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Yesterday, HudsonValley360 reviewed 2017 in an editorial: "From Hillary to 'Alice,' 2017 was a wild and crazy year." Among the many notable events of the year mentioned in the piece was this: "The Hudson Common Council created more voter-equitable ward boundaries in a historic redistricting project." In fact, although impacting the aldermen as well as the supervisors, the Council had nothing to do with it. The redistricting was accomplished by a referendum initiated by a group made up mostly of private citizens.
Assuming the retrospection published in the Hudson Evening Register on December 29 and 31, 1917, is generally correct in its account of events, we continue our review of the review, begun on Friday, selecting the most interesting in the lists for each month.
Here are Gossips' picks for interesting things that happened between April and November 1917.
April 1--"H" company, 71st regiment, of New York city, arrived in Hudson to guard N.Y.C. property.
April 14--"F" company returned from Orange county and escorted to armory by hundreds of persons.
April 16--Strike on at "H" branch of the Union mill.
May 4--Jeremiah R. Coffey killed by a fall off a scaffold at Atlas cement plant.
May 12--A $10,000 fire occurred at the Atlas Building & Material company's plant in Greenport.
May 14--Knights of Columbus made big hit on opening night with their minstrel show in the Playhouse.
May 23--Sixty-seventh anniversary of A.M.E. Zion church celebrated.
June 1--First circus of season in town, it being Richard's show.
June 11--Benedict Gifford, captain of Hudson Home Depot unit, announced names of many Hudsonians who had joined.
June 12--Common Council appropriated $5,200 for improving State and Chapel streets.
June 20--Police began taking census of dogs in Hudson.
June 24--Mary Howe, William R. Conine, Angela Eigo and Philip Broll comprised the graduating class of St. Mary's Academy.
June 25--Katherine Stinson, 19-year-old aviatrix, passed Hudson on trip from Buffalo to Washington in the interest of the Red Cross.
June 26--Thirty-two graduates, the largest number in the history of Hudson High school, received diplomas at the Playhouse.
July 6--Police Commission decided to have two motor policemen.
July 10--Playground for Hudson children opened with 200 little ones present.
July 16--Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel celebrated by local Italians with fireworks and band concert.
July 31--At 3 o'clock the official thermometer at Athens registered at 96 degrees above zero, three degrees lower than that time yesterday.
August 2--Largest gas generator constructed in the world sent from Gifford-Wood shop for the United States Aviation department; Hudson and vicinity visited by severe electrical storm.
August 19--Katherine Stinson passed part of the day in Athens, as her airship failed to operate properly in a contemplated flight to Sheepshead Bay.
August 21--Daughters of Columbia county started fund to buy an ambulance to be used in France.
August 23--Supervisors empowered committee to secure options on land for tuberculosis hospital in Columbia county.
August 26--Traffic Officers Connor and McNamara, of Hudson police force, made thirteen arrests.
August 27--Boy ran away with about $200 given him by Assessor Frank McDonald to deposit in a Hudson bank.
August 31--Henry Smith . . . smothered to death in bin at Knickerbocker cement plant.
September 1--Gifford-Wood Co. admitted it was considering enlarging its plant.
Sept. 5--Registration in public schools of Hudson totaled 1,557, St. Mary's academy, 355; Theodore Roosevelt spoke at the Chatham fair.
Sept. 10--Much damage in Columbia county was caused by the frost.
Sept. 14--Wildcats reported on Mount Merino.
Sept. 29--Register announced that candidates for an office in Columbia county or Hudson may not be assured of their election or defeat until December 18, because of the soldier vote.
October 2--The Worth House changed hands, Charles B. Miller taking it over from his brother, Harry C. Miller, who was connected with it since 1875.
Oct. 3--Smallest deep-water boat in the world arrived at Hudson dock in charge of skipper Drake.
Oct. 18--Big suffrage mass meeting in the city hall here, at which Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Laidlaw and Judge McNamee spoke.
Oct. 26--Aviator dropped bombs upon Hudson, but missiles were filled with Liberty loan literature.
Nov. 9--Register learned that New York Telephone company contemplated making improvements to its system in Hudson, costing nearly $40,000.
And so we end our highlights of the Evening Register's review of 1917 in Hudson.
As we have already noted, a hundred years ago, Hudson was experiencing brutally cold temperatures, just as we are today. It's received wisdom that letting cold water drip from faucets can help prevent pipes in your house from freezing. It's the same today as it was a hundred years ago, but back then, the practice in Hudson had disturbing consequences.
It will take more research than I am able now to devote to the task to discover what the "old pumping apparatuses" were in 1917, but I hope our current water supply is adequate to tolerate the dripping faucets of people who fear their pipes might freeze. In the interest of conservation, those folks may want to capture that dripping water and put it to some use.
I started this series months ago with the aim of scouring newspapers from a hundred years ago to find and share articles that provided insight into what life was like on the home front--specifically in Hudson--during World War I. On April 5, the day before the United States declared war, I shared the account of how C. H. Frese, a German-born naturalized citizen who owned a delicatessen at 421 Warren Street, was being harassed for allegedly having "radically pro-German" views. Somewhat related is this news item discovered in the Hudson Evening Register for December 29, 1917.
I found George Stubits in the census records for 1920 and learned that he had been born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, as were his mother and father; German was his native language; he had immigrated to the United States in 1910, when he was 15; he was an alien; and he worked as a packer at the cement works, presumably Atlas Cement Company. During World War I, aliens--non-citizens--were required to register for the draft although they were not subject to induction into military service.
The newspaper says Stubits lived at 15 Power Avenue, but the census records indicate that in 1920 he was a lodger in the home of Stephen and Katie Lakics at 16 Power Avenue. The picture below, from the Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey, shows 16 Power Avenue before it and the rest of the houses in the part of Hudson known as Simpsonville were demolished in the 1970s.
It may seem remarkable to us today, but in 1920, nine people lived in this house: Stephen and Katie Lakics, their three children, ages 8, 4, and 1, and four men who were lodgers. Except for the children, who were born in the United States, all were immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The census lists Stephen Lakics' occupation as "fireman" at the cement works. Three of the four lodgers were also employed at the cement works. The fourth lodger was a laborer in a textile mill.
As some of you may have already noticed, Park Falafel & Pizza is closed--perhaps for the winter season, perhaps forever.
Earlier this week, Brian Herman, the owner of Park Falafel, told Gossips that the restaurant would be closed for the season, but today on Facebook Herman made the following statement, which he agreed to let me share with a broader audience:
When I founded PFP over seven years ago, my concept was a place with healthy, affordable, and tasty food. The thought was that Hudson and Columbia County was ready to support such a concept. Running the business totally "on the books," paying fair wages and trying to provide a good work environment has become financially unsustainable. Because of my other obligations, I could not run the restaurant myself and I found out that no matter how good a staff we had, it could not stay afloat without continued owner-presence. Closing the place was a very hard decision--I know it is a loss for our city, our customers and our devoted employees. But the financial cost to keep it open became too much to bear. We are now reviewing our options, hoping to find a way to reopen and continue our goals. Anyone with the interest and ability to keep PFP open, I would be appreciative to hear your thoughts. Thank you everyone for your support and love. It is greatly appreciated. I wish everyone a happy and healthy new year and I hope Park can return better and stronger than ever in the new year.
Gossips shares the hope that Park Falafel & Pizza will return in the new year.
The Register-Star today has an interview by Amanda Purcell with our mayor as she prepares to leave office: "An exit interview with Mayor Tiffany Martin Hamilton."
Thank you, Mayor Hamilton for taking on a difficult task, devoting two years of your life to Hudson, and moving our city forward!
Gossips just got word from City Treasurer Heather Campbell that the online system for prepaying 2018 property taxes is working again! To pay your taxes online, go to the City of Hudson website--cityofhudson.org--and click on the link to the online system found on the home page.
On December 29, 1917, the Hudson Evening Register began its retrospection on the year coming to an end, and so today, a hundred years later, Gossips shares those musings with you.
Within a few days 1917 will have passed to the land of Never Return, but not into oblivion. It is doubtful if 1918 will bring forth more startling events or things of a greater magnitude than those which occurred during the old year.
Numerous developments during 1917 in Columbia county were unprecedented as a result of the great world conflict. Strange things, more wonderful than can be imagined, actually happen in a short period of time's progress, and to-night about 600 Columbia county young men are awaiting orders to go into the trenches or to assist in the battle for democracy, though less than a year ago they were enjoying the environments of home life. Who knows what 1918 has in store for them? Who knows how many more will be away from home a year from to-night? What the future has in store for residents of Columbia county is a matter for conjecture.
Prominent persons answered the call of father time; there were unusual developments in industrial activities; economical measures of considerable merit have been adopted; great projects have sprung up and received splendid support, and various other unexpected things happened--whilst 1917 reigned.
Throughout the old year a wave of prosperity was experienced, hampered only by a scarcity of help and somewhat by a shortage of fuel. During the last twelve months hundreds of persons cultivated the thrift habit and became more economical than they were during the preceding year.
What followed this preamble was a month-by-month list of noteworthy events that occurred during 1917. The lists for January, February, and March were published on Saturday, December 29, with the promise that the review would continue on Monday, December 31. (The Register wasn't published on Sunday.) Gossips will recount just a few of the items considered noteworthy in 1917.
January 7--Justice Chester holds that no nuisance existed at Atlas cement plant and awarded $5,000 for damage incurred by Frank Shults.
We include this for a few reasons. First, according to the Evening Register's own report, the judgment was handed down on January 6, 1917, not January 7. Also, when the lawsuit was initiated in November 1916 and when the ruling was made, the cement company was known as New York & New England Cement and Lime Company; at the end of 1917, it is Atlas Cement. It's also interesting how the judgment was summarized. Mabel Hoffman and Frank Shults sued for damages to their late mother's house and farm caused by the cement company and sought an injunction against the cement company "to restrain any operation of the cement company that might cause any further dust to come on the plaintiffs' property." They were awarded $5,000 in damages, but there was no injunction.
February 5--Hudson in the grip of season's worst storm.
February 26--X-Ray machine installed in Hudson hospital.
February 27--Potatoes boycotted because of high prices.
March 2--Motion pictures of ice cutting methods taken on Underhill pond under direction of Gifford Wood Company.
March 23--Ice was moving in the Hudson River.
March 28--Frederick Riley, Herman Coon and Harry Requa, of Athens, drowned in the Hudson river.
Gossips' recounting of this 1917 retrospection will continue on December 31.
Gossips has learned that the demand to prepay 2018 property taxes in Hudson has overwhelmed the online payment system; requests for processing payments have already exceeded the daily limit. There are still two more days to pay online, but if you don't want to take any chances, this seems to be the advice to follow: Use the online system to print out your 2018 tax bill and take it to the Bank of Greene County, 21 North Seventh Street, before 3:00 p.m., where they will accept payment. You can access the online payment system from the home page of the City of Hudson website.
On the subject of prepaying 2018 property taxes, Mayor Tiffany Martin Hamilton just issued the following statement:
The City of Hudson is aware of and working to resolve the problem with our online payment capabilities. The city WILL ACCEPT POSTMARKS. Print the page showing your filled cart from the online payment site, include it with your check made out to the City of Hudson, make sure the envelope is postmarked by the post office in 2017, and mail to 520 Warren Street, Hudson NY 12534.
We apologize for the inconvenience and are making every effort to restore online payment capabilities. Please direct any question to the City Treasurer's Office at (518) 828-0212.
It was 4 degrees when Joey and I ventured out on our morning walk at 9 a.m. The item below, which appeared on the front page of the Hudson Evening Register for December 29, 1917, indicates that Hudson was suffering the same--even worse--bitter cold temperatures a hundred years ago.
Of interest, apropos the final paragraph, the first known use of the term windchill was in 1939, around the time polar scientists working in the Antarctic were developing formulas to calculate the effect of wind on lowering temperature. Those formulas and charts started being used by the National Weather Service in the 1970s.
Just to be clear, Gossips notes the similar weather conditions in 1917 and 2017 as a curiosity, not to provide support to climate change deniers.
The waterfront is the focus of Hudson's Downtown Revitalization Initiative. In the context of that ongoing process, it seems fitting to share this photograph, from the Evelyn and Robert Monthie Slide Collection at the Columbia County Historical Society, of the Hudson waterfront, that part of it which is now the state boat launch, as it was in May 1967. (Click on the image to enlarge it.)
The caption beneath the picture reads:
SCHEDULED FOR CHANGE--This section of the city's waterfront, as seen from Promenade Hill, is expected to change considerably in the weeks ahead. The brick structure at the left, presently the DPW garage, and the remaining fishing shacks and docking facilities will be razed to make way for the long awaited Hudson Boat Launch Site. The large structure at the water's edge is the Hudson Power Boat Association, which will remain intact. Assemblyman Clarence D. Lane said a call for bids will be issued in two weeks with actual construction getting underway in six weeks. The Assemblyman said the launch site will be built at a cost in excess of the former $130,000 proposed and will be one of the more elaborate launch sites in New York State.
When the new boat launch was dedicated more than a year later in August 1968, Mayor Samuel Wheeler reportedly declared that he wanted "fishing facilities" to be created at the site.
Fifty years later, the public pier, one of the proposed DRI projects, may finally fulfill Wheeler's desire for fishing facilities at the waterfront.
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This afternoon, WAMC's Dave Lucas reported on the proposal to incinerate trash from Connecticut in the cement kiln at LafargeHolcim in Ravena. That report can be heard here.
There was a press conference yesterday in Coeymans about the proposal to incinerate tons of trash from seventy towns in Connecticut at the LafargeHolcim plant in Ravena. What happened at that press conference was reported both by Columbia-Greene Media--"Officials, advocates give vehement thumbs down to trash plan"--and by the Albany Times Union--"Opponents cheer the demise of the proposed cement kiln garbage incineration plan."
One interesting revelation at the press conference was made by Judith Enck, former EPA Regional Administrator, who is quoted in the Columbia-Greene Media article as saying, "This [project] went through two levels of approval in Connecticut." She called on LafargeHolcim to send a letter to the State of Connecticut officially withdrawing from the process and to make a "clear, written commitment that they would never burn solid waste at the cement kiln."
Yesterday, the IRS issued a statement about prepaying property taxes which indicated that people could deduct 2018 property taxes prepaid in 2017 only if the 2018 taxes have already been assessed. To quote from the document, "A prepayment of anticipated real property taxes that have not been assessed prior to 2018 are not deductible in 2017." There was an article in the New York Times yesterday based on that statement from the IRS: "Prepaying Your Property Taxes? I.R.S. Cautions It Might Not Pay Off."
The good news for property owners in Hudson is that the tax bills for the four quarters of 2018 were ready to go out on December 31, 2017. For the past few days, the city treasurer's office has been scrambling to move that up a few days to enable 2018 payments to be made online, beginning tomorrow morning, Friday, December 29, until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, December 31, by clicking here.
Gossips was been advised that, owing to system limitations, the treasurer's office will not be able to accept cash or check payments, but the staff there will be ready, willing, and able to assist taxpayers with making payments online. There will be a flat fee of $2.50 for an echeck or a calculated percent charge based on the amount due if using a credit card.
Here's additional information on prepaying your 2018 property taxes from City Treasurer Heather Campbell:
The City understands the potential negative financial impacts to property owners of the tax reform bill signed into effect by President Trump last Friday, and we are making every effort to provide relief in the form of 2018 property tax prepayments.
The City is reissuing the warrant for 12/28/2017, so the tax bill will be able to be paid online on Friday 12/29/2017 at http://www.xpress-pay.com/billSelect.asp.
Search for the bill by your name, find all four quarters (assuming you want to pay the entire year) and put all four quarterly installments in your shopping basket to pay. There will be a flat fee of $2.50 for an echeck, or a calculated percent charge based on the amount due if using a credit card.
If you have any other questions, please contact my office at (518) 828-0212. We will do our best in this short time to assist you and all taxpayers in filing.
Mayor Tiffany Martin Hamilton just released the following statement:
In response to the Executive Order issued by Governor Cuomo on December 22, the City of Hudson will be issuing a new tax warrant dated tomorrow, December 28, 2017, for 2018 property taxes. While timing is extremely short, and we have not worked out all of the logistics, we will begin accepting payments on Friday, December 29. Anyone wishing to prepay 2018 property taxes (with the exception of school taxes) can do so in person at the City Treasurer's office from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 29, or online between 8:30 a.m. Friday and 11:59 p.m. Sunday, December 31. The online payment system can be accessed by clicking here.
The City understands the potential negative financial impacts to property owners of the tax reform bill signed into effect by President Trump last Friday, and we are making every effort to provide relief in the form of 2018 property tax prepayments. Please direct any quetions to the City Treasurer's office at (518) 828-0212.
The recently adopted new tax law includes a $10,000 cap on the amount of state and local taxes--property taxes and incomes taxes-- people can deduct on their federal income tax returns.
Brian Nearing, environmental reporter for the Albany Times Union, had in article in yesterday's paper on the situation upriver: "Lafarge denies waste burning in Ravena." Nearing reports that not only is David Fletcher, plant manager for Lafarge in Ravena, denying that such a plan is being pursued, but John Dewey, the CEO for Mustang Renewable Power Ventures, has confirmed that his company is "no longer in discussions with Lafarge about this opportunity."
Meanwhile, it seems, a press conference on the subject in Coeymans this morning is still going forward.
Photo: WAMC
This morning, Gossips reported that Lafarge was denying that the cement plant in Ravena had any plans to incinerate trash from Connecticut. Despite that denial, WAMC has been reporting all day that Capital District leaders are holding a news conference tomorrow morning in the Town of Coeymans: "Official React: CT Garbage to NY Plan." Among the speakers at the press event will be Albany County Executive Dan McCoy and former EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck.
Although DPW crews had to be out on Christmas to plow the snow off the streets, our volunteer firefighters seem to have managed to get through Christmas without being called out into the cold. This was not the case a hundred years ago. The Hudson Evening Register for December 26, 1917, reported that on Christmas night, Rogers Hose, whose firehouse is now American Glory, and Evans Hook & Ladder, whose firehouse is now The Spotty Dog, responded to a chimney fire at the home of Benjamin Probst, Jr.
The state census records for 1915 indicate that Benjamin Probst, Jr., his wife, and five children lived at 305 Union Street.
The Masonic Hall, also known as St. John's Hall, was completed in 1889. The Probst house can be seen in this early photograph of the building, which is now Mid-Hudson Media.
Photo courtesy Historic Hudson
This is how the house, now absent its little gabled portico, looks today.
On December 16, Gossips reported about a proposal to incinerate trash from Connecticut in the cement kiln at the Lafarge plant in Ravena: "Connecticut Garbage in Upstate New York." Three days later, on December 19, Hudson Valley 360 picked up on the story: "Connecticut's trash may be headed for Lafarge." Two days after that, on December 21, WAMC reported the story: "Connecticut May Send Trash to Southern Albany County." Today, December 26, in an ad that appears in the Albany Times Union, David Fletcher. manager of the Lafarge plant in Ravena, denies that there is any such plan in place and asserts that Mustang Renewable Power Ventures named the Lafarge plant as a partner in their proposal without the consent of Lafarge.
Thanks to Virginia Martin to bringing this to our attention
A hundred years ago, on Christmas Eve, the following message appeared on the editorial page of the Hudson Evening Register, beneath an image that, given today's sensibilities, seems quite inappropriate. Both are shared, with an invitation to muse on how our world today is different from the world a hundred years ago.
Merry Christmas to all in 2017, from The Gossips of Rivertown.
Later today, the First Presbyterian Church will celebrate, with a Christmas Eve service, its re-opening after a year of being closed for structural repairs. A hundred years ago, the Baptist Church was celebrating, with a Dedicatory Week of services, the church's re-opening after two years of structural repair and rebuilding. On December 26, 1915, a freakishly fierce blizzard topped the church's steeple. Two years ago, Gossips recalled that disaster, as it was reported in the Hudson Evening Register: "The Destruction of a Steeple." Today, Gossips shares the account of the re-dedication of the church building, now the site of the Rock Solid Church, which appeared in the Evening Register on December 24, 1917.
The first picture below shows the Baptist Church as it appears today. Its steeple can be seen in the historic picture that follows.
The Baptist Church steeple appears at the left in this picture. At the right is the original tower of the First Presbyterian Church, before its expansion and addition of its soaring Gothic steeple in 1877. In the center is the tower of the Methodist Episcopal Church on South Third Street, now the Hudson Youth Center.
In past years, in the days preceding Christmas, Gossips has often featured images, ads, and holiday shopping guides that appeared in the Hudson Evening Register a hundred years before. In 1917, however, with the war being fought in Europe, the attention to Christmas and gift shopping in the newspaper doesn't seem to have been quite so lavish as in previous years. The advertisement below, which appeared in the Evening Register one week before Christmas, caught my attention, because it recommends gifts for the "boys over there."
The "Pictures of Home" advocated in this advertisement were hand-colored photographs. Wallace Nutting (1861-1941), a former Congregational minister, was the best known exponent of the genre. In 1917, Nutting had a studio and home in Framingham, Massachusetts, he called "Nuttingholme," where he employed as many as 200 colorists, working at hand-painting photographs. David Davidson (1881-1967) was one of several photographers who worked with Nutting and went on to establish their own careers.
In an article that appeared several years ago in Antique Trader, Mary Manion provides this information about Nutting and Davidson:
In his day, Wallace Nutting was among the most popular and prolific artists working in America. By his own estimation, millions of his fanciful photos were produced into what became a cottage industry for the man who started out as a preacher. . . .
Nutting is regarded as being the influence behind the early 20th century revival of the American Colonial style. Typical of his interior scenes would be a woman seated by a fireplace, dressed in colonial attire, crafting needlework with the warm fire burning nearby. Cozy and inviting were the prevalent themes in these popular images. Another mark of interest for Nutting was exterior depictions of colonial facades of homes, with a woman and child posing outside the front door, dressed in fine period fashion, welcoming the viewer into their home, and perhaps into the world in a quieter time. . . .
Davidson opened the David Davidson Studio in 1907 in Rhode Island and also produced millions of hand-colored photographs until its closing in the mid-century. Similar to Nutting in style and technical skill, he has been called second only to Nutting.
Both the images accompanying this post are attributed to Wallace Nutting. It's interesting, given that Kodak had introduced the first Brownie camera in 1900, the pictures touted as "the best prevention against homesickness" during the Great War were not snapshots of family and friends but hand-painted photographs meant to evoke colonial America.
At the last Common Council meeting, Ed Cross brought up the auction of foreclosed properties that took place on November 4 when he rebuked the Council for allowing the City to seize 241 Columbia Street, the church building he rented, for nonpayment of property taxes and evict his congregation. The auction had also been a topic of discussion earlier in the evening during the Common Council Finance Committee meeting. The following is reproduced from the agenda for that meeting. According to the chart, the bid on 618 State Street was refused.
After the auction, Gossips reported that the winning bid of $140,000 for 618 State Street had been cast by Jack Connor, who was bidding on behalf of Hudson Collective Realty LLC, yet another Galvan entity. Colin Stair, who had also bid on the house, challenged the legitimacy of Connor's bid because employees of the City of Hudson are prohibited from bidding in foreclosure auctions, and Connor is a city judge. Connor maintained that, as a judge, he was not paid by the City of Hudson and hence was not a City employee, and he was bidding on behalf of someone else.
At the time, Carl Whitbeck, who was conducting the auction for the City, told Stair that the Common Council would have to decide whether or not the bid conformed to the rules governing the auction. The notation "TBD" (to be determined) on the chart distributed at the Finance Committee meeting suggests that the Common Council in the new year will have to decide what happens with the house.
As a point of information, Galvan already owns the building next door to 618 State Street, the original Hudson Orphan Asylum at 620 State Street;
the building immediately behind 618 State Street;
and the building behind 620 State Street, the old garage that was once Canape Motors.
The house at 618 State Street is the missing piece in this square of properties at the corner of State and Seventh streets.
In 2012, Galvan, in collaboration with the Mental Health Association, proposed converting the old orphanage and the old Canape garage into a transitional housing facility with twenty-four studio apartments to be called "Galvan Quarters."
Galvan Quarters never happened, but two years later Galvan was back before the Planning Board with a plan to create ten studio apartments in the old orphanage and to transform the old garage into "a multi-purpose building for educational and community service use." That plan never materialized either, but one wonders what might be in store if Galvan were to own all the buildings on that half block of State Street.
On Tuesday night, the same night the Common Council passed a resolution opposing the construction of a dog park in Charles Williams Park, the Council voted unanimously to enact an amendment to Section 70-4 of the city code "to permit dogs to be present at the Riverfront Park."
Oh, happy day! Joey and I are no longer scofflaws on our morning walks by the river.
On the issue of the dog park, Gossips has learned that Mayor Tiffany Martin Hamilton has vetoed the resolution passed by the Common Council on Tuesday, which Council expressed its opposition to the construction of a dog park at Charles Williams Park and recommended that the Mayor explore "constructing a dog park at another location." If there is the will to override the mayor's veto, it would seem it would have to happen at a special meeting of the Common Council convened in the week between Christmas and New Year's Eve, although that seems unlikely, or be taken up by the new Council in January.
The Register-Star reported today that the Common Council has rejected the plan to build a dog park in Charles Williams Park: "Council says 'no' to dog park at Charles Williams Park." Linda Mussmann on her Facebook page claims "a victory for the Mill Street folks" and thanks the Common Council for their resolution "to nix this idea."
The fact is Common Council approval was not required to build the dog park, because no public money is being used, and the Common Council cannot deny permission to build the park. The original decision to build the dog park at Charles Williams Park was made by Mayor Tiffany Martin Hamilton after two years of looking for an appropriate location. The language of the resolution simply says that the Common Council "wishes to express its opposition to the construction of a dog park at Charles Williams Park" and "recommends that the Mayor explore constructing a dog park at another location."
The resolution, which was one of a slew of resolutions that appeared for the first time at the regular meeting of the Council instead of being introduced at the informal meeting, came as a surprise to everyone except Abdus Miah (Second Ward), who, according to information received, was the instigator of the resolution. Aside from Tiffany Garriga (Second Ward), who offered her old argument that the people in that area lived in apartments and weren't allowed to have pets, and the people who wanted a dog park had backyards and hence didn't need a dog park, only Rick Rector, mayor elect but still alderman for the First Ward, made any comment before the vote was taken. Rector said that it was unfortunate that a conversation with Mill Street residents had not taken place before Charles Williams Park was designated the location for the dog park, but he objected to eliminating Charles Williams Park as a possible site before there was a community conversation about siting the dog park. "The community may select that park," said Rector. Nevertheless, when it came time to vote, Rector along with every other member of the Council, most of whom represent the 135 people who want a dog park and have contributed money to build one, chose to respect the wishes of the nine people who objected to a dog park being built in a public park adjacent to their homes and passed the resolution.
You can witness the entire dog park fiasco, as well as see Robert "Doc" Donahue accept a plaque recognizing his twenty-four years on the Council and hear Ed Cross interrupt outgoing Council president Claudia DeStefano's litany of thanks to rebuke the Council for evicting his congregation and selling his church to the highest bidder (actually there was only one bidder, who bought the property for the minimum bid), by clicking here to watch Dan Udell's video of the meeting.
Just in time for Christmas, the new City of Hudson website launched today at noon. The URL is the same as before--cityofhudson.org--but you must clear your cache before trying to access it. If you don't, you'll probably end up at the old website.
Congratulations to all who made this happen but especially to Branda Maholtz, who carried it over the finish line.


This is the 5th Annual Golf outing hosted by Cure AHC VP Tony Pena in honor of his grandson AHC Champion James (MA, USA).
It all happens Monday, June 24 at the Knoll West Country Club.
Registration and lunch kick off at 11:30 AM.
Shotgun start is 1PM. Tickets are $225 per person covers golf, lunch and dinner.
Dinner & silent auction 6 PM.
There will be prizes, and lots of great updates on how generosity from this event in the past has helped spur the research on!
There are sponsorship opportunities also.
$3,000 for Dinner Sponsor- Includes golf for a team of 4. Signage at the dinner featuring your name/company name. Special recognition before Shotgun Start and at Dinner.
$1,000 Lunch Sponsor- Signage with your name/company name at the luncheon and special recognition before shotgun start.
$500 Beverage Cart Sponsor-Your name/company name on the beverage cart. Special mention at start of event.
$175 Hole Sponsor- Your name/company name displayed in signage at one of the holes on the course.


I've got an Asus A8N-VM-CSM motherboard and the mbmon program doesn't work with the Asus motherboard.
The LM sensors program does work with it so I've got to use that to gather data for the RRD graphs.
The 2nd one is the AMD CPU (commands: Core0 Temp, Core1 Temp).
The program asked if I wanted to add support for these chips to /etc/modules.
I said yes....what the heck.
When I type "sensors | grep "Core0 Temp" | cut -c 15-18", I get a temperature of "26.0", which lines up with the current ambient temperature in the case.
When I type "sensors | grep "Core1 Temp" | cut -c 15-18", I get a temperature of "35.0", which lines up with the current CPU temperature.
Thus, I'm thinking that Core0 is actually the motherboard temp sensor, and Core1 is actually the CPU temperature. It doesn't make sense to me for 1 CPU core to be 26C and the other 35C.
I've edited the /etc/rrd.config file to set the MBT program to be "sensors".
What are those other "MBT variables"? What are they for?
Are they supposed to have numbers or names in the single quotes after the equals sign?
What are they used for in the rrd_MBtemp.pl file?
What is: my? Read something?
What is: ne? Not equal?
What is: ~ s/[\n ]//g ?
I've also edited the stock R5.5 rrd_MBtemp.pl file to remove the $mbt3 variable and change the $mbt1 variable to be the motherboard temp and $mbt2 to be the CPU temp.
Here's the my current rrd_MBtemp.pl file that I edited.
Last edited by neutron68 on Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:58 pm, edited 8 times in total.
I think I can help you straiten out your LM Sensors program but I have never worked with RRD program. With what I have read of your post your sensing chip-set is supported but your motherboard is not. Why don't you start another post called "Setting up LM Sensors" and we can work on that part there.
Thanks for the offer TVBox, but I'm getting valid data from the LM sensors command line. I think that indicates that the LM Sensors part of the process is ok.
The current problem is getting the RRD script to use that data, so I need help figuring out the contents of the rrd.config file and the rrd_MBtemp.pl file.
Guys - monitorix does this natively. I would recommend asking the devs to update the PKG which is in [extra] to the latest version and enjoy it.
My limited search I have did on the Asus A8N-VM-CSM is that no one has submitted a configuration file to LM-Sensors for it and the Asus A8N-VM-CSM is not in the sensors3.conf file. Open up the sensors3.conf file in a text editor and look for Asus A8N-VM-CSM. If you don't find it LM-Sensors is dropping back to a default file for the Winbond w83627ehf sensor chip and in my file it was for a Asus P5P800. Each sensor chip is the same as in they have (Voltage, Temp, Fan Speed) sections but what input in that section is connected to what sensor pin is not and varies per motherboard. If your motherboard has two temperature sensors you have a 50% chance you are reading the wrong one. Labels mean nothing if it was not your motherboard used in the configuration file and then it is questionable because someone may have submitted it with out antiquate testing. On one of my Asus backends my system chip (on board video) runs 10 degC warmer than the CPU all the time. It took me a year before I came to the conclusion that my temps where backwards and with some test confirmed it. Voltages can be all over the place. Some measure North-bridge, Memory and battery voltages but some do not use them so the sequence is off. Fan Speed -- The CPU speed can be the first or the last one in the sequence.
Get a paper and pencil and boot into the bios to the section that list all of the output of the sensor chip and write them down word for word in the same order on the screen. These are the only input connected into the sensor chip. Now type "sensors" into a webmin shell or whatever you use.
Mine all match now after I created a file entry for "Biostar TF7050-M2" with the correct text to support the data output. The original default it8716 sensor chip text was about 70% correct.
Over the years I have set up LM-Sensors on about 10 to 15 (most of them Asus) cutting edge machines and none of them had a 100% correct entry in the sensors3.conf file. You would think there would be constancy within a manufacture like Asus but I have never seen it. This is one of the reasons LM-Sensors gets a bad rap. I know you are trying to get RRD and LM-Sensors communicating but if the data that is being sent two RRD is incorrectly labeled it isn't a useful tool.
I see what you mean - I am missing out on some of the possible data from the w8327ehf.
Of equal importance to me, I want to get the RRD script working so that temperature data can be displayed.
That empty graph is my motivation for seeking RRD and perl script know-how.
Something is wrong in my rrd_MBtemp.pl script, and I don't know enough about RRD or perl to see the problem.
I just noticed something odd about the single quotes in the rrd_MBtemp.pl script quoted above.
There are several types of single quotes!!
Towards the top, there are straight-up-and-down single quotes.
Then later in the gather section, the single quotes slant from the left down to the right!
I don't know how to control which type of single quotes I get when I press the key. I just typed some single quotes in a TTY window (CTRL-ALT-F1) on the KM box, and I got single quotes that slanted from the right down to the left!!
That makes 3 kinds of single quotes now!
Is this significant? Does Linux see the different single quotes differently?
There are only three quote characters in standard ASCII.
0x27 (') - aka "single quote"
Depending on the character set 0x27 may appear more or less slanted. In shell and perl each style of quote has a different meaning.
Double quotes allow expansions or "interpolation" in perl terminology.
Single quotes are the most literal.
Back quotes provide command substitution.
Wow! Changing the angle of the dangle of the single quotes helped fix some of the problems with the rrd.MBtemp.pl script!
I changed to the ~ single quotes for the lines in the gather function.
Now when I run the script from a command line I get valid number data, no error messages!
The last part of the fix was looking through the editing the rrd_MBtemp.pl file and getting all the parenthesis to be in the correct places.
Below is a look at the working files I currently have in the KM R5.5 machine.
I removed the $MBtemp_mobo and similar lines from the rrd.config file because I decided that they were only useful for the "mbmon" command and NOT useful for the "sensors" command.
I removed the lines that didn't make sense to me from the rrd_MBtemp.pl file and it now runs without giving error messages.
At this point, the script runs without errors, and even generates the MBtemp graphs!!!
Post subject: Re: it helped!


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Volume 20, Issue 15 April 19, 2015
"The Advocates leads the way in thinking, methods, and materials for communicating libertarianism to a world that most definitely needs it. Every libertarian activist has benefited from, and owes a debt of gratitude to, the Advocates."
— David Bergland, 1984 Libertarian presidential candidate,
author of Libertarianism In One Lesson
WELCOME to the Liberator Online!
* I'm Retiring!
ACTIVIST AMMUNITION
* New Poll: Millions of Voters Say They're Libertarian
* A "Devil's Dictionary" of Washington-Speak
THEY SAID IT: Oh, the horror! Writer tells what happened after they re-legalized pot in Washington state…. Unbelievable: economist Mark Perry on the millions of hours wasted filling out tax forms…. Shooting the messenger: Ron Paul on the "only American prosecuted and imprisoned in relation to the government's use of torture"…. Journalist calls for imprisoning and silencing so-called climate "deniers"…. Lawrence Vance sums up the libertarian solution to the monstrous War on Drugs….
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by Sharon Harris
I'm Retiring!
For the Advocates, some big changes and celebrations are coming up.
* It's the 30th Anniversary for the Advocates.
* It's my 20th Anniversary as Advocates president.
* And... I will be retiring as Advocates president at the end of the month.
Please note, I am not retiring as an active libertarian. I'm stepping down from the varied and time-consuming job of Advocates president and will be focusing my efforts on the activities I love most: writing and speaking about libertarianism and — my favorite topic — the most effective ways to communicate the ideas of liberty. I will also continue doing communication workshops on this topic — some of them in conjunction with the Advocates.
Being president of the Advocates for Self-Government has been the most wonderful and fulfilling job I could have ever imagined for myself!
It has been an incredible honor for me to follow in the footsteps of the previous two Advocates presidents: Advocates Founder Marshall Fritz and Carole Ann Rand.
They created a fantastic organization that has deeply affected the lives of millions of individuals. The Advocates has enormously increased the size and effectiveness of the libertarian movement, and has introduced tens of millions of people to libertarianism, first and foremost through the amazing World's Smallest Political Quiz — the most popular outreach tool in the libertarian movement.
Of course there is much more to the Advocates than the Quiz. The original mission of the Advocates was to empower libertarians to become excellent and successful communicators of the ideas of liberty. This is a unique and vital contribution the Advocates has made to the movement in our 30 years.
As Advocates president, I've learned about libertarian communication from the best: Marshall, Carole Ann, Michael Cloud, Mary Ruwart, David Bergland, Harry Browne, and many more too numerous to name. We've helped tens of thousands of libertarians become far more persuasive and effective in their outreach. And that has enabled libertarians to successfully win others to our side, helping build a strong and growing movement for liberty.
It has been a joy teaching numerous libertarian communication classes and seminars for libertarian groups in almost every state in America. Last year alone I had the pleasure of speaking on successful communication to over 1,000 libertarians.
I look forward to continuing this — so please contact me when you want a libertarian communication workshop in your area!
I've had the pleasure of meeting and working with some of the finest libertarians in the world — world-famous celebrities and people you may not have heard of who are making our world a freer and better place. What a privilege it has been! (I wouldn't dream of trying to name them all — we'd fill this entire issue up, and still leave deserving people out. Thanks, everyone!)
Similarly, I've had the great pleasure of working with many of the very finest libertarian organizations. I must especially thank the Libertarian Party for the greatest honors of my professional career. The LP has honored me with two of its highest awards. In 2012, I received the Thomas Jefferson Award, "presented to the Libertarian Party member whose achievements merit our recognition of outstanding leadership, high character, and dedication to the principles and goals of the Party." In 2014, I received the LP's Thomas Paine Award for "outstanding communication of libertarian ideas, principles, and values."
But most of all I'd like to thank YOU, my friends who read the Liberator Online, use Advocates tools and services, and support the Advocates' work. You are the true heroes of the Advocates. You are building a successful movement for liberty that is changing our world.
I will miss connecting with you through the Advocates. I hope you will follow my new work and stay in touch with me. You can do this by "liking" me on Facebook — or emailing me. (Please do this right now, while it's on your mind.)
I'd like to congratulate Brett Bittner, the Advocates' new executive director! Brett has an outstanding record as a libertarian activist. He is a former executive director of the Libertarian Party of Georgia and a former president of the Libertarian State Leadership Alliance. He has been working with the Advocates for the past year and will be taking the helm of the organization on May 1. You'll be hearing more from Brett soon.
Finally, please read my President's Column in the next issue. I'll let you know more details about what's ahead — including a special celebration of the Advocates' and my anniversaries to take place in Atlanta on June 27. Hold that date on your calendar, and I hope to see you there!
In liberty,
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New Poll: Millions of Voters Say They're Libertarian
A new poll from YouGov brings exciting and unprecedented news for libertarians.
Asked "Would you describe yourself as a libertarian or not?" fully one in five of likely millennial (ages 18-29) voters said yes — thus self-describing themselves as libertarians.
YouGov found that young Americans are more likely than any other age group to accept the label libertarian — great news for a growing political movement. And there is room for this figure to grow significantly as libertarian ideas spread, because, in addition to the 20% who self-identify as libertarians, another 42% said they were "not sure." Only 39% rejected the label.
Among older voters, 17% of 30- to 44-year-olds, 15% of 45- to 64-year-olds and 9% of those 65 and older say that the word "libertarian" described their views.
More great news: a majority Americans are, broadly, embracing libertarian ideas of limiting government. Fully 51% say they want to shrink the size of government. A whopping 30% of Americans even agree with the radical libertarian statement that "Taxation is theft." (It probably didn't hurt that the poll was conducted April 8-9 — a week before Tax Day.)
But what is most remarkable about the YouGov poll is that it has found so many millions of voters who accept the libertarian "brand" as a label for their political views — something inconceivable just a few years ago.
Nor are these self-described libertarians tied to either of the two older political parties. The libertarian vote is up for grabs to the candidate or party that appeals most to it. Writes YouGov: "There is little difference between partisans when it comes to identifying as libertarians. Republicans (13%) are essentially no more likely than Democrats (12%) to identify as libertarian, while 19% of Independents describe themselves as libertarian."
Notes Reason.com's Nick Gillespie: "Let's be clear about a couple of things: First, the fact that YouGov and other groups are hunting down the number of libertarians afoot — Pew even went 'In Search of Libertarians' just last year — is itself a sign that something new and different is happening. When you start touting up the way many things are breaking in a libertarian direction — the energy surrounding Ron Paul in 2008 and 2012, majority acceptance of pot legalization and gay marriage, serious efforts at criminal justice reform, plummeting numbers for faith in government, the rise of school choice, embrace of a sharing economy that routes around old-style regulation, general acceptance of free trade and free speech as positive values, and much more — it's fair to call attention to what we've dubbed here as 'The Libertarian Moment.'"
For more excellent commentary on the YouGov poll see "Millennials Are More Likely to Identify as Libertarians" by Robby Soave, Reason.com.
A "Devil's Dictionary" of Washington-Speak
Libertarian journalist James Bovard — author of a dozen outstanding and eye-opening books including Lost Rights, The Bush Betrayal, and most recently Attention Deficit Democracy — has done Americans yet another service.
In an editorial for USA Today Bovard put together a short dictionary of "Washingtonese" — the slippery lingo that politicians, bureaucrats and other such nefarious critters use to hide what they really mean.
Or, as Bovard puts it, the government's "nebulous nomenclature [that] deters citizens from recognizing exactly how well their elected leaders serve them."
Here's a sampling:
Historic — different than last week
Unprecedented — different than last month
Emergency — the gift that keeps giving
Truth — whatever people will swallow
Legacy — any political boast that survives more than three 24-hour news cycles
Handout — a government benefit received primarily by the supporters of the other party
Mandate — whatever a winning politician can get away with
Honorable — any public figure who has not yet been indicted
Bill of Rights — (archaic) political invocation popular in 1790s
Fair play — any process in which politicians or bureaucrats pick winners and losers
Rule of Law — the latest edicts from a deputy assistant Labor Secretary or deputy assistant HUD Secretary
Patriotic — any appeal that keeps people paying and obeying
Waste — federal spending that fails to generate laudatory headlines, votes or campaign contributions
Freedom — whatever rulers have not yet benevolently prohibited
Election — when voters are permitted to freely consent to one of the two aspiring despots offered by the major parties
Cynic — anyone who expresses doubt about the latest bipartisan agreement to gradually eliminate the federal budget deficit over the next 117 years
Anarchist — anyone who advocates across-the-board spending cuts of more than 3.63%
Scurrilous — anyone who mentions previous federal failures when the president proposes glorious new programs
For much more Bovardian wit and wisdom, see his USA Today article.
Activist Ammunition is written by Liberator Online editor James W. Harris. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, and he has been a Finalist for the Mencken Awards, given by the Free Press Association for "Outstanding Journalism in Support of Liberty."
THEY SAID IT...
WHAT HAPPENED AFTER POT RE-LEGALIZATION: "We no longer arrest 12,000 people every year for possessing marijuana in Washington state. Those are 12,000 people who kept their jobs, went to college, supported their kids, and enjoyed happy and productive lives. State-licensed pot farmers have driven illegal growers out of the state. Mexican cartel pot has no market here. Thousands of new jobs have been created. We've seen no pot-inspired crime wave, no mass conversion of citizens into stoners. Parents know more about pot than we did two years ago; when we talk to our kids about avoiding it, we come from a place of knowledge, not fear. My family is safer and healthier because marijuana is regulated and legal. ... Here in Washington, as in Colorado, we've stopped destroying the lives of people who possess a drug that's less harmful than alcohol. " — writer Bruce Barcott, "I Thought Legalizing Pot Would Be a Disaster. But It Turned Out to Be Wonderful," TIME, April 9, 2015.
WHAT A WASTE: "In a recent report to Congress, the National Taxpayer Advocate estimated that American taxpayers and businesses spend 6.1 billion hours every year complying with the income tax code... [That] would be the equivalent of more than 3 million Americans working full-time, year-round... By way of comparison, the federal government currently employs 2.7 million full-time workers, and Wal-Mart, the world's largest private employer, currently employs 2.2 million workers worldwide and 1.3 million workers in the U.S. (both full-time and part-time)." — economist Mark Perry, Carpe Diem blog, "Some Thoughts on Tax Day," April 15, 2015.
RON PAUL ON SHOOTING THE MESSENGER: "Government officials are rarely prosecuted for even the most blatant violations of our liberties. In contrast, federal prosecutors routinely pursue criminal charges against whistleblowers. For example, the only American prosecuted and imprisoned in relation to the government's use of torture was whistleblower John Kiriakou!" — Ron Paul, "The IRS and Congress Both Hold Our Liberty in Contempt," Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, April 5, 2015.
JOURNALIST — JAIL AND SILENCE CLIMATE "DENIALISTS": "Man-made climate change kills a lot of people. It's going to kill a lot more. We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people's deaths. It's time to punish the climate-change liars. ... Those denialists should face jail. They should face fines. They should face lawsuits from the classes of people whose lives and livelihoods are most threatened by denialist tactics. ... I'm talking about public persons and organizations and corporations for whom denying a fundamental scientific fact is profitable, who encourage the acceleration of an anti-environment course of unregulated consumption and production that, frankly, will screw my son and your children and whatever progeny they manage to have. Those malcontents must be punished and stopped." — journalist Adam Weinstein, "Arrest Climate-Change Deniers," Gawker, March 28, 2015.
THE LIBERTARIAN VIEW ON THE WAR ON DRUGS: "The libertarian view on the drug war is simple and consistent: Since it is not the business of government at any level to prohibit, regulate, restrict, license, criminalize, limit, or otherwise control what someone wants to smoke, snort, sniff, inject, or swallow, then there should be no laws whatsoever regarding the buying, selling, possessing, trafficking, using, growing, cultivating, processing, or manufacturing of any drug for any reason. ... Therefore, on both the federal and the state level, all drugs should be legalized, all drug laws and regulations should be repealed, all DEAs should be eliminated, all incarcerated drug offenders should be pardoned and released from jail or prison, and every facet of the drug war should be ended. And because the drug war is such a great injustice, this should all be done immediately." — Laurence M. Vance, "The Drug War Litmus Test," LewRockwell.com, April 7, 2015.
"They Said It..." is compiled by Liberator Online editor James W. Harris.
One-Minute Liberty Tip
No One "Pays" Taxes
"You don't ''pay' taxes. The government TAKES them." — comedian Chris Rock.
Not only is this quote funny (especially when you hear Chris Rock say it), it makes a profound point — one well worth remembering when talking about taxes and politics.
The word "pay," in connection with taxes, is just government propaganda. Using it — saying we "pay taxes" or "paid our taxes" — hides and distorts the true nature of taxation. And that's something libertarians shouldn't do.
In common usage, the word "pay" strongly implies some kind of consensual agreement. If you're selling apples and I want one, I pay you for it. If I don't want the apple, I don't have to pay. If someone else has a better deal on apples, I'm free to trade with him instead. Or I can skip apples altogether.
Similarly, if I borrow money from a loan company, I agree to pay it back with interest. If a competing company offers lower interest rates, I'm free to trade with them instead. I also of course have the option of not borrowing money at all.
Those are payments, voluntarily agreed to.
However, the word "pay" is inappropriate for a coerced exchange — like taxation.
As the great Lysander Spooner famously pointed out, if a criminal points a gun at you and demands all the money in your pocket, you aren't "paying" the robber when you hand over your money. You didn't "pay" — you were robbed!
If burglars enter your home at night and steal your valuables, you didn't "pay" the burglar. He TOOK your money! You were robbed.
Libertarians view taxes as a form of coercion, no different in essence from robbery or theft. (By the way, a startlingly large number of Americans now agree with us on this. See the story "New Poll: Millions of Voters Say They're Libertarian" above.)
So we should never use language like "pay taxes" or "paid taxes." Saying so legitimizes taxation. It implies that taxation is just another form of legitimate exchange, like paying for goods and services you voluntarily purchased.
Instead, when someone else uses that term, we should, if appropriate, gently disagree. And respond with something like: "Actually, I didn't 'pay' taxes. No one PAYS taxes. The government just seizes money from you. There's a big difference. Payments are voluntary. Taxes are coercive. Like… theft."
Your wording, of course, will depend on who you're speaking with and where. But one thing's certain — you'll have trouble improving on Chris Rock's monologue:
"The messed-up thing about taxes is you don't 'pay' taxes. The government TAKES them. You get your check and money is GONE! It was not an option! That ain't a payment — that's a JACK! I been TAX JACKED!"
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You'll feel like you've been transported back to the age of the Hapsburgs during a stay at the Hotel Imperial, a former 19th-century palace that's hosted European royalty and rock stars. The premier room is the ultra luxurious Royal Suite, featuring silk upholstered walls, gilt-framed paintings, chandeliers, and stucco-decorated ceilings.
One of the poshest places to stay in the City of Light is the Shangri-La Paris, and its most spectacular room is the top-floor La Suite Shangri-La (Beyoncé stayed there this summer). Highlights include a large Art Deco-style living room, an office, a Jacuzzi, and a 900-square-foot terrace that provides a straight-on view of the iconic Eiffel Tower.
It's all about understated luxury in the Exploradores Suite in Patagonia's Explora lodge — there's no need for anything over-the-top, as the jaw-dropping views of Torres Del Paine National Park are the stars of the show. Activities offered at the resort include hiking on glaciers and horseback riding through the pampas (grasslands).
The sail-shaped Burj Al Arab Jumeirah in Dubai is synonymous with luxury. It starts even before check-in, with airport pickups in a white Rolls Royce (assuming you don't take a chopper to the rooftop helipad). The Royal Suite is blinged-out with 24-karat gold leaf, a canopied revolving bed, a cinema, and a butler who'll tend to any need.
During a stay at this stunning suite in the Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles, you'll definitely feel like Hollywood royalty. The elegantly designed space, which includes a large living room and bedroom, features rich materials like marble and mahogany, as well as oversized windows with views of both downtown LA and the Pacific Ocean.
After visiting attractions like Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace, luxuriate in style back at The Royal Penthouse in the Corinthia Hotel London. Spread over two floors and connected by a private elevator, this swanky suite features a kitchen with a walk-in wine cellar, a dining room, gas fireplaces, and a Thames River-facing terrace.
It's hard not to get goosebumps as you take in the gorgeous panoramas of the Piton Mountains and the Caribbean Sea from the comfort of your infinity pool in the Galaxy Suite at the Jade Mountain resort on St. Lucia. The luxury rooms here come with just three walls for maximum views, and there are no phones or TVs to disturb the bliss.
For an exotic getaway, head to Samui, a tropical island in Thailand, and, more specifically, the two-bedroom Retreat Villa at the luxurious Six Senses resort. With its private infinity pool overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, an alfresco dining area, and an outdoor shower, you may never want to leave — especially after you experience your first sunset.
There are very few skyline views that can compete with Hong Kong's, and one of the best vantage points is the Presidential Suite of the InterContinental. From almost every spot in this luxury room — including the oversized Jacuzzi and the terrace with an infinity pool — you'll be treated to dramatic views of the Victoria Harbour and the famed skyline, dazzlingly lit up at night.
Many of the rooms at The William Vale, one of the most buzzworthy hotels in Williamsburg, have killer NYC skyline views, and none more so than the Vale Garden Residence, its stunning duplex presidential suite. Take in the panoramas from the outdoor deck, complete with a dining table for 10 and an outdoor Jacuzzi.
If you're looking for a luxury lodge experience in a remote setting, consider a stay at Matakauri Lodge, a lakeside retreat on New Zealand's South Island. The last word in luxury is the Owner's Cottage, a palatial four-bedroom spread on mountain-framed Lake Wakatipu, featuring a kitchen, a dining room, a study, and several balconies.
After a day of hiking amid Sedona's Red Rocks, there's nothing more refreshing than taking a dip in your private pool back in your suite at the Enchantment Resort. Steps from the plunge pool is an outdoor living area, featuring comfy furnishings and a fireplace — the perfect place to be for one of Sedona's legendary blood-red sunsets.
If you're keen on visiting George and Amal's stomping grounds, you'll do well to base yourself in a Rooftop Front Suite at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo, a family-owned luxury hotel in one of Lake Como's prettiest spots. The bedroom and living room open out directly onto a large terrace, so you're never far from a fabulous lake view.
While the Freedom Trail and other sights beckon, it'll be hard to tear yourself away from the Cloud Nine Suite, the top room at Zero Nine Hotel, just steps from Boston Common. While there's a large one-bedroom, the main draw is the living room, complete with floor-to ceiling windows and views of the gold-domed State House.
The Panoramic Suite at The Cape in Los Cabos more than lives up to its name. Enjoy views of the Pacific Ocean and El Arco, the area's most famous rock formation, from this corner suite that's complete with a balcony that features a telescope (keep an eye out for whales), a king-sized bed, a large living area, and a tequila-stocked private bar.
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For the ultimate getaway, book the Water Suite at Velassaru, a private island resort in the Maldives. This dreamy suite has gorgeous interiors, but the only place you'll want to be is on the apartment-sized sundeck, outfitted with rattan furnishings, a dining table shaded by a thatched palapa, and a private infinity pool that juts into the azure-hued lagoon.
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Šlovedk
Šluvedský Jezyk
Šlovedkia, Zelenarus
Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C.
Šlovedks
West Slavic
Czech-Slovak
Šlovedkian
Constructed language
Official status
Minority status
Nedland
Ned Gunderson
The Šlovedk language (Šlovedk: Šluvedský Jezyk, pronounced [ˈsluvɛdskiː ˈjezik]; Šluvedčine [Šluvɛdʃine) is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic language subfamily (together with Czech, Polish, Silesian, Kashubian, Slovak and Sorbian). Šlovedk is the official language in Nedland, and is spoken by the Šlovedks, an ethnic group native to the Republic of Šlovedkia, where it is actively spoken by approximately 1 person (2015). Slovedk speakers are found nowhere else, but it is very closely related to Slovak, exchanging mere letter differences with its Czech-Slovak counterpart.
Its main differences from Slovak are that replaces 'o' with 'u', the 'k' is usually replaced with a 'c' except on rare occasions, and unless in the possessive case, 'i' with 'e.'
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This idea started a few days ago with an offhanded comment as I shared a link on Facebook.
The thing is, these all started sounding like chapter titles to me. Beyond chapter titles, I started thinking that they sounded like individual stories. I've been fighting a nasty cold for the better part of a week, so I wasn't sure if I had a fun idea forming or if I was just loopy on cold medication.
So, I thought about it for a few days.
And after thinking about it, I've decided that it is an enjoyable idea rolling around in my cold-addled brain.
Tell me your story – fiction, nonfiction, poem, cartoon, limerick – however you want to tell it, the only stipulation being that it involves nachos somehow. I recognize that this is very silly, but I think that's what makes the idea so fun.
I'll emphasize that this really is just for fun, at least for now. I'm a big proponent of writers being compensated for the work they do online; I think that it's a shame there are so many websites that won't even deign to consider paying writers for their work.
This project is not work. It's a bit of a goof, a chance to flex some creative muscles, play around with an idea for the sake of playing. I'd like to regularly post these stories on the blog, and if you have any other links or passion projects you would like for me to link to when posting your story I would gladly include those as well.
If you'd like to get in touch about a submission, you can reach me through my contact form, send me a message through the Facebook page, or give me a shout on Twitter.


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My name is Tony Lambrianos and I run a monthly property meeting group at the Veneto Club in Bulleen (just off the Eastern Freeway). Everyone is welcome to attend.
This month's meeting will be held on Tuesday 19th May 6.30 pm for a 7pm start at the Veneto Club in Bulleen.
This month we are thrilled to have two awesome investors.
If you are interested in property development and you are looking to achieve a passive income of $100k plus then you can?t afford to miss our first speaker, development guru Leon Madigan who will explain the ?Model? for sustainable property development.
Our second speaker is property investor David Le Blanc who will take us through his recent one-into-two subdivision deal and the numbers and lessons learnt behind his $230k profit!
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Graded on a Curve: Esquivel,
Space-Age Bachelor
Pad Music
By Joseph Neff | Published: January 20, 2023
Remembering Esquivel!, born on this date in 1918. —Ed.
It's not often that a compilation of thirty-year old music is almost as representative of the time of its issue as it is of the artist that originally made it, but that's the case with Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music from the always suave and ever distinctive musician known to many as simply Esquivel. If the '90s fad for lounge and exotica sounds is often perceived as an unfortunate occurrence, it did hold a few pleasant twists and turns. This is one of them.
When Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music, a quite unexpected compilation of material by one-of-a-kind Mexican band leader/composer Juan García Esquivel first hit the racks back in 1994 via Bar/None Records, it was a welcome curveball of smooth lounge/exotica strangeness and a dish unspoiled by the potential taint of contemporary approximation.
For outside of Combustible Edison I consider the '90s retro-lounge field to be a rather dismal bunch of pikers, and while I do enjoy them in doses I'm not even all that bonkers over Edison (though I am rather taken with Edison members Michael Cudahy and Elizabeth Cox's non-retro inclined previous group Christmas). For the record I consider the excellent Chicago band Coctails to fall outside the genre.
The only sticky thing about Esquivel's unlikely rise from obscurity was pondering if people were sincerely digging him (or fellow exotica specialists Martin Denny or Les Baxter); it was always possible they were just being infuriatingly ironic. This situation was sorta similar to the ebbing and flowing penchant of folks attaching themselves to Z-grade movies, but different in that nobody would actually fess up to believing it was "so bad its good." However, spending too much time wondering about the ultimately innocuous motives of others is a surefire way to end up in a straightjacket. And whenever I would listen to Esquivel's stuff my concern just evaporated anyway, for it's a truly inspired and loony trip.
The relative popularity of Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music (not to be confused with a similarly titled roughly concurrent LP by UK band Stereolab) led to a handful of additional reissues (even including a Christmas themed album), but I tend to think the first was the best and it serves as a natural indication to why Bar/None felt the need to resuscitate the man's work. Cherry-picked from albums released by RCA between 1958 and 1967 and produced by longtime WFMU DJ and Songs in the Key of Z author Irwin Chusid (he also penned the disc's informative notes), Space-Age's 14 tracks stand tall not only through the bluntly oddball yet brilliantly controlled and grandly conceived nature of Esquivel's creation, but also due to the shrewd, expert guidance of selection and sequencing.
It all opens with a truly zonked rendering of Les Brown's big-band standard "Sentimental Journey" replete with low-register horn grumbling, dapper whistling, truly bent Hawaiian steel guitar, overblown explosions of brass, slinky and kooky vocalizing, abrupt yet non-dissonant clanks, and a complete abandonment of the standards of highbrow taste. Yes, this stuff is kitsch, but it's built with such obvious care and delivered so deliriously that it overpowers any temptation to dismiss the music as shallow or trite.
And his original compositions display a warmly warped sensibility that matches his gift for twisted arranging, the two coming together exquisitely on "Whatchamacallit," the cut strategically placed right at the end of side one. That tune made appearances on at least a dozen of my homemade mix-tapes (remember those?) from between '94 and '97, and if forced to explain the appeal of the whole exotica phenomenon through non-verbal or unwritten means it might just be the one song I'd pick for the exercise; everything I'd detail in words is there in spades.
It's true that Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music is solidly on the "single man with a Hi-Fi" end of the exotica spectrum, with the "animal sounds and Tiki-torch ambiance" being more the specialty of one Martin Denny. And I'll add that Bar/None didn't screw the pooch by skimping on vinyl pressings of either this record or its follow-up, Music From a Sparkling Planet.
Stereo separation is a big part of the equation with Esquivel's work, as is a tweaked take on the lush large-band pop arranging (Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Neal Hefti) that was so commercially successful in the 1950s. So it'll sound magnificent coming from the speakers of your deluxe system whilst hopefully snuggling with a special someone on that snazzy bearskin rug.
By the point of The British Invasion the sheer boldness of this sound was largely gone from the pop charts and was subsequently far less prevalent on LP (it was expensive to produce after all), but it lingered on for years not only in the castoff LPs found in antique shops and thrift stores, but also in some of the aggressively zanier '60s television themes propped up through constant reruns: think Billy Ver Planck's work for the Flintstones or Vic Mizzy's intro to Green Acres for two primo examples.
The controlled lunacy of those pieces contrasts quite well with over-the-top aspects of Esquivel's work, and it's no surprise that he also composed for TV, though in my estimation Esquivel is a much more estimable artist than either Ver Planck or Mizzy, possessing if not subtlety than an extremely impressive range and an acute ability to know just how far to push, which was often to the very brink of absurdity. To wit; trailblazing '50s comedian Ernie Kovacs used a medley of this album's "Jalousie" and "Sentimental Journey" in his killer short film Musical Office. And Esquivel's sustained range and nerve not only makes his material rather foolproof against parody but also quite resistant to stylistic extension. Imitators might as well forget it.
At its best the '90s lounge-wave rekindled interest in a rather cast-off portion of mid-20th century music. Serious belated consideration was given to not only Esquivel and Denny, whose debut album Exotica from '57 gave a name to the whole genre (topping Billboard's Album Chart for good measure), but light was also shed upon Peruvian vocalist Yma Sumac (Voice of the Xtabay, with Baxter composing) and electronic pop pioneers Perrey and Kingsley (The In Sound From Way Out).
Perhaps the best thing to come out of this temporary vogue for the nattily-dressed and the highly swingin' was the fringe benefit of fresh ears getting turned on to older instrumental music of all stripes; Looney Tunes-composer Carl Stalling, bandleader/composer/pianist/inventor Raymond Scott, theremin player Clara Rockmore, electronic innovators Louis and Bebe Barron, and soundtrack maestros like Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini, Bernard Herrmann, and David Shire all benefited from increased interest in their work circa the '90s.
Flash forward a couple years and it wouldn't be a bit difficult to find listeners that began with Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music or Denny's Quiet Village branching out into much wider aural waters, possibly soaking up Mancini's massive soundtrack for Orson Welles' Touch of Evil or dipping into Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza, the Italian avant-garde composers collective that included both Morricone and Frederic Rzewski. And it's a smart bet that they were interested in contemporary sounds like Stereolab, Tortoise, and Labradford as well. So if the Cocktail Nation was surely a fad, not everyone that intersected with it was only trying to stand apart from the period's surface mode of grungy slackerdom.
In pure exotica terms, Juan García Esquivel just might be the greatest of the whole bizzaro handful of original loungers. When listening to him, it never feels like he's capitalizing on a trend with the intention of siphoning disposable income from the affluent or the easily led. Instead, it's like he was just creating his own weird, grand, irresistible thing. Good for him.
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GuysnDolls is a small exclusive, in home, cattery, based North of Brisbane. We are registered breeders with the Queensland Feline Association, No. 882.
Our babies are all born and raised in our home, in their very own nursery. Which has their own whelping box, bunny rugs, heating pad, lots and lots of toys and their own little scratching posts.
Once our babies are big enough and out of their whelping boxes, they then come out and join the rest of our home, taking over and having the run of the house, sleeping with us, watching TV with us, being one of us, a precious part of our family.
This prepares them beautifully for their new homes, making them very social and giving them plenty of confidence.
GuysnDolls babies are available for their new homes at 12-14 weeks, to approved, forever, INDOOR homes ONLY. They will be registered with the Queensland Feline Association, desexed, microchipped, vaccinated twice, wormed regularly and kitty litter trained.
My babies also come with a kitten pack, which includes a folder containing kitten care notes, diet information and all that you will need to know to care for your Ragdoll baby and make his/her settling in process as stress free as possible.
They will also come with 6 weeks free Pet Insurance with Petplan.
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Our Ragdoll babies are all over the world and we are very proud to say that they are all doing amazingly well at the Cat Shows…………Winning Awards such as TICA and CFA BEST LILAC BI COLOUR 2009/2010 and BEST CHOCOLATE LYNX 2009/2010.
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I am a 24/7 stay at home Mum, to my Ragdolls, devoting all of my time and attention to them and their needs.
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