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Here are all are Thumbprint Valentine's Day Cards:
Dinosaurs made with fingerprints
Saying: RAWR means I Love You in Dinosaur!
Fingerprint hearts Flowers
Saying: I'd Always Pick You To Be My Nana!
Fingerprint Poodles (any dog would be cute!)
Saying: I Ruff You!
Thumbprint Teddybears
Saying: I Love You Bear-y Much!
Frogs made with Thumbprints
Saying: Hoppy Valentine's Day!
Thumbprint Lions
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Robert Higgs
Reports such as this one, which are scarcely uncommon, call to mind the following sequence of events: (1) the American people ratified a national constitution that stipulates, in part,"Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech"; (2) each member of Congress, upon taking office, swears"to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution"; and (3) Congress makes―or, at least, as in the present case, considers making―a law abridging the freedom of speech."
Perhaps the members of Congress, when they raise their right hands to take the oath of office, keep their left hands behind their backs with their fingers crossed?
Roderick T. Long
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]
Dick Cheneys claim that he is not part of the executive branch is silly, but his argument for that conclusion is worth addressing.
Cheney claims that the Vice-Presidency is unique in embodying both executive and legislative functions (the latter being his Presidency of the Senate with the right to cast tie-breaking votes), thus belonging strictly to neither branch.
Whats wrong with this argument is that theres nothing unique about the Vice-Presidency in this respect. The President, for example, has the right to veto legislation; why doesnt that count as his likewise exercising a legislative function? The President also appoints the members of the Supreme Court; does this mean he exercises judicial functions too? Of course the Senate can nix the Presidents judicial appointments (thus likewise exercising judicial functions?), as well as nixing, e.g., his Cabinet appointments (thus taking over executive functions?). Congress can also impeach the President (thereby intruding into both the executive and judicial spheres?). The Supreme Court for its part can strike down unconstitutional legislation (thus exercising a legislative function?). And so on. If the Vice-President is not part of the executive branch, then by the same logic the President is not part of the executive, Congress is not part of the legislative, and the Supreme Court is not part of the judicial. Which seems rather a reductio ad absurdum.
The point of all these overlapping exercises of powers is checks and balances, a concept with which Cheney is evidently unfamiliar. Each branch of government is given some voice in the operation of the other two, in order to prevent any one branch from exercising unchecked power. While the Constitutions version of checks and balances is of course inferior to that found under anarchy, its still preferable to complete consolidation. Cheney is trying to use his particular example of overlap to frustrate checks and balances, thus turning it to the opposite of its actual function.
Roderick T. Long
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]
Check out Thorstein Veblen on Icelandic anarchy; conical hat tip to Joel Schlosberg, who sent it to me with the following note:
Heres an interesting passage from Thorstein Veblens 1917 book An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation, chapter 1, pp. 9-14 (available at Project Gutenberg at <http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/20694> in fact, I came across this passage while proofing the book for PG at Distributed Proofreaders). Even though hes hostile to it and sees it as a failure, he describes it pretty clearly just to prove that Icelandic anarchy wasnt the wishful thinking of modern anarcho-capitalists.
Aeon J. Skoble
David T. Beito
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1980: Mapledene Road, Hackney, bought £40,000, sold 1986 £80,000
1983: Myrobella, Trimdon village, nr Sedgefield, bought £30,000
1986: Stavordale Road, Islington, bought £120,000, sold 1993 £200,000
1993: Richmond Crescent, Islington, bought £375,000, sold 1997 £615,000
1997: 11 Downing Street - rent free flat next door to prime minister's traditional residence
2002: Clifton, Bristol, two flats bought for £525,000 in total
2004: Connaught Square, Bayswater, bought £3.6m
2007: Bayswater. Two bed house behind Connaught square property, bought £800,000. Blairs plan to join buildings together to create extra space.
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I have finally received my own copy of a new book edited by Edward W. Younkins entitled Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion, published by Ashgate.
L&P readers will note the presence in the volume of several L&P contributors: Lester H. Hunt, Steven Horwitz, Robert L. Campbell, Peter Boettke, Stephen Cox, Roderick T. Long, and yours truly.
I have not read the new Younkins anthology yet, but the range of topics, from the philosophical, political, and aesthetic to the literary, economic, and historical, is quite impressive.
See Notablog for further details.
Roderick T. Long
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire and Mises Blog]
Lysander Spooner was the foremost legal theorist of the 19th-century American individualist anarchist movement. His 1882 open letter to Senator Bayard is fairly well-known among Spooner fans; but an 1884 sequel, A Second Letter to Thomas F. Bayard, which originally appeared in Benjamin Tuckers anarchist journal Liberty, is much more obscure; it was omitted (like most of Spooners periodical work) from the Collected Works, and indeed has never (so far as I can determine) been reprinted anywhere else. Now at last I am happy to announce that it is available in the Molinari Institute online library.
I cant claim that this is one of Spooners more important works. Apart from a more than usually irascible tone, it contains little that isnt already covered in the first letter, or still more fully in other works such as No Treason or Natural Law or the Letter to Grover Cleveland. But hey, its Spooner.
And speaking of material from Tuckers Liberty, hurray for Shawn Wilbur! Hes been scanning issues of Liberty (including the one containing this Spooner piece) and placing the PDFs online. Check out what hes got so far.
Sheldon Richman
Here are some quotes from his article"Empire and Order" in the March/April issue of Historically Speaking (apparently not online):
[T]oday there is again an imperial power that has an economic and military predominance unseen since the fall of Rome. The United States is indubitably an empire. It is more than a hegemon, as it seeks control over not only foreign but also aspects of domestic policy in other countries. But it an informal and indirect empire.... It is an empire that has taken over from the British the burden of maintaining a Pax to allow free trade and commerce to flourish. This Pax brings mutual gains. The U.S., like the British in the 19th century, has borne much of the costs of providing this global public good, not because of altruism but because the mutual gains from a global, liberal economic order benefit America and foster its economic well being....Cross-posted at Free Association.
But the American imperium faces disorder in two broad regions of the world: first, the vast region spanning the Islamic world in the Middle East and Central Asia, and second, the continent of Africa. September 11 showed how failed states can provide a safe haven for terrorists who can directly threaten life and property in the American homeland. The maintenance of international order thus means ensuring that there is also domestic order in states that, if they fail, could become terrorist havens....In other words, if we want order, it's time America took off the gloves. No more Mr. Nice Guy, world.
The United States has created the military structures to project its power, but it has failed to build the complementary imperial administrative structure required to run an empire....
Equally disturbing is the desire of all the participants in U.S. foreign policy to wrap themselves in the Wilsonian mantle. It seems that Americans find it difficult to give up their moral self-image of the shining city on the hill....
The major problem for the U.S. imperium is to keep its moralists at home.... But for the near future, despite its faults, the American imperium is here to stay. And it remains our best hope to maintain global order, as the British did in the 19th century.
Mark Brady
"Another option for those of us who like popular sovereignty, justice, and nonviolence is Ron Paul. He is the only GOP presidential contender who opposes the Iraq War, the U.N. Security Council, and the Patriot Act. It's true that some liberal Democrats cannot swallow his opposition to abortion—which comes from a consistent life ethic that also includes opposition to war and capital punishment—and some New Deal nostalgiasts object to his libertarian belief in small, constitutional government, but Ron Paul is far more Jeffersonian in the best sense of the word than is Obama or Clinton."
Read the entire essay for an excellent critique of Barack Obama who"provides no alternative to Hillary Clinton, in terms of imperial-minded foreign policy. This is doubly regrettable since Clinton herself provides no substantive alternative to the neoconservative philosophy of the Bush administration."
Taylor, who teaches political science at the community college in Rochester, Minnesota, is author of Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy (University of Missouri Press, 2006).
Anthony Gregory
"Under [Rudy's Zero Tolerance] policy, New Yorkers were handcuffed and dragged off to jail for drinking beer on their front stoops —the New York City equivalent of hanging out on the porch. Marijuana possession arrests increased by well over 4,000 percent. Eventually almost 70,000 people sued the city for police abuses such as strip-searching suspected jaywalkers. In 1999, James Savage, the president of the New York City police union, referred to Giuliani's zero tolerance policy as a "blueprint for a police state and tyranny.' . . .
"Fashion-wise, [Rudy's Street Crimes Unit] had more resemblance to Guatemala's notorious military death squads, wearing 'We Own the Night' t-shirts, and shirts citing Ernest Hemingway's 'There is no hunting like the hunting of man" quote—quite a variation from standard issue uniforms.
"This is the police unit that became notorious for shooting African immigrant Amadou Diallo 40 times as he reached for his wallet after being ordered to show identification. When New Yorkers took to the streets to protest the shooting, Giuliani told the press that people were protesting due to 'their own personal inadequacies.'
"Eventually the Giuliani-sanctioned machismo infected other units in the police department. When undercover officers asked a man on the street to sell them marijuana, the man, Patrick Dorismond, took offense to being called a drug-dealer and got into a scuffle with the unidentified officers, who shot him dead. Giuliani issued a knee-jerk defense of the killers, telling the press that Dorismond was 'no altar boy.' Salon.com pointed out that, in fact, he was an altar boy."
Thanks to Scott Horton.
David T. Beito
Prompted by Michael Moore's valentine to Cuban health care,"Sicko," I am reposting these and other photos.
According to this website, the following photos were taken just a few years ago at a Havana hospital that Castro has praised as one of the"most modern in Cuba."
The first shows roaches on the hospital floor that were smashed by the shoes of patients and family members and the second is of a curtain next to the bed of a patient getting an IV (the black specks are flies!). The third photo is a sink used by doctors who treat samples taken from orthopedic patients. The final scene is of a toilet used by emergency-room patients.
Roderick T. Long
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]
Just finished up the aforementioned interview, and an audio file is already available for download here!
A couple of points: a) Shawn Wilburs call unfortunately somehow got lost, so its just Wally Conger, Brad Spangler, and me. b) I dont agree with Wally and Brad about voting being a form of aggression, but I didnt feel strongly enough about my heresy on that particular point to take up time over it; thats why I didnt pipe up with a dissenting comment.
Mark Brady
"In fact, New York City has more SSAs per student than other cities have police officers per citizen. San Antonio, which has a population approximately equal to the 1.1 million student enrollment in the New York City public schools, employs half as many police officers per citizen as New York City employs SSAs per student."
You can read the full story here (pdf file). The quotations above come from Section III, Policing in New York City's Schools Today.
No doubt the situation in some New York City public schools was pretty dire before the change in policy. Now we have the criminalization of the classroom, which, I suggest, would be indicative of Mr. Giuliani's approach to a lot of other issues were he to be elected president.
Roderick T. Long
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]
I and some fellow members of the Alliance of the Libertarian Left specifically Wally Conger, Brad Spangler, and Shawn Wilbur are scheduled to be interviewed on The Liberated Space tomorrow at 4:30 Pacific time (thats 6:30 al-Abama time).
See Wallys post for details.
Sheldon Richman
Cross-posted at Free Association.On May 28, 2003, Jin Haike (靳海科), Xu Wei (徐伟), Yang Zili (杨子立) and Zhang Honghai (张宏海) were sentenced to between eight and ten years for the crime of "subverting state power." Their charges stemmed from a small, informal discussion group they'd formed and dubbed the "New Youth Study Group" in order to debate ways in which China could further progress and prosper.
The New Youth 4 Coalition seeks to end their unjust imprisonment and return freedom to these four individuals who represent the best of Chinese progressivism and forward thinking.
We hope that through the power of dialogue and communication, the Chinese authorities will correct this grave injustice.
Amy H. Sturgis
Now, Geronimo's great-grandson wants the remains returned....
President Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, both attended Yale and joined the elite club. Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, is also a Bonesman, as are many other men in powerful government and industry positions.
Read "Geronimo's Heir Seeks Legend's Remains From Yale" from CBS.
See also "Grandson of Geronimo Asks Secret Society at Yale to Return Warrior's Bones" from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
David T. Beito
As someone who grew up in the 1960s (very much a high-crime era) in the Minneapolis suburbs, I routinely exercised the right to roam on weekends and during holidays. Long before we were ten, my friends and I took long unsupervised hikes onto railway tracks, factory sites, and cemeteries. Along the way, we rolled down steep hills in cardboard boxes, climbed into storm drains, and floated on make-shift rafts in a creek.
Roaming of this type was the norm for my middle class friends. Our parents didn't give it a second thought, that is as long as we wandered back home by dinner.
Is the right to roam dead for good? Probably. But it was great while it lasted.
Courtesy of Jesse Walker at Hit and Run, an article in The Daily Mail shows how British children"lost the right to roam in four generations."
Roderick T. Long
[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]
Tom Knapps remark yesterday that [t]he big problem with [Ayn] Rand was that over time she made it a point to isolate herself from anyone and everyone who demonstrated the kind of character that might lead them to run up the bullshit flag on her when necessary reminded me of a critical remark made about abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison by one of his contemporaries. I cant remember the author or the exact wording and I havent been able to find it online (anyone out there recognise it? I believe I heard it quoted on a Knowledge Products tape, one of a batch that I unwisely lent to a friend years ago and never recovered), but it does an excellent job of summing up a dynamic that is evident not just with Garrison or Rand but with all too many other intellectual leaders. It went something like this:
How to Create a Pope: Find someone in whom the habit of having been often correct in many things has prepared him to be convinced that he is always correct in all things, and bombard him with praise in these matters until you have succeeded in helping him so convince himself.
On an unrelated note, I recently came across an autobiographical sketch of Rose Wilder Lane that I hadnt seen before, apparently done as part of some 1930s WPA project.


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The executive director of the Thruway Authority proposed a 45 percent toll increase last spring. The proposal faced tough criticism across the political spectrum, including some from the governor. It was said Monday that there will be no toll increase this year or in the next few years.


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Why the ballot is in English and Spanish
I just want to share some U.S./Puerto Rican history for all of those individuals who got upset because the ballot and all election-related information will be in English and Spanish.
After the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico became a territory of the United States. The Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917 made Puerto Ricans United States citizens, therefore, eligible for the military draft. As citizens of the United States, Puerto Ricans have participated in every major military engagement since World War 1.
Puerto Rico was granted local autonomy in 1952. Spanish and English are spoken on the island, but the predominant language is Spanish. Both the Puerto Rican and American flags are flown at schools and government buildings. Puerto Ricans on the island are required to pay most U.S. federal taxes and pay into Social Security. In 2009, Puerto Rico paid $3.742 billion into the U.S. Treasury.
Even though Puerto Ricans pay federal taxes, they are represented in the U.S. Congress by a nonvoting delegate.
Puerto Ricans cannot vote in U.S. presidential elections, but can vote in primaries.
Therefore, when Puerto Ricans come to the United States and are residents, they have a right to register and vote. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Section 4(e) secures the voting rights of "persons educated in American-flag schools in which the predominant classroom language was other than English." This Act was violated by the Orange County Board of Elections; therefore, the Department of Justice sued the county.
Now that the county and the Department of Justice have settled the lawsuit, all election-related material, including the ballot, absentee applications and absentee ballots, will be in Spanish. Also bilingual assistance will be provided.
Now Spanish-speaking voters in Orange County will have equal access to the ballot box.
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The summer requires great new iTunes downloads, good HBO on demand, and a page-turning book. Luckily, I had all three this week. You may remember my slight/major crush on Phillip Phillips so I was quick to buy his first single, Home, to confirm that the slight/major crush still exists. I'm also obsessed with HBO series, Newsroom. You need to be watching it.
I just finished my best (ok, maybe my only) read of the summer…. The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan Phillip-Sendker.
"When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be…until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the reader's belief in the power of love to move mountains."
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I thought I should start a feed back thread since I've bought and sold a few times on DOA! So if you've bought from me or sold to me please leave feed back! I will also leave a list of people I have dealt with!
Hey Yall,
I thought I should start a feed back thread since I've bought and sold a few times on DOA! So if you've bought from me or sold to me please leave feed back! I will also leave a list of people I have dealt with!
Bought from:
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I think that's everyone...I need to think though hehe. If I've bought from you let me know!
I had a non positive transaction with Emberly. It was a misunderstanding that was never solved unfortunately. But that incident should not reflect my trading. I'm sorry for both of us that it happened.
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Ally is great! I bought from her, and she was extremely nice and understanding^^
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Alysonsfriend is a great buyer
I sold "Chibi dress Natural Jacket set" to her.
We could have a great communication and her payment was fast.
I highly recommend Alysonsfriend
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I'm new to DoA and I bought my first dollfie (AngelRegion Dana) from Alyson^^ She was very nice and patient, a great seller!
I just received my YoSD Lin from Alysonsfriend and I'm thrilled with her as a seller! Her communication was frequent and great! I would buy from her again in a heartbeat! Thanks so much, you were a sweetie, and so understanding of the disappointment I'd been through the first time I thought I'd bought a Lin from another seller here on DoA.
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Alysonsfriend was so awesome to deal with, friendly and patient. She bought Shiro, and I hope she continues to enjoy his company
Great transaction. Fastest shipping ever XD
I had a fabulous transaction with Alysonsfriend & would highly recommend to any buyer. Thanks so much!
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Will to trade with her again!
Received my Unoa from Alysonsfriend today. She is a wonderful friendly seller! Great communicatio, fast shipping and great packaging. I would recommend this seller and would buy from her again.
Alysonsfriend bought doll eyes from me. She paid quickly and had great communications.
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I bought these items from her:
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Before the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule Amendment -- Comment P994504 Comments of AOL Time Warner November 30, 2000 AOL Time Warner, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., The Walt Disney Company, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Vivendi Universal, and Viacom (the "Companies"), hereby state their support for the Federal Trade Commission's proposal to extend the period during which web sites directed to children can use the sliding scale approach to obtain verifiable parental consent for the collection of personal information about children.(1) In their view, the Commission should retain the current sliding scale regime unless and until cost-effective digital signature technology is widely available. Therefore, whereas the Commission proposes to extend the sliding scale regime for an additional two years, they urge an indefinite extension "until the development of secure electronic mechanisms and/or infomediary services become widely available at a reasonable cost."(2) The Companies maintain Web sites directed to children. Therefore, they not only have a direct interest in the Commission's action in this proceeding, but also offer a first-hand understanding of the capabilities and costs of the presently available technologies for securing verifiable parental consent. The Companies agree with the Commission that "expected progress in available technology has not occurred."(3) In the meantime, firms have invested heavily in necessary technology to assure compliance with the sliding scale system. Moreover, the sliding scale system now appears quite adequate in protecting the interests of children. Therefore, the Companies support not only the two-year extension proposed by the Commission, but also an indefinite extension pending development, deployment, and widespread consumer acceptance of cost-effective digital signature technologies. The Commission has determined correctly that the development, deployment, and consumer acceptance of digital signature technologies has lagged expectations. The basic premise of the Notice is correct. Two years ago when the Commission adopted the sliding scale mechanism as a "short term" measure, it believed that "more reliable methods of obtaining verifiable parental consent would soon be widely available and supportable."(4) The Commission then recognized that, "[W]ith advances in technology, companies will soon be able to use more reliable, verifiable electronic methods in all of their transactions."(5) In particular, the Commission envisioned use of technologies permitting e-mail accompanied by a valid digital signature.(6) As many commenting parties then concurred, digital signature systems might provide a parental consent mechanism "in the future."(7) Now, however, the Commission has realized that "the expected progress in available technology has not occurred."(8) The Commission is right. The promise of new digital signature technologies remains largely that - a promise. Progress has been slower than expected. Businesses are experimenting. Consumers are uneducated.(9) Costs are unpredictable. Widespread deployment and consumer acceptance of digital signature technology remains at best a very fuzzy speck on a very distant horizon. The same may be said irrespective of the specific technology at issue.(10) Biometric verification systems like Cyber-SIGN are relatively costly, especially from a consumer perspective. Encryption key systems, like Verisign PKI, are less costly, but still enjoy no widespread deployment.(11) Few parents have been willing to invest the time and money to obtain an encryption key. As is apparent from the comments of Verisign Corporation regarding the ESIGN Study, wide-scale deployment of their Verisign PKI software has not occurred and "may be slow in developing."(12) Furthermore, no evidence suggests that consumers have or will become comfortable with the newer digital signature technologies or find them sufficiently useful and valuable to justify the expense in the foreseeable future.(13) As noted by Thomas Greco of the Digital Signature Trust Company at the ESIGN Public Workshop, "There are going to be a number of applications that we're going to be attacking with this electronic technology. Some will merit the use of certain technology, some will not merit the use of certain technology."(14) At this point, no one may say with certainty that parents would invest in digital signature capability just to allow their children to provide information to a Web site. Similarly unknown is what types of applications will induce consumers (including parents) to make that investment for other purposes. Even businesses have moved slowly in embracing digital signature technologies.(15) As observed by Ben Dayanim at the ESIGN Public Workshop, "[B]usinesses are trying to figure out the best way they want to approach e-commerce generally."(16) Thus, when all is said and done, much more is unknown than is known about the pace of deployment and acceptance of digital signature technologies at the consumer level. As Mr. Greco emphasized, "[We're at the very beginning stages of being able to answer some of the questions, what do businesses need, what do consumers need to make this kind of thing happen."(17) Therefore, as the Commission now acknowledges, "more reliable methods" of securing verifiable parental consent remain unavailable.(18) Furthermore, consumer acceptance of such technologies remains unpredictable. Consequently, the Commission's decision to extend the sliding scale regime is sound and supported by the current state of technological development and deployment. The present investment in the technology necessary to comply with the sliding scale regime is substantial. Discarding the sliding scale mechanism at this time in favor of nonexistent new methods of securing verifiable parental consent not only is facially unreasonable, it also would impose a substantial financial penalty on operators of Web sites directed to children. Several of the Companies, undoubtedly like a large number of children's Web site operators, have spent thousands of dollars in site design, hardware and technology costs alone to implement the sliding scale mechanism. And this says nothing about the up front and ongoing personnel costs to put the requisite systems in place and maintain them. Furthermore, many Web based businesses are very much infant industries that are in no position to absorb unnecessary costs. Jettisoning the sliding scale mechanism and requiring immediate use of more advanced mechanisms of securing verifiable parental consent - assuming arguendo that they were available - would relegate these systems to the scrap heap and trivialize the investment many Web site operators have incurred to implement the sliding scale mechanism. No sound reason exists to extract such a financial penalty from Web site operators. They have complied in good faith with the new rules and hardly deserve to be penalized by a premature embrace of more sophisticated technologies. The Companies submit, therefore, that the Commission must take into account the present sunk investment in sliding scale mechanisms in assessing the ultimate cost effectiveness of newer parental consent technologies. No basis exists for concluding that the sliding scale regime is inadequate to protect the interests of children. Utilization of the sliding scale mechanism has proven to be an effective means of protecting children's privacy. The Commission has alluded to no rash of complaints from parents alleging breaches in their children's privacy by the operators of children's Web sites. The Companies, too, have fielded virtually no such complaints from parents concerning infringements of their children's privacy. In the absence of complaints or other record evidence that the sliding scale mechanism is inadequate, no sound reason exists to plunge headlong into the realms of still budding technology in search of a solution to a problem that does not exist.(19) An indefinite extension of the sliding scale regime would promote innovative Web-based services for children. If the sliding scale regime is extended and thereby stabilized, many more positive applications for children may emerge. A permanent extension of the sliding scale would provide a predictable framework around which children's Web site operators can create children's content. Experience with only temporary short-term reliance on the sliding scale mechanism demonstrates that regulatory uncertainty has been counterproductive in some instances. The impending expiration of the sliding scale has chilled the development of new online content for children. While some companies have invested heavily in implementing the sliding scale technology, others have been skittish. They have refrained from employing the sliding scale at all because they are unwilling to invest in a regulatory scheme that will soon expire and render the investments obsolete. The reason is simple: it is difficult and risky to build a business model on a regulatory framework that may change in two years. How might a company justify making substantial investments in compliance methods that may not be legally permissible within a two-year period? The temporary nature of the sliding scale has inhibited many children's Web sites from making investments in costly infrastructure, fearing that a once appropriate means of obtaining consent no longer would be acceptable. Consequently, the limited short-term reliance on the sliding scale mechanism for compliance likely has inhibited the development of many features that would have been beneficial to children. For example, some child-directed Web sites have structured content and interactive functions around the collection of non-personally identifiable information. This chilling effect has reduced the content and interactivity that would have been available to children if the sliding scale had been made permanent in the original COPPA rule. On the other hand, providing Web sites with meaningful guidance on how to structure their activities around a preferred consent mechanism would encourage the types of investments in children's content that some to date have been hesitant to make. Therefore, the Companies submit that an indefinite extension of the sliding scale system would create a considerably better climate for investment in and implementation of creative Web-based services for children. Conclusion The Companies applaud the Commission's willingness to base regulatory decisions on a sound and realistic appreciation of the facts. Expected developments in digital signature technology have failed to materialize. Widespread consumer acceptance is beyond reliable prediction. Therefore, rather than demand the impossible, the Commission has made a demonstrably wise and amply supported decision to maintain the sliding scale mechanism. The Companies also urge the Commission to stay this course. It should insist that interested parties present substantial evidence that new, more reliable and cost-effective digital signature technologies are developed and deployed - with widespread consumer acceptance. Only then should the Commission even begin to consider supplanting the sliding scale regime. Respectfully submitted,
November 30, 2001 [Endnotes] 1. The Companies submit these comments in response to the Commission's Notice of Proposed Rule Making, (http://www.ftc.gov/os/2001/10/coppafrn.htm), 66 Fed. Reg. 54963 (October 31, 2001) [hereinafter cited as Notice]. 2. Notice at 3. 3. Notice at 2. 4. Notice at 2. 5. Final Rule, RIN 3084-AA84, 64 Fed. Reg. 59888, 59902 (November 3, 1999). 6. Notice of Proposed Rule Making, 64 Fed. Reg. 22750, 22756 (April 27, 1999) 7. See http://www.ftc.gov/reports/privacy/privacy5.htm at 4. 8. Notice at 2. 9. See ESIGN Public Workshop, Proceedings (April 3, 2001) at 14 (Jeff Wood)("[C]ustomers are a little leery of e-commerce at the beginning stage of the relationship."). 10. Furthermore, the Commission should appreciate that P3P technology in its present form, while deployed, is irrelevant to the matter of verifiable digital signatures. 11. Identity verification also is only a secondary use of encryption key systems, which were designed to protect document security during transmission. Indeed, encryption key technology is not a fully secure means of parental verification. The key works well only to verify that a transmission has come from a particular computer on which the key is stored. It is nonspecific as to the particular user of the computer (e.g., parent or child) because anyone with access to the area of the computer in which the key is stored can use the key. 12. Comments of Verisign Corporation, ESIGN Study, Comment P004102, http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/esign/comments/Verisign2.htm (March 16, 2001). 13. Id. at 2, n.6, citing 146 Cong. Rec. S5216 (daily ed. June 15, 2001) (statement of Senator Wyden)("At the heart of these provisions is the concern - shared by many in the industry as well - that electronic communication, e-mail, is not as reliable or as ubiquitous as traditional first-class mail. Until advances in electronic mail technology eliminate such concerns and until the vast majority of Americans are comfortable using the technology of the New Economy, consent to use electronic records requires special care and attention.); see also Comments of the Cartoon Network et al., http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/comments/pauley.htm (June 11, 1999) at 7 ("[D]igital signatures impose a potential financial and technological burden on consumers…. For example, Cyber-SIGN's biometric verification system costs $850 for 10 users, and 435 for each additional user. Users must purchase a special digitizing pad and pressure sensitive pen."). At the same time, technologies based on encryption key technology may be more affordable, but raise even more critical issues in terms of effectiveness and availability. 14. ESIGN Public Workshop, Proceedings (April 3, 2001) at 31. 15. See, e.g., Letter of March 27, 2001, to the Commission from Thomas J. Greco, Digital Signature Trust Co., http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/esign/comments/dstc.htm ("At the present time, it is premature to say how this requirement of ESIGN ultimately affects electronic commerce since the level of such commerce is relatively low and businesses are just beginning to deploy applications that address these issues. Systems are currently being designed to meet the consent requirement, but we believe it is far too early to say that any particular approach is being taken."). 16. ESIGN Public Workshop, Proceedings (April 3, 2001) at 6. 17. Id. at 32. 18. Notice at 2. 19. Home Box Office v. Federal Communications Commission, 567 F. 2d 9, 36 (D.C. Cir. 1977) ("[A] regulation perfectly reasonable and appropriate in the face of a given problem may be highly capricious if that problem does not exist. "). |


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The following work examines possible methodologies for measuring China's development advances.
Development management often uses techniques based on measurement or estimation of performance and impacts. To what extent do such techniques answer the problems and requirements of development as public action involving a multiplicity of agencies but with government agencies maintaining an important role?
This essay sets out to relate development practice and theory. It is set in the context of the 1997 World Development Report, 'The State in a Changing World', which outlines what are the two main themes of this work; the improvement of state performance and the reduction in the role of the state. I intend to explain to what extent the techniques of performance management respond to the ideas of state-role reduction. The work begins with definitions of the terms performance and impact and then discusses what is understood by 'development as public action involving a multiplicity of agencies but with government agencies maintaining an important role'. Following, there is a description of the techniques used by development managers in the measurement or estimation of performance and impact. The subsequent section details the problems and requirements of development as public action involving multiple agencies and assesses to what extent the outlined techniques answer them. It concludes that the techniques of performance management, if applied by the state and external agencies with accuracy and transparency, can answer the requirements of development as public action involving a multiplicity of agencies but with government agencies maintaining an important role.
Performance as understood by this work is "the degree to which a development intervention or a development partner operates according to specific criteria/standards/guidelines or achieves results in accordance with stated goals or plans" (International Fund for Agricultural Development, 2002: A9). Impact is characterized as "changes in the well-being of individuals that can be attributed to a particular project, program or policy" (World Bank, 2004: para. 1). Changes in well-being are not by implication positive and intended but can be negative and unintended. The phrase 'public action involving multiple agencies but with government agencies maintaining an important role' is taken to mean "the provision of a good or service [which] is transferred from public to private sector, while government retains ultimate responsibility". (Cook and Kirkpatrick, 1988: 4). This state lead can be expressed in restructuring arrangements such as Public-Private Partnerships, contracting out and concessions and may involve NGOs, private social enterprises or even private foundations. The Public-Private arrangements regarding the London underground system are good example of this kind of partnership.
Before characterizing the techniques used by development managers to measure performance and impact, I intend to discuss what exactly these techniques seek to measure. The development management literature suggests that efficiency, effectiveness, economy and equity (The Four E's) are the criteria performance measurement techniques should use to assess policies and projects. Efficiency is described as "the rate and cost at which inputs result in outputs" and effectiveness as "performance in relation to targets set in the original plan." (Robinson and Thin, 1993: 6). Thomas adds that economy is "how cheaply inputs can be obtained to achieve a given output" and equity as "how evenly distributed [the] benefits [are] resulting from the outputs." (Thomas, 2004:3).
The following discussion of the techniques used to measure the four E's of performance and impact, while not exhaustive and exclusive to development management, is provided to illustrate the scope and complementarily of tools at the disposal of development managers. The techniques measure performance and impact before, during and after policy and project decisions are made. Estimation of performance allows the state to assess how the four E's might be achieved and on-going and retrospective analysis shows how it can be improved. The discussion begins with techniques used to estimate performance and impact.
Multiple Criteria Analysis (MCA) is "an approach for choosing from among a set of alternatives when there are multiple objectives" (UNESCAP, 2003: para. 2). In effect, Multiple Criteria Analysis illustrates to what extent different policies or projects fulfill specified indicators. The result of such an analysis aids decision-makers in choosing the best alternative. MCA uses both quantitative and qualitative data so that the four E's are represented in its outcomes. An application of MCA in the context of multiple agency development led by the state can be seen in the granting of water concessions to social enterprises. Initially the state sets the indicators of what it considers the nature of water provision services, such as the quality of drinking water, reliable supply and broad distribution then social enterprises bid for the concession and the state matches these bids against the indicators it has set down.
The UNDP describes Cost-effectiveness Analysis (CEA) as "a type of analysis that involves comparing the relative costs of operating a programme with the extent to which the program [meets] its aims." (UNDP Evaluation Office, 2005: para. 18). Cost-effectiveness Analysis assists development managers to assess the economy, the value-for-money, of alternative policies or projects by comparing the costs of each one against a stated aim. For example, the state is looking into partnering a NGO to organize activities which raise reading abilities in primary schools and a number of methods are under discussion. "The costs associated with each alternative [project] can be calculated… [and] the effectiveness of each alternative may be measured through setting reading tests for groups of students subject to the different methods," by comparing the cost against the effectiveness of each alternative the most economic and effective method can be gleaned. (Asian Development Bank, 1997: 24).
Cost-benefit Analysis (CBA) "is a practical way of assessing the desirability of projects, where it is important to take a long view (in the sense of looking at repercussions in the further as well as in the near future) and a wide view (in the sense of allowing for side effects of many kinds on many persons, industries, regions, etc.), i.e. it implies the enumeration and evaluation of all the relevant costs and benefits." (Prest and Turvey, 1965, p. 683). In essence, CBA is the subtraction of costs from benefits. "A simple cost-benefit analysis of a road scheme would measure the cost of building the road, and subtract this from the economic benefit of improving transport links." However, as "it would not measure the cost of environmental damage", (Mind Tools: para 4), CBA along with CEA can be viewed solely as an economic analysis of intended policies or projects.
On-going and retrospective measurement of policy and project performance and is embedded within a system of management information and looks to improve the performance and impact of policy and projects. Heeks suggests a Monitoring and Control System which stresses that the results of on-going and retrospective measurement should feed into not only policy and project inputs but also their processes and targets. Heeks adds that ascribing a pivotal role to control actions entails performance improvement throughout the policy or project.
The Monitoring and Control System as presented by Heeks gives managers a context in which to apply on-going and retrospective performance measurement, i.e. the "assessment of performance against objectives" (Robinson and Thin 1993, p.5). Paton's eight instruments of performance management adapted to the needs of the state assessing performance by external agencies "illustrate the elements out of which performance management frameworks [such as the Monitoring and Control System] are constructed" (Paton, 2003: 22). These instruments feed into a paradigm as proposed by Heeks at the target/objective, inputs and process or activities stage. Briefly outlined the instruments are:
- Specifying government arrangements; this instrument structures the relationships between the state and social enterprises to guarantee the accountability of social enterprises to the state.
- Requiring public reports; social enterprises are obliged to produce open reports on performance which forces transparency to the state and the public.
- Financial leverage; "is used to induce social enterprises to undertake programmes, join collaborations or make decisions that will help achieve performance as the government construes it."
- Setting and inspecting standards; the state is responsible for checking external agency performance to examine if objectives are being met.
- Giving rights to service users; the state ensures that beneficiaries have a voice in the provision of services and goods so providers are made accountable to consumers.
- Promoting new and better methods; the state promotes 'good practice', such as the "support for education and training initiatives concerning governance and management" in the UK education and health services.
- Adjusting sector boundaries; the state threatens to bring in the private sector if performance is below expectations in the state half of partnerships.
- Intervention; in extreme cases if performance is well-below expectations the state "reserves power to impose changes."
(Paton, 2003; 21-30)
This work now deals with how far the techniques of performance measurement can answer firstly, the requirements and secondly, the problems of development as public action involving a multiplicity of agencies but with government agencies maintaining an important role.
The World Development Report of 1997 stressed the need for the state to improve its performance. Tools such as the economic analyses of CBA and CEA as well as the instruments suggested by Paton not only increase state efficiency through dealing with multiple agencies but also two of the other E's-economy and effectiveness. The introduction of private sector practice into partnerships looks to evaluate them with an eye to "getting exactly what you want at the lowest possible overall cost." (DFID, 2000: 3). However, the state needs to exercise caution over equity performance due to distributional problems. The provision of services and goods to remote and by implication more expensive-to-reach areas should not be compromised, "value for money is not the only factor to justify an intervention". (Asian Development Bank, 1997, 24).
A competitive environment is a requirement of multiple agency involvement in state-private sector partnership development. Tools which are used to estimate the performance and impact of policies or projects aid the state in its choice of partner agency. The lack of this requirement can result in decisions which have been made because no other suitable alternative exists. In cases such as this the state should maintain its monopoly. Transparency in policy and project decision making remains important in the state. The awarding of concessions or contracts through merit rather than personal relationships is important to improving the four E's, the tools which measure performance in advance, if accuracy is maintained, help this process.
The techniques of performance measurement guarantee that the state retains political control, as final decisions using them are made by the state themselves. Although participation of social enterprises and the public is possible in order to receive an overview of a development environment, the state is the key decision maker. Lastly, and this can be taken as a starting point too, the techniques help governments think about going into partnerships, they do not compel the state into partnership and act as tools of information.
The problems associated with multiple agency roles in state-private sector partnership development illustrate how the techniques cannot answer all the questions it raises. La Fond discusses the contradiction between performance measurement and sustainability. She asks if performance measurement is a technique in which policies and projects are sustained rather than their objectives. La Fond suggests that the sustainability of local capacity and self-reliance provide a more accurate picture of development performance. (La Fond, 1995: 23-37). A tool such as Multiple Criteria Analysis lends itself to this kind of adaptation wherein the nature of the sustainability of a project can form a performance indicator.
There is an attribution problem linked to the management information system as proposed by Heeks. While the paradigm is successful in using performance measurement to address problems with process it cannot attribute the causes of change. The question to be asked is whether the outputs a policy or project involving multiple agencies achieves would have happened anyway, outside factors may have had an influential part in the change. "A major difficulty in attempting to measure benefits is to determine the extent to which it is possible to attribute improvements to the project as opposed to factors external to the project such as economic growth, increasing demand for labour, investment in public services… and infrastructure, all of which have a positive impact on well-being". (Robinson and Thin, 1993). The paradigm has been extended to include impact assessment and external factors, (Thomas, 2004: 5) but the measurement of these criteria remain uncertain. An example of this attribution problem can be found in the operations of the British Council in Venezuela. A clear performance management system was in place and regular reviews ensured high performance levels from the English teachers. The teaching centre experienced high enrollment in 2003 during what were politically uncertain times in Venezuela. The problem for management was where to attribute this success; to improved teacher performance or the need for Venezuelan professionals to secure English language accreditation so that they could leave the country.
Paton suggests that problems associated with state-private sector partnership development can be found within the instruments proposed to deal with performance management at this level. Paton warns against selective inspections by the state of external agencies and to be wary of the "self-congratulatory reports they produce to cover inefficient performance. The implication is that deception in both halves of the partnership can have an effect on how well policies and projects perform. The domestic political and economic need for success can have detrimental impacts on transparency. Paton adds that public deference to the state and social enterprises may not subject them to the scrutiny which exposes such 'fudges'. In fact the desire to provide evidence that multiple agency state led development is being carried out to donors in order to secure loans leads to the formulation of policies with performance difficulties. (Paton, 2003:22-28).
In conclusion, the techniques which have been outlined in this essay are merely an aid to decision making regarding policies and projects and their performance or estimated performance. They suit many of the requirements of 'development as public action involving a multiplicity of agencies but with government agencies maintaining an important role', in that they answer the needs of a competitive market and the improvement of state performance through its detailed measurement. The problems which partnership present are not all answerable by the techniques, this is because they are not immune to domestic and external politics as well as economic pressures. Therefore the techniques while they provide a forum for state and external agency partnership must operate in an environment of transparency on the part of the state and external agencies if an increase in the performance criteria of efficiency, effectiveness, economy and equity are to be achieved.
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What did you order? Silver with a face-up.
When did you order? I had him on the four month layaway program. xD I made my last payment on 12/08.
How was the communication? Wonderful as usual~
How easy was it to pay? Really easy with PayPal. :P
How long did it take to ship? Not long at all. I got him today. xD
Was the quality appropriate for the price, in your opinion? Yes!
Did the item look like the sales pictures? Again, I think he looks better than the sales pictures. xD
Were you satisfied with the product? Yes! <3


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What to bin, store, sell and wear
As the new year starts, it is time to reassess your wardrobe and decide what to do with your clothes. While cheap fashion items can go, your children will never forgive you for getting rid of classics
Every new fashion season brings with it the joy of the new but, sadly, the sad passing of the trends with which we were in love a few short months ago.
While September 2012 told us that wedge trainers were still in, January 2013 – and the myriad high-street copies of Isabel Marant's original Beckett – tells us that they are very much out. These are not times in which we should be throwing the Becketts out with the bathwater; au contraire, these are times to sell, consign or otherwise recycle, with the refuse pile being the ultimate last resort.
But how do you know which goes in which bracket? And how can you be truly ruthless when looking forward to your spring/summer wardrobe?
BIN IT: super-cheap, fast-fashion items that won't last another season, anything beyond repair
Let's be realistic. Spring cleaning is all well and good, but Trinny and Susannah are remnants of a Celtic Tiger whose miaow hasn't been heard around these parts in a while, and throwing out clothes without holes in them is a folly we can no longer afford.
So your "refuse" pile will be small. In it we suggest throwing: anything that is irreparably torn or stained (cotton and silk can be used for polishing silverware and wooden furniture – just tear into strips); and cut-price items that won't be welcome in charity shops and can't be passed on to friends (super-trendy dresses that cost less than a tenner, maxi dresses that smell of holidays and are worn through from the wash and flat pumps that let in water can all go in the bin).
STORE IT: brocade trousers, embellished jackets, metallic knitwear, oversized statement neckpieces
There are certain items that will inevitably come back into fashion, even if they may have temporarily seen their day. Last season, we were inundated with luxe fabrics and gold accents in a trend that seemed to permeate every occasion and social class: baroque. The new season has pared itself back and cleaned itself up, and the OTT fabrics and embellishments of our Edwardian autumn are well and truly passé, but that's not to say that they won't return.
Vacuum bags are a great way of storing items you won't be wearing for a while (although I tend to pack mine in suitcases on top of the wardrobe, which is hell when you realise, last-minute, that you need the suitcase). If your items are so on-trend that they won't survive a year in a suitcase, drop them into your local charity shop, try your luck on eBay or consign them.


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Pushkin takes a swing at Mantle's
- Last Updated: 12:49 AM, May 15, 2012
- Posted: 12:45 AM, May 15, 2012
Right now, L&L plans on keeping 25 percent of the tower's core while it entertains design proposals from "starchitects" including Sir Norman Foster and Renzo Piano for a mostly new structure.
That's because retaining one-quarter of the existing structural steel would be the only way L&L could replicate the tower's roughly 600,000 square feet under existing zoning, which dates to 1961.
Incredibly, the 1961 zoning requires new buildings near Grand Central to be roughly 25 percent smaller than those constructed in the 1950s.
"If they make the modification to City Planning, we would do full demolition and take advantage of it," L&L Chairman/CEO David W. Levinson said of the $750 million project.
It would allow him to create a truly new building "and would give the architects a freer hand," he said.
The 32-story building, opened in 1957, is built to a floor-area ratio of 20. If L&L were to tear the whole structure down and start from the ground up, its replacement could be built only to an FAR of 15 under 1961 rules.
But although L&L needs to start planning soon, it still has some time, since it can't start work until 2015 when leases expire.
The first public warning about zoning limitations near Grand Central was sounded last winter by CBRE regional CEO Mary Ann Tighe, who's also chairman of the Real Estate Board of New York.
In a speech at Columbia University's Center for Urban Real Estate, Tighe noted that although many office towers in Midtown's most desirable commercial area are out of date, landlords were unlikely to replace them because "most are overbuilt under current zoning."
She said of the Grand Central-area structures:
"Sure, you can keep the existing FAR if 25 percent of the structural steel is saved, but then you'd end up with a compromised design, with slab heights and column spacing sacrificed so as not to lose valuable square footage."
L&L might not have to compromise as much as some other owners, thanks to certain technical characteristics of the existing 425 Park Ave. But it isn't hard to guess that Levinson & Co. would prefer not to compromise at all.
JUST to annoy retail brokers department:
While they love to claim that 57th Street is doing just dandy, it only gets worse — nearly river-to-river.
Take the long block between Fifth and Sixth avenues. It has seven highly visible vacancies, many of them at prime addresses. A long- empty lot and several "art" and souvenir stores of the kind that once spoiled Fifth Avenue add to the blighted look, despite the presence of such retail landmarks as Bergdorf Goodman and fancy restaurants.
Brokers blame a fall-off in foot traffic west of Fifth.
The real reason is landlords who keep spaces empty indefinitely as they seek rents that can't be obtained or bide their time for redevelopment that might never come.
Of course, with each new storefront they keep dark — like those in several of Sheldon Solow's properties — shoppers have less reason to go to the block at all, thereby diminishing their value.


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Marquess Tavern, Canonbury
FancyaPint?'s review...
Off the beaten track, but surprisingly near Essex Road's mob of bars, lies the Marquess Tavern. A magnificent unspoilt Victorian building, it boasts a comfortable front bar with original wood panelling and a back room (probably once a games room) which claims an impressively high ceiling. A change of management a while back (it's now run by a gaggle of former regulars) hasn't changed the gastro emphasis dramatically and the aforementioned back room remains the dining room -an expensive dining room at that. Still, lounging in the front bar continues to be a pleasure - there's still plenty of beer here with an excellent selection of (mainly bottled) ales and a highly impressive selection lagers from the continent and beyond. Service too remains down-to-earth and friendly. The place gets very busy but it does feel more of a local's place than other gastropubs we know - due to its back street location, Islington's weekend visitors simply don't see it.
19 Dec 2009
Was amazing, but for some reason they put massive bright lights all over the shop and for it made the place crap? It used to be cozy but now seems like a school dinner hall. Odd, but the wrong lighting can even make the best place crap. Dear Marquess, it will only cost about 7 pounds to sort out the wrong watt choice, and by the way, the dinning room is amazing, but try a darker color and people will in fact what to sit there. (I'm an architect and this is free advise, make that room darker and make the lights about 30 watts top.) Other than that, used to be a top pub! FOOD IS AWSOME and staff is supper nice.
14 Jan 2009
This authentic boozer with wood panneling and whiskey drinking regulars is a great spot for swifty or three. It has an extensive selection of draught and bottled beers as well as guest ales... last time I went I ended up staying for dinner - it is doing two courses of the regular menu for £12 making it superb value. Highly recommended.
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32 Canonbury Street, Highbury, London, N1 2TB
020 7354 2975
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Mon-Thurs 17:00-23:00
Fri 16:00-00:00
Sat 12:00-00:00
Sun 12:00-22:30
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From Essex Road mainline cross New North Road at the lights and take the 2nd left up Canonbury Street. The pubs soon on the right. From Angel, turn right up towards Upper Street, then take the right fork along Essex Road. Continue along Essex Road until you come to the junction with New North Road, then follow the above instructions. From Highbury and Islington, cross to the far side of Highbury Corner and take Canonbury Road for 10 minutes until you reach Canonbury Grove on your left. Pub is at the end.
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