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US Tornadoes: Buhari Mourns Deaths, Laments Destruction Of Towns In America
"Our deepest sympathies go to all those affected, as well as the government and the American people," he added.
President Muhammadu Buhari has sent out a message to the United States of America following devastating tornadoes rocking the country.
The Nigerian leader extended the sympathies of the Nigerian government to the US and its people over the sad development that has caused deaths and destruction across six states.
A brief statement signed by Femi Adesina, the President's spokesman, said Buhari was reacting to the catastrophe being televised around the globe since Friday.
Buhari said, "The destruction of whole towns, flattening of houses, schools, hospitals, businesses and other social infrastructure on a scale never seen before was deeply saddening."
The President called on Nigerians to join the rest of the world in praying for the US.
SaharaReporters had on Saturday reported that President Joe Biden pledged support to states affected by devastating tornadoes that demolished homes, levelled businesses and left at least 100 people feared dead.
Describing the tornadoes as likely "one of the largest" storm outbreaks in history, Biden on Saturday approved an emergency disaster declaration for the worst-hit state of Kentucky, where at least 22 people were confirmed dead.
"It's a tragedy," said a shaken Biden. "And we still don't know how many lives are lost and the full extent of the damage."
He added, "I promise you, whatever is needed – whatever is needed – the federal government is going to find a way to provide it."
The powerful twisters, which weather forecasters say are unusual in cooler months, destroyed a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, ripped through a nursing home in neighbouring Arkansas and killed at least six workers at an Amazon warehouse in Illinois.
Kentucky Governor, Andy Beshear, said the collection of tornadoes was the most destructive in the state's history.
He said about 40 workers had been rescued at the candle factory, which had about 110 people inside when it was reduced to a pile of rubble.
It would be a "miracle" to find anyone else alive under the debris, Beshear said.
"The devastation is unlike anything I have seen in my life and I have trouble putting it into words," Beshear said at a press conference. "It's very likely going to be over 100 people lost here in Kentucky."
Video and photos posted on social media showed brick buildings in downtown Mayfield flattened, with parked cars nearly buried under debris.
Mayfield Fire Chief Jeremy Creason, whose own station was destroyed, said the candle factory was diminished to a "pile of bent metal and steel and machinery" and that responders had to at times "crawl over casualties to get to live victims."
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20th Century Toledo from the view of the Toledo Blade and Toledo News-Bee, with some personal recollections thrown in for no good reason
Remember these Toledo restaurants?
June 10, 2016	 Gone But Not Forgotten / Restaurants
Me, I'm kind of hit and miss. Some I do, some I don't.
The Eppes Essen, 327 N. Superior St. Eppes Essen, which means "something to eat," opened in 1939 by Harry Levinson and closed in 1984 by his sons, Manny and Sidney, who took over the business. The Blade's Seymour Rothman can tell that story better than I can, however.
The building still stands today.
The Eppes Essen, circa 1963, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from http://images2.toledolibrary.org/.
Dyer's Chop House, a real shining light downtown for the longest time. Dyers could trace its beginnings to 1905, and spent 76 years at its 216 N. Superior location until it closed in 1993 after a slow and steady decline. The Blade's food critic loved it in 1991, but was panning Dyer's a year later as inconsistent and "like watching the descent into old age of a dear old aunt or uncle." Dyer's was always a good birthday dinner request for a kid in 1960s-70s Toledo.
Did you know that until 1972, Dyer's was strictly men only at lunch? It took a U.S. District Court ruling to overturn that little tradition.
Dyer's Chop house, 1975. We are looking north on Superior from Jefferson. The Wheel restaurant is further down the street. From the Ted J. Ligibel collection, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from http://images2.toledolibrary.org/.
White Hut and Suzy-Q Donuts, Secor and Sylvania. I ate there. That's about it. I can only guess it was a hopping place in the '50s but by the late 1970s it was kind of a ghost town, a relic to an earlier era.
White Hut, circa 1975. From the Ted J. Ligibel collection, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from http://images2.toledolibrary.org/.
McDonald's, Secor Road, circa 1965. While the block card collection says this is the McDonald's at 3128 W. Central, I think it's the one at 3138 Secor Road, though obviously, this one in the picture was demolished ages ago.
The Secor Road McDonald's, circa 1965, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from http://images2.toledolibrary.org/.
"Ted's" Hamburger Shop, Monroe and Erie. Google Maps tells me the building was still standing as of July, 2014.
A little research revealed the building dates from the late 1930s and was run by John V. Voudouris (whose uncle, Ted, originally opened the restaurant) and his son, Ted, according to John's 2015 obituary. It closed in 2000 after a vehicle struck the building.
Ted's Hamburger Shop, circa 1970, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from http://images2.toledolibrary.org/.
Kewpee Hamburgers. There are still three in Lima, but Toledo had a few of these. This one was at 2248 Monroe Street. It is now a vacant lot.
Kewpee Hamburgers, 1993 (though those cars look kind of older to me). From the Ted J. Ligibel collection, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from http://images2.toledolibrary.org/.
Kewpee Hamburgers, at 314 N. Erie, 1975. From the Ted J. Ligibel collection, courtesy of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, obtained from http://images2.toledolibrary.org/.
Places I wish I could find a picture of:
Frank Unkle's. Apparently the Toledo Zoo recently bought the former site of that restaurant.
The Willows, 4844 Monroe St., just east of the Franklin Park Mall. Can't tell you when it closed but I can definitely tell you when it opened, according to this ad they ran the day before: Thursday, May 6, 1948.
Farrell's at the Franklin Park Mall. They still exist but are in California.
The Blade, July 12, 1971.
Dominic's Italian Restaurant, 2121 South Reynolds Rd., undoubtedly dragged down by the sinking of Southwyck.
From The Blade, May 8, 1982.
Brauer's (the Colony, right at Central and Monroe) or Siegel's delicatessens (somewhere in the Kenwood area, if I recall correctly).
The old Dudley's at 415 S. Reynolds Road that stood from 1955-2000. It is gone now, too, as I understand it, and is now an Indian restaurant!
And finally, the quaint Green Derby at Monroe and Sylvania, which closed in 2000. It was owned by the Kostopulos brothers, according to this obit from 2012. They turned up in The Blade's coverage of the 1965 Palm Sunday tornadoes:
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June 22, 2016 at 7:17 pm	4 years ago
Loved the Fish and Chips at Scotty's on Upton Ave across from Devilbiss HS in late 1950's.
Patt Church
January 3, 2017 at 5:26 am	3 years ago
Remember the little diner at the corner of Upton and Georgia? The kids who skipped school would go over there.
January 3, 2020 at 4:38 pm	4 weeks ago
Do you remember a Chinese restaurant on Upton? I don't know how to spell it but it was pronounced Horse-a-guy.
Patrick Golden
The Detroit Tigers sent out players throughout the area back in the 60s. I met a young pitcher at the Secor Road McDonalds when I was a kid. It was Denny McLain.
Dudley's originally had a little Hot Dog building near the sledding hill on the north side of Ottawa Park. It was open all summer and when there was snow for sledding. I used to walk or bike there with my dog, Toby. I would get 2 ice creams, of course!
Bev Hoffman-Rush
April 14, 2018 at 10:18 pm	2 years ago
Oh yes and the security guard who walked with a limp checking our cars to make sure we were sitting up! Lol
Ohio Mike
January 15, 2017 at 8:30 pm	3 years ago
Having lived in downtown Toledo in the mid-late seventies, I can happily say 'Seen them all!' Graduated Stautzenberger '75 and patronized Eppes Essen daily! My only regret is not knowing what a Reuben sandwich was then, I do now, and want to cry every time I remember that. 😉
Frank Lehman
June 17, 2017 at 12:52 pm	3 years ago
Did anyone else notice that the picture of Ted's Hamburgers (Monroe and Erie) also shows the sign across Erie St for the "Scenic Bar," for so many years Toledo's most well known gay bar? Is the Scenic Bar still there?
Keith Zeisloft
October 5, 2017 at 1:10 pm	2 years ago
Wow . . . "cruising the Hut" on Secor between McDonalds, White Hut and the Faba on any summer Friday and Saturday night in the early 60s especially after the weekly dance at the West Toledo YMCA. Good times.
My dad worked at the original McDs for a while.
September 5, 2019 at 5:48 pm	5 months ago
I remember the West side YMCA dance and the White Butt too in the 1960's .
Jerry Higley
February 5, 2018 at 7:24 pm	2 years ago
Downtown by Tiedke's/Lion's store was a little restaurant with a big Orange in the window which signified orange juice. It may have been on a corner across from Tiedke's or Lions. Does anyone remember that.
March 10, 2018 at 8:57 am	2 years ago
Does anyone recall a place on Alexis near talmadge where they had pretty good spaghetti dinners to go. It's no longer open
I can't remember the name.
December 19, 2018 at 9:54 am	1 year ago
The Ground Round?
Rebecca Gerber
November 8, 2018 at 5:28 pm	1 year ago
November 2, 2019 at 5:10 pm	3 months ago
Sals restaurant
Philip Arvantis
October 14, 2019 at 12:11 am	4 months ago
I miss Brauer's and Siegel's. Seigel's was on Bancroft, and every Sunday, we went there to get stuff for Sunday brunch. Bagels, lox, smoked white fish. My mom would fry up onions to put in the bagels with cream cheese. She would fry up eggs semi hard. Those were the days. Siegel's corned beef sandwiches yum. I miss those restaurants. There are no Jewish delis around any more. It's a bummer. I also loved Halvah which is not to be found either. Saveway used to carry the bars. The delis carried the slabs. I can buy them over the internet. Best candy.
Me too, Bev, I just can't get good bagels where I live.
Vicki L.
May 28, 2018 at 9:35 pm	2 years ago
The Elbow Room had pizza and spaghetti, they just closed recently. I would love the recipe for the crust or from Angela's on stickney ave.
stva
April 18, 2019 at 9:55 pm	10 months ago
It's pie crust
Randi Kline
September 25, 2019 at 2:25 pm	4 months ago
When I was little, my mom and I ate at the Elbow Room on a regular basis. Great Italian food.
James Antoine
November 24, 2019 at 7:38 am	2 months ago
Vicki, I grew up a couple blocks away from Angelo's Restaurant (Brigham and Ketcham) and would love to get the recipe for the crust (and sauce, Iozzo's?) myself. Additionally, if you remember the light and fluffy pizza from Dominic's on Reynolds road (also Douglas road) and the Shakey's Pizza Parlor (player piano) near Monroe/ Secor and Point Place.
Randolph Waldron
June 2, 2018 at 6:12 pm	2 years ago
How about Mario's Pizza Dens… one on Dorr between Secor and Byrne… another on Arlington… a deluxe pizza was served and all you saw was white mozzarella cheese all over it… toppings under that… good once in a while… but too much mozzarella to have very often…
First McDonald's on Laskey across from Miracle Mile… 15c burgers, 20c shakes, 10c fries… filling meal 45c…
Terry Katlen
December 23, 2018 at 6:28 pm	1 year ago
I was a fry cook there and had to lug sacks of potatoes from the basement, put them in the scrubber, and cut one at a time in slicer. Only had walk-up windows then so I fried up a few moths in the process.
Terry Woody
August 24, 2018 at 3:07 pm	1 year ago
I remember two places my dad took me to on several excursions downtown: Toledo Hot Dog (best Coney Islands I've ever had) and Red Wells's roast beef. Both terrific!
Bucky Hydal
July 28, 2019 at 8:11 pm	6 months ago
My dad Marlin Hydal (worked at Sealtest as a dairyman and then a printer at The Toledo Blade) took me to see The Creature From The Black Lagoon (ca. 1955) at a downtown theater. It was in 3D and really scary (I was only 8, or so)! To end a perfect Toledo day out, we polished off a couple of coney island dogs at Toledo Hot Dog.
Kelly Zeileretts
September 3, 2018 at 9:33 pm	1 year ago
What was the restaurant hooked on to greenwoid mall or near it that served all kinds of food but I got their strawberry pancakes that were delicious in the 1970s
I think there was a Howard Johnson's restaurant there a long time ago, perhaps still in the 70s, and then a different one took over the same building but can't remember that name.
Louise Stricker
September 28, 2018 at 3:11 pm	1 year ago
There was a restaurant & banquet hall in the plaza in front of Northtown mall in the early 2000's and I can't recall the name!! Can anyone help me out??
V Majewski
November 9, 2018 at 11:15 am	1 year ago
Sue Cortes
January 17, 2020 at 7:46 am	2 weeks ago
HJ's Prime Cut. https://www.toledoblade.com/a-e/restaurant-reviews/2002/05/17/HJ-s-Prime-Cut-A-healthy-survivor-on-Alexis-Road/stories/200205170003
I ate a few times at Eppes Essen. I recall getting spaghetti once, and noticing the Parmesan cheese they gave me had an expiration date about a year prior. They were very apologetic. Probably shouldn't have ordered Italian in a delicatessen, I guess. After they closed, I ate for many years at Posner's, owned by Jim and Hazel Olive, and frequented by all the lawyers downtown. I wish I had a bowl of their matzo ball soup now.
Jim and Hazel's son opened a restaurant two doors away, originally called Rima's, after his extremely attractive wife, but they went through a messy divorce and she left town, after which he named the restaurant Ranya's, after their daughter. I see now after googling that Ranya's only closed a couple years ago.
Sal's Restaurant was in a little strip mall on Alexis by Talmadge. Good place for spaghetti.
Who remembers Shakey's Pizza by Monroe and Sylvania or Dog and Suds at Alexis and Talmadge.
Susan Murphy
October 18, 2019 at 7:52 am	3 months ago
I remember Shakey's! It was the place to go for pizza in the West end. Fun old comedy movies and cartoons played on a small screen.
Bridget Willis
November 10, 2018 at 12:25 am	1 year ago
I left Toledo in 1976, and boy I sure remember the Colony restaurant on Central near Monroe. Ate there a lot. Whoever posted about McDonald's across from Miracle Mile, I remember Uncle Sam's being there. Big statue in front, probably 40 ft tall. The Friday nite dances at the West Toledo Y, those were some good times. Roller skating at the outdoor rink at Pierson Park, ice skating at the outdoor rink at Ottawa park. Lots of fond memories.
January 3, 2019 at 8:31 pm	1 year ago
Anyone remember Joey's Rascal House?
Phyllis Szekely
February 2, 2019 at 12:06 am	12 months ago
I worked at the Williams Grill in the late 40's or early 50's. It was near the Lion Store in Toledo. Hostess name was Zoe and she made the schedule. Does anyone have a picture of it, or do you know if the Blade had any write ups about it. I worked in the back room in high school.
Bob Schmersahl
March 2, 2019 at 2:24 pm	11 months ago
Does anyone remember a restaurant called The St. Louis Restaurant?
Rita Bohland
March 5, 2019 at 9:29 am	11 months ago
Yankee Doodle Inn in Sylvania was great. A divorce, new wife wanted Mexican. Restaurant failed
Kim Nyitrai
March 10, 2019 at 3:15 pm	11 months ago
I am looking for information about MR. G's Pizza, it was on Laskey Rd across the street from the Drive-In, now there is a Amish Store there. Mr. G's at one point were on Lewis Ave. between Eleanor and Laskey. I loved their pizza and the cheese they used was the best pizza cheese I have ever had. Trying to find out what cheese they used? Please help
Dave Loshbough
May 8, 2019 at 1:39 pm	9 months ago
I remember eating at Uncle John's Pancake House when I was little. The memory never left me as I left a 1971 Lou Brock baseball card behind on the table by accident. A traumatic thing for a small boy as my folks would not turn back to retrieve it. I do remember the pancakes were very good, however.
June 2, 2019 at 7:41 pm	8 months ago
What was the name of an old seafood restaurant on either Monroe and Talmadge or Monroe and Secor? Anyone know?
Martie Kaye
June 25, 2019 at 7:36 pm	7 months ago
Anyone remember a spaghetti place next to Franks Nursery I think it was called Mr Tony's Spaghetti factory, great pizza and you got a huge bucket of spaghetti for 5 bucks
July 1, 2019 at 10:07 pm	7 months ago
I've been looking for a photo of Captain Billy's Whizzbang restaurant on Laskey. I found one of it closed, I was looking for an old photo with the shark outside. It's a very special memory for someone and I can't seem to locate it no matter how hard I try!
Wow. Captain Billy's Whizzbang was a fixture and The Porch of the Maidens on Central ave.
August 15, 2019 at 6:39 am	6 months ago
I remember a restaurant called the Boston Cooker on Monroe Street, near the old ChurchHills grocery store. Was there one there?
Years ago in the 1960s there was a Drive In theater on that site. Also wasn't there a small Anderson's before they moved to Monroe and Talmadge?
Gail Guinn
August 18, 2019 at 12:23 pm	5 months ago
It was Sal's restaurant
Frederic Herrold
October 11, 2019 at 2:05 pm	4 months ago
What was name of bistro style restaurant on Reynolds Rd and Glendale in the 80's? It is now a Walgreens.
December 13, 2019 at 7:26 am	2 months ago
I'd like a photo of the only Dudleys Hot Dog. Use to ride my bike there in the 70's

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Tom Bicknell, financial services expert at Pinsent Masons, said the specialised court "is likely to attract new investors interested in the digital space".
It will deal with national and international disputes related to current and emerging technologies and cover a wide variety of fields including big data, blockchain tech, artificial intelligence, cloud services, unmanned aerial vehicles, 3D printing technologies and robotics.
Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, president of the DIFC, said the specialised court will complement others, like the technology and construction division and the arbitration division, that were launched to meet increasing demand for judicial expertise in cases related to specific sectors.
He said: "The infrastructure of our courts in Dubai will keep pace with our future economic aspirations."
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Along with improving cross-posting between Instagram and Facebook, there are also changes coming to Instagram Reels.
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Fotheringay at Under the Bridge, London 19/6/15
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Sandy Denny was the finest British female singer-songwriter that ever lived. Fotheringay was the short-lived band she formed in 1970 on leaving Fairport Convention. It lasted less than a year, but forty-five years on the surviving members have reformed for a short tour and are playing their first London gig since 1970. Band reunions can elicit mixed reactions and some questions went through my mind on this one. However talented the remaining musicians are, would this be a worthwhile exercise with the band's two main front-people, Sandy Denny and her husband Trevor Lucas, long since deceased? As soon as the band come on stage, though, and open with Nothing More, the opening number on the original Fotheringay album, all doubts are set aside.
Joining original Fotheringay members, Jerry Donahue, Gerry Conway and Pat Donaldson, are Sally Barker and Katheryn Roberts doing the Sandy parts and PJ Wright stepping into Lucas's shoes. I've long been impressed with Katheryn Roberts but Sally Barker I was rather rude about when I saw her guesting on a jarring version of Denny's Who Knows Where the Time Goes with Fairport last summer. But both were hugely impressive tonight. While avoiding doing a "Now Matthew I'm going to be…" impersonation they nevertheless deliver the songs faithfully, passionately and beautifully. I'll take my criticism of Barker back – she was utterly wonderful tonight in bringing alive these four decade-old songs. Singer/guitarist PJ Wright could not have been a more appropriate choice for singing those songs that Lucas had originally written and performed also, his rich voice perfectly capturing the spirit of the original Fotheringay recordings. Jerry Donahue's beautifully expressive guitar work is always wonderful to hear, and I've seen him with numerous combinations of musicians in the past, but this was very special.
Fotheringay's short but remarkable life meant their back catalogue was never extensive. But they play all the songs any follower of the band would expect and special highlights for me included John the Gun, Knights of the Road, Late November and a sing-along Peace in the End, the closer before the final old—school rock 'n' roll encore.
Apart from the occasional guests, Denny's most famous ex-band, Fairport Convention, always eschewed the temptation to recruit another female vocalist on the grounds that Denny is irreplaceable. That she is irreplaceable goes without saying. But what the Fotheringay reunion demonstrates is that Denny's songs undeniably sound many, many times better delivered with a female vocal, as they were originally conceived.
Well done Fotheringay, old and new, for putting this reunion together and for pulling it off so magnificently.
Winter Winds
John the Gun
Gypsy Davy
Knights of the Road
Banks of the Nile
Bold Jack Donahue
The Way I Feel
I Don't Believe You
It'll Take a Long Time
Too Much of Nothing
Late November
Peace in the End
Memphis Tennessee
http://www.fotheringay.com/
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Saw them in Liverpool on Monday 22nd June and they were fantastic.
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Well worth the forty five year wait clearly


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Senators challenge ownership rules in Congress
The group has expressed its "resolution of disapproval" to a rule change that would allow local newspaper owners to buy TV stations in their towns.
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Calling the FCC's rewrite of media ownership rules "arrogant" and "in disregard of the public interest," Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-ND, introduced legislation last week that could stimulate a Congressional vote to overturn earlier rulings.
Co-sponsored by 13 senators — including Democrats Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry — Dorgan introduced a formal "resolution of disapproval" to a rule change that would allow local newspaper owners to buy TV stations in their towns. He is acting under rarely used authority that allows Congress to overturn agency rulemakings within 60 congressional working days.
Dorgan said he has commitments from the heads of the Senate Commerce Committee, both Republicans and Democrats, to move a bill by April.
Last week, consumer groups asked the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to overturn the FCC's action. That court overturned the FCC's last attempt at setting rules. The NAB, suggesting the rules didn't go far enough to ease limits, filed its own appeal in the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune also have filed appeals to some of the FCC's rules.
Late last year Dorgan and legislators from both parties had strongly urged FCC chairman Kevin Martin to delay the Dec. 18 vote, arguing that the agency hadn't yet fully examined the potential impact media consolidation could have on the amount of local programming in a market. They also voiced concern about its potential impact to limit the number of stations held by women and minorities.
Sen. Dorgan said he feels the FCC acted at the behest of corporate interests rather than the public interest. "This is about galloping concentration in the media," he said. He also accused the FCC of turning from guardians of the public airwaves into boosters of competition at any cost.
The senator was joined by a large contingent of media activist and consumer groups, all of whom said they would work vigorously for passage of the Dorgan legislation.
Tribune challenges media ownership rules
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Senate rejects FCC's media ownership rules
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Senate Commerce Committee threatens to undo new FCC ownership rules
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Citigroup Collides With Death in Indonesia Emerging Market Debt
Esi Ronaldi embraces a photo of her late husband, Irzen Octa at her home in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 20, 2011.
Photographer: Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg Markets via Bloomberg.
In life, Irzen Octa ranked among the least significant of Citigroup Inc.'s 200 million customers. In death, the cash-strapped small-businessman from Jakarta has come to haunt the reputation of the world's 8th-biggest bank.
At dawn on an overcast March morning, Octa, 49, left his modest $60,000 row house on the western outskirts of the Indonesian capital and rode off on his Yamaha motor scooter into the frenetic traffic and equatorial heat. His destination: a Citibank office in a smart downtown neighborhood known as the Golden Triangle, where he was to discuss a 48 million rupiah ($5,500) principal debt on his Citibank platinum credit card, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its August issue.
After dropping his younger daughter at school, Octa walked into Citibank's credit card collection department on the fifth floor of the Jamsostek tower just after 10 a.m. Four hours later, he left the 25-story building slumped motionless in a wheelchair -- a victim of what police allege was a violent assault by debt collectors. Driven to a nearby hospital in a Citibank car, Octa was pronounced dead on arrival.
There are starkly conflicting versions of what happened inside the room, barely larger than a broom closet, where Octa spent most of the time from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on March 29.
Octa's widow is suing Citigroup for $348 million, claiming her husband died inside Citibank's offices after being beaten by debt collectors trying to extract the equivalent of $12,000 from him, including accrued interest.
Back in the Black
The case comes as Citigroup bets its future on booming emerging markets like Indonesia. The New York-based bank, which lost $27.7 billion in 2008, was saved from collapse during the global financial crisis only by a $45 billion U.S. government bailout.
Since then, Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit has focused on developing economies, which are growing on average at three times the pace of Western nations, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Last year, Citi's strategy helped the bank surge back into the black as emerging economies delivered more than half of its $10.6 billion profit. Operating in more than 100 countries, Citigroup is now the world's 16th-strongest bank, according to rankings published in Bloomberg Markets.
Indonesia, the world's fourth-biggest country, with a population of 240 million and an economy that grew at 6.46 percent in the first quarter of 2011, is a prime target of Pandit's strategy. Indonesians are getting richer faster than any other Asia-Pacific national group, according to a 2010 Credit Suisse Group AG report, which said average wealth per adult had jumped fivefold in 10 years to $12,212.
Internal Investigation
As the Octa case suggests, winning business in countries such as Indonesia exposes Citigroup -- and indeed other multinational banks -- to risks that would seem beyond the pale in the West. In Indonesia, it can be difficult to recover debts through the courts, so Citibank outsourced debt collection to two Indonesian companies.
Three collectors met with Octa in the Citibank office. Their attorney says they acknowledge that one of them "tapped" Octa on the shoulder, kicked his chair and thumped a table, but they claim the businessman died of natural causes. They say that brain damage identified in an autopsy was caused by a stroke and that Octa was still alive when he was taken to the hospital.
Shariq Mukhtar, who was Citigroup's Indonesia country head at the time, said on April 5 that an internal investigation found no evidence Octa was physically harmed in its offices. The police, however, have jailed the debt collectors and say they may charge some of them with causing death by neglect.
Banning Citigroup
Citigroup's travails didn't begin or end with Octa's death. Days earlier, the bank was shaken by the disclosure of another lurid incident.
On March 23, police arrested a female relationship manager in Citibank's Citigold wealth-management department. Inong Malinda Dee, 47, who oversaw accounts worth $14 million and drove to work in a red Ferrari, was charged with embezzling $1.9 million from three clients in 2009 and 2010.
The alleged offenses came to light on March 11 when one of the 236 customers Malinda looked after complained about missing funds to Citigroup, which in turn called in the police.
When they raided two homes owned by Malinda, detectives seized two Ferraris, a Hummer and a Mercedes-Benz 350 coupe, which have now transformed a police vehicle compound into something akin to a luxury automobile showroom. She denies the charges against her: money laundering, falsifying bank documents and violating banking laws.
Lured to Indonesia
In May, the central bank, Bank Indonesia, banned Citigroup from issuing new credit cards for two years and from taking on new wealth-management clients for a year. The bank was concerned enough to fly its vice chairman, Lewis Kaden, from New York to Jakarta and back to express regret. "Both matters are being treated with the utmost seriousness by our senior management," he said in a statement on May 2.
Though Kaden didn't appear in public during his 48-hour stay, he did meet with government officials to reinforce that message, according to Richard Tesvich, a Hong Kong-based Citigroup spokesman.
Five weeks later, Citigroup disclosed to staff in a memo obtained by Bloomberg that it was replacing Mukhtar, its country head since 2005, with locally born Tigor M. Siahaan, 40, who had previously been in charge of the bank's institutional business.
Citigroup's rivals haven't escaped the fallout. On April 29, the central bank told another 23 local and international lenders, including HSBC Holdings Plc, Standard Chartered Plc and Deutsche Bank AG, to stop accepting new wealth-management customers for a month while the banks improved internal supervision and customer protection practices.
'The Grace of God'
Citibank and its competitors have been lured to Indonesia by the country's barely tapped potential. While only 7 million Indonesians use credit cards, the number of middle-class consumers has swelled by 50 million to 131 million during the past eight years, the World Bank reported in March.
Growth is the upside for the banks. The downside: the sometimes unconventional business practices. Most banks, rather than employ their own debt collectors, follow local practice and hire Indonesian companies to do the work, says Jim Castle, a governor of the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia. "It's not just Citibank," Castle says. "Every banker I have talked to who has a credit card business says, 'There but for the grace of God go I.'"
'No Excuse'
That's no excuse, says Halim Alamsyah, deputy governor of Bank Indonesia. He says he was taken aback by both Citi scandals. "It shocked me, and it shocked the board," Alamsyah says, referring to his fellow central bank governors. "This is Citibank we are discussing -- the world-class bank."
Citigroup's troubles in Indonesia are also cause for alarm for investors, says David Hilder, a banking analyst at Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based Susquehanna Financial Group LLLP, which owns Citigroup shares worth $245 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Citigroup, which CEO Pandit proudly described in the 2010 annual report as "America's only truly global bank," is increasingly dependent on far-flung markets. Last year, Citi's profits from consumer-banking units in Asia jumped 52 percent to $2.17 billion compared with a 17 percent drop at the U.S. business. On its website, Citigroup boasts that one-third of all Asian billionaires outside Japan are among its private-banking clients.
Stumbling in Foreign Markets
In Indonesia, Citibank has assets of $6.5 billion, ranks as the largest foreign bank and owns nearly a third of the credit card market. The bank's net profit from all operations in Indonesia has doubled in five years, to $254 million in 2010. For all of its successes, Citigroup has a history of stumbling in foreign markets, most recently in India, where Citigroup said in January it would compensate investors who fell victim to a $67 million fraud allegedly carried out by a local employee.
Such missteps suggest that Citigroup's burgeoning overseas business has far outpaced its back-office capabilities, Susquehanna's Hilder says. Addressing that weakness could dampen the earnings Citi expects out of markets such as Indonesia, he says. "In turn, that could weaken the argument that Citi stock should enjoy a premium multiple because of its exposure to emerging markets," Hilder says.
Citicorp's Indonesian debt-collection system may be a case in point. Only after Octa's death did Citigroup announce that it would hire 1,400 new staff to bring debt collection in-house.
Citigroup should operate in Indonesia as it does in the U.S., says Otto Kaligis, a Jakarta attorney who once represented the dictator Suharto and is suing the bank on behalf of Octa's widow, Esi Ronaldi. "In America, debt collectors can't use brutality because it is against human rights," Kaligis says. "The same applies here in Indonesia."
A Compassionate Offer
Citigroup declines to comment on the Ronaldi lawsuit. It says it has strict rules forbidding debt collectors from using violence or threats. The bank's policy, it says, is to work with customers to help them through difficult times; in Octa's case, that meant offering to deduct 40 percent from the principal debt.
Citi says it has made a compassionate offer to the family through the Indonesian Red Cross to set up a fund for the Octa children's education and the family's living expenses. "We are deeply saddened," Kaden said in his statement. "I can assure you that it has always been our intention to handle this very sad matter with genuine compassion for Octa's family, and if we have done anything to suggest otherwise, we sincerely apologize."
Coup and Counter-Coup
The stories of Octa, Malinda and Citigroup's Indonesian adventure are entwined with the country's turbulent history. Citigroup opened its first branch in 1968, a year after Suharto became president on the back of a coup and countercoup that claimed some 500,000 lives. As the economy grew, so did Citi's position. From 1987, the Indonesian economy expanded at the rate of 7 percent annually for a decade. In 1989, two years into the surge, Citigroup became the first foreign bank to issue credit cards in Indonesia.
Citibank stood its ground even when the good times came to a halt in 1997 as the Asian financial crisis devastated Indonesia's economy and mass riots left Jakarta ablaze. While local banks collapsed, Citi opened new branches. As the turmoil receded, Indonesia began to grow again, spawning thousands of small-time entrepreneurs.
Among them was Irzen Octa, who had come to Jakarta from Padang on the island of Sumatra. In 1994, Octa, who ran a courier and import-export business, married a Padang woman, Esi Ronaldi. At first, Ronaldi worked for her husband. After their daughters, Grace and Citra, now 16 and 15, were born, she became a full-time housewife.
Ronaldi, 48, who wears the hijab favored by many women in predominantly Muslim Indonesia, says her husband never told her how much he earned. Every month, Octa gave her about $580 for housekeeping and school fees.
There were few obvious luxuries. The highlight of the children's week was to sleep in their parents' room at the weekend. "They were proud of their father, and they want him back," Ronaldi says, speaking Indonesian and weeping softly as she clutches a portrait of her husband. "He was a responsible and modest man."
Octa did possess one status symbol: a Citibank platinum credit card. According to his wife, Octa had been a cardholder as long as she can remember, graduating from silver to gold to platinum status.
Knock on the Door
With the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, Octa's business took a turn for the worse. Ronaldi also says he was distracted from his business by his politics; as democracy took root in Indonesia, he had helped to found a small political party, the National Unity Party.
Late one night last October, Octa answered a knock on the door to find six debt collectors there, Ronaldi says. "I was so afraid, but Octa said to me to be calm," she says. "They used impolite words, and they shouted." To Ronaldi's embarrassment, they spent the night on the porch. "My neighbors heard all the details," she says.
Seven months later, on March 28, as the family was preparing for evening prayers, she says, two more debt collectors arrived at the house. Ronaldi says her husband told her he had been offered a deal to repay only part of the arrears. He would visit the collection center the next day to settle his debts.
The next morning, Octa called the family together. "Let's pray I will sign a contract for a project today," he said. He then straddled the Yamaha and, with Citra on the back seat, rode off. It was the last time his wife saw him alive.
Commuting in a Ferrari
Around that time, Malinda was already making headlines. The daughter of an official in Indonesia's transportation department, she studied management at Jakarta's private Trisakti University, joined Citigroup as a teller in 1989 and was promoted to Citigold Executive in 2001. Citigroup says her annual salary was in the $42,000-to-$98,000 range, excluding incentives. According to her lawyer, Batara Simbolon, Malinda earned more than $200,000 with bonuses, had outside business interests and had total assets of $7 million.
Until her photos were splashed across the tabloid pages, Malinda's lifestyle didn't attract undue attention at the bank. She owned a condominium next to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and was building a four-story house in an upmarket suburb. Testifying before a parliamentary committee inquiry into the Octa and Malinda scandals, Citibank country chief Mukhtar said that while he knew Malinda came to work in a Ferrari, he didn't investigate because her husband worked for a car dealership.
Designer Wardrobe
In 2009, her lawyer says, Malinda split from her husband and married Andhika Gumilang, a 22-year-old actor to whom she gave a Hummer. According to police, that was the year Malinda began her allegedly fraudulent activities.
Having swapped her designer wardrobe for an orange prison uniform, Malinda maintains her innocence and says she's been betrayed by her former employers. "She feels she was stabbed in the back by Citibank," her lawyer says. In May, she was transferred to a police hospital ward after her blood pressure soared to 250/150 and she suffered complications caused by silicone breast implants, says Ibnu Hadjar, chief of medical services at the Indonesia Police Hospital.
As the various investigations moved forward, Citigroup executives sought to minimize the impact of the controversies swirling around them. New country chief Siahaan argues that more than half of Citigroup's Indonesian earnings come from its institutional business and will not be affected by the sanctions.
He may have a point. Citigroup jumped from sixth to third among underwriters of Indonesian bonds in 2010, according to Bloomberg data. Citigroup has underwritten share offerings this year for PT Bank Mandiri and PT Garuda Indonesia, the country's biggest airline, compared with just one offering in 2009 and 2010 combined. In May, Citigroup underwrote a $1 billion bond issue for PT Pertamina, Indonesia's state-owned oil company.
Citigroup seems determined to ride out the latest crisis just as it did when Jakarta was burning 13 years ago. "Whenever there's a crisis or a shock to the system, not only do we stay, we keep on investing," Siahaan says.
The difference now is that Citigroup is far more dependent on markets such as Indonesia than it was in 1998. And with a grieving widow seeking damages in one court, debt collectors set to go on trial in another and a cosmetic surgery-enhanced, Ferrari-driving wealth manager in the dock in a third, it may find that a much more difficult task.
Editors: Stryker McGuire, Vincent Bielski
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-06-29/citigroup-collides-with-death-in-indonesia-emerging-market-debt


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Q: Early-stencil culling without early-z culling I already have an idea of the answer but I need to be sure.
I render a scene in two pass.
In the first pass, if depth test succeeds, I mark stencil bit as 1 :
glEnable(GL_STENCIL_TEST);
glStencilMask(GL_TRUE);
glStencilOp(GL_KEEP, GL_KEEP, GL_REPLACE);
glStencilFunc(GL_ALWAYS, 1, GL_TRUE);

The second pass only writes where stencil is 1 :
glStencilFunc(GL_EQUAL, 1, GL_TRUE); // Pass test if stencil value is 1
glStencilMask(GL_FALSE); // Don't write anything to stencil buffer

In fact, this works properly but I expected a huge increase in terms of performance.
The shader used in the second pass is particular : it uses discard and gl_FragDepth affectation.
That makes early-z culling impossible. Fortunately, I'm only interested in early-stencil culling.
So there is my question : is there a way to take advantage from early-stencil culling without early-z culling ?

This thread is very related to this one, but I really need to use discard and gl_FragDepth affectation in the second shader...

A: There is no such thing as early stencil tests. Or early Z/depth tests for that matter. There are only early fragment tests, which happen to include the stencil and depth tests, but also other operations. They cannot be performed early in piecemeal; it's all early or all late.

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And just like that … the Peloton commercial was born. After the Sex and the City revival killed off Mr. Big with an exercise-related death, Ryan Reynolds recruited Chris Noth to help bring the iconic character back to life.
"By pure luck, we'd been talking to Peloton about our Creative as a Subscription product in the week before this all happened," Reynolds, 45, told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday, December 13. "I literally met Dara [Treseder, CMO of Peloton] for the first time on December 1. She emailed us right after the episode aired and we all knew just what to do."
One day prior, the Deadpool actor made headlines after he shared an ad for Peloton starring Noth, 67, and real-life Peloton instructor Jess King.
"To new beginnings," Noth, 67, said to King, 36, who made a cameo as an instructor named Allegra in the HBO Max series, during the commercial. "I feel great. Should we take another ride? Life's too short not to."
Reynolds offered his voice to the video, saying in the background, "And just like that, the world was reminded that regular cycling stimulates and improves your heart, lungs and circulation, reducing your risk of cardiovascular diseases. Cycling strengthens your heart muscles, lowers resting pulse and reduces blood fat levels. He's alive!"
Sex and the City fans were in for a shock when the premiere for And Just Like That ended with Mr. Big suffering from a heart attack after working out on his Peloton bike. His wife, Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker), returned home to see her husband collapsed on the floor as she says to the audience, "And just like that, Big died."
After seeing the huge reaction to the SATC death, Reynolds recalled how he used his marketing firm to allow Peloton to create their own narrative.
"We try to do these things in a way where everyone wins. Peloton, Chris and the show itself," he noted on Monday, revealing that the entire project from conception to filming took 24 hours. "Chris was in right away, but it was a whirlwind, for all of us. I certainly helped secure Chris but Maximum Effort has built itself on challenges like these, so, while never ever easy, the secret is practice and not losing heart when challenges inevitably occur."
For the Canada native, seeing the overwhelming response to the creative idea proved that it was worth the last-minute effort.
"It's been really satisfying to work so hard so quickly towards something which is this much fun, and have it work out," he added. "I think people like to see the spirit of Maximum Effort — that we want to have fun and bring people together but not ever at anyone's expense."
Peloton, for their part, also previously addressed Mr. Big's death and the misconception that occurred with his final scene.
"I'm sure SATC fans, like me, are saddened by the news that Mr. Big dies of a heart attack. Mr. Big lived what many would call an extravagant lifestyle — including cocktails, cigars, and big steaks — and was at serious risk as he had a previous cardiac event in Season 6," the company shared via a statement from Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum on Thursday, December 9. "These lifestyle choices and perhaps even his family history, which often is a significant factor, were the likely cause of his death. Riding his Peloton bike may have even helped delay his cardiac event."
Steinbaum continued: "While 25 percent of heart attacks each year are in patients who already had one (like Mr. Big), even then they are very, very treatable. It's always important to talk to your doctor, get tested, and have a healthy prevention strategy. The good news is Peloton helps you track heart rate while you ride, so you can do it safely."
Showrunner Michael Patrick King later weighed in on how Noth played a role in his character's exit.
"We started talking about the character and what it would mean. Then Chris and I worked a lot, and it was a thrill because he has great instincts, great story instincts," King, 67, told Us and other reporters in an interview on Friday, December 11. "Together, what we came up with is exactly how he left and why he left and how he would leave and what their last moments would be.
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import sys
import codecs
import logging
import os
import re
import shutil
import StringIO
import sys
import tempfile
import unittest

from lib2to3 import main

TEST_DATA_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "data")
PY2_TEST_MODULE = os.path.join(TEST_DATA_DIR, "py2_test_grammar.py")

class TestMain(unittest.TestCase):

    if not hasattr(unittest.TestCase, 'assertNotRegex'):
        # This method was only introduced in 3.2.
        def assertNotRegex(self, text, regexp, msg=None):
            import re
            if not hasattr(regexp, 'search'):
                regexp = re.compile(regexp)
            if regexp.search(text):
                self.fail("regexp %s MATCHED text %r" % (regexp.pattern, text))

    def setUp(self):
        self.temp_dir = None  # tearDown() will rmtree this directory if set.

    def tearDown(self):
        # Clean up logging configuration down by main.
        del logging.root.handlers[:]
        if self.temp_dir:
            shutil.rmtree(self.temp_dir)

    def run_2to3_capture(self, args, in_capture, out_capture, err_capture):
        save_stdin = sys.stdin
        save_stdout = sys.stdout
        save_stderr = sys.stderr
        sys.stdin = in_capture
        sys.stdout = out_capture
        sys.stderr = err_capture
        try:
            return main.main("lib2to3.fixes", args)
        finally:
            sys.stdin = save_stdin
            sys.stdout = save_stdout
            sys.stderr = save_stderr

    def test_unencodable_diff(self):
        input_stream = StringIO.StringIO(u"print 'nothing'\nprint u'über'\n")
        out = StringIO.StringIO()
        out_enc = codecs.getwriter("ascii")(out)
        err = StringIO.StringIO()
        ret = self.run_2to3_capture(["-"], input_stream, out_enc, err)
        self.assertEqual(ret, 0)
        output = out.getvalue()
        self.assertTrue("-print 'nothing'" in output)
        self.assertTrue("WARNING: couldn't encode <stdin>'s diff for "
                        "your terminal" in err.getvalue())

    def setup_test_source_trees(self):
        """Setup a test source tree and output destination tree."""
        self.temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()  # tearDown() cleans this up.

        # Make the directory names unicode, in case the temporary directory has
        # a non-ascii name, since refactor.py uses unicode strings internally.
        # (Added for Jython but is test failure in CPython 2.7.13 too.)
        self.temp_dir = self.temp_dir.decode(sys.getfilesystemencoding())

        self.py2_src_dir = os.path.join(self.temp_dir, "python2_project")
        self.py3_dest_dir = os.path.join(self.temp_dir, "python3_project")
        os.mkdir(self.py2_src_dir)
        os.mkdir(self.py3_dest_dir)
        # Turn it into a package with a few files.
        self.setup_files = []
        open(os.path.join(self.py2_src_dir, "__init__.py"), "w").close()
        self.setup_files.append("__init__.py")
        shutil.copy(PY2_TEST_MODULE, self.py2_src_dir)
        self.setup_files.append(os.path.basename(PY2_TEST_MODULE))
        self.trivial_py2_file = os.path.join(self.py2_src_dir, "trivial.py")
        self.init_py2_file = os.path.join(self.py2_src_dir, "__init__.py")
        with open(self.trivial_py2_file, "w") as trivial:
            trivial.write("print 'I need a simple conversion.'")
        self.setup_files.append("trivial.py")

    def test_filename_changing_on_output_single_dir(self):
        """2to3 a single directory with a new output dir and suffix."""
        self.setup_test_source_trees()
        out = StringIO.StringIO()
        err = StringIO.StringIO()
        suffix = "TEST"
        ret = self.run_2to3_capture(
                ["-n", "--add-suffix", suffix, "--write-unchanged-files",
                 "--no-diffs", "--output-dir",
                 self.py3_dest_dir, self.py2_src_dir],
                StringIO.StringIO(""), out, err)
        self.assertEqual(ret, 0)
        stderr = err.getvalue()
        self.assertIn(" implies -w.", stderr)
        self.assertIn(
                "Output in %r will mirror the input directory %r layout" % (
                        self.py3_dest_dir, self.py2_src_dir), stderr)
        self.assertEqual(set(name+suffix for name in self.setup_files),
                         set(os.listdir(self.py3_dest_dir)))
        for name in self.setup_files:
            self.assertIn("Writing converted %s to %s" % (
                    os.path.join(self.py2_src_dir, name),
                    os.path.join(self.py3_dest_dir, name+suffix)), stderr)
        sep = re.escape(os.sep)
        self.assertRegexpMatches(
                stderr, r"No changes to .*/__init__\.py".replace("/", sep))
        self.assertNotRegex(
                stderr, r"No changes to .*/trivial\.py".replace("/", sep))

    def test_filename_changing_on_output_two_files(self):
        """2to3 two files in one directory with a new output dir."""
        self.setup_test_source_trees()
        err = StringIO.StringIO()
        py2_files = [self.trivial_py2_file, self.init_py2_file]
        expected_files = set(os.path.basename(name) for name in py2_files)
        ret = self.run_2to3_capture(
                ["-n", "-w", "--write-unchanged-files",
                 "--no-diffs", "--output-dir", self.py3_dest_dir] + py2_files,
                StringIO.StringIO(""), StringIO.StringIO(), err)
        self.assertEqual(ret, 0)
        stderr = err.getvalue()
        self.assertIn(
                "Output in %r will mirror the input directory %r layout" % (
                        self.py3_dest_dir, self.py2_src_dir), stderr)
        self.assertEqual(expected_files, set(os.listdir(self.py3_dest_dir)))

    def test_filename_changing_on_output_single_file(self):
        """2to3 a single file with a new output dir."""
        self.setup_test_source_trees()
        err = StringIO.StringIO()
        ret = self.run_2to3_capture(
                ["-n", "-w", "--no-diffs", "--output-dir", self.py3_dest_dir,
                 self.trivial_py2_file],
                StringIO.StringIO(""), StringIO.StringIO(), err)
        self.assertEqual(ret, 0)
        stderr = err.getvalue()
        self.assertIn(
                "Output in %r will mirror the input directory %r layout" % (
                        self.py3_dest_dir, self.py2_src_dir), stderr)
        self.assertEqual(set([os.path.basename(self.trivial_py2_file)]),
                         set(os.listdir(self.py3_dest_dir)))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main()

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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We each make references that interlocutors don't pick up on. It could be a line from a film, a phrase from a novel, to a character in a video game, a certain album, a television series, etc. In an infinitely expanding universe of references where knowledge is, for all purposes, universal (at least for anyone with an internet connection, which is most of us) and instant (for anyone with a smartphone, which is a majority of us in the first world, and universal before long), the culture of referentiality is possibly the most relevant signifier of social location. By "social location," I mean nothing physical, but rather the indicator of which set of fractally-expanding cultural subsets with which you identify.
Earlier it was simpler. You could be a "jock," a "nerd," or just "normal" — whatever that has ever signified. Now — and accelerating more so (it will only get faster) — cultural identity in interpersonal relations depends increasingly more on instant recall of and familiarity with cultural references. If someone is unaware of what I'm referring to when I mention "4th and 26," "The Drive," "butt fumble," I don't take them quite as seriously as an American football fan. Likewise, "Big Jim" I expect to trigger an instant appreciation of (in my humble opinion the greatest album ever made Blood on the Tracks). The same principles apply to politics, business, theatre, visual art, urban studies, cuisine, and on and on. Identifying friends, lovers, foes and just people one isn't interested in by cultural references isn't a new thing, but as "culture" — defined as broadly as possible — fractalizes increasingly, what does it mean? What will it mean?
The latter question is likely more important as we enter The Age of Universal Knowledge. It's almost dizzying how much information is available and yet how little can be consumed and assimilated in the brain bank already. I'd probably need about 100 years just to catch up on my own libraries of books, music, film, art, cuisine, sports — and even then I'd probably only know a tenth of what I set out to know. And of course that's a biological and social impossibility. To finally get around to whatever point I have (and this post is entitled "Random Thoughts" because these are things I think about and haven't arrived to specific conclusion), I would imagine that our current era — say 1990- — represents the inevitable death of universality as it affects human beings. We may no longer view gender, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, nationality as strict dividing lines among individuals. Ironic that we can achieve universality in those all-too elusive areas throughout human history only to self-segregate on cultural grounds. I think this will continue to have immense ramifications going forward, as the so-called "millenials" like myself take the reins and as technology continues its advance.
~ by Benji on February 5, 2013.


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Cycle Superhighway is scandalous. Carbon copy of killer bike lane coming to Vauxhall Bridge Road
Last summer, a man called Everton Smith was killed cycling along Vauxhall Bridge Road towards Drummond Gate (turning left).
Sergeant Simon Seeley, from the Met's road death investigation unit, said: "Our traffic management unit has advised me that that cycle lane is not of the required width. It is not the proper width for a cycle lane."
Seeley pointed out that: Not only was the 1.2 metre-wide cycle lane below the minimum 1.5 metre width set out in government guidelines, but the adjoining traffic lane was only 2.9 metres wide and went on to point out that the lane was only 40cm wider than the HGV that ploughed into Mr Smith killing him.
So, it's fascinating to see how Transport for London intends to resolve that issue when it redesigns the space as part of its new Victoria to Peckham Cycle Superhighway. Here it is on the left with a before and after shot. And click here to see what the area looks like.
Heading along that same direction now, the plan is that what was a 1.2m cycle lane and 2.9m adjoining lane is now a whopping 3.0m lane, with no bicycle lane. So TfL is proposing to simply make that killer lane narrower and hope that sorts things out.
Look on the other side of the street, heading southbound, and there's a deeply cynical 'wide' lane. It's a 3.9m motor vehicle lane with 1.5m of blue paint in it. In other words, if you're a bicycle, you will be expected to cycle along on the narrow strip of blue paint, which is the narrowest possible width for a bicycle lane. There will be no markings on the blue strip so it's not technically a bike lane, which gets TfL off the hook from this point: The actual motor vehicle lane will be only 2.4metres. That'll be fun when a 2.8m wide HGV is trying to get past you.
Look more closely and you can see just how cynically even that appearance of extra space has been achieved.
Head south again, towards Victoria, Mr or Mrs Cyclist, and you will now be expected to head north by cycling along in a perilous 1.5metre bike lane sandwiched between two traffic lanes, both only 3.0metres wide.
So, TfL have basically wriggled out of one dangerous and killer cycle lane by removing the cycle lane into Drummond Gate entirely. And then they've gone and installed a northbound cycle lane that is only 1.5metres wide and will force cyclists to wobble in between two lanes of fast-moving motor traffic with just 3.0 metres to play with, 10cm more than the killer lane that resulted in the death of Everton Smith.
Let's just remind ourselves what these killer middle of the road cycle lanes look like:
To the right is an image of Blackfriars Bridge heading northbound. This is the design that was in place until 2006. Two people were killed in this very cycle lane over a 14 month period.
Guess how wide this cycle lane was? 1.7metres. In other words, two people were killed in a cycle lane that ran down the middle of two fast-moving motor vehicle lanes. That lane was wider than the one TfL is planning to install on Vauxhall Bridge Road directly next to the spot where another cyclist was killed by a too-narrow cycle lane.
It's utterly scandalous.
TfL is refusing to allocate road space to cycling. It is borrowing space from one side of the street to make the southbound side safer after a cyclist was killed there last year. It is then implementing an entirely insane cycle scheme heading northbound that directly mimics a scheme where two cyclists were killed. The cycle lane is too narrow. The motor vehicle lanes are too narrow. The motor vehicle speeds are too fast. I wouldn't cycle my niece down this. Would you?
TfL is laying out Cycle SuperHighways that bluntly refuse to allocate space to cycling. To me, this is a deeply cynical and flawed compromise that shoves two fingers up at cyclists.
What TfL should be doing is removing a lane and creating enough space for people to cycle here in safety. Instead, it is creating the illusion of bicycle facilities while protecting space and speed for motor vehicles. An illusion that we know is deathly.
Thanks TfL. As the Londonist article stated a few weeks ago: Please stop trying to kill me!
If you think this plan looks rubbish, then send your thoughts to
enquire@tfl.gov.uk
Utterly utterly unbelievable that they could even propose to install a cycle lane configuration on the south side of the bridge that has been a proven and high-profile killer on another of the bridges in their control. Aside from you, who monitors their design? It is clear that there are no lessons being learned. Scandalous as you say.
Couldn't they just remove a lane of traffic in either direction? Seems obvious. Then there'd be room for people in cars and people in bikes.
citydreams 7 April 2011 at 20:56
I thought you might like this picture for your blog (see attached) showing the cycle lane on Vauxhall Bridge Road heading south.
As you can see, the cycle lane has faded to the point of being invisible to motorists and is being conveniently ignored by TfL..
Val Shawcross has taken this issue up with TfL on my behalf as I am concerned that nothing will be done to reinstate it ahead of the October 2013 go-live date of the super highway.
This lane is horrendous at rush hour but the proposal for CS5 makes matters worse. The bike lane is currently 1.5m, the adjacent lane of traffic is 2.9m, making 4.4m in total. The proposed design changes this to a single lane of 4m to be 'shared' by cyclists, HGVs and buses. What makes this design even more dangerous is that as the lanes of traffic feed into the lanes approaching the bridge (i.e after crossing John Islip Street) the width of these lanes change quite abruptly. The nearside shared lane drops from 4m to 3.5m. But the far-side lane inexplicably increases from 3.1m to 3.7m (only to drop down to 3.4m within 50 yards).
This section could be improved by removing the central reservation - which is what TfL are proposing to do elsewhere, for example on Euston circus.
Crossing onto the bridge itself these three lanes then merge into two. Given that the cycle highways are advisory (there's not even a continuous coating of blue paint along the length of the bridge) it's not hard to envisage cyclists being pushed into the kerb whilst motor vehicles speed onto the next set of traffic lights, enjoying the extra width afforded to them . The lanes on the bridge are currently 2.5m and 2.9m. The proposal changes this to 3m and 3.4m. Why do motor vehicles need this extra width? Why aren't they both the same width? What is equally baffling is that the 3.4m lane is actually wider than the bus lane.
I firmly believe that we need a blanket 20mph limit on the Thames crossings in central London and I urge London Cyclists to take this issue as seriously as it is doing with its HGV campaign.
There is an FOI in with TfL at the moment (http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/report_considering_the_benefits) which is due on 14th April:
"Dear Transport for London,
In December 2008, the London Road Safety Unit published a report
'considering the benefits and feasability of implementing a 20mph
speed limit on London's Bridges'
The study found that the 85%ile speeds were well in excess of the
30mph speed limit and, as a result, that the number of road
accidents on the Thames Crossings were higher on average than
elsewhere on TfL roads.
The report concluded that the speed limit on the four Thames
bridges (Putney, Vauxhall, London and Westminster) should be made
20mph and fitted with time-distance cameras to enforce the lower
speed limit and that this should go hand in hand with a suitable
stakeholder communication and public information campaign.
Can you please confirm that this report was read by the Mayor. What
decision was made as a result? Please provide copies of any emails,
minutes or other records of conversation that arose relating to
this report.
Can you please provide any monitoring data that has been collected
to measure speeds on these river corssings since this report was
written.
Can you please summarise any STATS19 data that has been collected
for accidents occuring at these river crossings since this report
was written."
christhebull 7 April 2011 at 21:50
Ah, but TfL aren't quite as stupid as you think. They realise that a 1.5 metre wide cycle lane next to a 2.5 metre wide traffic lane is inadequate for the southbound carriageway, therefore the plan merely shows a 1.5 metre wide blue stripe within a 4 metre wide traffic lane. Legally it's nothing more than a coloured strip of tarmac.
Looking at the plans, the total width of Vauxhall Bridge Road between property boundaries is about 28 metres. This is certainly wide enough for 2.5 metre wide cycle paths in each direction, but that would mean reducing the number of traffic lanes, something TfL won't do due to their "Network Assurance"...
"Couldn't they just remove a lane of traffic in either direction?"
They'd only need to remove one lane of traffic - i.e. 3m of road width - to allocate an extra 1.5m of space to each 'cycle lane', i.e. creating two cycle lanes that would be nearly 3m wide, one in each direction.
The fact that TfL seem to view this as an utter impossibility speaks volumes. They are so wedded to keeping the current allocation of road space for motor vehicles, they have actually made the site of a cyclist's death more dangerous for cyclists.
Disgraceful.
"Last summer, a man called Everton Smith was killed cycling along Vauxhall Bridge Road south towards Vauxhall Bridge."
On a point of information, I thought (and I could be wrong) that Everton Smith was cycling northbound, and was left-hooked by an overtaking vehicle turning left into Drummond Gate.
ibikelondon 8 April 2011 at 09:05
Someone at the TfL design department really needs to update their planning skills (or get the sack)
Is this what we get when we're a so-called cycling city? The bridges are so important because of the hour-glass effect they have on traffic - you get tonnes of cyclists on all of them.
This makes my blood boil!
@aseasyasridingabike - ooops. I thought it was northbound. I'll double check
ndru 8 April 2011 at 11:37
I would suggest another email campaign. It's great you are keeping track of those things. I feel that they either should make the CSs great or don't bother at all. What's the point of having 12 substandard pieces of "infrastructure" if for this money you could have an excellent one where it really matter.
Dave 9 April 2011 at 11:40
Lets claim a third of the road! a simple and obvious campaigning point... if cyclists are a third of the flow over bridges in the existing miserable road conditions then its only fair to remove the third motorists lane lane to make safe and convenient conditions for cycling.
No more emails no more petitions, TFL are now proposing plans that will kill cyclists, enough is enough! especilally looking at how shockingly crap and substandard CS8 is as well.
Dave 10 April 2011 at 14:34
from here: http://crapwalthamforest.blogspot.com/2011/04/camdens-death-junction-tfl-continues-to.html
"The time has surely come to start applying some pressure to TfL with a cyclists' protest outside the appropriate TfL office. A ten minute sit-down in the road outside, one weekday lunchtime? Bring the traffic to a halt. Get the media along. The message need not be a particularly contentious one, because surely everyone agrees that cyclists need to be treated as equals not inferiors. There's nothing wrong with sending an email but this kind of thing keeps dissatisfaction within a very narrow section of the cycling community. We need consciousness-raising publicity stunts as well as using the conventional channels. And those stunts are going to have come from the Critical Mass end of the London cycling spectrum, because they'll never come from the timid world of orthodox cycle campaigning."
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Ledyard High School » Athletics » Ledyard Athletic Booster Club » By-Laws
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By-Laws Revised June 13, 2016
(Incorporating by-law changes of April 4, 1988, June 12, 1989, October 11, 1990, December 14, 1998, December 11, 2000 and June 13, 2016).
The name of the club is THE LEDYARD ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB.
ARTICLE II: PURPOSE
The purpose of the club is to aid and sustain community spirit in Ledyard High School sports and associated sports activities through project and community action. In no instance will this organization conduct any program not approved by the controlling authority of the activity for which the club would like to perform a service. The organization will not exert pressure by way of petition, advertisement, political action or any other method that would interfere with school or town activities.
ARTICLE III: MEMBERSHIP
Section 1: Membership to the club is open to any person wishing to join.
Section 2: Membership dues will be $20.00. The membership will run one full year from September 1 to August 31, regardless of when the member joined. The membership committee will offer multiple year membership packages that include incentives. Records and billing will be maintained by the membership committee appointed by the President. Membership report will be given at the monthly meeting.
ARTICLE IV: OFFICERS
Section 1: The officers of the club will be the President, 1st Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer.
Section 2: All officers will be elected by secret ballot or open ballot as decided by the members present at the annual meeting in December. Officers will hold office for one year beginning in January.
Section 3: An officer may hold office for more than one term.
Section 4: All nominations for office must be submitted to the Board of Directors at least one month in advance of the election. The slate of offices will be presented and voted on at the annual December meeting.
Section 5: Any officer may be removed from office by a two-thirds vote of the members present, provided all members are notified by mail no less than two weeks prior to a regular meeting at which time this action will be taken.
Section 6: Duties of the officers:
THE PRESIDENT: Shall be the chief executive officer of the club. He/She shall preside at all meetings of the club. He/She shall perform all such duties pertaining to the office.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Shall perform the duties of the President in the absence of or by the request of the President. He/She shall be the executive officer for establishing and maintaining a liaison for each sport.
THE SECRETARY: Shall have charge of the archives of the club. He/She shall attend to the proper publication of the official notices and reports, attest documents, and perform other duties pertaining to the office.
THE TREASURER: Shall have charge of the books of the accounts of the club. He/She shall cause the books of the club to be audited by at least two members of the Board of Directors, as appointed by the President annually, and report the findings at the annual meeting. All monies payable to the club shall be deposited to its credit and shall be drawn on checks signed by the treasurer or by means of the club Bank Debit Card. No expenses over $250.00 will be incurred without the approval of the majority of members present at a regular meeting with the exception of purchases for souvenirs and concession stand supplies.
ARTICLE V: BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Section 1: The Board of Directors shall make recommendations about the affairs of the club, subject to the approval of the members present at a regular meeting. Board members will audit the treasurer's books annually.
Section 2: The Board shall consist of up to five members and all elected officers.
Section 3: Directors will be elected for a term of one year by a majority vote of the membership present at the annual meeting.
Section 4: Regular or special meeting of the Board will be held at such time or places as determined by the Board. At these meetings any business as may properly come before the Board shall be transacted. A quorum is required to convene a meeting.
Section 5: Three-fifths of the Board constitutes a quorum.
ARTICLE VI: VOTING
Section 1: Quorum at a regular meeting will consist of at least 4 members not including the President.
Section 2: An issue is considered passed when approved by a majority of the members present.
Section 3: In the event of a tie on an issue called to vote, the President will have the deciding vote.
Section 4: The Board shall have the right to overturn any action taken on any expenditure in excess of $500.00 previously voted upon at a General Meeting. This action shall require a three-fifths quorum of the Board of Directors and must be done within two weeks after the expenditure was initially voted upon.
ARTICLE VII: ANNUAL MEETING, REGULAR MEETINGS AND ELECTIONS
Section 1: An annual meeting will take place at the December meeting.
Section 2: Elections will take place at the annual meeting.
Section 3: Nominations can be made from the floor for membership to the Board of Directors or an officer position.
Section 4: The Board of Directors shall select a slate of officers prior to the annual meeting. The committee will present the slate and floor nominations to the membership for approval and vote.
ARTICLE VIII: SCHOLARSHIPS
Section 1: Annually, the club will award 2 scholarships to varsity level athletes whom have fulfilled the scholarship qualifications.
Section 2: Each year, prior to graduation, one senior class male and one senior class female student athlete will be chosen to receive a $1000 scholarship.
Section 3: Scholarship selection will be made by the Officers and Board of Directors with assistance of school officials, where applicable.
Section 4: There will be 2 scholarship selection committees established each year, one for the male scholarship applications and one for the female scholarship applications. Officers and Board members may serve on both committees.
Section 5: Any Board member with a student being considered will be ineligible to serve on that specific selection committee.
Section 6: Final selection must be decided by a majority vote by the Officers and the Board of Directors.
ARTICLE IX: AWARDS
Section 1: The club will sponsor the LABC Award for each Team Sport.
Section 2: The LABC Award shall recognize one student athlete per sport that exhibits sportsmanship on and off the field and high motivation and achievement in the classroom, on the practice field and in competition.
Section 3: The LABC Award recipient will be selected by the Head Coach for each sport.
ARTICLE X: Team Support
Section 1: The club will support the Athletic Department and Team Coaches by funding portions of uniforms, equipment, Team Patches and Banners for ECC and State Championships.
Section 2: Each request for funding support will be voted on by the Officers and Board Members on a case by case basis.
ARTICLE XI: AMENDMENTS
Section 1: This constitution may be amended at a regular meeting by a two-thirds vote of the members present.
Section 2: Amendments must be presented in writing at a regular meeting for consideration. Voting on amendments will be at the next regularly scheduled meeting.
Section 3: When passed, amendments will become effective immediately.
ARTICLE XII: GOVERNING
Section 1: In the absence of any other governing rule as set forth above, Robert's Rules of Order will be the controlling set of rules.
Revision approved and effective June 13, 2016.


From time to time we are able to pass on some fabulous reductions to you - and here they are! We regularly update our Sale page with new goodies - from ex-display showroom pieces to sample items, or just because we're feeling generous and want to share the love!
"This is where we tuck all those cheeky bargains that you'd hoped to find on our website! Happy hunting, and do feel free to call if you'd like to ask about any of them."
From time to time we are able to pass on some fabulous reductions to you - and here they are! We frequently update our Sale page with new goodies, so visit regularly to get first dibs.
We are huge fans of French style and French furniture, and we're always changing and refreshing our show rooms so that we can photograph our new pieces of French style Furniture, or simply so we can give our visitors to the showroom a chance to view a greater variety within our space (we stock nearly 1000 pieces from French mirrors to French beds and try to display as many items as possible).
Sale items are a chance for us to offer pieces that will be cherished and loved, and at the same time keeping your bank manager happy! So everyone can enjoy a bit of sassy French style in their boudoir.


Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is a serious intestinal inflammatory disease involving bacterial invasion and systemic infection that predominantly, although not exclusively, affects preterm neonates. There are recent data from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD, UK), which suggest that there is delay in surgical intervention in approximately 9% of the cases highlighting the difficulties in decision making with respect to surgical intervention. The report has recommended collection of data nationally to facilitate both medical and surgical management of NEC. The Neonatal Data Analysis Unit is currently undertaking a national epidemiological study of NEC, using data from the National Neonatal Collaborative. This study does not include specific information about infants undergoing surgery which would allow the issues raised by NCEPOD to be addressed. The British Association of Paediatric Surgeons is well placed to undertake a UK national study through the already established BAPS- CASS system. This study will investigate surgical management and one-year outcomes.
Allin B, Long A-M, Gupta A, Knight M, Lakhoo K. A UK wide cohort study describing management and outcomes for infants with surgical Necrotising Enterocolitis. Sci Rep. [Article]. 2017;7:41149.
Allin B, Long A-M, Gupta A, Knight M, Lakhoo K. Corrigendum: A UK wide cohort study describing management and outcomes for infants with surgical Necrotising Enterocolitis. [Corrigendum]. 2017;7:46876.
Allin BSR, Long A-M, Gupta A, Lakhoo K, Knight M. One-year outcomes following surgery for necrotising enterocolitis: a UK-wide cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition. [10.1136/archdischild-2017-313113]. 2018;103(5):F461-F6.