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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Publication date
|Sep 20, 1932
|Filing date
|Apr 15, 1929
|Priority date
|Apr 15, 1929
|Publication number
|Wedler Harry G
|Original Assignee
|Wedler Shuford Co
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Referenced by (10), Classifications (6)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
p 1932- H; G-WEDLER SEAT COVER Filed A ril 15, 1929 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 Fig.1-
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SEAT COVER Filed April 15, 1929 3 SheetsSheet 2 OWH P.
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SEAT COVER Filed April 15, 1929 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 HARRY s. WEDLEB, or s'nronrs, rarssounr, ASSIGNOB, 'ro' THE wnnrnn-snunonn 00.,
Patented Sept. 29, 1932 sraeisf OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI SEAT COVER Application filed. April 15,
' "Thi sinvention relates to seat covers and it consists of the novel construction, combination, arrangement and relationship of parts herein shown, described and claimed.
Anobject of the invention is to provide an improved seat cover comprising a seat cover ingmembe rhaving parts thereof for coverlng the exposed portions of the seat proper,
so as to protect both the seat proper and the V clothes of the user. This seat covering member is of novel construction so that it will fit nicely upon and about the seat proper so that the covering will not slip or fold when in use, nor when the user moves to and from position thereon. I o Another object of the invention is to pro;- vide an improved seat cover comprising a back member designedand adapted to be applied to the front side'of the seat back and to cooperate with'the covering member forthe seat proper so as toperform a complete seat and clothes protector for applicationtoaseat having a back rest. This back covering memher is of novelconstruction and form and cooperates with fastening means whereby it is held permanently in connection with the back of the j seat and is also provided with means for engagement by the bottom of the seat, that is to say, bythe seat proper, so as to be; retained in'proper position thereon and prevented from slipping or folding when in use or when the user is moving to or from the seat. o 1
Another object of the invention is to provide an improved cover for the back rest of the ,seat of novel shape and'form so as to engage therewith and with the seat proper in a; novel and more efficient manner.
Various other objects and advantages of thisinvention will appear from the fellowing description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view ofa seat having my improved complete cover applied thereto. 7 Fig. 2 is a view showing means for securing the upper end of the back member to the seat back. i j i i ldig. 3 is a front view of the back cover. f Fig. 4 is a rear view of the backcover showing'the lining or backing.
1929. Serial in. 355,312.
Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the member for covering the seat proper. or seat cushion.
Fig. 6 is a view showing the under side of the covering member for the cushion or seat e The back member of my improved seat cover may include both a facing and a lining or backing made of proper shape and size and secured together in cooperative relation ship so that they may be readily and'satis factorily applied to the seat back for which the cover is designed and intended. Preferably, though not essentially, the facing is a textile and the liningor backing may also be made of a textile fabricorof other appropriate material. F or the facing I have. found that a textile having woof andwarp elements an elongation or extension 2 projecting latorally or enawise beyond the ends 3 near the upper side of the body'land beyond the ends t at the lower side of thebody 1. Thus, the distance between the ends 3 of the body 1' is .approximately the width of the seat back for which the covering is intended so thatthe extended ends 2 will fold or extend rearwardly .around and against the front rounded corners at the lateral ends or sides of the seat back, as will be clearly understood by reference to Fig. 1 in which the device is shown on theseat of an automobile.- Thus, the elongations 2 constitute means for extending rearwardly at the vertical sides or ends of the seat back so that they will not become caught by the user movingsidewise into the seat. This will be appreciated as a' genuine advantage when the cover is'applled to the seat of an automobile and partlcu'la'rly' facing comto the front seat of an automobile since the doors of the automobile are usually at the ends of the front seat, requiring the pas- 'sengers to enter and leave the car at the ends of the seat. It is well known that when entering or leaving the car the passengers often move or slide-laterally along the seats and under such Circumstances the present inven tion comprising the novel shape and form of the back members is. a genuine advantage. For, by tucking or extending the elongations 2 rearwardly about and against the lateral sides or ends of the seat back the passenger entering the car will not roll up the lateral ends of the back covering member.
The lower marginal portion 5 of the backcovering member; that is to say, that portion of the back covering member between the ends 4 is of sufficient width or length from the body 1 to extend downwardly between the seat cushion or seat proper and the seat back, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the lower marginal portion of the back covering member is thereby clamped, gripped or engaged between members of the seat and the lower portion of the back covering member is firmly secured in position.
The ends 3 at the upper portion of the body 1 are about even with the lateral ends of the seat back to'which the device is applied. Be-
' yond theends 3 the facing is shaped to provideconverging edges 6 curving in ogee outline to intersection with the edge 7; Thus, the ends 6 and the edge 7 define a foldable flap 8 arranged to fold and extend over the top of the seat back and downwardly against the upper rear portion of the seat back. This flap 8 is secured to the seat back by fasteners 9 which may also be used as fasteners to secure the rack 10 to the rear side of. the seat back. Thus, the upper edge of the covering member of the back is rigidly attached tothe seat back and the lower edge is held in proper position by cooperation of the seat back and the seat cushion.
This back covering member may be, and preferably is provided with a backing or lining 11 of the same shape as the facing and attached thereto along its marginal edges by stitches 12 whereby the facing and theliningor backing are held in proper cooperative relationship. The marginal edges of both parts are infolded between the parts and the stitches 12 pass through said infolds.
: This backing or lining strengthens the back covering member and the fasteners 9 pass through both plies of material comprising the extension 8 of the body 1 of the facing and a similarly shaped part of the lining or back ing. .These fasteners 9, as shown, are rela tively close to the edge 7 and tothe ogee ends 6. Additional fasteners maybe used, if desired.
The back covering member, when applied.
, to the seat back in the'manner shown and described, is held stretched between the fasteners 9 and the seat cushion. Said back covering member is thus held closely against the curved front of the back member of the seat and the extensions 2 are bent rearwardly against and along the curved corners at the ends of the seat. The marginal portions of the extensions 2, being well beyond the stretched body of the covering member, are not stretched to the extent that the body 'ofthe covering member is stretched and are not subjected to the same stresses as the body portion of the covering member. Thus, since the body portion of the covering member is stretched in arc'uate form conforming to the front of the back member of the seat, and since the extensions 2 are folded along curved. lines, these extensions 2 extend rearwardly against the ends of the back member of the seat. Said extensions retain their position against the ends of the back member of the seat and will not extend laterally" without stretching the edges of said extensions.
The seat covering member, that is to say,
the covering member for the seat cushion or seat proper, comprises a body 14 of a shape '3 and size properly to coverthe seat cushion or seat proper for which the device is intended, and having an extended part 15 constituting a drop to extend downwardly at the front of the seat cushion; and also having at its opposite edge an extension 16 designed and adapted to extend downwardly atthe rear of the seat cushion. Thus, the extension 16 tucks behind the seat cushion between the lower end of the back and the rear edge of the seat cushion and contacts with the extension 5 of the backing so that the rear edge of the'seat covering memberand the lower edge of the back covering member are engaged and held in proper relationship with each other. All or any of the assembled parts of the seat covering member maybe made of textile fabric. Particularly I have found. that the textile fabric havinglwoof and warp elements about the size of the straws of straw matting is highly satisfactory as is also true of the back covering member but I do not;
ing means. A covering and reinforcing strip 20 covers the low erside of the seam 19 and is attached to the body 14 and to the flaps 18 respectively byrows of stitches, 21.
At or near the corners formed by the edges J of the extension 16 of the body. and the rear edges of'the flaps 18' the body is folded and sewed to form darts 22, one of said darts extending forwardly from the rear edge of each flap 18 and the other darts being in the body 14 and extensions 16 respectively. This constructionobtains a nice fit atthe rear corners of the usual seat cushions of automobiles for which this invention is speciallytheugh not exclusively designed and adapted.
The marginal edges of the extensions 15 and 16 and the flaps 18 are folded under and against the body portions of said parts to provide underfolds 23 (Fig. 6) secured in such relationship by a row of stitches 24 running entirely around the device near its marginal edge as clearly shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
The forward extension 15, therear extension 16 and the end flaps 18 may have attached thereto the ends of straps 25 of suflicient length to extend well under the seat cushion so as to be clamped by the seat cushion and thereby securely hold the seat covering member inposition. Thus the seat covering member Will not slip norcan it fold or roll as the passenger moves or slides laterally along the seat to enter or to leave the car.
From the foregoing it is clear enough that my invention comprises a seat covering member anda back covering member of novel and highly satisfactory construction and arrangement; that said parts are flexible and readily adjust and adaptthemselves to fit properly upon the seat elements; that they are arranged and applied to the seat elements so as to obtain holding engagement therewith and thereby prevent said parts from 'working loose or from rolling up when the passengers leave or enter the car; that said seat covering member and said back covering member cooperate to provide all the cover that is need- 7 ed for the-seat and back and that they coop- 'erate with each other to hold their positions in the manner clearly shown and described. The advantages of this device must be clear from the preceding description and the annexed drawings and it is obvious to those skilled in the art that the device may be varied within equivalent limits without departing from the nature and principle of the invention. By making the device in detached parts, that is to say, by making the back covering member and the seat covering each end of said body curved rearwardly around the adjacent curved corner and against the adjacent end of said seat back and having its marginal portion unattached to said seat back and subject to'less stretching than said body.
2. A cover for a seat back that has an upwardly and rearwardly curved front and curved corners at its ends comprising a body including a textile facing composed of relatively large warp and woof elements and having its lower and upper marginal portions approximately equal in width to the width of the lower and upper portions respectively of the seat back, and a lateral extension at each end of said body; a textile lining having an area equal to the area of said facing and said extensions and attached to said facing and said extensions along their marginal edges, said body being stretched vertically, against said curved front r and said extensions being curved rearwardly around the adjacent curved corners and against the adjacent ends'of the seat back and having their marginal portions unattached to said seat back and free from the stretching to which said body is subject HARRY e. 'WEVDLER.
member separate and unattached, or at least detachable, either can be used independently V of the other or both can be used in cooperative combination as herein described.
I do not restrict myself in any unessential respects, but what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is I LA cover for a seat back that has an upwardly and rear-wardly curved front and curved corners at its ends comprising a flexible and pliable body having its lower and upper marginal portions approximately equal in width to the width of the lower and upper portionsrespectively of the seat back and being stretched vertically against said curved front, and a lateral extension at
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Feb 2, 1951
|Nov 25, 1952
|Seaman Norman R
|Seat cover
|May 12, 1953
|May 8, 1956
|Charles Larkin Daniel
|Seat cover
|Sep 18, 2000
|Oct 30, 2001
|Greg Middleton
|Removable seat cover
|May 1, 2002
|Sep 7, 2004
|Prince Lionheart, Inc.
|Two-stage protective car seat cover for child and infant safety chairs
|Dec 1, 2005
|Sep 9, 2008
|Prince Lionheart, Inc.
|Two-stage protective car seat cover for child and infant safety chairs
|May 14, 2007
|Mar 23, 2010
|Prince Lionheart, Inc.
|Method of reducing and uniformly distributing compressive forces on an automobile seat
|Mar 22, 2010
|Oct 25, 2011
|Prince Lionheart, Inc.
|Two phase protective car seat cover for child and infant safety chairs
|Oct 21, 2011
|Jun 11, 2013
|Prince Lionheart, Inc.
|Method of protecting a seat from a child safety seat positioned thereon
|Apr 6, 2004
|Sep 30, 2004
|Mcconnell Thomas E.
|Two-stage protective car seat cover for child and infant safety chairs
|Dec 1, 2005
|Apr 20, 2006
|Mcconnell Thomas E
|Two-stage protective car seat cover for child and infant safety chairs
|U.S. Classification
|297/224, 297/219.1
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification


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Written by Corey Hill
Palm oil is nearly everywhere. It's in tortilla chips, a cheap way to add oil and maintain texture. It's in shaving cream, helping it stay creamy. Palm oil is in soap, microwave meals, doughnuts, and cookies. The great panoply of processed goods that fill the center aisles in most American grocery stores are dominated by palm oil.
And yet, to consumers, it's all but invisible. Part of this invisibility may be due to the fact that there are no fewer than 200 different names for palm oil, from the esoteric sounding "palmolein" to the generic "vegetable oil."
But palm oil has deeper secrets than misleading nomenclature. By now many people have heard about the environmental impacts of this ubiquitous food and cosmetic additive. "Palm Oil Is Killing the Sumatran Tiger," TIME magazine trumpeted in a headline last year. "A Grim Portrait of Palm Oil Emissions," The New York Times warned. Here's how David Gilbert explained it in a 2012 story in Earth Island Journal: "Borneo's lowland rainforests and peat swamp forests are nature's densest stores of carbon, and when the trees are chopped down and burned or left to rot, or peat swamps drained and dried, the CO2 stored in them is released into the atmosphere. Even though Indonesia has relatively few factories, all of the forest clearing has pushed the country to the top of the list of the world's contributors to climate change."
Yet even as the environmental impacts of palm oil production gain attention, the social costs of the palm plantations remain largely hidden. The human rights abuses endemic to palm oil production are the industry's best-kept secret.
Just two countries are responsible for 90 percent of the world's palm oil production: Malaysia and Indonesia. In those places, children as young as 8 and 9 sometimes work seven days a week in treacherous conditions. Undocumented immigrants are lured to faraway plantations with promises of safe working conditions and fair wages, only to find a kind of indentured servitude. Weak government oversight, together with glaring deficiencies in the main independent body tasked with regulating the industry, contribute to an atmosphere of violence, fear, and exploitation.
Forced Labor
Investigations by Amnesty International, the International Labor Rights Fund, Humanity International, the US State Department, and the magazine Bloomberg Businessweek paint a disturbing picture of conditions on palm oil plantations.
Local labor is rarely used on palm plantations, as plantation managers generally prefer workers without ties to nearby communities. So the dangerous work is relegated to workers from distant locales.
Workers often arrive with a significant debt to third party labor brokers, who notify them upon arrival at the worksite that they are now responsible for all transportation costs, including any flights or ground trips they've just been on. Next, employers often seize and hold passports and other identification documents. Debt peonage is common as well, with workers forced to pay for lodging and food at inflated rates. Even essential safety equipment such as gloves and goggles are added to the tab. Housing is most often substandard, lacking electricity and running water.
A nine-month investigation by Bloomberg Businessweek published in July 2013 revealed the extent of forced labor on plantations, focusing on troubles in Indonesia. One worker, who was identified with the fake name "Adam," described a harrowing ordeal on a plantation operated by the Malaysian palm giant Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad (KLK). Upon arrival, Adam's passport, national identity papers, and a deed to a collectively owned home were taken from him. Fresh water was shipped in once a month, but ran out after one week. Workers on the plantation frequently used Paraquat, an herbicide banned in more than 30 countries. When workers attempted to flee, they were beaten with sticks and machete handles, Adam told the reporter.
Eventually, workers on Adam's plantation were able to enlist the assistance of Rainforest Action Network and the Malaysian NGO Sawit Watch. Pressure from these two groups resulted in many workers being allowed to leave, and promises from KLK to pay back wages to workers and blacklist the third party labor recruiter responsible for providing the workforce for the plantation. Despite KLK's promises, most workers never received back pay, and the individuals responsible for the worst abuses continued to work for the company.
The International Labor Rights Fund gathered stories from workers on three plantations in Indonesia for a report it released last November titled "Empty Assurances." Testimony from exploited workers shows the manner in which plantation owners try to impose indentured servitude through generating worker debt.
"Our salary during our three month training was only 200,000 Rupiah ($17 USD), rather than the 2-3 million ($173 – $260 USD) promised," said a worker on a plantation in central Kalimantan, Indonesia. "We tried to be as efficient with this money as possible, but it was not enough. We needed to feed ourselves. So we decided to get in debt to the plantation store."
Goods purchased at the plantation store on credit were only available at a significant markup. If purchased outright, for example, a cup of ramen noodles cost $3,500 IDR (about 30 cents). But if purchased on credit, the price went up to $4,500 IDR. By comparison, a cup of noodles could be purchased in nearby towns for as little as $2,500 IDR.
In many instances, the conditions of many workers can accurately be described as nothing less than captivity. A July 2010 report from Amnesty International, "Trapped: The Exploitation of Migrant Workers in Malaysia," details the violence and intimidation of forced labor conditions. According to the report:
Some are beaten if they refuse to work or if they do not work fast enough, long enough, or to the standard the employer demands. Many more are threatened with harm or subjected to practices designed to impress upon them that they are powerless to refuse their services—they may be under constant vigilance by supervisors or armed guards, locked into the workplace or prevented from leaving the grounds, refused permission to make telephone calls.
According to the Rainforest Action Network report Conflict Palm, 70 percent of the palm oil labor workforce in Malaysia is comprised of migrants, many of them undocumented, a vulnerable workforce rife for exploitation. The inaccessibility of many plantations and the reticence of the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia to disturb such vital industry means that the full scope of forced and trafficked labor is difficult to asses. Most observers of the industry estimate that there are about 50,000 or more trafficked workers in each Indonesia and Malaysia.
"We only looked at three plantations, and found these serious issues on these three plantations," says Haley Wrinkle, senior researcher at the International Labor Rights Forum. "I think this speaks to the breadth of the problem."
Read more: child labor, environment, human rights, indonesia, labor abuse, malaysia, palm oil
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thanks for sharing :)
Thank you
Nothing good comes of palm oil....
Thank you for the reminder... :((
I try really hard to avoid it.
It would be helpful to know the 200 names for the oil. And, we can read the labels to avoid the oil, while working to have the industry become sustainable. Because the country needs to have products that bring income.
So I hereby promise not to buy Nutella until they support sustainable development of palm oil.
I stopped buying products containing palm oil because of the orangutans, the forests and other species but this is a good reason too.
no surprise
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Order calls for greater transparency
President Barack Obama today told agencies to modernize and increase the transparency of their regulation of industry and commerce, requiring among other things that agencies publish their rulemaking and enforcement actions on the Internet and to weed out outdated and unneeded rules.
In an executive order, Obama outlined broad goals for federal regulation, with agencies assessing costs and benefits and seeking broad participation from industry, consumers, scientists and other stakeholders at each step.
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"Over the past two years, the goal of my administration has been to strike the right balance. And today, I am signing an executive order that makes clear that this is the operating principle of our government," Obama wrote. "This order requires that federal agencies ensure that regulations protect our safety, health and environment while promoting economic growth."
He told agencies to give the public a chance to comment on new regulations on the Internet for at least 60 days. This should include timely online access to the rulemaking docket on regulations.gov, including relevant scientific and technical findings, in open and searchable formats, the order said. The same should apply for proposed rules as much as possible, it also said.
He also asked agencies to prepare plans in 120 days to periodically conduct reviews of existing regulations to determine how they can more effective and less burdensome.
In a related memo, Obama told agencies to release information on their enforcement of existing regulations, including warnings, citations, inspections and other activities.
The goal of releasing more enforcement information, as the Labor Department and Environmental Protection Agency are already doing, is to foster "fair and consistent enforcement of important regulatory obligations," the memo stated. "Such disclosure is a critical step in encouraging the public to hold the government and regulated entities accountable."
The order and memo also say agencies:
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13th February 2015
Swap your goggles for sunglasses and hit the slopes in April. Full Article
3rd February 2015
Come and applaud the cream of international alpine skiing during the ladies Critérium de la Première Neige. Val d'Isère swings into action to offer the absolute best in terms of competition. Full Article
11th December 2014
It may be summer, but there's skiing somewhere. Here's our pick of the coolest summer ski resorts around the world. Full Article
21st April 2014
With one month to go until the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, much of the recent pre-event discussion has focused on the one U.S. standout who won't be there—skier, Lindsey Vonn. Full Article
10th January 2014
Val d'Isere is one of the most expansive and impressive stops on the World Cup. Full Article
18th December 2013
Skiing on soft snow and coming back with a lovely tan… That's the right way to end the ski season ! Full Article
17th August 2012
With fresh snow across the Alps, the leading French glacier resort of Tignes opens for its long 2007-8 season later this month, on 29th September. Full Article
17th August 2012
Val d'Isere's World Cup racing will both be staged on 2009 World Championship courses for the first time. With the Alps receiving the best of early snowfalls in the world's major ski regions so far this season, the signs are good for the 52nd version of the « Critérium de la Première Neige » - Val d'Isere's annual pre-Christmas World Cup racing. Full Article
17th August 2012
For the fourth year in a row, Tignes is organising the ultimate event for the top riders in all the alternative sports that involve skis, boards and wheels. Tignes Airwaves will run for five days from January 7th to 11th and this winter there'll be a female event for the first time. Full Article
17th August 2012
The fourth stop on the inaugural Freeride World Tour will be staged at Tignes this month. Open to qualified snowboarders and skiers, the competition will take place on the famously rugged slopes surrounding the high French resort between the 8th and 13th March. Full Article
17th August 2012
Tignes - which operates one of the world's largest summer ski areas - has announced its operating details for the coming season. Full Article
17th August 2012
With no glacier ski areas opening year round any more, the next few days are the last in which to enjoy the spectacular 2007-8 snow season in France Full Article
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Tignes is offering more than the usual options when it re-opens for glacier skiing on June 21st. Full Article
17th August 2012
World famous football star Eric Cantona will be in Tignes early next month to lead the French beach football team in an international contest to be staged from July 4th to 6th. Full Article
17th August 2012
France's three remaining summer ski centres are in to their last month of operation in August prior to closing for three months before opening for Winter 2008-9 in November. Full Article
17th August 2012
Warm temperatures in Val d'Isere have led the lift company to end the summer ski season a few weeks earlier than scheduled. Full Article
17th August 2012
Edge 2 Edge, a ski and board rental and purchase company, has teamed up with Mountainsun Ltd who run Chalet Les Melezes in Tignes, France to provide Ski and Board Camps from 26th September when the Tignes ski area re-opens after a four week closure, until 14th December. Full Article
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Tignes will open for the 2008-9 season this Saturday, September 27th. The resort's Grande Motte Glacier will be open with skiing on a 1,400m vertical down to Val Claret - that's a bigger vertical than most resorts have open in mid-winter and believed to be the biggest September skiable vertical available anywhere. Full Article
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Tignes. The only ski resort in France to have opened already for the 2008-9 season, has reported 20cm (eight inches) of fresh snow has fallen over the past few days. Full Article
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ScotRail postcards celebrate the WHL
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A new set of four postcards, the third to be issued, have been revealed by First ScotRail showing off the superb scenery of the West Highland Lines.
First ScotRail has unveiled spectacular new postcards that will be offered to customers as free souvenirs of the West Highland Lines.
Award-winning photographer Norman McNab has provided four stunning images for the postcards, which ScotRail's catering staff will hand out to customers on trains.
It is the third edition of the complimentary postcards – which were first introduced in 2009 thanks to funding from ScotRail, HITRANS and the Friends of the West Highland Lines.
Graeme Macfarlan, ScotRail's marketing manager, said: "The postcards give our customers a souvenir of their journey that they can share with their loved ones back home."
This year's images show a Mallaig-Glasgow train near Upper Tyndrum, a Glasgow-Oban train in mountains near Crianlarich, the Caledonian Sleeper crossing a snowy Rannoch Moor and a Mallaig-Glasgow train on Glenfinnan Viaduct, made famous by the Harry Potter films.
Fraser McDonald, secretary of the Friends of the West Highland Lines, said: "We are delighted to be able to offer a fresh set of images for the fourth year of the postcards being available from catering trolleys on ScotRail trains."
Readers of independent travel magazine Wanderlust has voted the West Highland Lines as the world's top rail journey for three years in a row.
The Lines offer the chance to see Britain's biggest mountain, most westerly station and highest mainline station, as well as Scotland's largest, longest and deepest lochs.
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Uncorked: Pacific Rim Framboise
Framboise is the French word of raspberry, but here in the states the word usually is used to describe an alcoholic beverage distilled with raspberries. The Pacific Rim Framboise isn't exactly beer and it isn't exactly wine. It's just carbonated enough to make you dismiss it as wine, but it doesn't pour with a head to make you classify it as beer.
The process usually is used to make Belgian beer, but the folks of Pacific Rim have developed a unique liqueur using the process. When it was put in front of me, I approached it with caution like one would approach an alien life-form. "What are you and, more importantly, why are you?" I asked. I'll be honest, after drinking the equivalent of a champagne flute of the stuff, I have no clear answers to either question. This is a curiosity, plain and simple.
This curiosity also is one that certainly has its place alongside desserts or after dinner, but it's not something I'd soon revisit. The framboise's ruby red color is striking when it is first poured. There is strong, almost anesthetic floral and raspberry on the nose that approaches potpourri. The sweet red raspberry taste is pleasant, but those sugars really start to linger after just a few sips. Good or bad, there just is nothing quite like this beverage, so although I didn't enjoy it and certainly can't recommend it on taste alone, I have to say it's something that wine and liqueur drinkers simply have to try, if only to say they've done it. Keep in mind that this is a subjective view; I'll admit that I immediately filed this under cheap, fruity malt liquors just because of appearance. It was hard for me to dispel my gut instinct to "diss" the framboise.
It's certainly better than paper bag, grocery store liquor, but I couldn't help but think of it as the best variation of those brown bag delicacies and not something that was great on its own merits.
The Pacific Rim Framboise's sweet flavor profile means it's destined for dessert territory. The winemaker even recommends pouring it over chocolate cake or cheesecake and mixing it with cocktails. It's sweet enough to justify these recommendations.
If you have a bottle of this on hand, I'd use it to save a plain piece of dark chocolate cake or yellow pound cake. If you want an after dinner drink to enjoy on its own, invest in port. The framboise is a potent weapon with limited uses. Tread lightly.
- Wine: Pacific Rim Framboise
- Varieties: 80 percent Morrison (a clone of raspberry), 20 percent Meeker
- Alcohol: 16 percent
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Photos: Top fourteen cities for dog attacks on postal workers -- and where Denver ranks
To mark National Dog Bite Prevention Week, the U.S. Postal Service has assembled an unusual list: The top fourteen cities during fiscal 2012 when it comes to dog attacks on postal workers.
No, dogs biting mail deliverers isn't just a staple of old sitcoms. It actually happens a lot, and Denver made the roster. The entire list is below, complete with terrifying photos that should probably be rated PWG -- Postal Worker Guidance advised -- plus USPS tips about avoiding bites. Check it all out below.
Number 14: Wichita, Kansas
Total attacks: 20 Number 13 (tie): Dallas, Texas, and Tacoma, Washington
Total attacks: 21 Number 12: Denver, Colorado
Total attacks: 23 Continue to keep counting down the top fourteen cities for dog attacks on postal workers. Number 11 (tie): Buffalo and Brooklyn, New York
Total attacks: 24 Number 10 (tie): Cleveland and Dayton, Ohio
Total attacks: 26 Number 9 (tie): Houston, Texas, and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Total attacks: 27 Continue to keep counting down the top fourteen cities for dog attacks on postal workers. Number 8: Baltimore, Maryland, and Sacramento, California
Total attacks: 29 Number 7: St. Louis, Missouri
Total attacks: 32 Number 6: Detroit, Michigan
Total attacks: 33 Continue to keep counting down the top fourteen cities for dog attacks on postal workers. Number 5: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Total attacks: 34 Number 4: San Francisco, California
Total attacks: 38 Number 3: Chicago, Illinois
Total attacks: 41 Continue to keep counting down the top fourteen cities for dog attacks on postal workers. Number 2: San Antonio, Texas, and Seattle, Washington
Total attacks: 42 Number 1: Los Angeles, California
Total attacks: 69
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Soccer: New Southwest Florida Adrenaline team holding intrasquad scrimmage Saturday
The adrenaline is pumping for soccer players and fans in Southwest Florida.
The Southwest Florida Adrenaline will play an intrasquad scrimmage with free admission at North Collier Regional Park on Saturday. This will give the public its first look at the region's newest soccer club.
"Our territory is from Port Charlotte down to Naples," team president Jeff Butzke said. "We have players aging from 17 to 30. Basically this team is an elite soccer team. It is the highest level of amateur soccer in the United States. Seventy percent of the players that get drafted by Major League Soccer play in this league at one point in time."
The Adrenaline, part of the United Soccer League's Premier Development League, will play two 30-minute halves beginning at 12:30 p.m. during the Florida Fire Spring Classic.
The coaching staff will make its final evaluation of the roster Saturday before it makes its final cuts.
"Some of the guys know they are on the bubble so they know they need to put on a good performance," Adrenaline coach Mick Whitewood said. "It's going to be a very competitive, last-ditch effort for those players. I expect the game to be physical and high scoring. It will be a very exciting game."
Several local players are currently signed to the team and hope the Adrenaline will jump-start their careers.
"This is a pathway for local players to sign a professional contract," Whitewood said. "We give them the stage to live their dreams."
The Adrenaline will kick off its inaugural PDL season at Barron Collier High School, the club's home turf, on May 11 against the Fort Lauderdale Schultz.
The club doesn't only have local players. Soccer players spanning from Naples to New Zealand make up the Adrenaline's internationally-diverse roster.
"When I'm recruiting players from all across the world, it's not too hard to get them to play in Florida," Whitewood said. "It's a beautiful place for everyone to come."
Whitewood, originally from England, has been a Fort Myers resident for 25 years.
"This has tried to be accomplished for about 20 years in Southwest Florida, but it's never been done," he said. "I believe we are doing this right. We hope to have success like the Florida Everblades (hockey team), which is a great organization. We believe that if we can follow their model, we can be very successful."
Butzke sees the Adrenaline as the beginning of a brighter soccer future in Southwest Florida.
"There are so many superior soccer players in this area," he said. "If the community embraces soccer like I think they will, we will look to bring in a professional soccer team sometime in the future."
The Adrenaline, he says, is only Step 1 of a multi-step process.
"I just believe we will be the next big thing," Whitehead said. "If I didn't, I wouldn't be here."
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Adrenaline schedule
Home games at Barron Collier High School
Saturday — Intrasquad scrimmage, 12:30 p.m. at North Collier Regional Park
May 11 — Fort Lauderdale Schultz, 6 p.m.
May 14 — Fort Lauderdale Strikers (Friendly), 7 p.m.
May 19 — Jacksonville United FC (Friendly), 1 p.m.
May 25 — Mississippi, 6 p.m.
June 1 — Orlando City, 6 p.m.
June 6 — at Ocala, 7 p.m.
June 8 — at VSI Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
June 13 — at Mississippi, 8 p.m.
June 15 — at Panama City Beach, 8:30 p.m.
June 19 — at Orlando City, 7 p.m.
June 29 — IMG Academy, 6 p.m.
July 3 — at IMG Academy, Bradenton, 4:30 p.m.
July 6 — VSI Tampa Bay, 6 p.m.
July 9 — Panama City Beach, 7 p.m.
July 13 — Ocala, 6 p.m.
July 20 — at Fort Lauderdale, 6 p.m.
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