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This is the eleventh edition of Drunk Girl/High Guy Cultural Reviews wherein Sarah gets really drunk, Noah gets really high and then they go to an event and write about their vastly different experiences. You can read more of Sarah's writing on her blog and more of Noah's writing on his blog. Here, they go to weird theme-park-restaurant Medieval Times.
How We Decided To Go
Sarah: Noah is here in LA for a few weeks, so we decided to do something really special for our reunion. You know, the type of thing you'd do for a golden, well, silver, eh, more like paper anniversary. Actually, is there such a thing as a styrofoam anniversary? That's the level of specialness we were aiming for. It technically is our paper anniversary, actually. One year ago, more or less, we had our first Drunk Girl/High Guy at the WNBA game in Newark, New Jersey. So, to properly honor all of the bad decisions we've made since then, we decided to go to Medieval Times in Buena Park, CA.
I've always wanted to go to Medieval Times, but never got around to it. For one, in New York you have to drive to JERSEY and here it's an hour drive away, so I wasn't about to organize a trip unless it was for something extremely important and meaningful like DG/HG. The pictures people post of their time there look like fun, if you consider wearing crowns, eating with your hands and drinking booze from novelty cups "fun," which of course I totally do. And there's so much pageantry! I frickin LOVE pageantry. So I was excited. I asked my friend TJ to be our chaperon. TJ has been to Medieval Times, in his words, "At least 4 times, maybe 6, which is especially awesome since I've only lived in LA for three and a half years." Yes…especially awesome indeed.
Noah: It wasn't until recently that I found out Medieval Times was a real thing. I had always thought it was just a fake thing from The Cable Guy. I have no idea how I managed to not know about it for so long. I actually have that problem a lot. I sometimes just don't know certain things that I should. For example, just this past month, I learned that B Boy doesn't mean Bitch Boy. I also for a significant number of days thought the movie, The Artist, was about Prince. But, now I know that B Boys are, like, rap dancers or something, The Artist is about a dog that can't talk, and Medieval Times is a real place you can go to that seems like a fucking nightmare.
When I arrived in L.A., Sarah immediately suggested Medieval Times as a Drunk Girl / High Guy idea. It sounded like a terrible idea, which in terms of Drunk Girl / High Guy means it's a WONDERFUL IDEA. I told her I was on board. I then got even more on board when she told me TJ was coming. TJ is great, you guys. The first time I met TJ, I was at a bar where you're allowed to eat peanuts and throw the shells on the floor. It's a total Fuck-You-Dad place. But my friend, Joe, and I were sitting there and FUCKING NO ONE WAS GIVING US PEANUTS. We sat there for ten minutes complaining like little Jewy shits about how nobody was coming to the table to give us peanuts. Then Sarah and TJ walked in. TJ walked right over to the bar, grabbed a basket of peanuts, and brought them to our table. TJ knows what's up is what I'm trying to say. But also, TJ has been to Medieval Times like 6 times, so maybe he's just a dumb fucking asshole. It's a toss up.
How Sarah Got Drunk
We went over to TJ's friends house for some beers 'n weed. I decided to shotgun a few beers because I realized that I've never shotgunned a beer before. How had I LIVED let alone gone to college?? Spoiler: It's super fun. In addition to having potted weed plants (ahhhhhhhhh get it??) TJ's friend has a chicken named Clucky. We tried to hypnotize it because I had seen a video of Werner Herzog getting interviewed where he says that it's very easy to hypnotize a chicken. And it is. It's crazy easy to hypnotize a chicken. You just draw a line of chalk on the ground and the chicken stares at it, transfixed, for about 30 seconds. Run, don't walk, to the closest chicken and see for yourself! But shotgun some beers first. Ugh, it's so fun.
How Noah Got High
I got so high at TJ's's friend's place out of a tiny pipe I bought on Venice Beach for $5 dollars. Sarah then asked me a number of questions to which all of the answers were a very obvious "yes". Do you wanna watch me shotgun a beer? Yes. Do you want to watch me shotgun another beer? Yes. Do you want a slice of this mushroom pizza that's been sitting out since last night? Yes. Do you want to hypnotize this chicken? Fucking yeah, yes, no duh. Anyway, blah blah blah, other stuff, Sarah sucks at hypnotizing chickens. The chicken and I looked at each other and bonded. I wanted to touch him. I chased him around the yard for, I don't know, a year and half? Time was being weird. Finally TJ just picked up the chicken –- you know, 'cause he knows what's up – and I pet him. Guess what? Chickens are so soft!
Sarah: In my defense, a few days before, TJ and I had hypnotized Clucky 3 times. I swear. For some reason it didn't work when Noah came over so, clearly, Clucky had, in the meantime, somehow gotten a larger brain like the sharks in Deep Blue Sea and was on to our tricks. Watch out, Samuel L. Jackson!
How We Got There
Sarah: TJ, being the chaperon, drove us. Nothing much happened on the ride except TJ and Noah talking about deodorants. This was only interesting because I had NO IDEA that Old Spice made deodorants with names like "After Hours" and "Swagger." Old Spice, when did you go all Axe Body Spray on me? That must mean that if reputable companies like Old Spice have those douchey names Axe must have names like "Black Light" and "Come On My Back." (Sorry). Hey, did you know Axe makes stuff for the ladies now? FINALLY!!
Noah also revealed that he used spray on deodorant and that when he was in college he spent hours drawing the Degree logo on his computer. So you know what? I guess a lot happened on the drive! I'm sorry for suggesting otherwise! I also took this photo of super stoned Noah. He looks like a little stoned angel from heaven.
Noah: Drawing that Degree logo on Microsoft Paint was a weird time in my life. I was a freshman in college, my girlfriend lived so far away, and I was wearing mock turtlenecks as undershirts sometimes. I also got really good at minesweeper during that era. I beat expert mode in 89 seconds. Now I have a diploma. Emerson Lions RAWRRRRR! Flash forward ten years later, I arrived at Medieval Times so high on drugs.
Medieval Times
Sarah: Here's the reason I suspect that I avoided Medieval Times all these years, despite my love of pageantry, etc. It's fairly overwhelming. There are SO MANY people there. And it's all wasted bachelor party dudes or tiny children running around, so you should really go in with some sort of altered state of mind otherwise it's kind of like, "Fuck you, America." But, honestly, I'm not complaining. I mean, the first thing that happens once you pick up your tickets is that a kindly, sort of saucy teenager in a wench costume places a paper crown on your head and gives you your designated knight's flag (GO BLUE KNIGHT!) and then you're ushered into the bar area. So what's the fucking problem? THERE IS NONE.
So, like The Cable Guy has taught us, the waiter came by and informed us that we'd be eating with our hands, but if we wanted Pepsi we should turn our cups sideways as a signal to him. But if we wanted water we turned our cups upside down, and if we wanted iced tea we had to wink three times and balance our cups on a 45 degree angle. Or at least that's what I drunkenly gathered. I was sort of disappointed, I would have liked beaten up metal pitchers of mead or spiced wine or GROG. I would have fucking LOVED some grog. But, again. Crowns, beers, Pepsi if I wanted it, squires and knights! No worries here!
We were cheering for the Blue Knight. He was HANDSOME and did aiiiight, I'd say he was maybe fourth best. But he certainly didn't suck as much as the Red Knight. Woof. When people were chanting for the Yellow Knight it sounded like they were chanting "Sarah!" "Sarah!" I don't know, I was drunk, but it was pretty great.
So at Medieval Times, for those of you who have not been, you watch Knights joust and fight, but there's also a loose storyline, acted out by a King, the King's advisor and The Princess. TJ informed us that the story we witnessed was different from the one when he was there last. Good Old T "Medieval Times" J. So they speak in English accents and say things like, "Father, these knights are brave, all." "Yes, daughter, we shall watch the proceedings with the greatest of amusement. But first! Birthdays!" and they read off a list of birthdays, "Happy 28th Birthday to Sir Roberto Valdez! Happy 6th birthday to Lady Shania Twain!" (Shania Twain wasn't there, I just couldn't think of a good fake name). There were two couples there for their anniversary and the Princess was all, "What are YOU doing here?" and we laughed. Then for the second couple the King was like, "Don't you have something BETTER to do?" And we were like, "Kiii-iiiing-ah."
Here is our meal:
There was a MASTER FALCONER, who, when he was announced, made me and Noah giggle. Because Master Falconer. Ha! Let me tell you, though, the way that Master handled that falcon was very masterful.
There was a part in the show where the villain came out and offered a horse to the princess? But it wasn't tribute, it was a gift? So it that was, like, villainous? By that point I was pretty hammered and Noah had taken off his crown and was waving his flag at the wrong times, so we had both really lost the plot. I guess we could have asked TJ what the fuck was going on but it was loud and we didn't care THAT much. Either way, the villain on the horse did a 10 minute dressage routine, which was confusing and impressive and funny. Because the evil guy rides dressage to really dramatic music? Sure. I get it. He's the one percent.
They served us what looked and tasted like McDonalds apple pies for dessert. No one complained about that, obviously.
And then when it was all over we walked out and there were the King and Princess sitting on thrones in the middle of a night club blasting Rihanna. That's when I started to feel weird and was glad that we were leaving.
Oh, I forgot. The knight who won ran into the stands and high-fived everyone. That was great. I hope he washed his hands after.
Noah: So you get to this nightmare place, and it is just in a regular city area. It's not in the country. That's nuts. I thought it would be out in the country where the horses could roam around in their off hours. But, no. You're driving on a city road, and then there it is. What do the horses do in their off time?! Do they just go to Pirate Adventure for fun? That doesn't seem like fun. I guess these horses just have a pretty rough life.
I was really high and concerned about horses when we entered the large dusty arena.
The first thing I noticed was the moderate horse shit smell. Then I realized I was going to be eating food here. I was going to be eating food surrounded by horse shit smell. I was no longer concerned about the horses. I was concerned about myself.
We were lead to a table where some guy came over and gave us an hour and a half long seminar about what to do with our cups to signal what drink we wanted. I did not follow it at all. They kept mentioning iced tea as if that would be an obvious beverage choice at Medieval times. But, it's a kids' place. What kid is super into iced tea? Certainly not this kid. I did not want iced tea. But I was super high and didn't have the mental capacity to learn a semaphore-style cup language just to get some fucking water. I decided I would hold my cup in my lap and simply ask for water when someone with water came by. The plan worked. It was okay water.
Later, some guy on a horse came out and asked us to wave our flags and taunt the people sitting across from us because they are our enemy. I was like, "Na, I'm alright." Then, all the knights entered the arena. So, let's get into how goddamn stupid the knights' color designations were. Sarah, TJ, and I were supposed to support the Blue Knight. That makes sense. I was fine with that. Then there was also a red knight and a yellow knight. Those also make sense. But then, as if there were no more colors left, there was a "black and white knight" and a "black and red knight"? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? You can't be a thing-and-another-thing knight. You get one modifier per knight. Like, there's a Batman and there's a Catwoman. There's no Cow and Bird Man or Chicken and Wolf Woman. "Red and Black Knight." Fuck you, Medieval Times. You're dumb and shitty.
Eventually, we finished all of our food, the knights finished all of their knight stuff, and we left the arena and bar area.
Sarah: Getting home, we played the anal game, which TJ had taught to us. All you do is when you see a car name you put the word "anal" in front of it. Here are some good examples:
Anal Legend
Anal Impala
Anal Patriot
Anal Echo
Anal Focus
Anal Challenger
Anal Accord
Anal Quest
As you can see, it's a great game that you can play for hours with friends and young children. Next time I want to go to Pirate Adventure, which is next door. I bet you get a great hat there.
Noah: TJ drove me a very long way home where I took an anti-anxiety pill a friend had given me and went immediately to sleep. I had seriously crazy dreams that night.
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Andrew Whitehead:
The photograph on the left is of Clerkenwell Green - and is taken from the cover of the excellent recent
Survey of London
volume on
South and East Clerkenwell
. It seems to be taken from the roof of the old Sessions House. The distinguished grey building in the foreground is the Marx Memorial Library - once a school, and then in the nineteenth century for twenty years the home of one of London's foremost radical working men's clubs, the Patriotic, and later hosted the Social Democratic Federation's press. Overshadowing it is St James, a fine eighteenth century church, and absolutely worth a visit. On the right is 'The Crown', a pub with a rich history - it was once a music hall. The Green itself - a misnomer, no grass has gown there for centuries - was in the Victorian era a venue for demonstrations, political meetings and street corner oratory.
Clerkenwell was once a bastion of artisan crafts such as watchmaking and bookbinding. There are a few, very few, remnants left of these trades. But it's still a wonderful part of London to walk round. I studied the politics of this area in the late Victorian period, when Clerkenwell was renowned for its radicalism.
There's an article I wrote based on my research elsewhere on this site
. I am very fond of the place.
I've posted below a review of the two
Survey of London
volumes covering Clerkenwell published in History Workshop Journal
Clerkenwell Tales
by Andrew Whitehead
Survey of London, volume 46: South and East Clerkenwell
, edited by Philip Temple, Yale University Press for English Heritage, New Haven and London, 2008; xxxi + 468pp; £75 hbk; ISBN 9780300137279
Survey of London, volume 47: Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville
, edited by Philip Temple, Yale University Press for English Heritage, New Haven and London, 2008; xxi + 523pp; £75 hbk; ISBN 9780300139372
William John Pinks had been buried for five years in Highgate cemetery when his huge and ambitious
History of Clerkenwell
first appeared in book form. It is among the most impressive London parish histories of the Victorian era. The antiquarianism is tempered by contemporary anecdote and a keen social eye, and its 800 pages are enlivened by scores of engravings – among them one depicting the author's grave. Pinks was himself a Clerkenwellian, apprenticed as a bookbinder, and later a full-time contributor to the 'Clerkenwell News', the first and most successful of London's district papers. He died from TB at the age of thirty-one.
When J.T. Pickburn, the proprietor of the 'Clerkenwell News', published Pinks's local history in 1865, it was the high water mark of prosperous, industrious Clerkenwell. A second edition, in essence unchanged, appeared in 1880 – the format of the book, reflecting Clerkenwell's fortunes, a little more cramped and pinched in appearance. The 'Clerkenwell News' had by then metamorphosed into the much grander 'Daily Chronicle' which, as the 'News Chronicle', remained a leading national daily until 1960.
Clerkenwell, just north of the City, a little east of Fleet Street, Holborn and Kings Cross, but cordoned from the sink of the East End, sought to make the most of its location, but never quite achieved an enduring identity. It was joined with neighbouring St Luke's in 1900 to form the borough of Finsbury, which was in turn merged into the London Borough of Islington in the 1960s. Its eclipse was so profound that few were sure where Clerkenwell was, and if it were not for a handful of street names the word would – as with Tyburn or Seven Dials – have become simply an echo of a distant past. The two commanding Clerkenwell novels, George Gissing's
The Nether World
(1889) about the plebeian southern part of the parish and Arnold Bennett's
Riceyman Steps
(1923) set amid the more aspiring but then almost as penurious northern squares, charted the decay and drift into anonymity. Two of the area's northern-most landmarks and thoroughfares, Pentonville Road and The Angel, Islington, featured on the 'Monopoly' board devised in the 1930s, but at very much the cheaper end. By the 1960s, bomb damage, slum clearance, depopulation and a still more emphatic deindustrialisation, had dragged the area down to a sickly shadow of its incarnation a century earlier.
Pinks's detail and erudition, and that displayed by an only slightly more modest parish history by Thomas Cromwell in 1828, provide some of the ballast for these two new volumes of the
Survey of London
. Indeed the
pays tribute in declaring that '[if] no later monographs on Clerkenwell have been as full as those of Cromwell and Pinks, that may point to the area's declining pride'. Through the twentieth century, virtually nothing was written about Clerkenwell – certainly nothing to set alongside Pinks's hefty volume. Then in 2001, a facsimile edition of Pinks's history was published – and sold out. Clerkenwell reborn. Now these two
Survey of London
volumes are the first to outstrip Pinks in scope and ambition, and come close to matching him in their devotion to his parish. Clerkenwell resurgent!
It's not quite so simple, of course. Which Clerkenwell, whose Clerkenwell, has come back into vogue? The talking up of the new Clerkenwell, more in the introductions and promotional material than in the body of these two fine books, may reflect a marketing strategy – given the price, just about the only non-library buyers are likely to be those enterprises which regard themselves as part of the Clerkenwell 'renaissance'. Perhaps Clerkenwell is now a 'prized location', and 'a synonym for urban regeneration and energy' – but only a tithe of the old parish, the bounds of which define both Pinks's and the
's horizons, has partaken fully in the revival. It is 'sometimes said there are more design firms today in Clerkenwell than anywhere else in Europe', says the
. Maybe so, in the gentrified streets around Clerkenwell Green and St John's Square. Of another corner of the parish, the
notes: 'it has to be admitted that western Pentonville is hard work'. Even harder if you live there. Yet there is something rather splendid about the
Survey of London's
venture into banlieus which, at first glance, are so unpromising.
If these volumes reflect a Clerkenwell revival, they also mark a new turn for a venerable historical and architectural project. 'Because of Clerkenwell's multiplicity of layers, these volumes', the preface declares, 'are probably the most complex to have been undertaken in the hundred-year span of the Survey of London'. They are fruits of a still fresh partnership with English Heritage; the first volumes to be published by Yale University Press; the first to make widespread use of colour photographs and images; indeed, the first to have photographs integrated with the text. Quite a makeover.
The result is a resounding success - meticulous scholarship, lucid writing, impressive picture research and superb presentation. The buildings of Clerkenwell are of course the focus of the study, and these are placed in a broad context – developing land use, changing patterns of transport and industry, popular and municipal politics, and even discussions or asides on topics as varied as literary representations of the area to the organised squats of the 1960s ('an influential harbinger of gentrification'). While there is enormous detail about the more historically resonant sites, Sadlers Wells, St John's Gate and the New River Head among them, the vernacular also attracts attention, whether the industrial dwellings and Peabody estates on Farringdon Road or the squares and circuses of Amwell.
Municipal Clerkenwell has as much to offer the architectural historian as the generous remnants from the eighteenth century or before. The
describes Finsbury Health Centre, designed for the borough council by Lubetkin and Tecton in the 1930s, as Clerkenwell's most famous building. 'Besides the hope it embodies for a brighter future, the rigour of the research expended on the project and the passion of its technics and aesthetics set the loftiest of standards for British modernism.' It's still there, a little hidden away to the east of Farringdon Road, adjoining a building of matching importance to the social historian, a purpose-built municipal Maternity and Child Welfare Centre from the mid-1920s. Berthold Lubetkin also built three renowned housing projects in Clerkenwell, and the volumes are diligent in describing the influence of the election of a Labour council in Finsbury in the mid-1930s, and of the power-play within its ranks which allowed left-wingers to commission building projects with vision and purpose.
Survey of London
is not intended to be a general history of the districts it describes. There are important aspects of Clerkenwell history that are glossed over: while there's mention of the tradition of radical meetings at Clerkenwell Green and at Spafields, there's no discussion of the area's remarkable radical lineage from the late-eighteenth through to the mid-twentieth centuries; the artisanal basis of Victorian Clerkenwell is alluded to, but again there is no detailed account of the flourishing of highly skilled workshop crafts, watchmaking in particular, and of the impact of their sudden and almost complete collapse at the end of the nineteenth century. Yet there is space in these volumes for community. The cockneyesque enclaves of Exmouth Market and Chapel Market (the latter was, said Bert Lloyd as long ago as 1951, 'one of the last atolls of the old-time cockney life') get as much attention and esteem as the architectural glories of Sekforde Street or Britton Street (the latter known in Pinks's era as Red Lion Street).
The attention given to individual buildings sometimes draws the
's eye away from the collective impact. Take the view that features on the cover of the volume on south Clerkenwell. The scene from the top of the Sessions House looking over Clerkenwell Green takes in the Marx Memorial Library, the Crown Tavern, a section of Clerkenwell Close and the tower and spire of St James's. It is an entrancing vista of the heart of an urban village, the area that Peter Ackroyd wrote about in his medieval mystery
The Clerkenwell Tales
(2003) set in and around the long demolished nunnery whose boundaries still define the serpentine route of Clerkenwell Close. Yet the
Survey of London
regards St James's as pedestrian ('a fairly plain Georgian preaching box'), dismisses the Marx Memorial Library as devoid of almost all its original fabric (the 'stuccoed "Georgian" façade is a modern quasi-facsimile'), and largely ignores the Crown. The northern volume has Lloyd Square ('one of the nicest squares in London' according to Hugh Casson) gracing its dust jacket, part of the delightful early nineteenth century Lloyd Baker estate laid out on slopes which once led down to the Fleet river. 'Few if any of the small estates around central London have so distinctive and memorable an architectural stamp', the
declares with good reason – though it also castigates the estate's Granville Square, harshly perhaps, for its 'comparative banality' and 'dull' house fronts.
Let's not lose sight of the achievement of these twin volumes. The easy mix of authority and accessibility, colour photos as well as detailed floor plans, has saved the
Survey of London
from straying into architectural antiquarianism, and has provided a window on the social history of one of inner London's most interesting and unduly neglected districts. It would be difficult to imagine anyone reading at length from these volumes without the desire to see for themselves – perhaps by taking the tube to Farringdon (the station dates from 1865), along the earliest stretch of what is now the underground, the excavation of which involved the demolition of some of the most notorious slums of mid-Victorian London.
The breadth of approach taken by the Survey – not simply recording today's built environment, but retrieving earlier layers of land use and the underlying social and commercial pressures – offers a historical dynamic to the cityscape it describes. The enthusiasm with which the
team have taken to their task of studying the parish adds hugely to the insights and pleasure to be gained from these volumes - a sense of joy and discovery in which the reader, certainly this reader, becomes complicit.
That house on Clerkenwell Green
You see that demure building in a lighter shade of grey on the book cover at the top of the page - well, this is what it looked like in 1933. It was then, as it is now, Marx House - then a workers' library, educational centre and bookshop, and now the rather more forbidding Marx Memorial Library. It's a building with a richer radical pedigree than just about any in London.
The drawing appeared on the cover of a pamphlet written by a Clerkenwellian, Tommy Jackson, reciting the radical associations of Clerkenwell Green - from the Peasants' Revolt, to the Jacobins, the Spenceans, the Chartists, Lenin's sojourn at this building and beyond.
Similar territory was covered a few years later by Andrew Rothstein, in his booklet
A House on Clerkenwell Green
This pamphlet, the author declares, 'was written by THOMAS ALFRED JACKSON, printer and writer by trade, born in Tysoe-street, CLERKENWELL, the son of Thomas Jackson, printer, born in Allen-street, Clerkenwell, the son of Alfred Jackson, watchmaker and jeweller, also born in Allen-street, Clerkenwell, the son of Henry Jackson, lock-smith and stove-maker, one-time sergeant-blacksmith in the Fifth Regiment, who was born in Suffolk.'
Twenty years later, in 1953, Tommy Jackson explored his Clerkenwell roots, and how it moulded his politics, in his exceptionally engaging autobiography,
Solo Trumpet
- I remember it was the historian Raphael Samuel who first put me on to reading it. Jackson died two years later - news which made the front page of the communist 'Daily Worker'.
Clerkenwell in literature
George Gissin'g
The Nether World
is the commanding Clerkenwell novel - I've written about it briefly on the
London Fictions page
of this site, and at greater length on a new
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site. It's a depressing book in many ways, but acutely observed. He took the trouble to walk Clerkenwell's streets and listen it to radical meetings. It tells you hugely more about the place than a parish history ever could.
Arnold Bennett's
Riceyman Steps
is also set in Clerkenwell. While
The Nether World
is largely about the area around Clerkenwell Green, the steps Bennett had in mind - they are still there - run from just off Farringdon Road to Granville Square, one of the more humdrum squares amid the architectural magnificence of the Amwell estates. At the time Bennett was writing however - the novel was published in 1923 - the area was down-at-heel, and the story concerns a miserly bookseller, (there's a great website
'Walking Riceyman Steps'
which is much recommended).This district was still distinctly tatty when B.S. Johnson wrote about in
Albert Angelo
, an experimental novel published in 1964
Clerkenwell also features in the writing of Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist fails in his first attempt at kerchief picking on Clerkenwell Green) and of William Hale White. It's also the setting for Peter Ackroyd's
Clerkenwell Tales -
a story of religious and political intrigue in the medieval period.
The 'real' Riceyman Steps
This is a marvellous image of the locality Arnold Bennett used as the setting of
Riceyman Steps
at just the time the book was published. It's dated November 1924, a year after publication, and is taken from sketches by Hanslip Fletcher, published in the Sunday Times and then as a collection of sketches,
Changing London
. It's remarkable that the steps had taken on their fictional name so quickly after Bennett's novel appeared - they had been called Granville Place or Steps and are now known as Gwynne Place.
Most of the buildings shown here have been cleared. The steps survive, accessed through a non-descript modern hotel which fronts Kings Cross Road. The church you can see is St Philip's, Granville Square - it closed in 1936 and was demolished soon after.
And in post-war literature
Alexander Baron is best known for his war novel
From the City From the Plough
, and his account of an obsessive gambler living in Dalston,
The Lowlife
Rosie Hogarth
(1951) deserves equal billing in his work - a strong novel and Baron's first set in London, a city which he knew intimately and loved deeply.
It's set immediately after the Second World War in the northernmost part of the old Clerkenwell parish - a respectable, working class terraced street close to Chapel Market, just north of Pentonville Road. Baron offered a powerful and evocative sense of place - and wrote a tender account of a close-knit, insular community trying to refind its feet after the dislocations of war and its aftermath.
Chapel Market remains a defiantly plebeian island amid gentrified south Islington. You can get still get a vicarious sense of the community Baron depicted. There's a more substantial account of the novel, and the manner of its account of the fictional 'Lamb Street',
This includes a deciphered copy of the novel's original dust jacket, which at first glance looks like an abstract drawing but is in fact a detailed and very accurate map of the locality which features in the novel.
Though not always great literature
It's difficult to think of a more Clerkenwellian novel than this 1958 title, set in and around a rather grimy Red Lion Street in the 1920s. A struggling clerk, Kerry Betterkin, dreams of being an author, but his first book, a historical novel 'Green and Pleasant Clerkenwell', bombs. His next book, with more commonplace characters, is a runaway success. So he is able to marry his girlfriend at St James's.
Not a great plot, and the characterisation is no better - but amid the references to medieval Clerkenwell, there's quite a lot about the area in its lean decades. And there's certainly a lot of Clerkenwell - from first page to closing page.
This was the final title in Raymond's multi-volume 'A London Gallery', an enterprise that took him more than a quarter of a century, and is now as little remembered as, well, Betterkin's 'Green and Pleasant Clerkenwell'.
An effortless read, but hardly a match for Bennett or Gissing.
And Dickens's Clerkenwell
Here's an audio walk through the Islington and Clekenwell of Charles Dickens's
Oliver Twist
'Follow Oliver Twist's walking route with Jon Henley and Veronica Horwell from Angel Islington to the courthouse of Mr Fang the magistrate in Clerkenwell.
This walking tour can be
downloaded on to your MP3 player
or mobile and used as an audio guide on location along with the map, which you can print out or use on your phone
You can also download this
beautiful illustrated version of the map
and print it out to take with you on your tour
Finsbury Health Centre
A 1943 poster by Abram Games with the frontage of the FHC
Survey of London
describes the Finsbury Health Centre just off Farringdon Road as the most famous building in Clerkenwell.
It was born out of municipal concern for the health of London's poor - an initiative of the left-leaning Finsbury Borough Council in the 1930s. And the design was the work of one of the most renowned modernist architects, Berthold Lubetkin. 'Besides the hope it embodies for a brighter future', says the
's recent volume on Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville, 'the rigour of the research expended on the project and the passion of its technics and aesthetics set the loftiest of standards for British modernism.'
How sad, then, that the Pine Street building is now semi-derelict and that there's real concern about its future. There's now a
'Save Finsbury Health Centre'
campaign, seeking to ensure that the centre is repaired and remains a place where the local community can access health services. The 'Guardian' - for many years based close by -
recently reported
on the battle over the future of the building. Given its pioneering social and architectural importance, it deserves a secure future serving the people of Clerkenwell.
Pinks's 'Clerkenwell'
A century and a half ago, William John Pinks wrote one of the most remarkable and impressive of London parish histories. He had been buried for five years in the west side of Highgate Cemetery when his voluminous
History of Clerkenwell
first appeared in book form. Pinks's antiquarian approach is tempered by contemporary anecdote and keen social observation, and its 800 pages are enlivened by scores of engravings - among them one showing the author's grave.
Pinks was himself a Clerkenwellian, apprenticed as a bookbinder, and later a full-time contributor to the 'Clerkenwell News', perhaps the most successful of London's Victorian-era district papers (it became the 'Daily Chronicle'). He died from TB aged 31. When J.T. Pickburn, proprietor of the 'Clerkenwell News', published Pinks's local history in 1865, it was the high water mark of prosperous, industrious Clerkenwell. A second edition, in essence unchanged, appeared in 1880 - the format of the book, reflecting Clerkenwell's fortunes, a little more cramped and pinched in appearance.
Through the last century, virtually nothing was written about Clerkenwell. the area lost its municipal identity when it was merged with St Luke's in 1900 to form the borough of Finsbury. This was in turn merged into the London Borough of Islington in the 1960s. Slum clearance, depopulation, the decline of artisan crafts and deindustrialisation all contributed to the decline of Clerkenwell.
From the 1970s, the gentrification of Amwell and some other pockets of Georgian and early Victorian housing, and the growing the popularity of the area with architect and design companies, contributed to a modest resurgence. Clerkenwell began to mean something again. The republication in 2001 of
Pinks's history in facsimile form
was itself a reflection of a resurgent Clerkenwell. The
Survey of London
volumes about Clerkenwell
published in 2008 are the first to lavish as much care and attention on the district and its built environment as Pinks, and pay proper tribute to the pre-eminent historian of the district. (These paragraphs borrow from a review I write for
History Workshop Journal
in 2009, posted above).
The Clerks' Well
This pamphlet, illustrated with grainy black-and-white photos, was published a few months after the well from which Clerkenwell took its name was rediscovered. It's in Farringdon Lane and is open to the public by appointment - there is a none too appetising picture of the well as it is now, looking like a rather grotty latrine, on this
Islington Council site
The well was found during rebuilding work in 1924. At the time, Clerkenwell was part of the Borough of Finsbury - and this detailed account of the well and its reappearance was delivered before the council as well as at a meeting of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
I bought this pamphlet from the excellent Walden book shop in Chalk Farm, which always has an excellent selection of books about London
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It's not really Clerkenwell, except the southernmost end - but it's wonderful all the same. Alan Dein's audio journey and slide show down the Caledonian Road - popping in to Housmans, among other places.
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Spicy biriyani made with soya chunks - Ramya V
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Published On: 21 Nov 2005
English: Cardamom
tamil: Elakkai
malayalam: Elakkaya / Elakka
telugu: Yalakulu / Elaichi / Yaalakkaya / Yealak-Kayulu
kannada: Yalakki / Yelachi
hindi: Choti Elaichi
Bengali: Elach / Garate
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Konkani: Kalo Elu / Yelo
Marathi: Eachi / Masala Welchi / Veldoda / Velchi
Oriya: Aleicha / Gujuratie / Alaichi
Punjabi: Elaichi
Tulu: Elakkai
Kashmiri: Aa / Lbuduaa
Urudu: Ilaychi / Elaisi
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tamil: Grambu / Lavangam / Kiraambu
malayalam: Karayaamboovu / Grambu
telugu: Lavangam / Lavangalu
kannada: Lavanga / Lavangapattai
hindi: Lavang / Laung
Bengali: Labango / Lawang
Gujarati: Laving / Lavang
Konkani: Grambu / Lovang / Longan
Marathi: Luvanga / Laung
Oriya: Labanga
Punjabi: Long / Lavang / Laung
Kashmiri: Ruang
Urudu: Laung
English: Onion
tamil: Vaengayam
malayalam: Savala
telugu: Nirulli / Ullipayalu / Yerra Gaddalu
kannada: Ulligadde / Erulli / Neeruli
hindi: Pyaz / Dungri / Kanda
Bengali: Pyajj / Piyaz
Gujarati: Dungri / Kanda
Konkani: Sawalo / Piyavu
Marathi: Kandaa
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Punjabi: Pyaz
English: Tomato
tamil: Takkali
malayalam: Takkali
telugu: Tametokai / Ramamulaga (Pandu/Kaya)
kannada: Tomaato Hannu
hindi: Tameta
Bengali: Toamaatar
Gujarati: Tameta
Konkani: Tomato
Marathi: Tamoto
Oriya: Bilati Baigana
Punjabi: Tamatar
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English: Salt
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malayalam: Uppu
telugu: Uppu
kannada: Uppu
hindi: Namak
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English: Garam Masala
Heat ghee in a pan.
Fry cashews and raisins and keep aside.
In the same ghee, splutter cloves, cinnamon and cardamom.
Add washed rice and fry.
Add 4 cups water and salt. Keep closed and cook on low flame.
Grind masala ingredients into a smooth paste.
Heat some oil/ghee in another pan and saute chopped onions.
Add ground masala and cook till raw flavour leaves.
Add diced tomato, salt and saute.
Add soya and fry.
Add water(1/4 cup at a time to avoid soya becoming soggy) and boil till soya chunks are cooked. Let it be a thick gravy.
Make layers of the soya mix and rice and keep on very low flame for 6-7 minutes.
Garnish with fried cashews and raisins.
:- This pulao smells and tastes better after 5-6 hours.
Thanks. This is another good one.
Very nice...The flavor is really good..Thanks for the masala recipe :)
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Stella Marr, a former prostitute and founder of the US group Sex Trafficking Survivors United, said few people are prostitutes by genuine choice, too many end up murdered and the vast majority would leave the trade if they felt there was a viable alternative. Protesters also pointed out that decriminalisation provides an attractive environment for traffickers, pimps and organised crime.
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Ros Phillips cited a recent London School of Economics report showing that legalisation of prostitution in the Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand had led to increases in human trafficking.
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Today I unearthed the bookmark from the Emmet County Genealogical Society from Michigan. I clicked on its site to see what resources might help me figure out why a branch of the McClure family transplanted themselves there. The surname search on this society's home page turned up nothing related to McClure.
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I found the death cert for her husband, Reverend John Cook, in the same way. Now I know his parents' names and exact death date. Many other names on the cemetery's list include obits or death certs or both, all for free.
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PS: Brenda of Journey to the Past asked about Reverend Cook's denomination and suggested some sources for me to check. Thanks to her idea, I learned that Reverend John J. Cook was Presbyterian, and served several churches, according to this excerpt from a history of the First Presbyterian Church of Petoskey:
In view of the departure of their pastor, the church now invited Rev. John J. Cook, then pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Little Traverse, and now of the Presbyterian Church of Crooked Lake, to serve them as temporary supply. Though zealous and faithful, the duties of his own field and the distance between the two churches he was serving, rendered Mr. Cook's labors very arduous and difficult. From a letter which I [Reverend Potter] received before coming to Michigan, I learned that he longed for the coming of a pastor to the Petoskey church, who should relieve him of a part of his responsibilities. Mr. Cook supplied the pulpit about nine months, closing his labors here on the arrival of the present pastor, June 14, 1878.
Furthermore, Rev. Cook was a pensioner in 1881. How he injured his left hand and throat, I don't know, but he received $10 per month starting in March, 1881.


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- DID you know some people think Strasburg should be an All-Star? Eh, whatever, I mean, Jon Heyman voted for Manny for MVP the year he went to the National League. Anyway, Hal Bodley plays the rational thinker here and disagrees.
- DO you think the Rays will move out of St. Petersburg? According to 10connects.com, "longtime baseball author and St. Petersburg resident Peter Golenbock" says no.
- WILL you be reading this article titled, "A College Baseball Hater Goes to Omaha"? How about if I tell you it contains this sentence: "So it was with an open mind that I traveled to Omaha, Neb., to see the College World Series with Winfield of From the Rumble Seat, Willy Mac of Block-C and a friend of mine who, since he's from Seattle, we'll refer to as 'Pearl Jam' because Pearl Jam is awesome." Hey, he's a regular Bill Simmons, only less annoying.
- CAN I get a contract offer from an independent league team as a publicity stunt, like Lebron James did? I should mention the team's name (Lake Erie Crushers), just so the team gets its mention on Walkoff Walk, surely the main reason why they made this promotion.
- DID you know the Futures Game rosters were released today? I'm sorry, the XM All-Star Futures Game.
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Paris – Authorities in Paris have arrested the man they believe made bomb threats to three city and county offices Tuesday.
A sweep of potential bombs at both the Lamar County Courthouse and Paris Municipal buildings Tuesday found nothing suspicious.
A vehicle was identified from security tapes at a convenience store. The driver, Clinton Stewart Dart was taken into custody and reportedly confessed to his role in the incident.
Dart has been charged with three counts of making a terroristic threat and impairing public services, both third degree felonies.


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Paul Simon regrets his decision to have his current tour sponsored by American Express Gold Card, after receiving criticism that it was elitist. The Gold Card carries a $75 annual fee and is issued only to approved applicants older than 18 with a minimum annual salary of $20,000.
Critics say the sponsorship doesn't fit Simon's image as a socially conscious singer-songwriter.
In an interview, Simon called corporate sponsorship for his tour, which employs 17 musicians, "an economic fact of life."
He said he chose American Express because "it seemed like a kind of institutional, benign sponsorship as opposed to a beer or a cigarette or even a soft drink."
He said he didn't understand that it was a Gold Card sponsorship, "and it's absolutely my fault; I wasn't paying attention."
"If people think that I chose to do an elitist thing, I'm sorry. That's not really what I would have chosen. If I made a mistake, I'm sorry, but there's nothing I can do about it now."


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All students taking six (6) or more credits per semester must submit the following proof of immunizations:
Two doses of live measles vaccine. The first dose must have been received no more than 4 days prior to the student's first birthday and the second dose no less than 28 days after the first dose.
- The first dose must have been received on or after January 1, 1968. Immunization prior to January 1, 1968 will be accepted if the Health Care Provider certifies a live vaccine was used. Physician documentation of disease, or serologic evidence of immunity will be accepted.
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One dose of live mumps vaccine administered no more than four days prior to the student's first birthday and must be given on/or after January 1, 1969. Physician documentation of disease, or serologic evidence of immunity will be accepted.
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- Rozovsky wins prestigious NSF Early Career Award
- UD students meet alumni, experience 'closing bell' at NYSE
- Newark Police seek assistance in identifying suspects in robbery
- Rivlin says bipartisan budget action, stronger budget rules key to reversing debt
- Stink bugs shouldn't pose problem until late summer
- Gao to honor Placido Domingo in Washington performance
- Adopt-A-Highway project keeps Lewes road clean
- WVUD's Radiothon fundraiser runs April 1-10
- W.D. Snodgrass Symposium to honor Pulitzer winner
- New guide helps cancer patients manage symptoms
- UD in the News, March 25, 2011
- For the Record, March 25, 2011
- Public opinion expert discusses world views of U.S. in Global Agenda series
- Congressional delegation, dean laud Center for Community Research and Service program
- Center for Political Communication sets symposium on politics, entertainment
- Students work to raise funds, awareness of domestic violence
- Equestrian team wins regional championship in Western riding
- Markell, Harker stress importance of agriculture to Delaware's economy
- Carol A. Ammon MBA Case Competition winners announced
- Prof presents blood-clotting studies at Gordon Research Conference
- Sexual Assault Awareness Month events, programs announced
- Stay connected with Sea Grant, CEOE e-newsletter
- A message to UD regarding the tragedy in Japan
- More News >>
- March 31-May 14: REP stages Neil Simon's 'The Good Doctor'
- April 2: Newark plans annual 'wine and dine'
- April 5: Expert perspective on U.S. health care
- April 5: Comedian Ace Guillen to visit Scrounge
- April 6, May 4: School of Nursing sponsors research lecture series
- April 6-May 4: Confucius Institute presents Chinese Film Series on Wednesdays
- April 6: IPCC's Pachauri to discuss sustainable development in DENIN Dialogue Series
- April 7: 'WVUDstock' radiothon concert announced
- April 8: English Language Institute presents 'Arts in Translation'
- April 9: Green and Healthy Living Expo planned at The Bob
- April 9: Center for Political Communication to host Onion editor
- April 10: Alumni Easter Egg-stravaganza planned
- April 11: CDS session to focus on visual assistive technologies
- April 12: T.J. Stiles to speak at UDLA annual dinner
- April 15, 16: Annual UD push lawnmower tune-up scheduled
- April 15, 16: Master Players series presents iMusic 4, China Magpie
- April 15, 16: Delaware Symphony, UD chorus to perform Mahler work
- April 18: Former NFL Coach Bill Cowher featured in UD Speaks
- April 21-24: Sesame Street Live brings Elmo and friends to The Bob
- April 30: Save the date for Ag Day 2011 at UD
- April 30: Symposium to consider 'Frontiers at the Chemistry-Biology Interface'
- April 30-May 1: Relay for Life set at Delaware Field House
- May 4: Delaware Membrane Protein Symposium announced
- May 5: Northwestern University's Leon Keer to deliver Kerr lecture
- May 7: Women's volleyball team to host second annual Spring Fling
- Through May 3: SPPA announces speakers for 10th annual lecture series
- Through May 4: Global Agenda sees U.S. through others' eyes; World Bank president to speak
- Through May 4: 'Research on Race, Ethnicity, Culture' topic of series
- Through May 9: Black American Studies announces lecture series
- Through May 11: 'Challenges in Jewish Culture' lecture series announced
- Through May 11: Area Studies research featured in speaker series
- Through June 5: 'Andy Warhol: Behind the Camera' on view in Old College Gallery
- Through July 15: 'Bodyscapes' on view at Mechanical Hall Gallery
- More What's Happening >>
- UD calendar >>
- Middle States evaluation team on campus April 5
- Phipps named HR Liaison of the Quarter
- Senior wins iPad for participating in assessment study
- April 19: Procurement Services schedules information sessions
- UD Bookstore announces spring break hours
- HealthyU Wellness Program encourages employees to 'Step into Spring'
- April 8-29: Faculty roundtable series considers student engagement
- GRE is changing; learn more at April 15 info session
- April 30: UD Evening with Blue Rocks set for employees
- Morris Library to be open 24/7 during final exams
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1:24 p.m., June 30, 2010----Thomas S. Buchanan, George W. Laird Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, has been appointed director of the Delaware Rehabilitation Institute (DRI).
The mission of the new institute is to find innovative and improved ways to help people recover from injury and disease by bringing together biologists, clinical scientists, engineers, and policy experts to critically address the issues faced by those with disabilities.
"Tom Buchanan brings tremendous skill and expertise to the Delaware Rehabilitation Institute," says University Provost Tom Apple. "He has been a top researcher in the area of biomechanics, and he has a great history of collaboration. He's a proven leader in establishing research teams and interdisciplinary research-based programs."
Buchanan sees Delaware as having a unique strength in rehabilitation sciences. "We have more than 50 faculty members in five colleges and ten departments here at UD doing research in this area," he says, "with over $15 million a year in external funding. This is a really exciting opportunity to promote the great work that's already underway and bring it all together to raise Delaware to a position of national prominence."
DRI will be an important component of UD's growing health sciences presence in fields including biology, biomedical engineering, physical therapy, applied physiology, nursing, and others.
"The work at UD ranges from subcellular-level research to the development of physical therapy approaches to policy and community engagement," Buchanan says. "We have multidisciplinary programs in a number of areas, including osteoarthritis, stroke, pediatrics, and rehabilitation robotics. And our partners in the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance will provide important clinical support for our research."
DRI will initially have administrative space in UD's McDowell Hall, with plans to locate the institute and core research facilities at the former Chrysler site over the next five years. "These shared core labs will be multidisciplinary and will include biologists, engineers, and clinical researchers all working together," Buchanan says.
"I look forward to working with Tom to establish DRI as one of our leading interdisciplinary research institutes along the Path to Prominence," says Mark Barteau, senior vice provost for research and strategic initiatives. "With the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance and the NIH INBRE program, DRI will boost our research, education and outreach programs in the health sciences to a new and exciting level for UD."
The 2008 recipient of the E.A. Trabant Award for Women's Equity, Buchanan is credited with playing a key role in the increase in women faculty in engineering at UD and with engaging his female colleagues in collaborative research.
Buchanan earned his doctorate in theoretical and applied mechanics from Northwestern University. He joined the UD faculty in 1996, served as chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 2004 to 2008, and was appointed deputy dean in the College of Engineering in 2008. He has also served as academic director of UD's interdisciplinary Biomechanics and Movement Science Program and director of its Center for Biomedical Engineering Research.
He is president of the American Society of Biomechanics and a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American College of Sports Medicine.
As deputy dean of engineering, Buchanan spearheaded the creation of the new biomedical engineering bachelor's degree program. He also initiated and coordinated cluster searches within the college.
"These contributions represent the achievement of major goals for the college in strengthening our undergraduate programs and in allowing us to focus our faculty hiring in strategic areas," said engineering dean Michael Chajes. "We greatly appreciate Tom's contributions as deputy dean over the past two years, and we look forward to continued collaborations with him in the area of rehabilitation science."
Babatunde Ogunnaike, William L. Friend Chair of Chemical Engineering, has been appointed to replace Buchanan as deputy dean, effective July 1.
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J&J marketing triggers $2.2B payout
Johnson & Johnson's Risperdal, Invega, and Natrecor marketing legacies hit a new low Monday with the announcement that the healthcare products company has racked up a bill totaling $2.2 billion over a slew of allegations that include misbranding the drugs, kickbacks and false claims.
The Department of Justice said in a statement that the total makes this one of the largest healthcare fraud settlements in US history. "The conduct at issue in this case jeopardized the health and safety of patients and damaged the public trust," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
Allegations surrounding the marketing of the antipsychotic Risperadal include promoting the drug for use in elderly who are agitated, as opposed to suffering from schizophrenia and acute mania—the conditions for which the drug is indicated—as well as peddling the drug for unapproved use in children, and providing physician kickbacks.
This is in addition to allegations that the company promoted the drug for use in adolescents before landing the indication in 2006.
"As our filings make clear, these are not victimless crimes," Holder said in a statement.
The US also alleges that Janssen's unlawful Risperdal marketing caused federal healthcare programs to use a drug for off-label uses that federal health programs do not cover, rendering payment claims fraudulent. The government asserts that Janssen continued with this off-label marketing strategy despite repeated FDA warnings that its safety claims were misleading and raised ethical questions. This same complaint alleges that Janssen tried to bury information that the drug was associated with serious health risks for the elderly, such as stroke and an increased risk of developing diabetes.
The list of alleged ethical lapses for Risperdal includes reps telling doctors they could get speaker fees only if they upped their prescriptions for the antipsychotic. This is in addition to allegations of kickbacks associated with prescriptions for Risperdal and the antipsychotic Invega.
Monday's settlement also covers allegations regarding how Janssen marketed heart drug Natrecor.
Fallout also includes a corporate integrity agreement that includes a claw-back provision allowing J&J to retract bonuses to current and former executives if the executives or subordinates "engage in significant misconduct."
"Put simply, this alleged conduct is shameful and it is unacceptable. It displayed a reckless indifference to the safety of the American people. And it constituted a clear abuse of the public trust," Holder said.


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A review regarding the PS4 announcement and how it was all abit weird and awkward.
It certainly wasn't perfect but they got their message out loud and clear, the PS4 will be a pure GAMING machine.
Beastly specs aside Sony carved out a graphic vision for their new platform, a promise of gamer focus, ease of development and enhaced networking capabilities.
I would have preferred if they showed the PS4 but it doesn't really matter.
It could look like a hobo with a disc slot on his forehead for all i care.
They showed gameplay footage, and that is what's important.
Sony's building hype thanks to their excellent presentation. 24 Million people have viewed the PS4 announcement trailer, and all without showing off the actual console. They showed what mattered, the controller and launch games.


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By FLORENCE FABRICANT
Published: February 2, 2011
Frequently, a dish I have enjoyed in a restaurant strikes me as a good candidate for a pairing, even without a particular wine on the horizon. So it was with a warm salad of calamari and brussels sprouts that had the starring role for my lunch last fall at the Caravaggio restaurant on the Upper East Side. I mentally filed it away.
With the tasting of torront?I knew it was time. Brett Feore, one of the panelists, seconded my choice by suggesting that the wines called out for something briny.
Although months have gone by, the recipe is still seasonally appropriate. It's easily assembled, too. Blanching the brussels sprouts makes it a fairly simple matter to pull off their leaves.
Somehow they do not taste as aggressive as the whole sprouts, and my guess is that's because the cores are left out. FLORENCE FABRICANT
Adapted from Caravaggio, Manhattan
Time: 45 minutes
6 oven-dried or soft sun-dried tomato halves (not in oil), minced
4 tablespoons white wine vinegar
5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
3/4 pound brussels sprouts, halved lengthwise
1/2 cup diced fennel bulb
3/4 pound calamari, bodies sliced in thin rings
1 small shallot, minced
1 large garlic clove, slivered
1 cup cooked cannellini beans, rinsed if canned.
1. Mix tomatoes, vinegar and 4 tablespoons oil. Season with salt and pepper.
2. Bring a couple of quarts of salted water to a boil. Add the brussels sprouts, cook 2 minutes, scoop out with a slotted spoon, drain and transfer to a cutting board. Add the fennel to the water, cook 90 seconds, drain and transfer to a large bowl. Trim away the bottom half-inch of the brussels sprouts. Pull the leaves off what remains of the sprouts until they no longer come off easily. Discard what's left of the sprouts. Add the leaves to the fennel.
3. Heat a cast-iron skillet until very hot. Add the remaining oil. When hot, add the calamari, separating the pieces, and cook a couple of minutes. Add the shallot and garlic, lower heat to medium and saut?nother minute, until softened. Add the beans, fennel and brussels sprout leaves. Saut?riefly, until everything is warmed through.
4. Remove from heat, season with salt and pepper, and transfer to a shallow bowl for serving. Drizzle with the tomato vinaigrette.
Yield: 4 servings.


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Beyonce Leads Nominees for 2014 MTV Video Music Awards
Score One for The Beyhive: Nominees for the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) were announced on Thursday morning and Beyonce's self-titled visual album (the one she released in the dead of night, with zero promo) put the Pop Queen in front of the pack, with a leading eight nominations.
The "Drunk in Love" singer is up for Moonmen in a host of categories; including Best Female ("Partition"), Best Collaboration ("Drunk in Love"), Best Video with a Message ("Pretty Hurts") and the prized Video of the Year ("Drunk in Love"). Beyonce — already the recipient of 12 VMAs — could set a record for the second most career wins. Lady Gaga and Peter Gabriel are tied for the current record, each with 13 Moonmen. Madonna leads with a career total of 20.
Hubby Jay Z also received several nominations, along with "Happy" hitmaker Pharrell Williams, "Fancy" Aussie Iggy Azalea and BET boycotter Jason Derulo. Other nominees include Eminem, Kelly Rowland, Drake, Childish Gambino, Kanye West, John Legend, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, J.Cole, and first time nominees Fifth Harmony.
The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards will air live Aug. 24, @ 9 p.m. ET on MTV. CLICK HERE for a full round-up of this year's nominees…


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Crime Reports learnt that Ade, a 100 level student in one of the universities in the South Western part of Nigeria, allegedly committed the act on Thursday, August 11, at the residence of his girlfriend's parents at Sango-Alaro area of Ibadan at about 2:30p.m.
But for the presence of a policeman, Sergeant Ayeni Oluwafemi, who was the girl's neighbour and who heard her cry, the 19-year-old victim would have died in a pool of her blood while her assailant would have escaped. But on quickly getting to the room where the cry came from, the policeman reportedly met the suspect, holding a knife and about to walk out. He promptly pushed him back, handcuffed his hands and called for assistance to save the girl.
Ade, who spoke with Crime Reports, confessed that he acted the way he did because "my girlfriend got pregnant for me."
The teenager also told Crime Reports during an interview that he got the clue on how to resolve the issue of his unwanted pregnancy through the help of Google.
"I met my girlfriend about two months ago on Facebook. We had a mutual friend and I added her. She accepted my request and we got to know each other. I proposed a relationship to her and she accepted. We had sex only once on July 4. I did not protect myself.
"On August 10, she told me that she was pregnant. The next morning, on Thursday August 11, she called me that her parents wanted to see me. I went to her parents at Alaro area of Ibadan and they wanted to know what my intention was on the pregnancy. I suggested that she had an abortion but they said they could not abort for their daughter because it was against their belief. I told them that I would get back to them on Monday, August 15.
"I left for home confused, but on the way home, different thoughts went through my mind because I didn't want my parents to know. I didn't want to disappoint them. I was with my phone at home and I picked it and typed "What to do if my girlfriend does not want to have an abortion on Google". It brought out different options that I can deny, which I didn't deny.
"Another option was to convince her to have an abortion, which did not work. There were also other options but the last one was that I could kill her. I chose that option because she was the only one who knew my house and I believed that if I killed her, no one would be able to trace my house and I would get away with my action.
"To kill, Google gave me an option to use poison, which I knew no pharmacy would sell to me. Other options were to use a gun or a knife. Knife was easy to get, so I went to the market same day to buy a knife and returned to her house.
"Unfortunately for me, her screams got to a neighbour and he came in. Coincidentally, he is a policeman so he handcuffed me and I was arrested. It was the fear of disappointing my parents that made me take the action."
Crime Reports learnt that though the lady survived the attack, she was still in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in the South West part of Nigeria where doctors had been battling to keep her alive.
Confirming the incident, the police image-maker in Oyo State, Adekunle Ajisebutu, a Superintendent of Police, said that the suspect would be arraigned in court after the conclusion of investigations.


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