpretentious working class teenagers... and there were a lot of us around. The hits rolled in and the group could do little wrong till suddenly.... POW!
It's so hard to put into context. It was such an impressionable period in my life, sport was purely a social thing, I was just finding out what sex was for, alcohol had yet to become relevant. The only important thing in my life was Slade, had been for a year and a half now, and the euphoria of Earls Court (my second Slade gig, both of which, had left me totally blissed out) was followed by the news that the group was probably finished. I believe 'traumatic' would be an accurate word to describe my emotional state.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't moping around crying, contemplating suicide and stuff like that but I had landed with a hefty bump. Even though Don was back in business, when Sladest came out, we grabbed it like a lifesaver. It was proof of life, the band were alive and still happening although it seemed to be an epitaph. It was clearly 'the story so far' and had the band not been able to get back in the chair, it could have been 'The Story'.
I went out and bought it on the day of release. I opened it with reverence, gazed lovingly at the live photos and read the sleeve notes in awe. I almost died with excitement on the bus, reading about Wild Winds Are Blowing, one of the very few Slade recordings I didn't have, and I understood instinctively, that this album catalogued my collection of Slade 7"s. It also amplified that feeling of dread in my gut because I could see that this album could stand as Slade's headstone....
"Here lies Slade, they were gooder than shit!"
The great thing about it is, it worked really well just like that but on the other hand, retrospectively, it also stands as a great album on it's own merit. 14 tracks, 11 singles, 8 hits, 5 #1's.
In the UK, the singles had not featured on albums often and they had mostly been released since Slade Alive! had been recorded, it was almost chronological unlike the tracklisting. The rear cover list is even more confusing having nothing to do with the running order or discography?
Interestingly, half the Slade written tracks feature Powell writing credits. This may have been a pension fund in case Don couldn't continue in the band. It would certainly explain why One Way Hotel and Pouk Hill were added to sandwich Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me, their latest hit.
All the others are the group discography and Wild Winds Are Blowing was guaranteed to produce revenue to pay off the old Winsley & Saker outstanding bill. This particular track wasn't on any album and was deleted as a single, it therefore could not redeem itself until now. I guess it balanced the books.
The only track on the album to feature a Dave Hill writing credit is Know Who You Are.
I had two main criticisms with Sladest, Mama & Jane were on Slayed, so why add Look At Last Nite too. The other, far more important point, why wasn't C'mon C'mon included. I always assumed it must be a weak song and I didn't actually get to hear it for decades. It's easy to see now that Look At Last Nite was included because, had the album become a memorial, it was highly relevant. C'mon C'mon though, that was a serious omission
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16-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Sunday, May 7, 1911: Went to Sunday school this afternoon. Saw M.C.R. I went over to Stout's this evening. Carrie wanted me to try their new telephone but I wouldn't do it. Besse and Curt were out this evening.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
Today feels like a milestone was reached in the diary. So many days Grandma's life moves forward in rather routine, predictable ways—but a hundred years ago today Grandma apparently had her first opportunity to use a telephone—though she declined because the new technology evidently intimidated her.
I'm surprised that Grandma had never previously used a phone. According to George Wesner in his 1976 History of 'McEwensville:
"Around the turn of the century there were two telephones in the town. The Bell was at Watson's Store and at the home of Armstrong's. Later phones were installed at the Gearhart Foundry, A. & C. Mauser's carriage works and the J.G. Smith's residence. A number of years later, the West Branch Bell Telephone Company began operations and built lines throughout the area."
I love how phones came into the McEwensville area so slowly that Mr. Wesner could name exactly who had the first ones when he wrote his history almost two-thirds of a century later. It must have been very prestigious to own a phone in that era.
Throughout the diary Grandma often used initials rather than names to identify guys she liked, so I assume that M.C.R. was someone who Grandma thought was cute. She apparently was concerned that her mother or sister would read her diary, so often tried to mask the names—though it seems to me that if family members were reading the diary that they would have been able to decipher the initials.


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Attorney General Martha Coakley, who only three years ago appeared to be finished politically, will join the race for governor with an announcement in her hometown of Medford on Monday followed by an 18-city barnstorming tour for the next three days, a top Coakley political aide said.
Her campaign will test whether Democrats are ready to take another chance on her leading the ticket next year as she emphasizes a theme of expanding economic opportunity, job creation, and improving education.
"Massachusetts is poised to take off," Coakley said in a statement she released Sunday. "We can either grab this moment and move forward together, or risk falling behind. I believe we must continue to rebuild our economy in a way that gives everyone the opportunity to succeed, and launch new education reforms so that every child and adult has the skills they need to compete in a global economy."
She will release a video announcement Monday morning and begin her day at Dempsey's Breakfast and Lunch in Medford, before heading to Brockton, Attleboro, Fall River, New Bedford, and Hyannis for her first day of campaigning.
Despite a lackluster performance that led to her humiliating loss to Scott Brown in the 2010 US Senate race, Coakley is expected to be a formidable candidate in the primary. Recent polls show she is now one of the most popular political figures in the state.
She joins a Democratic primary field that includes one other woman, who has never run for office before, and three men — including the candidate many analysts consider her main rival in the early stages of the campaign, state Treasurer Steve Grossman.
Grossman, a former state and national party chairman, has been working hard for several years, crisscrossing the state and button-holing party leaders, fund-raisers, and activists for support. Coakley, who was expected until this spring to run for reelection, for the most part has not circulated among the party activists, keeping a low profile politically while focusing on her job as attorney general.
Grossman released a statement Sunday that takes a direct shot at Coakley's emphasis on economic issues. "I am the only Democratic candidate who offers a lifetime of proven leadership in strengthening our economy,'' he said.
Still, with her high-profile work as attorney general in the last few years boosting her image, early polls show Coakley leading the pack in the party primary and running the strongest against probable GOP nominee Charles D. Baker.
She faces skepticism within the party rank and file, however. Based on the 2010 Senate race, many party regulars are concerned about her ability to sustain a strong campaign in the general election.
Analysts say the question of whether Coakley can win the governor's office depends on her using the tough lessons learned from the Senate race. Her supporters point to her ability to rebound as evidenced by her landslide reelection victory later that year.
"You can tell a lot about someone's character not when things are going well, but when they have a setback," said state Representative Paul Brodeaur, a Melrose Democrat. "That says more about her than anything else."
Peter N. Ubertaccio, director of the Martin Institute at Stonehill College, said Democrats would make a mistake to view Coakley "exclusively through the lens of January 2010.''
"She turned around immediately from that defeat and was reelected by a substantial margin and has continued since to remain one of the most popular politicians in the state,'' he said. "A lot of it depends on whether she and her people have learned from that Senate campaign.''
Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist who is not affiliated with any campaign, said the decision to launch her campaign in a three-day tour through the state — compared to the recent video release by Baker — shows Coakley is serious about retooling her image as an aloof prosecutor.
"The fact that she is doing an 18-city tour shows that she is intent to put those doubts aside and the past behind her,'' Marsh said.
Coakley, who is convinced her failure in the Senate race was due in part to a poor campaign structure, has also turned to campaign strategist Doug Rubin, who many consider the party's top political adviser in the state. His past list of clients includes Governor Deval Patrick, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III.
Her arrival in the already crowded Democratic field comes as another major potential rival, US Representative Michael Capuano, the Somerville Democrat, is close to a decision on whether to run. He has lined up financial support, staff, and consultants but has yet to make a final determination.
"We always anticipated this would be a crowded primary and clearly it will be very crowded primary,'' said Paul Trane, a longtime senior adviser to Capuano. He said Capuano will make a final decision in the next several weeks.
One of Coakley's strongest advantages is support she is getting from Democratic women activists and fund-raisers, who had encouraged her to jump into the race. Until that pressure mounted this spring, members of her inner political circle signaled that she would probably not run and instead seek a third term as attorney general.
Emily's List, a Washington-based political group with a mission to elect women to public office, is expected to provide Coakley significant financial resources through its national fund-raising network.
The other woman in the Democratic race is Juliette Kayyem, a former Globe editorial page columnist who has served as a state and federal homeland security official. Kayyem said last month she would run, although she had indicated earlier she would not get in the race if Coakley entered.
She said Sunday she would not bow out because of Coakley's entrance, contending she had joined the race in August convinced that the attorney general would also run and with the view that women should compete in politics.
"It's the 21st century, so the era of one woman at a time is long gone,'' said Kayyem.
Still, with no electoral experience and little name recognition, Kayyem faces up an uphill battle to get herself into serious consideration, particularly if Coakley is in the race.
Also running is Don Berwick, who ran Medicaid and Medicare in the Obama administration, and Joseph Avellone, a biotech executive.
Coakley's decision will add to the political free-for-all that continues to develop for the 2014 state campaign. State Representative Daniel P. Winslow, a former district court judge who lost his primary bid to be the GOP candidate for US Senate earlier this year, has said he will make an announcement about his plans on Monday.
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Calgary police have charged a teacher with sex offences involving a teenage boy.
The charges stem from an inappropriate relationship allegedly between a 30-year-old female teacher at Our Lady of the Assumption elementary school and a 16-year-old boy who previously attended classes there.
"We are shocked and saddened by this recent development," read a letter sent by the school to parents on Friday.
The activity allegedly began when the boy was 15 and took place between August 2012 and November 2013.
"She was teaching at the same school," said Staff Sgt. Kelly Campbell of the child abuse unit.
Campbell said she couldn't specify whether the teacher and boy were in the same class, to protect the identity of the complainant.
The boy, now 16, attends high school elsewhere in the city.
Campbell said the allegations came to light last November, when a passerby called police about "inappropriate interaction" between two occupants of a vehicle parked on a northwest Calgary street.
At this time, police don't believe there are any other victims involved in the case.
Police arrested a suspect on Thursday.
Jennifer Mason, 30, has been charged with sexual assault, sexual exploitation by a person in a position of trust, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching.
Although the general age of consent for sexual activity is 16, the Criminal Code forbids sexual activity between minors under 18 and adults who hold a position of trust over them, such as teachers and coaches.
A Calgary Catholic School District spokeswoman said it immediately launched an internal investigation and re-assigned Mason to duties outside the school when police informed school officials of the allegations last November.
The board later suspended Mason following its parallel investigation into the allegations.
The School Act requires school boards to continue paying teachers under suspension.
Due to a citywide teachers' convention, schools across the city were closed on Friday.
Catholic school spokeswoman Tania Younker said the district will provide counsellors for staff and students at the affected school when classes resume on Tuesday.
Mason is scheduled to appear in provincial court on Feb. 28.
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And probably the last for a while… 🙂
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Did you know that Tom Sizemore is still alive? I know I was surprised too, but there he is, popping up in the new trailer for "Human Factor", a new film about two investigators trying to find the reason for a mass disappearance of homeless people. Well alright his name is in the trailer, you don't actually see him. But I have to assume he pops up somewhere. I can't imagine they dug up his corpse or anything.
I have no idea what "Jessa Kill" is about but I'm 99% sure it stars a porn star, or would be porn star, as a some kind ninja cheerleader who kills zombies. It's a web series, I know that much. The porn star thing is what really got me hooked though. Episode 1 recently launched and it kind of made me feel all squishy inside. Ya know what I mean? Me either.
Marco Beltrami, an Oscar nominated composer who has a name that makes me question my sexuality, has been hand picked by the gods to compose the score for the upcoming big screen adaptation of "World War Z". For those of you not in the know that book revolves around a UN employee who races around the world trying to stop the zombie apocalypse. Beltrami... just say it out loud.
Yesterday I guess there was news that "Piranha 3DD" would be going direct to DVD over in the UK. I was sleeping most of the day so I missed this. But today it looks like that news was horse doodie anyway so crisis averted. This morning was a real roller coaster ride of emotions for me.