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I just happened to come across this page when google searching about my 1982 Chrysler Lebaron, a show car by the way, and it seems that this site is completely abandoned. It appears nothing goes on here. I searched through the few upcoming events pages, there should only be one by the way, and it seems nothing has gone on since 2014. The actual website and social media pages look abandoned as well. I'm confused... Is anything going on here When are the next car shows? Is absolutely everything in California? Are there things going on out east? A New York Tour even? Why is this website so cluttered? Is the group now listed as a non-profit organization or no? WHAT IS GOING ON!? HELP! I don't wish to make enemies but what is going on?
If any of you need help with social media, please, PLEASE, let me know because clearly what is going on isn't working. I also am a YouTube guru so if any videos need done and uploaded let me know. I'd hate to see a group of such passionate and caring individuals fail.
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Fitbug, the online activity tracker and wellness coach, has filed a complaint against popular fit-tech startup Fitbit alleging trademark infringement and unfair competition and business practices.
Fitbug claims Fitbit has caused irreparable harm and damage to their company, and it has asked the U.S. District Court in Northern California to order Fitbit to stop allegedly using its Fitbit mark and conduct that causes confusion with Fitbug's brand.
Founded in 2005, Fitbug combines activity-tracking devices with web and mobile technology that gives personalized weekly activity and nutrition targets as well as advice, feedback, and encouragement. The U.K.-based company started using its trademark "Fitbug" in the U.S. the same year.
Fitbug was one of the first companies in the fitness-technology market, combining electronic tracking devices with digital coaching to help people become healthy and lose weight.
The lawsuit alleges Fitbit created and distributed identical devices and services four years after Fitbug began its operations in the U.S. These actions, and the nearly identical names and marks, have caused confusion among consumers and are damaging Fitbug's business, according to the suit.
Fitbug said that over the past year, the company has received numerous customer service requests from users needing assistance with their Fitbit devices, and media publications, social media, and potential business partners have confused their products as well.
According to the complaint, Fitbit has mirrored Fitbug's logo, icons, photographs and imagery on the website, products, and packaging materials, going as far as including a blue dot over the letter "i." Fitbug recently changed its logo and no longer uses the blue dot.
Fitbit uses similar bright colors, photography, silhouettes, packaging, and imagery on its product that Fitbug began using in 2006. Diagrams monitoring users' food intake and energy levels are almost identical as well. Some images presented in the suit are shown below.
The lawsuit was filed on March 29. Fitbit has yet to respond to the allegations.

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Markets to take first hit if US fails to reach deal on fiscal cliff crisis
THE US falling off the so-called fiscal cliff would be the most serious jolt to the global economy since the financial crisis, and could be felt on Australian markets as early as Monday morning, economists say.
Saul Eslake, Australian economist with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, said a worst-case scenario for Australia would be a shock to confidence, strengthening of the dollar, a fall in commodity prices, and weaker overall growth.
''The risks are now non-trivial,'' he said.
Hopes are fading for a political deal to avert a crisis, with the US House of Representatives due to meet on Sunday for an urgent session to try to reach a last-minute deal.
Should a deal fail, it would take some time for the real economic effects to play out globally and in Australia. But the impact on local financial markets could be immediate.
Mr Eslake said a deal now looked unlikely.
''The best you could hope for in the remaining … days is some kind of deal that defers some of the measures entailed in the fiscal cliff, to be resolved in the early days of the new congress.''
Peter Dragicevich, a currency strategist at the Commonwealth Bank, said the US equities market and in turn Australian markets would come under pressure on Monday if a deal wasn't made.
''The US dollar would be supported, which could see the Aussie dollar drift a little bit lower next week,'' he said.
Mr Eslake said any real economic impact on Australia could be delayed, as it was during the financial crisis, but the impact on financial markets could be very quick.
''Australian markets are the first to react, but tend to react cautiously and wait for a lead in larger markets, such as Japan and Hong Kong,'' he said.
''You wouldn't see a seizing up of global financial markets, but there would be some parallels to the financial crisis, in the way the financial crisis caused a recession in the US which spilled over to its trading partners.
''Although we don't do a lot of trade with the US, we do a lot of trade with US trading partners.''
The Treasurer, Wayne Swan, lauded Australia's ''resilient'' economy, but warned of international influences.
''We're not immune from global developments,'' Mr Swan said. ''The impact of America's fiscal cliff saga combined with Europe's deep problems is having a real impact on the entire global economy.
''Of course, we're seeing the impact first-hand in Australia with the huge whack we've copped to our revenue base.''
While most analysts are predicting the local effects of a crisis to be downward pressure on Australian equities markets and a fall in the Australian dollar, Mr Eslake said there was a chance the dollar could rise, having more of a negative effect on the economy.
''Instead of the dollar going down and providing a cushion for the economy, as it often does, the dollar could rise and thus compound the effects of a crisis,'' he said.
Cliff talks have continued to dominate market sentiment, but there is still uncertainty over the effect on local markets, said the IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu. ''No one really knows what's going on, to be honest, everyone is just responding or reacting to these headlines for now,'' he said.
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Boston Globe health reporter Chelsea Conaboy has been named the 2012 Donald Murray Visiting Journalist at the University of New Hampshire. She will discuss her career as a health reporter and share her experiences with journalism students during her weeklong visit beginning April 9, 2012.
As part of her week at UNH, Conaboy'04, will present "10 Years in a Newsroom: The Things I've Found Worth Fighting For," Wednesday, April 11, 2012, at 5 p.m. in MUB Theatre I. The event is free and open to the public.
"My talk really is about the things that I hope students will join me in fighting for when they graduate and start their professional careers: mission, story, and optimism. The industry is changing so much, and being a young journalist is hard. It requires some fight. These are the things that motivate me to keep going -- the mission of serving a community of readers, the joy and the importance of storytelling, and my own optimism for where journalism is headed," Conaboy says.
Conaboy writes about Boston's medical industry, state and national health care policy, and advancements in medical research for the White Coat Notes blog on Boston.com and the Boston Globe. Previously a business and health reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, she started her career at the Concord Monitor.
"Health care, in particular, is a great specialty to pursue right now. The Globe has made a significant commitment to maintaining its health and science department — which is much smaller than it used to be but larger than at many comparable papers — because it recognizes that there's a real hunger for health reporting. It's such an issue of national concern. Within health care there are important business stories and community stories and personal stories. And there's so much conflicting information out there about what we should be doing to protect our own health as individuals. I think readers are looking for help in navigating it all," she says. She graduated in 2004 from UNH with a triple major in Spanish, international affairs, and journalism, and she spent the following summer as a writing and reporting fellow at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla.
"I had three very formative journalism experiences at UNH. One was working at TNH — the camaraderie among the staff and the experience of working with other writers on their stories every week really helped to solidify my interest in journalism. I had a great internship experience at the Lewiston Sun Journal in Maine, where they let me write regularly and I got a sense of just how important a newspaper is to a community," Conaboy says.
"Also, Jane Harrigan's journalism ethics class in the fall semester of 2001 was a really powerful experience. The World Trade Center was attacked at the start of the semester and, for months, we dissected the coverage of that day and the aftermath. That class really helped me to see the bigger picture, the role that journalism plays in society, and pushed me to think about the standards that I wanted to live by as a journalist," she says. Conaboy was recognized by state and regional press associations in eight consecutive years, most recently by the New Jersey Press Association for a story about the mortgage crisis in that state. She received multiple awards for her work on a five-part series about Carolynne St. Pierre, a Concord woman dying of a rare cancer, and her family's struggle to redefine itself after her death.
"It's hard to put into words what this project and what this family has meant to me. Personally, I learned a lot about family and death and resiliency. Professionally, this story really stretched me to develop my skills in reporting and narrative writing. It taught me about how important it is to be human in our work, to pay attention to how we feel about the people and the stories we write about and to convey that to readers," Conaboy says.
The Donald Murray Visiting Journalist Program is named in honor of the late Donald Murray, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who started the UNH journalism program in 1963. Terry Williams '80, publisher of The Telegraph of Nashua, led the fundraising drive for the program, with primary support coming from The McLean Contributionship and from UNH journalism alumni. Sponsored by the journalism program, the Donald Murray Visiting Journalist Program brings accomplished alumni journalists to campus each year for week-long residencies during which they conduct classes, work with students and student media, and give a public lecture. Recent visiting alums include Dana Jennings of The New York Times and Steve Damish of The Enterprise in Brockton, Mass.
The program is sponsored by the UNH Journalism Program, the UNH English Department, The Telegraph of Nashua and the McLean Contributionship.
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The 30th annual George Moffett Race will have more than one winner. Organizers of this year's contest, scheduled for tomorrow, hope all the sailors who participate will walk away from the contest with smiles.
The Moffett Race is that kind of event. It has always been a contest involving a lot of sailing skill and the fellowship of a lot of champions. That's not too bad for an event that costs only $40 to enter.
As many as 60 sailboats are expected to start. They are of all sizes. Race chairman Harry Duane of Vineyard Haven said he is expecting that at least 57 boats will be registered for the race and at least three boats will show up just to sail because they failed to register in time.
The boats will gather outside of Vineyard Haven harbor to position for two division starts. There is a starting gun at 11 a.m. and a second start at 11:15 a.m. The best view is from any of the beaches along East Chop. Because this year's starting line is a good deal farther out, the East Chop Lighthouse may offer the best view from shore.
Part of the impetus of moving the starting line is to insure that boats competing in the race stay away from the West Chop side, where ferries come and go.
The Moffett Race is an end-of-summer sailing ritual. Any event that lasts 30 years on the Vineyard is a big deal and the sailors who participate tomorrow will feel the glow.
"It was conceived by Pat West and George Moffett more than 30 years ago," Mr. Duane said. "These guys had a really good view of what would be great fun for sailors in the harbor. They also started the Holmes Hole Sailing Association more than 30 years ago."
Nat Benjamin, a wooden boat builder in Vineyard Haven, said: "To me the Moffett is still a great way to pay tribute to George Moffett, a wonderful friend and a terrific Island philanthropist, who among many credits created Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary. He was a great person who loved fun competition, whether it was racing sailboats or cars."
The race itself is unlike any other on the Vineyard, though it has some similarity to the Opera House Cup race on Nantucket and the Figawi race between Hyannis and Nantucket.
"There are just all types of boats in the race," Mr. Benjamin said. "It is the rainbow coalition of yachting. You've got every shape, size and boat kind participating in the race."
Boats can be any length as long as they are between 16 and 75 feet. With such a varied size, the boats compete against each other based on a handicap system that was derived years ago.
Because some boats are designed to go faster than others, the system levels the playing field so that it is one sailor against another. And part of the success of the race is that it has been amended through the years to make it better.
"Last year we rewrote the sailing instructions to exactly conform to the United States Sailing Association," Mr. Duane said. "To win you have to have a good combination of luck and the ability to make critical decisions."
The race committee has four race courses from which to choose. Depending on weather, current and conditions, the chosen course could be mostly in Nantucket Sound or Vineyard Sound.
Of those four choices, the length of the race might be 10 nautical miles long or 20. Whatever the choice, the race usually fills the afternoon.
Mr. Duane has the distinction of having won the race twice in a 27-foot Soling sailboat called Andiamo II, first in 1995 and then three years later.
"Winning is the greatest feeling. It even compares to winning the seasoned races with the Holmes Hole Sailing Association. If you win the Moffett Race, you are listed there in history. You feel good all year round. I have known sailors who have won and it is the same. It is one of the greatest things to happen in local sailing."
A lot of skilled sailors have not won, though they try year after year.
Mr. Benjamin is not listed as a winner, though in many other ways he is a winner. His friends and customers participate in the race. In some years, as many as half a dozen boats he has built have participated in the Moffett Race.
Mr. Benjamin and his boat building partner Ross Gannon, another Moffett race sailor, have filled the Vineyard Haven waterfront with quite a few wooden sailing boats.
Roger Becker of Chappaquiddick, a past commodore of the Holmes Hole Sailing Association, has sailed the race for years but never won.
"Thirty years?" he mused. "That means I have not won in 27 years.
"I think this year will be perfect," said Mr. Becker, who sails a 24-foot red-hulled sloop named Gloria. "There will be great weather. For me it means the end of the season, the big finale for sailing, though there will be sailboat racing through September into October.
"I haven't won, but I keep trying. I have great faith that everything will fall into place — this year," Mr. Becker said.


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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Playing golf one July afternoon, Christine Boehlert didn't think twice when she felt a mosquito bite her leg. Considering it nothing more than a minor annoyance, she continued her round and forgot about the incident altogether. However, two weeks after the bite, the Poughkeepsie resident's leg was sensitive to the touch and still hadn't healed properly.
Boehlert consulted her primary-care physician, tried various antibiotic ointments and took an oral antibiotic, but a few weeks had gone by, and her wound still wasn't healing. Plus, she was experiencing increased pain in her leg, and her foot occasionally felt numb. A nurse at work suggested she consult the Center for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine at MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), where she saw Associate Chief of Vascular Surgery Dr. Jayesh Modi. "He said that he suspected I had blocked arteries," said Boehlert, "and after a few weeks of trying to get the infection to go away, he suggested I see his associate, Dr. Fulton."
An ultrasound of her leg, ordered by Dr. Joseph Fulton, MidHudson Regional Hospital's Chief of Vascular Surgery, revealed that Boehlert had a significant artery blockage on her right side and a smaller one on the left. A subsequent CT scan confirmed that she would indeed need surgery.
Boehlert was diagnosed with peripheral artery disease, or PAD, a subset of atherosclerosis. A type of vascular disease, it involves a buildup of plaque — composed of cholesterol, fat and other substances — in the arterial walls of lower extremities. "The plaque buildup inside the layers of the artery causes a decrease in the luminal size, or the inner opening, causing a blockage and decreased blood flow," said Fulton.
To hear more of Boehlert's story and see how she was given a new lease on life, click here to read more via Advancing Care in the Hudson Valley.


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Now Clear for Takeoff
Jim Burke, vice president of information technology and telecommunications for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, doesn't come across as a maverick, but he has blazed a trail at three of the world's busiest airports with his common-use approach to IT infrastructure. The lessons he's learned translate to other shared-services business models, too.
CIO Insight: How did you first come to embrace the common-use model?
Well, I worked at Heathrow for 12 years and retrofitted that airport, which was a major undertaking. It was part of a reorganization of the competitive landscape at the time. Before that, it was very difficult for a newcomer to get in. Some airlines were allowed only three flights a day, all leaving from the same gate, within a few hours of one another. Other airlines had dozens of open gates. There was so much wasted space. So when I say that common use is common sense, I have seen just about as bad as it can get.
How does the common-use model change the way an airport does business?
The airline industry is more of a pure free market now than ever before. There are no barriers to entry. Demand can be matched to supply. But it's a very complex set of programs and algorithms to manage. You've got flight forecasts, slots, runway capacity, aircraft parking and then the airport process itself. So we have to be a lot more engrossed in handling customer requests than before, and that is a process that began well before we built the new terminal.
How do you keep things equitable among the different airlines, especially with Air Canada's dominance at Toronto Pearson?
We are in the customer management business. This is Air Canada's biggest hub, and it has to work well for them in order for the airline to be profitable. They are the biggest users of the network; they've even extended it into the back office. And there is a legal ruling that while Air Canada is in bankruptcy protection we must offer them a predesignated set of gates.
What is the competitive advantage that hub airlines risk losing?
I struggled to find a competitive advantage of a genuine nature with the alternative to common use. It makes no sense at all for airlines to incur the complete cost of something like a campus-area network by replicating what we had to put in anyway. We had to carry so much stuff over our own networkand I have to do a good job with that, anywayso why not ride on the back of our network? I think people haven't yet seen it operate in a place like this so comprehensively. What we easily demonstrated was that their methodology was more expensive than ours.
Are common-use networks deregulating the airline industry for a second time?
I don't think that you can truly deregulate without common use. It makes no sense for an airline to lock itself into a 30-year lease. We are in a state of technical change. I think you have a model here which is in everyone's best interest. Airlines are going to change over time. The major airlines know they are going to have to change. It's no secret. So change is going to happen, and we have positioned ourselves to be more flexible. Everyone can be more flexible.
What can other CIOs learn from what you've done here?
Well, my background is manufacturing, and in that industry I learned that you are always part of a community, no matter where you are in the supply chain. So, in order to treat something of this size and scale, I have to put myself at the center of a community. The airlines are a big part of it, so are the car-rental companies, so are the vendors, so are the passengers, so are the other airports receiving passengers and bags from us, the control authorities, etc. It's major, and putting yourself in the center of that community is what any CIO has to do.
What's next for the GTAA?
A lot more concrete. We're going to be building out a new pier. You know, the usual thing for an airport, constant change.
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Music plays a huge part in society. Across the globe music lovers gather around and travel immensely to various countries to see live music. Music in general speaks volumes to people and serve as that inner voice that is released through melodic tunes.
Record Store Day originated in 2007 to 'celebrate the art of music,' every third Saturday of April. As a proud sponsor and partner of Record Store Day 2013, Clarks Originals presents a limited edition line of unique and inspired Desert Boots that honor the history of vinyl records and Clarks' longstanding collaborative relationships with the music industry.
To kick off the exclusive vinyl-inspired collection and ring in the 6th annual Record Store Day 2013, Fingerprints - an independent record company - hosted live performances by LA's surf pop outfit, Best Coast, along with alternative/indie heavyweights Jimmy Eat World, multiple-Grammy-winning guitarist Laurence Juber (formerly of Wings), and San Pedro's own bass-playing punk rock 'n' roll hero Mike Watt!
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Continuing to authenticate their strong connection with the music industry by supporting the Global phenomenon-Record Store Day- Clark Originals presented Best Coast for RSD '13 alongside a collection of must-have vinyl inspired Desert Boots for the Spring/Summer season. The band, notorious for their nostalgic Californian sound and appreciation for vinyl production joined the campaign! Watch the below video to find out why Best Coast wanted to pair up for Record Store Day and Clarks Originals!
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Harvesting: Fresh foliage can be harvested any time until plant flowers. Cut leaves as close to stem as possible. Seeds should be harvested 2-3 weeks after flowering begins, after the flower heads have turned brown. Cut flower heads with stem and place in paper bag before seed becomes too mature and falls to the ground. Heads should be placed in bottom of bag and the top of the bag should be tied shut around the stems. Seeds will fall to the bottom of the bag. Store seeds in airtight glass herb jar.
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Death on the gas field illustrates high risks of the rush to drill
The ground was like a sponge and the men's legs sank, in places up to their calves. A rumble of diesel engines filled the air. Then, there was a cry: "Back! Go back!"
Charles "C.J." Bevins, a 23-year-old roughneck, was pinned against a trailer by a forklift. The vehicle was partially sunk into the ground. C.J.'s legs dangled like a rag doll's.
The driver hurriedly backed up, and C.J. crumpled to the ground. As the men milled around, unsure how to help, C.J.'s face went white, his lips blue. He looked up at his friend and colleague Steve Riffle, whom he called "Dad."
"Dad, I ain't going to die, am I? I ain't going to die, am I?"
"No, you will be back to work tomorrow," Riffle said. "You will be all right."
C.J. died hours later at a hospital near the rig site in Smyrna, N.Y.
Oil and gas sites are among the most dangerous workplaces in the country, according to federal labor statistics and an ongoing EnergyWire investigation. Multiple pressures weigh on the people who work in this high-risk, high-reward industry, including the need to produce on schedule and keep costs down. The company men and their workers have a "get 'er done" attitude that sometimes leads to safety compromises that go unnoticed and undocumented.
Sometimes events tilt toward tragedy.
It has been more than a year since the accident. C.J.'s sister, Charlotte Bevins, 26, keeps her brother's blue safety helmet in the back seat of her car.
Since C.J.'s death on May 1, 2011, Charlotte has been driving a few of her brother's old co-workers to their rig jobs. Along the way, she quizzes them about the company's safety culture to piece together why, exactly, her brother died.
When a roughneck dies, the local newspaper runs a short obituary. The company pays for a funeral service. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration conducts an investigation and fines the company. In C.J.'s case, the fine was $4,900. Under the state's workers' compensation program, family members get a percentage of the victim's monthly salary.
The process is designed for an efficient cleanup. The company pays its share, and it moves on to drilling the next well.
Moving on is a lot harder for families left behind. No one tells them exactly why their brother, father or husband died. They get a letter from OSHA briefly laying out its findings, but they don't get a copy of the investigation report without filing a request under the Freedom of Information Act. To prove willful negligence in court, a high legal bar in most states, survivors assemble cases based on patchy eyewitness accounts in a notoriously opaque industry. Claims against leaseholders or site operators often drag on, before leading to undisclosed settlements that shed little light on what went wrong and how to prevent other tragedies.
"All this time has gone by, and I still don't know really what happened," Charlotte said in the fall at her home in Buckhannon, W.Va. "You know, I lost my brother. I was on my way to see him, and he was gone. I didn't get to say goodbye."
C.J. was 19 and supporting his girlfriend and her 1-year-old daughter, Reagan Page, when he got his first job on a drilling rig. The Bevinses were homesteaders; they had moved to West Virginia in 1998, bought 42 acres in Upshur County and home-schooled the kids. Without a high school diploma, C.J.'s skills were limited. The highest-paying jobs were in the oil fields or the mines.
On a drizzly autumn day, Charlotte drove along Buckhannon's narrow streets. She pulled up at a small house with white siding and a porch littered with a girl's pink playthings. Justin Shelley, 27, gestured her in.
Shelley had the portly shape of a guy who has been confined to a wheelchair for a year. He was relearning to walk after he and two co-workers smashed their pickup truck into a tree at 60 miles an hour. They had been drinking and driving after a long workday on the rig. One-third of all deaths in the industry are due to motor vehicle accidents.
"I mean, it's a dangerous job, working on a rig is dangerous, it is a risk you take," Shelley said. Young men without a college education view the industry as a way out of a life flipping burgers at McDonald's. The jobs can pay up to $100,000 a year, depending on the position on a rig. The average drilling job involves working 12-hour shifts at 14-day stretches before getting some days off. It pays around $20 an hour and a $200 per diem, plus perks like a late-model Dodge Ram pickup.
Shelley's 4-year-old daughter, Riley, just back from school, clambered onto his lap. He hugged her and said, "This is why I do it.
"I'm not going to let my kids grow up like I did."
Shelley said that once he gets better, he would like to return to the rig and work until retirement, moving up the ladder until his education level stops his advancement. He loves working with his hands on the rig.
C.J. told Charlotte he worked in the oil and gas fields to provide for his family, the same reason as Shelley. A second child, Charles Bevins IV, or "Bubby," was on the way. And C.J. enjoyed the camaraderie of the oil field. The men would carpool to distant rig sites and stay four to a hotel room to save on their per diem. They worked long shifts and grabbed beers in the evenings.
"It don't matter what you did to that boy, always had a smile on his face," said James Riley, 37, a gas field worker who knew C.J. "You couldn't work that smile off his face, you couldn't."
One night, Riley recounted, the men made C.J. work on the derrick scrubbing the floor and equipment for hours when the rig was not being used for drilling. The hazing was part of how they trained new workers in West Virginia, Riley and his friends said. Derrick hands were "worms." They repaired, moved equipment, assisted with drilling and did whatever else they were ordered to do, as they worked their way up the totem pole to be a motor man, a mud man, a tool pusher and eventually a driller.
"He loved it," Riley said.
A mining region reawakened
Buckhannon is a blue-collar town of 5,700 people at the foothills of the Appalachians. Drilling and mining jobs around here are vital. There are lumber mills, coal mines and young men there who call themselves hillbillies, and do it with pride.
The area is famous for the Sago coal mine collapse of 2006, in Upshur County just outside town, when lightning ran down a metal rod into an open mine shaft and ignited a pocket of methane. Twelve miners died. National media descended on Buckhannon, and CNN's Anderson Cooper was spotted eating at C.J. Maggie's American Grill on Main Street. Once the circus subsided, Sago's survivors quietly honored the men by installing a monument topped by a miner's safety helmet.
When Sago collapsed, the U.S. energy picture had already started shifting. Technology and massive investment would soon reawaken the near-dormant oil and gas industry in the Northeast. Independent gas producers in Texas had already developed advanced drilling technology and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a well stimulation technique that blasts chemical-laced water and sand into deep-underground shale formations to free oil and gas.
By 2008, wildcatters and multinational energy companies were pursuing mineral rights to drill in the Marcellus Shale formation underneath Pennsylvania, New York, eastern Ohio and parts of West Virginia. New employers turned up in the hill country around Buckhannon. The town was ready for the ride.
Today, there is a new Microtel Inn that sells rooms for $100 a night and a Sheetz station where a steady stream of pickup drivers refuel with gas and coffee. Main Street is newly tarred. But farther into town, streets are lined with the remnants of previous energy booms and busts. Algae and green fuzz cover the roofs of homes, their paint peeling off.
After 2008, natural gas prices collapsed from $13 per million British thermal units to less than $2 last spring due to an oversupply of gas. Producers started moving rigs out of the Interstate 79 corridor of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Small drillers such as SW Jack Drilling, which had been around for the better part of a century, could no longer survive.
One of the few that did was Braden Drilling LLC, which C.J. joined in January 2011. Norse Energy Corp., a Norwegian company, had hired Braden to drill in New York. Norse had invested heavily in the state, acquiring nearly 180,000 acres. But the company could not tap its shale assets because the state was in upheaval. Pro- and anti-fracking factions were girded for a fight amid a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.
Norse was biding its time while drilling conventional gas wells. Braden dispatched C.J. and his crew to the work site in Smyrna in May 2011.
The site had been unstable to work on, according to several people who had been on it. Braden's supervisor on site, Teddy Gribble, asked Norse Energy for 60 rig mats, which are steel-framed wooden pallets that cover the ground and create a stable work surface. They cost about $300 each a day to rent.
"My Lord, can you live with 30?" the construction foreman of Norse Energy asked, Gribble recalled in a court deposition transcript. It was too much of an expense. "Let's try 30."
At the daily safety meeting at his pickup truck, Gribble conveyed the message to his crew and the men set out to work. C.J. asked a colleague to use a forklift to carry a set of steel stairs to be attached to a trailer. He stood in front of the trailer, directing the driver. The vehicle inched forward. Suddenly, the ground gave way. The rear of the vehicle sank into the ground. The boom holding the stairs jerked up toward C.J., pinning him against the trailer at the abdomen and crushing the organs below his diaphragm.
OSHA appeared a day later to investigate and found the forklift driver didn't have the training he needed. The agency did not, however, point to the other problems on the site that day: the unstable work surface, the few mats.
C.J.'s son, Bubby, will get $1,600 a month from West Virginia's workers' compensation program until he is 18 years old. That's a $350,000 payout, a fraction of the $5 million C.J. would have earned if he had worked in the oil fields until retirement. Reagan, the girl C.J. was raising, won't be paid for the loss of the only father she knew. She's not his biological child.
Braden did not respond to EnergyWire's request for comment on C.J.'s death. Norse's chief legal officer, Dennis Holbrook, wrote in an email: "Worker safety is a high priority to Norse. My sympathy and condolences go to the family of Mr. Bevins."
Charlotte received news of C.J.'s death from her father as she was driving.
"C.J.'s dead!" Charles Bevins Jr. barked into the phone before hanging up.
'The company man reigns supreme'
Charlotte favors a black hoodie turned up over her long, blond hair. She likes the little bit of anonymity it provides in a small town. Since C.J.'s death, she has been searching for a reason, almost a conspiracy, that could explain the sequence of events.
She's traveled to the drill site in New York, talked to C.J.'s co-workers, the doctors, the EMT medic who promised C.J. he would be OK en route to the hospital. She even visited a small diner nearby, to find the old lady who had once looked at C.J., then spit between her fingers as if putting a curse on him after finding out he worked in the gas fields.
"I went in there to see if she was there, to see what she did, or what she said," Charlotte recalled. "But she'd died."
There was no conspiracy behind C.J.'s death. Men on the Norse project faced a demanding work environment as they tried to stick to a tight schedule.
A gas drilling operation is complex and fragmented. Multiple contractors are managed by representatives of the operating energy company. These "company men" in turn get orders from senior management that tracks the larger arithmetic of drilling a well, which can cost up to $8 million depending on the reservoir being tapped. The more it costs, the more gas the company needs to extract to break even. Safety considerations sometimes get lost in the realities of operating an oil field.
"To the oil field contractor, the company man reigns supreme, and the company man oftentimes is not focused on safety because he cares more about production first," said John Stephens, an independent safety, health and environment consultant in Texas with four decades of experience in the petroleum and chemical industries.
"Almost every one of the injuries and deaths you will happen upon, it will have something to do with cutting a corner, to save time, to save money," said Tim Bailey, the attorney representing the Bevinses in their lawsuit against Norse and Braden. His law firm, Bucci, Bailey & Javins in Charleston, W.Va., represented victims of the Sago mine collapse and the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in 2010.
Part of the problem is the oil and gas industry is experiencing a demographic shift. Older workers are retiring, and there are few men left to train the new, undisciplined roughnecks attracted to the booming industry. The trend has been labeled "The Great Crew Change" by Elaine Cullen, a social anthropologist studying oil and gas workers and the vice president for Northwest operations at Safety Solutions International.
The lack of training has meant that two-thirds of the people who died in Texas oil and gas fields over the past decade had less than a year of experience, according to an analysis of insurance claims presented at an OSHA safety conference in December.
The American Petroleum Institute, the major industry group, told EnergyWire in an email that the "oil and natural gas industry's number one priority is safety." Larger companies do take steps to promote safety and have multiple "safety men" on the rig sites.
But the trend is not uniform across industry, and hundreds of deaths and injuries occur every year. It is difficult to figure out how often safety violations occur because records on the oil and gas extraction industry, which employed half a million people in 2011, are patchy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics is slow to update its database, and experts say violations often go undocumented because OSHA rarely inspects rig sites.
Still, from available federal records, OSHA inspectors found at least 45 "willful" violations of safety standards by oil and gas drillers and their support teams since 2006. In 10 of those cases, workers were killed or injured. In one case, two workers welded an oil tank containing 85 barrels of crude oil, which exploded and killed them instantly.
Inspectors found about 6,500 cases of "serious" violations, the designation that most often led to an injury or death. The violations resulted in the death or injury of 248 workers (see chart).
Victor Boyd, 28, a Louisiana transplant working on a rig near Watford City, N.D., for Precision Drilling Corp., caught on fire in September after being sprayed by a hose carrying drilling fluid and hydrocarbons.
"He was a very handsome guy, and his face has been burned off, his body, he has profound burns all over his body," said Douglas Monsour, a lawyer representing Boyd.
Precision Drilling declined to comment on the incident.
Charlotte has heard similar stories about faulty equipment. That fall day, she drove along a gravel path in Doddridge County, flanked by mountains wearing the red and orange of fall. An occasional rig stood in the foreground like a sentinel. Red Halliburton Co. trucks streamed by. She rolled onto a drill site owned by EQT Corp., which is producing Marcellus Shale gas.
Riley, a skinny man with sunken cheeks, in navy coveralls and a white safety helmet, made his way past the Halliburton contractors and trucks and got into Charlotte's car. He had been on site since 6 a.m. as a contractor for Luby Equipment Services. He closed his eyes and let out a sigh as Charlotte pulled away. He said he would get in trouble for talking to outsiders.
"Once you do something like that on the oil field, you are blackballed, you are done for life," he said. "There ain't no if and buts about it, you won't work in another company again on anything that has to do with the oil field."
He said he was ready to talk. "What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong," Riley said, shrugging, as though his reasoning should be obvious (see video).
When C.J. had been working on Norse's drilling site, the company men pressed the workers to speed up, according to court documents.
"Stuff started messing up, like we had some inexperienced people moving up, drillers and stuff, and they were just making easy mistakes," said his co-worker Shelley.
The failures preceded Norse's bankruptcy and the contractor Braden's shutdown in 2012 as the two companies battled market forces.
Norse could not tap its unconventional shale holdings in New York, which has had a moratorium on fracking since 2008. The company focused instead on the Herkimer sandstone formation, where C.J.'s crew was drilling.
Costs were very much a focus for Norse at the time, as evidenced in the October 2010 earnings report. The company said it would decrease time and cost "through the use of lower cost equipment" to drill the vertical portion of the wells.
A month after the accident, Norse said in its quarterly report that it would revise drilling costs to $1.35 million per well because the company "has not been satisfied" that the money invested in drilling was worth the wells' output.
Despite its efforts, the company's losses widened 84 percent to $61.3 million in 2011. And the Norway-based explorer suffered nine straight quarters of losses before filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2012. Norse owed about $32 million to debtors (EnergyWire, Dec. 11, 2012).
Braden shut down last August, letting go of 250 people. The company had lost a major contract after Royal Dutch Shell PLC in 2010 bought East Resources, a Pennsylvania-based gas explorer with which Braden had been doing business.
Braden's shop was located in an isolated part of Buckhannon down the road from a noisy cattle slaughterhouse. During a visit there in September, papers were strewn about across three desks in the modest wood-paneled office. Posters encouraging safe practices were pasted on the walls. Braden's co-owner Dennis Chidester was cataloging his equipment for auction.
Unprompted, he declared that smaller drillers and explorers won't have the financial muscle to stay in business if U.S. natural gas prices stay depressed.
Three independent drilling companies in Buckhannon have shut down or been sold in the past year because they couldn't cope with the low price of gas. Chesapeake Energy Corp. laid off workers in early November. Earlier this year, Union Drilling, a West Virginia fixture for more than a century, was acquired by Texas-based Sidewinder Drilling Inc. Oil and gas is moving out of local hands, and jobs in the coal mines are harder to come by. The question in the air is: Will Buckhannon soon see a bust?
Trouble with 'drilling on air'
Chidester, 62, declined to talk about C.J.'s death because the case is before a court. But he talked about small drilling companies, struggling to stay in business and to stay safe.
More than a century ago, drillers started using air rather than mud to drill wells in West Virginia's gas fields. The technique, called "drilling on air," saves time and money. But the method is dangerous when there are pockets of methane in the ground. Methane and oxygen are a flammable combination.
Chidester recalled at least two projects in New York where his men's air drilling encountered an 80-million-cubic-foot methane pocket. The sound of gas roiling underground was immense, and his men were in danger.
"You have probably been to ballgames where they fly three to five jets overhead. Well, that's about what that sounds like," Chidester said.
In some states, companies are required to switch to drilling mud before they hit a pocket of gas, but they don't always do that. "It is scary," he said.
Two years ago, in Lycoming County, Pa., the operators of a site Riley had been working on risked it, air drilling through a gas pocket. Methane crept up the well bore and leaked out through a faulty seal. The well caught fire.
Riley glanced out of the car as Charlotte drove him back to the rig site later in the day.
Charlotte returned to her family's farm in Buckhannon. The sun was setting. For her, it was not just about her brother anymore. She has been working with a New York state senator on legislation that would require oil and gas workers to go through certified training (EnergyWire, Feb. 5).
She recognizes how important the industry's jobs are to West Virginia, but she contends it's time for men like C.J., Justin Shelley and James Riley to have options beyond the coal mines and gas fields.
For the Bevins family, C.J.'s death took its toll. C.J.'s siblings rarely communicate. They fight a lot these days. Charlotte barely talks to her father, and C.J.'s former fiancée has moved away.
On their 42 acres, vegetation had started taking over C.J.'s garden. Sheep fences were falling apart on the farm. His old red car sat neglected near the horse paddock.
Still today, whenever Charlotte hears a song on the radio that C.J. loved, she thinks that is a sign he is with her.
"Isn't that crazy?" she said. "Whether or not it is the truth, I guess it is helping me get by."
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Emory or WashU for Tfer
July 12, 2013, 09:02:30 PM »
My brother was accepted at WashU and Emory as a tfer student. Both schools are offering grant money (pretty comparable packages +/- 4k). I've noticed that both schools are similarly ranked. Does anyone have any insight as to what school might be the best choice? I know for a fact that he would like to end up in D.C. following law school. Which school has a better pipeline to D.C.? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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July 12, 2013, 11:20:23 PM »
If his goal is to end up in D.C., he should look into transferring to a local school: Georgetown, GWU, American, George Mason, etc.
As between Wash U and Emory, I doubt if one has better connections to D.C. than the other. Frankly, showing up in D.C after law school and having to compete with the multitudes of local talent who have had three years to network is not an enviable situation. I would advise your brother to make every effort to secure internships in D.C. and make connections.
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July 17, 2013, 08:25:05 AM »
Maintain makes some good points, which I will expand upon. Additionally, the decision your brother is going to make is going be a life altering choice and whatever any anonymous internet poster says on this board or others should be taken with a grain of salt. With that said I am an attorney and do think there are some factors that any law student should consider when choosing what law school to attend and there are additional considerations for transferring.
A transfer student like a OL should in my opinion consider the following factors in this order. (1) Location (2) Cost (3) Personal Feelings about the School and whether transfering is appropriate is something else to consider. (4) What they want out of their legal career (5) Last and Least U.S. News Rankings and then he should understand the reality of legal education. I will analyze these factors in more detail below.
1) Location
This far and away the most important factor when choosing a law school and as your post indicates he wants to end up in D.C. If he attends law school in Seattle or Atlanta the door to D.C. it will be difficult to obtain employment in D.C. If he really wants to work in D.C. he should attend law school in D.C. plain and simple. There are no shortage of law schools in that area and employers are not going to actively recruit some kid in Seattle or Atlanta when there are 1,000's of people applying for jobs right in front of them.
I review resumes and grant interviews and when I see someone from out-of-state I don't usually interview them. I don't want to spend money to fly someone out first and foremost I am in the Bay Area and there are numerous law schools right here why would I fly someone out from Iowa? Additionally, is the applicant serious will they really be able to move their whole life from Iowa to the Bay Area again why risk them flaking after flying them out etc when there are no shortage of quality applicants right here. The same is true with D.C. so I don't think either school will help your brother find employment in D.C. Instead attending law school in D.C. will allow him to build connections in D.C. and make employers look at him more closely.
Other factors to consider are that Atlanta and Seattle are two very different cities. I don't know where your brother is currently attending school either and law school does not exist in a vacuum the pros and cons of each City will impact his life for the next two years. Will the constant rainy weather of Seattle depress your brother? Will he fit into Southern Culture in Atlanta? These are real questions particularly because odds are if he attends Washington or Emory he will stay in that location. He will get an apartment, study for the bar in the state he graduates law school from etc. He is also likely to get into a romantic relationship, which might bind him to the area upon graduation. So those are factors to consider.
2) Cost
Emory is 45k per year 26k for living expenses according to LSAC if your brother can get residency in Washington State tuition at UW is only 26k and living costs are only 18k. Even at an out-of-state rate tuition at UW is only 40k.
Therefore it is possibly your brother could save 54,000 by attending Washington over two years if he gets residency and he will save a total of 26k over two years even if he doesn't get residency so the 4k per year package isn't much of a consideration. Either way Washington is significantly cheaper and I assume he is getting loans so there is interest on this money, which makes it even more significant.
Bottom line Washington will be cheaper so that is a factor to consider.
(3) Personal Feelings about School and Transferring:
Every school has a culture to it and as 0L and mock trial competitor and even as an attorney I go to various law schools all the time. There are many I like and others I hate, but those are my feelings plenty of people love the places I hate and vice versa.
If your brother is set on transferring he should visit both schools talk to students, professors, tour the campus, and see what school feels right for him. What feels right for him is highly personal and the only way for him to know is by visiting the schools.
With that it sounds like your brother is thriving at his current school if he is able to transfer up he was likely in the top of the class and has probably made friends etc. Law school is a lot like high school and if he transfer to these schools as a 2L the social clicks etc will be formed. If he is moving out-of-state to these schools where he doesn't know anybody it could be a tough two years for him and his grades may slip etc. IF your brother is extremely outgoing and social that may not be an issue, but many transfer students struggle the majority I know regret their decision to transfer, but there are many people that were pleased with it.
If his current law school is in D.C. and he wants to end up there it would be an additional reason not to transfer. Additionally, if he stayed at his current school usually the top 10% or so students transfer and his class rank will then shoot up, which will be attractive to employers. He could also negotiate for scholarship money from his current school
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(4) Professional Goals
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July 17, 2013, 05:58:52 PM »
(4) Professional Goals:
What does your brother want to do in his legal career? If he wants BigLaw or Clerkship then I think Emory has a bit more prestige than UW, but biglaw is hard to come by and most people hate it. If your brother wants to be a Public Defender or City Attorney he may want to stay at the school he is attending and negotiate for scholarship money. There are a lot of career paths in the legal field, but if your straddled with outrageous debt it can limit opportunities.
U.S. News Rankings
You mentioned ranking as a factor in your post, but please realize U.S. News is a for-profit and unregulated magazine offering an opinion nothing more. It should not be the basis of a life altering decision. To illustrate this U.S. News ranks more than law schools and has ranked Albuquerque New Mexico as the #1 place to live see here
they had their reasons none of which are crazy, but you are probably not going to move to Albuquerque because U.S. News ranked it #1 making the life altering decision to move to a new city based on a magazine would seem a bit crazy.
Making the life altering decision of what law school to attend based on what a magazine says makes as much sense. The U.S. News formula makes little to no sense and I personally have no idea what difference in rank there is between UW and Emory nor do I care. Both schools are fine and UW being 38th and Emory being 46th would make no difference especially since the numbers will change next year and it would be not be surprising at all if the lower ranked school was ranked higher next year when your brother is a 3L.
Bottom line do not place much stock in the rankings when choosing a law school.
Reality of Legal Education
Your brother finished his 1L at an ABA school I have no idea which one he attended, but I am sure he learned about personal jurisdiction in the International Shoe Case, he learned proximate cause in Palsgraf, and he learned Notice in Pennoyer v. Neff.
The reality is that at any ABA school you will learn the same thing law school is reading Supreme Court cases and understanding them. The Supreme Court does not write separate opinions for each law school and whether your brother stays where he is, Emory, or UW he will more or less learn the same thing.
When he graduates whether from his current school, UW, or Emory he will then signup for Kaplan or Barbri and study with law students from across the country for a bar exam for a few months. Then he wil be in a room with thousands of other law students from across the country taking a bar exam and if he passes he is a lawyer. If he doesn't he will have to retry none of the schools will guarantee passage or a job it will be up to him to pass the bar and succeed as a lawyer.
This is a huge decision and if his ultimate goal is to end up in D.C. he should get as close geographically to D.C as possible so Emory would be better than UW. If his current school is in D.C. then he would probably be better off staying there.
However, if he is not hell bent on practicing in D.C. UW is significantly cheaper than Emory and the debt is real. However, he can likely command scholarship money from his current school and that may be an option.
There is no right answer, but it should be a simple matter of the 4k scholarship and U.S. News ranking that makes this huge decision. I wish your brother good luck in his legal career.
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Bossier Parish Community College is located at 6220 East Texas Street in Bossier City, Louisiana. For out-of-town visitors, East Texas Street is also known as U.S. Highway 80. The campus is on the south side of the highway just 1.5 miles west of Louisiana Downs and 2 miles east of Pierre Bossier Mall.
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Sept. 9, 2008 - Women who choose to serve their country as military officers should be fully prepared to do so, and an organization has been working to fulfill that goal since 2003. "We stand behind this belief by providing programs that support and enable women to reach their full potential as leaders," said Susan Feland, president and founder of AcademyWomen. "Each year AcademyWomen hosts a leadership symposium to provide current, former and future women military officers the opportunity to network with like-minded colleagues and grow professionally."
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A tornado is seen touching down in New York City on Saturday.
Updated at 7:50 p.m. ET: Two tornadoes touched down in New York City late Saturday morning, one in Queens and another in Brooklyn, causing damage and frightening startled residents.
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British Go Journal No. 67. April 1986. Page 3.
Richard Granville
Here are three more problems to test your sense of direction. As usual you'll be able to compare your efforts with those of a panel of dan players and a fellow hacker from the kyu ranks (not that most of our dan players aren't fond of a bit of hacking themselves!).
Look at the positions below and try and work out what part of the board you'd play in next, and what the best local move is. Try and think about the position and find a good reason for your choice.
The reader whose suggestions come closest to those of our panel will receive a £5 token which can be spent at the BGA book service.
Send your answer to: Richard Granville, (address omitted) . Good luck.
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31 comments:
- Tamsin said...
It also makes us smile when cutting through to Deptford Bridge and points East with its offer of "DINNING".
But nice to see a traditional pub still with its traditional name and existing clientele.
- 5 October 2009 at 17:43
- graeme said...
Gotta hand it to Sam Smiths business model (if that's what it is. I use phrases like that to appear clever). Making boozing affordable without resorting to the full-on Wetherspoon's experience. OK, so the beer isn't exactly the finest (though that could be down to the cellarman) but it's generally quite drinkable, and does the trick for a budget sesh.
I've never made it into the Royal George mind. It's always looked closed when I've gone past
- 5 October 2009 at 17:49
- Headhunter said...
I've been past this place a few times, didn't know it was Sam Smiths, they're always great, cheap places for a few beers. Does it have a quiz night?
- 5 October 2009 at 17:52
- Tyrwhitt Michael said...
It's shame it only does Sam Smith's keg and not their cask beer. As with the Chandos no Cask no custom from my viewpoint.
This also mean half the swanky bars in the West End miss out on my custom!
- 5 October 2009 at 18:02
- Bobblekin said...
Real nice boozer and would like it to be closer to Tressy rd - but as it is, I only pop in from time to time.
Pretty ont outside, tidy in.
Sam Smiths is a real enigma - they run some of the BEST pub boozers in central London, but I agree with prior posts.. how do they keep the prices down, is it the keg over the cask? Always a nice night, but suffer in the morning on their beer.
- 5 October 2009 at 20:52
- patrick1971 said...
"People around here look after each other" = code for people around here are clannish and insular. IMHO.
- 5 October 2009 at 22:05
- graeme said...
Bobblekin - s'cheap because there's no nasty pubco's in the supply chain who control the wholesale price, the choice of beer, and the rent on the pubs they own and lease to the tenant landlord. In this sytem, the tenant has to charge over 3 quid a pint to make a small profit.
Sam Smiths of course brew and supply their beer to their own pubs, but it does beg the question 'why can't other brewers do the same'? Except with beer that doesn't give you a bad head the next morning.
- 5 October 2009 at 22:09
- Tamsin said...
If I've got it right this is what used to be the system - smallish local brewers with 100 or so tied houses. Lovely. And you could tell as you moved through the countryside and were getting back onto your home turf as the "second billing" as it were on the inn-signs changed from Morrells to Arkells (or the like). But then some govermnent busy-body decided this was unfair and monopolistic and decreed that many of these tied houses had to be sold off. So they were. To foreign chains.
- 5 October 2009 at 23:19
- Anonymous said...
I have vivid memories of being made to feel very unwelcome because my face did not fit in with the then landlord's expectations.
I was a student at the time and new to the area. I did not realise that 'traditional' pubs like this were dominated by a few local families keen on 'lock ins' after the then closing time of 11pm.
The technique seemed to take loud exception to some breech of what they deemed to be common good manners. Embarrassed, you look around, puzzled and taken aback, never having been reprimanded for not asking permission before using a payphone. No glint of sympathy from anyone. You slope off home.
I had friends who had similar experiences. The pubs in the area were not welcoming to strangers. They had misanthropic landlords and inbred customers. It was 'East Enders' without the genetic diversity.
It was years ago now. But it rankles to this day.
You won't find me mourning the passing of these 'tradiional pubs'. The sooner they turn gastro or are transformed into 'retro-chic pied a terres', the better, in my opinion.
- 6 October 2009 at 05:34
- M said...
Sam Smiths Ayingerbrau is the work of the devil. Awful stuff that gives you a bad head AND the runs if you drink too much (as I used to regularly do at the Firzroy Tavern on Charlotte St.)
Cheap though - that's probably why we stuck with it.
- 6 October 2009 at 08:36
- Anonymous said...
" Look after one another "
This means If you upset one of them they all give you a good hiding.
- 6 October 2009 at 09:05
- Pete said...
We regularly used to have pints of "man in the box" from the Sam Smith's pub on the Strand when I was at university. Also when I was at school we did the same at the Malt Shovel in Oswaldkirk.
- 6 October 2009 at 09:28
- Matt-Z said...
Sam Smith's is a strange business, run by a mad chairman (a descendant of the original Sam Smith, who himself was related to John Smith, another big Yorkshire brewer of old). Apparently their business model is that they only put their prices up in line with tax rises and inflation. So when the chancellor puts 5p on a pint and Punch Taverns or whoever stick 25p on a pint and blame it on the taxman, Sam Smith's just put the actual increase on. Added to the fact mentioned before that they brew their own beer, distill their own spirits and even make their own wine, it's no wonder they can keep their prices well below standard highstreet fare.
As for the Royal George, it's a great pub serving its community well. How many pubs still have a dart board? There's usually free food on the bar on a Sunday and even a meat raffle if you like that sort of thing. OK so there's not a huge range and their drinks aren't to everyone's taste, but at the prices offered it's pretty good. The other decent pub on Tanner's Hill, which sold a range of exotic beers and put on live music, the Crystal Palace Tavern, is now an ugly block of flats. We should be grateful to Sam Smith's that the Royal George is still there. Any other pubco would have binned it long ago.
- 6 October 2009 at 09:41
- Anonymous said...
The Royal George is brilliant and I urge you all to try it. If I remember rightly the landlord posts a 'question of the day' on a blackboard, has loads of good old books around the place for swapsiz and was friendly and welcoming.
The other customers weren't scary or gangster at all and I wasn't intimidated in the slightest (even being a wee slip of a girl).
The real ale was dead nice and stupidly cheap. Do it.
- 6 October 2009 at 11:40
- Bearded boozer said...
Anon @ 11.40. Have they started serving real ale?
Last time I was in they only had Keg.
I assume you know the difference betweeen Keg and Cask? Or being a slip of a girl perhaps you don't?
- 6 October 2009 at 12:26
- the ride by birder said...
When I moved to London in the mid eighties I was very home sick, walking up Tanners Hill(I hadn't sorted out the 36/36a bus routes remember them?) I came across the Royal George, it was like going home to Darlington. In the days of afternoon closing and reopening at5 or 6 they had an 8 before 8 club and such was the drinkability of OBB it was not that unrealistic, I think or that my have been a pub in Darlington. Many happy times followed. I believe I even went out there with the woman who is now the mother of my three children, although she says it wasn't a date. If any anyone can remember the time I prepared the pub quiz there and got a question answer wrong ? it nearly caused a riot! We were eventually lured to the Crystal Palace next door and their fantastic ale and blues nights never to return really because of the keg ale. I still mourn the loss of the Crystal Palace.
Sam Smiths certainly has an different buisness plan, but I think the quality of their ales has gone down.
You've made me feel very guilty that I haven't been back in such a long time.
- 6 October 2009 at 13:01
- Tyrwhitt Michael said...
Curious as to the definition of an Arts Tourist?
- 6 October 2009 at 13:22
- Anonymous said...
I remember 36 and 36b but not 36a
- 6 October 2009 at 14:16
- Anonymous said...
Class war!
- 6 October 2009 at 15:00
- washington mutual online banking said...
I don't know much about this place, but i love the building and its historic looks.
- 6 October 2009 at 15:38
- Headhunter said...
Didn't WaMu go down the toilet with the credit crunch?
- 6 October 2009 at 15:57
- Matt-Z said...
It went the way of the Crimson Permanent Assurance I think.
- 6 October 2009 at 16:51
- Anonymous said...
36a terminated at New Cross Garage 36 went on to Lewisham 36b to Catford I think....
- 6 October 2009 at 17:06
- Seal said...
Yes bearded... they had two or three casks on.
Wee slip, but ex-pub landlady with a cask marque to my name.
T'was lovely.
(I've un-anonymoused myself... realising there are so many who can't be bothered to say their names and how confusing that gets.)
- 7 October 2009 at 11:47
- Bearded Boozer said...
Thanks Seal
Must pop in and see if it is going to be a regular thing.
Must say Casque Marque is great except it can spoil it when you visit a new pub and you realise they are not accredited.
- 7 October 2009 at 12:50
- graeme said...
It's possible that some people wouldn't know that this is a Sam Smiths joint becuase of the lack of the familiar black and gold emblazoned on the outside.
shows they got rid of this style ages ago. This really does seem to be the place that SE4 claims it wants. Independent, inexpensive, architecturally sensitive and culturally Kosher, but without the corporate branding that so many claim to dislike, few seem aware of its existence.
Pity it's in SE8 :-)
- 7 October 2009 at 15:52
- Tamsin said...
Gross error in my first posting - it is the Royal Standard - now painted green and further down Tanners Hill that offers "Dinning".
On the Royal George - I do love the way that pubs within reach of Deptford still show the maritime legacy with ships on their pub signs and names - this one and the Centurian also springs to mind.
- 8 October 2009 at 09:21
- Matt-Z said...
The Centurion is long gone. It was Bar Sonic for a while with a strange mix of live music in the bar and an African restaurant in the basement. Closed now for the inevitable conversion to flats I think.
- 8 October 2009 at 09:50
- Anonymous said...
They weren't very welcoming when I went in with two friends
- 15 October 2009 at 18:20
- DeptfordJo said...
I've bene coming to this boozer off and on for a long time and although the initial isn't exactly open-arms-welcoming it's not intimidatingand people are happy to make conversation. It has changed landlords recently but I've yet to notice any impact on the general drinking experience.
- 29 October 2009 at 21:33
- Richard said...
The Royal George sound like my type of pub sick of being ripped off by pubs pretenting to be resturants.
- 2 August 2012 at 06:09


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