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Land of Untold Stories
The land of untold stories is where the mini crew is. It was all a trick to see what the Jekyll was doing. The helper to Hyde made him drink the potion to get Hyde back. The mini crew know who they are dealing with now. Hyde injected himself with some of Jekyll's potion in order to separate them. Just as he was about to kill Jekyll, the crew saves him.
New York
Rumple wants sterling silver to make some weird table top. A storm cloud is forming above the hotel that Rumple is staying in. Regina goes to Rumple acting like she wants to be the Evil Queen to help him. He knew it was a trick to get Emma in to steal the crystal. They all know that the mini crew is trapped and that the magic wand has been taken. Henry came in with the grail and sucked up all the magic saying he has now destroyed it.
Rumple and Regina go to see The Dragon. He was the guy that I think August was looking for. He said because Regina is fighting to be good he will do all he can to help her. She needs to win for all of us he said.
Henry got up on a statue and asked people of "New York" to give him wishes to save his family. They all threw pennies in a fountain and the pennies started to fall on the mini crew until a portal opened. They ended up in the fountain. People clapped thinking it was a magic trick. Rumple went back to get Hyde and Belle. Hyde said he can help him wake Belle.
What Violet said is father isn't from Camelot, he's from Connecticut. They will probably stay in Storybrooke because her father never felt at home in Camelot but he was happy Violet grew up there.
Regina wants to separate from the Evil Queen so she has the potion to try it. Emma and Snow are there to inject Regina. Regina ripped out the Evil Queen's heart out and crushed it. Oh, no. Regina destroyed the crystal. Hyde is there saying that Rumple gave him Storybrooke. The Evil Queen is alive and took the heart out of the Dragon.
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Land of Untold Stories
Hook is back and Regina is not happy. Emma doesn't want her to become evil again so asks her to sit out. All of sudden, Rumple tethered all the magic to the crystal he got from Hades. Henry seeing what magic has done takes it and Violet on a journey to NY City to destroy magic. As the Author, he was able to make the crystal appear to him just by writing in the book.
The people are worried that magic is gone. Zelena was able to open a portal to let people like Merida return home. While trying to close it, she, Snow, David, and Hook were sucked into the portal. They need to figure out where they are and what they need to get back. They see a man who says magic is dangerous and that he can't help them. A guy comes from nowhere and blasts them with some kind of magic.
Regina and Emma look for Henry in Boston using GPS on his phone. He left his phone on a bus going to Boston but they are actually in New York. Henry went to New York because Neil, his father, was working on a way to destroy magic incase Rumple found him. He only told Henry of his plans. Henry believes he was close. Even Emma doesn't know about Neil's work.
Emma and Regina go to Neil's old place. I'm guessing Neil owned that place because it would have been rented out by now. Regina finds an old letter from Robin. She realizes it is her fate to be trapped in between good and evil suffering. Emma uses the computer to find out Henry was headed to the library. Rumple is hiding at the door listening.
The mini crew are in a dungeon being held by a man who hates Rumple. He thinks they are working for him. The guy they first saw is now offering to help them by taking their magic wand to fix it in the place where magic is held. They have no choice but to trust him. He used to be a doctor before he was kept prisoner by the man. He asks that if he succeeds that they take him with them.
Henry finds a load of story books that have stories and characters that he never heard of before. The pictures look like the place that the mini crew is in. Violet notices a cup that looks like the holy grail. They think it will help end magic like the other one started magic. As they try to leave with it, Rumple appears. He knocks them out with magic and takes the crystal but doesn't know that the new grail is in Henry's backpack.
Oh my goodness, it's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mr. Hyde is the guy who threatened the mini crew. Dr. Jekyll tried to help them. Mr. Hyde wants to get to Storybrooke too. When Jekyll awoke he got the key to the cage but "the new warden" took the magic wand. Hyde was able to use the wand to summon Pandora's box (which contains Belle). Rumple saved the crystal before he went for the box. Hyde thinks he can get Rumple to do what he wants now that he has Belle.
Zelena went off to find Regina and left her kid with Hades. Arthur runs out of the woods handcuff looking for help. Hades says he understands being falsely imprisoned. He thinks he was destined to rule this new world. Oh, and he kills Arthur.
Regina tells Zelena not to trust Hades and Zelena said they shouldn't mess with a god. Hades "offers" to give himself up to protect Zelena and the baby. She vows to help fight if needed. Hades has Olympian crystal that he wants to use as a weapon. Robin is pissed at Regina for putting his child in the hands of Hades and Zelena. They are sneaking into her office by an underground tunnel.
Emma and David inform Snow about Hades coming to the real world. Merida, Emma, David, and Henry find dead Arthur. Emma is ready to fight Hades but David tells her she needs to grieve the loss of Hook.
Rumple found Belle's father but it is not willing to wake her if it means Rumple will still have control over her. He was threatened by Rumple when Emma arrives asked for help. Rumple won't help because it is her problem. Rumple calls Hades to offer him a deal. He knows about the crystal. And he reminds Hades that he is in his kingdom now.
Hades tried to attack Regina with the crystal but Robin jumped in front. Zelena got the crystal and realized that Hades was not being truthful. She killed him with the crystal. Now Regina and Zelena are friends again. Later, Rumple showed up and fished the remaining crystal out of Hades's ashes.
Robin's funeral had Regina looking like the grieving widow which I guess she is. People left arrows with a flower on it on the coffin. His son was there and I bet it is the last time we will see him. Zelena was there with the baby who is unsurprisingly named Robin now.
King Arthur ends up in the Underworld. Hook invites him on a quest to find out the secrets of Hades now that Hades isn't around to protect it. They find the Story book pages hidden in the throne. Hook needs to find a way to get the information to Emma. They go to Cruella to find out that she destroyed the phone booth that could talk to the real world. She also got rid of the Story book in the river of souls. They went to find it underground and lost souls tried to attack them. By returning the pages to the book, Emma was able to see the new pages.
Hook gets a sense that Emma defeated Hades. He is able to move on now. Zeus meets him personally to thank him for dealing with Hades and will escort him back to where he belongs. Who knew he would end up back in Storybrooke with Emma.
Flashback – Maine 2009
Emma is looking for her family by asking questions at a local restaurant. A woman talks to her and reveals she is looking for her since she skipped bail. The woman put a boot on Emma's car before approaching her so she couldn't get away. That is the same trick Emma did in series 1 episode 1. I think this is the woman that got her into being a bounty hunter. Emma picked the lock of the handcuffs while the woman was in the shower. But she stayed when she found that a county office website has information on her and she wants to be taken there. No real information was there. Emma can't let go but is agreeing to go back with the woman.
Emma went back to the county office. The woman followed and they jumped out the window to escape the police. Why can't she just show her bounty hunter badge? It seems shady. Oops, a piece of glass got the woman. She's dying and tells Emma that she gave up a child in the past. Emma finds the girl to give her information about her mother. This is where Emma finds her leather jacket. It looks like the one the bounty hunter wore and called her armor.
Hades goes to the crew for help in getting Zelena back. A meeting takes places where Rumple and Peter Pan want the contract ripped up for the return of her. Immediately, Hades rips it. Emma comes in just as they were going to take out her heart. Emma wondered why Rumple was staying so long. He left to go wake Belle. Of course his kiss didn't work. Pan found him and said he has Pandora's box. Rumple put the heart inside Pan so he could leave the Underworld. Uh oh, it's not a real heart. It is filled with water from the river. You know that means Pan is destined to spend eternity in the river. People never learn not to mess with Rumple.
With the return of Zelena, Hades does as he promised, to wipe the names off the tombstones. The kiss from Zelena made is heart start beating again. Now he is able to leave the Underworld with the crew. A portal will open and they have a limited amount of time to go through. However, the plan to share Emma's heart with Hook didn't work. He has been dead too long. Hades told them the story of someone whose soul escaped the Underworld. They need ambrosia. Emma's heart has to go up for review to see if she is worthy. Even Hades has not been there. The only way to do it is to take an elevator. Hook and Emma hope to be back in time to get to the portal, but Regina promised to take everyone home if they don't.
Robin comes with the baby but doesn't trust Zelena. Regina says the baby will be safe with her while Robin helps them. He walks away to clear his head and Rumple appears to steal his heart. Henry, as the author, tells the people what their unfinished business is. Cruella interrupts telling of her plans to take over the Underworld. The Hansel and Gretel witch uses her magic to trap the crew in a building. Regina can't use her magic to get out.
Emma put her heart on a scale and it does nothing. All of a sudden she falls to her knees and Hook is engulfed in flames. She has to choose whether to get her heart or same him. You know she tried to save him. That is all that was needed to open the door. She had to prove her love for Hook. The ambrosia has been cut and the crew is stuck. People are starting to think it was Hades. It was all for nothing. Time is running out and Hades convinces Zelena that they should go through the portal with the baby. Hook is staying behind and staying dead. Poor Emma had to help Regina open the door with magic. They make it to the portal. She talks about how her armor (her jacket) was supposed to keep her from getting hurt. Now she can't save the people she loves. David had to make her go through the portal.
Regina gets a hold of Cora's magic wand. She tried to turn her doll into a sister to play with. The magic comes back at her and she is injured. Cora said only someone close to her that has not hurt her will be able to help her. Henry says she has no other relatives. We know Zelena is out there. Cora went to Oz to find Zelena who has powers. She wants to use her magic to help her Regina. Of course Cora doesn't tell Zelena who she is. Zelena knew how to heal Regina. Now they are playmates but they find out they may be related. Zelena was able to open the box with the wand in it. It was protected by blood magic. Cora overhears them as the run off to find her to ask. Cora tells them it is true that they are sisters. But, Cora told Regina it would ruin her plans for her if people found out about Zelena. She has the guards take Zelena away. Regina swears that she will find her again. Cora says neither of them will remember.
David and James finally meet. James incapacitates David and plans to posed as him for a while. He blames David for taking what was rightfully his. David and James fought and James went into the river. David is sad because James was still his brother. Everyone on this show is related; he just has to get over it.
Hades wants to give the real Storybrooke to Zelena. It means that Regina and the crew will have to stay in the Underworld. Regina knows they met and told the crew about Hades's plan. She thinks the only way to stop Zelena is go get Cora involved. Oh no, Cora is stuck working in the mill. She finds Hook's magic hook and is able to free herself. Cora and Regina go to a river where the water makes people forget once they drink it. Cora decided it is time for Zelena to meet Cora and drink this water.
Cora says that she knows now that both her daughters are the reason she is there. She apologizes to Zelena and says she regrets leaving her. During the hug, Regina sneaks in. Zelena knows it is a set up and throws the water Cora gave her in the fire. Cora gives them back their memories of when they played together and were separated. She wants them to be a family now. Since Regina and Zelena are reunited as sisters, Cora has completed her unfinished business. I don't see how she can go on to a presumably better place when she has done so much evil. Remember how black Regina's heart was? Can you imagine how dark Cora's heart must be? It's probably like Rumple's.
Regina told Zelena to go be with Hades because she may be able to change him. He set up this nice dinner for her at the diner. Just as Zelena gets to the door, Rumple and Peter Pan show up and kidnap her. They are probably going to use her soul so that Peter Pan can go back to the living world again.
Flashback – Oz
Looking for Ruby's pack, she and Milan run into Dorothy. All of a sudden a green cloud approaches. We all know what (or who) that is. This was when Regina banished Zelena to Oz. She wants her shoes and in exchange Dorothy gets Toto back. Dorothy and Ruby go to find poppies for a potion, Milan is cooking up. Ruby tells her story about no know where she belongs to Dorothy. Dorothy explains that Auntie Em is the only one that believed in her when she got back from Oz. They are playing it that Auntie Em gave her Toto. I think Ruby has a crush on Dorothy. Ruby had to turn into a wolf to escape one of the flying monkeys. Dorothy looked at Ruby funny after they got back to Milan. As if she was uncomfortable with Ruby being a wolf. Milan told Ruby not to wait to tell Dorothy what she feels like she did. When she went to tell her, Dorothy was gone.
Hades warns Zelena that Ruby is in the Underworld. She wants to leave before she has to face her. Apparently she did something to one of the friends of the crew that she doesn't want Regina to find out about. Since Zelena is not dead, she thinks it will be easy to leave but Hades says it isn't. Hades is looking to deal with Ruby.
Regina and crew confront Zelena. Dorothy was put under a sleeping curse. They think a kiss from Auntie Em will break the curse. But they are in the Underworld and Auntie wouldn't be able to leave. They plan to send the kiss to her somehow. Auntie Em is running a diner in the Underworld. Just when she was going to blow a kiss in the bottle, she turns to liquid courtesy of Hades. He threatened anyone that deals with the crew with the same fate. Snow reassures Ruby that she has the power to awaken Dorothy.
Cruella is mayor of the town and she is doing Hades's bidding by getting rid of the phone booth. Now David and Snow can't talk to Neil. David may use the silver shoes to get back to Oz and then to Storybrooke. David doesn't want Snow to miss out on time with Neil. He convinced Hook to carve his name on the tombstone to replace Snow's. Now Snow and Ruby are going to Oz. They arrive to see people surrounding Dorothy. Ruby is ready to save the day. Dorothy left before because she didn't want to take the chance of losing Ruby to Zelena's wrath. Their kiss ends up in the pages of the story book
Zelena goes to Hades. He said he is doing all this for her. Auntie Em is now in the river of souls. I think Zelena is ready to trust Hades more.
Belle decided to put herself under a sleeping curse until Rumple can find a way out of the contract. Also, Belle thinks her father can break the curse. After talking to Zelena, Belle was afraid her baby could be made to be born early like Emma did to Zelena. If she is asleep, Hades can't take the baby.
Ogres are threatening the outskirts of Belle's kingdom. Her father wants to align themselves with a partner with a powerful army. He wants Belle to marry Gaston. She has heard about his vanity and when meeting him he seems to accept that she isn't interested because of that. She decides to give him a slight chance. They find a young ogre and she convinces him to let her deal with it. She finds a book that tells of a mirror to show evil in one's eyes. She is going to get it and Gaston will stay behind. Belle brings her father and the mirror to the woods. Gaston appears to be injured after being attacked by the ogre. Belle's father arranges for their army to track it down with Gaston leading the way. Belle wants to join to use the mirror. When they find it, Belle notices the bruising on its back. Gaston had tortured it. She saw the glowing in the eyes of Gaston when she looked in the mirror. Even with him being evil, Belle is forced to be engaged to Gaston with the Ogre Wars starting. War with the Ogres caused Rumple to try to find a way to keep Baelfire from being drafted.
Gaston is approached by Hades. Hades gives him arrows with the power to kill Rumple, the man who murdered him and stole Belle. Flowers are starting to grow in Underbrooke powered by hope.
Emma had a dream giving her an idea on how to erase their names from the gravestones. In the dream, Snow is attacked by some kind of fast monster. You can't tell what it was. Now the dream is coming true and they are running away. Finally, Emma tells Snow that she dies in her dream. Regina had to call Emma out on her silliness of running from this monster. Snow agrees and they go out looking for it. By "they" I mean Regina, Snow, Robin, and Emma. Guess what? It's a wolf aka Ruby aka Little Red Riding Hood.
Belle wants Rumple to use good to help their child. All of a sudden, Gaston shows up to kill Rumple. The arrows have water from the river that will make him unable to leave. Belle wants to help Gaston as a way to defeat Hades. They look for clues about him in his locker. He still has the book that she gave him that she said was her favorite. She thinks she is his unfinished business. While waiting for him, Hades shows up offering to give up the mark on her baby if one of the guys, Gaston or Rumple, falls in the river. She said no but he is letting her think about it. It turns out Gaston blames Belle's love for making him weak. Her wanting to help monsters is why he is not surprised she is married to Rumple. Belle tricked Rumple and stole his dagger making him stop his plan with Gaston. But, Gaston almost attacked Rumple with the arrow so Belle pushed him. He fell in the river. Problem solved. Oops, there was no deal. A flower that was growing started to die. He sent the flower to Zelena. Zelena tells Regina that she thinks she is his only weakness and that he loves her.
Oz Flashback
Poor Zelena has a mini-cake for herself on the anniversary of Cora leaving her. She doesn't know her real birthday. Dorothy came back to Oz after hearing that Zelena, the Wicked Witch, is alive and wreaking havoc. They made Dorothy a wannabe bandit Snow White. Zelena has a plan to steal various things towards her spell to time travel. She kidnapped the scarecrow in order to get his brain. But, Dorothy saved him saying she was more powerful because she had the love of the people. Hades visited Zelena and offered to help her. He also wants revenge on his sibling, Zeus, for making him ruler of the Underworld and stealing his ability to love. He needs true love's kiss to make his heart work again. Hades takes Zelena to find Dorothy on Dorothy's bike. Hades is starting to feel something for Zelena. She enchants the bike and will use it to find Dorothy (locator spell). They find Dorothy and Zelena is able to freeze her and take the Scarecrow's brain. When Zelena turned around Hades was gone. He was at her castle waiting to celebrate. He loves her and felt his heart flutter. She thinks he is using her so he can escape the Underworld and deny her the revenge she wants. He said she will regret it.
Hades makes Rumple open a portal to get Zelena's baby. It ended up taking the baby, Belle, and Zelena. Rumple finds Belle and tells her about her pregnancy and him being the Dark One again. He tells her, what I think is true, that she fell in love with him as both the man and the Dark One. He's not changing and she needs to make a choice. She won't consider making a choice until the deal with Hades for their future baby is solved. Zelena found Robin and Regina. They all look for the baby. Belle runs into them with the baby. Zelena uses a little magic to get away with the baby. The magic seems to injure the baby. It upset her. Now she is willing to give the baby to Regina to keep her safe. She thinks Hades needs the baby as an ingredient in that spell for time travel. She said he can't love because of her.
Snow and David are worried about their son, Neil, back in Storybrooke. At the diner, they are told about a phone booth that people use to talk to the living through haunting. Snow told Emma their plan to try to talk to Neil. She is afraid that he will grow up without them like Emma did. She hopes hearing their voices will show him he is loved. Henry is waking up with storybook pages already written. One was the story about Neil hearing his parents sing to him.
Zelena and Hades meet in the town square. He says he still loves her and wanted to save her baby. She still doesn't believe him but she is closer to it. He tortured Cora to find out Zelena's birthday (April 15th). He wanted her to know. Zelena wants to find her baby alone. I'm not sure about how sincere Hades is about Zelena. He said he made the Underworld look like Storybrooke so she could have everything that Regina had.
After being sold into service by their father, Liam and Killian Jones are working on a boat. Liam has arranged for them to join the Navy and use the money, plus what they have, to buy their freedom. Killian is a drunk and while Liam was gone gambled his money away. Liam still had the money to buy his own freedom but decided to stay with Killian.
Their captain was looking for something that was supposed to be in the eye of a storm. Yep, it's called The Eye of The Storm. Liam and Killian led a mutiny against the captain and succeeded. On the ship, Hades appears offering Liam the Eye of The Storm that the captain was looking for. All Liam has to do is sink the ship so he can have the souls. Killian and Liam will be safe and the jewel will get them whatever they want from the king. Killian is definitely Liam's hype man. He is trying to convince the crew, during a hurricane, that Liam knows what he is doing. They, Liam and Killian, are found on the beach by a captain willing to give them a place on their ship. He did that because Liam shows him The Eye of The Storm.
Cruella and Henry are driving around trying to find the quill. He spots something flashing in the woods. He follows it and the Sorcerer's Apprentice appears. Henry requests his help. Apparently, Henry is the reason the Apprentice hasn't moved on yet. He doesn't want Henry to use the quill to make things happen but he must help him for his own sake.
Hook is upset with himself for the weakness he showed as the Dark One. His brother, Liam, magically comes to the door. I think it is Hades (it wasn't but I left this in anyway). He also told Emma she is not good enough for his brother. And that it's her fault Hook was there in the first place. He tells them about a book that is supposed to have the power to defeat Hades. Of course it is the storybook and now they have to find it. Underbrooke has to have its own Once Upon a Time book. Henry comes in saying the Apprentice knows that the Sorcerer's house is protected by magic and James has the key. They assume that is where the book is. I just started to wonder, why the Sorcerer would need a house in Storybrooke.
Hades went to Liam, who runs the bar, and asks him to get the book for him otherwise he will tell why he is really in the Underworld. Cruella goes to see James but David is there pretending to be James after they found the key to the house. In the house, Henry is left behind and it annoys him because he wants to be a hero. Liam finds the book and tears out the pages about Hades. Ha, Cruella knew that it was David the whole time. She was all over him. James blames David for being the favorite and getting to be raised by their mother.
Emma confronts Liam about the missing pages. He said he doesn't have them when Killian comes in. She tells Liam to show his hands but Killian said he doesn't have to. Emma leaves and Killian sees the book's ink on his hands. The members of the ship come up from behind to expose Liam. The ex-captain is outing Liam. Now the men are going to make Killian and Liam walk the plank into the fire. Hades shows up and knocks down the ex-captain. Liam tries to stand up for Killian. Hades blows him away and Killian tries to keep him from falling. Liam lets go and there is a white light. A boat shows up and everything is serene. All the men get on the boat. Liam says he was wrong about Emma. I don't get how Liam gets a happy ending just because now he sacrifices himself now. He killed all the men on that boat. Hook doesn't go with them and now thinks he could have a future with Emma.
Shouldn't the quill call to Henry like the Dagger called to the Dark Ones? He finds it. He is in his room not talking about it. David is talking about his issues with James to tell Henry some people would wish have the family he has. Henry decides to tell the crew about the quill, Cruella, and his want to be a real hero.
Wow, so Hades has the pages and it shows his relationship with Zelena. That's great. I can't wait for that.
Rumple and Baelfire were out catching dragonflies while his wife, Milah, worked. He told her she should have waiting for him but she basically said he wasn't strong enough. While they were arguing, Baelfire is bitten by a snake. They go to a healer for help who says he has 24 hours to live. They could not afford the anecdote, so Milah wants to steal it. She sends Rumple off with a dagger, not The Dagger. That is when she meets Captain Killian Jones who invites her to sail with him but she tells him she is married with an ailing child. He said he's in port often if that changes. Rumple got to the healer and tried to kill him but, at the time, Rumple was not a killer. The healer offered him a deal that he could have the cure if he promised him something. Rumple went home to Milah and told her all he needed to do is promise him their 2nd child. He figured they just won't have any more kids. That upset Milah because he gave away their future. With that, she left to hang out at the tavern. This is probably when she started seeing Hook.
While the Dark One, Rumple went back to find the healer and killed him to void the contract he made.
Hades is punishing Hook for not doing what he asked. Hook is now hanging over the river of lost souls.
Rumple saw Belle in a crystal ball and knew he had to help find Hook to get back to her. He told Emma that they need a soul to help break through barriers to keep live people out. Of course, he chose Milah. Milah was not happy to meet Emma who slept with her ex, Hook, and her son, Baelfire aka Neil. Rumple found her as a crossing guard for children. He told her he needed her help to help Killian her past love. The 3 of them were able to pass through the barrier and now Milah wants to come with them for personal reasons. Emma finds Hook and is able to take him off the chain. Hades finds Rumple and Milah. He takes Rumple to make a deal. He wants him to prevent the crew from leaving so he can go home to his wife. He likes Rumple because of his evilness and all the souls he has sent to him. Rumple acted like Hades attacked him and made Milah fall in the river of lost souls. Hook and Emma arrive too late. They seem to believe him. Hook is surprised that Milah was there. Milah believed she was there because of the way she abandoned Baelfire. She thought helping to free Hook was the good deed she needed to move on.
Regina went to find the witch that runs the diner but found Cruella instead. She wants information about the graveyard. She and Snow White found Daniel's grave. The way his stone was laying shows he is in a better place.
The plan was for Regina to take out Emma's heart, split it, and give part of it to Hook. Hook was willing to consider himself even with Rumple for his help rescuing him. Unfortunately, someone put Regina, Snow, and Emma's names on headstones so they cannot leave the Underworld aka Underbrooke.
Rumple sees Hades and the healer that he did the deal with for his 2nd child is there. Hades bought the contract so now Rumple owes him his 2nd child. Oh by the way, Belle is pregnant. When he used the crystal ball, he apparently asked to see his child. It showed him Belle. We didn't see that part but Hades knew.


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Influence? What Influence?
Influence? What Influence?
25/03/2014 10:27
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The pro-Brussels lobby bangs on about Britain having 'no influence outside the EU'. But when we leave the EU, we will be in the top ten countries by GDP, and the EU's largest external customer in the world. We will be a great global trading nation and a major voice in the councils of nations – our own voice, not Brussels' voice, writes UKIP MEP Roger Helmer.
We're far enough into the €uro campaign for broad lines of our opponents' case to be becoming clear. First it was Jobs. We need to be in the EU for jobs. The Lib-Dem slogan will be "In Europe, In Work" – which is fairly preposterous, with the EU facing an almost unprecedented unemployment crisis. Tim Congdon tells me that the average labour market participation rate in the EU is around 60%, compared to around 70% in other advanced economies.
I've already done what I hope is an effective rebuttal on this point.
The EU is a job-Shredding Machine
. It's "In Europe,
Out of Work
Then (one that BND likes), the CBI has done an estimate arguing that our membership of the EU is worth £3000 a year to every household in Britain. We're working on a considered rebuttal to that, but in a sound-bite: it seems the CBI took published estimates of trade benefits, exaggerated them, and ignored any costs or downsides. This is a curious mirror-image of the Stern Report on climate change, which took an exaggerated view of the downsides, ignored the up-sides (and applied an absurd long-term discount rate). The CBI Report, which we're currently studying, also appears to assume that trade with the EU would stop dead after Independence Day. In reality, of course, we shall have a free trade agreement, and trade will continue much as before. So we'll have the penny
the bun – most of the trade benefits, but saving most of the costs.
For comparison, both Tim Congdon and Patrick Minford, two of the UK's most respected economists, have independently estimated the total costs of EU membership at slightly over 10% of GDP. This gives an annual
per household of around £4000.
But now I'd like to take the third point of the pro-Brussels lobby head-on.
. Outside the EU we'll be isolated and marginalised. We'll have no influence in the world.
Right on cue, we get
a report from Business for Britain
pointing out that since 1996, the UK has opposed 55 measures in the European Council. And how many did we manage to stop? Precisely none. Zero. Zilch. How's that for influence? The same report points out that over the period, the UK's voting weight in the European Council has slipped from 17% to 8%, with a similar reduction in the parliament. So much for "influence". And increasingly decisions are made by qualified majority. That 8% doesn't go far in creating a blocking minority.
Look at it another way. While we have an 8% voice in the Council,
EU Commissioner Viviane Reding
has recently confirmed a statistic widely quoted in euro-sceptic circles, that 75% of our new laws come from Brussels. Is that a good trade? We get an 8% say in EU law-making, but in exchange we've given Brussels a 75% say in our own affairs. Sounds like a
loss of influence
to me.
Of course a big group of countries like the EU has more clout than a single member-state – doesn't it? Well it might if we all had broadly the same interests and the same policies. If all the feet pointed in the same direction. But (in very general terms) we find ourselves in a Northern European/Anglo Saxon group, set against a more corporatist, statist middle and south. So we are in a permanent structural minority. We saw that when (then) Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson tried to get a deal on the Doha World Trade Round meeting in Hong Kong. He was blocked by several factors, but the biggest problem was the intransigence of the protectionist French farm lobby. British interests subordinated to the EU's failing protectionist model.
We have so much influence that we can't even deport some
4,000 foreign criminals
, including murderers and rapists, from our country, because of the Human Rights Act (and before you point out that the ECHR is Council of Europe, not EU, let me mention that given the convergence between the two, and the links between them, it's difficult to tell the difference. For example, signing up to the ECHR is a condition of EU membership).
And does anyone seriously think that an offshore province has more influence than a sovereign nation? Take California. With the most recent GDP figure I can find at $1.9 trillion (well over 10% of US GDP), that would put an independent California at about
#10 globally by GDP
. As I write, we have President Obama coming to Brussels tomorrow. But we hear much less about the Governor of California. Who can doubt that as an independent country California would have more global influence?
Or consider Canada, currently #11 by GDP, just a fraction smaller than California, and about three quarters the size of the UK economy. Canada is an independent a sovereign nation, smaller than UK. But it's in the G8. Anyone think it lacks clout because it's not in the EU? Or that it would have more clout if it were? No. I thought not.
When we leave the EU, we will be in the top ten countries by GDP. We will be the EU's largest external customer in the world – bar none. We will be a great global trading nation. We will still be on the UN Security Council, on the OECD, the World Bank, the WTO, in NATO, a leading country in the Commonwealth (whose GDP now exceeds the Eurozone), and on dozens of international organisations, too many to list. We shall be a major voice in the councils of nations – and our own voice, not Brussels' voice. We shall be not so much leaving the EU, as re-joining the real world, where growth and opportunity are to be found.
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text: You may love 'em, you may hate 'em, but one thing is certain… the Louisiana oyster has a certain mystique and a large loyal following. Although many would argue that the best way to serve oysters is in the raw, there are so many ways to prepare them. In this episode we are going to talk about a few of those ways. Drago's famous Chargrilled Oysters (and our variation of it). I have a few recipes for you too: fresh cocktail sauce for those yummy, slimy raw oysters, and sauces for grilled or BBQ oysters. Oh, and a special recipe for what I call the Bayou Mary Oyster Shooter. Sarah Reinhard joins us with her Mary in the Kitchen segment. and today Sarah reflects on resolutions, failure, and Our Blessed Lady. All this and more right here, at the Catholic Foodie, where food meets faith!


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After School Care is available to students in grades K-6 at Hugh Goodwin, Northwest, Yocum and Washington Middle School. Students can stay after school to help parents who need a place for their child until they can get off work. After School Care provides a place for students to get homework help and a nutritious snack in a fun, safe, and familiar environment.
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*2016 data for North Shore Health System and Newton-Wellesley Physician Hospital Organization could not be collected until they upgraded to Partners' new electronic medical record.
Higher values indicate better performance
Data Periods: 8/13/15 - 8/12/16 and 7/31/16 - 7/30/17
Partners HealthCare Data Source: Electronic Health Record (EHR) System
What are we measuring and why?
Controlling high blood pressure ("hypertension") will save lives by preventing the complications of heart disease. This measure shows the percentage of eligible patients diagnosed with high blood pressure whose most recent blood pressure reading occurred within the past 6 months and is well controlled.
How does this measure differ from traditional metrics that rely on claims (billing) data?
We use electronic health record (EHR) data that 1) improves our identification of patients with high blood pressure using information entered by clinicians into the patient problem list and individual office encounters; and 2) captures additional details regarding the results of blood pressure readings over time and across different settings (including home blood pressure readings).
What is our approach to managing quality for such large populations of patients?
We are using our EHR to collect health information in standardized 'registries' (patient lists) that track blood pressure readings, lab results, and procedures all in a single location for an entire population of patients. We have population health coordinators that work with our clinical teams to review the data from the registries regularly and outreach to patients who would benefit from updated lab testing, procedures, blood pressure monitoring, or medication therapy.
Measures Details
We have improved our high blood pressure metric by accounting for patient age (where risk/benefit assessments of aggressive blood pressure control are needed), presence of diabetes (where more aggressive blood control may be needed), and whether the patient is already on maximum medication therapy.
Denominator: Adult patients (age ≥ 18 years) with high blood pressure defined as 1) a diagnosis present on the electronic problem list, or 2) a clinician-entered diagnosis during an office visit in the most recent 12 months, or 3) presence of a billing diagnosis (claims data) in the last 12 months.
Numerator: The number of patients with a recorded blood pressure reading in the most recent six months AND either 1) the most recent blood pressure reading meets the blood pressure goal, OR 2) the average of the most recent 3 blood pressure readings within the last 18 months meets the blood pressure goals as defined below:
- Age < 60 years, blood pressure ≤ 140/90 mmHg
- Age ≥ 60 years
- Without a diagnosis of Diabetes, blood pressure ≤ 150/90 mmHg
- With a diagnosis of Diabetes, blood pressure ≤ 140/90 mmHg
- Diastolic blood pressure < 70 mmHg
- Prescribed three or more anti-hypertensive medications from three different drug classes (regardless of blood pressure readings)
Permanent exclusions allow our clinicians to identify patients for whom we are not actively managing high blood pressure. We remove these patients from the denominator. This includes patients who are deceased, no longer receiving care from our primary care physician, or those incorrectly diagnosed with high blood pressure.
Permanent exceptions allow our clinicians to identify patients correctly diagnosed with high blood pressure, but for whom aggressive blood pressure control is no longer clinically appropriate. We count these patients as contributing positively to the numerator. This includes patients with a terminal illness or advanced dementia.
Temporary exceptions allow our clinicians to identify patients correctly diagnosed with high blood pressure, but for whom aggressive blood pressure control may be temporarily not clinically appropriate. We count these patients as contributing positively to the numerator for 12 months following this designation. This includes patients who have a competing comorbidity, are compliant with maximum tolerated therapy, are intolerant to medical therapy or have a contraindication, are declining medication, or are not able to afford medication.


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PTR making commemorative gun for South Carolina
Firearms manufacturer PTR Industries is so pleased with its move to Aynor that it is producing a special gun to show its appreciation.
The company will produce 1,000 South Carolina commemorative firearms, each stamped with an outline of the state with a Palmetto tree and crescent moon inside it.
PTR vice president John McNamara said the company developed the gun as a way to give something back to South Carolina.
The company moved its headquarters and operation to Aynor in January with no hassles. McNamara said state and local officials helped in any way they could, such as with zoning.
"All the red tape involved was handled efficiently," he said.
S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley will receive one of the special edition firearms at a ceremony at the plant on Monday. The special gun costs $1,200 and may be purchased at several area gun stores.
PTR CEO Josh Fiorini decided to move the company from Connecticut after a law was passed that would ban legal ownership in the state of firearms such as those PTR makes. The legislature took the action banning assault weapons following the shooting deaths of 20 elementary school children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the deadliest K-12 shooting in U.S. history.
"I think PTR is looking at this special edition as a way to sell more guns and to give back to the state of South Carolina," said Brad Lofton, CEO of the Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corp.
PTR's commemorative gun, a PTR-91, is the company's first nickle-tone firearm with a welded scope mount. As with all the company's guns, it is stamped with "Aynor, S.C." and, along the barrel, the words "We the people shall not be infringed."
Lofton said he thinks it's "cool" that all the company's firearms are stamped with Aynor.
The special edition firearm isn't the only thing the company has done to help the state and Horry County.
It was key in helping another Connecticut company decide that Horry County will be the place for its first expansion when that time comes.
The decision to expand will be based on developing customers for a new facility, said Steven Meyer, president of CED Services, which does consulting and machine work for the aerospace and firearms industries.
PTR is one of the customers of the $13 million-a-year company, Meyer said. He and Fiorini have been friends for years.
Meyer said he has also looked in Charleston and the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina, but likes Myrtle Beach the best.
Lofton said PTR also introduced area officials to other gun manufacturers at last year's Shot Show in Las Vegas.
Without an insider to help them, he said, connections at the show could have been hit-and-miss.
McNamara said that, personally, he was surprised at how easy it has been getting settled in Horry County.
"I think it's a lifestyle and culture we all embraced," he said of himself and the 26 employees who transferred south when the company moved. Just one, a 19-year-old, has returned to Connecticut.


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What do Disney's 1951 extravagant rendition of Alice in Wonderland and Quentin Tarantino's martial-arts flick Kill Bill have in common? As you'll have guessed, it involves a particular use of black and white. To my knowledge, no other movie has employed it this way – if you know more examples, please let me know. So let's see what it is and why it is so peculiar.
Filmmakers have variously experimented with combining color and black-and-white cinematography within a single film since as early as the introduction of color films. A well-known instance is The Wizard of Oz (1939), which uses monochrome sepia tones for Kansas scenes, and transitions to color as Dorothy enters the magical world of Oz. Victor Fleming's film exploits like no other the contrast between monochrome and color to affirm the supremacy of imagination over reality, and underscore the tension between the innocence of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. Oz is, in fact, the first of many movies to use the opposition color/b&w to represent different levels of reality, degrees of fulfillment, or stages of psychological development. Other random examples include Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946), where otherworldly scenes are filmed in b&w while earthly sequences appear in color, and Pleasantville (1998), which associates color with happiness and b&w with disappointment and frustration.
|Dorothy discovers Technicolor.
B&w has also become a well-established device for flashbacks. It can be used occasionally like in A Single Man (Tom Ford, 2009), where a b&w sequence has the protagonist abandoning himself to nostalgic memories of his deceased partner; or systematically like in Memento, where b&w identifies a major plotline. Other times it can express a subjective viewpoint, or a particular perspective on the world. In John Carpenter's dystopian sci-fi classic They Live (1988), the screen turns monochrome when characters are looking through some miraculous sunglasses. More rarely, b&w can introduce an ambiguity that cannot be easily resolved. For instance, a scene in Faraway, So Close! (Wim Wenders, 1993) turns from color to b&w as characters played by Otto Sander and Nastassja Kinski enter a photo booth, as if we were seeing them through the booth's lens; except that when they collect the developed photos, these are oddly enough revealed to be in color.
In more recent years b&w inserts have become a stylish device to pay homage to old movies or provide a playful intermezzo that stands out stylistically from the rest of the movie. Everybody who has seen Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007) will probably remember the luscious scene where Kurt Russell licks Rosario Dawson's foot, not only because of its fetishism but also because it's the film's only b&w scene.
|The shift to black and white in Death Proof.
If we consider that color is one of the main technical aspects of a movie, we would be tempted to conclude that, in principle, shifting from color to b&w (or vice versa) always draws attention to the artificiality of film as a medium; but actually, it depends on what motivates the shift. In A Single Man, b&w is motivated by a character's memories; clearly the filmmaker doesn't want to divert our attention from the story. Death Proof foot-licking scene, instead, is possibly a homage to Russ Meyer's exploitation movies, therefore motivation has to be found outside of the narrative context. (In another post I made a similar claim about the diverse purposes behind a variable aspect ratio.)
But what motivates the shift to b&w in Kill Bill Crazy 88 fight scene? The shift occurs as Beatrix Kiddo aka Black Mamba pops out the eye of one of the gangsters, i.e. in a particularly gruesome moment. Let's put aside concerns over a possible NC-17 rating, and just concentrate on the effect. At a superficial level, the monochrome tones down the graphic violence: in fact, the spurts of blood from the gangsters' severed limbs appear like water gushing from a fountain once colors have been drained from the screen.
No wonder that many
Tarantino fans were disappointed by this choice (although I'm told that the
Japanese version restores the original sequence in all its gore). But is
violence actually softened by b&w here? This would be true if the whole
film was in black and white. But a single b&w scene stands out in an
unusual way; I'd say that the shift makes the scene even more shocking in this
case, because we are encouraged to imagine what it would
look like were it in color. What might seem like "chromatic
censorship", a sort of b&w curtain rung down to protect the audience's
sensitivity, is actually a way to accentuate the brutality of the fight.
|Kill Bill Volume 1.
I'm reminded of when, as a child, I used to watch tv with my grandfather. I often pressed him to watch horror movies, for which I had an insane passion; and as he couldn't deny me anything, he usually budged. Except that when a mildly gory scene came up, he would send me out of the room out of a scruple of conscience, with the only result that I petrified at hearing the screams and growls coming out of the screen. It is a principle that every horror director understands well: what you don't see can be far scarier than what you do see.
I can't recall, or haven't seen other films employing b&w the way Kill Bill does, apart from the strange case of Alice in Wonderland. Even without the scene I'm going to discuss, this 1951 cartoon certainly stands out as one of the most genuinely bizarre items ever produced by Disney, perhaps unsurprisingly given the outstanding eccentricity of Lewis Carroll's book. The scene I have in mind occurs during the famous Mad Tea Party celebration. When the White Rabbit much against his will joins the party, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare declare his watch to be two days slow, and attempt to fix it by putting in it some butter, lemon juice and other ingredients randomly taken from the table. As a result, the watch "goes mad" and starts to spin and jump all over the table like a bomb about to explode, until the March Hare makes the extreme decision to put an end to its sufferings with a giant mallet.
It's a traumatic event, partly for the vehemence of the blow (please remember that we're in a Disney movie), partly because the watch behaves and "goes mad" like a living being. But most importantly, the scene is in black and white, as if life had been washed away with colors, or if the violent hammer blow had damaged the screen itself. The scene lasts about two seconds, then colors are restored. Like in Kill Bill, black and white emphasizes the shock while pretending to mitigate it.
It's a traumatic event, partly for the vehemence of the blow (please remember that we're in a Disney movie), partly because the watch behaves and "goes mad" like a living being. But most importantly, the scene is in black and white, as if life had been washed away with colors, or if the violent hammer blow had damaged the screen itself. The scene lasts about two seconds, then colors are restored. Like in Kill Bill, black and white emphasizes the shock while pretending to mitigate it.
Unlike in the above mentioned examples, the b&w inserts in Kill Bill and Alice in Wonderland are peculiar in that they don't serve a narrative purpose: they don't help us contextualize what we see (Memento, A Single Man) nor they put us in a character's shoes (The Wizard of Oz). Moreover, shifts are triggered by intense action (unlike the stylish intermezzo in Death Proof), are not motivated by a particular viewpoint (They Live, Faraway, So Close!) and preserve spatial and temporal continuity. Of the two, the Disney sequence seems to me the purest instance of "chromatic shock" because it hasn't the complacency and showoffiness of Tarantino's – its justification is purely expressive.
I wonder if more examples exist; it's always difficult to scan your mental movie database in search of occurrences of a specific cinematic device. Please help me find them!
I wonder if more examples exist; it's always difficult to scan your mental movie database in search of occurrences of a specific cinematic device. Please help me find them!


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I have a vintage inspired card to share with you today. I pulled out a few older Inspired By Stamping sets to create my card.
My dress form is from the Vintage Dress Form set. Such an elegant image. I stamped the pretty script background using Background Basics III and for my sentiment used the "just a note" image from the Vintage Pieces set. I colored it using Copics. I love how these two sets work together! I added some machine stitching and lace and a few sequins. I hope you have a lovely day!


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As a parent, being able to place your child in a safe high chair and let them eat or play while you clean up is a great way to get small tasks done without worrying if your baby is in danger. However, if you are constantly picking up toys or wiping up spills on the floor, that time is lost and you end up with more work with which you started. A new company, Tray Amigo, is here with a wonderful product to keep your baby's toys, Cheerios and sippy cups within hands reach and off the floor. Tray Amigo will be at the New York Baby Show on May 14th and 15th, at Pier 92.
The nation's biggest show for expectant and new families, the New York Baby Show is a wonderful family-friendly mega-event featuring everything to do with maternity, baby, and toddler. From top products to trusted parenting experts, the New York Baby Show welcomes thousands of expectant and new parents from New York City, the Tri-State area, and beyond!
Tickets to the New York Baby Show are $30 per family, and $20 per individual.
We spoke to Valerie Stone, a member of the Tray Amigo team, to learn more.
For those unfamiliar with Tray Amigo, how would you describe the company's mission and core offerings?
Our mission at Tray Amigo is to make life easier for everyone, and prevent those messy clean ups! Tray Amigo is a flexible barrier which easily attaches to high chairs, car seats, and toddler chairs. It can also attach to wheel chair trays to avoid spills by patients, young and old.
What is the background of Tray Amigo? When was it started and how has it evolved since then?
The idea of Tray Amigo came about over two years ago. As a new mother to Gabriella, Jodi Bracho discovered what all parents know: keeping food and toys on the tray and off the floor is an ongoing distraction and annoyance for both baby and parent. Jodi searched everywhere to find a barrier product that would fill this seemingly obvious need but found nothing. She wound up making something herself out of cardboard and plastic. Baby and Mommy were thrilled. Everything stayed in place. Jodi was able to get things done without picking up food and toys every 30 seconds. Gabriella felt in control of her little play/eating space. Jodi told her friends, Valerie and Jeff Stone, who set about creating various prototypes, before finally settling on our final product, Tray Amigo!
What are the most popular and/or newest products from Tray Amigo?
Right now, this is our only product. In the future, we plan to enhance Tray Amigo with attachments.
What sets Tray Amigo apart from other similar companies on the market?
There is nothing else like Tray Amigo on the market. Existing products function mainly to protect the floor once items have already fallen. Tray Amigo keeps items from falling in the first place.
What can parents expect to see from Tray Amigo at the New York Baby Show?
Tray Amigo will be displayed on a high chair and a car seat. Jodi Bracho and Valerie Stone, owners of Tray Amigo, Inc., will be able to answer questions and demonstrate how to use a Tray Amigo. We have placed our first production order and expect delivery in several weeks. In the meantime, interested people can sign our email list. Once we have received the Tray Amigos, we will send out a notification email which will also include a discount code.
To learn more about Tray Amigo, check out trayamigo.com


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In December 2015, world leaders met in Paris at the UN Conference on Climate Change and agreed to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5ºC. European leaders are currently figuring out how they can fulfill their obligations under the agreement. It is clear, as a European Commission memo highlights, that European citizens need to make profound lifestyle changes.
Amidst the discussions of a pan-European response to climate change, we were interested in finding out how willing Europeans are to adjust their lifestyle. We conducted a census-representative survey of almost 12.000 people across all EU-28 countries and asked them about their lifestyle choices.
Overall, almost half of all Europeans state that they would spend between 1% and 5% of their monthly budget in order to benefit the environment. If we assume the average European citizen's budget on final household consumption (which is €21.100 according to Eurostat), this amount would translate into something between €20 and €90 per month.
If Europeans are willing to give up some of their money to improve their environment, what would they spend it on? We focused on three sectors and asked how many people would spend more on sustainably produced food, electricity and transport.
Want to know more? Check out the Changer article here: Are Europeans willing to adjust their lifestyle to save the environment?
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Meet Lizzi Miller, a 20 year old model who posed for Glamour Magazine – but wait, Lizzie isn't your typical 5'10", 115 lbs. model. In fact, she's 5'11", 180 pounds and a US size 12 / 14, her tummy isn't perfectly flat and she looks… normal. Even more, Lizzie posed for the magazine in her underwear and her picture was part of an article about boosting your body confidence. The result? Lizzie got an overwhelming support from readers, who loved the picture of a happy, smiling, beautiful woman who didn't suck in her tummy, didn't get digital liposuctions in Photoshop, who had realistic curves, a bit of tummy and, above all, who seemed comfortable in her own skin.
Lizzie and Glamour's editor are all over the news now – make sure you check the video from the Today Show below! And here's what Huffington Post says:
A single photo used for an article on self confidence in September's issue of Glamour magazine has caused a buzz in the modeling world.
After she was captured smiling and showing a bit of a tummy, the Glamour website was immediately overrun with positive comments, inspiring editor-in-chief Cindi Leive to reconsider the models shown in the magazine's pages.
Here's what Lizzie says about her figure:
"When I was young I really struggled with my body and how it looked because I didn't understand why my friends were so effortlessly skinny," Lizzi told me. "As I got older I realized that everyone's body is different and not everyone is skinny naturally–me included! I learned to love my body for how it is, every curve of it. I used to be so self-conscious in a bikini because my stomach wasn't perfectly defined. But everyone has different body shapes!
You might want to check out this Glamour article and the hundreds of comments under it – click here!
Now let's talk!


text: Whether you celebrate Christmas or not, the December holidays is a great time for families to spend some time together and something many of us desperately look forward to by this time of the year. Whether you're going away or spending your holiday at home, hopefully you'll be spending the time off with your loved ones. To make these holidays a little extra special, you stand a chance of winning R5000 on Christmas day if you enter into this competition! Whether you spend it on gifts, a holiday, your friends and family or all on yourself, is up to you.


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Owners of an Anderson hotel that has operated as a Motel 6 since its construction in 1974 – but soon won't – withdrew a federal lawsuit Tuesday that claimed the national chain had not maintained the site "as a first class motel" required under its decades-old lease.
The suit initially filed in state court in February sought an adverse possession order of the motel along Scatterfield Road off Interstate 69 at Exit 226. The suit claimed the facility didn't measure up to prototypes and improved design standards the chain announced in press releases in 2008 and afterward.
Motel 6 removed the suit to federal court, where Magistrate Judge Debra McVicker Lynch presided over a preliminary hearing before this week denying from the bench plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction entitling plaintiffs to take possession of the leased property.
Lynch "called this an overreach by plaintiffs of significant proportion," said Brian S. Jones, a Bose McKinney Evans partner representing Motel 6. "We are obviously pleased with the court's decision on this."
The case in District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, Indianapolis Division, is 5810 Scatterfield Road, LP v. Motel 6 Operating LP, 1:14-cv-00327.
The plaintiffs, a Nevada limited partnership, sought to gain possession of the hotel under the ejection and quiet title statute, I.C. 32-30-3, which Jones said typically is applied as a remedy when a tenant isn't paying rent. That wasn't the case here; he said Motel 6 has paid as required under the lease, and no such claim is made in the complaint.
Jones said Motel 6 also strongly disagreed with the suit's contention that it hadn't maintained the site as a first-class facility. Jones said the suit essentially requested a complete renovation.
"This is a 40-year-old lease, and a lot of the older leases in some industries use the term 'first class' without deciding what that means," Jones said. He said Lynch also noted the term in the lease was inherently ambiguous.
Wooden & McLaughlin LLP partner Matthew Adolay, who represented 5810 Scatterfield, did not immediately return a message seeking comment Wednesday.
Jones said the record showed that the landlord had no complaints about Motel 6 until the chain notified owners in 2010 that it would not renew its lease and planned to vacate the property when the lease expires this year at the end of October.
Until then, Motel 6 is operating two hotels in Anderson nearly across the street from each other. The chain has leased and rebranded a property that formerly operated as a Fairfield Inn. That site will continue to operate as a Motel 6 after the lease with 5810 Scatterfield expires, Jones said.
Lynch didn't rule on a defense argument that 5810 Scatterfield lacked standing to bring the suit, Jones said.
The defense claimed that the owner of record is a California partnership called 5810 Scatterfield that was voluntarily terminated some years back, and there was no evidence filed regarding assignment of rights before termination, Jones said. The 5810 Scatterfield LP that brought the suit was an entity organized as a Nevada limited partnership some years later.


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Description of problem:
Yum doesn't handle extended ASCII characters in package descriptions.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum info git-daemon
1. add an extended ASCII character to a package's description within the
package's spec file:
%package daemon
Summary: Git protocol dæmon
Group: Development/Tools
Requires: git = %{version}-%{release}
%description daemon
The git dæmon for supporting git:// access to git repositories
Character 10 within %description, æ, is extended ASCII code 145.
Actual results:
$ yum info git-daemon
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
Name : git-daemon
Arch : x86_64
Version : 18.104.22.168
Release : 3.fc9
Size : 102 k
Repo : rawhide
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 236, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 111, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 309, in doCommands
return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd,
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 214, in doCommand
rap = base.listPkgs(ypl.available, _('Available Packages'), basecmd)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 338, in listPkgs
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 305, in infoOutput
print self.fmtKeyValFill(_("Summary : "), enc(pkg.summary))
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/output.py", line 257, in fmtKeyValFill
val = str(val)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe6' in position 14:
ordinal not in range(128)
Expected results:
Yum shouldn't traceback even if there is junk in a package's description.
Additional info:
I've filed bug 442691 against git to have the character removed.
I've just found that the wv2 package also causes this breakage. Its description
is "A library which allows access to Microsoft® Word files". The registered
trademark sign is causing this one...
This has been fixed in yum-3.2.14-7.f9 and above in rawhide/koji


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[PICS] iPhone 5 Sitting Next To 4S, See The Difference?
An online repair firm have attached all the leaked parts we've seen so far purportedly for the iPhone 5 to the also leaked frame. And unsurprisingly, the fit is said to be perfect.
iPhone 5 frame fits leaked components perfectly
Photos have been posted online by iResQ which show the jack and docking port in a frame which is said to belong to that of the iPhone 5. They fit together like a glove with the technician having no problem with the assembly and the screw holes inside the frame. All of these lined up to be a perfect fit.
iResQ have said from the look of the frame that the latest iPhone 5 will come with a single speaker that fits in the device just like the current iPhones. The casing on the back is not complete and they said it needed more parts to fill in missing fittings and gaskets in between the dock connector and the headphone jack. The picture below shows it sitting comfortably next to the iPhone 4S. As for the missing parts, we can only speculate more goodies like LTE antennas and even room for a possible NFC chip.
Rumors are going around that the new iPhone 5 will be launched on 12th September at an Apple event and pre-orders for the handset are expected to be taken on the same day. Shipping will only happen at the end of the month, with October tipped for the international release of the iPhone 5.


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Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Ruth Stone
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- Poetry Breaks I, Ruth Stone
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2-5 minute filler programs with New England area writers reading their poetry. Poets include Martin Espada, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds. Series release date: 1988
- Program Description
Ruth Stone introduces and reads her poems at the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The following poems were edited for broadcast and general distribution, and appear on the master tapes with and without the "Poetry Breaks" logo and copyright: "Curtains" "In An Iridescent Time" "Orchard" "Green Apples" "The Season" "The Nose" "Where I Came From" "Second-Hand Coat " "Codicil" "Turn Your Eyes Away" "Dream of Wild Birds" "Liebeslied"
Multiple takes of these poems and the following appear on the source tapes of original footage: "Women Laughing"
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- Stone, Ruth ()
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- Chicago: "Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Ruth Stone," 03/24/1989, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed May 19, 2019, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_194F8D513A9E4CD0B1B07B964A80EF78.
- MLA: "Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks I, Ruth Stone." 03/24/1989. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. May 19, 2019. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_194F8D513A9E4CD0B1B07B964A80EF78>.
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With Noah & Thomas at the parkPosted: August 15, 2011 | Author: Liz | Filed under: Adventures with Friends, My Life | Tags: french bulldog, frenchie, Henri | Leave a comment »
Noah's cousin Thomas came to visit the other week. Two friends to play with! Henri was in heaven.


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Internal Affairs Policy
It is the policy of the Hillside Police Department to accept and investigate all complaints of alleged officer misconduct or wrongdoing from any citizen or agency employee. Following a thorough and impartial investigation the case will be given a final disposition. If discipline is appropriate, it shall be administered according to the degree of misconduct.
In order to facilitate the filing of a complaint against a Hillside Police Department officer, we have made our Internal Affairs Complaint Report form available for download.
This complaint form may be filled out anonymously or with your name. Regardless of whether you choose to identify yourself we will investigate your complaint fully and impartially. However, we can investigate best when we have all available information and the ability to contact you for additional information.
Simply print out the form, complete it, and mail or deliver to the following address:
Hillside Police Department
Internal Affairs
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Hillside, NJ 07205-1347


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Carbon Emissions
Carbon Emissions on Friday 16th October 2015
A great knight out
Malcolm's effusive praise of Tony can only mean he's being lined up as a Captain's Pick.
Less tacky with Zaky
The Verdict on Channel 9's new talk show was that it desperately needs someone like Zaky Mallah or Tony Abbott to save it from Mark Latham.
Now that Tony and Joe are lurking on the backbench the House of Representatives looks a bit front to back to front.
Way to go
If the new Speaker has any sense of the entertainment value of politics he will surely suspend Bronnie at least once.
Numbers game
If Malcolm loses the 2016 election that will mean 6 prime ministers in 6 years and if Bill gets the gig that will inevitably result in 7 in 7.
The terror of confusion
It would be infinitely more reassuring if Malcolm spent half as much time telling us who is responsible for terror as he spends on telling us who isn't.


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US Dept. of Transportation yesterday tentatively selected Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines and JetBlue Airways to operate new US-Mexico flights that were granted in last December's revised air services treaty between the countries. Delta was selected to operate Los Angeles-Puerto Vallarta flights, Frontier was awarded LAX-San Jose del Cabo service and JetBlue was given New York JFK-Cancun flights. Any objections to the tentative awards are due within 10 days.
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I've been writing on this blog solidly for a little over a year now. It's a rather short time, but in reality I've been regularly writing online in one form or another for about 5 years total. I'm no blogging diva but I think I can reflect on a few ground rules that I've established personally by now as far as the role the medium has (and doesn't have)Â in my life.
So, these ground rules probably have more to do with personal blogging than with the subject-specific. It might complete the picture to know that I'm trying to piece these "rules" (or should I say "minutiae") together only now. It's not like any of these are hard-and-fast; they're definitely up for revision so feel free to disagree … or tell me in any way that I'm 100% correct.
- If you don't already read my blog and I have one-on-one human interaction with you, I'm unlikely to tell you to "check it out online." I don't want to tell you how to spend your time online, and I certainly am not interested in pretending you care about my online presence, period. It would be undermining the face-to-face interaction in the now. Separating the real life from the online is like the importance of separation of church and state. You and I are right here, right now; let's get it on with the banter already – if you can hang. I'm not about to hinge a conversation on something that I wrote somewhere else that you have to check out later.
- If you MUST take a picture, stop with the camera flashes. Learn what ISO does on your camera and use it; if the picture isn't still or light enough, just let it go. This has to do with online separation as well, like the previous rule. Flashes in low light with regular point-and-shoots turn out annoyed subjects, fellow by-standers and horrible pictures. I'm just going to put this out there: I have friends who call me the paparazzi and I have friends who embarrass me because they can't stop snapping long after the moment is over. But I think I've achieved the balance and that is mostly through the absence of flash. Because hey – if you're willing to annoy those around you for the sake of online documenting, something tells me you'd be better served to absorb the moment in the now than being able to look back at a crappy shot of said moment later.
- In personal blogging, showing you're attention-starved is the ultimate fox paw faux pas. In doing so, you lose the validity of your audience and you're stuck in an echo chamber. There are tons of high-quality, substantive blogs out there that are devoted to particular subjects. They are valuable resources to lots of people, depending on interest. This is not one of those blogs, so I make sure that I have something else (ideas, culture, commentary) to offer. I am the source of these posts but I, as a subject, am not the end-all of it. Whether you think the material I write is interesting, entertaining, what-have-you and the feedback I get as a result is completely separate from the value I place on being able to share and put thoughts out there. That being said, I want readers who are attracted by a value or two that I've written about – and I've accepted that over time, I'll gain some and lose others.
- Quality over quantity. If I've stopped blogging for a week or more, something's probably going on. My head's messed up to the point where I feel uncomfortable sharing. Or I can't sort things out. I may be in one of those ruts where I respect you guys to the point of not wanting to subject you to crap-on-a-screen. Yeah. That means I love you.
- e*starLA is my home, but I'm accepting more and more that online presence as a phenomenon is becoming more and more decentralized. There's a site now for everything and everyone (*cough* Facebook) and it's a bit of overload. So if you like what you've been seeing here, you can check out a couple of my most important other spots on teh interwebs…
My Twitter – for my thoughts and goings-on in 140 characters or less
My Tumblr – for links, humor, thoughts and happenings longer than twitter but shorter than a post (complete thought) here on estarla.com
I know there are a few others floating around in my head. Maybe I'll save them for another day. 🙂 Hope you guys have a great week!


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Wafer type butterfly valves with soft seat
1)Sizes: DN40-DN600
A. Body: Cast iron/Ductile iron/WCB/Stainless Steel
B. Disc: DI/CF8/CF8M/C95400
C.Seat: NBR/EPDM/PTFE
D.Shaft: SS420
E. Operation: Malleable iron lever/Aluminium Lever/Gear/Pneumatic/Electrical
The butterfly valves are widely used in water sources projects,urban wafer supply and drainage,sewage treatment,electric power,petrochemical,heat supply, ship building,medicine and metallurgy industries.They are used for regulating or cutting the medias in the pipelines. Available medias include water,sewage,sea water,air,foodstuff and oil.
Inner packed by bubble film or cartons, outer packed by plywood cases.
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Styled Shoot // Farm-Inspired Sunset Groom Wedding: Kevin + Cam/
Kevin and Cam are a real-life couple who had just recently gotten engaged. I decided to turn their engagement photos into a gorgeous fall-inspired styled shoot at a local farm during Golden Hour. I got a bunch of incredibly talented vendors to take part and this shoot was epic! Between their love, the donuts, and the goats roaming around, everyone was all smiles!
Kevin says: Cameron and I met through our cousins. Our cousins were friends prior to us meeting and thought we would be good for each other. Boy, were they right! Ever since the first day I met Cameron, I saw my future in his eyes and his heart in my life. We have been inseparable ever since. Considering all the struggles of growing up as gay males, I would do it all over again if I knew he was awaiting me for our forever. We were all dressed up one New Year's Eve, and he asked me to marry him. It was very simple and nothing over the top, just like us. It was just one soul reaching out to another to confirm the connection we already have. What a happy New Years that was!
Words and photos by Audrey Priel of Rose Trail Images
Rose Trail Images is a North Carolina Photographer serving the Raleigh/Durham area. Owned by Audrey Priel, she specializes in a more lifestyle and photojournalistic approach, focusing on the moments and the reason behind the story as opposed to stiff posing and awkward moments. She's inspired by sunsets, infectious laughter, and the joy of the here and now.
When not out capturing awesomeness, you can find her at home with her husband, two boys, and their herd of animals watching sports and yelling at the refs on TV.


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Important Information About Janitorial Software That You Need To Know
In order for the performance of the employees to improve, resulting to the good production of the company, leading to the success of the business, it is very important to have janitorial
CleanTelligent software
and training as it is vital in the said success.
One good thing that comes from having a good janitorial service is the fact that you will be able to schedule the janitorial of the cleaning activities that will be done in the company so that the performance of the employees working for it will not be affected and good production will still be maintained. There really is a need for every business out there to have their own janitorial software so that they will be able to schedule the cleaning of their whole office for the purpose of making sure that the employees and the staff who will be working their will have a comfortable working place. Apart from improving the performance of your staff and employees, another good thing that comes from having your own janitorial software is the fact that you need not have to give the task of cleaning the entire office to your staff and employees which may result from them to become less productive in terms of the contribution they can give to the success of the company. And also, when you can just assign one person or two to manage the janitorial software that you have installed for your company and doing this will neither hinder the operation of the entire office nor affect the work or the performance of the employees and staff. You can also find janitorial
software that comes with tutorials that can help you simplify some process for some things to make things done easier and faster.
With all the things that this article has written about, there is one thing that you need to always bear in mind and that is to not take anything for granted. You need to go beyond just asking them if they know how to navigate the said software or if they are aware of its functionality since it is best to actually witness them doing it firsthand.
Some companies would prefer to have their employees do the cleaning of their office instead of hiring professional cleaning companies to do the job therefore, they will use the janitorial software they have to schedule the day where they can train their employees on how to properly use the chemical for cleaning, without affecting the operation of the business. And because you train your employees and staff about properly using the chemicals used for cleaning, you are preventing to misuse the chemicals which may lead to you saving hundreds or even thousands of dollars in the process. When you train your employees and staff about properly using the chemicals, you are also saving yourself from being burdened of any work related accident that may occur.
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The Iranian army today defused a bomb placed on the Abadan-Mahshahr oil pipeline, according to local reports.
The police claim they arrived at 16:45 local time and the army defused the bomb at 18:00. There were no reported casualties or damage. The bomb was allegedly placed near the Khordoragh pump station, which receives petroleum from Abadan Refinery through a set of 26" pipeline and moves it to Mahshahr for export or other usage.
The region has seen six successful bomb attacks on oil and gas installations this year. The most recent occurred three days ago when a gas pipeline between Fallahiyeh and Rasalmina (Sarbandar), which is believed to supply a petrochemicals complex, was blown up.
The official media refuse to report pipeline attacks. An attack on a pipeline in October 2012 was dismissed as a technical fault, but the regime has since sentenced two men to death and one man for 25 years on charges of blowing up the pipeline and a railway. Although the Iranian regime has