text:
Some time ago the vested interest groups decided it would be a really big money spinner to move all TV in the UK to a digital platform and so started the cons. First we were told we would need a new TV and then when the truth was publicised in the newspapers and people realised they could get digital with a cheap set top box the advertisements were changed to say "You may need a new aerial" and all over the country antenna installers rubbed their hands. Anyone who asked was told they needed a new expensive digital aerial when for many a simple indoor loop was good enough. There are but a few days until the full switch over on November 4th but the lies still persist with the elderly being most at risk of being conned into buying a new digital TV and spending £500 on an antenna that cost the installer £10.
One of the early UK areas to experience the turn off of the analogue signals is Devon and Cornwall and holes are starting to emerge in the digital system. During periods of only lightly enhanced propagation viewers are losing their local BBC 1, 2 and ITV channels swamped with signals from Welsh digital TV repeaters. Viewers report watching a program in English only for it to switch to Welsh and back again. Sometimes the switch is a brief flicker for a few seconds and at other times they see segments of a couple of minutes at a time. Even when both English and Welsh stations are transmitting the same program there is a slight time difference which gives an effect similar to a scratched record jumping back and forwards. I think the first good lift after the switchover will see similar problems nationwide. I am glad I invested in Sky satellite TV along time ago.


text:
Mixtape Monday: Big Cats Island Universes Premiere, DJ Rashad Hayes, DJ Premier x DJ Eclipse x Sean Price + More!
5 years ago
It's all about craftsmanship during this new re-up of Mixtape Monday. We're putting one up for all the knob-tweakers and mouse clickers, the DJs who put in work on their laptops sealing up every single last bar of their mix before it goes live. Leading it all off is our world premiere of Big Cats's brilliant and expansive new Island Universe mix, which has the Minneapolis producer and selector stacking his own bootlegs and rare edits up against some of the biggest names in today's hip-hop galaxy. From there, DJ Rashad Hayes delivers a little live fire from New Orleans, and legends DJ Eclipse and DJ Premier pay tribute to our fallen hero, Sean Price. It's fresh, varied and delicious all around, so let's get right to it, shall we?

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Tweet This
Talk to any beauty-product enthusiast and she probably has an early memory of her first visit to the beauty floor at her local department store. Stepping in from the drab parking lot into a magical world where heavily made-up women offered perfume spritzes, vivid signage showed pouting models in glossy bright makeup, and glass cabinets filled with tubes, bottles and jars sang their siren songs of glamour and smooth skin.
Beauty counters have traditionally been on the ground floor of department stores to encourage impulse buys, luring in customers who didn't realize they "needed" that tube of on-trend pink lipstick or to try the latest anti-aging cream. But as customers evolved, the department stores for the most part stayed the course. That all changed yesterday when Hudson Bay's Company-owned Saks Fifth Avenue introduced their new beauty space on the second floor of their Fifth Avenue flagship in New York.
So what drove Saks to move their beauty department to the second floor? Far from a banishment, this move shows that the decision-makers at Saks recognize their consumers now make impulse purchases online and want a shopping destination where they can relax, learn, test, and receive treatments. According to a recent study by Accenture, Millennials actually prefer shopping in a brick and mortar than online. Though once millennial consumers get to that brick and mortar, they won't settle for the usual perfume spritzers and gatekeepers behind the counters. They want experience.
When shoppers visit the new beauty floor, which Saks has dubbed Beauty on 2, they can expect a 32,000-square-foot space equipped with 15 spa treatment rooms and an 850-square-foot event space where Saks will host influencer workshops, master classes, public appearances, small private gatherings and visual installations.
If that wasn't enough experience, shoppers can have their faces massaged into contoured submission at FaceGym, a U.K.-import that has been successful in its residency at posh department store Selfridge's in London. After their cheekbones reach maximum height, shoppers can melt fat with CoolSculpting at the Skinney MedSpa, get their brows and lashes tinted at Blink Brow Bar London, and meditate while getting a non-toxic manicure at Sundays. If they aren't spent from all the activities, shoppers can browse 122 cosmetics, skincare, fragrance and wellness brands, including 61 that are new to Beauty on 2.
While shoppers might still see an occasional sign featuring a glowering model in a statement lip, the glass cabinets have been replaced with antique armoires and self-serve shelves full of products. The aggressive perfume spritzers have been replaced (at least at the Guerlain Parfumeur boutique) with a digital consultation service where visitors can choose from 110 different creations and personalize their own bottle.
While it's too soon to tell if this pivot will manifest in more beauty sales for Saks, they have created an environment where their customers are encouraged to spend all day rather than buying a lipstick on the run. One would have to assume that more time spent in-store will translate to more sales and that Saks' competitors will soon have to rethink their own beauty strategies.


text: Felis ISSN 2398-2950 Pleural fluid: cytology Contributor(s): Kathleen P Freeman, Karen L Gerber, Andy Torrance Overview Sampling Tests Result Data Overview Pleural fluid occurs within the thoracic cavity. Very little or no fluid can be aspirated unless effusion is present. Normal fluid is clear and colorless to slightly yellow and is of low cellularity (<1000 nucleated cells/ml) and low protein (</-2.5 g/dl). Four mechanisms result in cavity effusions: Transudate - low specific gravity fluid crosses membrane barrier. Exudate - inflammation allows fluid with high cellular and protein component ot cross vessel walls. Vessel or viscous rupture. Neoplastic proliferation. Examination of cell morphology helps to distinguish sterile and septic exudates. Sometimes neoplastic cells are recognized (especially in lymphoma Lymphoma) → a non-invasive technique for diagnosing intrathoracic neoplasia. Cytology enables finer differentiation of type of pleural effusion. Use in combination with cell count and differential Pleural fluid: differential cell count, protein Pleural fluid: protein, culture Pleural fluid: culture and sensitivity. Sampling This article is available in full to registered subscribers Sign up now to purchase a 30 day trial, or Login Tests Methodologies Direct smear from drop of fluid using blood smear technique. Cetrifuge Centrifuge sample and make smear from sediment. For fluids of low cellularity: Centrifuge at 100 rpm for 10 min. Pour off supernanatant (care should be taken to observe specimen during pour-off since viscous pleural fluid may result in loss of sediment). Flick tube to suspend sediment. Put 1 drop on slide. Make smear as for blood smear or use pull-apart/squash method using 2 slides. Romanowsky-type stains most commonly used for cytologic evaluation. Cytocentrifuge preparations or other special methods for concentration may be available at some commercial laboratories. Availability Widely available at commercial laboratories. Smears can be examined in practice. ValiditySensitivity As with any cytologic specimen absence of evidence does not provide conclusive support for absence of a particular condition. Specificity As with any cytologic specimen absence of evidence does not provide conclusive support for absence of a particular condition. Technician (extrinsic) limitations May be difficult to differentiate reactive mesothelial cells from some neoplastic cells. Send for expert analysis. Result Data This article is available in full to registered subscribers Sign up now to purchase a 30 day trial, or Login Further ReadingPublicationsRefereed papers Recent references from VetMed Resource and PubMed. McCullough S et al(1999) Collection and interpretation of respiratory cytology. Clin Tech Small Anim Pract 14(4), 220-6. Dunn J K & Villers E (1998) Cytological and biochemical assessment of pleural and peritoneal effusions. In Practice 20, 501-505. Rishniw M et al(1998) Hydrothorax secondary to a perinephric pseudocyst in a cat. Vet Radiol Ultrasound 39(3), 193-196. Fossum T W et al(1992) Severe bilateral fibrosing pleuritis associated with chronic chylothorax in five cats and two dogs. JAVMA 201(2), 317-324. Hawkins E C et al(1986) Immunoglobulin A myeloma in a cat with pleural effusion and serum hyperviscosity. JAVMA 188(8), 876-878. Other sources of information Baker R & Lumsden J H (2000) Pleural and Peritoneal Fluids. In: Color Atlas of Cytology of the Dog and Cat. Mosby, St Louis. pp 159-165. ISBN 0 8151 0402 2. Cowell R L, Tyler R D & Meinkoth J H (1999) Diagnostic Cytology and Hematology of the Dog and Cat. 2nd edn. Mosby, St. Louis. Duncan J R, Prasse K W & Mahaffey E A (1994) Veterinary Laboratory Medicine. In: Clinical Pathology. 3rd edn. Iowa State University Press. Cowell R L, Tyler R D & Meinkoth J H (1989) Abdominal and thoracic fluid. In: Diagnostic Cytology of the Dog and Cat.1st edn. American Veterinary Publications Ltd. pp 151-166.


text: New Music Video: Way Out – Greg Banks If you've heard GREG BANKS' latest single, 'Way Out' last week on NEW LEASE MUSIC, then you might have remembered a mention of a music video coming very soon…Well here it is! Hit that play button on this three-and-half production on Greg's most personal song to date. Share this:TwitterFacebookLinkedInPinterestTumblrRedditPocketPrintEmailWhatsAppSkypeLike this:Like Loading... Related November 6, 2017November 6, 2017 by Tracey Dawkins Categories: New VideosTags: Greg banks, new music video, New York City, RNB, song about survival, soul, USA, Way Out (single) Leave a comment


text:
Looking Back
110 Years Ago - July 7, 1906
Fred Lawrence, a business man of Tacoma, tells the following in the Portland Sunday Journal: "I boarded a passenger train claimed by the Columbia River and Northern, which operates between Goldendale and Lyle, a distance of 43 miles. When we got on at Goldendale we had a down grade ride all the way to Lyle, and I was congratulating myself on a speedy journey and quick connections into Portland.
"It is true that I was not much impressed with the appearance of the train, which was made up of a combination baggage and passenger coach, a flatbed loaded with lumber and a freight car packed with merchandise.
"There was among the passengers an old...
For access to this article please sign in or subscribe.


text:
Mentioned in:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mutt: On Patrick Modiano
I remember when I began to hate Patrick Modiano. It was in November, 1978. Lingering at the newsstand next to the old Arts Cinema in Cambridge, England, waiting to catch a matinée and leafing through the latest copy of the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, I came across a photo that soured my entire day.
I'd begun to teach myself French some six months earlier, having had a useless three years of it in high school, and another wasted two semesters in college. I'd learned nothing. Rien. So looking through French news magazines was a bit of an ego boost. The articles and captions were as simple to follow as Monsieur le Président Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's very slow and deliberate delivery before he faded into obscurity.
There Modiano is, smiling at me, gloating over his newly-crowned Prix Goncourt novel Rue des Boutiques Obscures (Missing Person), seeming to say, "Mon ami, you are a loser," while a bank of excited press photographers crouches to capture his image. He had good hair, he was young, I had good hair, I was young, but my career as a published author was still a few very long years away. I had travelled 3,000 miles to make a career for myself, and here I was, looking at the face of success. And so, privately, without any basis in reality, without having read a single word by him, I turned my wrath upon Patrick Modiano. What is it Gore Vidal used to say? Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. I'd reached the stage in which total strangers were flaying me alive.
The damage wasn't permanent. Having lingered far too long over Voltaire and Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet's incredibly tedious Tartarin de Tarascon, I needed something contemporary to challenge me. At the time I'd been doing a good deal of research into the German Occupation of Paris for a novel that in fact became my first to see the light of publication, and Modiano's work, being set during that period, was suddenly back on my radar screen. I picked up a copy of his first novel, La Place de l'Étoile, set during the Occupation of Paris and published when this wunderkind was barely into his 20s. It has just been issued in English in what the publisher calls The Occupation Trilogy: three titles, three different translators, each set during the time of the German Occupation: the ground zero of Modiano's body of work, the foundation for everything that will come after, though after these three titles the Occupation will stand always at an angle to his novels, a shadow cast over the succeeding volumes of what is, even by his own estimation, really a single, long work. When he faces the Occupation head-on once again, it's with Dora Bruder, his masterful nonfiction (and to some extent autobiographical) story of a missing Jewish girl and the author's attempts to understand her fate and give her a second life.
Unlike Marcel Proust's great novel, and unlike the romans fleuves of the last century, such as Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time, Modiano's work, including his most recent novel, Pour Que Tu Ne Te Perdes Pas Dans Le Quartier (So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood), released in France just before he was awarded the Nobel Prize, is more a series of incremental epiphanies on the past, on lost opportunities, on lost people, on the small gaps in memory that leave his narrators and protagonists in a world from which they are one step removed. The language in the later books is uncomplicated, and what the author leaves out is as important as what he puts on the page.
What readers find most audacious about La Place de l'Étoile is how intimate the writing is. To deal with a period in which one never lived, to make a leap of imagination and bring the voice of the past vividly and credibly to life, is very much a part of what being a novelist is. But the difference between the historical novelist — who, in adding facts and details and color in hoping to contextualize the fiction, inevitably distances the readers — and what Modiano does in this trilogy is to lend an immediacy and an intimacy to the muddy tide of those years, catching the language, the flow, the Zeitgeist of the period without once having to step back to situate us in the narrative. Since La Place de l'Étoile I haven't stopped following Modiano, reading each new volume as it's released, and celebrating his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. My apologies, monsieur. My rancor was entirely misplaced.
The title, La Place de l'Étoile, the epigraph informs us, comes from a Jewish story:
In June 1942, a German officer approaches a young man and says, "Excuse me, monsieur, where is the Place de l'Étoile?" The young man gestures to the left side of his chest.
The Place de l'Étoile is both a famous square in central Paris and the place on the body where Jews under the German Occupation were required to wear the Yellow Star, the word juif sewn inside it, over their heart. Modiano had begun writing this in the summer of 1966, when he was 21, and the manuscript was handed to the redoubtable French publisher Gallimard by the great Raymond Queneau, who had been a friend of both the young author and his mother, the Belgian-born actress Louisa Colpeyn. (All autobiographical details are drawn from Denis Cosnard's indispensable Dans la Peau de Patrick Modiano, published by Fayard in 2010 and not yet available in English translation.)
It was eventually published in 1968, when Modiano was 23 (though everyone believed he was only 21; for several years, out of homage to his late brother Rudy, he had claimed his year of birth as 1947) and it made of him an instant literary phenomenon. As with his second novel, Night Watch, the main character exists in the slippery surreal space of Occupied Paris, where identities shift with one's loyalties, often vanishing behind several aliases. Modiano makes vividly clear what the German Occupation meant to the French: it was never an unambiguous us-versus-them situation; some openly collaborated with the Nazis, others courageously resisted. And then there was that cloudy intermediate no man's land occupied by those who played both sides: serving their French masters one day, placating their German ones the next, and that's where Modiano's novel is situated. It's an audacious, ambitious, risky work, especially for a young, first-time novelist, for he was writing in the voice of a Jew who is working with the French Gestapo. This is an author who launched a career by decidedly not playing safe.
Modiano did not come unprepared when he set out to write that first novel. It was in his genes from the start. As he relates in his sort-of-life (to borrow Graham Greene's title), Pedigree, translated by Mark Polizzotti and just out from Yale University Press, his father, of Italian-Jewish parentage, had been enmeshed in the two worlds that Paris became after 1940, and because, like a virus, the Occupation and its hazy aftereffects had remained long after the last German had left the city, the young Patrick had been drawn into a life filled with colorfully disreputable characters who lingered on into postwar France: real people who drift in and out of his novels (from Night Watch: "I have invented nothing. All the people I have mentioned really existed"): phantoms from a lost world, the displaced many who had done their worst during the war only to find themselves surviving in a self-imposed purgatory, swinging between doomed love affairs, petty crime, the company of faded movie stars, smarmy bands of South-of-France gigolos, and the melancholic regret of Russian émigrés; the comforting oases of rose-tinted, cognac-softened memory. Like them, Modiano's father had played both sides: dealing with the gangsters of the French Gestapo, endlessly cutting deals on the black market, and refusing to wear the yellow star required by German law. Albert Modiano was neither here nor there, neither one thing or another, a creature of the night forever on the make, a man of such intense self-regard that he could simply cast away his children like so many business deals gone sour.Albert, aka Aldo, Modiano
As he describes it in Pedigree, Modiano was essentially abandoned by both his parents, "like a mutt with no pedigree," as he puts it: his mother was consumed with her life as an actress and treated her eldest child like an accessory, a thing that could be left wherever to be looked after by others, and his father showed him more or less open disdain. It was what bonded him to his brother Rudy, who died at 10 of leukemia, and of whose death he heard as a kind of casual aside: "On the road to Paris, my Uncle Ralph, who was driving, pulled over and stepped out of the car, leaving me alone with my father. In the car, my father told me my brother had died. I had spent the afternoon with him the previous Sunday in our room on Quai de Conti. We had worked on our stamp collection." As he also writes in Pedigree, "Apart from my brother, Rudy, his death, I don't believe that anything I'll relate here truly matters to me."
La Place de l'Étoile (translated by Frank Wynne) is as much a novel about language as it is about the narrator, a kind of EveryJew named Raphaël Schlemielovitch, "the Indispensable Jew," "the official Jew of the Third Reich," as he calls himself, who is identified with all the famous Jewish authors who preceded him, most notably the half-Jewish Marcel Proust. It's a Céline-esque spew of a narrative, full of pastiche and alive with the bile and dark wit of a man who has sold his soul to the worst of his generation. It's a journey to the end of a nightmare set in a time when trust becomes an item to be retailed, along with names and reputations, to the highest bidder, almost always someone with solid friends in the Occupationist hierarchy. It's a world in which once-loyal French men and women are sucked into the gravitational pull of the collaborationist universe, like the young Lucien in Louis Malle's film Lacombe, Lucien, with a script by Modiano, where the temptations of power and the ratatat of automatic weaponry are eerily close to what is happening today with young Westerners being drawn to the barbarism of ISIS.
This dreamlike narrative allows notorious anti-Semitic writers such as Louis-Ferdinand Céline to be identified as Jews, where Sigmund Freud gets to quote Jean-Paul Sartre, and Franz Kafka is the elder brother of Charlie Chaplin. At one point the narrator relates a little side story that is also firmly based in family lore:
His own father had also encountered Gérard the Gestapo. He had mentioned him during their time in Bordeaux. On 16 July 1942 Gérard had bundled Schlemilovitch père into a black truck: 'What do you say to an identity check at the rue Lauriston and a little spell in Drancy?' Schlemilovitch fils no longer remembered by what miracle Schlemilovitch père escaped the clutches of this good man.
In Pedigree the author writes of his father telling him about his arrests during the Occupation, and his sheer good fortune in escaping deportation to Auschwitz:
And he told me of a second arrest, in the winter of 1943, after "someone" had denounced him. He had been brought to the Depot, from where "someone" had freed him…He said only that the Black Marias had made the rounds of the police stations before reaching the lockup. At one of the stops, a young girl had got on and sat across from him. Much later, I tried, in vain, to pick up her trace, not knowing whether it was in the evening of 1942 or in 1943.
The "young girl" in question was Dora Bruder, the subject of one his most celebrated works. Albert Modiano managed to escape; her future was, of course, much more horrible.
La Place de l'Étoile is a journey into the mind of a man firmly screwed into the darkest period of 20th-century French history as told by the Marx Brothers. But it's also a way for the author to attempt to come to grips with what his father did during those very dark times. Without some knowledge of the leading lights of collaborationist Paris some references will seem obscure, and the footnotes are either unhelpfully sketchy or simply wrong: the banker and embezzler Alexandre Stavisky, appears here as "Stavinsky."
These three novels gathered into a single volume constitute the primal stew of all of Modiano's books. Shifting loyalties, hidden identities, and missing people regularly appear in a body of work that is so remarkably consistent that, taken as a whole, they seem to be one long novel.
The narrator in Ring Roads, the third of this so-called trilogy — published in Caroline Hillier's translation, but newly "revised" by Wynne — a hack writer named Serge Alexandre, is caught up in what he calls a "hopeless enterprise" in trying to track down his father. In doing so he has to descend into the dregs of society: "Pornographer, gigolo, confidant to an alcoholic and to a blackmailer…Would I have to sink even lower to drag you out of your cesspit?"
This novel sets the central theme of all of Modiano's work: the search. In Ring Roads it's for his father; for the amnesiac protagonist of the Goncourt-prize winning Rue des Boutiques Obscure (available in translation as Missing Person) it's for himself; and this search, so different from that of Proust's great novel, establishes the groundwork for all of the work that follows, though stylistically we won't see another like La Place de l'Étoile again. After this, and the second title in the volume, Night Watch, to a degree an early version of his screenplay Lacombe, Lucien, his work grows increasingly more spare, achieving what the French call Modiano's petite musique, this allusive, elusive approach to writing that has not only marked his novels, but also his speech. Watching filmed interviews with him (most notably with Bernard Pivot, host of Apostrophes), one hears him respond with maybe a few words, frequent ellipses, and sentences that simply trail off without conclusion. The unsayable is as powerful as the words surrounding it.
Though after Ring Roads the Occupation remains in the background, what follows are works of short fiction that examine not just the themes of loyalty and deception, but also the temperament of a series of young narrators who could be thought of as Modiano himself. Taken as a whole, and as a work-in-progress, his body of work is about perception, deception, disappointment, and discovery, borrowing from the conventions of the detective genre.
For those coming anew to Modiano, reading Pedigree first might be a wise choice. His life, such as he tells it here, is as extraordinary and as bizarre as the situations of his fiction. The fact that Pedigree was published 37 years after the publication of La Place de l'Étoile says much about Modiano's famous reticence about his family and background, on which, until then, he had been notably elliptical. His childhood had been a remarkable one, and by today's standards it would have been considered borderline abusive. The lack of parental involvement and even interest in Patrick's well-being is astonishing, and his bitterness is understandable. But it also goes a long way to show what made him a writer.
As the writer Jenny Diski wrote in a recent essay for the London Review of Books, a memoir is "a form that in my mind plays hide and seek with the truth." Such is the universe of Patrick Modiano.
French Novelist Patrick Modiano Wins the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature
In the type of surprise move many Nobel watchers have become accustomed to, the committee has awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature to French novelist Patrick Modiano, a writer with a deep body of work, but one who was not among the "favorites" discussed in the flurry of pre-announcement speculation.
Modiano, 69, is best known for his Prix Goncourt-winning 1978 novel Missing Person. Publisher David R Godine calls it "a detective thriller, a 1950s film noir mix of smoky cafes, illegal passports, and insubstantial figures crossing bridges in the fog. On another level, it is also a haunting meditation on the nature of the self." While Modiano's novels have been published in English translations over the years, including by major publishers like Knopf, only a handful of his 25 or so books are currently in print in the U.S. These include Honeymoon and Catherine Certitude, a children's book, illustrated by Sempe. Yale will be releasing a new edition next year that collects three Modiano novellas under the title Suspended Sentences. Update: Yale has announced that it will now publish the book in November 2014.
Here at The Millions, novelist J.P. Smith discussed reading Modiano in French:
All I knew of Modiano was that he wrote about his past and that of his parents, which was intricately bound up with the years of the German Occupation of France, a topic I was about to introduce into my own fiction. Modiano's true subject, I discovered, is the nature of identity and memory as it's distilled through the past—in itself a Proustian conceit—and what I find fascinating about him is that his many novels, which take up a good portion of a bookshelf, in a way are like individual chapters of one book. His theme is unchanging; his style, "la petite musique," as the French say, is virtually the same from book to book. There is nothing "big" about his work, and readers have grown accustomed to considering each succeeding volume as an added chapter to an ongoing literary project. His twenty-five published novels rarely are longer than 200 pages, and in them his characters, who seem to drift, under different names, into first this novel, then another, wander the streets of Paris looking for a familiar place, a remembered face, some link to their elusive past, some ghost from a half-remembered encounter that might shed some light on one's history. Phone numbers and addresses are dredged up from the past, only to bring more cryptic clues and, if not dead ends, then the kind of silence that hides a deeper and more painful truth.
You open the latest Modiano and you know exactly where you are. The writer is artistically all of a piece. It's his obsession with memory and the haunted lives of his protagonists which truly caught my attention, and especially how he returns time and again to mine this subject. As someone with a very broken chronology, with a memory of childhood that is in many ways unreliable (how much has been planted there? How much of it is real? What's been removed by doubt or by someone else's will?), I saw in Modiano how the capriciousness of memory can in itself become the subject of a novel. And because back then I found plot a troublesome thing to handle in my fiction, the idea of creating a narrator in search of a story became the basis for my first novel. I sent Modiano a copy of it when it was published and, not surprisingly, heard nothing back.


text:
Electric bikes are becoming very popular day by day. People are taking more interest in buying electric bikes. These bikes are easy to ride in crowded places. Electric bikes are trendy all over the globe. Electric bikes are assisted with motors. You can either ride your bike by using pedals or by using a motor. It helps you to keep yourself healthy. Electric bikes use rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. Electric bikes are made up of durable material. The frame of the bike is made up of sturdy metal, such as aluminum.
The range of an electric bike depends upon many factors such as average speed, terrain, and efficiency of the motor, maximum weight it can tolerate. The price of an electric bike depends upon the features and quality of the material used for the manufacturing of electric bikes. Let discuss 10 best electric bikes under 1000. I hope it will help you to choose the best.
- Comparison Table Of Electric Bikes Under 1000
- Top 10 Best e-Bike Under 1000 Reviews
- 1. X-Treme Scooters Men's Lithium Electric Powered Mountain Bike
- 2. ECOTRIC Fat Tire Electric Bike 26 Inch
- 3. Ancheer Power Plus Electric Bike
- 4. Cyclamatic CX2 Bicycle Electric Foldaway Bike
- 5. SWAGTRON SwagCycle E-Bike
- 6. Cyclamatic CX1 Power Plus
- 7. ECOTRIC 20 Inch Fat Tire Folding Electric Bike
- 8. Addmotor Motan e-bike
- 9. Vilano Atom Electric Folding Bike
- 10. Ancheer Folding Electric Bike
- How To Choose The Best Electric Bikes Under 1000 - Buying Guide
- What is a Electric Bike and why you need a Electric Bike?
- Benefits of buying electric bike
- Final Verdict
Comparison Table Of Electric Bikes Under 1000
Our Rating
5 out of 5
4.5 out of 5
5 out of 5
4 out of 5
4 out of 5
4.5 out of 5
4.5 out of 5
5 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
5 out of 5
Top 10 Best e-Bike Under 1000 Reviews
1. X-Treme Scooters Men's Lithium Electric Powered Mountain Bike
This is one of the best e-bikes under 1000. This e-bike has been made using high-quality material. It is durable, convenient, and affordable. It is a battery-powered electric bicycle. This bike runs on 300 watts rear hub original motor. It has a powerful shifter system and seven-speed tourney gears. This bicycle has been made using top quality aluminum alloy and comes with seven lightweight lithium-ion batteries. The seat of this bicycle can be adjusted.
The lithium battery of this bicycle can travel more than 25 miles when full charge. It goes for more than twenty minutes in one hour. This bicycle can be pedaled and can also use the motor. If you have been planning to buy an electric bicycle under 1000, this is one of the best and popular picks for most riders. This bike has effective rear and front brakes, a headlight, battery indicator, cargo rack, and tool list, among others. This bicycle weighs 52 pounds. It has a frame size of 18 inches, a max-width of 25 inches, and comes with a three months warranty. This bike features in the list of top-rated e-bikes under 1000. It is a high-quality bike that comes with a decent price tag. According to reviews by customers, this bicycle features in the list of popular bicycles.
Things We Like
Things We Don't Like
2. ECOTRIC Fat Tire Electric Bike 26 Inch
Do you love e-bike with a fat tire? This is one of the best. It is reasonably priced and offers great value for your money. This bike is a 2017 model from ecotric bikes. The fat tire is 4.0 inches and has a 500watts motor that works well with 7 speed. The bike has a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that gives you efficient service. This bicycle has a well-built and durable frame that increases the durability of the bike. It is easy to ride the bike as a very powerful motor power it.
This bike has a maximum speed of 23 mph and also features an exclusive Shimano gear system. This bike has seven gear shifting system. The bike is fast, smooth, and accurate. It has a removable 36V lithium cell that comes with a smart and highly effective lithium battery charger. This bicycle weighs 58 LBS. It is one of the best bikes you can ever find on the market as it has a strong and effective driving push. It is very stable and easy to ride due to the fat tire.
It features an ergonomic design and 90 percent pre-assembled. It features an ergonomic handlebar and adjustable seat. This is one of the best and most convenient electric bicycles you can ever buy. There is a lot of positive reviews from customers about this bike. It is affordable and highly effective. If you want to purchase an e-bike of less than 1000, this is one of the best choices.
Things We Like
Things We Don't Like
3. Ancheer Power Plus Electric Bike
Ancheer is a well-known brand. This is one of the best electric mountain bikes. It features a removable lithium-ion and a battery charger. This bike is well-built and decently priced. It is easy to ride this bike. This bike has non-slip handlebars and efficient rear and front braking system. This is a premium quality bike that has been made using high-quality aluminum alloy. The front fork of this bike has been made using top quality carbon steel and utterly packed with high-quality shock absorption.
It features an efficient gear shift system and brakes. It has rear and front disc brakes and a 21-speed transmission system. You can easily select any speed depending on the nature of the road. It has a horn and a very bright LED headlamp for night riding.
This e-bike features a lithium battery and a high-speed motor. The battery is removable and comes with a battery charger. With this battery, you can ride up to 50 kilometers. It is easy to ride this bike and very comfortable. It has a soft and adjustable seat. Riding bike is healthy and one of the best ways to exercise and keep fit. A bike can easily maneuver where a car cannot. It helps you shorten the distance and reach your destination in good time. This is one of the best bikes.
Things We Like
Things We Don't Like
4. Cyclamatic CX2 Bicycle Electric Foldaway Bike
Cyclamatic is a reputable brand. This bike features flat the list of best electric bikes. It comes with a reasonable price tag. Most riders can afford to purchase this bike. This bike features a unique design and can easily be folded. It takes less storage space because it is foldable. It has a non-slip bar, adjustable seat, and an efficient braking system.
The fact that this bike is easily folded makes it easy and convenient for holiday travels. This is because it requires minimal storage space. This electric bike has an incredible performance as it is fitted with a potent motor of 250w. This motor allows you to ride at 15.5mph comfortably. This bike gives you a chance to choose its operation mode. You can either choose to use the motor to assist or ride like a standard mountain bike. The battery is highly effective, as it takes more than 6 hours at full charge.
It features a well-built frame and suitable for all commuters. It is an easy and convenient mode of transportation. It is easy to ride a bicycle that offers comfort and stability. If you want to purchase an incredible bike, easy to ride, foldable, and cost-effective, this bike is among the choices.
Things We Like
Things We Don't Like
5. SWAGTRON SwagCycle E-Bike
This electric bicycle is foldable. It is a unique bicycle that features a collapsible frame. It is a budget-friendly bike. It has a 10mph and 10 miles range. This e-bike uses a 36v battery and a 250w motor. This motor takes two and a half hours to charge fully. This bike takes minimal storage space. You can fold it and store it in your house. It features a high-grade aluminum frame. You can easily fold it a put it in your car trunk.
The bike has a reliable braking system, horn, long battery life, handlebar display, headlight, and much more. This bike is eco-friendly as it does not have emissions. You can comfortably ride this bike. It does not require much of your effort as it has a powerful motor that facilitates the riding. This bike is a perfect choice for most commuters. If you have been looking for an easy and convenient bike for commuting, this is one of the best. It is affordable and reliable. This bike is easy to maintain and carry from one place to another. Unlike other bikes, this e-bike is smaller. If you want to buy a smaller electric bike, this is one of the bikes you can purchase.
Things We Like
Things We Don't Like
6. Cyclamatic CX1 Power Plus
There is no doubt that cyclamatic is a reputable brand. They have been selling high-quality e-bikes for many years. It is always good to purchase a product from a trusted brand. This bike comes with a reasonable price tag and offers decent value for your money. This is easy to ride the bike that has been built using a high-quality frame. This bike has an efficient rear and front braking system. It has an adjustable seat and a non-slip handlebar.
It is a very comfortable bike that gives you comfort while riding. The bike is lightweight and comes with the 250w motor that allows you to ride the bike at high speed effortlessly. It has a max speed of 15.5 mph. The battery can last up to 6 hours at maximum speed. This bike is suitable for riders of 5ft tall and above. This bike has an adjustable seat that is suitable for tall people. The bike is durable and offers excellent value for your money. This is one of the best e-bikes you can find on the market today. According to the latest reviews by customers, there is no doubt that cyclamatic is a good bike. It is lightweight. This bike does not fold.
This bike features an alloy frame, front suspension, bell and reflectors, Kenda tires, disc brakes, and 21-speed Shimano gears.
Things We Like
Things We Don't Like
7. ECOTRIC 20 Inch Fat Tire Folding Electric Bike
This is a sport bike from ecotric. Ecotric is a reputable brand, and all its products are high-quality products. This bike comes with a 36v lithium battery. It is easy to ride a bike as pedals are powered by powerful motor .it has a comfortable and nonslip handlebar that makes it easy for you to control the bicycle.
This bike has an efficient braking system and a very comfortable seat. It has 2 disk brakes on the front & rear. For those travelers with minimal storage space, this bike is a perfect choice for holiday and outdoor activities. It features a 36v lithium battery and comes with a battery charger. When the battery has fully charged, you can ride this bike for 18-25 miles. This bike features a release clamp to make it easy for you to fold the bike.
It has been made using a high-quality aluminum alloy frame. It features effective shock absorbers. It is easy to ride a bike, and it takes 8 hours to charge fully. It is a charger UL approved bike. The motor has a power of 500 watt motor. This bike has a max speed of 15km/hour and a weight of 64lbs. This e-bike is lightweight and can be easily fit in the trunk of most cars. It is a perfect choice for outdoor fun and activities. It offers a comfortable ride due to stability. If you are planning to buy an adjustable bike, consider buying this bike.
Things We Like
Things We Don't Like
8. Addmotor Motan e-bike
This is one of the top electric bikes. It has been built using a high-quality frame and fat tires. It has 20 inches of fat tires and 500w lithium battery. This bike can easily be folded to suit in your car trunk. It is a perfect choice for holidays and outdoor activities. It is a little heavy due to motor and fat tires. This bike has an excellent rear and front braking system. The seat of this bike is adjustable. You can adjust to your preferred height.
This bike is reasonably priced, and assembly is done for free. The motor is potent and assists you in riding the bike. This bike has a max speed of 23mph and can go up to 55 miles at full charge. Unlike most bikes, this bike features an excellent transmission system. It takes less than 10 minutes to fold and store this bike. This bike features a 5inch LCD display and variable speed control. It has 7 speed rear gears, black aluminum, and Kenda fat tires. This bike is a perfect choice for most riders. You can adjust the seat to your height. Some riders love e-bikes with fat tires; this is one of the best you can purchase. It is well-built and features in the list of top-rated bikes. It is motor powered and durable due to the material used.
Things We Like
Things We Don't Like
9. Vilano Atom Electric Folding Bike
Vilano is one of the best brands. Their products are practical and durable. This bike features a 26 inches mag wheels. It is beautiful and one of the most attractive bikes. You can easily adjust the seat to suit your preferred height. This bike has an excellent braking system. It comes with a decent price tag making it affordable.
This bike features a 36v Samsung lithium battery that is durable, efficient, and highly effective. This is a powered bike that comes with a 250w motor that enhances propulsion. For the pedal assist, this bike features a Shimano 7 speed. It also has an alloy folding frame and a suspension frame that has a lockout.
The lithium battery is the most excellent power supply with this, which can be re-energize with an ample power of electricity that does not cost much. And because a lead battery pack is heavy, the right bike frame is often a need that does not also cost much. In this instance, more power could be needed to carry the additional weight. It is, therefore, less efficient.
Because of the restrictions for legal reasons, the operator of the electric bike doesn't have a license, state tag, or insurance and is an excellent alternative to anyone who has lost their license. For traveling to a long way away distances, you may bring along with you the electric bicycle and never have to be bothered by a much longer trek towards the area where the bus allows some passengers to get in.
Things We Like
Things We Don't Like
10. Ancheer Folding Electric Bike
This bike has a full suspension, and it is motor powered. It has a highly effective lithium battery. The bike comes with a decent price tag. It is a popular choice for most riders. This bike has a 350w motor that facilitates propulsion. It has a Samsung fast-charging lithium battery that can run up to 12 miles on a single charge. This bike features an LCD display, excellent front and rear brakes that are highly effective.
As compared to an ordinary bike, a mountain bike will demand a great deal of gearing. Checking the fork and front suspension is required. You require using a bike with a steel fork if you need a reliable motor, which is about 350 watts and more if you use a kit with a front-wheel drive.
The most electric bike has a powerful motor that breaks out or bend on the dropouts. You will surely do not use a suspension fork or shock absorber. The benefits of the front-drive are that it is simple to set up.
In case you need a back drive kit, it is best if it goes with aluminum front forks and suspension. Weight is never an issue. In older and disabled users, this is also not a problem. Weight can help you by driving the bike steadily.
Things We Like
Things We Don't Like
How To Choose The Best Electric Bikes Under 1000 - Buying Guide
There are several factors you can explore for a decision; we've selected a few so that it can be easy for you to get an e-Bike.
1. Budget
You know that. The higher budget will permit you to "extend" your research for bikes, or you can look for cheap models. Typically, the e-Bikes nowadays range between $500-$80000 or more, depending on the kind of technical arrangements they have. Adding a motor and other equipment using DIY techniques could be an idea, but it is worth it only when a lot of time is there. You could try if you have (but at your own risk!)
2. Weight
How much it weighs? Has it checked with the manufacturer's provided specifications? Since there are variants from the heaviest to the lightest e-Bike, you need to find the one that you're comfortable with. Differences in motor components would vary, and that is why exploring different versions won't matter much. The weight, something between 10-20 KGS, is ideal.
3. Top speed
Indeed, you should know about that. If you seriously consider speed as an option, then probably raising the budget will help. However, you can seek for average speed like 10-20 MPH, which is safe and convenient for travel. The main factor that brings most of the bikers to choosing an electric bike is simplifying their ride in the uphill areas and not the speed.
4. Features
Ergonomic handlebars, stylish frame, comfortable pedals, quick brakes, and other attributes are essential for modern bike riders. Well, people might have a different opinion regarding style and functionality, but you could choose from the appearance of what appeals to you and what would completely match up to your style.
5. Reliability
Some people assume that cheap e-Bike won't have much safety as if they are produced in low quality. Nevertheless, that's a prejudice. Notably, the more affordable e-Bikes have been performing much well as compared to the high-end ones. For durability, it is wise to check the tire quality, disc brakes, battery, etc. that should come with a warranty or guarantee.
Buyers like you check with previous buyers of a bike and talk about their experiences. Also, you can take the help of reviews and testimonials for a more precise idea.
What is a Electric Bike and why you need a Electric Bike?
An electric bike is also called an e-bike. This bike has an electric motor that facilitates its propulsion. People are using e-bikes for various purposes. Some people are using them to finish their work on time. They save their time by commuting easily on their electric bikes around the neighboring places. Electric bikes are a suitable means of transport for covering short distances quickly. The most important advantage of using an electric bike is that these are environment-friendly, and do not cause any pollution to the environment. If you are in a mood of burning some calories from your body, you can ride your bike by using pedals. There are less wear and tear of these bikes.
Benefits of buying electric bike
With the increasing price of crude oil merchandise, Electric Bike is excellent alternatives to transportation suggests that as a result of electronic bike kits are going to be battery supercharged stuff. Transportation may be a must for everybody, and it's onerous to search out a parking place for people's vehicles from the wee hours once there is huge traffic in Australia. Electric bike kits are a very eco-friendly technique of transference and conjointly gaining in admiration because of the uncounted edges it gives.
Many people travel virtually all over by automotive and tend to be convinced to become at bay within traffic, sorting out further as re-filling on the filling station. Thereby and lots of others, you'll be severe a few different approaches to moving around. Fascinating half is that you just haven't got to speculate various USD to buy it and maintain it. It's time that people switched by motorbikes to electric bike Australia to induce minor native tasks. The blades within the electric bikes as spectacular because the 250 four tend motor further as being adaptable. At constant time, the electric bike is not too dangerous the excellent advantage for everybody.
Although electric bicycle may be a bit pricey, it needs solely associated initial investment further as being meager cost within the long-distance as there are merely no maintained expenses or maybe fuel prices to induce wiped out.
Investing in an electric bike is one of the best purchases you can make. If you enjoy bike riding but hate the strain, you feel when the riding gets tough such as going up hills than an electric bike will take this strain away and put the fun back into your bike rides. The best thing about electric bikes is that the rider can choose how much of the power they use and how much electrical energy they use. This can easily be alternated for easier or harder rides. Lots of more mature people who struggle to ride a regular bike will invest in an electric bike so they can still enjoy the beauty of bike riding, whether it is for pleasure or essential travel purposes.
As well as being great fun to ride an electric bike is also much kinder to the environment than using a motorbike, public transport or car for travel. The government is backing schemes that encourage people to use electric bikes instead of cars, and this will help to reduce emissions and save the environment from the damage that vehicles cause. Owing to an electric bike and using it instead of a car will mean you save on fuel, insurance, and road tax, and you will beat the traffic queue, which is a significant advantage for commuters.
Final Verdict
If you want to purchase the best electric bikes under 1000, there are many different models to choose from. There are folding electric bikes, electric mountain bikes, and sports electric bikes for men and women. When you ride an electric bike, it is virtually silent, so it doesn't disturb the ride. Owning an electric bike is perfect for people who have a motorhome and want a means of transport once they have parked their motorhome up. Many motorhome owners have realized the benefits of having an electric bike as they are ideal for exploring the places you stay at and are much cheaper than driving your motorhome around while you are on holiday.
More You May Like


text:
Payment of Bonus Act, 1965
- Assessing the applicability of the enactment
- Preparation of Form no. A and B, which is based on Income Tax and Balance Sheet
- Advising on payment of bonus and its disbursements - Form no. C
- Preparation of yearly return in form no. D
- Advising on disposal of unclaimed bonus
Brief detail of the enactment
- It's a profit sharing bonus. It gives the right to employees from the profit of the employer. Minimum and maximum bonus limits are prescribed. Certain concessions are given to the new employers and loss making employers
- To every factory
- To other establishments provided employing 10 or more persons
- Once applicable remains applicable
- Employee is entitled for bonus provided worked for minimum 30 days and rate of salary (Basic + DA) is below Rs. 10,000/- pm in a financial year
- Maintenance of A & B registers based on balance sheet and income tax rules
- Maintenance of C register i.e. disbursement of bonus to employees
- Annual return in Form no. D
- Provisions of payment of bonus, if not paid according this enactment punishment of imprisonment or fine are in the enactment


text:
Hello guys,
ive have some wierd trouble with logging in. I can login to forums normally, without any problems, but then in other hand when I am at the main page I cannot login.
Talking about this : http://et.splatterladder.com/
When I try to login it says your name is not found in our database. Do I need 1 account for that main page and 1 account for forums? Also when I try registering at main page it says that my email which im also using here is already in use, and I dont know how is that possible.
Any feedback would be nice.


text:
Main Page
We are currently building this site so the structure is changing fast. Please feel free to join in. However, if unsure, please ask Gunzour, Master Yoda, or Neil Graham for advice on how to help and what needs doing (community portal link on left has info on what needs doing and what's currently being planned). Also please see the help page for a quick guide to editing.
Help Files Index Page
Tycoon Online FAQ
Tycoon Online - How to Guides
Tycoon Online Getting Started For Dummies
(Be warned: this really is a "give it to you on a plate" guide.)
If you see a mistake on a page, feel free to edit it. However, keep in mind that this is a resource for all players so take care when editing. Please edit, but edit with due care and concern for others, and do not take offense if someone corrects or changes your work.
If you see a link that is in red, feel free to click it and add the content. However, if you do not wish to add the content, then please do not click it.
Tycoon Online began in Sweden, and added English language support early on. It is just now (July 2008) adding a separate Portuguese language version. There are plans to expand with different maps and extended language support in the future.
|Game URL
|Wiki URL
|http://www.tycoononline.com, http://www.tycoononline.nu
See also
Other resources for guidance and help with Tycoon Online are:
Other languages: Portuguese Swedish


text:
KURZ offers quality jewellery and an exclusive range of world-renowned watch and jewellery brands.
Founded by Armin KURZ in 1948, this long-standing business currently operates 11 jewellery stores in and around Zurich, Basle, Berne, Lucerne and Geneva.
KURZ stands for affordable and accessible luxury, and upholds values such as hospitality and customer orientation. Our understanding of modern luxury is that watches and jewellery are an integral part of your lifestyle. Watches and jewellery of superior quality which can be worn daily emphasise your personal look and lifestyle.
Our broad range comprises jewellery and watches for all those precious moments in life, be it the birth of a child, childhood, an engagement and marriage, or friendship and love. Or perhaps you wish to simply treat yourself.
Our jewellery selection is carefully put together by drawing on the Exclusive KURZ Collections and interesting brands from around the world. At all times, we bear in mind the needs of the discerning, modern woman who appreciates fine jewellery craftsmanship and first-class quality.
We launch wonderful Exclusive KURZ Collections on a regular basis, taking inspiration from the worlds of fashion, lifestyle, art and architecture, and incorporating global trends identified by international scouts. This has resulted in, for example, treasured jewellery items such as the Eternity Collection featuring diamonds in a setting with a uniquely spirited design and also our Denim Collection in which seven diamonds come together to create a sparkling and vibrant solitaire.
is exciting and
KURZ is constantly changing, keeping pace with the times in all areas. We have expanded our wide array of watches with the addition of more top brands – you will now also discover IWC Schaffhausen, Breitling, Tudor, La Montre Hermès and Montblanc in our branches.
Paying a visit to KURZ, be it in one of our boutiques or on our new website, is exciting and inspirational. And it's worth coming back on a regular basis.
We look forward to seeing you.
Do you share our passion about jewelry and watches, and would you like to join the KURZ team? For a career with us, please see the opportunities we offer here.
Follow us on Instagram


text:
Leave your tuxedo in the garment bag.
Only outsiders (and Mark Burnett) bust out bowties and cummerbunds for Grammy parties. What intimacy the Grammy show experience sacrifices within the cavernous Staples Center, it makes up for with several nights of festivities that, unlike the formality of music's TV and film peers, are actually fun.
Enjoy it while you can, L.A. Next year the Grammys are reportedly heading back to New York.
Here are the Party Report's top invites for the Grammys 2017 before and after the telecast on Sunday, Feb. 12.
Thursday, Feb. 9
Thursday night sees the heaviest competition with multiple marquee events.
The Chainsmokers, Maren Morris
Spotify Celebrates the Best New Artist Nominees
Belasco Theater in Downtown L.A., 7:30 p.m.
In contrast to the industry's lazy bookings for Super Bowl events — beginning with "Who will do it?" and ending up with Nelly and a condiment company sponsorship — this is an organic and natural match.
The Chainsmokers and Spotify's symbiotic relationship over the last year propelled both sides to a massive win-win. Drew Taggart and Alex Pall ("Roses," "Closer," "All We Know," "Paris,") rank number three in the world on the leading streaming service, with 37 million streams a month. With these results came a three-year exclusive residency at Wynn nightlife properties in Las Vegas, record setting crowds at Coachella in April 2016, Billboard magazine covers, cross-country shows in the same day, and an epic end-of-year homecoming victory lap in L.A. (See below).
In addition, anchoring their own corner on Spotify, the "nice hair" duo are the apotheosis of multi-format crossovers, something Spotify seized on by splashing their faces on cover-art for numerous Spotify owned-and-operated playlists ranging from pure thump (electroNOW) to ones your mom listens to while running errands (dance pop X-Overs).
Don't blame Spotify for slugging them with the misnomer of "Best New Artist." Years after they collaborated with Tiësto on "Split (Only U)" and escaped the goofy stink of novelty hit "#Selfie," the Grammys relegated them to the "New Artist" junior varsity. Their company is A+: the surging Kelsea Ballerini, independent force Chance the Rapper, Anderson .Paak (the one true fresh face from 2016), and fellow Spotify honoree, Maren Morris. Nona Entertainment's DJ Alex Merrell will spin between performances.
Remember, Spotify is a data company. They know what you like.
Delta's Grammy Party – Official Grammy Event
Location withheld in Hollywood
A "Closer" performance has to be coming.
The Chainsmokers will play a few miles from downtown (see above) with an early 7:30 p.m. start time, with Halsey following at 9 p.m. Besides their high-profile live performances (like the VMAs in last summer), the boys and Halsey have linked up in more intimate settings. The "New Americana" singer jumped out of a VIP booth to join the Chains at the opening of Jewel Nightclub at the Aria in Las Vegas last May.
Celebrating 10 years as the Grammys' official airline, Delta's salute to "first time nominees" dovetails nicely with Halsey. She's hot right now with a song for the new "Fifty Shades Darker," with early screenings beginning down the block at the Arclight at the same time this bash gets underway.
The other big story here, though, is the location. This is a debutante party for a major new hospitality block in Hollywood that has not yet flipped the switch to "open."
Erykah Badu
ESSENCE Black Women In Music - Official Grammy Event
NeueHouse, 8 p.m
The 8th annual event pays tribute to the "On & On" singer on the 20th anniversary of her arrival on the music scene. Back in 1997, Badu had two albums go platinum in her debut year, selling over five million copies total. An official Grammys week event, Lincoln and Absolut join the Recording Academy for this party at NeueHouse, an emerging player on awards weekend. Tiwa Savage will perform before Badu.
Whole Planet Foundation
OHM Nightclub (6801 Hollywood Blvd.)
Whole Foods' charitable foundation works around the world doling out micro-loans to self-employed farmers and poor communities that grow and produce the food sold on their shelves. This event honors a group that has funded 4,463 births, planted 57,575 trees, and donated 7,482 bicycles while building 10 schools and offering supplies to over 32,000 students. Katey Sagal, Kris Kristofferson and Chris Assaad perform.
Friday, February 10
Tom Petty: 2017 MusiCares Person of the Year - Official Grammy Event
L.A. Convention Center, 5:30 p.m.
Each year, MusiCares continues to astound with one-of-a-kind performances. This year, Stevie Nicks, Gary Clark Jr., Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, The Bangles, Don Henley, Jackson Browne, George Strait and more will each perform a cover of their favorite Petty hit before joining the rocker on stage for a massive jam session to close the night.
The dinner, auction and show benefits the Grammys' official charity, MusiCares. It provides a safety net for unknown musicians by providing emergency financial assistance for basic living expenses, medical emergencies, sober touring networks and addiction and recovery services.
A "top tier" industry event, some $75,000 front row donor tables are available this year for the first time. That's you plus ten friends who each have loose change and an open Friday night.
20th Annual Friends and Family
Quixote Studios (1011 N. Fuller Ave)
9 p.m. – 2 a.m.
The sprawling bash is a union of multiple groups, including ASCAP, BMI, Advance Alternative Media, Disney Music Group, Sound Exchange, Warner/Chappell, YouTube, Evolutionary Media Group and more. There are a ton of ways to get lost in here. Donations at the bars will benefit the ACLU of Southern California, a great way to wash down the guilt of hitting the Grilled Cheese truck on site.
Saturday, February 11
UMG Artist Showcase
The Theatre at the Ace Hotel, 12:30 -3:30 p.m.
Universal Music Group hosts their annual Artist Showcase on the Saturday of Grammys weekend, presented by Citi and American Airlines. While the performances are a surprise, past artists who have performed at the UMG showcase include Demi Lovato, DNCE, The Weeknd, Sam Smith, Keith Urban, Ariana Grande and Lorde.
*Mystery Stars Kept Under Wraps*
Clive Davis Party
The Beverly Hilton
Clive never reveals who will perform at the party in advance. It's always a surprise for the audience, themselves all big names crammed into a small room.
In recent years, Pharrell Williams, Afrojack, Kelly Clarkson, Miley Cyrus, Jennifer Hudson, Barry Manilow, Robin Thicke and Lionel Richie have taken the stage. Davis actually hosts, as in, he gets on the microphone and extols artists and gives shout outs to the famous faces in the room. It's the most exciting Bar Mitzvah bash you've been to since seventh grade.
Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals, DJ set by Kaytranada
Soho Sounds: LA
Downtown L.A., 9 p.m.
Soho House launches a new pop-up music series with this event. While named "LA," the future editions will not be restricted to our fair city. Kudos to the membership club for bringing their trademark sense of taste and discretion to cull a legitimate, relevant and in-demand Anderson .Paak to kick it for Soho members and a few select music industry friends. Bacardi will provide the pours and Samsung trots out the 360 photo booth. BMW is shuttling people downtown, something SoHo members may be getting used to soon with a new location coming in the 213 at some point. For Kaytranada, see him here now or at Coachella in April.
CeeLo Green, Charli XCX, Melissa Etheridge, Cypress Hill, DJ Cassidy
Primary Wave 11th Annual Pre-Grammy Party
London West Hollywood (Rooftop)
7 p.m.
The truly modern multi-platform entertainment company (talent management, music publishing, content production) run by Larry Mestel, David Guillod, Jeff Gaspin, and Mark Burg has a lot of things to celebrate. There's a new Audience network show ("Loudermilk") and the invite touts that key client CeeLo Green will debut a new persona, "Gnarly Davidson." That's a play off of Green's "Gnarls Barkley" days, which produced the big hit "Crazy" back in the mid 2000's. Flexing their brand integration muscles, PWE looped in Smirnoff for this bash.
Maren Morris, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and DJ Michelle Pesce
Nielsen's Party
Nightingale Plaza (West Hollywood), 8 p.m.
Maren Morris will be everywhere this Grammys weekend. Like Miguel or Andra Day in years past, after non-stop exposure to the industry over a few days, she won't require a Google after Feb. 12. Before Preservation Hall gigs at Coachella (sweet move, manager Greg Lucas), check them in West Hollywood here.
For Pesce, she returns to the booth that she christened. On Emmys weekend last fall, Donald Glover supervised a Pesce-generated dance circle at Entertainment Weekly's party here, which was the first gathering ever at the La Cienega Blvd. nightclub.
Grammy Night: Sunday, February 12
Chance the Rapper
Chateau Marmont
GQ's Jim Nelson and Jim Moore have already won big Grammy night: partnering with DIY superstar rapper Chance the Rapper to celebrate after the show. Chance has seven nominations, including three of the five noms for "Best Rap Song." The party is in partnership with YouTube, appropriate for the guy who made history in 2016 for charting the first ever "streams only" album, meaning, there was no plan to sell albums, only to stream. It worked.
With their dense "Men of the Year" celebration lighting up the Chateau each December, the men's style guide should feel right at home.
Republic Records and Fiji Water
Catch LA
Now this makes sense: the hottest label with the most marquee artists taking over the reigning see-and-be-seen nightspot in West Hollywood. Catch swallows one of Melrose's narrow traffic lanes for arrivals on a regular weeknight, so expect chaos and a crowd on Grammy night. The brothers Lipman (Monte and Avery) will be ensconced inside with many superstar signees like The Weeknd, Zendaya, Ariana Grande, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Lorde, Tïesto, Pearl Jam, James Bay, and more.
Universal Music Group Grammy After Party
The Theatre at the Ace Hotel
Universal returns to the Ace Hotel for a bash that will go into the night. Shawn Mendes, the "Kaceys" (Kacy Hill and Kacey Musgraves), Hailee Steinfeld, Russell Simmons, Joe Jonas and Zendaya all partied here last Grammy night. Crossing corporate fiefdoms, even CBS chief Les Moonves made this his party preference after the Grammys signed off. American Airlines and Citi continue their partnership with Universal for this party, as well.
Gallant, Kehlani and Spencer Ludwig
Warner Music Group Grammy Party
Milk Studios, 9 p.m.
Unlike last year's throwback performer Missy Elliott, these three headliners are super relevant right now.
Kehlani's album "SweetSexySavage" arrived last Friday (Jan. 27), an occasion to open up to the L.A. Times about being a "young black, Spanish, Native American, queer [woman] … all things that have been attacked (in the new Trump administration)." A Coachella date and a world tour will follow, but after the Grammys catch her at Milk with the Warners crew.
Win or lose, Warner throws a good party. We don't understand why other industry players don't choose Milk Studios for more awards show after parties, as it is engineered for both cocktails and performances. It sits empty on Oscar, Emmy and most other awards show nights except the night before the ESPYs, when a dude-heavy ESPN crowd turns it in to a glitzy Hollywood locker room.
All events are private and by invitation only.
Consumer Events, Open to the Ticketed Public
One Republic
Hilton Honors Music Program
Beverly Hilton, Wednesday Feb. 8
Hit machine One Republic will play an acoustic set on the roof of the Beverly Hilton, part of a partnership with Hilton Honors. Like Amex and Citi, Hilton has a music themed benefits program for its members. They will be making announcements at this event about future events. Expect industry VIPs and news on deals with Live Nation, the Recording Academy, Spotify and the sweet harmonies of Drew Brown's guitar, piano, (and sometimes) fill-in drumming. "Oh My My," indeed.
Sting, Metallica, the Chainsmokers, and Beck
Citi Sound Vault
The Palladium, Wednesday, Feb. 8 – Sunday, Feb. 12
These big artists will play the relatively small Palladium in Hollywood as part of Citi's membership benefit program, Citi Sound Vault. Access is exclusive to cardmembers. The finance giant touts that the program will go beyond just concert tickets to private shows (which is pretty cool), with backstage access and meet-and-greets to come. Tickets went on sale January 31. Here's the lineup:
- February 8 & 9: Sting (16-time GRAMMY Award winner)
- February 10: Beck (GRAMMY Album of the Year winner, 5-time GRAMMY Award winner)
- February 11: The Chainsmokers (3-time, 2017 GRAMMY Award nominee)
- February 12, 10 p.m. (two hours after the Grammys end): Metallica (8-time GRAMMY Award winner and 2017 GRAMMY Award nominee)
Please send invites and updates to the party columnist Mikey Glazer here.


text:
Lecture - Performance - Bookshop
Presentation and signature : Ludovic Chemarin© by Damien Beguet and P. Nicolas Ledoux
Taking on art critic Raphaële Jeune's term "artwork-artist-trademark", Ludovic Chemarin© is a project founded by Damien Beguet and P. Nicolas Ledoux.
In 2011 they purchased upon... Read more
Music - Performance - Bookshop
Release Album Jean D.L. & Sandrine Verstraete "S/T" (Rockerill Records & Instant Jazz)
To celebrate the release of their album S/T, Jean D.L. and Sandrine Verstraete give a free concert at WIELS. Jean D.L. and Sandrine Verstraete found each other while each was... Read more
A book about a temporary architecture office. A reflection on scale models as spaces of negotiation. Models as places where the architect's desire becomes visible, without compromises. All... Read more
Festival - Performance
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Rosas: My Breathing Is My Dancing
On the occasion of Work/Travail/Arbeid, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will be working at WIELS for nine weeks. The progress-in-work she will be developing behind closed doors takes a simple human movement, namely breathing, as basic principle. Read more
Performance - Bookshop
Presentation Mémoire Universelle with Marcelline Delbecq et Ariane Michel
In conjunction with the release of its second volume, Mémoire Universelle (MU) is pleased to present an event in collaboration with Wiels. Pursuing its reflection on the notion of the... Read more
"As productions developing from one presentation to another, the slideshows that Pierre Leguillon has been creating since 1993 are intended to reflect on the proliferation, migration and... Read more


text:
This week, we filmed our instructable video, the storyboard of which was introduced in the last Video and Sound posting. The shooting took two days, and since last week, we've added one more scene showing the usage example of our acrylic box to our storyboard.
The devices that we used were two cameras of Canon 5D Mark 3 with a 50mm lens and a zoom lens — I forgot its range—, a Zoom recorder, a shotgun mic., tripods, camera mounting arm and lights. Although we were all scared about dealing with these unfamiliar tools at first, The more we used, the more we got used to.
First two scenes, sketching and making a box plan, were the easiest ones. We started from these. We also recorded the screen of the laptop for storyboard 2, so that can show the manipulation more clearly.
I am really camera-shy and hate watching my face in a photo or on TV, though sometimes I had to be recorded to explain something. It was the hardest part.
There was also a shooting in public space. We went to Canal Plastic and after getting permission for shooting at the store we filmed storyboard 4, the purchasing scene.
The part that took the longest to record was, of course, the laser cutting scene. We not only had to wait for our booking for the machine but also spent almost one and half hour for cutting itself. There was also a tricky problem. whenever I try to zoom in on something, the recorded scene got too dark and I wasn't able to make it brighter even with adjusting all those apertures, white balance and the shutter speed. We couldn't help but to raise up the ISO in this sort of situation.
Assembling box scene, completed product scene and the usage example scene were filmed on the second day.
We used camera arm to fix the camera on the table so that it could more closely film the assembling scene.
Especially for the completed box, we took films in the studio to get a clearer background. It would have been better if we had used more lights and got rid of all the shadow of the box.
At the end, we got almost 70GB of video files. It seems that the editing job would be much tougher than filming…


text: Perfect for wrapping them up after bath time or when they first wake up. The Stonewash Bath Robe features a unique stonewash finish with our signature eyelash fringing. The Robes feature a modern flat woven exterior and an absorbent terry interior. Also available in adult sizes for the whole family.


text:
- Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
Search on This Blog
Copyright Disclaimer
All rights reserved © 2006-2020
Janice A. Brown,
Blog: Cow Hampshire
All unpublished works.
Translate this Page
Women's History"The ongoing invisibility of women and girls is a serious issue for our country, and for the world. The invisibility of our history, heroes, stories, challenges, and success handicaps the future of all Americans, and it deeply affects our economy and our communities."--Megan Smith, U.S. Chief Technology Officer
August 2020 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Recent Comments
- Steve Dennis on New Hampshire Slanguage: Cunnin
- August 2020: Celebrating a Women's Suffrage Anniversary in New Hampshire | Cow Hampshire on Was Your New Hampshire Ancestor a Suffragist?
- Janice Brown on New Hampshire Missing Places: Daniel Webster Airways, Merrimack
- mary beth on New Hampshire Missing Places: Daniel Webster Airways, Merrimack
- david patterson on New Hampshire's Caddie Camps
- Boulders and Profiles
- Carnivals and Memes
- Cow Stories
- Creatures
- Current Events
- Genealogy
- Haunted New Hampshire
- History
- Holidays
- Humor
- Irish in New Hampshire
- Lost Faces of WW1
- Military of New Hampshire
- Military Squares
- Moovers And Shakers
- N.H. Historical Markers
- N.H. Missing Places
- Native Peoples
- New Hampshire Aviation
- New Hampshire Entertainers
- New Hampshire Glossary
- New Hampshire Men
- New Hampshire Politics
- New Hampshire Slanguage
- New Hampshire Sports
- New Hampshire Women
- NH Tidbits
- NH WW1 Military
- Not New Hampshire
- Oddities, Accidents and Crazy Weather
- Personal History
- Poetry
- Really Old News
- Recipes
- Speechless Sunday
- Structures
- Travel
Tag Archives: years
One Hundred Years Ago: New Hampshire's Thanksgiving of 1919
Thanksgiving Day of 1919 was celebrated with feelings of both great sorrow and hope. Within the previous two years, at least 4,000 New Hampshire residents had died before their time (war causalities plus those who died unexpectedly from the flu). … Continue reading
Posted in History, Military of New Hampshire, NH Tidbits, NH WW1 Military Tagged 100, 1919, Ago, bank, Day, Farmington, flavors, Hampshire, hand grenade, Hillsborough, hundred, ice cream, local, Milford, Nashua, new, New Hampshire, news, NH, One, Peterborough, Thanksgiving, Victory Arch, years 4 Comments
Cow Hampshire Blog Turns 13
Some consider the number 13 to be unlucky, but then some folks think cows are useless animals. Both are wrong. On 16 March of 2006 after losing my twin sister to cancer, I began writing a blog, for it had … Continue reading
Posted in History, Personal History, Really Old News Tagged 13, blog, luck, old, thirteen, unlucky, years 8 Comments
200 Years Old: The New Hampshire State House in Concord
I first wrote about the New Hampshire State House in 2006, when the building was only 187 years old, and since then I've updated that story several times. This year (2019) the building is officially 200 years old, and … Continue reading
Posted in History, NH Tidbits, Really Old News, Structures Tagged 200, anniversary, building, Concord, General Court, Governor, Hampshire, house, hundred, legislature, new, New Hampshire, NH, old, state, State House, statehouse, two, years 2 Comments
100 Years Ago: Tiniest Woman in New England Contest
The WWI Armistice had been declared, and though soldier deaths were still being reported, the citizens of New England urgently needed to shift their focus to something light and entertaining. In November of 1918 the Boston Post newspapers announced they … Continue reading
Posted in History, New Hampshire Women Tagged 100, Ago, Boston, contest, England, Hampshire, new, New Hampshire, newspaper, NH, Post, shortest, smallest. woman, TIniest, women, years 5 Comments
100 Years Ago: Decoration Day Celebrations
One hundred years ago the last Monday of May was a time to decorate the graves of those who died in previous wars with a strong focus on the Civil War. The day was solemnly celebrated throughout the United States, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Military of New Hampshire, NH WW1 Military Tagged 100, Ago, cemetery, Day, decoration, event, Hampshire, hundred, memorial, military, monument, navy, new, New Hampshire, NH, One, parade, prayers, recitation, songs, war, world, WW1, WWI, years 2 Comments


text:
Bill DetailsOfficial information provided by the Congressional Research Service. Learn more or make a suggestion.
The Congressional Research Service writes summaries for most legislation. These summaries are listed here. Countable will update some legislation with a revised summary, title or other key elements.
ObamaCare Repeal Act
Official Title
To repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.
ObamaCare Repeal Act - Repeals the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, effective as of their enactment. Restores provisions of law amended by such Acts.
bill Progress
- Not enactedThe President has not signed this bill
- The senate has not voted
- The house has not voted
Committee on AdministrationIndigenous Peoples of the United StatesCommittee on AppropriationsCommittee on Education and LaborHealth, Employment, Labor, and PensionsHigher Education and Workforce InvestmentCommittee on Energy and CommerceHealthCommittee on Natural ResourcesCommittee on RulesCommittee on the JudiciaryCommittee on Ways and MeansHealthIntroducedJanuary 3rd, 2013
- house Committees


text:
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin accused the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday of protecting Barack Obama by withholding a videotape of the Democrat attending a 2003 party with a Palestinian-American professor and critic of Israel.
McCain and Palin called Rashid Khalidi a former spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, a characterization that Khalidi has denied in the past, and McCain said 1960s radical Bill Ayers had attended the same party. Both candidates said guests at the event made critical comments about Israel.
"Among other things, Israel was described there as the perpetrator of terrorism rather than the victim," Palin said at a rally in Ohio. "What we don't know is how Barack Obama responded to these slurs on a country that he professes to support."
In a story published last April, the Times said Obama spoke out at the event — a party for Khalidi — on the need for common ground on the Israel-Palestinian issue. Obama has said during the campaign that his commitment to Israel's security is "nonnegotiable."
The paper said it would not release the tape because of a promise made to the source who provided it.
"More than six months ago the Los Angeles Times published a detailed account of the events shown on the videotape," Jamie Gold, the newspaper's reader's representative, said in a statement. "The Times is not suppressing anything. Just the opposite — the L.A. Times brought the matter to light."
McCain and Palin cited the paper's position as evidence of media bias. The Times has endorsed Obama's candidacy.
"If there was a tape of John McCain in a neo-Nazi outfit, I think the treatment of the issue would be slightly different," McCain said in an interview with Hispanic radio stations.
Palin said the Times should win a Pulitzer Prize for "kowtowing."
"It must be nice for a candidate to have major news organizations looking out for their best interests like that. Politicians would love to have a pet newspaper of their very own," she said.
Khalidi is a professor of Middle East Studies at Columbia University and a longtime friend of Obama's. He taught at the University of Chicago until 2003 and Obama and his wife, Michelle, often socialized with Khalidi and his wife, Mona.
The Khalidis hosted a political fundraiser for Obama in 2000. The Woods Fund charity gave money to the Arab-American Action Network, run by Mona Khalidi, while Obama served on the charity's board. Ayers also served on the board.
Khalidi has publicly criticized Israel, but he and Obama have both said they hold very different opinions on Israeli issues.
Ayers was a founder of the radical group the Weather Underground, which set off bombs at the Capitol and the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War nearly 40 years ago. McCain has criticized Obama for having had a friendly relationship with Ayers, with whom Obama worked on two community organizations several years ago, and for downplaying their ties.
Obama has noted that he was a child when Ayers, now a university professor, was with the Weather Underground. The Democratic candidate has condemned Ayers' radical past and violent activities.


text: How to Buy Car Online in Nigeria Buying a car online in Nigeria is mostly via classified ads or through a car dealer, with 95% of the public that owns a car relying on such purchase, and failing to realize that they could actually save over 20% from the same vehicle if they knew how to buy car online in Nigeria. You can certainly get a much better deal if you know how to buy cars at auction, could be a public auto auction, where the government might use the public car auction as a medium to dispose vehicles that where impounded for any reason, or via car auction sites. Mostly what...Read


text:
Molly (in our memory)
See pictures:
Posted on December 12, 2011, in dogsofportugal and tagged adopted, adult, bulldog, female, small. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
I am acquainted with Molly. She's a nice dog, has a strong character and is very devoted to her masters, which comes with a bit of a jealous trait. Adapts well to other people. She's easy to walk and be with. Good company. She was never used to having other animals around (except for humans, that is), therefore she doesn't get along with them (particularly cats and/or other dogs). Her previous owners are close friends of mine and would be very happy if someone would take Molly in as a friend. She's clean in every respect and loves to play and cuddle. She's always been very well taken care of and she deserves none less than a good friend to look after her.


text:
The U534 U-Boat Story
We recently received this lovely letter from Suzanne, a guest with us and we thought it would be nice to share it with you.
Dear Julie,
I have arrived home safely, with both of your gorgeous pint glasses in one piece. The afternoon today was sunny, I took time out on my balcony and drank a toast to Shrewsbury Lodge with a pint of local ale out of the Worthingtons jar. Never shall I forget the warmheartedness I have experienced from you and your family.
Attached are some photos I took in and around the U-Boat Museum, and your lovely house. Feel free to use any of them in your website. Hopefully, they express the joy and fascination I felt and still feel.
Here is my suggestion for an introductory text about the U-Boat Museum:
"Built by the Deutsche Werft in Hamburg, this long-range u-boat was commissioned on 23rd December 1942. Her first year in the service of the German navy - the Kriegsmarine - she spent in the Baltic, first in traning, then in active service. Men from the Imperial Japanese Navy were trained on her, and the torpedo weapons establishment used her for extensive trials on the newly developed acoustic homing torpedos.
Her first patrol started on 8th May 1944. U-534 was ordered to the North Atlantic as a weather boat. Ordered to remain undetected, she was to avoid any contact with enemy forces, let alone engage them. Reliable and detailed information on the weather was of strategic importance at the time and hard to come by.
Her second patrol started under dramatic circumstances on 23rd August 1944 when she was the last boat to leave the u-boat pens at the besieged Bordeaux base. After a gruelling three months at sea, she was to have a mere ten days rest. A hastily improvised Schnorchel device permitted her to run her diesels submerged and make her way back to Flensburg. For the desperately needed refit, she was sent to the Baltic again. When the Oderwerke shipyard at Stettin closed on 3rd of March 1945 the advancing Russian tanks were within hearing range.
Fitted with a new Schnorchel device plus the latest in radar, sonar, communications and weapons technology, U-534 was again the last boat out of the harbour. Preparations for her third patrol were finished at Kiel, where she started her final patrol on 2nd May 1945. Probably, U-534 was again the last boat out of the pens. She was ordered to the last operational u-boat bases of the German Reich in occupied Norway. En route, at Helsingoer, she was joined by three more u-boats also destined for Norway. At this point, the group was just north of the peace line negotiated within the partial surrender of the German Reich, which came into force at 8 am on 5th May 1945. Later that day, three Liberators attacked the boats. Whilst her three companions managed to dive, U-534 fought it out on the surface as she had done twice before. But this time, there was no escape ...
Her habit of getting away by the skin of her teeth, together with her technological upgrades and her dash for Norway in the last week of the war have given rise to much speculation. Treasure hunters raised her from the bottom of the Kattegat, expecting to find anything from gold to the holy lance. When it became obvious that they had been mistaken, they gave U-534 up for a nominal price. Now, she can be appreciated for what she has been since she was sunk: a unique time capsule. The museum at the Woodside Ferry Terminal has a wealth of personal belongings and technical equipment on display. The 252 ft of the hull have been cut into sections, allowing visitors to see inside the only surviving type IX-C u-boat in Europe."
With my best wishes,


text:
Kate Bush's ex-bodyguard defies MND diagnosis - and forms punk band
PUBLISHED: 06:30 11 September 2019
A former bodyguard to the stars was given just years to live but has defied the odds to embrace life as a punk rocker.
Paul Wharton, who worked as personal security for Kate Bush and Ronnie Corbett, was a 20 stone powerlifter and would hit the gym at 5am every morning before work.
But in 2014, the 53-year-old from Sprowston noticed his grip weakening and fitness slipping at his job as a prison officer in Kent.
And after several years of tests, he was diagnosed with motor neurone disease and given just three years to live by doctors.
Mr Wharton said: "When you get the diagnosis you know you're going to go and you're going to go soon and you've just got to face it straight on.
"I know what path I'm taking and I have just got to do it in a shorter time."
Now five years since the diagnosis, the father-of-two has returned to his first love - punk music - and formed a band called the Motorneronz with three old school friends from Norwich in December last year.
You may also want to watch:
Mr Wharton, who is the band's frontman and singer, said: "I want to do what I love which is being back on stage. Punk music is the lifestyle that is keeping me going.
"It has always been about DIY culture which makes you believe in yourself and push yourself forward."
It also spurred him on to move from Maidstone and return to Norwich for the first time since 1990 to relieve his happiest years as a punk rocker in Pottergate in the eighties.
Mr Wharton said: "Norwich is where I want to be and I moved back to be with my friends.
"I have an incredible support network here and I have at least one friend visit me a day to walk my dog and hang out with me. It's a punk family."
Mr Wharton and the Motorneronz will be performing at The Mole's Rest on Fifers Lane as part of a punk festival called Make It Count 2 to raise money for MND.
He said: "Losing the use of my arms will not stop me going to gigs and rehearsing with the band and I want to do gigs while I still can."
The festival is on Saturday, September 28 from 2pm until midnight with 10 other punk bands set to perform. Entry is free but a donation box will be at the door.
If you value what this story gives you, please consider supporting the Eastern Daily Press. Click the link in the orange box above for details.


text:
In Year 3 there are 89 children. The PPL is Mrs Florence and the class teachers are Ms Fazal, Mrs Arnold and Mr Hassan. The children are an inquisitive and enthusiastic group who love to try new experiences. Whatever challenge we can throw at them the children always rise to it! They have an amazing thirst for knowledge and are confident at talking about their learning journey in Year 3.
The children in Year 3 are keen to find new facts. So far this year, we have experienced the 'Wonderlab' at the Science and Media Museum as part of our Lights and Shadows topic. As part of the Rocks and Soils and Stone Age Topic we went to see the fantastic provision at Cliffe Castle. Later in the summer term they will visit Leeds City Museum and get to explore the fantastic artefacts there.
Many in the year group are very confident and love the opportunity to perform. The children performed a 'Festive Showcase' to their parents at Christmas time. They also performed, completed and earnt the 'Arts Mark Award' through workshops driven by the Northern Ballet. In the summer term, the children will perform an Egyptian play.
The children in Year 3 have relished being involved in our experiential projects. They organised, catered and ran their own Café's. They visited Tesco's to find out about where food comes from and also about different roles at the supermarket. Over a third of the year group also took part in the 'Take Over Day 2019' and had a job in the school.
If you would like to find out more, please make an appointment to speak with a member of the team and we will be happy to help.


text:
The Beach House
Aubrey Brown
The Beach House, written by Mary Alice Monroe, was originally published in 2002. This novel represents the time period in which it was written during a summer on the Isle of Palms in Carolina Lowcountry. There are several mothers and mother-figures in this novel that can be examined, and each one shows the complications and delicacies of motherhood. The most prominent mother in The Beach House is Olivia Rutledge, known as Lovie to those close to her. Lovie is seen throughout the novel as a mother not only to her two children, but also a mother figure to her houseguest Toy, her friends, the Turtle Team, and to the hatchlings that mother loggerheads lay on her stretch of the beach. The Beach House portrays mother figures in an overall positive light, but it also explores the complications that arise and the not-so-glamorous parts of motherhood as well as how decisions made can either build and strengthen a bond or could falter and undermine a bond.
A Treasurable Bond
This story follows the two Rutledge women, Lovie and her daughter Cara, as they try to repair and reconnect the bond that has long since been damaged. When the story begins, the two have a strained relationship, a "silent truce", but as the story and the characters grow, the complexities of motherhood begin to surface. Since Cara had been a young girl, she blamed her mother for being weak and subservient and allowing her husband to be verbally abusive, and eventually physical towards Cara, and making the family's life at home miserable and damaging throughout her childhood. The resentment that Cara held towards her mother grew with age and she left home eighteen, not to return until her mother asked more than twenty years later. With death at her heels, Lovie knew that she had to make peace with her daughter. Throughout the summer, Lovie and Cara began to understand that to make amends, they had to be open, honest, straightforward, and understanding of one another. Even as their relationship grew, tensions still arose between the two. When Lovie saw the hurt and anguish and hate that she had caused her daughter, she fully opened up to her. Lovie explained to Cara what her life was like as a mother in her time, about her life outside of the home and how the decisions she made in that separate life affected her life at home. Once Cara understood the difficult decisions that Lovie made, and the even more difficult consequences she had to deal with, Cara began to realize that what she thought of her mother had been entirely wrong. While Cara thought her mother was being selfish and weak, she had actually been protecting a truth that would destroy her family. With all secrets out in the open, Cara finally understood her mother and was able to forgive her. Lovie's never-ending protection and love for her daughter shone through and allowed Cara to forgive her mother and grow closer with her.
There is a reason her name is Lovie...
Quotes from the Novel
"'You don't have to say thank you. I'm your mother. It's my job. My pleasure.'"
"'Don't let anyone or any thing hold you captive from finding your heart's desire.'
'Oh, Mama... How will I know what that is?'
She cupped her daughter's face, and in the woman, saw the little girl. 'You'll know, my precious. One day you'll look up and see it -- and just know.'"
"There was an ebb and flow with the pain of loss. Yet as Cara slept in her mother's room, in her high bed, sometimes she could sense her mother's presence floating in the soft breezes that caressed her brow."