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Following is the opening address by the Financial Secretary, Mr Henry Tang, at the Public Forum on the Way Forward for Hong Kong's Competition Policy at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre this afternoon (November 21) (English only):
Ladies and gentlemen,
Maintaining Our Economic Drive
It gives me great pleasure to be here today to introduce this forum on the way forward for competition policy in Hong Kong. I would like to thank our Moderator, Mr Henry Fan, and our distinguished speakers for kindly agreeing to share their, no doubt, diverse views with us. I would also like to thank you all for your interest in this issue, and I look forward in due course to receiving your views on our competition policy.
Benefits of Competition
The overall benefits of competition to the economy are widely accepted. Competition helps maximise efficiency in the allocation of resources, provides a clear indicator of market preferences and maintains costs at viable levels while providing a range of choices. In the longer term, it can also promote innovation and creativity.
Competition has served Hong Kong well. With few restraints to trade in goods and services and foreign direct investment (FDI), and no significant entry barriers to most industries, entrepreneurs can enter and trade freely in our markets. Companies can compete in terms of price, including the use of discount and loyalty schemes, and in terms of differentiated goods and services.
However, while the overall benefits of competition are clear, it is not always easy to quantify the specific benefits of competition in individual markets. One way we can do this is to compare the range and the cost of products available in a market before and after the process of "opening up" of the market to competition. In this regard, Hong Kong's telecommunications and banking sectors provide useful examples.
Since the telecommunications sector was opened up to competition, there has been a significant fall in telephone call charges. At the same time, we have seen a substantial increase in telephone call volume and fixed asset investment. There have also been considerable gains in technological innovation and marked improvements in management efficiency.
In the banking sector, the phasing out of rules on bank interest rates created competition that has led to greater choices for business and consumers. At the same time, it has prompted innovation within the sector itself, both in terms of products and services offered to customers, and in the application of technology and management practices.
To ensure that government policies are not anti-competitive and to review other competition policy matters, the Competition Policy Advisory Group (or "COMPAG") was set up in 1997 under the chairmanship of the Financial Secretary. Hong Kong's competition policy has thereafter been enshrined in a statement issued by COMPAG, which sets out the objective of this policy as being: "to enhance economic efficiency and the free flow of trade, thereby also benefiting consumer welfare".
CPRC Report
Since its establishment, COMPAG has overseen the introduction of a number of measures aimed at ensuring that government policies and practices are "competition-friendly". We have also reviewed more than 100 complaints of anti-competitive behaviour, both in the public and private sectors. In recent years, however, we have come to realise that without the authority to undertake thorough investigations into complaints of anti-competitive behaviour, it is difficult to establish whether such behaviour has indeed taken place. Further, without the power to sanction such conduct, there is no effective enforcement mechanism to back up our competition policy.
With these concerns in mind, and with a view to ensuring that our policy is in step with the times and continues to serve the public interest and to facilitate a business-friendly environment, in June last year, we appointed the Competition Policy Review Committee (CPRC). The task of the review committee was to review the effectiveness of the current policy and to make recommendations on how it might be enhanced.
The committee delivered its recommendations in June this year, and in a moment, the chairman of the committee, Mr Christopher Cheng, will speak about some of the key conclusions that it reached. I would like here to thank Chris and his colleagues on the committee for their excellent work in delivering a concise and objective report and a set of forward-looking and thoughtful recommendations.
Public Consultation Exercise
In its report, the CPRC recognised that the implementation of new measures to ensure the effectiveness of our competition policy could be a complex task, and that views on this subject might be diverse. On the advice of the review committee, we have launched a three-month public consultation exercise on the way forward for Hong Kong's competition policy.
To provide a focus for this exercise, we have issued a public discussion document, which outlines the background to Hong Kong's competition policy, and asks some key questions that we need to consider. In particular, this document clearly suggests that a new competition law is likely to bring overall benefits to our Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).
The experience of overseas jurisdictions shows that SMEs should have little to fear from a carefully crafted competition law and that SMEs are seldom targeted by competition regulators. As SMEs lack market power almost by definition, their conduct can rarely have the effect of appreciably preventing, restricting or distorting competition. On the contrary, SMEs stand to gain as the potential of the bigger players to adopt abusive or other anti-competitive practice is checked by competition law. SMEs will thus be able to trade more freely in various markets as it would be difficult for the bigger players to impose artificial entry barriers.
To help move forward the discussion on the way forward for Hong Kong's competition policy, we have today invited a number of leading members of the business and academic communities to speak on aspects of competition policy and how we might effectively apply these in Hong Kong. I hope that you will find this helpful in framing your own views, and I urge you to play an active part in today's forum.
In closing, I would like once again to thank our Moderator, Mr Henry Fan, and our distinguished guests for contributing to this discussion today. Finally, I encourage you to read the public discussion document and to give us your views on how we might best safeguard competition in Hong Kong for the benefit of us all.
Thank you.
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The Quest for the Perfect Bag
by Heather Schwedel
I live in a city, so I don't need a car, and I won't be buying a home anytime soon (or maybe ever), so the way I see it, the biggest spending decision that faces me for the foreseeable future is one that involves a purse.
I've dreamed of the platonic ideal of a purse for a while now. Maybe you want to stop me right here and point out that there is no one perfect purse, that no one bag can go from day to night and season to season so seamlessly. But I refuse to abandon my principles (yet). I am not a purse switcher. I want a purse that I can wear to work and to the nice(ish) bars where I'm spending my hypothetical Saturday nights, in winter and in summer, on the subway and in — I don't know, if I get dropped off in one of those wooded areas where Carrie and Brody always ended up on Homeland, I want my purse to work there, too.
My whole system for staying organized in life hinges on this purse (the one purse to rule them all): I never lose my keys (knock on wood) because their spot is in my purse, and if I have more than one purse, then you can see how the system would break down. This system, unlike so many things in life, seems to work for me, so I am not about to turn the purse project into an opportunity to reconsider my whole system. The purse must fit into the existing system.
If we buy into the dichotomy that there are two types of women in the world, big purse women and small purse women, I'm the big purse type. I recognize that it's infinitely more attractive to be a small purse type, to be, literally, someone without a lot of baggage, but according to the system, I need to carry a purse big enough to fit an umbrella in it at all times, so that's that. Still, I resist my impulse to just put everything in a giant tote bag. A Longchamp bag? Never. I want a real proper lady's purse. (And, to be completely honest, most days I will supplement my purse with an ugly utilitarian second bag anyway.) I know everyone likes to think they're classy, but the bags I coveted really were classy, classic even.
I just read Caitlin Moran's How to Be a Woman, and in the fashion chapter she discusses "investment bags." Moran ultimately decides that investment bags aren't worth it, that £45 bags from Topshop are the way to go. A younger me would have agreed with her, but here's the thing about £45 bags from Topshop, or $30 bags from H&M, or even $60 bags from Banana Republic: they break. It's not that I want to spend a lot of money on a purse. It's just that I've been burned before. I've had a lot of purses in my life that I've become deeply attached to that have ultimately let me down. Maybe you'll have a good year together, and the $30 or whatever will ultimately be money well spent, but if you're like me, that year won't be enough. You'll want the next bag to be one that lasts. Once you've brought your $50 fake leather bag to a leather repair shop and been laughed off the premises, you'll start to think that maybe spending more will help you avoid future heartbreaks.
I want to spend more than I have before, but I don't want to go crazy. I mean, yes, I spent enough time browsing Kate Spade and Tory Burch bags online that they're still following me around the Internet in banner ads, and I am still thinking about this one time I touched a Chloe bag in a store.
I asked a very savvy friend for bag advice, and she said, "I would feel fine spending $200 once a year on a bigger bag (that I would carry to work) and maybe a little less often for a smaller bag (that I would wear most other times), but I know people who spend over a grand, and it's like, WUT R U DOING."
Everyone has their own personal threshold. A few months ago, I complimented a friend's bag and she said that it was nothing special, just a Cole Haan. With all apologies to this friend, who is lovely, my eyes bugged because, excuse me, Cole Haan bags cost hundreds of dollars! I've had to spend several months, maybe years at this point, working up the courage to spend that much on a bag. Certainly, there were times during this stupid quest that I thought, jeez, if I'd just bought a purse when I first started thinking about it, I would have had one for X months now, and think how much money I would have saved. Thankfully, buying a purse doesn't work like that. Stalling on buying a monthly subway pass and paying for a bunch of individual rides while I weigh whether or not I'll use the monthly, yes, but buying a purse, no. This process could actually go on forever.
It didn't go on forever. A few days after Christmas, I walked into a store that was having a sale and got a bag that had originally cost $300 for about $160. The only thing is the black and tan bags weren't on sale, so the bag is: purple. This wasn't part of the original plan, and it actually makes me so nervous that my new purse, my platonic ideal of a purse, is still sitting in its shopping bag like Kevin McCallister's never-opened roller blades. Purple is actually my favorite color, and on some level, it will please me to pull my purple phone, my purple umbrella, my purple iPod, and so on, out of my purple purse, but in other ways I have failed, because there's no way a purple purse will match everything.
Maybe we'll be happy together anyway.
Heather Schwedel is currently in the market for a wallet.
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To any keen observer with half a sense of a primary school grader, the "talks" at Kairaba is another mediocre way of opposition convincing themselves—because people's understanding of the issue goes beyond anything any of them could possibly fathom—that there is something at Kairaba call "unity talks by opposition".
After writing a series of analysis on the current complex but disuniting Gambian opposition in a lead up to the polls slated for December 1, I have had my own shares of the blame.
When The Voice, The Standard and some online blogs and news websites reproduced it, claims emerged that I wrote that piece because I sympathize with party A or B and one political leader goes telling people "he is now a sellout", whatever that means.
But even those critics of my facts-based analysis were baffled when only two leaders, Dr. Isatou Touray and Dr. Bojang, showed up at Hallah Sallah's sanctioned opposition unity "talks" that is being held at Kairaba.
Before we go further, let's look at what gave birth to the Kairaba talks that is nothing, in reality, but a waste of time and energy for people whose mediocrity won't allow them to confront their "differences".
When I wrote my previous analysis which was captioned "Uniting Gambian opposition: the rambling complexities", I argued that the only cause for Gambian opposition's over two-decade failure to form a coalition is because none of them wants the other to get power because they can't trust each other.
To any keen observer with half a sense as a primary school grader, the "talks" at Kairaba is another mediocre way of opposition convincing themselves—because people's understanding of the issue goes beyond anything any of them could possibly fathom—that there is something at Kairaba call "unity talks by opposition".
Why is the whole thing as ridiculous and as a farce as any childish mockery can get?
Well, we may first start with even the sporadic, late and low attendance of the "talks" by the opposition leaders that Sallah the coordinator and the initiator has invited.
At the first "talks" some attendees registered themselves as "observers" and the second only two opposition leaders excluding Sallah himself appeared with one, Dr. Bojang of NCP, arriving late according to Foroyaa Newspaper.
The late and low attendances are clear and unforgivable symptoms of opposition leaders' lack of commitment of what they claim to their supporters but to avoid being shamed and named, means such as the one that Sallah planned at Kairaba have been engineered to save face and blame others.
Secondly, a primary school grader with half an average comprehension of arithmetic understands that two months to an election—a space where nomination and campaign do not even fit—is no time to start another coalition debate in the name of talks when there is a document to go on?
Which document was I referring and why is that relevant?
A few weeks ago, I ran a story on a draft document put together by some middle-rank executive members of all opposition parties except PDOIS, though GDC and NRP later pulled out, which contains a road to the formulation of an opposition coalition.
The content of this document, after huge consultations among these middle-rank executive members, proposed two plans to reaching an opposition unity: party-led which means the majority party will lead and independent-led which means a neutral person with no affiliation to any political party will lead.
After voting amongst themselves they agreed on the leadership of an independent person to lead and explain ways and procedures through which this neutral person will be selected and the qualifications the person should have.
This document, after completion, was shared with all political parties including the PDOIS, GDC, and NRP, even though Halifa Sallah so conveniently abandoned it and started his own "talks".
The significance of this conclusion reached by the inter-party and what makes it a relevant document for anyone with an iota of interest in opposition unity is that it stated the obvious: choosing a neutral person is the only way one could have the UDP, GDC, NRP and the rest under one roof against the incumbent.
Do I explain? Well, the source of disunity among Gambian opposition is nothing but lack of trust in one another and fights over domination and control: power or who controls what.
Take that power from all of them and place it in the middle by choosing a neutral person who will lead them into a unity government if they win and massage their egos, equally.
And so if Sallah and his Kairaba friends agree with my line of thinking as far as the choosing of the independent/ neutral person is concerned, then they do not either have a clock in his houses— elections are two months away— or intend to drag opposition into another coalition failure as their supporters look on with anticipation.
Because there is no ambiguity in the language of the inter-party committee members in the choosing of a neutral person: methods, processes as well who will select.
Don't just elect to be part of governance, be part of the entire process leading to elections.
Below is a quote on how a neutral person will be selected as mentioned in the opposition interparty committee document:
"Application will be opened to all interested Gambians and application letters will be addressed to the Chairman IPCOU;
- The IPCOU Coordinating Committee will shortlist the applicants to be subjected to interview by a special task force committee comprising two representatives per member party which will forward its recommendations to the IPCOU Central Committee;
- The IPCOU Central Committee will do the selection from among the recommended applicants through consensus or voting. Each party is represented by five delegates;
- Such voting shall be a secret"
And after late response to the proposal of the interparty committee by all parties, my sources informed me, the vast majority of them have asked for the "leaders of the political parties to be given that discretion to choose their method of unification and who they will select to lead them into elections".
Though the lateness was understandable given the circumstances because it coincided with Tobaski, the dumping of the document and starting another is ridiculous by any stretch of human imagination, especially for people who are seeking to lead a country.
Maybe Gambian opposition needs to be lectured on decision making and the significance of doing things on time, which is central to the success of corporate executives let alone presidents of countries, especially a developing nation that does not have a luxury of waiting.
And if the thinking at Kairaba talks is as bizarre as what NRP's Musa Sonko told me to justify his party's pull-out that the inter-party committee has "overstepped its mandate by attempting to choose a leader for political parties", then the inevitable conclusion is that the thinking in the opposition camp makes them unworthy of a teenager's vote.
Because that interpretation of the interparty party committee's "proposed roadmap" is as the thinking that map-reading is the same as actual travelling, which is preposterous by any stretch of the English language.
What is even more breathtakingly ignorant was the argument advanced by one opposition member that the interparty committee has hijacked the powers of the leaders by attempting to take from them their responsibility: selecting who they will and how they will reach that conclusion.
I understood that to mean the failure to unite, as the opposition have unforgivably done to their supporters for over two decades, is exclusively a crime they alone should commit and not that to be done by some middle-rank executive members who are, after all, subjects of these party leaders.
Moreover, one opposition senior member also told me in a brief exchange, "we know what is going on" suggesting some parties are using the "independent" plan to impose a particular candidate on others.
This was from someone who was part of the interparty committee and knew every bit and piece of the document and was there talking to me in a language that not baffles but somehow makes me think as if the status of being an opposition in Gambia excuses one from the basic use of logic.
As I wrote this analysis, I just asked my two-year-old son to tell if he thinks five members from two parties out of eight could impose their will on the rest if their decision were to be based on voting as the interparty committee recommended in the selection procedure of a leader and he had a mocking but embarrassing laughter.
This is because according to the selection method of the interparty committee, each party will have five delegates with equal power on the board that will select this neutral person and a 2-year old does not think one or two parties can impose their will on others.
Or maybe somebody is right that the opposition leaders don't just think the powers to select a leader ( a neutral person) should be given to some middle-rank executive members.
These reasons make Kairaba talks not just a mistake but a road to failure and I might add two basic arguments which are:
- If it (Kairaba talks) select an independent person, it is a duplication of efforts made by the interparty committee that burned time and energy to reach that conclusion for months and wasting a minute will be a shame for men with half that time.
- If they end of selecting UDP's Adama Barrow or GDC's Mamma Kandeh as the leaders of the so-called big parties, then I will bet my last Dalasi that none of them keeps a diary because that was the source of their previous failures. Because even the "primary idea" was just a civilize way of rejecting the idea of a party-led
The sensible question is this: what better compromise can one get UDP, GDC, NRP and the rest to make if not settling for an independent candidate?
Has selecting an independent not been the dominant argument by most people who do not agree with an idea of a party-led coalition that has been the cause of opposition disunity for over two decades?
Because even a mad man at the Serrekunda market who is listening to whispers knows that UDP won't be part of a PDOIS or NRP-led coalition nor will they accept a GDC-led coalition.
So too is the eloquence of the GDC and NRP in their desires to lead, which leaves opposition camp in a stalemate of three parties all wanting to lead.
And when it comes to individual-led, Halifa Sallah has also demonstrated his desires to lead opposition into elections.
Wise men know that intelligent people do everything but one: that which their enemies will do for them.
And if that cuts too close to the bones, then I may add opposition supporters, as their leaders should know, have had two decades experience in failure that they will notice when one manufactures smoke to distract them from the real fire.
Follow Mustapha Darboe, an award-winning Gambian journalist – a former news editor at Today News and senior reporter at the Standard Newspaper as he disentangle the cause of opposition disunity and people responsible with smoking guns…
This article was first published on Torch on Gambia with permission to republish from the blog and the author.


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Managing Right Ventricular Failure in the Critical Care Setting
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Case Based Discussion
10:30 am - Noon
New Frontiers in Interventional Echocardiography
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TAVR: Is Transthoracic Echocardiography as Good as TEE?
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Post-Processing Measurements: Is There a Role for Real-Time Analysis?
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Key Elements of Guiding a Mitraclip Procedure
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Moderators: Bruce Bollen, MD and Tjorvi Perry, MD
Value Based Payment Models
Gordon Morewood, MD
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10:30 am – Noon
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Moderator: Ferenc Puskas, MD
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Scopes, Tubes, and Stents: Interventional Pulmonology
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Liar Temptress Soldier Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
by Karen Abbott
Pub Date: September 2, 2014
If you know me past a few superficial conversations, you learn pretty quickly that I'm a Civil War buff. I lived in Georgia at the end of high school and for college, but it wasn't until I left the South for a few years that I developed a thirst for learning about the Civil War (I think this was how my homesickness manifested itself. I truly love it down here). In particular, I have an affinity for anything involving the women of the time period. So when this book came along, it was on my radar with a quickness.
The author Karen Abbott has made a name for herself writing popular history books on interesting women (previously she wrote about Gypsy Rose Lee and the infamous Everleigh Sisters – not to everyone's taste, but well-written titles regardless), and continues the trend with this hefty but engaging history of the Civil War through the lives and adventures of four women, two Confederate and two Federal: Belle Boyd, Emma Edmonds, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, and Elizabeth Van Lew. You might have heard of at least one of these women in passing in a high school history class or college course, but getting them grouped together like this really gets you curious for all the other women's stories that don't get the same clout or attention as so many male personalities of the time.
The stories of these four women are told over the course of the conflict, and Abbott seems to have a lot of fun with the narrative, leaving you on a cliffhanger with one story and picking up with another, and before you know it you're engrossed in the book and not realizing how long you've been reading. It's like an adventure story where the four main characters don't actually interact but have parallel story lines.
All of these women had at least some small brush with espionage, so if you're into spy stories mixed with American history, this is one to try out. Emma Edmonds dressed as a man to fight in the war, and was one of at least 200 documented cases at the time of women doing so. (Honestly, the stories of Civil War era women impersonating men for a variety of reasons will never cease to amaze and impress me.) Rose Greenhow spent time in prison for her exploits, along with her young daughter, and still managed to get information out of the Yankees and to the Rebels. While one might be hesitant to herald these women as role models necessarily, there's no denying they all showed a great deal of courage and can be admired for their stealth, wit, fierceness of beliefs, and mettle. Plus, as a woman, I like reading about other women. Women are pretty amazing.
There are a certain number of books on the Civil War that I think are necessary to read if you get into the subject, and this one was definitely added to that list. No dry history tome here – this fast-paced collection of stories will keep you invested until the end.


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"Et ego dico tibi quia tu es Petrus et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam et portae inferi non praevalebunt adversum eam. Et tibi dabo claves regni caelorum et quodcumque ligarveris super terram erit ligatum in coelis et quodcumque solveris super terram erit solumtum in coleus." (The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Chapter 16, Verses 18-19)
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- Luther's Large Catechism (in so far as it agrees with the Magisterium).
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Yeah, a good ride, which connects via tunnels under the highway to Jones Beach and a more direct connection to the 5-mile bike path that goes north to the mainland. Get sweaty then enjoy the salty ocean beach waters. A go
Thursday, August 09, 2018, 90'F and very humid.
After slogging through the ridiculous Long Island traffic, I rode here and the the other 2 connected trails, which are all nice. You reach the other 2 paths via tunnels under the highway from the Jones Beach parking lots. I have a hard time believing the boardwalk is 4 miles long though. Get nice and sweaty then go in the lovely, salty ocean waters.
Great ride but especially by IBM and where there is an active rusty river flowing there needs to be work done.
I completed this trail this weekend. I started at the entrance of Beardsley Park and ended at Swamp Road in Botsford. The trail is beautiful and very quite. I highly recommend this trail. I would suggest stopping at Pepper Street as a portion of the trail between Pepper Street and Swamp Road is not really a trail. The "trail" is very narrow and overgrown ( I rode through this area with my arms pressed to my sides and still could not avoid the trees/leaves brushing against me). Also, the area has a very high concentration of mosquitos. All in all the trail is AWESOME and I will be riding it (up to Pepper Street) once a week.
After reading some of the reviews I was prepared for a disastrous trail. Yes, its a little bumpy in spots but I felt it was mostly smooth. A couple of places are semi-rough but it wasnt that big of a deal.
Also, getting to it is a little tricky if youre just searching on google for directions. I found the best launch point to be at the northern most end of the South County Trail (just south-east of the Tarrytown Resovior). Drive your car to and get off at exit 23 of the Saw Mill Pkwy. There is a park and ride right there. Park your car and head south on your bike for the South County Trail and North for the North County trail.
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Weather: Upper 80's to 90F, very humid.
Starting from north headed south it is a pretty good trail with some very nice scenery, until you reach Millwood. Then it goes from woodland trail to NOISY bike route next to highways. No rail trail surface is perfect and we are very lucky to have off-road paved trails, so I am not going to criticize a few sections of root bumps. It is a worthwhile trail to experience.
I had already done the Putnam County rail trail 2 years ago, which leads right into this one seemlessly. So this time I parked at the northern end in Baldwin Place and went north a bit to find where I turned around last time. I did not intend to do the whole trail for a roundtrip of 44.2 miles, but since I had an energy drink just before starting I kept going. When I got the the SCRT sign, I stopped and looked at my Strava app, which stated I had already done 25+ miles, because I forgot I did about 3 miles on the PCRT before starting on the actual NCRT. So now I figure it will be my first 50-miler! When I got back to my parking area I was SO tired and ready to drop when I realized it would only be about 48+ miles and I needed to go at least another mile north to make 2 more miles for 50. I did it - slowly, but it was not wise to do on such a warm day. I should have waited until autumn and 20 degree cooler temperatures.
They've just finished paving the trail and it's super. It's the same initial 5K of paved bike path as before, but now it continues down to River Rd and then to Grumman Blvd. You can turn north on Line Rd. to cross the site and complete the loop. 8.75 miles. The paved trail along Grumman Blvd. continues for a ways to the west beyond Line Rd., but then just stops. Perhaps they are planning to make a loop around the whole site? Or maybe they just had extra asphalt.
The trail started off great, but starlight park entry is closed and the detour is pretty far out of the way. We rode from manhattan to Bronx on bikes so we decided not to finish the trail
Loved it!
Well kept, well marked bike path. Moderately traveled. All dogs I saw were on leashes. Cyclists, walkers, and runners were all very respectful of each other when passing.
I started in Bethpage State Park and went north towards Syosset. The terrain was mostly flat with a hill about 1 mile from the start (mile markers are on the pavement). It started out as mostly tree-lined and covered, but trees thinned out farther out. The path does cross major roadways, but these crossings are well marked.
My husband and I recently explored this trail on our road bikes with a 2-year old in a bike trailer.
1) Plenty of shade and tree cover. Perfect for those scorching summer days!
2) Most (not all) people know how to stay to one side of the road, but if you give a friendly "On your left!" or "On your right!" they'll quickly move over for you.
3) Easy entry. We parked at Briarcliff Manor Public Library and felt completely safe leaving our car there. The entrance to the trail is in the parking lot, next to the library (big red building). Plus, there is a public bathroom in the tented area, as well as plenty of picnic tables.
4) Trail is well marked.
5) Most (not all) cyclists are respectful and know how to conduct themselves on two wheels.
Now, the cons:
1) Considerable amount of bumps from tree roots, cracks, potholes, dips, and corroded asphalt, which honestly seems like the norm when it comes to bike trails. I think it's just impossible to have a completely smooth surface when nature is so unpredictable. My butt was a bit sore and my kid said "ouch" a few times, but we had no problems getting through it on our road bikes. In fact, you'll see plenty of cyclists training on road bikes with no problems whatsoever.
2) Getting to the North County Trail seems impossible, at least from the Public Library. We discovered it would require riding ON the shoulder of the Saw Mill River Parkway. No way!
3) Bathrooms do not exist, so make sure to pee before you head out.
Tip: From the Library, we rode about 12 miles to Rivertowns Square Shopping Plaza in Dobbs Ferry to grab lunch at Chipotle. It's a quick 5 minute detour from the trail and you'll need to cross Saw Mill River Parkway, but there are traffic lights and crosswalks in this section. We also stopped at Menchie's Fro Yo which is in the same shopping plaza. There's also a Starbucks and Chop't if you're in need of a salad and caffeine.
Enjoy your ride!
We have ridden this trail before, and really enjoyed it, especially the part near the ponds below Oxford Airport. We expected it to be somewhat rough, and we are always willing to walk through particularly wet/mucky areas and to put up with rough stretches. However, the trail has really gotten much worse. After about 2-2.5 miles in, it became extremely sandy/silty, and we could only ride on the narrow edges. Then at about 4 miles in, there was a stream flowing through the whole trail, with nothing but mud and muck; no way to ride through, as it continued as far as we could see, so we had to turn around. End of ride for the day...
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Mad Bull Wrestling Banquet Sign Up.
When: Sunday April 29th 2018.
Where: St. Ann's Club, 16 Hendricks Ave Norwalk CT.
* The Cost is 15$ per adult and $5 per child.
* The Cost includes: Buffet dinner, soft drinks, dessert, coffee.
* Cash Bar is available.
Sign Up Instructions: Follow the easy steps to sign up for the Norwalk Youth Wrestling club banquet.
Mad Bull Mom and Dads,
Competition Season Begins:
Our Mad Bulls have been training hard for 6 weeks and will start our competition season this Sunday at the "New Milford Kick Off Classic" on Sunday December 13th.
From then til early March the Mad Bulls will compete most weekends in dual meets and/or tournaments. Some of these events are appropriate for advanced wrestlers only, some for novice wrestlers only, and finally some for both advanced and novice wrestlers. The coaches will work with you to determine which events are best suited for your young athlete. You can now view the complete schedule by clicking here "2015 -2016 Competition Schedule."
Mandatory Parent Meeting:
We will hold a mandatory parent meeting this Wednesday, December 9th at 5:45 in the wrestling room to formally introduce the coaches, discuss the schedule and explain the the parent/wrestler code of conduct. Additionally we will be able to take all your questions.
Black and Blue practice squads:
The wrestler evaluation period has ended and we have broken the wrestlers up into "Black and Blue Squads". This will allow us to tailor the instruction to the skill level and make better use of both rooms. We will share this information at this weeks practice.
Finally Here is a cool little time lapse video I took in New Milford last year at 6:00 AM anxiously waiting to get underway!
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Just a reminder the "NEXT LEVEL" wrestling clinics start tomorrow.We highly recommend these clinics for those wrestlers who are serious about competing and placing in the 2016 Connecticut State Championships and want to move on to the New England's and Nationals.
The Clinics will be hosted by Derek Moore a past D1 National Champion and current a Sacred Heart University Coach .
The Clinic will be held @ Tucci Lumber, 227 Wilson Avenue, Norwalk CT 06854.
For those who have registered please bring your normal practice gear and ensure you have plenty of water.
For those have still not contacted me yet but plan on attending the cost of all 4 sessions for Mad Bulls is only $40. Contact coach Haus ASAP at email@example.com if you plan on attending
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This July we will be holding a series of 4 "NEXT LEVEL" wrestling clinics.
We Highly recommend these clinics for those wrestlers who are serious about competing and placing in the 2016 Connecticut State Championships and want to move on to the New England's and Nationals.
The Clinics will be hosted by Derek Moore a past D1 National Champion and current a Sacred Heart University Coach . Derek is a very good clinician and we are fortunate to have him as a friend of the Mad Bulls. The dates and times for the 4 sessions are as follows:
Normally the cost for all 4 sessions would be $80 per wrestler, but thanks to the spring fundraiser the Club will be able to pick up 1/2 of the cost and only charge $40 per wrestler. We are limiting the classes to the first 24 wrestlers who sign up so please Let Coach Haus know ASAP at email@example.com if you're young Mad Bulls will be attending.
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Thank you to all who attended the Beat the Streets Gala on May 21st. The Kids were great and everything went smoothly. Pete Falla and other folks took some great pictures of the event. I have included them in the Photo Gallery Below. Enjoy!
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Mad Bull Mom and Dads,
The The New York City – Beat the Streets program is a non profit organization who's mission is to develop New York City youth, Physically, Emotionally, Academically, and Socially through wrestling. (Wow! It sounds like our mission)
Each year Beat the Streets hosts a unique wrestling event RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of TIMES SQUARE. At the event, top notch wrestlers from around the world battle Team USA. This is our third trip to Times Square. In the past we met World and Olympic champions and have had pictures taken and autographs signed. (See great pics below)
This year the executive director of the Beat the Streets organization, Jim Fallis, has graciously agreed to let our wrestlers take center stage ON THE MAT. The Norwalk Mad Bulls will be announced to the crowd, have our team photo taken, and sit ringside during preliminary matches. This is truly a "Once in a Lifetime experience" that NONE of our wrestlers should miss! We learn through the classroom and we learn through experience and this is one formative experience we do not want our wrestlers to miss! Here is the general itinerary.
1. Take 1:39 PM train out of SONO to Grand Central
2. Walk to Times Square 2:45 – 3:15
3. Photo shoot 3:15 – 4:00
4. Preliminary matches 4:00-5:30
5. USA vs Cuba 5:30 – 7:30
6. Walk to Grand Central 7:30 – 8:00
7. Train 8:04 Train from Grand Central to SONO
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Happy new year to all Mad Bulls!
We hope everyone had a successful 2014 and best wishes to you and your families in 2015. We have now entered into our heaviest competition period. Every weekend over the next month, we will travel to tournaments around Connecticut. The Mad Bulls will face many wrestlers they have not seen before as they build up their resume's up in advance of the Connecticut State Championships.
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Additionally, the club will have one "Overnighter" tournament in New London Connecticut the weekend of January 31st. For that tournament we will leave Saturday mid-day January 31st and stay at a hotel in New London. That evening we will have a team dinner and pool party. It is a great bonding experience for the team away from the practice room and competition mat. The Mad Bulls will then compete the next day before heading back to Norwalk that afternoon. Attached is the Calendar of Events for January that you can reference.
Hey! Mad Bull Mom and Dads,
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving,…. but did not eat too much Turkey! For wrestlers, Thanksgiving marks the traditional end of the conditioning phase of the season and the beginning of the competition season. From now till the end of December the Mad Bulls will compete in a several tournaments and at least 1 dual meet. Many first year wrestlers will get their feet wet with their first match this month, while more experienced wrestlers will be matched up against old rivals.
Not all tournaments are mandatory but rather the coaches will determine which ones are appropriate for each wrestler. Remember, Just as in life, wrestling is about development and growth so some wrestlers will not compete until the coaches think they are mentally and physically ready to go.
Upcoming Quad Sunday December 7th from 3pm to 7pm.
We will be having an Elementary Quad on Sunday Dec 7th at 3-7pm It will be at the Stamford Boys and Girls Club. Teams attending are:
Stamford, Newtown, Ridgefield and Norwalk
Matchups will be determined on Friday and we will communicate out to the parents who has matches.
Coach Haus will be hosting a Spaghetti and Meatball Lunch from 11:30am to 2:00pm prior to the match. It will be a great time for the parents to talk "turkey" and for team bonding as well.
Mad Bull Mom and Dads,


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When I was young, I used to play with this Ask Eight Ball which gives you random answers after you ask questions and shake it. So I got inspired by this little toy, I decided to make a yes/no question chatbot.
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ITP Annie's basic concept is another version of myself living in ITP and Alexa's best friend. I wanted all my classmates could feel like asking me questions because people tend to ask small things to their friends, not to strangers. ITP Annie could only answer to polar questions that could be answered in whether yes or no. I wanted to make it feel more-human so I added things like "uh…", "well…", or "could you say that again?". It also has features like "HELL NO" or "Haha Yes". Another behavior that ITP Annie has is the introduction. Whenever the user says "Hi" or "Who are you?" ITPAnnie will introduce herself with greetings. My goal is to make it feel like more human(like me) that speaks humor and have emotions.


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Colombian Sancocho – Chicken, Yucca, Corn Soup
Over new years, my friends and I headed to Colombia (yes, the country!) to visit. It was trip of kismet brought together by my desire to go out of the country somewhere for my 30th birthday, my roommate's plans to spend 2 months travelling in South America, and another… Read more »


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I'm not entitled to Statutory Maternity Pay. Are there any other benefits I'm entitled to instead?
If you are not entitled to receive Maternity Allowance (SMP). If you are not sure, you should seek advice from your local JobCentrePlus office or Citizens Advice about your eligibility.
You can get MA if:
- you have changed jobs during pregnancy so have not met the qualifying period for SMP; or
- you do not earn enough to qualify for SMP; or
- you are unemployed or self-employed during your pregnancy.
There are three types of Maternity Allowance:
- Some women who cannot meet the eligibility criteria for SMP will qualify for Maternity Allowance for 39 weeks at £140.98 a week, or 90% of your average weekly earnings, whichever is less.
- Some self-employed women who haven't paid enough Class 2 National Insurance to get the full rate will get £27 a week for 39 weeks. You must meet all the other eligibility criteria for Maternity Allowance to get this amount.
- Some women who are not employed or self-employed and who don;t qualify for Maternity Allowance for 39 weeks but who work unpaid in their partner's business may qualify for Maternity Allowance for 14 weeks at £27 per week.
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Both pics are beautiful in their own way. Thank you fur sharing them with us. Happy Caturday. xoxoReplyDelete
We can certainly see a difference, though both photos are beautiful. How was it after Debby?ReplyDelete
I love the see whether it is wild or calm :-)
PS - Thanks for coming to my birthday nipfest friends!
Jimmy xo
Mum's sighing and says she would love to live near the sea.
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both pictures are beautiful!
purrsss n nosekissies to mine beautiful sweet tuxie princess Abby
your adoring floofy cocoapuff meezerman Sammy
Beautiful pics, but those storms are scary!ReplyDelete
Angry winds sure can change a peaceful scene, can't they?
Hope you weren't badly affected by Debby, Abby.
We're always thinking of our friends who are in harm's way.
Have a happy weekend, girlfurriend :)
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Great quote! Thanks for that.
Coming from a seafaring fmily I am always respectful of the sea! Super pics! xxReplyDelete
The sea and the sand are so relaxing and invigorating....lovely pics.
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I love how the ocean never looks the same....EVER!ReplyDelete
We live close by to the same ocean quite a bit farther north on a large bay. The mood of the sea can change very quickly. Love your photos.
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Epic cycle ride marks 10 year anniversary of Phil Miller's passing
The daughter of Phil Miller, one of ecdp's co-founders and subsequent Chief Executive Officer (CEO), has cycled an epic 163 miles to mark the 10 year anniversary of her Dad's passing and to raise money and awareness for The SMA Trust.
Sian Miller, the eldest of Phil Miller's five children, cycled with her fiancé Ben Izzard from their home in Eastbourne Harbour to Ipswich Town Football Club (ITFC) over four days, averaging eight hours cycling each day.
Sian and Ben aim to raise £3652 in Phil Miller's memory, the amount carefully chosen to represent £1 for every day Sian and her family have been without Phil over the past decade. The charity funds research and supports those with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a genetic muscle wasting condition.
Leaving their home town on Saturday 8 August, Sian and Ben's 163 mile route included navigating central London and using the Emirates airlift to cross the River Thames. Their arrived at ITFC was timed to precede the Capital One Club game that night against Stevenage. Phil Miller was a devoted Ipswich Town 'tractor boy' fan so the venue was chosen as a fitting tribute.
Donations to date have reached 57% of the target £3652 and it is still possible to donate in the following ways:
Via Text to SMAP88 of £2 or £5 or £10 to 70070
Or via Just Giving Ben Izzard Millers Memory: https://www.justgiving.com/Millers-memory/
Through their fundraising, Sian and Ben hope to contribute to further research into new treatments and potential cures for SMA, via The SMA Trust. SMA remains the single biggest genetic killer of children under two years of age in the UK.
Phil Miller
Phil Miller's vision was to create an organisation that offers a voice for disabled people, who would otherwise not have been heard. Those who had the privilege to know Phil remember what a fighter he was and how he achieved numerous seemingly impossible things. He got married, had five healthy children, became a foster parent, and even adopted his youngest daughter, Chloe. Phil obtained a Master's Degree, attending university while all his children were still young.
He had many lifelong friends, held regular card games and was infamous for the New Year's Eve parties held at the Miller household. Phil's first love of course was his wife and family, but coming an extremely close second was Ipswich Town Football Club! He was a loyal fan and held a season ticket for many years. His family had a brick dedicated there in his memory earlier this year.
Sadly Phil's life was cut short on 3 March 2005 by Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) at only 48 years of age. Phil's many remarkable achievements are all the more impressive considering that he was not expected to live beyond three years of age.
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Thursday 07 July 2016 is THE BIG HEALTH DAY from 10am to 3pm.
Disability Essex provided advice, support and a place to socialise for disabled people, their families and carers since 1949 but has closed due to financial difficulties.
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Love is a spark. It's the smile that says come to me. It's the flirty hello. It's the scent of her perfume. It's his new haircut. It's the look that ignites a dozen possibilities. - Set on Fire
I was half asleep when I first saw her. She thought I was being flirty and winking at her. One eye open, one eye shut, that's the best way to see love.
The sun was as flirty as Scarlett O'Hara with the Tarleton twins, breaking through the clouds in spectacular bursts that seemed like personal favors and then retreating for hours, days, and making us all ache for just a glimpse.
Because she left him a MySpace message that was semi-flirty, and then today he was very vague about what he was doing. So I headed over to his house and waited outside until he left. And now he's at McDonald's, and I'm following him to see where else he's going.' MySpace is seriously going to be responsible for everyone losing their minds.
Tell me if this is too forward, " he said in a low voice that was surprisingly shaky, "but do you want to come-" "Yes, " she answered, exhaling hot breath on his neck. He grinned and gave her hip a squeeze. "I must say, this has been the most pleasant surprise I could imagine." "You're not very imaginative, then." She gave him the flirty eyes. "Good thing I am.
Gabby couldn't believe what he had just said. Her mouth gaped open and a flirty smile came over her. She slowly peeled her half wet white t-shirt over her head and then slowly shimmied out of her shorts. What had gotten into her? She had never acted like this before, but she suddenly felt playful, fun and daring. If he wanted to play, so could she.
You know the kind of smile I'm talkin' about. That flirty, cute, bite-your-bottom lip 'cause his smile is so stinkin' perfect-that kind of smile.
I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn't deserve white, and I was sick of black.
Late twenties, single, female. Do the math. Flirty flings were fabulous until you hit the big three-O, all downhill from there. Biological clocks started ticking like time bombs waiting to detonate, gravity exerted more force on your life than your mom, and suddenly, the dog-ugliest creep looked like Jake Gyllenhaal.
Will you do me a favor?" Declan asked. If he looked at her with those dark, intoxicating eyes, she was likely to do anything he asked. "Maybe." "Any more dreams you have, no matter how small, will you tell me about them?" "Even the ones that star you?" The almost flirty quiestion slipped out before she could stop herself. A slow grin spread across his fallen-angel face. The man just looked as if he wanted to do wicked things - and she'd let him. "Especially those.
You think I read your thoughts, but it's your eyes that speak to me. When they glisten with moisture, I see a depth of emotion stirring behind them. One tearful glance begs me for a reassuring embrace. When your gaze glazes over like a misty morning, I know I've lost you to personal cares. A sharp, narrow look will keep me at bay while a wink and twinkle and the flirty flutter of your dark eyelashes invite my company. The strength and duration of a stare gives your feelings towards me away. And when those wary eyes dart to avoid my notice, all of your hidden secrets are betrayed.
There is always the risk: something is good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It's such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away all the wall of separation between friendship and kissing. Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle-oh, look, we broke down this wall, I'm going to look at you like a girl and you're going to look like me like a boy and we're going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There. And sometimes that happy middle looks so great that you can convince yourself that it's not the middle but will last forever.


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