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What is Travel Bank?
Travel Bank is an easy-to-use account where you accumulate and save travel credits resulting from non-refundable ticket changes, cancellations or service credits. These travel credits are kept in your Travel Bank until you use them to pay for future travel. What Travel Bank isn't: it's not an actual physical bank – we have no Travel Bank lobby furniture or plastic plants, no piped-in music or bank tellers.
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To use your Travel Bank, you must be signed into your WestJet Rewards account. When purchasing your flight(s) online, you will be given the option to use your Travel Bank credits or another form of payment. To use your travel credits for reservations made through our contact centre, just provide your WestJet Rewards ID or your first and last name when booking. If you don't have your Travel Bank information available at the time of booking, you may request to use your travel credits by calling our contact centre within 24 hours of making the booking. Changes to the form of payment after 24 hours are not permitted.
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Credits in your Travel Bank are based on the country you have listed in your WestJet Rewards account.
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Your Travel Bank can only be accessed by using your WestJet Rewards ID. Any fraudulent use of your Travel Bank will be investigated; however, WestJet is not liable for any unauthorized use of your WestJet Rewards ID, password, Travel Bank credits or your payment card information. Please take care to keep your WestJet Rewards ID confidential.
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Travel Bank credits cannot be used for WestJet Vacations packages.
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WestJet is not involved in any private transaction resulting from an advertisement on an online classified web site. WestJet does not handle the payment, guarantee transactions, offer buyer protection or seller certification for these advertisements. WestJet will not be liable for the loss of funds resulting from a fraudulent transaction.
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Feast Portland kicked off its second year with bready bang last night at the Sandwich Invitational, which featured 15 chefs competing for sandwich glory (Tillamook Cheese, a sponsor, served up three sandwiches as well).
It was a tough competition, with hometown heroes The Country Cat and Laurelhurst Market winning the people's choice and judging panel awards, respectively. Visiting chefs included Sean Brock of McCrady's and Husk, Paul Qui of East Side King and qui, Duff Goldman of Charm City Cakes, and Stuart Brioza and Nicole Krasinki of State Bird Provisions.
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cruise missile, low-flying, continuously powered offensive missile designed to evade defense systems. Although the German V-1 (1944) was a simple cruise missile, the cruise missile did not realize its potential until the 1970s, when the United States sought to develop a relatively inexpensive method for delivering weapons over long distances with pinpoint accuracy. The missile, which flies at altitudes of about 50 ft (15 m), has a range of up to 2,000 mi (3,200 km). It uses internally stored computerized maps of its route to follow the contour of the terrain and also makes use of information from navigation satellites to adjust its course. A cruise missile can deliver conventional or nuclear weapons. In its various modifications, it can be launched from aircraft, ships, or ground installations against land or naval targets. The U.S. Navy used conventional Tomahawk cruise missiles (TLAM-C) during the Persian Gulf War . Several other nations have developed cruise missiles. In 2017 the United States accused Russia of deploying intermediate-range nuclear cruise missiles in violation of the 1987 INF treaty.
See K. Werrell, The Evolution of the Cruise Missile (1985).
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Led by Hindi cinema's megastar Amitabh Bachchan, top stars attended the premiere of Jab Tak hai Jaan or, As Long As I Am Alive.
Chopra was known as the "King of Romance" for creating classic love stories that were immensely popular. He died last month days after finishing the film.
Bachchan, who acted in several of Chopra's blockbusters, said the entire industry was celebrating the film.
"I think Yash Chopra would have liked it. Despite his death, the whole industry is celebrating his movie, and I am very anxious to see it," he said.
Chopra's wife Pamela said the premiere was their way of celebrating Chopra's illustrious life rather than mourning his absence.
The film stars Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan in a love triangle with two leading ladies, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma. The story of the film has not been made public, though promotional clips show Khan as both a musician and an army officer.
Diwali premiere date
Monday's red-carpet event in India's entertainment capital, Mumbai, was attended by Aamir Khan, Salman Khan and several Bollywood actresses from Chopra's earlier movies, including Madhuri Dixit, Sridevi and Priety Zinta.
The opening date coincided with the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, and the timing was not without controversy.
Film producers consider a Diwali premiere date to be lucky, but it meant the movie ran into the release of yet another potential box-office blockbuster, Ajay Devgn's Son of Sardar.
Around 10 days ago, Devgn sent a legal notice to Yashraj Films, accusing Chopra's company of pressuring exhibitors to promote Jab Tak Hai Jaan over Son of Sardar over the Diwali festival holidays. – Sapa-AP


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On Know Nothings and Secret Societies – 2
In the 1830s and 1840s, Americans had rediscovered a fascination with fraternalism discarded earlier in the century "when anti-Masonry led to public suspicion of secret societies." (1) This was the era of the Odd Fellows, the Foresters, the Good Fellows and the Druids, the Red Men and the Heptasops. (2)
James McPherson marks the beginning of the movement that would lead to the "Know Nothing" American Party in the 1840s, when nativist parties flared and then cooled after the elections of 1844. (3) Relief from depression calmed tensions between native and foreign-born workers just in time for the massive influx of Europeans that resulted from that continent's potato blight. (4) But American nativist sentiments continue to simmer and "on a late December evening in 1844, thirteen men gathered in the home of printer Russell C. Root in New York City" to form a group calling itself the American Brotherhood. The name was eventually changed to "Order of United Americans (OUA)." Its goals, outlined in a "code of principles," were "to release our country from the thralldom of foreign domination." This marked the birth of a nativist fraternity…and formed the nucleus of a far larger nativist effort than ever before. (5)
Membership in the Order of United Americans was limited to white men, twenty-one years of age or older, native born and Protestant. Its leaders were reasonably affluent and good organizers albeit from the "margins of the establishment." This was a secret society replete with mysterious rituals and procedures that gave it an "illusion of antiquity." (6)
Central to its structure was the magical triad. There were three levels of authority (local chapter, state chancery, and national archchancery), three chancellors sent from chapter to chancery, three archchancellors sent on to national. But there was only one leader of the OUA (limited to a single year term) and in the language of the lodge vogue he was called the arch grand sachem. By 1850, he ruled over a truly national domain with groups in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Missouri, and Ohio. (6)
Gradually the organization began to become politicized and attracted "many conservative Whigs whose nativist ideology conveniently intersected with political needs in a time of party disarray." (7)
1. David H. Bennett, The Party Of Fear: The American Far Right from Nativism to the Militia Movement (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988), 106.
2. Ibid.
3. James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, (New York: Oxford Press, 1988), 130.
4. Ibid.
5. David H. Bennett, The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History, 105.
6. Ibid, 107.
7. Ibid., 110.


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Lincoln and Herndon in Mount Pulaski for birthday celebration
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[February 12, 2013]
PULASKI -- For those entering the Mount Pulaski Courthouse on
Saturday morning, it was a spectacular start to the day, with
President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln doing the greeting. A large crowd
of visitors and history buffs came out to enjoy the president's
birthday celebration.
The featured speaker in the courtroom was historian and
storyteller Brian "Fox" Ellis, who slipped into the first person as
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Springfield. The two were law partners for 16 years and friends for
much longer. Ellis held the standing-room-only crowd enthralled for
almost an hour as he portrayed Billy Herndon telling stories about
his friend Abraham Lincoln -- stories that answered some of the most
important questions about how Lincoln became a lawyer and his skill
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Ellis asked and answered a number of questions about how the
young Lincoln rose from poverty to be one of the most successful
lawyers in the United States, at one time the highest paid lawyer in
the country.
Lincoln traveled the 8th Judicial Circuit in central Illinois,
and he and Herndon were involved in over 4,000 cases. Lincoln
represented clients before the Illinois Supreme Court 400 times,
with some of the cases still relevant today.
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Ellis, as Herndon, stated that Lincoln's law career prepared him
for his role as arguably the greatest president of the United
Lincoln was a voracious reader and was interested in everything.
He used his vast knowledge on many subjects and his wonderful talent
for storytelling to win over juries all over central Illinois.
Brian "Fox" Ellis is a full-time storyteller and interpreter of
historic figures. He not only channels Billy Herndon, but Walt
Whitman, Charles Darwin and many others, sometimes spending up to a
year researching a new person so that he can present a seamless
first-person presentation. He rushed to leave Mount Pulaski to catch
a flight in St. Louis for Denver, where he was going to present
Charles Darwin at an event.
Ellis and his wife are currently moving from their Peoria home to
historic Bishop Hill, Ill., to open a bed and breakfast called Twin
Flower Inn.
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My arm hurts.
Between the fingers, across the wrist, up my forearm and elbow, and into my shoulder and neck. The first signs of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) and a major wake-up call. All those little micro movements on the keyboard, mouse clicks and scribbling by hand have added up to a massive great impediment to a writer.
The effect makes other activities painful. For the first time, I'm grateful that my left-hand drive car is an automatic.
RSI is not the only occupational hazard for your average wordsmith.
Matt Haig, in 10 Reasons Not To Be A WriterI'm not alone in facing physical aches and pains, (check out Jane Friedman's great post on back problems) so I asked others about the challenges of writerly pain and how they dealt with them.
They have bad backs. Maybe not the debut writers, but by the time of their third or fourth novel, they can hardly walk. This is why Margaret Atwood has to be winched everywhere with the aid of a helicopter. It is why Salman Rushdie is eight inches shorter than he used to be. It is why Julian Barnes always clenches his jaw.
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Joanna Penn, www.TheCreativePenn.com
I had increasingly bad back pain for around 9 months in 2012, to the point of waking me at night and I often slept on the couch with extra back support. I had a lot of tests but the doctors couldn't find anything wrong. The physio suggested sitting at my desk on a Swiss ball in order to foster micro-movements. I was only able to sit on it for an hour at first, alternating with my office chair, but within 6 weeks, the pain was practically gone and I always use a Swiss ball at my desk. I find myself bouncing on it sometimes as well as rocking around, plus I can just roll it sideways and lie backwards for a stretch while I'm thinking. It's a cheap and easy solution to the writer's bad back - perhaps not for everyone, but well worth trying!
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Iida Ruishalme – writer from Finland – who suffers from hyper-mobility
I had RSI when I was 15 years old from writing stories by hand. When I got older, I worked in a lab, using microscopes and computers, and the pain came back. So I experimented with speech recognition software for my writing. Both Mac and Windows have inbuilt voice to text systems, which are worth trying, but now I use Dragon software to write my first drafts, emails and so on. It took a while to get used to the commands and learn how to pronounce certain words in English, but now it's second nature. One thing freaked me out at first – sometimes when I paused to think about what to say next, the computer typed room, room, if, if, if, if. Finally I realised my hypersensitive microphone was picking up the sound of cars passing my window.
Roz Morris – http://rozmorris.wordpress.com/
I'm rather well acquainted with RSI. I crippled myself at the start of the 1990s, doing typesetting and layout on computers. I developed a gnawing ache in my arms and hands that was impossible to escape – even when not at work. Acupuncture erased it – but only lasted a couple of hours and cost an arm and a leg. Since then I've relied on ergonomics.
I learned to touch-type, which keeps the hand in an efficient position. I banished the back and shoulder pain by switching to a kneeling stool, which you can adjust so your hands fall into a natural position. Building the muscles in the back and upper body makes a difference - one theory is that RSI can be caused by wasted muscles pressing on nerves. If you can't abide weight training, swimming is good. Wrist rests didn't make any difference except to press on already sensitive nerves, but an ergonomic keyboard worked miracles. I found the curved ones weren't much help, but I discovered a hinged keyboard made by Goldtouch, which you fit to your shape. If you're having a painful day, you can adjust your typing position by changing the angle in the keyboard.
Standard mice are agony for me, as are those little laptop tracker pads. The 3M joystick mouse has made life a lot more comfortable. I still get breakthrough pain, so I use books to jack my monitor up to a different height. If none of that works, I go to the bad side. I have a notebook computer which is ergonomically awful, but a few days typing in that position gives me enough of a rest to return to the proper set-up.
Oh, and screen breaks are supposed to be important but I always forget to take them. Guess I could be more comfortable still ...
Making the Break
Ben Myers – author of Richard & Pig Iron – http://www.benmyers.com/
Ernest Hemingway famously wrote standing up, on a Royal portable typewriter. So, it seems, did Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Virginia Woolf and now Philip Roth, who suffers from arthritis in one shoulder. Victor Hugo meanwhile wrote in the nude, Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac, wrote in the bath to avoid interruption and Marcel Proust and Mark Twain both wrote in bed (though not together).
Personally, I'm still suffering, so painkillers, massages and many breaks are the best I can come up with ...
Libby O – Narrative Ninja from Australia – http://rowinggirl.com/
There's no quick fix. I'm doing physio and limiting my screen time. I also use a software program which enforces breaks – see five free alternatives here. The screen fades and shows a picture of someone meditating. Drives me mad, but seems to be working.
So, whether you use balls, dragons or adjustable mice, there are remedies. But damage takes time to repair. Prevention is better than cure. Take your breaks, move your muscles and above all, protect the instrument.
That'll be you.


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Torvalds Drops F-Bomb on Nvidia
Jun 25, 2012 5:00 AM PT
It's not often the "F-word" figures prominently in any major debate here in the Linux blogosphere, however frequently it may pop up on the sidelines.
Recently, however, it was catapulted into a starring role when it was uttered by none other than Linus Torvalds himself during a talk at the Aalto Centre for Entrepreneurship in Finland earlier this month.
The topic was Nvidia, to be precise -- specifically, its longstanding lackluster approach to Linux.
'Nvidia, F**K You!'
Torvalds wasn't shy about expressing his thoughts.
"Nvidia has been one of the worst trouble spots we've had with hardware manufacturers," Torvalds said. "That is really sad because Nvidia tries to sell chips into the Android market, and Nvidia has been the single worst company we've ever dealt with. So Nvidia, f**k you!"
To make his point crystal clear, Torvalds followed his comments with the prominent display of his middle finger.
The enthusiasm with which Linux bloggers seized on the topic was a sight to behold, and there were soon more than 650 comments on Slashdot alone.
'You Have to Appreciate Linus's Passion'
When Nvidia finally roused itself to publish a response several days later, the blogging masses remained largely unimpressed.
Word on the streets of the Linux blogosphere has tended to suggest that it was Nvidia with egg on its face as a result of the interaction. Of course, this being the Linux blogosphere, that sentiment was by no means unanimous.
"You have to appreciate Linus's passion about the issue," Google+ blogger Linux Rants told Linux Girl over a fresh round of Peppermint Penguins down at the Google+ Grill. "And he's right. The kind of support that Nvidia gives to Linux is deserving of Linus's comment."
Nvidia, in fact, "gave Linus basically the same response -- they just were more diplomatic in their wording," Linux Rants pointed out. "Their response basically said, 'We got your message but we're not changing anything'."
'Shame On Nvidia'
Indeed, "Linus really doesn't pull his punches," offered blogger Robert Pogson. "He must have a solid contract with The Linux Foundation. An ordinary employee would have been fired for offending a 'silver' member."
In any case, "I agree with Linus," Pogson opined. "A corporation intending to be a major part of IT should support Linux well with everything needed to make great FLOSS drivers.
"Of all the hardware that has bothered me on Linux over the years, WinModems and Nvidia's chips were the worst," he added. "I have often used the Vesa driver to get away from Nvidia to the extent possible. Shame on Nvidia."
'Plain Wrong'
Similarly, "I greatly prefer open source drivers where I can find them," agreed Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project. "It means they play better across distros than the closed source ones."
Nvidia "may not be legally able to provide the documentation requested, but for them to pretend that this is in the customer's best interest is plain wrong," Travers opined. "Currently most of my systems use Intel graphics cards," he added. "They aren't the best technically, but the drivers are open source and this makes upgrades a bit more manageable."
'Somewhere in Between'
Hyperlogos blogger Martin Espinoza took a more measured view.
"Linus: 'F**k you'; Nvidia: 'Don't bother me, kid.' I think the truth is somewhere in between," Espinoza offered.
"Sure, I'd like Nvidia to give everyone every piece of information they've got," Espinoza added. "But what I really like is having a working video driver, and that's something ATI has never given me.
"I own a machine whose core is too old to be supported by fglrx but which is too new or too weird to work with the ati driver," he explained. "Nvidia's official driver supports new cards fairly quickly and old cards for practically forever."
Torvalds, however, "would apparently prefer graphics that don't work," Espinoza concluded. "I would prefer graphics that do. I am not willing to drop back to graphics my *ss to get there, and besides, some of those designs are licensed and not fully open anyway."
'It Is the Price of Freedom'
Some felt Torvalds's outburst was too much.
"Linus Torvalds has to stop these public tirades," opined Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor, for example. "A piece of hardware does not work well with Linux, or a Linux machine is having trouble accessing a network printer? Learn to live with it. It is the price of freedom."
In fact, "remember what Linus Torvalds said about people contributing to open source for selfish reasons?" Lim pointed out. "If Nvidia does not want anything from the open source community for its Optimus Drivers, why open it up to the Open Source community?"
In short, "I think there is a need for both proprietary software and open source," he concluded.
'That Is Linus Torvalds's Fault'
Similarly, "it's Linus's ego that has made things the way they are, so why should we listen to him?" wondered Slashdot blogger hairyfeet.
"Every. Single. OS. of any import OTHER than Linux has an ABI," hairyfeet pointed out. "Why? Because they WORK.
"Look at how things are now -- Nvidia and AMD have to keep writing drivers for hardware they haven't sold in years because without it then they DO NOT WORK," he added. "That is 100 percent Linus Torvalds's fault!"
'They Need to Be Dragged the Rest of the Way'
Not everyone saw it that way, however.
"Having to hunt down drivers is something I don't miss about Windows, and Nvidia is now the only hardware maker I still have to download drivers for," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told Linux Girl.
"The best part is that they used to be even worse, since you used to have to download a driver to run something as simple as their network chipset," he recalled. "The only reason they stopped doing that is because some of the Linux kernel people realized it was based on the AMD chipset and then managed to reverse engineer a driver that ended up being better-performing."
Nvidia "got dragged kicking and screaming into the FOSS world," in other words, "and now they need to be dragged the rest of the way," Mack opined.
"At the very least they should release the specs for their cards and let their own customers choose between the resulting FOSS driver and their own closed source," Mack suggested. "Such a move could even help them, since their chipset could more easily be used for platforms they don't expect rather than being married to X86 like they are now."


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Wines From Spain Plan Promotions
Mon 24 Oct 2005
With the appointment of Maria Jose Sevilla as the director of Wines and Food From Spain at the Spanish Embassy, a new marketing team have been putting together a campaign to raise the profile of Spanish wines in the UK.
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As a keen supporter of Wines From Spain events, we participated with the Embassy earlier this year at Badminton Horse Trials and the Great Yorkshire Show, and we will be at The Wine Show, Islington, London on 28th-30th October 2005. Watch this space for more information regarding future events with the Spanish Embassy!


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It was 1981, and the auditorium of Pasadena's Raymond Theatre was packed to the gills with excited teenagers and twentysomethings. Onstage, Wendy O. Williams, lead singer of the punk band the Plasmatics, had just spray-painted the word "F**K" onto an orange Chevy Nova that had been brought onstage. The crowd was going wild, having witnessed her earlier demolition of a television set with a sledgehammer.
Unexpectedly, Williams disappeared for a moment, returning with a cluster of what appeared to be lit dynamite, which she lobbed into the passenger seat of the Nova. There was an anticipatory pause, and then the car's hood exploded in a massive fireball, scattering shards of metal. Though the dynamite itself was a prop, the car had been rigged with real explosives, and the rush of air from the blast could be felt more than 100 feet from the stage. The stunt thrilled many a teenager and horrified many a Pasadena City Council member.
The Plasmatics and their outrageous shows remain notorious, but they were merely one of hundreds of bands and musicians — including Bruce Springsteen, the Pretenders, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Oingo Boingo, the Ramones, Talking Heads, Jackson Browne, Hall & Oates, Phil Collins, R.E.M., Depeche Mode and Guns N' Roses — that played the Raymond Theatre between 1980 and 1991, when it was known mostly as Perkins Palace.
For its relatively brief existence as a rock venue, Perkins Palace showcased new wave, punk, metal and even jazz musicians. British bands New Order, the Cure, and Adam and the Ants made their Southern California debuts at the theater, and during the 1980s, it was featured in films such as This Is Spinal Tap and The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years, as well as numerous music videos (such as Whitney Houston's hit from The Bodyguard, "I Will Always Love You"). On off nights, it was used by artists like Gladys Knight, Mötley Crüe and Van Halen for rehearsals before world tours. The venue even briefly had its own TV program, the Emmy-nominated Rock 'N' Roll Tonite, Live from Perkins Palace, which aired on NBC from 1982-4.
The theater's brief rise and fall as a rock palace began in 1978, when brothers Marc and Jim Perkins purchased the property. Marc Perkins, a former investment counselor and owner of Perkins Restaurant (later the Parkway Grill), envisioned the building as a multiuse facility that could host concerts in its auditorium and banquets in its upstairs lobby. The venue, first known as Jensen's Raymond Theatre, originally opened in 1921, serving for decades as a performance space for vaudeville troupes, jazz bands, opera productions, burlesque acts and plays of the era, like Peg o' My Heart.
"Pasadena's newest temple of the drama and the motion-picture art," as the Los Angeles Times called it, underwent numerous changes of ownership over the years, becoming the Crown Theater in 1948 and switching primarily to films — even exhibiting adult films like Deep Throat in the mid-'70s. By the time the Perkins brothers purchased it, it had seen some mileage, but its previous owner, Bruce Barkis, had renovated it and despite its age, it was in good condition. Theytook a gamble that Pasadena's lack of a real rock venue had created a desire they could capitalize on.
Though Pasadena's rock scene was never as big or as well-publicized as Hollywood's, by the 1970s, a strong local music scene had sprung up, including Van Halen, whose first shows in the backyards of Pasadena mansions eventually led to gigs at Pasadena High School and the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Other local bands like Smile, Stormer and A La Carte soon followed.
Pasadena did have a rock venue at one point, but its history had been brief. The Rose Palace, a large building on South Raymond Avenue built in 1964 for the construction of floats for the Rose Parade, had served from 1969 to 1970 as a concert hall, presenting a staggering roster of musicians, including the Who, the Byrds, Led Zeppelin, Joe Cocker, Cream, Deep Purple, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Grateful Dead, before complaints to Pasadena officials shut it down.
Farther up the street, the Raymond Theatre was in a neighborhood that was in many ways perfect for a rock venue. Old Town in the late 1970s was, as one anonymous poster on the L.A. Independent Media Center web site recalls, "a burnt-out bastion of dive bars, porno parlors and low-end department stores and thrift shops." Simultaneously, however, there was a hip undercurrent. Eclectic merchants lined the side streets off Colorado, as did artists' colonies and nooks and crannies like the Espresso Bar and the Loch Ness Monster Pub. This was the Old Town where artists inhabited places like the Hotel Carver and the Braley Building, the Old Town where, in 1978, the Doo Dah Parade was dreamed up by some intoxicated friends in a neighborhood bar.
"There's always been this kind of free-spirit, cool bohemian energy downtown," says Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez, former drummer for Oingo Boingo, who grew up nearby. "I remember riding my ten-speed bike up to the corner of Fair Oaks and Colorado and going to the head shop, looking at all the blacklight posters, you know, looking at all the hippies. It was just kind of a hometown crowd — and those are the kind of crowds that came to the shows at Perkins Palace."
Into this milieu, "Pasadena's Hot New Concert Hall," as it was billed, opened in early 1980, and it would soon draw crowds not only from Old Town but from the entire San Gabriel Valley and Hollywood. Having made a hefty investment, the Perkins brothers hired a promotion agency to help stage shows by such established musicians as Smokey Robinson, Dave Mason and Leon Russell. The shows sold well, but recognition was still a challenge. Few people in Pasadena seemed to view the city as a viable rock hot spot. "For a long time we'd go into record stores in town," Marc Perkins recalled in a later interview, "and they'd have concert ads from the paper pasted up on the bulletin board — except for the Perkins Palace ads. It was like they were saying, 'Nothing ever happens in Pasadena!'"
But they soon recognized the potential in a different kind of music — the kind that was being played by a radio station half a mile away called KROQ. Located on the second floor of a drab two-story building at 117 S. Los Robles Avenue, KROQ was small but influential, having become known as one of the first stations in the U.S. to play bands like the Sex Pistols, the Runaways and the Ramones. Their DJs, like Rodney Binghenheimer and Jed the Fish, were eccentrics who always seemed to be one step ahead of the latest musical trend.
By the fall of 1980, the Perkins brothers switched to a policy that emphasized new bands like Oingo Boingo, X, the Go-Go's and Romeo Void, and they promoted the shows in cooperation with the station. This allowed them to lower ticket prices (which averaged about $6.50) and broaden their audience. They also hired a young law student named Mark Geragos to help with promotions. Geragos, who was then in his early twenties, would go on become a well-known attorney for such clients as Michael Jackson and Scott Peterson. He performed a variety of roles at the venue, including recording their outgoing phone message, which began, "Okay, you've connected with Perkins Palace in the beautiful city of Pasadena."
KROQ proved a great asset to Perkins Palace in its first two years. The station advertised shows on the air, brought musicians in-studio, and hosted pancake breakfasts in its tiny back parking lot, where fans could meet the bands and get autographs. Soon, most flyers for Perkins Palace read, "KROQ 106.7 FM & Perkins, Perkins & Geragos Present." With KROQ's cooperation, Perkins Palace secured some of the hottest new bands of the day, giving Pasadena a sudden cachet in the L.A. music scene. Things did happen in Pasadena.
By early 1981, word about the venue spread, not just among concertgoers but between bands themselves, who were impressed with the hall. Adam and the Ants played Perkins Palace after hearing positive words about it from another band. Los Angeles Times music critic Robert Hilburn also became an early champion, praising its "imaginative booking policy" in a May 1981 piece titled "For Rock in Pasadena, It's Perkins." Marc Perkins claimed optimistically that same year, "We've begun to build an identity here." Concert promoters Avalon Attractions began working with the theater, and other radio stations, like KLOS, began to sponsor shows — notably a November 1981 Pretenders show where Bruce Springsteen made an unannounced appearance.
In the early '80s, when KROQ was not busy playing odd novelty songs like "Johnny Are You Queer?" or local groups like Oingo Boingo, they were playing British bands. Its "top 106.7" song list from 1981 included songs by such bands as Spandau Ballet, Bow Wow Wow, Killing Joke, Billy Idol, Gang of Four, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Depeche Mode, the English Beat and Rockpile. On its list of top songs from 1982, more half the bands were British.
In fact, the entire rock scene in the U.S. in the early '80s was experiencing what many likened to a "second British Invasion," and with the help of KROQ, Perkins Palace got first dibs on many of these hot bands from across the pond. In addition to New Order and Adam and the Ants, 1981 saw performances from British musicians the Specials, Joe Jackson, the Stranglers, the Cure, Stiff Little Fingers, the English Beat and Siouxsie & the Banshees.
The bands could be both innovative, and as faddish as the myriad Beatles clones that sprang up in the wake of the first British Invasion of the 1960s. Times critic Richard Cromelin delighted in referring to slick pop bands like Haircut 100 (which played Perkins in 1982) as "faintly androgynous, hypersensitive young boys shrouded in fogs of vague, self-absorbed poetry." More esoteric and downbeat acts from the U.K. brought puzzlement from concertgoers as well as critics. "Don't be so serious!" an audience member reportedly yelled during the Cure's July 1981 Perkins Palace show. Still, the overwhelming feeling among the young people who attended these shows was that this was something new and fresh.
One of the most exciting and highly anticipated bands, however, was American: the Plasmatics. Hailing from New York City's punk scene, they had been touring the country during 1980-1 and had been the subject of much controversy, having been arrested twice on tour (once for indecency in Milwaukee and once for obscenity in Cleveland). KROQ had been playing their song "Sex Junkie" in heavy rotation, and the buzz surrounding them was enormous. Stephen Duncan, who graduated from Arcadia High School in 1982, remembers, "It was our chance to finally see this band that we were only hearing on KROQ, and it was wild — it was a big, new wave, punk rock, slash and bang slamdance, and we weren't finding that anywhere else."
When the three Plasmatics shows he'd booked sold out, Jim Perkins wanted to book a fourth. In what was probably a well-planned publicity stunt, lead singer Wendy O. Williams went on KROQ and announced that if Jim Perkins would let them blow up his white Lincoln Continental onstage, they would consent to a fourth show.
He agreed, and the fourth show sold out within an hour. KROQ also co-sponsored a contest where the winner got to have Williams come to his house and sledgehammer his television. Remarkably, the car-demolishing stunt did not seem to violate the fire or safety codes of the day, but it was certainly dangerous — besides scattered shrapnel, the blast created enough volume so engineers had to throw plywood over the speaker stacks to keep them from blowing up.
If 1981 saw a peak in new wave acts at Perkins Palace, the following years were more diverse. Metal was gaining popularity, and bands like Mötley Crüe and Quiet Riot began to play the venue. A three-night stand by mod-revivalists the Jam in 1982 drew fans from as far away as San Diego. That year also marked the beginning of a series of broadcasts on NBC called Rock 'n' Roll Tonite, which featured acts like Phil Collins, Todd Rundgren, Quiet Riot, INXS and Sparks.
Gina Zamparelli, a young Pasadena concert producer, had been selling out concerts at Odd Fellows Hall, a 700-capacity venue on Los Robles Avenue, and the city wanted her to look for a larger space to keep crowds under control (the parking lot would often burst with another 500-plus concertgoers). She negotiated a deal with Marc Perkins to bring her shows to Perkins Palace, ushering in a new era of metal and rock, with bands from both Pasadena and Hollywood, including W.A.S.P., Ratt, Great White and Armored Saint. At this time, Avalon Attractions was ending its tenure with Perkins Palace, and Marc Perkins agreed to let Zamparelli take over management of the theater.
As metal was going strong, start-up punk rock promoters Goldenvoice struck a deal to bring more punk shows to Perkins Palace; but when shows by Black Flag, the Cramps and Specimen gained popularity, a rougher crowd began frequenting the venue, causing many to label it "Punker Palace." Zamparelli took it upon herself to ensure the protection of the theater from disruptive concertgoers and routinely had to placate the police and fire departments, who were called by irate property owners in the neighborhood. "The punk years left a bad image of the theater and caused problems with the city," Zamparelli later remembered. The Goldenvoice employees themselves could often be a handful. "When I wasn't there, you never knew what they were doing," she says. "They would play raquetball at night inside the theater!"
The Plasmatics were not the last band to attempt an outrageous stunt onstage. In 1984, German industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten, known for incorporating power tools into their live shows, proposed a unique exit strategy that tried Zamparelli's patience. "I spent hours in the dressing room telling the band they would not jackhammer their way out of the theater," she recalls. "They disagreed, so I brought on twenty more security guards… and lined the walls of the theater with men and had them escorted out after the show."
A series of punk concerts in 1984 drew particular complaints from local property owners. Fights were rare, but crowds both in and outside the venue could be rowdy and would sometimes tear up seats, litter and get drunk. By the mid-'80s, plans were afoot to revitalize Old Town, and this kind of environment did not sit well with city officials.
Due to this combination of factors, Marc Perkins closed Perkins Palace after a July 27, 1984 performance by English band the Cult, and he began to think of converting the building to different uses. During the next three years, the theater was dark, though it was used for music video shoots, the occasional public function and a the taping of a Showtime/KROQ special called Rock of the '80s in 1984.
Zamparelli, a longtime historic preservation advocate, convinced Perkins that there was still concert life in the building, if it could be cleaned up a little. He eventually consented, but not before securing assistance from Pacificoncerts, a large promotions agency, which spruced up the place. Perkins Palace reopened in July 1987, and for the next year presented concerts by bands like the Dickies, Lizzy Borden, Public Image Ltd., Poison, Warlock, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Guns N' Roses. But the renaissance was short lived. In 1985, Perkins had sold a share of the property to developers Gene and Marilyn Buchanan, who believed the theater should be converted into offices. In 1988, concerts abruptly ceased, and Marc Perkins told Gina Zamparelli that this plan would be going forward. This initiated a long and bitter battle that would stretch for nearly twenty years.
Zamparelli immediately contacted Pasadena mayor Rick Cole and requested a feasibility study to see if the theater could be saved, which the City Council approved. While the study was taking place, however, Gary Folgner, a restaurateur, bought the building from the Buchanans in 1989. Optimistic about its continued use as a concert space, he spent $1 million renovating it and it reopened in November 1990 as the Raymond Theatre, with a performance by pop band Toto. Pasadena officials closed the venue a month later due to fire violations. Folgner spent more money correcting the problems, and the theater opened again in early 1991, but Folgner had made too risky an investment, and he was forced to give the theater back to the Buchanans later that year. As a farewell nod to its early new wave days, Devo was one of the final bands to play the venue, on March 23, 1991.
After Folgner left, the city lost faith in the effort to save the Raymond, and the project to convert the theater to offices moved forward. Zamparelli formed a nonprofit organization named Friends of the Raymond Theatre and for the next decade successfully fought several proposed conversion plans for the theater — including separate plans to turn it into a boutique hotel and a nightclub.
The preservation struggle took on a character of high drama. Musicians like Slash, David Lee Roth and members of Oingo Boingo showed up at hearings. Lizzy Borden, Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. and others released statements to the media, and hundreds of angry letters with headings like "Treasure trashed" and "Selling out history" poured in to the Pasadena Weekly and Star News. Zamparelli sued the city several times, and the Pasadena Weekly eventually published a story claiming that funds had changed hands between the Buchanans and certain City Council members. Despite these efforts, destruction of the theater went forward (some claimed without proper permits), and the interior was gutted and redeveloped into the Raymond Renaissance, a block of condominiums, offices and retail space that opened in 2009. While the Buchanans made a point of leaving the original "Jensen's Raymond Theatre" façade and other minor features intact, the conversion was drastic enough that the building's days as a concert venue were over forever.
For those of a certain generation who grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, the Raymond's days as Perkins Palace were an essential part of their teenage years, and to see the space desecrated saddened many. "It was just something of nostalgia a little closer to us in the San Gabriel Valley," says Stephen Duncan. "If you look through the history of Hollywood and the San Gabriel Valley and a lot of the old things that were landmarks in their time — it's surprising that anything remains. They'll tear down something of such nostalgia and they'll put a parking lot."
Of the theater's loss, Oingo Boingo's Hernandez has harsher words to say: "It's really regrettable. It's a loss not only to Pasadena, but reflective of a loss in the entire nation. If you go from town to town, you can see the corporatization of everything. America is driven by the almighty dollar, and not by the intelligence, the experience of life, and the understanding that it's not all about commerce."
Author's note: Special thanks to Gina Zamparelli, Johnny "Vatos" Hernandez, Stephen Duncan, Jon Pool, and Michele Harwick for their recollections of Perkins Palace. Thanks also to the Pasadena Public Library and their Los Angeles Times archive, including Robert Hilburn's profile of Perkins Palace, published May 26, 1981. Descriptions and stills of the Plasmatics shows were taken from Wendy O. Williams and The Plasmatics: The DVD – Ten Years of Revolutionary Rock and Roll.
See History Buff's Flickr account for more pictures of Perkins Palace and a near-complete list of bands that played there.


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The Legionella bacterium Legionella pneumophila (L. pneumophila), the fundamental agent of Legionnaires' disease, is a water-based organism that causes infection when inhaled in an aerosol form.
Legionnaires' disease acquired its name in 1976 when an outbreak of pneumonia occurred among persons attending a convention of the American Legion in Philadelphia.
Later, the bacterium causing the illness was named Legionella.
Normally associated with cooling towers and evaporative condensers, mist machines, humidifiers, whirlpool spas and showers, the L. pneumophila bacteria is most commonly associated with the disease outbreak legionellosis.
Legionella bacteria thrive in stagnant water — things such as water tanks, reservoirs, piping systems, sink basins, etc.
The bacteria require temperatures between 68 degrees Fahrenheit (F) and 113 degrees F — under 68 degrees Fahrenheit or over 140 degrees Fahrenheit and they are killed — and a supply of nutrients found in algae, rust, sludge and scale.
Preventing Proliferation
Health agencies continually draw attention to the risks of L. pneumophila and good practices concerning its prevention.
Conditions that affect the proliferation of Legionella in commercial facilities include:
- The presence of scale deposits or algae growth in the water
- Dead legs in pipework or stagnation due to low use of outlets and fixtures
- Low temperatures in hot water heaters and distribution systems
- Stratification in water heaters
- Inappropriate water treatment.
L. pneumophila may be able to colonize certain types of water fittings, pipework and materials used in the construction of water systems.
The presence of such materials and large quantities of sediment may provide nutrients for Legionella and can make eradication difficult.
In practice, L. pneumophila is found in many recirculating hot and cold water systems, particularly those found in hospitals, hotels, office complexes and factories.
Managing the risks from Legionella in water systems requires a holistic approach and a suite of control measures underpinned by a suitable and sufficient risk assessment specific to the risk system in question.
In hard water areas, scale formation can be a problem unless properly managed and can increase the likelihood of Legionella persisting.
Scale And Biofilms
Scale or lime scale is a hard, rock-like deposit of calcium or magnesium salts that forms in heat exchangers and cooling tower packing and other water-fed equipment as a result of heat.
Scale formation impairs heat transfer, interferes with flow and can be a breeding ground for Legionella bacteria.
The scaling tendency of a water supply will depend on the hardness of the water; but, if not adequately treated, even relatively soft water can fall victim to scaling when concentrated by evaporation.
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Scale is a major problem in both hot and cold water systems.
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They have been highlighted as a major possible source of Legionnaires' disease mainly because of the large number of people that can be affected.
However, in a tower that is well-designed and maintained, the chances of problems related to L. pneumophila are greatly reduced.
Most cases of outbreaks have occurred in towers that were poorly designed and had little or no regular maintenance performed.
In cooling towers, temperature, water hardness, pH, scale and corrosion are all factors that increase the chance of biofilms, algae and Legionella colonization.
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Water softeners are sometimes used, but they can cause a problem with foaming.
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"Cockroaches really are the perfect medium for this," says William Charlton, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at the university and a principal investigator on the project. "They can go for extraordinarily long periods of time without food. They exist on every continent except Antarctica. They're very radiation resistant, and they can carry extremely large amounts of weight compared to their body mass."
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275 runners raced to the finish line to show their support for those affected by the attacks
Runners and supporters from the community raised more than $1.500 for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings at a memorial run on Monday.
"I really wanted to come out and support all of those who were affected by Boston," said Ian Brecht, a sophomore cross county runner from the University of Arkansas Fort Smith.
Brecht said he couldn't miss the opportunity to run in this race.
"I heard about the race a couple of weeks ago," he said. "I thought there were maybe going to be a hundred people, but we saw three or four-hundred people."
Mary Jo Brinkman was running in the Boston Marathon when the bombs exploded.
This is her first race since the attacks.
"Don't quit," Brinkman said. "That's the main thing. Don't let the terrorists win. We just have to continue to run."
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Big news from The Kitchen, the Front Range restaurant group that operates in Denver and Boulder: It is opening a branch in Chicago by year's end.
Owners and founders Hugo Matheson and Kimbal Musk sent out a formal announcement Jan. 22, soon after their plane landed in Chicago for some business related to the new place.
"It's very exciting," Musk told the Post, and you could practically hear his teeth chattering in the frigid air. "We love Chicago."
The move came in the wake of The Kitchen Community, the restaurant group's non-profit arm, planting 100 Learning Gardens in Chicago schools. Their efforts put them in touch with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and Musk and Matheson grew enthusiastic about the notion of a restaurant in the Windy City.
The pair signed a lease for space in the historic Reid Murdoch building located at 316 N. Clark St. in the River North neighborhood, at the corner of Clark and the Chicago River. Slated to open later this year, the restaurant will showcase the building's 100-year history.
"The building has a very similar feel to the Sugar Building in LoDo"(home of The Kitchen Denver), Musk said. "It's a match made in heaven."
Musk said part of the trip is getting to know farmers and purveyors in the Chicago area. Both the Kitchen Denver and Kitchen Boulder are big on using local ingredients, and that will continue in Chicago. "The menu will be different from our other restaurants, but we'll have the same philosophy."
It's going to be a big year for The Kitchen. In late spring, Matheson and Musk are also opening a new restaurant in Fort Collins.


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The socks were first shown off at BlizzCon last year, but they're now available for sale.
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Creating trust and success within your organization requires teamwork. Miami Beach corporate team building workshops provided by THEY improv are enjoyable experiences for all. When people have fun, they are more receptive to information and more likely to actively participate.
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