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Have a look at an awesome 'Tiny House' On Display a M Live, a Michigan-based online news platform. This Tiny house on display was found at the 2015 Cottage and Lakefront Living Show and the photos were taken by Grand Rapids Press. Featured at the 2015 Cottage and Lakefront Living Show in March of 2015, this tiny house is a great example of park model style living at it's finest. The house was being sold by Vacationland Sales from Hopkins, who has been featuring these tiny house units since the 1990s. Although the tiny house is on wheels, it cannot fall under the same provisions as a tiny house on wheels because it is larger. But it's size and the fact that it is on wheels prevents it from being taxed like a normal recreational cabin. The main floor not including the lofts of the tiny house is just under 400 square feet, making it fairly large for a tiny house. Many tiny houses that are popping up are under 200 square feet on the main floor.
The tiny house is beautiful, with attention to detail and high-quality finishings and fixtures. The turn-key tiny house that you see here sells for $49,500 and that includes all of the furnishings and linens that the tiny trailer is decorated with for the show. You will be shocked as to how much actually can fit into a space this small. The kitchen is outfitted with beautiful, clean, white cabinetry as well as beautiful granite looking laminate countertops. A full sized stainless steel sink, refrigerator, and gas range with stove were implemented into the kitchen plan, making it very easy to prepare fresh home cooked meals in the kitchen of the tiny home. There is even a wine cooler in the wet bar, with a second smaller sink installed and more than enough room for wine and beer glasses and all of the necessary bar favourites. The kitchen also has an island counter surface, that has bar stools for seating while eating. This would be the perfect sized kitchen for a couple or a small family to create beautiful meals in daily.
This tiny home park model has a fairly large bathroom, with a normal toilet equipped to be hooked up to plumbing, as well as a bathtub and a shower. The bedroom in the tiny home is located on the main floor of the house, and can fit a large queen sized bed in it, with built in beside the bed, and more than enough room to move around the bed. The closet space in the bedroom is wonderful and could fit all of the necessary clothing for two people. An open style living room is at the front of the house, framed by many windows and with enough room for a full sized couch and chair with some side tables and a coffee table. Sliding patio doors lead into the main living room area giving access to the porch area outdoors. There is even loft space in this awesome tiny house, which is accessible by a staircase, making it easy to get up there. They have placed a love seat and a chair up there to show just how spacious the tiny house loft is. This could serve as another bedroom, or an office or studio space.
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The catalyst was finding an elderly and rather battered Matchbox Specials 1/40 Pro stock car at a car boot sale (Stock photo above) At 1/40 scale it's a little on the large side, but it instantly grabbed me as a great starting point for an replica of Max's V8 as it already had a similar side windows, wide arches, nosecone and boot spoiler to the famous falcon.
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Last night on Conan, Tom Selleck can't get his mind out of the gutter. He first demonstrates a highly sexualized plant grafting technique, and really ends with a bang by asking Julianne Hough if her booty shorts in Footloose got wet. Plus: Emilio Estevez confirms that Charlie Sheen is "rocking," sending him at least four text messages yesterday, which he hasn't gotten around to answering just yet; and The Mighty Macs's Carla Gugino feigns a staccato British accent with Craig Ferguson. Watch our compilation to see what you missed.


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Tulane baseball coach Rick Jones acknowledges that it isn't easy being a Green Wave fan. Not these days.
Not when the team has lost four of its past six games and is 15-15 on the season. And not when the Wave lost two of three games to Rice after walking in the go-ahead run Thursday, leaving bases loaded in the ninth inning Friday, and after taking a 7-1 lead had to hold on for a 7-6 win Saturday.
"Following our program is not for the faint of heart," he said.
The next cardio challenge is a nonconference game against in-state rival Nicholls State on Tuesday. The Colonels (14-15) will travel to Turchin Stadium a 6:30 p.m. start.
Tulane will be looking to avenge its earlier 6-5 loss to the Colonels in Thibodaux on Feb. 26. Tulane leads the series 54-23. Nicholls is coming off an 0-3 weekend performance against Southland Conference opponent Southeastern Louisiana.
"They played well against us the last time, and we don't expect them to do anything less this time," Jones said of the Colonels. "We just didn't play well against them."
Jones agreed that Tulane has had mixed success against its state opponents this season. So far this season the Green Wave has lost to LSU, split with UNO and Northwestern, and gone 2-1 against Southeastern.
Jones points to the multitude of injuries to his pitching staff this season for his team's inconsistent play.
"We've just had so many injuries to our pitching staff, we just haven't been able to be as strong on the mound as we've wanted to be," Jones said. "Especially in those midweek and Sunday games. We've had to try to use some different people to try to make up for that."
Tuesday's game is expected to be a battle between a pair of freshmen. Tulane is expected to start right-hander Daniel Rankin (1-0, 3.43 ERA). Nicholls will start left-hander Grant Borne (1-0, 2.78 ERA).
Leading the Green Wave's offense is Brennan Middleton. He is hitting .342 with five doubles. Sean Potkay is hitting .277 with 21 RBIs.
Nicholls out-hit Southeastern in two of its three games and has had more than 10 hits in its past six games — but still went 1-5. The Colonels are led by Matt Richard, who leads with team with a .331 batting average. Phillip Lyons is on a 12-game hitting streak and has reached base safely in his past 16 games. Each has 11 stolen bases.


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Bristol is a city in Sullivan County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 26,702 at the 2010 census. It is the twin city of Bristol, Virginia, which lies directly across the state line between Tennessee and Virginia. The boundary between the two cities is that of the States, which runs along State Street in their common downtown district. Bristol is a principal city of the Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area – commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region.
Bristol is probably best known for being the site of some of the first commercial recordings of country music, showcasing Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and later a favorite venue of the mountain musician Uncle Charlie Osborne. The U.S. Congress recognized Bristol as the "Birthplace of Country Music" in 1998. Bristol is the birthplace of Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Bristol is the site of Bristol Motor Speedway, a NASCAR short track, that normally sells out more than 160,000 seats twice annually, but attendance has come up short in recent years.
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A retailer must face a Family Medical Leave Act lawsuit brought by an employee who claimed he was fired in retaliation for filing a workers compensation claim, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
Craig Zuber worked at department store Boscov's Inc. in Reading, Pennsylvania, in August 2014 when he was injured at work, according to the ruling in Craig Zuber v. Boscov's. Mr. Zuber filed a workers comp claim and received work leave. He returned to work two days after the injury but requested an additional week of medical leave three days later. That request was granted, according to court documents.
Mr. Zuber returned to work as scheduled and was fired in September 2014. Mr. Zuber and Boscov's signed a compromise and release agreement in April 2015, releasing the company from future claims related to the injury. In July 2015, Mr. Zuber sued Boscov's saying the employer interfered with his FMLA rights by failing to notify him of his rights and not designating his leave as FMLA protected; retaliated against him for exercising his FMLA rights; and retaliated against him for filing a workers comp claim.
Boscov's moved to dismiss Mr. Zuber's complaint, saying he waived his FMLA and common law rights when he signed the compromise and release agreement. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania dismissed Mr. Zuber's complaint. Mr. Zuber filed a motion for reconsideration, which was denied. He then appealed to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
A three-judge panel of the appeals court Monday reversed the District Court's order granting Boscov's motion to dismiss and denying Mr. Zuber's motion for reconsideration. The panel determined that the agreement signed between Mr. Zuber and Boscov's covered only his right to future workers comp claims related to his work injury and not the FMLA or common law claims.
"Because of the C&R's ordinary meaning and structure, we hold that the C&R is unambiguously a specific and limited release rather than a general release," the panel said. "When Zuber signed the C&R, he merely released his right to bring a future workers compensation claim against Boscov's. Consequently, it does not prohibit Zuber from bringing FMLA or Pennsylvania common law claims against Boscov's."
The court remanded the case to the District Court for further proceedings.
"My client, Boscov's, is disappointed with this ruling and is weighing its options as to what actions it will take," said Alexander Ross, an attorney with Marlton, New Jersey-based law firm Rakoski & Ross P.C., which represented Boscov's. "We respectfully disagree with the decision of the 3rd Circuit and believe the District Court judge made the correct ruling in his original decision and on the reconsideration motion to dismiss this case."


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Today is a very special day.
Today is the day that all 400 redevelopment agencies (RDAs) across California -- including the massive L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) -- are shut down for good. And all the property taxes they've been raking in, for buildings within areas they've declared "blighted," will now go directly to the state for essential costs like education and emergency services.
Woot woot! This calls for a little celebration. Leave it to oddball Los Angeles citywatchers John Walsh and Miki Jackson, of HollywoodHighlands.org, to host a bona fide funeral party (emphasis on the party) for the CRA ...
... down at City Hall. Under the same roof, if you'll recall, that has sheltered decades of shady dealings between the CRA, City Council politicians and fat-cat developers who came sniffing for handouts. (No such thing as too rich!)
"Drop Dead CRA Day" was a bittersweet affair.
Walsh paired a dollar-bill tie with his signature plaid suit jacket to mark the occasion. Jackson, apparently an arts-and-crafts queen, fashioned the CRA a terrific tombstone -- plastered in skeleton hands and more dollar bills.
Although public commenters expressed relief that the CRA could do no more harm, they were visibly pained to recall horror stories of land grabs past.
"We had a vibrant community... not a blighted slum," remembered Gordon Pattison, a former Bunker Hill resident, of his long-ago neighborhood, before the CRA wiped it out and installed a business district. "Nine thousand people were displaced at the time."
Valerie Stewart, surviving daughter of actor Nick Stewart, stepped to the podium to remember her parents' historic Ebony Showcase Theater, once a groundbreaking outpost for black theater -- until the CRA seized it in the '90s through "eminent domain," one of their most notorious practices.
Recent City Council candidate Candice Graham backed her up on that one: "Dealing with the CRA actually killed him," she said of Stewart's famous father.
Thanks to Governor Jerry Brown, though, the worst is behind us. Partytime!
But don't forget, this is City Hall we're partying at here. Meaning the public-comment-period festivities were precluded by an hour-long ceremony to designate February 1 as Rob Dyrdek Day, in exchange for the seven skate parks that said Rob Dyrdek has constructed throughout Los Angeles. Every single councilmember was given time to stand up, praise Dyrdek and spew junk statistics on the city's dropping crime rate. (And, in Venice politician Bill Rosendahl's case, brag about how much more skaterific his district is than everyone else's.)
Then, once the spotlight was finally turned on the CRA death folks, two cops from the City Council's paranoid security outfit told Walsh and Jackson that they weren't allowed to wave around their sign while yelling at councilmembers. Or even hold the sign in council chambers at all, even inside a plastic bag.
One guard also started interrogating Jackson about what was in the Kool-Aid pitcher. (Seriously.)
So the focus turned from the CRA to an even more popular topic at L.A. City Hall: the First Amendment. Jackson dropped some constitutional truth bombs on the council about her right to hold up the tombstone thingy -- so true, in fact, that [an underling for] L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich jumped from his chair five minutes later, chased her and Walsh out into the hall (see right) and nervously invited them to come show the City Council their sign.
So they did. And it was beautiful.
Update: From here, the CRA's unfinished business and construction projects will be handled by a three-member successor agency and an oversight board. Governor Brown just appointed L.A.'s three agency members today: lawyer and lobbyist Timothy McOsker, rich developer dude Nelson Rising and professional consultant Mee Semcken.
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We were initially unsure how the CRA would be held accountable for all its assets, seeing as it had stealthily transferred its $1 billion to City Council coffers when it got wind of Brown's big murder plot. But the smooth creation of this successor agency suggests that the state will get that money back. (The governor's spokesman has been contacted for more info.)
Brown's CRA replacement team will be tasked with "unwinding the redevelopment agency's hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, complex land deals, employee obligations and development loans," reports the LA Times.
Sounds like quite the afterparty.


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County lists state goals
By Steve Herring
Published in News on October 5, 2012 1:46 PM
Protecting military air space, easing regulations on jail space requirements and supporting agriculture top the list of legislative goals Wayne County commissioners have submitted to the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners.
Commissioners plan to follow up on the list by attending association steering committee meetings to support the goals.
The association develops and lobbies for its legislative goals -- items assembled from suggestions by its 100 member counties.
County Manager Lee Smith said he thinks the list is "heads and shoulders" above those submitted by other counties. He also called commissioners' attention to the steering committee meetings.
Smith suggested during the board's Tuesday session that commissioners attend the sessions to support the goals.
"You may have other counties that may not be familiar with what we are talking about," he said. "So it may be good for us to go up and advocate our goal. If not, it may not go in. I think it says a lot when the county shows up to support the goals that it submitted."
One meeting that the county definitely needs a presence at is the Intergovernmental Relations Steering Committee on Oct. 17 that would look at the county goal to protect military air space, Smith said.
Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is a major contributor to the county's economy, commissioners say.
And last month they adopted a resolution opposing a wind turbine project in Beaufort County that is in the low-level flying route used by the base's jets en route to the Dare County bombing range. Commissioners have asked state lawmakers to review and pass legislation to protect air space around the state's military installations and along the low-level flying routes.
Another is the meeting of the Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee, being held today, to talk about relaxing jail space regulations.
Overcrowding is an ongoing issue at the county jail. The county has looked at a number of ways to keep the population down in hopes of delaying construction of a new jail that could cost in excess of $50 million.
Reducing the space requirements would allow housing more inmates, Smith said.
In presenting the list to commissioners, Smith noted the board had said it wanted a greater emphasis on agriculture.
Wayne is the fourth-largest agricultural county in the state, and farming alone accounts for putting more than $330 million a year into the county's economy. Overall, agriculture accounts for 20 percent of the county's employment.
Portions of that goal include supporting legislation to:
* Promote and preserve working farmlands by including them in the state tourism plan, by retaining the current authority for the present use value system, by maintaining funding for the Agriculture Development and Farmland Preservation Trust, and by authorizing counties to implement transfer of development rights
* Increase agriculture research and extension services and maintain existing research stations at current levels
* Implement the Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council's recommendations including a prohibition against municipal involuntary annexation or regulation of farm or forestry activities within a voluntary agricultural district or conservation district and support state funding to maintain and enhance the North Carolina Transition Network.
Also submitted were:
* Farm use/deferred property tax: Commissioners want a statewide county cost impact analysis to determine the actual impact of farm use/deferred taxes to counties. People who have property in the farm use program receive a tax break on their property.
* Rural public transit systems: The goal requests that North Carolina public transit systems be required to review and assess the feasibility of regionalization of rural transportation systems and/or routes that cross county lines creating ultimately creating route efficiencies.
* Design build: Several counties, including Wayne County, have special legislation allowing the design build, or engineer-contractor team approach, to construct and/or renovate public facilities. However, much of this legislation has a sunset date. Commissioners are requesting that design build be adopted by legislators as a permanent alternative process for construction/renovation of county facilities and schools without an expiration date.
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KIEV, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament voted on Thursday to remove a tax for foreign investors on profit earned on debt swap operations, after Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said this was needed to allow Ukraine to borrow in September.
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The Objects Clause of the Labour Party: our aims and values.
"The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few, where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe and where we live together, freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect."
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text: Kotaku - A gun. That's it, that's often all I amount to in first person shooters. I might spend time customizing a body, I might see myself during a cutscene, my first-person view might allow me to see fingertips holding a gun steady, I might bleed and perhaps die (eventually), but at best I could be said to be a reticule. Scarcely do I feel like a human being.


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For Immediate Release: November 11, 2016
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Army veteran's tradition continues despite knee surgery
Gary Holland, of Egg Harbor Township, thought being in hospitalized would end one of his Veterans Day traditions.
Holland, is United States Army veteran who served in the military police in Korea from 1970 to 1971, and later at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
He had visited Applebee's in Mays Landing with his family in 2014 and 2015, and prior to that, an Applebee's in Pennsylvania where he previously lived. Each year, Applebee's offers free dine-in meals on Veterans Day to veterans and active duty military who show proof of military service.
"When I realized that I couldn't walk on my own, I figured I wasn't going to make it. I felt very disappointed for my family and me," said Holland.
He shared his disappointment with Heather McVey, BSN, RN, clinical manager, 2 Meadow, AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center Mainland Campus McVey called Applebee's in Mays Landing to see if she could get a meal-to-go for her patient.
Applebee's generously made a special exception for Holland, and McVey picked up the order – the Butcher's Meat + potatoes.
"I truly appreciate Applebee's for helping make this happen, and the AtlantiCare staff who went above and beyond for me," said Holland. "I thank Heather and the entire team that has been taking such wonderful care of me."
"Veterans Day is the single most special day for us at Applebee's. Providing a free meal for those who have fought, or are currently fighting for our freedom is the very least we can do. Being able to recognize Mr. Holland on this day when he is unable to be here with us is extra special knowing we are making his day just a little bit better," said Brynn Flenard, general manager, Applebee's Mays Landing.
"Heather Doughtery, car side associate, Applebee's, was so helpful," said McVey. "We appreciated her understanding and quick response to our special request."
Holland, a father of five, said he'd share the experience with his children and grandchildren.
Holland had mentioned his Applebee's tradition to McVey after members of Rolling Thunder Chapter 4 NJ visited him. The chapter visits patients at ARMC Mainland Campus every year for Veterans Day. The ARMC Mainland Auxiliary coordinates the visit.
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A type of column chromatography in which a mixture of liquids is passed down a column containing a gel. Small molecules in the mixture can enter pores in the gel and move slowly down the column; large molecules, which cannot enter the pores, move more quickly. Thus, mixtures of molecules can be separated on the basis of their size. The technique is used particularly for separating proteins but it can also be applied to cell nuclei, viruses, etc.
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This beautifully illustrated book is the first to look so comprehensively at the role of the urban Italian house in the development of Renaissance art and culture. The Renaissance Home brings together a wide range of objects, from furniture and kitchen utensils to popular prints, jewellery and everyday dress, revealing how the homes of the upper- and middle-classes made a crucial contribution to the flowering of the visual arts in 15th- and 16th-century Italy. Drawing on a wide array of sources including letters, treatises, inventories, account-books and archaeological and conservation reports, it offers a completely fresh exploration of the fascinating domestic world of Renaissance Italy. Leading specialists in the field explore such topics as regional variations in structure and appearance, and the role of non-Western objects in decorative schemes. The Renaissance Home will have a life far beyond the exhibition, becoming a key work of reference for students of art and design, history and archaeology and anyone with an interest in the culture of the Italian Renaissance.This beautifully illustrated book is the first to look so comprehensively at the role of the urban Italian house in the development of Renaissance art and culture.
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Polymyositis is a rare disease of the muscles, usually those closest to the trunk of the body. The muscles become inflamed or swollen, which causes pain. The disease is progressive and starts slowly. If untreated, the muscles gradually become weaker and more painful.
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Polymyositis may be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors that trigger an abnormal immune response.
This condition is more common in women, and in people aged 31-60 years old.
Polymyositis Symptoms
Polymyositis may cause:
- Muscle weakness
- Muscle pain
- Fatigue
- Great effort needed to climb stairs
- Trouble rising from a chair
- Difficulty reaching overhead
- Chronic dry cough
Diagnosis & Treatment at UVA
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history and perform a physical exam.
Tests may include:
- Blood tests to check for elevated muscle enzymes and autoimmune antibodies
- Electromyogram (EMG) to measure muscle activity
- Muscle biopsy
Imaging tests take pictures of internal body structures to look for muscle inflammation. This can be done with an MRI.
While there is no cure, treatment can improve your muscle strength and function.
Medications to treat polymyositis may include:
- Corticosteroids to reduce inflammation
- Topical steroids to treat skin rash
- Immunosuppresants
IV immunoglobulin therapy is another treatment option. It involves using an IV needle to inject extra immunoglobins (special proteins) into the body. This process may help the immune system function better and reduce inflammation.
Physical Therapy
Your doctor may recommend that you work with a physical therapist to prevent permanent muscle damage. Exercise may include:
- A regular stretching routine for weakened arms and legs
- Light strengthening as the pain lessens and function returns
Dietary Changes
Polymyositis can lead to problems with chewing and swallowing. A registered dietitian can help you learn ways to adjust to these changes and get the nutrition that you need.
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text: Microbreweries, which produce handcrafted beer in limited quantity, only appeared in India in the last two years. Sunitha Barlota, Research Analyst at Euromonitor, states that there are 11 microbreweries in the country, attracting middle class consumers. The success of these microbreweries is due to the open-mindedness of young Indian consumers, as well as their desire to eat out. The beer market in India is growing as well, and imported beer is starting to make a splash in the country. These factors are contributing to the growth of microbreweries and creating opportunities for this niche segment.


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About midnight Mrs. Maxa still went to and fro in a bedroom on the top floor, which was entirely isolated. When everything necessary had been made ready, she tried to place various embellishments in the little chamber. Finally she placed in the middle of the table a round bowl, which was to be filled to-morrow with the most beautiful roses from her garden. Mrs. Maxa wanted the child of her adored Leonore to receive a pleasant impression from her room in the strange new house. When the morning sun would shine in through the open windows and the green slope of the castle would send its greeting to her, she did not want little Leonore to feel dissatisfied with her new quarters. With this thought Mrs. Maxa happily closed the door of the room behind her and sought out her own chamber.
Early next morning brother and sister started towards the valley. Before going Mrs. Maxa had given her orders and had arranged for Maezli to spend the day with Apollonie, in order to prevent her from getting into mischief. As it was a sunshiny morning and the paths were dry, walking was delightful. The distance they had to traverse occupied about two hours, but it did not seem long. As soon as brother and sister arrived in Sils, they went to see the two Misses Remke. Both ladies were kneeling before a large trunk, surrounded by heaps of clothes, shoes, books and boxes, and a hundred trifles besides. When the visitors arrived, they immediately stood before the open door of the room used for packing.
Mrs. Maxa's first impulse was to withdraw with an excuse, but the ladies had jumped up already and most cordially greeted their kind friend, Mr Falcon, whom they called their helper and saviour in all difficulties. They received his sister joyfully, too, for they had been most eager to know her. Both ladies regretted that their meeting had to take place in a moment when their house appeared in its most unfavorable light. Mrs. Maxa assured them, however, that she understood the preparations for their impending trip and said that she would not disturb them longer than was necessary. She intended, therefore, to voice her request immediately. Mr. Falcon, steering straight for some chairs he had discovered, brought them for the ladies despite all the assorted objects on the floor. Mrs. Maxa spoke of her intention of taking the child to her house and her sincere hope that there would be no objection and the ladies could feel their visitor's great eagerness manifested in her words. They on their part did not hide the great relief which this prospect gave them and were extremely glad to leave their young charge in such good hands.
"It has been very hard for us to decide to leave Leonore behind," one of them said. "Unfortunately we must go, and she is not able to travel. But as long as our plans seem to coincide so well, I shall ask you if it would be inconvenient to you if we put off the date of our return a week longer. You must realize that we are taking the journey for the sake of our sick mother, and that everything is uncertain in such a case. One can never tell what change may come, and we might wish to stay a little longer."


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Pamela Jay Gottfried is a rabbi, parent, teacher, artist and author. An inveterate Scrabble player and New York Times Crossword Puzzle fanatic, she credits her love of words to her parents, who encouraged her to develop her vocabulary through reading and using the dictionary at an early age. Since her ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1993, Gottfried has taught students of all ages in churches, colleges, community centers, mosques, schools, summer camps and synagogues. She is a member of the American Guild of Judaic Art and an alumna of Clal's Rabbis Without Borders, whose mission is to make Jewish wisdom available to those seeking to enrich their lives. She is currently writing her second book, Encountering Angels: Reading Genesis with my Children.
A Word about Art:
Many people have asked about my work as a potter, which is another form of creative expression for me. I find that working in the pottery studio, in a tactile world removed from the Internet, helps to foster my creativity and stimulate my imagination. Recently, I have experimented with various media, including oil pastels and Found Object Sculpture. Some photos and artist statements are posted here. Additional photos of my work can be viewed at PJ's Pottery on Facebook.


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The British Library Philatelic Collections are the National Philatelic Collections of the United Kingdom. The Collections were established in 1891 with the bequest of the Tapling Collection. This is a brief overview of our Great Britain collections.
The Board of Inland Revenue Stamping Department Archive
Comprises proofs of postage stamps, postal stationery, and revenue material, from 1710 to date. It includes large numbers of plate proof sheets in black of Great Britain and India postage and revenue stamps, and Great Britain overprinted for use in other territories, in proof and issued form. Very extensive.
Great Britain: 1912 Downey Head, 1d. die 2, trial printed in reverse, overprinted 'CANCELLED'.
Article on the Board of Inland Revenue, Stamping Department, Archive
The Chinchen Collection
Of Lundy Island 1929-77, includes stamps (many in sheets), proofs, and covers and is comprehensive. It was formed by Barry Chinchen who donated it in 1977.
The H M Customs and Excise Collection
Revenue stamps in proof or registration form, including Table Water Duty, Medicine Tax, Playing Card Tax stamps, and Pension Order Forms. Transferred in 2002.
The Ewen Collection
Ireland - Railway Letter Stamp: 1891 Finn Valley Railway Company 2d. unused.
Railway Letter stamps for the period 1891 to 1912 with sheets, proofs, and covers. It was formed by Herbert L'Estrange Ewen, and donated in 1949 by his sister Mrs Clement Williams.
The Fletcher Collection
Great Britain: 1858-79 1d. red, an example of the rare plate 77 used on piece.
The collection covers nearly 300 years of public and private postal services. About half of the Collection is of postal history material comprising pre-adhesive and other markings, which illustrate the development and operation of a large number of different services. The other half comprises mainly used stamps, (including plate reconstructions), and some postal stationery. The Collection was formed by H.G. Fletcher, and transferred from the London Borough of Haringey in 1989. Extensive in 341 volumes.
Article on the Fletcher Collection
The H M Stationery Office Collection
Great Britain - National Savings: 1958 Princess Anne 6d. essay.
Of Excise Revenue material, is strong in National Savings and National Insurance stamps. Received from HMSO between 1982 and 1992.
The Landmark Trust Lundy Island Philatelic Archive
Mainly comprises artwork, essays, proofs and issued stamps of Lundy Island from 1969, and an extensive range of postmarking devices from 1929. Given by the Trust in 1991.
The Langmead Collection
Great Britain - Telegraph: 1876-81 £5 handpainted essay
Of Great Britain and Ireland Telegraph stamps and stationery, 1851-81. Formed by Peter Langmead and received via the 'in lieu of tax' scheme in 1991.
The McInroy Collection
See under General Collections
The Scott Collection
see under Air Mail Collections
The Sherborn Collection
Of 1841-85 Queen Victoria embossed 1d pink postal stationery envelopes. Formed by C Davis Sherborn and donated in 1913.
The Treasury Excise Correspondence Collection
A correspondence of letters between the Treasury and Excise, dated between 1826 and the 1840s, showing a wide variety of postal marks and rates. Transferred from Her Majesty's Customs & Excise in 1992.
The Turner Collection
Railway Letter stamps covering the period 1891 to the mid-1940s, the collection is strong in covers. Formed by S.R. Turner and bequeathed in 1973.
The Turner Collection
A collection of Newspaper tax stamps, and of the 1694 6d revenue tax stamps. Formed by S R Turner and bequeathed in 1973.
The Walker Collection
Of Channel Islands, Second World War German Occupation issues (mainly Guernsey). The collection includes a range of covers and many sheets. Given in 1948 by G.L. Walker.


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International PanelPosted on May 5th, 2009 by Laura Herrejón
Last week, I had the amazing opportunity to participate in an International Panel. You might wonder what it is; well it is a panel with about a 300 people in the audience listening to what International Students have to say about their lives as adolescents in their country before they came to the United States.
This year the countries represented were: Mexico (Me, of course! 🙂 ), China, Japan, Kenya, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast Panama and Turkey. It was very interesting because even as International Students we learn from each other. For example, I learned that it is very important for Chinese students to do well in their end of high school exam to enter college. Also, my friend from Panama mentioned how in most of Latin America, Catholicism is the religion of choice for about 85% of its population.
There are many different things that people from all around the world can learn from each other. I know for a fact that having this abroad experience is helping me to learn more about different societies even the ones I have never even stepped on. I have grown so much as a person and I expect to keep doing so.
As International students, it doesn't matter where you are from or where you are, share who you are and represent your country!
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Wire are soon to release their thirteenth studio album, 'Change Becomes Us'. It's a landmark release in a fractured 35-year career that started with 1977's 'Pink Flag'. Wire have consistently looked ahead and vastly changed their sound over the years, but Change Becomes Us takes a surprise turn. At the core of its songs are ideas that were first worked on in 1979, after their third LP '154' and before a long hiatus that was marked with the release of controversial live album 'Document & Eyewitness (1981), where some of the original ideas developed on this latest release were first heard.
In advance of the release of Change Becomes Us (available on their own Pink Flag imprint), Clash sat down with Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Robert Grey, and Matt Simms to discover why they took this unusual step, what it means for the future of Wire, and what it's like to survive as a band who still feel they have something new to say after 35 years.
You're not known for being particularly nostalgic about your old material, so why do this now?
Colin – It's not about nostalgia, that's for sure.
Robert – I don't think 'Document & Eyewitness' did us a lot of credit, I didn't think we should release it after '154'. Back in 2000 when we started working again, our friend Mark Bursa, who's a big Wire fan, asked what we were going to do with the unfinished material we had leftover from the period post-'154'.
Colin - We're not even talking about stuff we'd demoed. There was a loose discussion at the time about doing a fourth album, but there was no band to make it, the band was falling apart. We didn't have a record company, we'd just sacked our manager, we weren't getting any advice, and we weren't in a position to do anything.
When Mark made this suggestion I just dismissed it – 'that's not where we're going' and we went on to make 'Send' (2003) instead. But by 2006/7, when there were a lot of 'Don't Look Back' gigs happening, lots of people were saying we should do one for the Pink Flag album. There was no appetite or interest in the band to do that. So I thought, wouldn't it be funny, and totally Wire, to be a complete pain in the arse and do a Don't Look Back for a record that was never released, demoed, recorded…or even barely written. A few enquiries revealed no interest whatsoever in us doing that, as you can imagine. It's a brilliant idea that never quite found its time or anyone to pay for it.
Had you done anything like this with old material before?
Colin – There was an old song called Ally In Exile that turned into 'I Don't Understand' (from 2002's 'Read And Burn 01 EP'), and this is not an unusual thing in Wire. We revisit lots of things, there's a lot in Wire's DNA that we recycle and come back round to. But as was suggested back in 2000 there was a significant amount of other work from post-154 that hadn't been explored. There were some fairly good reasons for not exploring it. For the most part the material was half-baked. Some of it wasn't even baked at all. Some of it was just…raw.
Graham – Some of the songs were just one-off events that we'd rehearse the day before then go and play live. But 34 years of slow cooking later…
Colin - We hit this point after doing 'Red Barked Tree' (2011) where we'd toured with Matt for the best part of a year, and we had Ray Davies' Meltdown 2011 festival coming up. We wanted to put something new and different into the set.
Graham – When you're playing live a lot, things can get complacent or worn out, you've got to keep an eye on that. We were getting to a point where I didn't know if I could face doing the same songs again, so the only thing we could do was take a chance.
Colin - I'd been thinking about that old material, I identified a couple of songs for us to play- I chose some I thought would be quite difficult to do thinking it would either work or it wouldn't - and it did.
Graham - The band was invigorated again; we had three songs to learn. They came together in an incredible way; they didn't sound at all how they'd sounded back in the day. It was very encouraging.
Colin – Not long after we had a second UK tour and we again thought we couldn't just play the same thing we'd played before, so we took seven of the ideas to work on and built the set around those instead…and that worked too.
So where was all this material? Did you have to sift through boxes and boxes of tapes?
Colin – Some was on Document & Eyewitness, the rest on various bootlegs, the odd home demo…and in my head.
Was it difficult to recreate those old tracks? I'm guessing you're not using the same gear you were back in the late 70s.
If you're trying to work something out from a lo-fi recording, it's not often going to be identical; you may just work out a different way of doing it. Sometimes you'll take a piece and decide one bit's good, but the rest of it's rubbish. We were really ruthless, we'd just use that good bit then figure out something else to go with it.
Graham – Suddenly that idea becomes something new. It's not what it was before. By taking this old material off the shelf we were able to completely sidestep the harmonic universe we'd been in for that last year of touring. We could use these things that had stranger and more peculiar structures, because that's what we were into at that time, but bring them into this world. So we had our modern sound and arrangements attached to these older ideas. It's like dealing with ancient history and trying to position it for the future.
Colin – Once we'd got these ideas to a certain stage we had a week in the studio to record various parts and for Graham to do his vocals. We did everything in a short time because you don't want to start doing twenty takes of something, you need to get it done in two or three takes and get the energy of it. You can't get that gold any other way. Once we had that stuff down I could build on it, so I took it away for six-months of production. The production stage is a process whereby the music starts to come together and come alive.
Graham – At different stages Colin would send us where he'd got to, as that went along, the arrangement of lyrics would take on different meanings. A small part or riff would become a whole song. It just continued to develop over the summer.
Would you have been able to work in this way ten years ago?
Colin – There has been a basic shift. 'Send', 'Object 47' and probably a lot of the latter eighties things were made by assemblage too. When you're working with sequencing, you stick things together, that's how you make records. With 'Red Barked Tree', I didn't want to make it by assemblage, I wanted to record the whole thing as a band, then treat the whole performance as the thing that needed to be worked on.
What I really wanted to learn from this project was how it would inform the next Wire album. The songs on 'Red Barked Tree' were the first I'd written on acoustic guitar in a number of years. They have the quality of someone who's quite excited about writing on acoustic guitar. Whereas the songs on this album have the quality of someone who's bored to death with writing songs on acoustic and is trying to do weirder stuff. The next album needs that energy of us needing to do something we haven't done before.
Do you set yourself deadlines or is it a case of 'it's finished when it's finished'.
Colin – We set the whole thing in advance. We knew the release date, would be March 25th and the festival would be a few days before that, I knew I'd need six months to be delivering the album around September/October. There is an argument that says that in the modern day and age you shouldn't start promoting a record until it's out. People want to read 'new Wire album' and click buy right then, not in three months time. In three months' time the whole world will have changed and at least 15 new genres of music will have emerged.
You can preorder the album on your site already though. Is that in part to fund the manufacture, distribution, etc?
It's a little bit more complicated than that. The band needs to continue to exist when it's not physically earning money. I thought about going to PledgeMusic and doing something with them for this album, but there was nothing they could do that we couldn't already through our own mail order. So we set up the whole thing.
We still sell CDs, although they're kind of going west at the moment. Everybody wants vinyl, but you can't really make a lot of money on vinyl, especially if you try and make it nice. But if you can make CDs special somehow, maybe people will pay a little bit more for them. They're not our major market; they're for the core fans.
It's a way in which we're able to generate a certain amount of money. How are musicians supposed to make money, especially if they don't have their own label? For a process like this you need money at the start, we're off to Berlin tomorrow to do promo, Brussels the week after, all of these trips have to be paid for. Normally just before an album is released is when you have the least amount of money. You've got to survive during that time.
Do you think self-funding like this will be the way forward for Wire?
Graham – It always has been.
Colin – Pink Flag, the label, was started in 2000. Radiohead can talk about having their own label, but they have a pressing and distribution deal with Beggars Banquet. They don't deal with the level of stuff I deal with. There are no employees, there's just me. If something's going to happen, ultimately I have to do it.
You look at somebody like Damien Hirst. Love or hate his work, the guy's got his head screwed on in terms of business. And that's a contemporary artist as far as I'm concerned; you have to know how to engage with the medium in which people receive your work. You can't sit around and say 'I'm talented, so someone has to look after me and give me money'. You might get away with it if you're under 25, but by the time you get to our age nobody gives a fuck. The only way they will give a fuck is if you get on and do it yourself. We have to prove ourselves ten times as much as a young band. It's an unfortunate aspect that we live in a world where bands of our age mainly just play their back catalogue and make a bit of money on their 'get to see them before their dead tour'. They aren't really interested in engaging with what they are in a contemporary world. This cannot be Wire's attitude.
Graham – That world has more to do with entertainment than what we do. That's what entertainment's about, giving people what they want.
For much of your career, the only public criticism you'd see of your work would be in the press. Nowadays with the Internet everyone's got a voice and somewhere to express it. Does engaging with your fans online have any effect on the music you produce?
Graham – I think it does. I've met a lot of new friends recently through our forum, real friends. It was the same thing with MySpace.
Colin – I think there is something around the way the Pink Flag.com site has been built where it is quite receptive. We have a forum where we can get a serious kicking at times, mainly about whether things work or not on the commerce side. We've done this Legal Bootleg series, and it's a direct thing the fans really love. We don't sell vast quantities but it's a way of taking material that exists out there in an elite world of tape sharers. We'll fix it up, correct the tape speed for example, then send it for proper mastering and sell it to the fans, but as an enhanced version. People really like that.
One of the gigs in that series was around the time that Rob had left and features extraordinary versions of some songs – a hip hop version of 'Ahead' and a beautiful version of 'Advantage In Height'. Those were directions that never got explored and were it not for that series and fans coming to us through the site with those recordings I don't think I would have ever heard them. Those things become really special.
Do you ever feel under pressure to push your relevance?
Colin – I think the only way we can do that is by being relevant. Wire is a band that excites high expectations. People expect us to be good. So we'd better be fucking good. Our albums have to be of a high standard. If you're not any good, then just fucking stop, because nobody wants to see a shit version of something that's supposed to be amazing.
Graham – We've just got standards, everyone's got so much pride in the work. If it's not good then it's a bad idea to keep doing it because it's embarrassing. It hurts too much, it's a waste of time and there are other things to do.
You seem surprisingly un-cynical for a band so far into your career.
Graham – I wouldn't know, because you don't talk to people like that. It doesn't do you any good, because they're always smarter than you are.
Colin – Cynicism doesn't really help you. I suspect that people who take a cynical attitude don't really have a lot to do with how they're presented. They haven't made the connection between them, what they do, and what turns up in their pockets – there is a very clear connection. Who wants to buy stuff from some cynical old shit? Why would anyone be interested in you if you think everything's shit? You'll still meet plenty of people who'll say that we haven't done anything good since the 70s. That's one of the reasons for the festival we're doing around the album release. 'Wire makes a new album' isn't enough of a story, however strong it is.
Graham – But it also gives us an opportunity to do something we've never been able to do since we started which is to say 'now, we're going to play the new album in full'. It's taken a long time to get to that position.
Colin – Change is a very big word in the Wire dictionary. Change stands for Wire. It's always looking for a new expression, new things to do. The fact that we've managed to conjure some fairly decent material out of some unpromising starts is a testament to something, possibly doggedly stupidity. Huge dogged stupidity.
So did that approach necessitate that the meanings of these songs changed too? Surely you have different things to say now than you did 34 years ago.
Graham – Certainly lyrically it's a complete mix, some songs have a chorus or a few lines that we kept and mixed in with new lyrics. It was a very different lyric-writing experience to what I've done before. I don't think I enjoyed it actually. I'm happy with the results, but it wasn't easy to do, because it was like second-guessing ourselves in some ways. Like having write and record on at the same time.
Colin – I was quite exacting with Graham at times, things needed to fit a certain rhythm or whatever. He'd send me lyrics and I'd strip them down to what fits and he'd have to tell me whether the meaning was still there.
Graham – With this style of production things are going along in parallel. You can modify as you go along, and personally I think the text is finished when I almost don't recognise it, in the sense that I don't feel I authored it when my clichés and weaknesses are gone. You know then it's time you can let it go, it can speak for itself.
Words by James Barry
Photo Credit: Phil Sharp
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Listen to Israel's enemies
If you think you get an accurate idea of what Arab leaders believe
when you listen to Hannan Ashrawi interviewed on "Nightline" or on CNN,
think again.
Yasser Arafat has played a skillful media manipulation game in the
West, helping to persuade most Americans that the Middle East crisis can
be settled by rearranging a few borders — by Israel exchanging more
"land for peace."
It's just simply not so, as I have attempted
to point out recently
with some historical perspective.
But, forget the history.
You've all seen the inflammatory quotes
from Arab leaders when they are not on western television and talking
only to their own people. The hatred is palpable. These are not the kind of differences that can be worked out over a negotiating table.
And it's getting worse, not better.
Look at what a leading cleric in Gaza had to say in
a sermon just
last Friday. "None of the Jews refrain from committing any possible evil," said Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabita, former acting rector of the Islamic University. "If the Labor party commits the evil and the crime, the Likud party stands by it; and if the Likud party commits the evil and the crime, the Labor party stands by it. … The Jews are Jews, whether Labor or Likud. … They do not have any moderates or any advocates of peace. They are all liars. They all want to distort truth, but we are in possession of the truth."
I would like to repeat that this is part of a sermon — a sermon! But it gets even worse.
"O brother believers, the criminals, the terrorists — are the Jews, who have butchered our children, orphaned them, widowed our women and desecrated our holy places and sacred sites," said the cleric. "They are the terrorists. They are the ones who must be butchered and killed, as Allah the Almighty said: 'Fight them: Allah will torture them at your hands, and will humiliate them and will help you to overcome them, and will relieve the minds of the believers. …"
There's more — if you can stomach it.
"O brothers in belief, this is the case of the Jews and their habitual conduct, and what happened yesterday, and has been going on for two weeks, and before that for many years, and which will be repeated in future years unless we stand up like men and unless we have the known Muslim position, (the position) of those who wage Jihad in the path of Allah, those who defend their rights and who sacrifice all that is dear to them," said Halabita. "O brothers in belief, the beautiful bride has a costly price and dowry. … Our bride is paradise, O brothers in belief. …The cost and the dowry of this bride, the dowry of this paradise, is that we fight in the path of Allah, and kill and be killed."
And for those of you non-Jews, don't think this hatred is directed only toward Israel. Here's more from Halabita:
"This is the truth, O Brothers in belief. From here, Allah the almighty has called upon us not to ally with the Jews or the Christians, not to like them, not to become their partners, not to support them, and not to sign agreements with them. And he who does that, is one of them, as Allah said: 'O you who believe, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies, for they are allies of one another. Who from among you takes them as allies will indeed be one of them. …' The Jews are the allies of the Christians, and the Christians are the allies of the Jews, despite the enmity that exists between them. The enmity between the Jews and the Christians is deep, but all of them are in agreement against the monotheists — against those who say, 'There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger,' that is — they are against you, O Muslims."
Yes, this is a worldwide jihad.
"Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them — and those who stand by them — they are all in one trench, against the Arabs and the Muslims — because they established Israel here, in the beating heart of the Arab world, in Palestine. They created it to be the outpost of their civilization — and the vanguard of their army, and to be the sword of the West and the crusaders, hanging over the necks of the monotheists, the Muslims in these lands. They wanted the Jews to be their spearhead. …"
Land for peace? I don't think so.
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