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By Holly Wadsworth-Hill
Struggling to find the perfect Christmas gift for the special man in your life? Here at Mail Travel we offer a fantastic Savile Row Tailoring experience for men, guaranteed to make him feel like a prince and give him an heirloom-quality suit to treasure for years to come.
We think it makes for a wonderful gift for him, and who better to chat with than prestigious Savile Row tailor himself, Jasper Littman? In this exclusive interview, Mr Littman discusses the art of tailoring, shares his pet peeves and gives advice on how to choose the perfect men's suit.
MT: Can you begin by explaining the difference between a suit bought off the rack in our local High Street and a tailored suit?
JL: There are so many differences between these two products, almost too many to list.
Off-the-peg suits are designed to fit as many potential customers as possible and are therefore very often faceless, generic, all-purpose and not closely fitting. Selling off the peg suits is about 'shifting units' rather than building long-term relationships which explains why customers can be confronted with untrained staff who are on commission.
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They are designed and chosen by retail buyers 18 months before they actually hit the shelves. These buyers have to try and predict what the fashion is going to be a year and-a-half before it happens and they don't always get it right.
They are also more focused on profit margins and may travel to places such as Israel to buy fabric direct from the mill in large quantities. In effect, this means that fabric used for off the peg suits (especially below the £500 mark) cannot be as high quality as choosing an English made piece of fabric and simply buying enough for one person, as a client of bespoke or semi-bespoke would.
Similarly the factory that the buyer chooses would have to be capable of churning out hundreds of off the peg suits every week in order to maximise profits. This means that they cannot afford to take the time or the effort needed to make a suit as well as it should be made.
Furthermore with an off the peg suit your choices are limited. Whereas with a made to measure suit, obviously the styling and the fabric is up to you down to the last detail. Finally, the level of service, expertise and after-sales service differs radically between these two products.
Customers of Savile Row bespoke suits are always placed in the care of an expert who has an in-depth understanding of style, fit, construction and maintenance of a top quality suit.
MT: Tell us what attracted you to tailoring in the first place and what eventually made you brave it and go it alone?
JL: I was working in a traditional men's outfitters where made-to-measure suits were offered and when I was trained on how to measure I developed a passion for it.
I was attracted to tailoring by several things, the challenge of getting the measurements right, the art of using measurements to flatter and the hundreds of different fabric weaves and possibilities.
I made the decision to go it alone when I felt that menswear and Savile Row in particular had taught me all I needed to know to set up my own business. I had enough good contacts and had familiarised myself with all of the highest quality suppliers of tailoring, trimmings and fabrics.
I wanted to tailor suits that had my own stamp on them so I set about creating the Jasper Littman cut. Since setting up the business 12 years ago, I've been extremely pleased with its progress.
MT: Why do you think Savile Row remains so significant and successful?
JL: Savile Row has a fantastic history and is known the world over for its dedication to quality craftsmanship. The reason for its continued success is perhaps because the proprietors stringently maintain these levels of quality, never allowing their standards to be surpassed by overseas rivals.It remains the benchmark for elegant tailoring and continues to attract only the most discerning clients.
MT: You must find yourself inadvertently scrutinising everyone in a suit! Are there telltale signs of the good and the bad and do you have any pet hates?
JL: This is actually a big problem for me on holiday, and also whilst watching TV. When I see an ill-fitting suit I cannot prevent myself from mentally altering it to improve the fit.
It makes 'switching off' whilst abroad quite difficult. A badly made suit – whether bespoke or off-the-peg will often crease in places where there shouldn't be any.
One quick way to spot a badly made suit is to have a look at the sleeves and the lapels. The top of the sleeve where it meets the shoulder is called the crown. A well-tailored crown will sit up proudly at the head of the sleeve and have a generous roundness to it, whereas on a cheap suit the crowns tend to be rather flat and lifeless.
The finishing on the lapels can also be a give-away as they tend to curl forward away from the body on a cheap suit. Often they appear puckered and wrinkled as if shrunk in the wash. Any well-made bespoke suit will have lapels that lie flat and even. They should feature hand-stitching down the edges of the lapel but the stitches should not be too tight so as to pucker them.
|'Having a bespoke suit tailored is a milestone in a man's life.'
MT: Style wise, which celebrity would you say does formal wear the best? In particular what did you think of George Clooney's wedding wardrobe?
JL: I don't follow celebrities as Savile Row is a little too traditional to play a part in the 'high fashion' universe. I haven't seen Mr Clooney's suit up close so I can only go by the images I've just found on the net.
I can see that he wore a few different suits over the course of his wedding weekend. The most important one was his dinner suit or 'tuxedo' as they say in the US.
It's an American tradition to wear a dinner suit for your wedding even though to us Brits it makes no sense. A dinner suit is of course specifically designed for an indoor evening event and therefore looks more than a little odd when worn during the day outdoors. I wonder what the Italians made of it.
The design of his Armani suit also goes against the grain slightly as it has a notched lapel which is not exactly a cardinal sin but is more reminiscent of a business suit than a dinner suit. Traditionally a dinner suit is cut with either a shawl collar or a peak lapel.
As for his other plain pale grey suit, it is classic and understated but a little lacking in character for my taste. We don't want to upstage the bride but considering this is one of the most important days of his life I would've preferred him to wear a suit with a little more impact. I can say, however, that both suits seem to fit him well.
MT: Can you offer our readers any formal wear tips? Colour matches, slimming options, tricks for adding or disguising height? Or fail-safe suit classics?
JL: Looking taller: If you're attempting to add the appearance of height then stay away from turn-ups which will make your legs look shorter. When it comes to choosing the fabric, narrow pin stripes elongate whereas wide ones shorten. A long sweeping lapel with also add length so avoid a three-button jacket which has a shorter lapel.
There are certain wardrobe staples that seem to work well in every situation. For example a plain dark grey single-breasted suit is appropriate for work, weddings and interviews and can be dressed up or down with ease.
MT: What makes a Savile Row Tailoring Experience the perfect gift experience for men?
JL: Having a bespoke suit tailored is a milestone in a man's life and one that many men have dreamed about for years but never seem to get round to. Giving this experience could kick-start a series of bespoke purchases that prevent him from ever returning to ill-fitting off-the-peg suits. Unlike many other gift experiences this is one that will last for many years. Being measured in Savile Row for the first time is a memorable experience and the suit itself will provide many years of sartorial pleasure.
Jasper Littman specialise in one thing only – bespoke and semi bespoke suits measured, fitted and delivered by their visiting tailors. Savile Row style suits personify gentleman's English elegance and Jasper Littman combine a contemporary approach to customer care with traditional tailoring expertise. Using the finest English fabrics, their bespoke suits are created exclusively in England and their tailors visit at a location convenient to you, office or home, and have over 10 years of Savile Row experience.
Jasper Littman lives in South Buckinghamshire and covers the London & South Buckinghamshire areas.
Click here to book a fantastic semi-bespoke Savile Row Tailoring Gift Experience with the man himself.


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You mention "in-game ads", people get shirty. Don't like the fact they're being sold stuff within something they already bought. But there's less ground for complaint with in-game ads bought for a good purpose.
The Transport Accident Commission of Victoria, a state in Australia's south-east, have signed a contract with Massive - the Microsoft-owned in-game advertising provider - courtesy of which they'll beam their creepy anti-speeding commercials into the homes of the TAC's target audience: young Australian males.
The ads will appear in Guitar Hero 5 but, more importantly, in Forza 3 as well.
The TAC are famous not just in Australia, but throughout the world, for their insistence on promoting road safety via graphic, violent TV commercials and billboards. So it'll be interesting to see how the ads go down in Forza, a game about...driving really, really fast.
Below is one of the TAC's more notable efforts, from a few years back. Be warned; it's a little rough.
Video games to get local road safety ads [The Australian]

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Public notice is hereby given that the Town of Springfield Board of Review will meet at the Springfield Town Hall, 6157 County Highway P, Dane, WI on Wednesday, the 1st day of May, 2019, from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M., for the purpose of reviewing and examining the assessment roll of real and personal property in said Town and all sworn statements and valuations of real and personal property therein, and of correcting all errors in said roll, whether in description of property or otherwise, and to perform such other duties imposed by law. Forms for protesting of assessments are available from the Town Clerk-Treasurer, 6157 County Highway P, Dane, WI 53529. Please call 849-7887 to schedule appointments.
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Music with Dark, Youthful Curiosity
It was not a surprise to see a mass of neon-haired, glitter-clad beings, or dreadlocked creatures with flowers in their hair dispersed among the typical Denver show-goer at The Gothic Theatre to see CocoRosie on March 25.
Haunted seems like a concise description of these musical virtuosos. CocoRosie is a group initiated by two sisters, Bianca (Coco) and Sierra (Rosie) Casady, who have an immense talent—and a peculiar one at that. CocoRosie holds a lot of nostalgia for most of their fans. The sisters have been creating and performing music for over a decade.
As the lights in the Gothic began to dim to an aptly neon pink and purple glow, the Casady sisters entered with predictably eccentric costumes—one could expect nothing but. Sierra donned a neon pink ankle-length skirt with black polka dots, paired with an ostensibly hand-decorated wife beater. Bianca seemed to be wearing the ruffled pink and black polka dot top to go with the aforementioned skirt, pairing it instead with boxing shorts and harlequin tights.
The sisters were accompanied by their equally-talented trumpeter and pianist, Takuya Nakamura, and human beat boxer, known only as TEZ, who are, ironically, possibly the most normal-looking people in the theater.
The group took no haste in starting off their set with "Heartache City" off their newest album with the same name. Sierra, an operatically-trained vocalist, sang softly and seductively into the microphone, sitting at a piano, introducing Bianca's rap-like bars in her signature youthful yet raspy voice.
Their performance was stripped down compared to their album, relying only on TEZ as their electronic beats and baby toys to create their usual electronica sound; their performance was simple and had an air of intimacy. Sierra's vintage, cinematic star quality added to her energy and her performance, while Bianca seemed like a vision from the future.
The bond between the Casady sisters is clear and powerful. As they leapt into perhaps one of their most beloved tracks, "Werewolf," it was truly heartening to see a group of musicians brazenly relishing their own music as much as their audience.
CocoRosie forges a world where jejune purity and the treachery of knowledge exist simultaneously: a place where innocence remains intact despite the fact that, as adults, that infantile quality has been buried. The lyrics take to the darker side, which touches on the decisive balance of the groups composition, pairing the dark with the light, a Lolita-esque curiosity about the world's shadowy corners, yet still retaining the guileless gleam of an innocent intensity.
The intrigue of CocoRosie is not only their offstage peculiarity, but the balance of their onstage performance: a rather put-together mess. Perhaps it is the garish costumes, the childlike energy and Bianca's distinctively infantile voice, but these two women have an uncanny ability to make their audience feel the simplicity of being a child again.
—Sarai Nissan
Above: The Casady sisters flaunt wild costumes and simple music.
photo: Sarai Nissan • CU Denver Sentry
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PULSE Art Fair Miami Beach 2017 Returns to its Oceanfront Home For the 13th Time
Founded in 2005, PULSE Contemporary Art Fair is an established part of the annual art calendar with editions in New York and Miami Beach. Dedicated to creating a strong legacy of programming, it provides its international community of emerging and established galleries with a dynamic platform for connecting with a global audience.
PULSE Miami Beach will return to its oceanfront home at India Beach Park this December, marking the debut of Director Katelijne De Backer. Divided by the North and South tent at Indian Beach Park, the 13th edition of the fair will offer its diverse audience of art collectors, curators and enthusiasts a rich program presented in an engaging environment.
Welcoming over 70 galleries from 5 continents, it will provide a perfect setting for discovering and collecting the most compelling contemporary art being produced today.
Participating Galleries and Artists
Each edition of PULSE Miami Beach brings together an international roster of exhibitors presents an engaging overview of the most compelling contemporary art being produced today. This year, PULSE Miami Beach will welcome the total of 72 galleries coming from twelve countries and five continents, including exhibitors from Germany, Denmark, Israel, Peru, South Africa and Japan, among others. The fair will be divided into four curated sections – Galleries, Solo, Conversations, and Points.
The Galleries section will bring together exhibitors presenting a curated group show of three or more artists. Located in North Tent, it will welcome 41 international galleries, including ART LEXÏNG from Miami, the gallery at the forefront of contemporary Chinese art, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery from New York, supporting an array of innovative practices, Joshua Liner Gallery from New York, supporting the talents of both established and emerging artists, Gallery Poulsen from Copenhagen, a well-established gallery with 14 years of work on the national and international art scene, NL=US Art from Rotterdam, a private gallery and art consulting service that is dedicated to the promotion of emerging and established artists and the advancement of the visual arts in general, and taubert contemporary from Berlin, a gallery focusing on abstract painting, photography and site-specific works and projects, among others.
Located in the South Tent, the Solo section welcomes exhibitors presenting works from one of their represented artists. Each of these artists is nominated for the PULSE PRIZE, a jury-awarded cash grant presented directly to the artists. This year, the section will feature 16 artists, including JoAnne Carson presented by Black & White Gallery / Project Space, Andy Dixon presented by BEERS LONDON, Todd Lanam presented by Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, Lissa Rivera presented by ClampArt, and Lisa Wright presented by COATES & SCARRY, among others.
In the Conversations section, located in the South Tent, exhibitors have a chance to explore new visual and conceptual dialogues between two artists. The section will present 12 artist dialogues, including Polina Barskaya & Jason Reyen presented by Honey Ramka, Chris Durosz & Keun Young Park presented by Muriel Guépin Gallery, Kim Won Geun & Zhuang Hong Yi presented by NIL GALLERY, and Aliza Morell & Senem Oezdogan presented by Uprise Art, among others.
Located in the South Tent, the Points section is dedicated to alternative models and non-profits. This year, the section will present National YoungArts Foundation from Miami, Project for Empty Space from Newark, and SVA Galleries from New York.
The Exhibitors List
|Milan, Italy
|Miami, FL
|London, UK
|Bernarducci Gallery Chelsea
|New York, NY
|Black & White Gallery / Project Space
|Brooklyn, NY
|Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
|New York, NY
|Carrie Able Gallery
|Brooklyn, NY
|Lima, Peru
|London, UK
|Christopher Moller Gallery
|Cape Town, South Africa
|Claire Oliver Gallery
|New York, NY
|New York, NY
|London, UK
|Danziger Gallery
|New York, NY
|David Lusk Gallery
|Memphis, TN
|Davidson Contemporary
|New York, NY
|Elizabeth Leach Gallery
|Portland, OR
|London, UK
|Flowers Gallery
|New York, NY & London, UK
|Frantic Gallery
|Tokyo, Japan
|Front Room Gallery
|New York, NY
|Galleri Urbane
|Dallas, TX
|Galería Leyendecker
|Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
|Galerie de Bellefeuille
|Montreal, Canada
|Galerie Heike Strelow
|Frankfurt am Main, Germany
|GALLERY MoMo
|Tokyo, Japan
|Gallery Poulsen
|Copenhagen, Denmark
|Garis & Hahn
|Los Angeles, CA
|Ginsberg Galeria
|Lima, Peru
|Atlanta, GA
|Honey Ramka
|Brooklyn, NY
|Hosfelt Gallery
|San Francisco, CA
|Jenkins Johnson Gallery
|San Francisco, CA
|JHB Gallery
|New York, NY
|New Orleans, LA
|Joshua Liner Gallery
|New York, NY
|K. Imperial Fine Art
|San Francisco, CA
|Kahn Gallery
|London, UK
|Kallenbach Gallery
|Amsterdam, The Netherlands
|Litvak Contemporary
|Tel-Aviv, Israel
|Livingstone Gallery
|The Hague, The Netherlands
|London, UK
|Mark Wolfe Contemporary
|San Francisco, CA
|Maus Contemporary
|Birmingham, AL
|Mindy Solomon Gallery
|Miami, FL
|Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY
|New York, NY
|National YoungArts Foundation
|Miami, FL
|Nicholas Metivier Gallery
|Toronto, Canada
|Paris, France
|NL=US Art
|Rotterdam, The Netherlands
|Patricia Sweetow Gallery
|San Francisco, CA
|Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
|London, UK
|Portland, OR
|Pentimenti Gallery
|Philadelphia, PA
|Project for Empty Space
|Newark, NY
|Project: ARTspace
|New York, NY
|Purdy Hicks Gallery
|London, UK
|Rena Bransten Gallery
|San Francisco, CA
|Richard Levy Gallery
|Albuquerque, NM
|Rick Wester Fine Art
|New York, NY
|robert henry contemporary
|Brooklyn, NY
|Samuel Freeman Gallery
|Los Angeles, CA
|SVA Galleries
|New York, NY
|taubert contemporary
|Berlin, Germany
|Berkeley, CA
|Uprise Art
|New York, NY
|Brooklyn, NY
|Calgary, Canada
|Von Lintel Gallery
|Los Angeles, CA
|Berlin, Germany
|William Baczek Fine Arts
|Northhampton, MA
|Winston Wächter Fine Art
|New York, NY & Seattle, WA
The Programming of PULSE Miami Beach 2017
Besides the traditional booth structure, the fair will also present a cross-section of contemporary art in the form of site-specific programming.
A dedicated showcase for video and new media, PLAY will serve as a platform to encourage discovery within the digital realm. After an open call for submissions, nine finalists have been selected by Jasmine Wahi and Rebecca Pauline Jampol, Co-Founders and Directors of Project For Empty Space.
Each of the nine works relates to this year's theme of power, a theme the curators chose to define in a broad sense, inviting artists to explore the multiple iterations of the word, it's definitions, and the myriad of ways to interpret and contextualize power.
In addition to being shown onsite at PULSE, the works selected for PLAY will be shown in a month-long, pre-fair exhibition at Project For Empty Space from October 11th through November 19th, 2017.
As part of this year's PROJECTS, a platform committed to the presentation and promotion of audience-engaging large-scale sculptures, installations and performances, PULSE will present a Special Commission by Hector Arce-Espasas, whose sculptural installation Ode to Paradise (Dancers) presents a series of his iconic ceramics positioned throughout a new site-specific environment created specifically for the fair.
Other installations and performances are Fertility by Fischer Cherry, Recent Activity by Jeana Klein, Never Stop Dancing by Phoenix Lindsey-Hall, Yet Again by Alan Rath, and Self Portrait As Grand Odalisque (After Ingres) by Hiba Schahbaz.
The program for PERSPECTIVES, a platform for the exploration of themes and issues within the contemporary art market, is yet to be announced.
The Location
Practical Information
PULSE Miami Beach will be on view at Indian Beach Park in Miami Beach from December 7th until December 10th, 2017. The Private Preview Brunch for VIP will be held on Thursday, December 7th, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The doors of the fair will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. on Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Miami Mornings will be held on Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m, with a free admission for residents of Miami-Dace County.
The price of the general ticket will be $25, the price of the 4-Day Multi-Pass will be $40 ($15 for students and seniors, and $10 for groups), while the Directors Tour will cost $100.
For more information, visit the official website of the fair.
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Marketing. Sometimes it's almost like a shudder that goes through a room when that word is said. I was at a networking event the other night and the presenter asked what came to mind when we think of marketing. Several people said things like, "selling", "pushy", "annoying", and "advertising", which I think is typical for a lot of us.
Is this what you think of when you think of marketing? Many people seem to view marketing as a necessary evil of the business world. Especially if you are a startup, marketing can seem overwhelming and take the back burner among all your responsibilities as a business owner.
Today we bring you a few marketing tips that can help combat negative stereotypes:
Smarket, don't market.
A good business owner markets. A fantastic business owner smarkets. Smarketing isn't a made-up word; it's the integration of sales and marketing. When your sales team is communicating with your marketing team, and they are working together to capture leads and turn them into sales, you are like an uber-efficient hybrid car system that gives you more mileage for less fuel.
A car is only as good as it's speedometer, odometer, and other measuring systems. If those are broken, you can only make imprecise guesses about the speed, direction, and condition of your car. The more precise the measuring system, the better you know what needs to be fixed. The same goes for marketing. We love our monitoring system that delivers precise reports about leads and visits, and also has a great CRM. Measuring everything about your marketing lets you know exactly what strategies are effective and where you can improve.
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They say you get out what you put in. Even as a young startup, marketing will be the lifeblood of your business if you make it that. Put down the cash that it will take to get a good CMO, or even a part-time CMO, who can help you strategize a good marketing plan. It may seem like a huge investment at the beginning, but like all good investments, you will see the benefits as your company grows.
Powerful, strategic marketing has the potential to change your startup into a sensational success. It's worth putting in the time and money it takes to make your business grow.
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For so many years during my spiritual search I divided everything into spiritual and non spiritual. India, ashrams, meditation halls and mantra lounges were seen as spiritual, while everything else was not. How it all changed now…
Now I can sense the Spirit everywhere I go, whether it's a bar, a club, or streets of the City. And in everyone too. Sometimes I feel that those far from the spiritual search are more spiritual in their core than those so called spiritual.
One of the places that I love so much is The Ned. Whenever I am there, I feel so much presence. I just fall into this meditative state. Which is kind of unusual considering that it's not a meditation mecca in any terms. Yet that's how I feel there. Every visit is such a sensual and present experience filled with awareness! I love everything about this place – vibe, spaciousness, ambiance, music, members and people who work there.
One week ago I held a beautiful Tea Ceremony at The Ned for its members on their roof terrace, and it was such a beautiful deep experience. I fell in love with this amazing space even more.
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Those latex gloves Transportation
Security Administration agents wear while giving
passengers those infamous full-body pat-downs apparently
aren't there for the safety and security of passengers –
only the TSA agents.
That's the word being discussed on
dozens of online forums and postings after it was noted
that the agents wear the same gloves to pat down dozens,
perhaps hundreds, of passengers, not changing them even
though the Centers for Disease Control in its online
writings has emphasized the important of
clean hands to
prevent the exchange of loathsome afflictions.
"Herpes via latex glove ... ewwww,"
wrote one participant on the independence-minded
AR15 website forum.
Responding to the question, "Does the
TSA change latex gloves after each sexual assault?"
another wrote on the same forum, "I seriously doubt it.
Gloves are for their protection, not yours."
Join tens of thousands of Americans in a petition
demanding action against the intrusive airport screening
procedures implemented by Janet Napolitano
and send
a letter to Congress, President Obama and others telling
them exactly what you think about the issue.
In fact, TSA
officials in both national and regional offices declined
to respond to WND inquiries about the policy for
changing gloves to prevent an infection that may be on
the clothes or body of one passenger during a pat-down
by TSA agents from being transmitted to other
passengers, including children, in line.
"For those of you who fly and opt for
the 'pat down,' you need to demand the TSA thugs change
their gloves. I've been watching on the news how they
operate. People are being searched [with] dirty gloves
... gloves that have been in crotches, armpits, touching
people who may be ill, people who pick their noses. Do
you want those gloves touching you?
"Those gloves are worn for the
protection of the agent," wrote the commentator.
"You must request that they change the gloves in your
presence or you risk acquiring venereal disease
resulting from a fondle/molest search."
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Town board approves modest pay increases
Town of Pahrump staff members received an early Christmas gift from the town board this week.
Town of Pahrump staff members received an early Christmas gift from the town board this week.
Board members voted to approve a Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) to non-bargaining unit staff during Tuesday's board meeting.
As a result, staff will get a 2-percent pay increase in January with an additional 2-percent increase slated for next July.
The action comes as the local economy slowly recovers from the economic downturn.
Federal legislation enacted more than 40 ago years provides for cost-of-living adjustments to keep pace with inflation.
Town Board Chair Harley Kulkin authored the agenda item. He said staff has not received a COLA increase in several years.
"I would like to see staff get an increase because it has been quite a while." Kulkin said.
The discussions on pay increases for non-unit bargaining town staff comes more than a year after town department heads actually turned down STEP increases to help keep the town's finances out of the red.
STEPs are periodic pay raises for public employees that reward longevity.
Finance Director Mike Sullivan, Fire Chief Lewis, Building and Grounds Manager Matt Luis, and Human Resources Director Terry Bostwick voluntarily gave up their respective raises.
Former Town Manager Bill Kohbarger let more than $14,000 go back to taxpayers after five years of serving as the town's top administrator.
Dr. Tom Waters agreed with the pay raises.
"We also need to look at the fact that we will be updating job descriptions. If we find out that they are doing more than they are in their current description, that in itself may require an additional raise," he said.
Kulkin took his argument for supporting the pay increase further.
The chairman noted that a 4-percent wage hike is really not a lot of money to reward staff.
"Let me put a dollar figure on this. Some of the employees make, give-or-take $30,000 a year which would be about $15 an hour. Some make less and some make more. The bottom line is a 4-percent raise is $100 a month or $1,200 a year, which is $25 a week before taxes. I wish we could give them more because it's not that much money. It fits in our budget and they more than deserve it," he said.
Not all board members completely embraced the pay raise consideration.
Amy Riches seemed to straddle the fence between her allegiance to her constituents and loyalty to staff members.
"The town and the community has not come out of the recession and I can hear people saying in my mind that 'we don't get a raise, so why are you using our money to give them a raise?' I want to clarify my feelings on this. I have seen staff many times go above and beyond. I listen to the people and if they say to me not to give them any money, I will do what they want but in my opinion, staff deserves it," she said, before reluctantly voting for the raises.
Hourly staff were not alone in getting a little more on their paychecks.
Board members also voted to ratify the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) with the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 4068.
As a result, fire crews will soon see a 1.5-percent pay increase beginning next year.
The action comes more than a year after contentious negotiations between the IAFF and town staff where the possibility of layoffs was front and center.
Both sides eventually arrived at an agreement that froze the union's STEP increases and averted pending 11th hour layoffs, saving the town approximately $145,000 annually.
The agreement came at roughly the same time when the town board was forced to write off more than $500,000 in potential revenue from the town's ambulance service for uncollected billing fees.


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Following her debut in the Autumn/Winter 2011 catwalk show for Burberry, Cara Delevingne has become one of the most in-demand models in the industry, appearing in a total of 14 Vogue covers.
Famed as much for her modelling as for her public persona, Delevingne's celebrity has followed that of supermodels such as Kate Moss , garnering a dedicated following and attention from mainstream press outside the fashion industry.
Through clever use of social media — Delevingne has over 40 million followers on Instagram and more than 10 million followers on Twitter — the young model has built a viable commercial brand around herself, which in turn has helped her secure contracts with labels keen to capitalise on her growing prominence. In February 2013, Delevingne registered a trademark for her name and established a business under Cara&Co.
Delevingne first began modelling at age 10, starring in an editorial shot by Bruce Weber for Vogue Italia and in campaigns for Cadbury chocolate in Britain, before being signed to Storm Model Management by owner Sarah Doukas . Prior to landing the Burberry campaign, the aspiring model worked on catalogue shoots for Asos while studying drama at Bedales, an exclusive private school in Hampshire.
Keen to pursue a career in acting, Delevingne began her foray into films with parts in the 2011 production of "Anna Karenina" alongside Keira Knightley and 2014's "The Face of an Angel," before landing one of her first leading roles in the Hollywood adaptation of John Green novel "Paper Towns." In April 2015, Delevingne announced she would be quitting modelling to focus on films and starred alongside Ben Affleck and Margot Robbie in "Suicide Squad." However, she has since featured on the covers of Glamour, British GQ, Vogue Paris and Elle, and in February 2018 made a triumphant return to the runway for Christopher Bailey 's last collection for Burberry, a celebration of LGBT youth.
Delevingne was awarded Model of the Year award at the British Fashion Awards in both 2012 and 2014. Originally based in London, she has reportedly moved to live in LA with her partner, fellow actress and model Ashley Benson. She is represented by IMG in London and Milan and Scoop Models in Copenhagen.


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I've now reached the 2020/21 season in my Morton save, and if you missed my last post, here's a little reminder.
I felt that going into my 6th season at the club, and having established ourselves at the top end of Scottish football, it was time to put together some aims and targets for the remainder of the save. If you haven't had the opportunity to read that post yet, the fourth, and final, aim outlined was to answer the question, 'What makes a Morton player?' I also completely copped out by not answering it within the last post, but to be fair, who's ever complained about an extra post to read!
Read on if you're interested in my thought process for coming up with an answer for the question, 'What makes a Morton player?'
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Above: Leo Chadburn live at LCMF 2017 (Photo: Tina Rousou)
Above: Leo Chadburn, 2016
Above: Simon Bookish photographed for Amelias Magazine, 2008
Above: Leo rehearsing with the London Symphony Orchestra, 2013 (Photo: Kevin Leighton)
Above: Simon Bookish live at the Scala, 2007 (Photo: John W Stuart)
Above: Simon Bookish in the studio, July 2009 (Photo: Leigh Righton)
Above: Leo appearing in Jennet Thomas' "School of Change", 2012 (Film Still)
Simon Bookish is Leo Chadburn
Leo Chadburn is a composer and performer from London (UK). His unpredictable work includes experimental music for ensembles, dramatic solo performances that merge his voice with electronic music, and music for film and installation art. It has been broadcast on BBC Radio 1, 3 and 6 Music, Resonance FM and internationally.
He is also known as Simon Bookish, under which guise he has released three albums of transgressive, investigatory pop and numerous remixes for international artists.
His recent works are preoccupied with the ideas of 'found text' and the musicality/theatricality of speaking voices. These include The Indistinguishables (2014) for Quatour Bozzini, Five Loops for the Bathyscaphe (2017) for the Britten Sinfonia, ANTICLOCK (2019) for Decibel and RED & BLUE (2015), a solo performance based on the Cold War correspondence between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
He won a 2016 British Composer Award (The Ivors Composer Awards) for his piece Freezywater, written for Apartment House, and was nominated for a second award the following year for Affix Stamp Here written for the vocal ensemble EXAUDI.
His extensive collaborative work with visual artists includes Jennet Thomas' film The Unspeakable Freedom Device (2015), Richard Grayson's five screen video installation Nothing Can Stop Us Now (2014) and Cerith Wyn Evans' performance work Imagination Dead Imagine (2013), for spaces including Matt's Gallery, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Serpentine Gallery and the V&A.
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A suite of documents which sit alongside the University Health and Safety Policy and provide detailed information on what you need to do to meet both legal and University requirements for different health and safety topics.
What documents are there in the protocol on 'Management of manual handling' and what do they mean to me?
Standard specifies what the University expects to be in place for Management of manual handling. Each bulletpoint is a must happen and everyone needs to play their part in ensuring these requirements are met. Heads of School/ Service will set up systems and appoint staff into specific roles to make sure they happen; everyone else needs to carry out tasks and instructions to fulfil them.
Guidance provides one way of implementing a system that will achieve the requirements of the Standard. The Head of School or Service (with your Health and Safety Manager) will decide if this (or another system) suits the needs of each school/ service most effectively. So long as the Standard is achieved there is usually flexibility in the way that it can be achieved.
Additional guidance for completing a specific manual handling risk assessment - provides more detail on when a specific manual handling activity risk assessment is required. It also provides more detailed guidance for completing the specific manual handling activity risk assessment for lifting and carrying and pushing and pulling.
Flowchart: manual handling - quick reference flow chart, to be used in conjunction with the additional guidance document.
Template manual handling risk assessment form this is a blank template of a specific manual handling risk assessment form for trained staff to use to manage the risks from lifting and carrying and pushing and pulling.
Manual handling health and safety training matrix outlines the different types and levels of training required for various manual handling activities.
Head of School/ Service discuss the protocol (particularly the Standard, Guidance, Additional Guidance for completing MH risk assessments and Training matrix) with your Health and Safety Manager to make sure you have a system in place to fulfil the Standard.
Line Managers ensure that there are suitable risk assessments, and where appropriate, specific manual handling risk assessments in place for your staff.
All other staff and students - make yourself aware of and follow the arrangements / instructions/ processes that have been put in place in your school / service - ask your Health and Safety Manager or Coordinator if you need more information or support. Familiarise yourself with any relevant risk assessments and safe operating procedures.
Staff who routinely carry out manual handling, as part of their job. (See also Manual Handling Training Matrix.)
At least every three years
No as a rough guide, the load two people can handle safely together is approximately two thirds of the total loads they would have been able to handle separately.


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George Nooks' cocaine trial postponed to next March
The trial of singer George Nooks on a cocaine possession charge was rescheduled to March 27, 2018 in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Wednesday by Judge Vaughn Smith.
Nooks had his bail extended to the new trial date.
His legal representative in court was advised that the case should be tried in the Drug Treatment Court, which is considered not to be in the best interest of the defence.
However, the court granted permission to the defence for it to review the Duhaney Park Police Station's narcotics and crime diaries for the period May 4-10, 2017, which is to allow for the tracking of the overall police documentation surrounding the case in which Nooks is significantly disputing police accounts of the events that led to the charge against him.
Police reports were that on May 5, Nooks, 56, was observed acting suspiciously by members of a police narcotics team in the Duhaney Park area sometime after 9:00 p.m. The singer was reportedly accosted and a bag that he was allegedly carrying was searched and approximately two ounces of cocaine was reported found inside it.
The popular, longtime entertainer was subsequently arrested and charged by the police.


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The Supposed Rise of Empirical Research in European Legal Journals
Over the years, I have heard various colleagues say they thought empirical legal research (ELR) has been on the rise. Some see this as a positive development, making law and legal research more evidence-based and diverse. Others are critical, for example because ELR projects are more successful when it comes to obtaining grants than doctrinally-oriented projects.
For sure, I have seen many ELR workshops, conferences, symposiums and other events been organized over the years. Nevertheless, I have wondered why there would be an increase of ELR. I have not seen more colleagues who have been enthusiastic about ELR actually start doing more ELR. This year, together with two co-authors, I took the time to go analyze the proportion of empirical articles in the 2008 – 2017 period for a large number of European-based legal journals.
The result? The evidence for an increase is weak at best. The results do not provide convincing evidence (if any) for an increase of the proportion of empirical articles. We did find some other interesting effects, such as more prestigious journals being more likely to publish empirical articles than less-prestigious journals, and older journals being more likely to publish empirical work than younger journals, but not at an increasing rate.
The study obviously comes with some limitations, since the time period that was examined is limited, because an analysis of the submitted articles may paint a different picture, or because ELR scholars may tend to publish in US-based journals rather than European-based journals. Nonetheless, the findings do raise the question why ELR has not become more popular.
Various reasons can be identified that form obstacles for ELR to grow. The availability of data that can be analyzed is undeniably important. But perhaps more important is training. To my knowledge, legal academia has not been considerably changed in that it implemented a more empirical focus in the programs offered to law students. As a result, academic staff is not incentivized to obtain empirical skills, and because graduates are not trained empirically, they are unlikely to see the importance nor will they see the necessity to recruit empirically trained law school graduates. It therefore seems that if we want to increase the use of empirical legal research, it starts in legal education. And by simply start doing it.
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When Historic Injustice Meets Tort Law: the Case of the Srebrenica Genocide
In July 1995, thousands of Muslim Bosniak men were deported from the enclave Srebrenica and subsequently killed by the Bosnian Serb army under the command of Ratko Mladić. The UN had declared Srebrenica a "safe area", but the Dutchbat soldiers were not able to prevent the capturing and killing of the victims by the Bosnian Serb army. Years later, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that the massacre constituted genocide.
Numerous investigations were carried out regarding what happened and why. The reports that were produced suggest that the highly ranked officers within the Royal Netherlands Army withheld evidence, and that the Dutch Ministry of Defense refused to take responsibility or blame for the massacre. And so the growing frustration of the relatives led to lawsuits against the UN, France, the Netherlands, and even an individual officer. Interestingly, Dutchbat soldiers are currently also preparing a claim against the State of the Netherlands.
In a groundbreaking decision in 2013, the Dutch Supreme Court upheld a Court of Appeal's decision where the Netherlands was held liable for the death of a muslim Boasniak Dutchbat employee and two family members of a mulsim Bosniak UN translator. On 16 April 2014, the court of first instance held that the State was also responsible for the deportation of the 300 (at least) muslim men from the compound that was under the control of Dutchbat. Importantly, the court only held the State responsible for the victims who were deported from the compound – not for the ones who, for example, fled to the forest and who were captured by the Bosnian Serbs. Both the plaintiffs – the 'Mothers of Srebrenica' – and the State appealed the decision.
On 27 June 2017, the Court of Appeal held that those in charge of Dutchbat should have known as of 13 July 1995 that the men who were being transported (deported) from the compound were in real danger of being subjected to inhumane treatment. As a result, the State acted negligently by actively facilitating the deportation of those staying on the compound. Additionally, the court decided that the State was negligent for not having offered the option to the male refugees to stay on the compound. Because of this, at least according to the court, the refugees were withheld a 30 percent chance of not being exposed to inhumane treatment.
A combination of reasons explains how tort law can produce such outcomes. First, the individual protection paradigm requires a focus on the interests of individual plaintiffs (or groups of legally comparable plaintiffs). This is why the court distinguished between various types of victims (e.g. those who were on the compound on or after 13 July 1995, those who were not on the compound before or on that date) and different instances of negligence (e.g. facilitating the deportation, allowing men to leave the compound knowing there was a real danger of being subjected to inhumane treatment).
Second, tort law compares the situation the victim is in with the situation it would have been in had the wrong not occurred. Although the 30 percent number is arbitrary, the court does justifiably apply the 'loss of a chance' concept by considering that the fate might have been (but not necessarily would have been) different had Dutchbat taken other measures. There was a realistic chance that the compound would have been overtaken and the men would have been deported and possibly killed had Dutchbat offered resistance. Consequently, it is logical from a tort law perspective that the victims are not entitled to the full amount of damages.
Third, tort law defines wrongs and losses in a particular way. The damages that some of the plaintiffs will receive are damages for pain and suffering due to the inhumane treatment of their relatives. Awarding monetary compensation for pain and suffering is common in tort law. Relief that consists of obliging the State to take responsibility for its military decisions and for the State withholding information and evidence are, however, not. Such needs are not recognized as legally relevant interests and are consequently neither claimed by plaintiffs nor ordered by courts.
Cases like the Srebrenica case illustrate that tort law is not designed for repairing historic injustice like the Srebrenica genocide. Who was and was not on the compound at the 'right' time is to a large extent based on coincidence and consequently irrelevant from a plaintiff's perspective, but highly relevant from a wrongdoer's perspective, particularly concerning the amount of damages that would need to be paid if the number of those entitled to damages increase. Furthermore, it is unlikely that the plaintiffs were looking for a correct application of the concept of 'loss of a chance', or that they were in any way seeking to restore the situation had the wrong not occurred – no relief will make their relatives return or undo the pain and suffering. Instead, and as empirical research indicates, plaintiffs were likely to have been seeking recognition, an acknowledgment, information about what happened and why, and the opportunity to have a voice.
Repair of historical injustice calls for a different application of tort law, or perhaps a different tort law. However, an alternative that performs better at addressing victims' and relatives' needs while balancing their interests in a fair way is not readily available. Developing such an alternative would not only be a good research project, it could also improve the handling of claims involving historic injustice. Until then, plaintiffs will need to be explained why tort law can produce, for them, incomprehensible outcomes.read more
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies Article: Do Apologies Ordered by the Court Serve A Purpose?
An employee seeks an apology from his employer for inadequately handling a complaint against him. A sexual abuse victim pursues an apology from the Catholic Church for the harm that was done by one of the priests. And a homosexual man feels discriminated against by a radio host who made degrading statements about homosexuals.
Can these individuals claim an apology, and will a court order one? The conventional wisdom is that apologies that are claimed or ordered do not serve a purpose because they lack sincerity and violate the right to freedom of expression. In a recent publication, I challenge conventional wisdom by demonstrating that apologies do not need to be sincere in order for them to serve a purpose.
If sincerity cannot be the decisive criterion for determining whether apologies should be ordered, what criterion should then be decisive? Based on available empirical research, case law and scholarly research on apologies, the article identifies the purposes of coerced apologies and uses these purposes to draft criteria for determining when ordered apologies are appropriate. It is concluded that an ordered apology is a fulfilment of a legal requirement rather than a statement of genuinely held feelings.
A proportionality test is developed in order to determine the permissibility of ordered apologies. The findings in the article refute the sincerity myth, offer suggestions as to how to overcome freedom of expression concerns and call for a more welcoming approach towards court-ordered apologies.
(URL: Gijs van Dijck, 'The Ordered Apology', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (advance access))read more
Claims Against Overcrowded Trains and the Litigious Society
Stichting ConsumentenClaim has announced to start legal proceedings against Dutch Railways on behalf of a passenger. The question that the court will essentially need to answer is whether overcrowdedness in trains resulting in passengers frequently not having seating constitutes a breach of contract.
To determine whether such a claim will be successful, several legal questions need to be answered: does Dutch Railways have an obligation to perform?, does it merely have a best efforts obligation, and if so, what should be understood under 'best efforts'?, when can a passenger reasonably expect a place to sit on the train?, how do passengers prove they have suffered a loss?, and what losses does a passenger exactly suffer? Some argue that passengers' claims do not stand a chance. Others see such claims as society becoming more litigious and may condemn passengers of overcrowded trains who file a claim. One may even see them as despicable money-grabbing plaintiffs.
Qualifications like these are likely unjustified. Empirical research has demonstrated what victims need in case they suffered a harm or loss. They do not primarily or not only seek monetary compensation, but (also) tend to seek recognition, an apology, disclosure (what happened, and why), closure, and prevention. A train passenger is not likely to seek money, but a place to sit.
It is also known that once frustration builds, there will be individuals who seek legal enforcement to have their needs met. This could explain why train passengers are now willing to join StichtingConsumentenclaim in a battle against Dutch Railways. They may hope or expect that a claim will provide incentives to Dutch Railways to solve the issue of overcrowded trains, or at least reduce the issue.
The problem, however, is that the solution that contract law and tort law provide, the law of damages in particular, is rather one-dimensional. Even though most jurisdictions allow for different types of relief, monetary compensation is by far the most popular tool in the legal toolbox. This explains why train passengers resort to monetary compensation: the legal system forces them to. The emphasis (or: fixation) on monetary compensation is so strong that it becomes difficult to consider alternatives. This not only, partly or predominantly, explains why train passengers file claims against Dutch Railways, but also why they claim against physicians who have erred or against Malaysian Airlines after the downing of the MH17 plane.
As a result, claims such as the one against Dutch Railways expose the inability of contract law and tort law, the law of damages in particular, to properly address victims' needs. They reveal the limitations of the monetary perspective that dominates the law. The real challenge for the legal community is therefore not to formulate an answer to questions such as 'Did the train passenger suffer a loss?', but to find an alternative to the dominant monetary perspective.read more
The Future of Empirical Legal Research in the Netherlands
Last Tuesday was the Empirical Legal Studies (ELS) conference organized at the Dutch Supreme Court ('Hoge Raad') in the Hague by the Nederlands Studiecentrum Criminaliteit en Rechtshandhaving (NSCR). All of a sudden, ELS is everywhere in the Netherlands. Last July, there was the first European Conference on Empirical Legal Studies in Amsterdam. Recently the Empirical Legal Studies initiative (ELSi), hosted by the Ius Commune Research School, came on the block. Now the NIELS conference. And upcoming January, a conference will be held by the VSR.
What particularly seems to be becoming more popular, is to talk about ELS – there is no evidence for an increase of the number of empirical legal studies that are conducted in the Netherlands. Some evidence by one of the presenters at Tuesday's conference even suggested that the number of journal articles that present original empirical research (i.e. through data collection by the researcher / author himself or herself) has remained constant over the years. This observation is surprising, as multidisciplinary research may attract more funding, Ministries are calling for more empirical research, scholars seems to welcome more empirical legal research, and all of the Judiciary Council's research is empirical. Moreover, empirical legal research that is conducted in the Netherlands is primarily done by researchers who have a social scientific background, with or without a law degree (Elbers 2016; for English summary click here).
Why is ELS seemingly on the rise but not resulting in more empirical research? One explanation is that there are other forces in play. While ELS is becoming more popular, the Dutch bar association has imposed stricter requirements as to the courses and topics Dutch law schools should teach. As a result, the vast majority of the course credits are and should be assigned to courses in private law, criminal law, and administrative and constitutional law.
It is a widespread belief that the bar requires Dutch law schools to only teach doctrinal scholarship to students. I doubt whether this belief is correct. Teachers may have more flexibility than they think regarding exposing students to different perspectives and approaches than merely a doctrinal approach, as long as they focus on the topics the bar wants them to focus on (e.g. tort law, criminal law). The issue, therefore, may not be so much the bar and its requirements, but the perception of legal academia of what the bar requires law schools to do.
Consequently, there are two conditions for empirical legal scholarship to flourish in the Netherlands. First, it will only evolve if teachers no longer believe that courses have to be taught doctrinally. Second, law schools need to stop believing that they need to hire doctrinally oriented teachers (at every level, from lecturer to professor) to teach their courses. This means that the success formula for empirical legal research in the Netherlands may ultimately be rather simple: just do it.read more


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Well this is weird. The person who was supposed to pick up the KE100A didn't show. The next buyer was a savvy feller who checked the VIN and figured out I've been bamboozled.
Apparently this is a 1974 Kawasaki G5, yet I had a title for a 1979 KE100A. I should have known this. When I researched the KE100A I couldn't find that tank decal as an option. But I did with the G5. I believed the old man when he said it was a KE100A. That was a bad choice. The buyer also brought a compression tester and found it to be under spec. In the end, I was still able to sell it, but for $50 less than I paid for it. Considering the title issues, low compression, and the fact that it wasn't the model I advertised, I call it a win.
New lesson learned: VIN check everything no matter how trustworthy the seller appears.
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So the barn find Kawasaki KE100A will be going to a new home today.
I've been kicking around the idea of selling it. Now that I really am at peak motorcycle for my income and storage space, I have no need to have two tiny enduros. That has kinda been hampering my motivation to restore it. The GSX project is already taking over the YouTube part of why I got the KE100A. Well, just like with the Blast and the Rebel, if I don't have a firm emotional attachment to a bike I will get rid of it!
A member of my Gambler 500 team has been in love with it ever since I posted it. So I pitched the idea to my team and almost immediately received an offer a little greater than what I paid for it. Even accounting for fuel and trailer rental, I still come out a little on top. So what the heck, I accepted the offer.
If I replace it (which I have no current plans to), I would love something like a CBR600R F3, F4i, or maybe try to pry that adorable Aprilia RS50 off the seller I got the GSX from.
Yay, I am capable of downsizing! :D


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A branding agency is creating free 'window art' designs across many stores as part of a campaign.
WeTheSeeds Creative, a Design & Illustration Branding agency is carrying out a free campaign to redesign the front of five charity stores across Harrow.
The artwork applied at each campaign is completely unique to each charity store, hoping to use these redeveloped 'window art' store fronts to enhance the message of the charities and draw people into the store.
Apprentices from nearby schools helped out with installing the window art and show them that their artistic and creative skills are applicable within the real world.
The campaign first began with the Pinner branch for Barnardos, a charity for vulnerable children. The store front was given a colourful and welcoming design of flowers and fruits on the window.
Scope, a disability charity in Harrow Town Centre, now has artistic sketches of cute dogs and flowers for their store.
A calming blue and green themed valley was instead painted for Mind, a mental health charity, in Harrow Town Centre.
Rikesh Patel, the Creative Director of WeTheSeeds Creative, said: "We've received great and positive feedback from existing customers. It has become a great talking point in the community, with the new art there.
"I decided to do it in Harrow as I wanted to give back to the community. Harrow is my home and it has a community to it, so it only felt right."
While three stores have received a facelift, WeTheSeeds Creative are finalising which final two stores will be part of their campaign.


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August 11th -- Batavia, NY -- The Brooklyn Cyclones (30-24) split a doubleheader with the Batavia Muckdogs (25-28) at Dwyer Stadium on Thursday night. The Cyclones were victorious by a score of 3-1 in the first game, but fell in extra innings by a score of 2-1 in game two. Both games were scheduled for seven innings, but the second game went eight.
Eduardo Aldama (3-3, 4.06) earned the victory in the first game after he held the Muckdogs scoreless in his 5.0 innings of work. The native of Venezuela also struck out six and allowed just four base runners. Jack Leathersich allowed Batavia's lone run of the game, but picked up his first career save after working the final 2.0 innings. Danny Muno was 3-for-4 with a run scored to pace the Cyclones and raise his average to .355.
With two outs in the bottom of the first, the Muckdogs put runners on second and third, but Aldama induced an inning ending strikeout to erase the threat.
It was the Cyclones who got on the board first, pushing two runs across in the top of the third. To lead off the frame, Carlos Leyva singled and Danny Muno doubled to put two 'Clones in scoring position. After recording a strikeout, Batavia looked to limit the damage by inducing a ground ball to the shortstop from Javier Rodriguez. The shortstop threw to third hoping to prevent Muno from advancing, but was unable to catch the speedster in-time. On the fielder's choice, J-Rod reached first base and Leyva scored to put Brooklyn up, 1-0.
A fielding error by the third baseman on a ground ball off the bat of Richard Lucas then allowed Muno to score, giving the Cyclones a 2-0 lead. J-Rod moved up to second and Lucas reached first on the blunder. However, the third time was the charm for Batavia in the following at bat as they were able to turn an inning-ending double play on the third consecutive ground ball of the inning.
The Cyclones were unsuccessful on doubling their lead in the fifth inning, but still managed to plate one run. With one out and Leyva at third and Thurber at first, Rodriguez hit a soft grounder back to the pitcher that Leyva looked to score on. However, he was out on a play at the plate. On the play, Thurber moved up to second and Rodriguez reached. Lucas then came through with a two-out RBI on a single up the middle. The base hit plated Thurber and put Brooklyn up 3-0.
After striking out the lead-off batter, Jack Leathersich allowed back-to-back doubles in the bottom of the sixth to give Batavia their first, but what proved to be, only run of the game. The lefty then settled down to strike out two Muckdogs in a row to end the frame.
Leathersich struck out an additional two batters in the bottom of the seventh en route to picking up the save and ensuring a 3-1 Cyclones victory.
In game two, a 1-1 tie was taken into extra innings, but a two-out double in the eighth inning plated the winning run for Batavia. Although he struck out five batters in 2.2 innings, reliever Jeremy Gould (1-3, 3.38) was tagged with the loss. Lefthanded reliever Danny Miranda (2-2, 3.43) picked up the win for the Muckdogs after striking out the side in the top of the eighth. Despite managing just four hits, the Cyclones were kept in the game by starter Jeff Walters, who was a wizard, constantly working out of situations with runners on to keep the Cyclones in the game.
Batavia built off of a lead-off double by Garrett Wittels to score first in the top of the first. Jeff Walters quickly induced a pair of groundouts, but the second ground ball was to the right side of the infield and Wittels was able to move over to third. Walters then induced a third consecutive ground ball, this time to shortstop Ismael Tijerina, but first baseman Cole Frenzel was unable to handle the ensuing throw, allowing the runner to reach and Wittels to score from third. Wittels, who is well-known for his 56-game hitting streak at Florida Atlantic University, was 5-for-8 in today's doubleheader.
The Cyclones went down in order in the second inning, but tied the game at one run apiece in the third. T.J. Rivera led off the frame with a single, but after Muno rolled over to third, was erased on a fielder's choice at second base. The second baseman, who fielded the throw from third, fired to first to get Muno for a double play, but threw the ball away instead. Muno advanced to second on the error. After advancing to third on a groundout to the right side, he came around to score on a single to left field by J-Rod, tying the game at 1-1.
Walters worked out of a bases loaded jam in the bottom of the frame and continued to work out of situations with runners on until he was removed after the fifth inning.
His replacement, Jeremy Gould, came out of the pen throwing smoke, striking out the side in the sixth inning and then sitting down the Muckdogs 1-2-3 in the seventh.
However, the lefthander yielded a lead-off walk in the eighth and then a two-out RBI-double to Juan Castillo to give Batavia their game-winning run.
With the extra-innings loss in game two, the Cyclones split Thursday's doubleheader with the Muckdogs, but still walked away with the series win as they won earlier today and yesterday.
The Cyclones continue their six-game road trip against the Mahoning Valley Scrappers tomorrow, Friday, August 12 at 7 p.m. Following the NYPL All-Star game on Monday, the Cyclones will return to MCU Park on Wedneday, August 17 when they begin a three-game series against the Jamestown Jammers at 7 p.m. It will be BrooklynNite and the first 3,000 fans will receive rally towels as part of Brooklyn's Biggest Block Party. Tickets are still available and can be purchased by calling 718-507-TIXX, visiting the MCU Park box office, or logging onto BrooklynCyclones.com.
--Ryan Gilbert
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Chester "Little Bear" Zardis performs a bass improvisation in his bedroom. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew, New Orleans, May 1982. For more information about the American Patchwork filmwork, Alan Lomax, and his collections, visit http://culturalequity.org. [01.14.01]
From 1978 to 1985, Lomax travelled throughout the South collecting recordings in five culture regions — Mississippi Delta and Hill Country, Central and Southern Appalachia, New Orleans, Cajun Louisiana, and Johns Island, S.C. — compiling footage for what would become his "American Patchwork" series of PBS. This clip is drawn from the New Orleans collection. For more about this and the other American Patchwork collections, visit the Alan Lomax Archive's YouTube channel


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Lake Oswego girls third, Lakeridge eighth at Three Rivers track
The competition at the 2019 Three Rivers League district track meet was as fierce as ever.
And the Lake Oswego and Lakeridge girls teams were fierce themselves.
The Lakers stepped up to win three events and finished third overall with 95 points, trailing only Tualatin and Oregon City in the final standings. The Pacers, meanwhile, finished second in one event, third in two others and placed eighth with 51.5 points.
The complete team scoring for the meet — held Wednesday, May 15, and Friday, May 17, at Oregon City's Pioneer Memorial Stadium — included: Tualatin 130, Oregon City 120, Lake Oswego 95, St. Mary's 78.5, Tigard 76, Canby 58, West Linn 52 and Lakeridge 51.5.
Next up for the Lakers' and Pacers' best is the Class 6A state meet, set for Friday, May 24, and Saturday, May 25, at Mt. Hood Community College.
Lake Oswego Girls
The Lakers saw junior Ava David step up to win the shot put on the meet's first day, while on Friday, the Lakers got victories from senior Maddie DeBorde in the 100 meters and from their 4 x 100 relay team.
David made her mark at district in both the shot put and the discus. In the shot put competition, David topped the field with a personal-best mark of 38 feet, 9.5 inches to beat runner-up Jade Newton of St. Mary's by more than 1 1/2 feet.
Then, in the discus competition, David — the 2017 Class 6A state champion — notched another PR of 145-5 to finish third overall and qualify for state again. Oregon City's Anessa Chirgwin took first with a throw of 147-8 while West Linn's Makayla Long grabbed second at 145-7; together, that trio has the top three marks entering the Class 6A state meet.
On the meet's final day, the Lakers kicked off the competition with a bang, running to victory in the 4 x 100 relay with a winning time of 49.25. Lake Oswego's first-place team included junior Gemma Pleas, senior Erica Chiang, senior Sophie Smith and DeBorde — a group that finished second at state a year ago.
"We worked so hard for it and last year we came in first (at district) and now to get it again is really great," Pleas said.
"We were very excited, a little nervous, but we came strong and finished strong," Smith said.
"We were hoping we could break the meet record, but winning two years in a row is awesome, especially with these girls," DeBorde said.
Now, the Lakers' talented quartet is hoping for a big finish at state.
"We're hoping to do really well at state this year," Chiang said. "Coming back with the same team is so much fun because we love each other and we have chemistry."
Like her 4 x 100 team, DeBorde came back to defend her TRL title in the 100, winning on Friday with a time of 12.64, while Chiang finished second at 12.69 and also qualified for state.
DeBorde also earned a berth in the state meet in the long jump, placing third with a leap of 17-8.5. DeBorde, the reigning Class 6A state champ in the long jump, trailed Oregon City's Harley Daniel and her winning mark of 18-4 and Tualatin's Kendel Vanterpool and her 17-11.25.
Chiang also qualified for state in the 200, placing second with a mark of 25.83 and trailing only Tigard's Riley Patera and her 25.46.
Lake Oswego's 4 x 400 relay team of Chiang, DeBorde, junior Lily Lines and freshman Jayden Hill also qualified for state after placing third at 4:04.20.
Other top-four Lake Oswego finishers were: sophomore Elizabeth Bell, third in pole vault at 8-9; and Hill, fourth in the 400 at 59.27.
Lakeridge Girls
While Lakeridge qualified just one athlete for state — freshman Hannah Daniel in the 300 intermediate hurdles — the Pacers posted another six top-four finishes and competed well throughout the two-day meet.
Daniel came through with a strong finish in the intermediate hurdles, taking second place with a time of 47.80 — a personal best of almost 1 1/2 seconds. Oregon City's Alexis Peterson won the event with a mark of 47.32, while Pacer senior Carolyn Mount grabbed third with a 48.25.
"I was fighting for it," Daniel said. "I was doing pretty good, but then I came up on the curve and I got on the wrong foot, but then I brought it back."
With her big PR and big finish, Daniel has added an unexpected state-meet berth to the end of her freshman season.
"I didn't think I'd be going to state, that's for sure. It's real exciting," she said.
The Pacers' other top-four finishers included: sophomore Holly Lane, third in the 3,000 with a PR of 10:36.05, and fourth in the 1,500 with a PR of 4:52.12; freshman Rachel Barba, fourth in the 800 with a PR of 2:22.82; sophomore Hannah Dorros, fourth in the high jump with a PR of 5-1; and senior Emily Vernon, fourth in the triple jump with a PR of 35-11.50.
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