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Today's Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data shows South Australians continue to leave the
state in droves.
In the 12 months to September 2016, ABS figures reveal South Australia lost 6,484 people interstate in net terms, a staggering 57 per cent increase compared with the preceding 12 months.
"The Weatherill Government's failed economic policies are making economic refugees of tens of
thousands of South Australians," said Shadow Minister for Trade and Investment Tim Whetstone.
"People are leaving because they can't find a job as skyrocketing electricity costs, the most
expensive water in the country and the massive hike in the ESL tax strangle local economic growth.
"South Australia's small to medium businesses are the backbone of this state and we need them to be investing in their businesses and creating job opportunities, instead they are being forced to continually dig deeper into their pockets to pay utility bills and government taxes."
"After 16 years under Labor, South Australia has the highest unemployment and underemployment in Australia.
"The concerning migration drain interstate also explains South Australia's stagnant population
"ABS figures also show South Australia's population growth rate in the 12 months to September 2016 was just 0.6 per cent, compared to the nation's 1.5 per cent.
"I want to see South Australians remain in our great state with secure jobs and a long term future.
"The State Liberals are committed to providing sound economic policy that will address the loss of people from South Australia. The state's economy cannot afford to have thousands of people
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Construction On A Number Of Stalled Projects To Start Up Again, As City Aims To Cement Its Reputation As The "Vegas Of The East"
Macao, the former Portuguese colony that rejoined China in 1999, has had its share of ups and downs over the past few years. In recent years, the city replaced Las Vegas as the world's largest gambling market by total revenue, but not long after gaining this distinction, the city was hit hard by the global economic downturn — which bit into the city's crucial tourism industry as well as its breakneck pace of construction. Now, as the recession eases somewhat in the region — China itself has not been hit as hard as many more developed economies — Macao aims to restart its vast construction efforts and attract more young professionals, luxury shoppers, and gamblers.
Today, the New York Times has a great article on the ongoing transformation of Macao — what was once a backwater trading hub has, like its neighbor Hong Kong, over the years become an important business and tourism center. As the city continues to carve its unique place in the Chinese and East Asian economies, developers continue to work hard to create in Macao a world-class real estate and travel destination. With large-scale luxury developments like One Central due to open within the year, it looks like Macao is, indeed, starting to get back on its feet:


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By Maddy Vitale
Would-be sommeliers won't have to go to the Bordeaux region of France, which is famous for wines, to become experts on the libation.
Michael Bray, owner and founder of Passion Vines & Spirit Company, is offering the area's first ever Wine Foundations seven-week course that will enable wine lovers to become experts without the pretentiousness sometimes associated with tastings.
"It is a seven-week sensory experience," Bray said. "Wine Foundations is the perfect entry point to the next stage of your wine journey. Unfortunately, wine has a pretentiousness about it for some, but we try to get practical about wine and how to drink it, understand it, form opinions on it and use the right language."
Bray said the classes offer an exceptional groundwork into the world of wines.
Classes will be held at the Linwood Country Club from Jan. 15 through Feb. 26 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The cost is $399. People sample eight to 12 wines a class. Just 50 seats are available per class, so space is limited.
The classes will offer more than a glimpse into wine country's best, with 80 wines to sip and savor from all different regions of the world, including France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Austria, Chile, Germany, California and Oregon.
The classes are for the beginner and intermediate level and are ideal for people who work in restaurants as professional servers or anyone else who works around wine, Bray explained.
"The target audience is the beginner to intermediate. Specifically, anyone in the food and beverage industry – hosts, restaurant managers, bartenders or servers. Simply put, anyone working within or around food and beverages who always wanted to learn more," Bray said.
He added, "For people who felt intimidated approaching a wine list, this is absolutely for you. We designed this course so that people know more about their product. Our goal is to have people go back to their places of business and be able to sell more wine than they ever have because they are more knowledgeable."
Over the course of seven weeks, participants will taste eight to 12 wines each week in a two-hour class.
The classes will take people on a tour beginning with how wine is made, gradually narrowing the focus to key regions and prominent wine types.
Some components of the class include:
- How to taste wine, identify key aromas and flavors, and pair wine with food.
- The hallmark traits of major grape varieties, wine regions, and wine types.
- The significance of terroir and how it presents itself in your wine glass.
- How to navigate a wine store and restaurant wine list with ease.
- Learn from Passion Vines experts, winemakers, experts, vineyard owners and more.
- Expose yourself to new varietals.
- Evolve your tasting skills.
Since opening Passion Vines in 2004, Bray said he has offered over 1,000 events, both in-store and out-of-store ranging from wine, spirits and beer, that have been casual to formal. This new offering is the first like it, he said, in the area and at Passion Vines.
The course will culminate at an off-site event, which Bray said, will be a surprise to the class. "We will connect with a restaurateur and end with a fun, challenging blind tasting," he noted.
The graduates will receive a Passion Vines certificate of enrollment in a frame and gift wrap.
"We formed Wine Foundations because there is not a program in our area committed to the growth and development of wine," Bray said. "This course fills a void. It comes down to our passion. It is what we love to do and why we exist. We are filling a gap in our area. When it comes to educating on wine, we are really excited to fulfill that passion for our guests and take them on this seven-week journey."
Passion Vines is located at 265 New Road, Somers Point. For more information, call (609) 601-8463. The Egg Harbor Township store is at 3013 Ocean Heights Avenue. For more information call (609) 653-8463 or visit https://www.passionvines.com


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Aphorism #531.
"little wealth little care"
See Also:
little things are great for little man
live and let live
As always, please comment if you have any further analysis of this particular aphorism (or if you disagree with my analysis) – or if you have a good story!
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2016-02-02 18:38:42
With his son Ammon Bundy in jail with most of the the militants who had been occupying the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon, Cliven Bundy has decided to take matters into his own hands. In a letter addressed to the authorities responsible for the arrests of many of the militants and the death of one, Cliven Bundy says that the folks still occupying the refuge will fight to the death. The letter read, in part:
"This is notice that We the People of Harney County and also We the People of the citizens of the United States DO GIVE NOTICE THAT WE WILL RETAIN POSSESSION OF THE HARNEY COUNTY RESOURCE CENTER."
"Harney County Resource Center" is the name the militants have given to the refuge in place of its original name.
The letter was posted to the Bundy Ranch Facebook page, in full:
Notice to Harney Co. Sheriff.Share share share.....Posted by Bundy Ranch on Monday, February 1, 2016
This stunt shows that Bundy is even more of an idiot than his son, who had requested that the occupation end after the arrests and after the death of LaVoy Finicum. Bundy said to the media during an interview:
"What this is saying is that Cliven Bundy is taking control of things. If we don't retain it, then we've lost everything that we've done in the last two months. We're not gonna give up."
"This is not Ammon's message. This is my message … We've made a decision to retain it … The feds are going to get out of there."
"Remove all federal and state policing agents out of Harney County."
So, with his son in jail along with the majority of supporters jailed as well, Cliven sees fit to make demands of all authorities. He also says that he does not believe that Ammon really wanted the occupation to end, but said that he did under duress:
"That's what he said, but I never believed it. I don't think that's what's in his heart. He probably got his arm twisted."
Ammon Bundy's statement, however, seems to run contrary to what his father wants:
"To those who remain at the refuge, I love you. Let us take this fight from here … Please stand down. Go home and hug your families. This fight is ours for now, in the courts."
The four who are left are choosing to remain, demanding that they not be prosecuted despite the huge number of crimes they have obviously committed.
Bundy and all involved in emboldening this ridiculousness all need to go to jail for a long, long time, their demands be damned. This lawlessness has gone on more than long enough.
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There's nothing more magical and amazing than seeing a newborn baby ... and then they grow up.
Kids often think, say, do, and wear things that are super weird and make every parent think, "Where did I go wrong?" It's hard to fault the kid too much, because this is a big, confusing world and they're trying to make sense of it the only way they know how.
Still, that doesn't make everything they do socially acceptable.
The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon uses the latest installment of the "Hashtags" segment to celebrate the strangeness of children everywhere with #MyKidIsWeird.
Here are some of our favorites:
1. Actually, that's a pretty valid point.
2. If you don't have dreams, you don't have anything.
3. "People are asking where you've been ..."
4. If you're gonna talk the talk, you better walk the walk.
5. Assuming the monsters hate garlic, Guy Fieri would be a pretty solid choice.
6. Or does he?
And these weren't even the ones that made it on the show. Check the rest out here:
Have a weird kid? Use #MyKidIsWeird and tell us all about it!


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Arts in Rome offers the Life Drawing Classes, without teacher nor lesson, but we arrangement our space, Models and Plaster Sculptures for practicing. Are welcome even those which are already Professional Artists and do not want only to draw but also paint. The Academy provides human anatomy books, handouts to take wew notions and above all you will have the chance to confront each others. To enjoy the Workshop you need to be a Member of Arts in Rome Cultural Association. Read below how.
Every Tuesday will be made available Life Models like Men/Women, Thin/Stout, Young/Senior on rotation; I invite you to read below the Program for every Tuesday;
- 1° Tuesday: Long Pose – Life Drawing Class with Model; (1 hour for each pose)
- 2° Tuesday: every week a study of specific Anatomical parts such as Foot, Hand, Leg, etc.. (1 hour for each pose)
- 3° Tuesday: Dressed Model, from Classic suit, Modern dresses to Fantasy style (2 hours one pose)
- 4° Tuesday: Fast Poses (croquis) – Life Drawing Class with Model; (5-10-15 minutes short poses)
Every Thursday Students will find the Plaster Sculptures available.
The Life Drawing Classes on Tuesday & Thursday starts at 19:00 to 21:00. Maximum 10 people to avoid confusion; Is REQUIRED THE RESERVATION and APPRECIATE; It agrees to yourself to not be in too much in a classroom and not be able to study.
The materials are not included, so each student will bring with you supplies like pencils, paper, charcoal, scotch/ clips, etc … The Association for its part will provide the Models, the Plaster Sculptures, the Location with all amenities needed such as easels, chairs, lights, sets and costumes, free WIFI, heating, etc …
Why is it so important to the Life Drawing?
- When you approach for the first time to design the problem it is to know where to begins and the second is to see all that you are not be able to really see except when you look for a long time the subject. The Sculpture, for beginners, is simpler because it is white, it is still and the surface is smooth matte, and the shadows are sharper.
- The Life Model is the next step and to draw it you need to have a minimum the basics of drawing from life; the Long Pose allow you to study certain muscles, shadows, highlights or details instead dynamics poses (called croquis) are used to study the "lines of movement of the human body". Even knowing a little of Human Anatomy does not hurt.
If you need to start and want a Teacher you can request an Individual Package of 10 hours of Individual Lessons, the minimum needed to learn the basic of Life Drawing. Click here for more info.
How to book
To view the booking form you have access to the RESERVED AREA of Arts in Rome Members.
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"I was going to be left alone on my butt at the other end of the continent. But why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?" – Jack Kerouac
Road trips are an iconic part of the American mythology, the journey through the vastness and diversity of the United States: the alienation of miles on the road, enjoying regional culture and cuisine and the pleasure of meeting new people and bonding over a glass of wine.
I'm trilled to announce that I, Nannette Eaton of Wine Harlots, will be working as the Official Wines of France Blogger/Social Media Correspondent for the summer Wines of France road trip cutting a swath through the middle of the United States. I'll be reporting all of our adventures on the way. Wines of France Across America will starting off in Chicago and ending in New Orleans just in time for the Tales of the Cocktail. Stops in between are Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Dallas and Houston. I'll be jetting off to Chicago tomorrow to launch the events on Thursday in the Windy City. How to keep track of our journey? Check out the Wines of France Facebook page and the Wines of France Twitter feeds. And you'll always have a hook-up with the Wine Harlots here, at our World Headquarters, or on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+ and FourSquare.
We'll be rolling through the countryside in a classic Airstream, a little Thelma & Louise, mixed with Kerouac and Hunter Thompson, with French flair in a digital landscape. Come join us! The lure of the open road is calling…
Nannette Eaton of Wine Harlots is employed as the Official Blogger/Social Media Correspondent on the Wines of France Across America 2012 promotional tour.


text: The change in tax-filing status from married to single can easily hike the tax tab of the surviving spouse. Thinkstock By Susan B. Garland, Contributing Editor From Kiplinger's Retirement Report, December 2014 It's tough enough when a spouse dies. But at tax time, the survivor should prepare for another blow: a bigger tax tab, known as the widow's (or widower's) penalty.See Also: Social Security Strategies If You're Widowed When a spouse dies, the survivor's income could drop somewhat. But the tax-bracket thresholds for single filers are low relative to thresholds for joint filers. "A single person goes into the tax brackets faster" than joint filers, says Martin James, a certified public accountant in Mooresville, Ind. "All of a sudden, it's easy to get an increase" in taxes. Sponsored Content James recalls an older couple he advised. For 2012, the year the husband died, the widow was able to file a joint return. The couple's adjusted gross income was $91,000 and their taxable income was $66,000, which fell within the 15% tax bracket for joint filers ($17,400 to $70,700 in 2012). Her federal tax tab: $8,884. (AGI is total income less a few adjustments, while taxable income is AGI less personal exemptions and deductions.) Advertisement In 2013, the wife's AGI dropped to $88,000. But her taxable income rose to $69,000, as a result of losing one personal exemption and of lower medical deductions. Her taxable income bumped her into the 25% tax bracket for single filers ($36,250 to $87,850). Her federal tax bill: $13,365. "If she was still married," James says, "they would have been at the top of the 15% bracket." That bracket topped out at $72,500 in 2013. As a single person, the widow would likely be required to pay income-related surcharges for Medicare Part B and Part D for the first time -- about $640. (The trigger point for married couples is twice as high, AGI of $170,000 versus $85,000 for singles.) For older retired couples, James says, "income doesn't change a whole lot" -- leaving many survivors in a higher bracket. Investment income is likely to remain level, for example. Major expenses may not drop either, says Cindy Hounsell, president of the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement. "She still has the house," Hounsell says, with its property taxes and maintenance costs. Advertisement The Tax Hit on Benefits James says the widow's penalty has the most impact on retired taxpayers with modest incomes. After a spouse's death, he says, there's a greater likelihood that a higher percentage of the survivor's Social Security benefits will be subject to tax. Consider a couple in the 15% tax bracket with $40,000 of AGI, not including $18,000 in Social Security benefits. Fifty-seven percent of their benefits would be subject to federal income tax -- for a tax bite of $1,538. After the husband dies, his wife's AGI drops to $35,000 and her benefit drops to $12,000. At that point, 85% of her benefit will be taxed -- for a tax tab of $1,530. Higher-income survivors can get hit, too. The top 39.6% tax rate, for example, kicks in at $450,000 of taxable income for couples and $400,000 for singles. There are steps couples can take to keep a survivor from jumping into higher brackets. "The biggest thing is to look at this while both spouses are living," says Jeffrey Levine, IRA technical consultant with Ed Slott & Co. "It should be part of an overall plan." Advertisement One strategy is to convert part of your traditional IRA to a Roth. If you're a couple in the 25% tax bracket, you can convert enough to take you to the top of the bracket over several years -- so your tax tab on each conversion won't exceed 25%. After one spouse dies, withdrawals from the traditional IRA "can be partially offset by tax-free income from the Roth and keep the spouse at 25%," Levine says. Buying life insurance while you're still healthy is another strategy, James says. The proceeds could provide tax-free income to the survivor. Or he or she can use the money to pay the taxes on future Roth conversions or on the bigger tax bill if the survivor gets bumped to a higher bracket, he says.


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Complete solution and answers guide to the Variety Arts Pack in Words Crush by BitMango. Use this cheat index to help solve all the puzzles.
If you still want a challenge and just want a little push, consider checking out Variety Arts Hints Mode for first letter of each word only.
Violin, Guitar, Harp
Variety Arts Louvre Museum
Monalisa, France, Paris, Ticket
Variety Arts Pop Art
Popular, Warhol, Mass, Cultural
Variety Arts Opera
Theatre, Sing, Orchestra, Stage
Variety Arts Tempo Marking
Allegro, Forte, Presto, Andante
Variety Arts Beethoven
German, Composer, Pianist, Deaf
Variety Arts Literary Terms
Climax, Metaphor, Allegory, Paradox, Fiction
Variety Arts Book Genre
Mystery, Thriller, Romance, Science, Fiction
Variety Arts Art Genre
Painting, Sketch, Molding, Watercolor, Mural
Variety Arts Gallery
Exhibition, Collector, Curator, Art, Picture
Variety Arts Orchestra Instruments
Flute, Trumpet, Cello, Clarinet, Basson, Viola
Variety Arts Percussion
Drum, Castanets, Triangle, Xylophone, Cymbal
Variety Arts Mozart
Requiem, Austrian, Figaro, Classical, Sonata
Variety Arts Drawing
Pencil, Sketch, Eraser, Crayon, Ink, Easel, Chalk, Illustration
Variety Arts Renaissance
Italy, Art, Music, Humanism, Literature, Europe, Architecture
Variety Arts Chorus
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass, Ensemble, Conductor, Together, Sing
Variety Arts Piano
Chord, Keyboard, Octave, Pedal, Technique, Pianist, Impromptu
Variety Arts Famous Artists
Vangogh, Picasso, Michelangelo, Da, Vinci, Rembrandt, Cezanne
Variety Arts Leonardo Da Vinci
Italian, Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Monalisa, Arts, Museum
Variety Arts Shakespeare
Hamlet, Sonnets, Playwright, Macbeth, England, Poet, Avon, Bard


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Captain corageous Nigel Boogaard was full of pride in his club after scoring the winner in Newcastle Jets' 3-1 win over Persija Jakarta.
Ronald Vargas opened the scoring, before Ramdani Lestaluhu equalised through a bullet header - capitalising on the Jets' sloppy defending from set pieces.
While an often cagey affair failed to spark to life for either side, Newcastle's humid evening taking its toll on both teams, a late flurry left the Jets convincing winners thanks to strikes from Boogaard and Mathew Ridenton.
"We knew what they were going to bring to the table, they're energetic, skillful and they knew they had an excellent opportunity to go through," Boogaard said.
"We knew we had to weather the storm but we were quite wasteful, we have to be smarter in key areas and conceding sloppy goals like that has hurt us in the league.
"At the end of the day we're playing Champions League, this is a fantastic opportunity to play on the world stage. It's huge to play against the best teams in Asia, adrenaline should get you through that regardless."
Boogard and Newcastle fans will get their competitive wish sooner than expected, drawing reigning Asian Champions League winners Kashima Antlers - who are in the final Playoff Round after a disastrous previous league campaign - before they can qualify for the tournament finals.
"Massive, massive task, but we've got to go into every match with belief," Boogaard added.
"Last year's champions are going to be a tough proposition, but these are the ones you want to play in."
Persija Jakarta's Ryuji Utomo paid credit to Newcastle's performance.
"All the players are working so hard, we have to admit that the Jets are a good team also, but we can fight them for 90 minutes plus," Utomo said.
"We already train so hard, every day for two months, so (offseason matches) aren't a problem for us.
Asked whether Croatian Persija striker Marko Simic's arrest earlier in the day was a distraction for his side, Utomo was as valiant as his team's performance.
"We are still family."


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In most cases, the only time you really need to use the reset switch on your computer is if it freezes or perhaps fails to boot into Windows. If your PC has a shorted reset switch, the machine may start and restart continuously even if you do not press any buttons on the front of the case. Often, simply shutting off the PC and removing the power cord for a couple of minutes will fix continuous reset problems. However, if the problem persists, the most likely culprit is a defective or shorted reset cable or jumper leading from the switch button on the case to the motherboard.
1. Power off the computer and remove the power cord. Disconnect all other cables and devices attached to the PC. Move the computer to a table or other flat work surface.
2. Use the Phillips screwdriver to remove the side or top panel access cover from the computer case. Remove the case panel and set it aside. Slide the antistatic wrist strap on to your arm and clip the other end to a bare metal surface inside the computer case.
3. Locate the wiring harness or group of wires that runs from the front panel on the case to the motherboard. Locate the jumper block on the motherboard where the wire harness or group of wires terminates. Locate the small black jumper pin with the "Reset" label. Disconnect the Reset jumper from the jumper block on the motherboard.
4. Move the computer back to its original location, but do not replace the access panel. Plug in the power cord, keyboard and monitor only. Turn on the computer and attempt to boot into Windows. If the computer boots successfully, the problem is a shorted reset-switch wire or motherboard jumper.
5. Power off the computer and disconnect all cables. Move the computer back to the worktable.
6. Remove the two to four screws securing the power and reset button assembly to the front panel of the case. Remove all wiring jumpers that lead to the front panel of the case from the jumper block on the motherboard. Note the locations where jumpers connect on the jumper block so that you can reconnect them easily after you fix the shorted reset-switch wire.
7. Inspect the entire length of the wire attached to the jumper labeled "Reset." If the wire has any nicks or fraying, this is probably the cause of the shorted reset switch.
8. Use the scissors to cut the wire at a point just before the first nick or fray in the Reset wire. Alternatively, use a desoldering tool to remove the entire length of wire from the reset button assembly.
9. Cut or desolder a like piece of wiring with a jumper from an unused computer. Ideally, you should use a wire and jumper labeled "Reset." However, if the label is not the same, it does not really matter - a wire labeled "HDD LED" or "Power" works as well. If you do use a wire and jumper with a different label, ensure that you remember it in case you need to remove it later.
10. Use the wire strippers to strip the end of the wire you removed from the old PC and the wiring that leads to the reset button assembly. Splice the colored pieces of wire together and use electrical tape to secure the connection. Likewise, splice together the two white wires and secure them with electrical tape. Alternatively, solder the wire from the old PC to the reset button assembly on the machine you want to repair.
11. Align the power and reset button assembly back into its slot on the front panel of the computer. Secure it with the screws you removed earlier. Reconnect all of the wires from the front panel to the jumper block on the motherboard.
12. Replace the side or top panel cover and secure with the retaining screws. Move the computer back to its original location.
13. Connect the power cord and all peripherals. Start the computer and use as you normally would.Tags: button assembly, front panel, jumper block, reset button, reset button assembly, block motherboard


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Sean is widely recognised as a champion of small and medium sized businesses. He is a former investor on the popular TV series 'Dragons' Den' (Shark Tank in the US) and has founded or co-founded a number of companies in sectors that include commercial real estate, home technology and consulting.
He is currently an investor in or a non-executive director and president of a number of pharma related firms in both Ireland and the US.
Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Sean worked in enterprise development, where he developed a passion for coaching and mentoring and has over the past 20 years trained and mentored hundreds of emerging entrepreneurs.
Sean views entrepreneurs and the owners of SME's as unsung heroes. Through their risk-taking and ingenuity, they create jobs, are the driving force behind our economy and the glue that helps hold our communities together.
Inspired by their courage and driven by a desire to help encourage the next generation of entrepreneurs, Sean has written 'Secrets to Success – Inspiring Stories from Leading Entrepreneurs'. This book has emerged over five year's interviewing some of Ireland's leading entrepreneurs for his weekly column in the Business Section of the Sunday Independent newspaper.
Honest and insightful, it is packed full of great advice and real-life insights, shared by the entrepreneurs themselves about their experience from start-up to success.
Available from May 9th 2018
Sean Gallagher is a highly sought after speaker who consistently captivates audiences. From a young age, Sean adopted principles of self-belief, determination and a positive mental attitude – principles that continue to guide him in his everyday life.
His passion for sharing these principles with others in order to empower them to build success in their own lives and in their organisations, shines through every presentation as he informs, inspires and motivates.
His deep understanding of the challenges faced by entrepreneurs as well as his unique and down to earth delivery style, makes him the ideal speaker for any event.
His talks deliver unique insights on key areas including: The Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs; The power of Mind-set and Motivation; Building Employee Engagement and Company Culture; Overcoming Adversity and Reframing our Attitude to Failure; Leadership, Goal Setting and Customer Service as well as Strategy, Innovation, Impact and Perseverance.
Driven by the desire to put his energy and skills to work for the Irish people, Sean ran as an Independent candidate in the 2011 Irish Presidential election. His message was about job creation, communities and positivity.
Together with a small team of committed staff and volunteers, and a strong community- based campaign, Sean rose from a rank outsider initially, to top the opinion polls at 40%, 3 days out from voting day. While ultimately coming second among a field of 7 candidates, he is credited with having run one of the most dynamic and effective election campaigns in Irish Political history.
In line with his commitment to promoting education, training and employment, Sean was appointed by the Irish Government to a number of State Boards.


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Go to my Facebook page to get a some really depressing photos of grey skies! The locals call it fog but it's pollution. Enjoy your blue skies and thanks for the wonderful blogs of 2011. I just might get withdrawal symptoms and there are no crispy doughnuts here!
Having gone out at the beginning of Christmas week and bought a box of a dozen (yes, 12) Krispy Kreme doughnuts and eaten seven (7) of them myself, I feel some changes are overdue.
Blanco actually has several New Year's resolutions for a change but isn't telling because clearly if you tell then you can be found lacking, whereas if you don't tell no one is the wiser and you can still breathe the rarefied air that comes with being good. In any case, Blanco is fleeing the grey skies of Cardiff early tomorrow morning in order to spend ten days in a place far distant from the-land-where-the-sky-is-too-close-to-the-ground and although it will not be warm, there is a good chance of blueness in the heavenly vaults. And blue skies help Blanco to think, whereas the endless grey and drizzle of the-land-where-the-sky-is-too-close-to-the-ground only gives rise to a kind of anti-thought, a condition exacerbated by a constant need for potatoes and doughnuts and dumplings and chocolate and cake and biscuits and other stuff to feed the gap where thought might seep in if given half a chance or a modicum of sunlight.
Ah sunlight! I know we don't have much to complain about compared with those poor bastards who live up near the North Pole, the Siberians and Norwegians and Finns and the Elfenfolk and so forth, but this isn't a competition, I just need sunlight otherwise I start going bonkers and am liable to bite people, or even bite dogs, a habit I try to curb, but which flares up in an instant whenever my supply of potatoes/dumplings/doughnuts/chocolate dwindles and I feel the mordant urge creeping over me. But neither do I wish to complain, it is always better to NOT complain.
So, on the brink of this new year I should announce that if there are no posts forthcoming in the next ten days or so it is because I am immersed in my work and because the house where I am going has no legal internet access, and neither is there mobile phone coverage. Which, all things considered, makes it a perfect place to go and write, or to read – or even to sleep. Or simply to disengage from the tweeting, gibbering world of nonstop noise for just a while and recuperate the forces that lie within.
And, to celebrate the wonderful Xmas gift I received from Mrs Blanco, the Mariachi El Bronx CD, here is a clip of the boys singing 'Cell Mates'.


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My Ghostly Valentine by Ani Gonzalez #Review
Posted by brriske
Banshee Creek has an interesting history. Every house or building is haunted to a certain degree. But that draws the tourist community and makes running a business there easier. Even though some of the gimmicks are rather cheeky. Patricia operates her family's bakery, but it's not what she wanted when she set out to culinary school. She's has her eyes on the Rosemoor for a while for a teashop and when the Historical Society finally decides to put it on the market she put all of her effort into a complete packet describing her ideas and keeping to the horrid tradition of the haunted theme that keeps the tourists coming. However she finds out that the town's bad boy, Zach Franco, also has his eyes on it too. Passive Patricia has never shown her passionate side since her return from Manhattan but she cannot let the Rosemoor go without a fight. Zach is learning that he really knows nothing about Patricia, and he thinks it's kinda hot. Not only does the ghost of the Rosemoor put her opinion in the mix, but the Historical Society starts changing the rules of the competition on the bids, forcing Patricia and Zach to work even closer together and explore their feelings further.
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Little Queenie & the Percolators - Home - 2007
featuring Leigh "L'il Queenie" Harris, John Magnie, Tommy Malone and others (1977-1982)
By Grant Britt from nodepression.com
In New Orleans, she's considered royalty. As Lil' Queenie, she fronted the Percolators, a rowdy, raucous amalgamation of bluesy rockers with a jazzy side as well who rattled the Crescent City in the late '70s and early '80s. Today, under her commoner name of Leigh Harris, she makes her home in Rural Hall, North Carolina, not far from Andy Griffin's hometown and Mayberry touchstone of Mt. Airy.
But just because Harris has chosen a quieter and drier setting to live in doesn't mean that she's not still percolatin'. Ex- Percolator partners and current Subdudes Tommy Malone and John Magnie may not be with her when she plays this far south, but she'll still bring a rowdy, funky bunch of backers when she plays Papa Mojo's Roadhouse this Friday night.
Harris started singing before she could walk, and by her late teens was standing shoulder to shoulder on stages with a who's who of New Orleans musical royalty including Professor Longhair, Dr. John and the Nevilles. "It was just kind of neighborhood guys, and I was just too young and stupid to be intimidated," she says with a throaty chuckle. " I had too much hubris, or somethin'."
Whatever you called it, the crowds who packed Tipitinas loved her work, as did the artists, especially Fess. "Johnny and I did this duet at Tipitinas every Monday night," Harris recalls. "All the Nevilles would come in, because it was a really neighborhoody thing, and Fess would too, and George Landry, who was Art and them's uncle, Big Chief Jolly. And Fess would say, (she drops down into a gravely croak) "sang that 'Ode To Billie Joe.'" Which I really didn't do with Johnny, he had heard me do it when I was even younger, doing a solo act, playing guitar. He said one of his great lines ever, one of his great malaprops: 'You sang that real nice, dahlin'- I likedted it.' "
The Percolators grew out of that duo, adding future Subdude Tommy Malone as well as a rotating cast of characters that included some of the city's finest horn players and even slide guitar wizard Sonny Landreth for a time. The band name came from a quote in clarinetist/ saxman/viper Mezz Mezrow's book, Really The Blues. "Mezz is describing this situation where all the musicians all one by one are all achieving collective satori, and someone in the house screams out, 'percolate you fool, percolate!" But she says few people got the reference. "I've had people give me toy coffepots, with my face on these appliances for years," she says. I tell her it seems obvious that anybody who heard the band and got caught up in the pulsating riddims would realize that it was not something as common as caffeine but an internal lava flow that was bubbling up to splash all over them. "No shit, man," she says with a sigh.
01. I Gotta Song I Gotta Sing
02. My Dawlin New Orleans
03. Gumbo Heaven
04. Wild Natives
05. Inspiration
06. I Was Just Practicing
07. Cant Get Ridoma Smile
08. Surrender
09. Telephone Sleeping in My Bed
10. Hum Hum
11. It Will Be Me
12. Blackhaired Girl


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Podcast 18: 5:2 Veggie & Vegan specialLeave a Comment
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For me, fasting and veggie food work in perfect harmony – whether you're a committed veggie, a flexitarian – or you still need a little convincing to eat more greens.
5:2 is a powerful way to boost your health and stay the ideal weight. And eating a vegetarian diet has proven benefits for the body too.
Together, they can super-power your fast days…
I've been a vegetarian for three decades now, but despite my healthy diet I always struggled with my weight – until five years ago, when I started intermittent fasting.
I lost over two stone (31lbs/14 kg) in six months and, more importantly, I've kept the weight off. I still fast at least once a week for the health benefits: not just the extra energy and focus that it brings me, but also for the potential it offers to reduce my chances of developing Type 2 diabetes, cancer and heart disease.
And of course, you don't have to be veggie or vegan all the time to enjoy the advantages – even just eating more vegetable-based foods on your fast days will make a positive difference. Fibre-rich fresh produce offers a great range of phytonutrients, is filling and low in calories.
Plant-based eating can reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer, lower your shopping bills and lessen your impact on the environment. Avoiding meat or eating less of it, has less impact on the environment, as well as reducing animal suffering.
But the best bit?
Veggie and vegan food tastes fantastic. I've been working on this new book that combines the two, developing recipes from Indian breakfast pancakes, sweet potato and chilli soup and chestnut mushroom sausage rolls to saucy miso aubergine, veggie tikka masala, one-pot pea and white wine spaghetti, and margarita fruit salad, this lifestyle will keep your taste buds very happy.
Here's a preview of two of my favourites: Pho and Dal
Just to be clear – I'm not a clean-eating extremist – I just think vegetables make the best base for great meals and good health.
Easy tips for fitting veggie food into your fast days:
My new book, 5:2 Veggie & Vegan, has over 80 great recipes, a menu planner, and 10 fantastic stories of people who combine veggie or vegan dishes with fasting and have had brilliant results.
PS: if you love eating out, my top veggie choices for my hometown of Brighton are over here – it's veggie nirvana.


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Arsenal ace Miedema breaks scoring record
31 January, 2019 — By Steve Barnett
Arsenal striker Vivianne Miedema scored after just two minutes in the 3-0 victory against Reading. PHOTOS: JOERDELI PHOTOGRAPHY
ARSENAL striker Vivianne Miedema needed just two minutes to rip up the record books on Sunday as she helped the north Londoners secure a 3-0 victory over Reading at Adams Park.
The Netherlands international collected the ball on the edge of the box before fizzing a deflected strike past goalkeeper Grace Moloney. It was her 16th league goal of the campaign – a new record for the number of goals scored by a player in a Women's Super League season.
With seven games to go there's still plenty of opportunity for Miedema to add to her tally, but the 22-year-old insists all she really cares about is helping the team.
"We were just so happy that we started strong after the past few games that we've had, especially with the injuries that we've currently got in the squad," she said.
"Coming out and instantly scoring was perfect for us.
Kim Little gets a shot in against Reading
"Honestly, I'm just happy that I can help the team. I'm a number nine so my game is all about scoring goals, and there's still seven more games to go, so I'm hoping to score plenty more."
While a goal with barely 120 seconds on the clock gave the Gunners the perfect start, they had to wait until the final 10 minutes to finally make the points safe.
Substitute Danielle van de Donk was controversially brought down in the box by Jade Moore in the 81st minute, allowing Kim Little to score from 12-yards.
Katie McCabe then curled in an impressive third in stoppage time as Arsenal kept the pressure on their title rivals Manchester City, who beat Brighton 3-0.
The results mean that City remain top of the table, but the fate of the title is in Arsenal's control as they are only a point behind and still have a game in hand.
Chelsea's chances of sneaking back into the title race, however, are over after they were handed only their second league defeat of the season. Camden coach Emma Hayes, who engineered a 2-1 victory over Arsenal last time out, saw her Blues side take the lead at Kingsmeadow, but a determined Birmingham City battled back to seal a thrilling 3-2 win.


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Cotton cushion cover with village embroidery motifs, made by Penduka women in the countryside of Namibia. Through embroidery they tell their story and process their experiences and problems. Once a week, the women come together to evaluate each others products, to hand it in and to fetch new fabric and thread. Embroidery can be done everywhere; while you wait at the well, while talking with your neighbour or even in the waiting room at the hospital. It is harder when the sun sets, therefore many women now have a small solar chargeable light. This way they can now work in the evening without being afraid that fire or sparks will destroy their work. Village embroidery motifs vary depending on what story the individual Penduka embroiderer has to tell (village scenes, fetching water, Katutura street scenes....). Available in natural beige with central white embroidery, black with central vibrant colours embroidery and black with all-over vibrant colours embroidery. Machine washable, size 40cm x 40cm. Weight 100 gram. For other specific colour/ size variants or personalised motifs please contact us.


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Executive Director
Mark began his professional cooking career in 1972, opening the Frog & Owl Café in Highlands, North Carolina. Located in an idyllic spot on Buck Creek Road, the restaurant featured simple French food. Due as much to necessity, Mark and his wife Jerri, relied on the farms, streams, and woods close by. Fresh trout from Icenhower's trout farm, a stone's throw from the kitchen and three local gardens – Harper's, Deal's and Zahner's, which were visited daily, were the foundation of the menu. Thus started what is now a lifetime of cooking with what is local, seasonal and on hand.
Moving to Asheville in 1979, Mark opened The Market Place restaurant, continuing with the theme of fresh, seasonal and local, as well as expanding the kitchen's reach to an international scale. For thirty years, he was at the stove, cooking, inventing and teaching. "Graduates" of that kitchen can be found in Singapore, Chicago, Atlanta, and Portland, Oregon as well as in Asheville.
In those thirty years, he was central to the revival of local food and helped establish "Foodtopia" in Asheville – a wondrous collection of farmers, foragers, producers, and chefs. Along the way, he authored a book: "In Praise of Apples".
Selling the restaurant to William Dissen in 2009, he took his skills and connections and along with Michel Baudouin, Steve Frabitore and Asheville Independent Restaurants, established the Kitchen Ready training program – a kitchen-based skills training program for individuals suffering in poverty.


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market report 06.09.12
We moved last month, to a house we looked at once and fell in love with. We weren't even really looking to buy a house, but this one went on the market and a friend drove me by and insisted it was perfect for us. Back at the office, we pulled the listing up online. "Too small," I said. "Go look at it," he advised. "The location is great, but we wouldn't really be trading up in terms of size," I explained. "Go look at it," he repeated. "It's probably a better house for a young single person. Or, like, a really really old person," I offered. "Just go look at it," he insisted. So we did. Then we bought it.
There were actually quite a few steps between the looking and the buying, all of which were unbearably nerve-wracking. Early in the process, people warned me that buying a house is stressful, and I nodded politely while secretly thinking, "I've bought stuff before. How hard can it be?" Here's the difference: when you buy regular stuff, you click add to cart and a few days later the UPS guy shows up with something pretty; when you buy a house, the bank calls you several times a day to say comforting things like, "I'm reviewing your loan application and I have to ask: do you have any other money?"
But now we live here, in an adorable little mid century ranch with a river for a backyard and a kitchen twice as big as our old one.
There are a handful of things I'll miss about living at our old house, and the farmers market is one of them. The market in our new town doesn't start until the end of the June, so yesterday I drove back to our old town to get my fix. Guess how many of those things I bought just because they're pretty. Hint: four. I was particularly captivated by the flowering arugula, which I'd never seen before. Evidently the flowers are nice in salads or scattered over soups or deviled eggs. Any other ideas?
grapefruit pudding
I know: it sounds weird. I thought the same thing the first time I encountered grapefruit pudding. It was at a cookbook club meeting, one that I'd helped plan, around The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook. The meeting was in October, which made Apple Upside-Down Cake the logical choice for dessert. To me, at least. "But that's so expected," my planning partner lamented, "let's do the grapefruit pudding."
"It's a seasonal cookbook," I insisted with my trademark self-righteousness. Self-righteousness never wins. It's a clinically proven fact.
I was a little miffed about the grapefruit pudding, to be honest. But then I remembered that the whole point of joining a book club is to stretch and grow, to expose yourself to ideas and viewpoints and preferences that are not like your own, to challenge your beliefs and assumptions, to become A Better Person. Plus, I ate that grapefruit pudding and it was damn good.
I think of it often at this time of year. Of all the seasonal transitions, winter to spring is the weirdest. Last weekend we got 18 inches of snow — big, fat flakes of heavy wet snow that knocked down trees and power lines. On Monday morning when I left for work, it was 0°F; driving home on Wednesday evening the thermometer read 57°F. Then more snow, and now back to balmy. She's a fickle creature, that Mother Nature.
I, however, remain steadfast in my devotion to grapefruit as a bridge from winter to spring, and grapefruit pudding is especially lovely for these fickle in-between days. It's soft and warm and comforting, with a reassuring richness that's beautifully balanced by the refreshing zing of grapefruit. The top bakes up light and airy, and the tender, cake-like crumb gives way to a bright citrus-y custard with a pleasant — almost amusing — springlike jiggle.
recipe from The Big Sur Bakery Cookbook, by Michelle & Philip Wojtowicz and Michael Gilson with Catherine Price
grits soufflé with rosemary & roasted garlic
My soufflés fell. They fell, I'm fairly certain, because I insisted on peeking at them repeatedly through the cracked oven door to make sure they were puffing up nicely. And they were, at one point. But when I pulled them all golden brown and fragrant from the hot oven, they'd fallen flatter than a pancake, concave even. "Shit, now what am I gonna do," I thought, not out of any real concern for dinner but because I needed pretty pictures for my blog.
I like taking pictures of the food I make. It's a meditative thing for me, being in the kitchen and behind the camera, but sometimes it gets away from me. I had a whole story mapped out around this grits soufflé, a story about homesickness—- deep, achey, ever-present, adrift-at-sea homesickness. Grits help with that sort of thing, because food—- the kind of food we care about—- is never really about just food. So I thought I'd make grits, and then I thought, "good lord, who wants to look at a picture of grits?" Within a matter of hours I'd managed to transform my antidote to homesickness into a source of anxiety over blog-worthy photographs. And just as I was beginning to fret about how I'd find the time to remake the soufflés and the light to re-photograph them by my self-imposed weekend deadline, I stumbled upon Brian Ferry's beautiful post about honesty and the creative process. Before I was even halfway through, I'd decided not to revisit the soufflés.
I spend an awful lot of time thinking about photography, and the photographs that most interest me are those that capture things as they are—- un-staged, un-styled, of-the-moment sorts of photos. That's not exactly the honesty that Brian was talking about, but it's what I was reminded of as I read his post.
It's true, I could make the soufflés again, but I'd only be doing it because I needed a photo of them, and then the things I do for pleasure—- cooking, photographing, writing—- would become a chore. Instead, I give you the soufflés as they were, along with the recipe, which I've successfully made for occasions both special and ordinary and which I can assure you do puff up light and airy, creamy and pleasantly gritty, with a whisper of piney rosemary and the sweet, mellow nip of roasted garlic.
recipe adapted, ever-so-slightly, from The Lee Bros. Southern Cookbook, which I love to pieces
jam crumble bars
Here's what happens when you work for a jam company: you open your refrigerator one afternoon to put away a six-pack of beer and discover that you can't, because there are thirteen jars of jam in the way. (Also, you get to attend fancy award ceremonies in San Francisco and personally sell jam to Alice freakin' Waters. No biggie.)
I eat a lot of jam—in the mornings with yogurt and granola and, often, for dinner with cheese and rustic crackers. Still, I don't eat enough jam to prevent my refrigerator from being overrun by half-eaten jars of it on a fairly regular basis.
And that's when I start baking. I make a fantastic jam tart, but lately I'm partial to these crumble bars. They start with a tender short pastry base bulked up with oats and almonds, then comes a thick layer of jam nestled under crumbled bits of the same short pastry. The crust bakes up golden brown and nutty, with a soft, sandy texture that gives way to the bright fruitiness of jam. The combination is classic and homey, and these crumbly little jam bars are a perfectly lovely way to make use of even a brand new jar of jam.
recipe adapted from Baking Illustrated, by the editors of Cook's Illustrated Magazine
red grapefruit & rosemary brown derby
Winter is magical. I generally have to be reminded of this. Often. Having grown up south of the Mason-Dixon line, I don't have a natural affinity for things like ice and snow and frostbite, but other people do, namely my Midwestern husband and his Midwestern friends. We had company last weekend— friends from Chicago who came up to ski. And they did ski a little, but mostly I think they came up to open our back door, take deep breaths of frigid northern air and shout, with arms outstretched, "Who wants to go walk barefoot in the snow?" (no takers)
On Sunday afternoon while everyone skied I made après-ski cocktails. I stood by the windows in our cozy kitchen absentmindedly squeezing grapefruit juice as I admired the sparkle and shimmer of soft winter sunlight on freshly fallen snow. When the skiers returned, flushed and exhilarated, I mixed the grapefruit juice with rosemary-infused honey and the warm, comforting notes of bourbon and set a jug out on the counter. And the skiers said, "Oh thank you, but I like my bourbon straight," and, "Hmmm, I'm not really a big fan of bourbon," and, "Oooh, that looks great; I think I'll have a beer."
Midwesterners. I tell you what.
So I've been drinking Brown Derbys all week and reveling in the vivid sparkle of late winter. Grapefruit and bourbon and rosemary would taste perfectly nice any time of year, but the bright, herbaceous sweetness is particularly lovely against the bracing chill of February. This is a late afternoon cocktail, a sipping sort of cocktail, a cocktail to enjoy with friends. And if you decide to go tromping about barefoot in the snow, you'll want a few of these in you for sure.
recipe adapted from Bridget Albert & Mary Barranco's Market Fresh Mixology
Things I made in 2011 but never got around to writing about:
It's occurred to me more than once over the past few years — as we've ripped up carpet and torn out cabinets, laid flooring and tile, hung drywall, replaced light fixtures and appliances and furniture, and slowly worked our way through 11 gallons of Benjamin Moore's Moonlight White — that what I really should have is a home renovation blog (like Door 16, only not nearly as cool), filled with satisfying before-and-after photos and helpful tips on how to paint 50-year-old knotty pine paneling. Instead, I float about in a dream world of food, taking ambitious photos of recipes I'd like to share and then realizing oh crap, that room needs three more coats of paint before Monday; let's order sandwiches.
But we finished the last major project on our list right after Thanksgiving and we're now left with only minor tasks like paint baseboards and cover that weird hole in the wall and make a light fixture for the bedroom. Which means a return to a semi-normal life filled with the simple, quiet things that make me happy: cooking, writing, and eating well. I look forward to sharing all that with you in 2012.
market report 10.22.11
My market is one of the only markets in the area that continues beyond September. I mentioned that to a coworker yesterday and he seemed surprised, not that more towns weren't still holding markets but that mine was. "What do they even have?," he asked. In addition to this stuff, there were pumpkins and squash and all sorts of leafy greens, tomatoes (yes, still!), mushrooms, broccoli, a dozen varieties of apples, and rutabagas the size of your head. I'm not sure what one does with a rutabaga the size of a human head, which is why I didn't buy one. (As it turns out, ancient Celts carved scary faces in them and used them as lanterns to ward off evil spirits at Samhain. Duh.)
This week, with carrot greens and leek tops, it was tough to take a photograph that didn't include at least part of a very portly little cat. She swatted at me when I took the leeks away and followed me to the refrigerator meowing. Which was not nearly as amusing as the time she got her head stuck in a bag of Twizzlers.
I don't have a picture of that. Here are some leeks and carrots instead.


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The Q at Parkside
News and Nonsense from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Lefferts and environs, or more specifically a neighborhood once known as Melrose Park. Sometimes called Lefferts Gardens. Or Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Or PLG. Or North Flatbush. Or Caledonia (west of Ocean). Or West Pigtown. Across From Park Slope. Under Crown Heights. Near Drummer's Grove. The Side of the Park With the McDonalds. Jackie Robinson Town. Home of Lefferts Manor. West Wingate. Near Kings County Hospital. Or if you're coming from the airport in taxi, maybe just Flatbush is best.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
A Pinch of Sanity on the Flabenue
Finally admitting that there is not room for parking on both sides and four lanes of traffic. the lanes have been repainted to allow for a single thru lane each way, and turning bays wherever needed. Yes, I'll admit that there was a bit of backup today...but it won't last, and here's why. Drivers were beginning to adjust, and as they did, they realized that they could no longer abide double-parkers. The few that tried it were either ticketed by police (a first...I've never seen a car ticketed for double-parking while the driver was in it before - a warning it looked like) or honked into compliance. The concerns about double-parking are genuine...but it is now impossible to double-park and not cause big disruptions. For instance, in front of Peppa's the usual doubles moved along after realizing there was no place for them.
But traffic DID move. I've seen much worse jams due to double-parkers in the past. And this was just the first day.
With any hope, the cops will strictly enforce the new laws, at least until behavior changes. The real test will be seeing whether the Dollar Vans stick to the thru lane and pull over only when and where there's room. Dollar Van riders (myself included) need to be skooled to hail only where there's a space for the Van. So as much as the drivers themselves are crazy, stepping out into traffic to grab a DV is just as zany, or insisting that they pull over in a crowded area with zooming traffic. Nuts has become the accepted normal around here.
A little less insanity would be good for everyone. (Except the very insane of course, for whom a LOT less insanity would be called for - or not I suppose, as long as you're not hurting anyone.)
28 comments:
Up here at Lincoln/Flatbush it's chaos because the overhaul of the intersection is partial. They've shrunk the lanes but not posted signs prohibiting left turns onto Washington from Lincoln. I really hope they remedy quickly because right now the crosswalks lead you directly into the line of oncoming cars as opposed to as area protected from traffic.
- November 21, 2013 at 7:51 PM
I don't know what good this is going to do or what relief you saw because it's a cluster fuck of traffic up by empire and all the way to Hawthorne or further! No body knows what they're doing and at one point there were 3 lanes of traffic headed southbound on Flatbush at around 5 pm. Didn't see any signs announcing new traffic patterns or anyone enforcing it.
- November 21, 2013 at 10:16 PM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
What "signs" do you need? The information is all on the road in gigantic markings.
Interesting you said it's a "cluster fuck" today as if that's something new.
Plenty of people figured it out. I watched at four distinct moments over the rush and never did I see the traffic stop completely. They've been announcing changes for months, and cops were at every third intersection, so I have no idea what you're talking about. Saw at least half a dozen people pulled over. Plus the point of the Community Council meeting tonight was to discuss the changes.
Alex is right they need something VERY clear at Washington/Lincoln. But it's gonna work, I guarantee it. Best of all, the Dollar Vans had nowhere to go to speed, unless they want to gun it through turn lanes. THAT's the big if.
See something crazy say so here and I'll be sure they read it at the 71.
Very exciting.
- November 21, 2013 at 10:23 PM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
Plus your statement that there were three southbound lanes on Flatbush is horseshit. There only ever were two and the parked cars make it impossible. I saw one, and yeah, people were having trouble figuring out when to get in the turn bays, but they'll figure it out. I bet 80% of the drivers use this route every single day.
- November 21, 2013 at 10:26 PM
Hey Tim, despite the above commenter's annoying tone, it's true that drivers formed 3 southbound lanes - one in the yellow no driving zone, one in the proper southbound lane and one in the turn lane (and they weren't turning). I think it'll work itself out but DOT needs to add ballards where possible to keep people out from lanes they are not supposed to be in, and once the intersection is finished they need to enforce up at Lincoln/Flatbush. The 1/2 implemented situation is pretty sketchy if you're a pedestrian.
- November 22, 2013 at 7:11 AM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
'ight. Can't see how that's possible with the parked cars, but maybe at the intersections...
This morning was great. And yes, there are more lanes northbound. It was designed that way, with NO STANDING between 7 and 10 am. They felt they couldn't do the NO STANDING during the evening rush because businesses are open.
- November 22, 2013 at 9:14 AM
Yes, there was an immediate bottleneck once traffic passed Lincoln - you know, cars heading head on into cars in the left turn lane, running up against parked cars, etc. Was not good! Anyways, if the opportunity arises, it would be great to emphasize that they need to finish the intersection ASAP. The current state is unnerving and we're lucky that no one has been hit by a car. I repeat, though - I am very excited about the changes and I think the new patterns are great.
- November 22, 2013 at 9:26 AM
I was skeptical at first, but these changes are really for the better.
I drive every day for work so these changes you would think penalize me. The opposite I say.
Here's how I view it, say on Flatbush before if you had 2 lanes in one direction and one of the lanes was slower moving (due to double parking or behind a truck).
What would frustrate me is if I was in the slower lane and saw other cars zipping by, you feel compelled to switch lanes and not miss out. So I switch lanes. This is stressful and not always safe but it's bad habits born over the years.
Now everyone is essentially single-file. There is no getting agitated seeing someone else zip by in the lane next to you. Less stress and most important safer.
The key as mentioned above is to enforce the no double parking.
- November 22, 2013 at 11:12 AM
I see no reason to expect the dollar vans to follow the new rules any more than they followed the old rules. If anything. I expect them to be frustrated by having fewer oppotunities to zig-zag down the avenue and resort to crazier and more reckless tactics to get that one extra fare or cut a minute or two off their trip...
I'm also concerned that these yellow-painted areas are going to become islands of pedestrians stranded in mid-jaywalk (similar to what we have now between the Wendy's and the subway station)...
Still, a "pinch of sanity" is better than the chaos we've had for years.
- November 22, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Yesterday on 2 separate occasions I saw dollar vans trying to overtake vehicles by cutting inside only to pull back in to their lane when they realized they were about to crash into opposite lane vehicles! INSANE !!
Other than that everyone else seem to follow the new format and seemed pretty chill about it, seriously I fear those dollar vans, they have a death wish and do not care about anyone else!!
- November 22, 2013 at 3:19 PM
5:30 pm, southbound traffic at a standstill all the way to Grand Army Plaza. Now we have a one lane parking lot on Flatbush. Great!
- November 22, 2013 at 5:42 PM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
Oh ye of little faith! So easily disgruntled! The first traffic jam on Flatbush EVER has set the whole project back! (never mind the accident...)
- November 22, 2013 at 7:01 PM
Great- took me 45 minutes to get from GAP to Parkside. $ vans going straight down the middle.
Unless the cops are out ticketing until people get the hint it is not for the better
- November 22, 2013 at 7:07 PM
I am a huge proponent of these changes. Anybody that drives a car in this city should be shot. Are you too lazy to take the subway or the bus or whatever means of mass transport is available to you?
I am so sick and tired of excuses like "I need a car for work", BULL!! Keep polluting the air and supporting big oil why don't you, but I think every single road throughout the country should be a single lane of traffic. I want traffic to snarl to epic proportions so finally you polluters wake up, get out of your cars and walk!! You are so lazy and probably really fat!! The walking will do you some good.
- November 22, 2013 at 8:06 PM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
A HA! I knew you radical environmentalists were bodymassist! Caught you calling drivers fat! Ever seen half the people on the bus?
Seriously, though, pipe down. The idea is to get traffic moving calmly and smartly, not prevent people from getting where they're going. And by the way I bike and ride public transportation everywhere and I STILL can't lose that extra 20 pounds.
Just texted Vinnie at the 71 and they're "giving it a few days" to let drivers figure it out - warnings only. Frankly all they have to do is troll and get the few surviving double parkers to scram. In the meantime, I'm gonna find the email of that DOT dude who did the study and tell him to get the know left turn on Washington from Lincoln sign up fast. Someone's gonna go head on into a bike, pedestrian or car. What an oversight...
- November 22, 2013 at 8:56 PM
Unless the dollar vans are banned I just don't see this working. They don't follow the traffic laws and from what I've seen the past 2 days, they have no issue weaving around the single lane even if it means heading directly into oncoming traffic! Also since they stop whenever and wherever they please, cars will be stopping short or worse hitting into them because , and you would know this if you ever drive behind one of these menaces, they give no warning when they stop. Oh and when they stop, now everyone else now has to stop too, creating more traffic hold ups.
And as for double Parking being eliminated now, who are we kidding? Three cars double parked in front of Thriftway this evening caused major back ups as did all the UPS and FEDex trucks. Because when UPS delivers say to Patio Gardens, where's the truck going to sit. Double parked on Flatbush of course. And then what?
And when Flatbush finally opens to two lanes from EMPIRE headed north, everyone is now anxiously weaving in and out trying to make up for loss time, until they hit the next awful, unaddressed traffic mess, the bottleneck caused by the ridiculously short green light at Grand army plaza.
And so maybe those of you who don't drive this road for work or school every single day don't see an issue with the slow single file travel, and maybe at a glance from your bike it looks neat and orderly, but for everyone driving in it, it sucks! IMO a better solution would've been to ban those dollar vans or make an exclusive HOV and bus lane for the B41 to keep traffic flowing, not keep it idling and adding to the pollution.
- November 22, 2013 at 10:25 PM
Cry me a river. You may be one of the only people who actually have to drive down this particular stretch of road every single day, but the vast majority don't. They'll find another route. The only reason people take Flatbush at all is because they think it's faster than the alternatives. But unless it slows a bit and gets more orderly, it will always be dangerous and crazy with the buses and vans and cabs and car services and people like you who claim they have no other way to get around but take Flatbush and make life miserable for the thousands of pedestrians and commuters who have to put up with your insanity. If you need someone to map out a nice alternative to your daily drive they've got an app for that. If the half of people who don't need to drive gave it up the people who actually have no alternative would have plenty of room.
Give it a couple weeks and you'll forget it was ever different. People who drive in this city are nuts to begin with. Take away half a lane from them and they flip out. It's pathetic. The city isn't getting less populous and the roads aren't getting any wider. This road has always been a mess.
- November 22, 2013 at 11:23 PM
Tim, when you talk to dot it would be great if you could also stress the need for bollards to keep cars out of the new extended gas station/ sidewalk area that would be great. It's current dual role as sidewalk and road is no good! Thanks for your coverage of all this.
- November 23, 2013 at 8:03 AM
Don't drive at rush hour, please change your name to a-hole! Of course there are other ways out of the hood- Washington, Bedford, Rogers, or Even Parkside all of which are tied up in the same way as Flatbush! If course morons like you just assume that everyone has the ability to bike or walk or even take the subway but I've got news for you- some people work or go to school where a car is the only way to get there. Wish we could all have it as simple as you! Oh and the same could be said of people who bike in this city- this ain't holland folks despite our Dutch roots!
- November 23, 2013 at 11:21 AM
Who's the A-hole now, douchebag? DDARH said if you HAVE to drive, then fine. If it was only people like you we'd be fine. But it's not. That's why congestion pricing was a great idea, killed by upstate rednecks. You got a student excuse? Exception. You got a job that requires a car? Exception. You got a desire to stop buses and taxis from getting where they're going by your need to listen to Howard Stern? No exception. Pay for the privilege.
As the price of metrocards keeping skyrocketing, a regressive tax on the poor, the most vulnerable citizens continue to subsidize your use of expensive roads.
Like I said, driving is a right next to guns in this country. But don't take us all down with you. Oh, and don't get me started about New Yorkers assertion that they have a right to onstreet parking. If you get a ten by four piece of real estate every night, then where's mine? Unbelievable what people will do to hang on to their miserable selfish perks.
- November 23, 2013 at 1:10 PM
You know, most dollar can drivers are safe, respectable drivers. Please stop talking junk about an entire profession. There are some who are awful drivers, but it's not the majority. Thanks.
- November 23, 2013 at 2:36 PM
The above comment is meant for all of those folks who ignorantly bash ALL dollar van drivers. It's insulting.
- November 23, 2013 at 2:37 PM
I'm at Flatbush and Hawthorne and it was easier crossing Flatbush, because of the Hawthorne turning lane and the yellow stripes creating a safe island in the middle.
- November 23, 2013 at 8:04 PM
Actually you re wrong about driving being a right. In New York, driving is a privilege, NOT a right.
- November 23, 2013 at 8:23 PM
I'm generally in favor of the design of the changes, but after having driven down Flatbush from GAP the last two days it's clear that more is off than just missing signage. It doesn't really matter what lines are on the road when car after car (most often the dollar vans) just completely ignore them. I just waited in line to get to the turn bay so I could turn left on Lefferts from Flatbush and 6 dollar vans drove through the dashed yellow lines then cut back into traffic while I was waiting. Other cars followed their lead. Further up I noticed two dollar vans go into oncoming traffic to move ahead a car or two. The chaos this creates is insane; it really backs up the traffic on Lefferts going both directions and on that section of Washington right next to BP. I haven't traveled further south than Lincoln, so don't know what it's like down there, but around Lefferts and Lincoln it's pretty bad. Again, I like the design choices, but without steady enforcement it's going to be a mess. They need to have multiple cops posted at those intersection as people figure it out. Without that, they would need to create some sort of dividing median to keep people in their lanes.
Also, the DOT really needs to build up that little island at Lincoln/Washington/Flatbush because right now it's a deathtrap. Other than
- November 23, 2013 at 9:04 PM
I want to lodge an official complaint about the dollar vans, just got to figure out best place to do this so if anyone knows where this could be most effective please give me the 411
- November 24, 2013 at 1:27 AM
To Anon Nov 23 2:36 - The point that is significant is NOT that ALL DV drivers are the problem, it is that DV driver are a large % of the problem drivers.
It is irrefutable that the number of car-miles driven and the number of drivers is the core issue,however it is the minority % of drivers who operate selfishly and dangerously that create much of the congestion and risk to pedestrians, bicyclists and other drivers.
The re-design on the traffic flow is the fundamental improvement on which any evolution must be based. I cite enforcement as the nest key piece of this puzzle. Ticket the violators, check their registration and inspection. I know a few cars in the nabe who share license plates & licenses to dodge registration fees, insurance and license suspension. Get these guys off the streets. Nail the speeders on Rogers Avenue.
The next step is improved drivers' education classes in the West Indies and end reciprocity. Being licensed driver in a Caribbean city,a rural island community or a desolate ranch in Arizona does not equip a driver for NYC!
- November 24, 2013 at 10:42 AM
It is encouraging to finally hear voices raised in response to the lawless driving behavior of the dollar vans (OK, OK, most all of the dollar vans). At the same time, experience tells me nothing will change until we witness a horrific incident with a high body count. Then authorities will be shocked—even shocked and dismayed—to "discover" that there was ever a problem.
Wouldn't it be great if for once the promise of better protection wasn't made at a funeral?
- November 24, 2013 at 1:31 PM