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Justia Dockets & Filings Fifth Circuit Texas Eastern District McCoy v. Commissioner of SSA Filing 15
McCoy v. Commissioner of SSA
ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS - The findings and conclusions of the Magistrate Judge are therefore adopted as those of the Court. In light of the foregoing, it is ORDERED that Plaintiffs objections are OVERRULED. It is further ORDERED that the complaint is hereby DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE. It is finally ORDERED that any motion not previously ruled on is DENIED. Signed by Judge T. John Ward on 3/25/2011. (ch, )
McCoy v. Commissioner of SSA Doc. 15 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS MARSHALL DIVISION KATHERINE J. McCOY v. COMMISSIONER, SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION � � � CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:09-CV-308 ORDER ADOPTING REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION OF UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE The Report and Recommendation of the Magistrate Judge, which contains his findings, conclusions, and recommendation for the disposition of this action, has been presented for consideration. The Report and Recommendation ("R&R") recommends that the complaint be dismissed with prejudice. Plaintiff filed written objections to the R&R on March 23, 2011. Having made a de novo review of the objections filed by Plaintiff, the Court finds that the findings, conclusions and recommendation of the Magistrate Judge are correct and the objections are without merit. Plaintiff's objections do not directly address the Magistrate Judge's R&R, but again attack the Administrative Law Judge's ("ALJ") decision. Specifically, Plaintiff contends that the ALJ erred in not finding her severe impairments medically equivalent to Listing 1.02 or 1.04. Therefore, she essentially repeats her arguments presented in her opening brief, with somewhat greater detail in reference to the one-time examinations performed by Drs. Toubia and Buono. However, although she recites a number of medical findings with regard to her undeniable spinal impairment, she still does not "convert these findings into actual physical limitations supported by medical source opinions," as the Magistrate Judge stated in his R&R. See R&R at 11. Dockets.Justia.com In fact, as the ALJ discussed in his decision, the medical evidence of record reflects that Dr. Toubia observed Plaintiff "to ambulate well without any assistive device." See Tr. at 12. Although Dr. Toubia noted she had decreased range of motion in the flexion and extension of her hips, that alone does not state a significant limitation on Plaintiff's ability to perform work-related activities. Further, the ALJ noted that Plaintiff's regular treating physician also observed her to have "only `mild' left hip pain with range of motion. Gait was normal." Id.; see also Tr. at 14-15. These findings contradict an equivalency to Listings 1.02 and 1.04. Plaintiff also relies heavily on Dr. Buono's opinion that she required surgery. However, again, an indication for surgery alone does not eliminate a person's ability to perform work-related activities. Furthermore, as Plaintiff herself testified, she was informed at Texas Rehab that surgery would not necessarily correct her back impairment and that "there wasn't really probably a lot they could do." Tr. at 32. The medical expert who testified at the ALJ's administrative hearing acknowledged this point, and that Plaintiff wanted to have a conservative treatment plan, stating that "there's no guarantee that surgery will help this particular problem." Tr. at 42. In fact, it was Plaintiff's election not to have surgery but to proceed with a conservative approach to her back treatment with medications. Tr. at 32. She therefore undermines her own reliance on Dr. Buono's opinion in her objections. Additionally, Plaintiff relies on her own testimony of subjective pain in her objections. However, the ALJ found her testimony not credible to the extent it was inconsistent with the ALJ's finding of her residual functional capacity. Tr. at 15. He was entitled to do so, based on the substantial medical evidence of record he cited and the Plaintiff's own election to decline surgery and proceed with conservative case, as discussed above. Dale v. Chater, 103 F.3d 127, 1995 WL 731619, at *3 (5th Cir. Dec. 5, 1996) (per curiam) (ALJ properly concluded that conservative treatment with pain medications for degenerative disc disease supported a determination that the 2 claimant's subjective complaints were not fully credible); see also Prince v. Chater, 77 F.3d 479, 1996 WL 46826, at *3 (5th Cir. Jan. 16, 1996). At bottom, Plaintiff essentially argues, as she did in her opening brief, that a finding of a severe impairment should equate to a Listing. However, a determination of impairment by itself "does not prove disability"; instead, "[t]o succeed on a claim for disability benefits, [Plaintiff] must show an impairment so severe as to incapacitate him from performing any substantial gainful activity." Owens v. Heckler, 770 F.2d 1276, 1280 (5th Cir. 1985) (emphasis in original) (citing Jones v. Heckler, 702 F.2d 616, 620 5th Cir. 1983). As the Magistrate Judge observed in his R&R, Plaintiff has not done so here. Therefore, her objections will be overruled. The findings and conclusions of the Magistrate Judge are therefore adopted as those of the Court. In light of the foregoing, it is ORDERED that Plaintiff's objections are OVERRULED. It is further ORDERED that the complaint is hereby DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE. It is finally ORDERED that any motion not previously ruled on is DENIED. SIGNED this 25th day of March, 2011. __________________________________________ T. JOHN WARD UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 3


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Seaside's Ryan Hague goes up and over Marist junior Ben Morehouse in Friday's game.
Jeff Ter Har
Boys basketball: Marist stuns Gulls at Seaside
Gary Henley
The Marist boys basketball team accomplished one of the toughest tasks in Oregon high school sports Friday night — the Spartans defeated Seaside on the Gulls' home floor.
Despite the No. 2 ranking for Marist, when you beat a team that's won its last 27 games at home and hasn't lost on its home floor in over two years (and 43-1 over the last four years) — it's considered an upset.
Seaside held a brief lead in the first quarter, before the Spartans grabbed a 12-11 advantage late in the quarter and never gave it up in a 63-54 win over the No. 3-ranked Gulls.
Marist overcame foul trouble and a big disadvantage at the free throw line, where Seaside finished 17-of-24. The Spartans were just 2-for-5 until the final two minutes of the game, when the Gulls were forced to foul.
Six-foot-4 forward Ben Morehouse scored 20 points to lead Marist, while 6-4 Luke Eagen added 18 and 6-2 Alec Vendetti scored 16 before fouling out. All three players are juniors.
Seaside senior Ryan Hague poured in a game-high 23 and Beau Johnson added 14, including a 3-pointer and a layup early in the third quarter that helped the Gulls rally from a 30-23 deficit to tie the game at 33-33.
From there, the Spartans finished the quarter with a 15-4 run.
A barrage of 3-point baskets by Morehouse and Eagen helped Marist build a 56-47 lead midway through the fourth, and the Spartans made just enough free throws in the final 2:27 to hold off Seaside, which had not lost at home since Dec. 16, 2017.
Seaside returns to action for another tough nonleague contest, Tuesday at Dayton, ranked No. 2 at the 3A level.
A bright spot for the Gulls — in the junior varsity game, Seaside rallied from a 22-point deficit in the second half to defeat Marist in overtime.
Cash Corder hit a long 3-pointer with one second left in regulation to tie the game.
Ben Morehouse
Gary Henley is a sports reporter for The Astorian. Contact him at 503-861-8493 or ghenley@dailyastorian.com.
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They were craftsmen — blacksmiths, tailors, chandlers, carpenters — the clan of Treutels who came to Wisconsin from the Darmstadt area of Germany starting in 1849. The Johann Adam Treutel family left the village of Königstädten between 1849 and 1854 and headed for America. They were part of a huge wave of German emigrants that changed the face of Wisconsin and the United States.
The Wisconsin branch of the Treutel family tree is from Königstädten, a village just northwest of the city of Darmstadt. From this "king's village" came Johann Adam Treutel and his wife, Elizabetha Katharina (Geier) Treutel. According to the Hessisches Staatsarchiv in Darmstadt, Adam, Katharina and at least some of their children left for America in July 1854. The emigration index simply lists that the eldest Treutel traveled "with his family."
Their son John Treutel had already been in Wisconsin for some two years when they departed Germany. We believe the 1854 traveling party included at least three other Treutel children: Philipp Treutel, 21; Sebastian Treutel, 19; and Henry J. Treutel, 13. Their destination was Milwaukee. In May 1849, the eldest Treutel child, Adam, left for America, living in New York for a time before moving to Milwaukee.
The red stars show locations where members of the Treutel family operated blacksmith and chandler shops in Milwaukee. At right is the Milwaukee River.
The Treutel family ran a tallow chandler shop near downtown Milwaukee. The shop sold soap and candles made from animal fat and other ingredients. At various times in the 1860s and 1870s, Adam Jr. worked as a railroad man, a tallow chandler and a tailor. The Treutels, some of whom lived in Milwaukee's Second Ward, had good Darmstadt neighbors, including master brewers Joseph Schlitz and Phillip Best. When their father Johann Adam died in Milwaukee in 1859, some of the Treutel sons took up residence with other German families in Milwaukee.
Although his primary residence was in Mukwonago in Waukesha County, Philipp Treutel is listed in the 1863 Milwaukee city directory as having a blacksmith shop at the southwest corner of Fifth and Prairie in downtown Milwaukee. He is listed in the 1867 directory as living at 517 Cherry St., next door to his younger brother, Henry. So it appears Philipp moved between Milwaukee and Waukesha counties, probably based on availability of work.
The tombstone of Katharina (Geier) Treutel sits in the shadow of the monument to her son, John, at Union Cemetery in West Bend, Wis.
Katharina Geier Treutel was born on July 24, 1800 in Hesse-Darmstadt, the daughter of Nicolaus and Elizabetha Geier. She married Johann Adam Treutel sometime around or just after 1820. She died on April 26, 1886 in the Town of Addison, Washington County, Wis., and is buried at Union Cemetery in West Bend. The cause of death was listed as marasmus senilis, which basically means old age. She had eight children, five of whom (along with 42 grandchildren) survived her. Her tombstone reads:
Hier Ruht in Gott (Here Rests in God)
Gattin von (Wife of)
A. Treutel
Philipp Treutel settled in Mukwonago in Waukesha County, where he married Henrietta Krosch and fathered seven children, including Walter Treutel (father of Ruby Treutel Hanneman). He was a blacksmith, and probably learned the trade from his father. After Philipp's death in 1891, Henrietta moved the Treutel family to Vesper in Wood County, Wisconsin.
Henry J. Treutel enlisted in the 26th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment during the Civil War, and fought at the Battle of Gettysburg. Sebastian also joined the 26th Wisconsin, but was given a disability discharge in August 1863, possibly from wounds during the war. We don't believe Philipp or John Treutel were called into service.
Henry, Sebastian and John Treutel eventually settled in the Town of Addison, Washington County. John was a carpenter. The 1870 U.S. Census for the Town of Addison shows a Jacob Treutel, 31, living at the John Treutel homestead. It is possible that Jacob, who would have been born about 1839, was a younger brother. Sebastian was also a carpenter, but he later worked hauling the U.S. Mail in Washington County. Henry operated a blacksmith shop, a store, a saloon and a cheese factory near the village of Aurora. He later moved to Wausau.
Based on all of the evidence we've gathered, it appears the Johann Adam Treutel family included Adam (1822), John (1831), Philipp and deceased twin brother (1833), Sebastian (1835) and Henry (1841). Other possible children are Peter and Jacob, but more research is needed to establish their lineage.
Family Line: Johann Adam Treutel >> Philipp Treutel >> Walter Treutel >> Ruby Treutel Hanneman >> Donn, David and Lavonne Hanneman.
Monument of Philipp Treutel, grandfather of Ruby (Treutel) Hanneman, at North Prairie Cemetery in Waukesha County, Wis. Philipp died in 1891.
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Q: MongoDB/Mongoose update array within array with $addToSet Good day all,
i'm trying to save image galleries where each image can have up to 5 tags associated with them. So in the Document the Gallery field is an array that has multiple values of which the Tag attribute which itself is an array of Tags.
I'm having issue saving an image where the user adds 2 or more tags for that picture. below this is what i have in my mongoose user schema
    gallery : [{
        origin : {type: String, trim: true, default: null},
        uploadOn: {type: Date, Default: null},
        title: { type: String, trim: true, default: null},
        caption: { type: String, trim: true, default: null },
        tag: [{ type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Imagetag', unique: true, sparse: true }],
        imageLink: { type: String, trim: true }
    }]

and this is my update script
var query = {username:'testUser'};
var options = { runValidators: true };
var toUpdate = {
      $addToSet : {
        gallery : {
         origin : req.body.orgin,
         uploadOn: new Date(),
         title: req.body.title,
         caption: req.body.caption,

         tag: '59a5fea0382f1305841f0d86' // working
         $addToSet: { tag: { $each: ['59a5fea0382f1305841f0d86', '59a5fea0382f1305841f0d88'] } } , // not working
         $push: { tag: { $each: ['59a5fea0382f1305841f0d86', '59a5fea0382f1305841f0d88'] } } , // not working

         imageLink: req.body.path
       }
     }
};

// proceed to update
var user = await User.findOneAndUpdate(query, toUpdate, options);

i have listed the different combination that i have tried without success. i do not want to have to make multiple calls to update the tags one by one for that same image.

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Some big news came out of the Cleveland Indians camp toward the end of last week.
No, it was not in the form of a big-name free agent signing. It was not in the form of a blockbuster trade, either.
It was in the form of an injury to the team's best player, Francisco Lindor. Lindor strained his right calf while preparing for spring training and it was reported that he would be out for 7-9 weeks. That timetable puts his status for March 28's Opening Day in question.
This is some of the worst news that the Tribe and its fans could have gotten with spring training starting in less than a week.
But, if there was a "good" time for this injury to occur, it would be now. Lindor will likely miss all of spring training and maybe even the first week or two of the regular season.
With him being out and the team knowing he is going to be out for almost two months, that gives Terry Francona and the rest of the coaching staff time to evaluate who will fill the 25-year-olds shoes.
The two candidates that jump off the page are Yu Chang and Max Moroff.
Chang is the Indians No. 6 ranked prospect and has a power bat as a short stop. Last season in Triple-A Columbus, he hit 13 homeruns with a .411 slugging percentage. The year before in Double-A Akron, he had 24 long balls. Chang is an extra base hit machine who will always have a high swing-and-miss rate. He logged over 800 innings at short last season and committing nine errors.
Moroff came over in a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates in mid-November. He played in just 26 games in 2018, hitting .186/.284/.356. Most of his playing time came at second base, but could play short just as easily.
With the All-Star not getting any reps in Arizona, Indians fans can hope that means it will not be a lost season for Lindor.
Because this is a lower body injury, he will still be able to throw and do some fielding work, as long with some light tee work.
He is among the league leaders in WAR at the shortstop position and was in the MVP conversation last season, finishing in sixth place.
Cleveland knows about calf injuries, and injuries in general all too well.
Michael Brantley missed much of the 2016 and 2017 seasons. Last year, Andrew Miller, Lonnie Chisenhall, and Josh Donaldson all missed time- the ladder of the two missing time with calf injuries (Donaldson's was before he was traded to Cleveland).
The Indians cannot afford to rush any players back from injury, let alone a player of Lindor's caliber.
Maybe this news will motivate the front office to go out and try to acquire a productive piece for the outfield/ bullpen. But at the rate at which the team has moved at this offseason, that seems very unlikely.
Other players in the lineup that are not named Jose Ramirez are going to have to step up in spring training and once the regular season starts (looking at you, Carlos Santana, Roberto Perez, and Jason Kipnis).
Maybe the starting pitching will start off the season on a tear where the offense only needs to score two or three runs to win a game. Maybe the role players will end up being more productive than everyone thinks.
This is the most inconvenient thing for a team who relies heavily on its star shortstop. And while no one should be hitting the panic button yet, no one should be rushing Lindor back to the diamond.


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Tinglish (or Thaiglish, Thenglish, Thailish, Thainglish, etc.) refers to any form of English mixed with or heavily influenced by Thai. It is typically produced by native Thai speakers due to language interference from the first language. Differences from standard native English occur in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. The term was coined in 1970, and several alternative terms have been proposed since its inception, such as Thainglish (1973), Thaiglish (1992), Tinglish (1994), Thinglish (1976), Thenglish (2003), and Tenglish (2012).

Characteristics and examples
Characteristics and examples (direct translation) include :
 omission of pronouns
 zero copula
 use of present tense + already, in contrast to past tense of Standard English
 non-standard use or omissions of articles, declension, prepositions, and conjugation.
 addition of Thai final particles, e.g., I don't know na
 any and every are used interchangeably
 different use of conditional constructions
 no use of double negatives
 moving "S" on singular verbs to the subject, for instance "He's talk too much" instead of "He talks too much"
 omission of prepositions, for instance "I wait you" instead of "I'll wait for you" or "I listen him" for "I listened to him".
 "very" and "very much" are used interchangeably, for instance "I very love my daughter" and "She beautiful very much".

Examples of words and phrases
Examples (direct translation) include:

Pronunciation

As some sounds in English do not exist in the Thai language, this affects the way native Thai speakers pronounce English words, as displayed in loanwords.

Adaptation of consonants
English consonants with corresponding sounds in Thai are simply carried over, while others are adapted to a similar-sounding consonant.
, , and  are devoiced to , , and : "goal" →  , "zip" → , "jam" → .
 becomes the affricate : "shirt" → .
The "th" sounds  and  are replaced by  or : "thank you" →
Initial  is replaced by , but final  is replaced by : "level" → , "serve" → .
Initial consonant clusters with  followed by a voiceless unaspirated stop do not occur in Thai, so  is added between these consonants: "start" →
Final  became  in older loanwords, whereas modern adaptation generally favors  instead: "grill" → .
Final consonant clusters are generally truncated to only the sound directly after the vowel: "act" → .

Adaptation of vowels

 Diphthongs and triphthongs are generally simplified to long vowels, such as the  in "blade" becoming . Exceptions are diphthongs ending in  and , which are instead reanalysed as the Thai diphthongs ending in  and : "tie" → , "view" → .

Tone assignment
All Thai syllables must have one of five tones (mid, low, falling, high, rising). English words adapted into Thai are systematically given these tones according to certain rules. English loanwords are often unusual in that tone markers are normally omitted, meaning that they are often pronounced with a different tone from that indicated by their spelling.

 Monosyllabic words that end in sonorants take the mid tone, while those that end in obstruents either take the low tone or the high tone, with the high tone predominant.
 For polysyllabics, the nonfinal consonants follow similar rules to monosyllabics, although they always take high tone when ending in obstruents.
 The tone of final consonants that end in sonorants depend on where the stress falls in the original English word. If the final syllable is stressed, the mid tone is taken, while non-final stress correlates with the falling tone being taken.
 Final consonants ending in obstruents take the low, high, or falling tone in descending order of frequency.
According to Wei and Zhou (2002), Thai is a tonal language, whose syllables take approximately the same time to pronounce, Thai people often have difficulty with English word stress. They, instead, stress the last syllable by adding high pitch (Choksuansup, 2014).
When it comes to vowels, there are 21 phonemes in Thai compared with 15 vowels in English; therefore, it is relatively easy for Thai people to imitate the English vowels. However, the two systems have a significant discrepancy: Thai vowels are distinguished by shortness and length, while for English, it is laxness and tenseness. That explains why Thai English speakers perceive and produce lax sounds as short sounds and tense sounds as long sounds, which gives their pronunciation its uniqueness (Kruatrachue, 1960).
In terms of consonants, there are a number of English consonants which do not exist in Thai. This makes it difficult for the Thai to perceive the difference among some sounds and produce them correctly. Instead, they replace the English consonants with the most similar sounds in Thai (Trakulkasemsuk, 2012):
 /r/ can be pronounced as /l/ or dropped.
/tʃ/, /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ are altered by Thai /tɕʰ/ (aspirated voiceless fortis palatal stop with slight affrication).
/dʒ/ is substituted by Thai /tɕ/ (weakly glottalized unaspirated voiceless fortis palatal stop).
/θ/  become either / t̪⁼/ (voiceless unaspirated apical alveolar stop), /t/, or /s/.
/ð/ is replaced by /d/
/v/ is pronounced as /w/, and /z/ as /s/
In addition, consonant cluster /st/ does not exist in Thai, so they pronounce it as /sə.t/; for example: stop /sə.tɑːp/. Ending sounds are oftentimes omitted (Choksuansup, 2014).
According to Wei and Zhou (2002), Thai is a tonal language, whose syllables take approximately the same time to pronounce, Thai people often have difficulty with English word stress. They, instead, stress the last syllable by adding high pitch (Choksuansup, 2014).
When it comes to vowels, there are 21 phonemes in Thai compared with 15 vowels in English; therefore, it is relatively easy for Thai people to imitate the English vowels. However, the two systems have a significant discrepancy: Thai vowels are distinguished by shortness and length, while for English, it is laxness and tenseness. That explains why Thai English speakers perceive and produce lax sounds as short sounds and tense sounds as long sounds, which gives their pronunciation its uniqueness (Kruatrachue, 1960).
In terms of consonants, there are a number of English consonants which do not exist in Thai. This makes it difficult for the Thai to perceive the difference among some sounds and produce them correctly. Instead, they replace the English consonants with the most similar sounds in Thai (Trakulkasemsuk, 2012):
 /r/ can be pronounced as /l/ or dropped.
/tʃ/, /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ are altered by Thai /tɕʰ/ (aspirated voiceless fortis palatal stop with slight affrication).
/dʒ/ is substituted by Thai /tɕ/ (weakly glottalized unaspirated voiceless fortis palatal stop).
/θ/  become either / t̪⁼/ (voiceless unaspirated apical alveolar stop), /t/, or /s/.
/ð/ is replaced by /d/
/v/ is pronounced as /w/, and /z/ as /s/
In addition, consonant cluster /st/ does not exist in Thai, so they pronounce it as /sə.t/; for example: stop /sə.tɑːp/. Ending sounds are oftentimes omitted (Choksuansup, 2014).

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Investigating Thai Loan Phonology, Sound Systems of English, LG.236, Lecture 8, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Thammasat University, 8 Sep 2008.

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Former DARC Chairman Allan Pratt (1925-2019)
The family of Allan Pratt reported his death in Nottinghamshire at the age of 94 on August 15th 2019.
Allan was a civil engineer by profession and served as Chairman of Durham ARC between 1965 and 1971, during which time he was one of the driving forces behind the relocation of the Club's facilities from what is now St Leonard's boathouse to the current premises.
Although a decision had been made by the Club in 1960 to relocate the premises, planning approval was not granted until 1966, after which Allan devised and costed a plan for the project to construct the new boatstore and landing stage with much of the labour being carried out voluntarily by Club members.
Allan moved away to London in 1970 and then to Newark to continue his career, becoming a Director of Hoveringham Gravel and also becoming a long-serving member of Newark Rowing Club.
Duncan Lomas and John Burns continued to progress work on the new premises, and after a final push the building project was effectively completed and the bar officially opened for business on Wednesday December 22nd 1971.
Allan leaves a widow Rosemary, sons Nigel Price and Graham Price, and 5 grandchildren. Son Nigel, a member of Newark Rowing Club, said of his father's time at Durham, "Although his days at Durham represented a small part of his life in terms of years, they remained large in terms of their influence on him and he often reminisced about his weekends digging trenches, mixing concrete and having a beer in the Dun Cow. He was always proud of his silver salver with "Chairman and Boathouse Builder Extraordinary" engraved upon it."
Nigel has also been a member of Hollingworth Lake Rowing Club for over 30 years and in recent years one of his roles has been to organise club volunteers. Nigel and Graham are active Masters, competing as a double and pair.
A funeral service was held at Sherwood Forest Crematorium, Ollerton on Tuesday 27th August at 1.30pm followed by a celebration of Allan's life at Newark Rowing Club from 3.00 pm.
Allan's widow Rosemary and sons Nigel and Graham came to DARC on Sunday 13th October (the morning after the Club Dinner) at 11 am to scatter his ashes in the River Wear.
This entry was posted in Club News on August 21, 2019 by Colin Lawson.
Trip up the Tees 2019
On August 6th Tees Rowing Club played host to 14 members from Durham ARC who joined them for the annual 25km social row up the Tees to Yarm and back followed by a sumptuous BBQ back at the River Tees Watersports Centre.
Tees were joined by Ally Barr from Lakeland and three quads and a single made the trip from DARC, including Margaret Richardson, Sue Lyons, Sonny Shepherd, Caroline Scholl, Colin Lawson, Shirley Robinson, Dave Green, Steve Auster, Nigel van Zwanenberg, Joyce Collett, Helen Adair, Heather Hirst, Sarah Rutter and Paul Rutter.
The event was arranged by Len Small of the Tees 'Wrecks' and DARC crews were co-ordinated by Caroline Scholl.
Many thanks to all at Tees RC for the usual splendid hospitality and to Paul for towing the trailer.
Rowing returns to Ebchester after 46 years
Competitive rowing returned to the River Derwent at Ebchester in County Durham on August 4th after an absence of 46 years when the sixth round of the Sunday League was hosted by the recently re-formed Ebchester Boat Club.
Set in idyllic surroundings the River Derwent has been used for rowing since at least 1872 and after the construction of its first boathouse in 1878 Ebchester Amateur Rowing Club became an important part of village social life for both young and old, and regattas were well attended, particularly in the years immediately following World War II. Sadly a decline in the popularity of rowing in the 1960s and 70s led to the club being dissolved in 1974, after which time the boathouse fell into a state of dereliction.
Ebchester is situated on the site of the Roman fort of Vindomora, which guarded Dere Street where it crossed the River Derwent, Dere Street being the main route for bringing supplies from York and the south to the forts on Hadrian's Wall.
The Ebchester Village Trust was formed in 1976 with the objective of improving the Ebchester environment. Thankfully the boathouse was saved from demolition, and in 1981 was brought back into use by the 5th Tyne Sea Scouts who used the river for canoeing and kayaking.
The Ebchester Boathouse Development Partnership was formed in 2011 and on completion of repairs to the storm-damaged weir set about securing the future use of the boathouse. The boathouse and the river environment are recognised as a great asset to the village and one of the aims of the Partnership is to revive the boathouse as a focal point for community activity.
After much endeavour involving numerous agencies including Durham County Council and the Environment Agency, recovery from flood damage and the repair of a culvert on the Ebchester Burn, planning consent to rebuild the boathouse was granted in 2018 and it is hoped that work can commence once sufficient funds are available.
A sculling group was created to which members of neighbouring rowing clubs were invited as a means of generating interest in the use of facilities ideally suited to social and recreational rowing as well as for developing skills, and as a means of attracting investment.
In 2019 Ebchester Boat Club was reconstituted and affiliated to British Rowing. A number of boats were donated to the club, including 2 coxed doubles from Bradford ARC and a single scull from Berwick ARC, allowing rowing to return to the River Derwent. Links have also been established with the nearby Derwent Reservoir Sailing Club. Membership of the club is as yet very limited but it is anticipated that numbers will grow following a series of learn to row courses being staged this summer.
The development project is being co-ordinated by Mick Downworth who also rows with the Masters squad at Durham Amateur Rowing Club, with help from the Ebchester members and community, and aided by members of other clubs from the northern region and beyond.
In a bid to bring about a return to competitive rowing Mick proposed Ebchester as a location for one of the rounds of the Northern Rowing Council's Sunday League competition and was allocated the vacant slot for round 6 in August. The Sunday League is a fun competition aimed at novice and recreational rowers, and consists of 8 monthly rounds at different venues, normally contested by crews using coxed quads and fours, but due to the limited space available at Ebchester it was decided that a timed relay race in coxed and coxless doubles would be more suitable.
Now in its eighth season the Sunday League is organised on behalf of the Northern Rowing Council by Colin Lawson of Durham ARC and Colin Percy of Tyne ARC, who carried out trials in July to establish a format that would work on the course at Ebchester.
It was also determined that as well as the Sunday League element the competition would be styled Ebchester Regatta to evoke memories of the regattas of yesteryear, and that it would include timed sprint races open for anyone to enter, over the 200 metre course.
Entries were submitted from ten teams of 4 (plus a cox) for the Sunday League relays. Additional entries from single and double scullers for the sprints, both in advance and on the day, and including many of the Sunday League competitors, amounted to a further 26.
The site was prepared, the Victorian terraces were cleared and refreshments provided for the anticipated spectators, while Tyne ARC kindly loaned their two stable doubles for the day which were delivered by Colin Percy. A fabulous four hours of convivial and friendly competition ensued to the delight of the assembled onlookers.
"One of the best days this year," remarked Kerry Jordan of Tynemouth RC.
Among the spectators was 88 year-old Alan Beveridge who has enjoyed much success on the northern racing circuit over the years and now sculls with the Talkin Tarn recreational rowing group. Alan very kindly brought along the magnificent trophy presented to the former Ebchester Amateur Rowing Club in memory of his father James Beveridge. Alan won the trophy with Ebchester in 1949 and 1959. The Beveridge Cup was duly donated to Ebchester Boat Club to be presented to the fastest sculler of the day.
"Lovely to see the old trophy back where it rightly belongs! Alan and I thoroughly enjoyed our visit on Sunday and it brought back happy memories. Good luck Ebchester ARC – may you go from strength to strength." said Alan's wife Enid.
The Sunday League relays involved a coxed double scull making a return trip over the course before a coxless double repeated the process for the second leg, to complete 800 metres in total. For fair competition racing was divided into under-50 and 50+ age groups, and total times recorded. Tynequila of Tyne ARC held off Ebchester by 2 seconds to win the open under-50 race in 5 minutes 42 seconds, Wrecked Again (Tees RC and Durham ARC composite) won the open 50+ event in 6.00, Tynemouth Gulls won the women's under-50 in 7.16 and 'Ebby, Steady, Go!', consisting of Margaret Richardson, Maureen Miller, Gene Dobson, Shirley Robinson and cox Caroline Scholl (in photo above with Mick) of Durham ARC won the women's 50+ race in 6 minutes 35 seconds.
Spectators were then treated to some top class sculling in the sprint competition with Jamie McCarron of Cambois and Chris Eke of Berwick winning the open double sculls in 42.15 seconds, before both contested the open single, each completing the 200 metres in under 40 seconds, and Jamie claiming victory in 39.19. Lee Fenton of Berwick won the women's single in 47.80 and she and Susan Rutherford the women's double sculls in 54.66 seconds.
Colin Percy of Tyne ARC won the open age 50+ single sculls in 56.04, Paul McCalvey and Rae McKeever of Tynemouth won the open 50+ double in 1m 16.60, and Debbie Jahangiry and Shirley Robinson of Durham ARC won the women's 50+ double sculls in 1m 2.09.
Among the competitors was 78 year-old Clive Hole of Durham ARC who also took part in the last Ebchester Regatta held in 1973.
Medals were presented to winners in each category, the Ebchester Cup went to Lee Fenton for the women's single sculls and the Beveridge Cup was awarded to Jamie McCarron for the open single sculls.
Mick Downworth thanked the organisers on behalf of the club and the community, "Huge thanks for helping make the regatta at Ebchester happen, the feedback we have had is fantastic and the locals are thrilled to bits to have the event back for the village and the Derwent Valley."
Noel Adamson has compiled video highlights of the day – part 1 and part 2.
Visitors are invited to come and use the club's boats and have a BBQ in exchange for a donation of £3 per person for upkeep. The club has already hosted groups from rowing clubs including Hexham, Gateshead, Tynemouth, Durham and Tyne.
Andy Jaggard of Durham ARC is also offering a series of sculling programmes based at Ebchester, Durham and Derwent Reservoir, and there are plans for the River Derwent to be used as a location for junior members of clubs in the region to develop sculling skills in preparation for the exercises they are required to carry out at the British Rowing Junior Championships.
The Sunday League continues at Talkin Tarn on September 1st and Tyne United on October 6th.
For further details about how to join Ebchester Boat Club please email ebchesterbc@gmail.com
This entry was posted in Event News on August 9, 2019 by Colin Lawson.
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THE ILLINOIS BAR JOURNAL TAKES A LOOK AT LAW-RELATED WEBLOGS . . . Weblogs are on the cover of the Illinois Bar Journal's May issue in "Do We Blawg and How," by Helen W. Gunnarsson.
You'll find lots from law-related webloggers in Gunnarsson's article, including Judge Richard Posner, Denise Howell, Matt Homann, Dennis Kennedy, Cassandra Crotty, Steven Jakubowski, Peter Olson, Joel Schoenmeyer, Jeremy Richey, Ernest Svenson, Larry Ribstein, Linda Beale, Lawrence Solum, and me.
Gunnarsson's article is a great resource for any lawyer who's new to weblogs and is wondering what all the fuss is about. Highly recommended.
UPDATE: Oops, it appears that the link to the article, which works for me, only works because I'm a member of the Illinois Bar. I thought the article was generally available because I got to it without entering a password, but the site must have been reading a cookie. I'll do what I can to fix the situation.
UPDATE 4/30: The link should now be working. Thanks to the Illinois Bar for working on the problem over the weekend.
TIKI BAR TV AND LAWYERS . . . It was in Blawg Review #38 (the one about weblogging and how I do it) that I mentioned that I can't get enough of the videoblog Tiki Bar TV. While I admit it's an acquired taste, no self-respecting lawyer should miss Episode 15, wherein the cast fixes a broken legal system with a drink called Out of Court Settlement.
Why Rolling Stone didn't mention Tiki Bar TV in its article "The Rise of the Video Blog," I don't know. Is it too weird for the masses? Maybe, but from what I understand, the masses like it pretty much. For example, it's one of the top video blogs on i-Tunes. Not an easy thing to do . . .
UPDATE: Wikipedia's entry on Tiki Bar TV.
AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBLOG . . . "Practical Advice for New Lawyers from a Curmudgeon."
*Risks of LASIK eye surgery include loss of vision, anisometropia, epithelial ingrowth, flap melt, aniseikonia, double vision, hazy vision, fluctuating vision, glare and haloes, undercorrected or overcorrected vision, dry eyes requiring use of punctum plugs to reduce tear drainage, corneal ulcer formation, endothelial cell loss, ptosis, and much, much more.
Well, my last post generated quite a lot of comments and interest, so I feel obliged to follow up in one particular area.
Ted at Overlawyered thinks my analysis of what constitutes a "frivolous" lawsuit is fallacious (he called it "sophistry," which has a bit of an ouch factor to it), but I think when we're talking about something as important as restricting access to the courts, we need to know where one's starting point is. Hence, I defined what I think constitutes a frivolous lawsuit as "one that gets dismissed, either by a motion to dismiss because it doesn't state a claim, or on summary judgment because there's just no relief available under the law." I stand by that definition, and here's why.
9/11 FAMILIES REQUEST GOV'T DOCUMENTS, GOV'T SAYS NO: IS IT REALLY ABOUT SECRECY? . . . In the Zacarias Moussaoui case earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that famlies suing over 9/11 in a civil case should be granted access to the government's case files against Moussaoui. Before she ruled, Brinkema said, ""It is amazing what some agencies think is secret. As a culture, we need to be careful not to be so wrapped up in secrecy that we lose track of our core values and laws."
The 9/11 families are represented by Ron Motley, the asbestos and tobacco lawyer. Motley told CNN, "We have not asked the government to give the 9/11 victims one single thing they didn't provide to Moussaoui's lawyers."
Though both sides are debating secrecy, the government's main concern is probably something else. More likely, it's a desire to obstruct Motley's lawsuit. At last count, Motley was suing 105 defendants for allegedly financing Al-Qaeda, including large Middle Eastern banks and wealthy Saudi individuals and corporations. As Overlawyered once noted, "The U.S. government has been highly critical of the freelance use of private litigation to second-guess the state of U.S.-Saudi relations."
Meanwhile, Motley's own stash of secrets might very well equal the government's. Working on the case, Motley and his staff have amassed "the world's largest free-standing database of intelligence on Islamic terrorism." See UK Times, "Breaking the Al-Qaeda Code." Motley did it large with his own money, spending more than $18 million to purchase intelligence information from around the world. It may not be long before the government is seeking access to Motley's files, not the other way around.
1. "Ron Motley's 9/11 Class Action: Following the Money Trail"
2. The Legal Underground Podcast Episode #39 (An inside look at the 1999 law drama "The Insider," with a focus on plaintiffs' lawyers Ron Motley and Dickie Scruggs).
FAILING TO TAKE WEBLOGS SERIOUSLY: HOW I FAILED TO SPOT A TREND . . . As a guy with a couple of weblogs, it might seem like I'm pretty hip to the blogging movement and all, but the truth is I'm still stuck in the 20th century. My problem is that I just can't seem to take blogging as seriously as everyone else.
Case in point: When law professors starting to get all exited about weblogs a few years ago, what did I do? Did I congratulate them for their ambitious vision? Did I commend them for their embrace of new technologies? Did I jump on their bandwagon? No, I mocked them, more or less, with a post: "Law Professors: Blog Your Way to Tenure."
Boy, was I wrong. The law-professor-blogging-movement has taken on so much steam that they're holding a conference about it tomorrow at Harvard: "Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship." It's an opportunity for them all to get together and study "the impact of blogs on the legal academy." I read about it at Althouse. You can even rub elbows with a bunch of the participants who will be hanging out together in the same room (and posing a serious threat to the law-professor-blogging phenomenon should a meteor strike): Randy Barnett, Howard Bashman, Douglas Berman, Paul Butler, Paul Caron, Michael Froomkin, Eric Goldman, Gail Heriot, Christine Hurt, Orin Kerr, Peter Lattman, Jim Lindgren, Betsy Malloy, Ellen Podgor, Larry Ribstein, Gordon Smith, Dan Solove, Larry Solum, Eugene Volokh, and Ann Althouse.
Not all of those luminaries are law professors, but it's still quite a list. I wish them luck as they get together at Bloggership to discuss "the role of the law professor blogger" and "the many faces of law professor blogs" and "law blogs as legal scholarship." I hope they remember that if anyone tells them that a blogger is just a writer with a cooler name, they should distinguish that statement on its facts--"Yes, except we're law professors. We're more than just writers. And now we're the uber-bloggers."
It's true. Law professors are the uber-bloggers. Not only do they have the best conference locations, but they also get the most law-blog traffic. I officially stand corrected.
UPDATE 4/28 Professor Althouse is live-blogging the conference.
AT MY TRIAL PRACTICE WEBSITE . . . "So You Can't Think of a Reason Law Libraries Are Useful?"
April 27, 2004: "'Ordinary Blog Day': A Discouraging Recap of a Failed Experiment"
April 29, 2005: "Advice to Young Lawyers #29 (should I kill my litigation adversary?)"
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On December 13, 2013 we held the "No one should go hungry at Christmas" a wine and cheese event in support of Feed Nova Scotia. We requested our guests bring either food donations or money for Feed Nova Scotia. We raised over $500.00 and 60 KG of food.
On October 10th, 2013, we hosted a wine and cheese silent auction in support of Avalon Sexual Assault Centre. We raised over $6,300.00 in 3 hours to support their programs, counselling, education and immediate medical response.


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We anxiously watched a veil of rain move toward and then over us as we cranked our loaded touring bicycles along a two-lane road in Eastern Oregon. My cycling partner, Donnie Kolb, and I still had ten miles to go before we reached Big Bend campsite along the John Day River. We knew that if we wanted to make it before dark, we needed to keep pedaling, even if it meant getting completely drenched.
Then a bolt of lightning set fire to a nearby ridge.
We hit the brakes and eased our bikes to the side of the road. Just over halfway through the 174-mile Old West Scenic Bikeway, one of eleven scenic bikeway routes throughout the state, we considered our options. We could ditch our bikes and hunker down in a low spot to wait out the storm, though there wasn't much to hunker under, and we'd end up finishing after dark. Or we could push on until we changed our minds or reached camp, whichever happened first.
"Let's make a break for it," I said, trying to ignore the wildfire on the ridge, though it had ignited a pine tree in a giant blaze of orange.
We pushed our bikes back onto the road and pedaled through the storm. When lightning struck too close for comfort, we sprinted for the protection of roadside barns, where we waited among hay bales and old pickups. Lightning aside, we navigated flooded sections of road, doing our best to dodge errant rocks, sticks and chunks of mud in the torrent. The conditions were dreadful—we couldn't help but laugh and press on.
As the storm dissipated and the sun set, we reached our campground. We pitched our tent under a juniper tree and changed into dry clothes. On the black ridge behind us, the wildfire burned high. By morning, it had disappeared.
Our bike touring adventure began under sunshine and blue skies the day before in John Day, a 1,700-person cowboy town populated with restaurants such as the Squeeze-In, Snaffle Bit and Outpost.
We stopped at Kam Wah Chung, a state heritage site based on a former general store and medical clinic for the Chinese immigrant community in the late 1800s. After spreading sunscreen and affixing our panniers, we set off on a counter-clockwise loop through Grant County that would cover a total of 10,200 vertical feet in a little more than three days.
Accustomed to the damp mossy greens of Portland, I was excited to explore the dry eastern expanses of the state, where tumbleweed dances across wide-open fields, collecting in barbed-wire fences, and thunderstorms blow in without warning. I wondered how I would acclimate to the extreme change in landscape, and what I might learn on the journey.
Kolb had done many bike tours before, but I'd just gotten my first taste of multiday riding earlier in the summer. Still, the Old West trip seemed relatively easy to pull off. For one, the planning was straightforward. The Oregon Scenic Bikeway website offers an interactive map that displays the amenities along the way, including lodging options, food-and-drink establishments, bike shops, attractions—including a paleontology center—and an 1860s gold mining town.
Also, because the state endorsed this as a bike route, we knew that the road would not be overrun with cars, there would be an adequate shoulder, services along the route would fall at reasonable intervals and the course would be beautiful enough to justify its "scenic" title.
During our three-day journey, we experienced both the parched high desert I'd expected and the intense thunderstorms I had not foreseen. We traveled over mountains, meadows, river valleys, pine forests, fossil beds and a handful of towns, most smaller than five square blocks.
The weather, too, delivered variety. We encountered rain and lightning, yes, but also temperatures so hot we poured water over our heads to cool down, winds so strong we dropped into our handlebars to decrease our resistance—and conditions so pleasant we lingered during breaks to soak it all in.
We rode thirty miles the first day, to the well-manicured lawn of Bates State Park. Day two's eighty-four miles took us through a wide, grassy valley, then up and over Ritter Butte, the ride's most grueling climb. Later in the day, we rode alongside the Middle Fork of the John Day River to scrappy, dirt-floored Big Bend campground.
Pedaling through the open air, we could hear sounds normally blocked by windshields: locusts clicked and snapped as they leapt across the pavement, hawks kee-eeee-awwwed as they circled overhead and red-winged blackbirds took off, feathers beating in a flurry.
Throughout the ride, my companion and I dismounted in every town we passed to take a break from the saddle, chat with locals and stock up on food we'd need for the next stretch of road.
On the second day, for example, we stopped at The Stampede Restaurant in Long Creek (population 200) for sandwiches and homemade boysenberry ice cream, and twenty miles later at Boyer's Cash Store in Monument (population 150) for the mac 'n squeeze cheese and two jugs of potable water we'd need to make dinner.
Despite riding into cowboy country in spandex and sports glasses, I found a friendly reception. Many drivers waved as they passed, and a number of businesses, such as the charming Oxbow Restaurant & Saloon in Prairie City, displayed signs out front that read, "Two Wheels Spoken Here."
On the fifty-one-mile third day, we hit the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument around 11 a.m. The massive formations towered over us in cake-like layers of red, orange, cream, blue and green. A paleontological site dating back forty million years, the John Day beds contain remnants of long extinct plants and animals (including tiny, fanged creatures called mouse-deer).
That night, we slept on a futon at the Bike Inn hostel in Mt. Vernon. Located in a small, side-yard structure of part-time cycling tour leader Christy Rheu, the hostel (pay by donation) offers a bed and sleeping bags—as well as a full kitchen stocked with eggs laid by resident chickens.
Lounging on the inn's deck at the end of the day, we chatted with other cyclists and downed two large pizzas from the gas station down the road. After eight final miles the next morning, we were back at the car.
The Old West Scenic Bikeway holds a raw and mighty beauty that left us awestruck. With soaring temperatures, scarce water and fierce storms, this piece of Oregon demanded more from us than passive admiration. We had to offer it our respect as well—and be willing to embrace its wildness as we pedaled toward the fire.
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HWThis is not my original thought or suggestion, I'm just passing it on because I like it and it's particularly apropos for today.
While I'm certain all writers are different, just as all people are different, and perhaps grouping them together based on a single quality and saying "these people are such and such, and so and so" is not a practical way to go about dealing with the multitude of people on this strange little planet we call home, there is something to be said for the feeling of commiseration and solidarity when someone expresses the exact way you feel or think. The moment of "hallelujah, I'm not alone!" can be like a the weight of a neutron star lifting from the visceral regions, even if it's just for a brief moment.
"In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot less good at the stuff going on outside, which means that quite often if you flirt with us we will completely fail to notice, leaving everybody involved slightly uncomfortable and more than slightly unlaid.
On this Valentine's Day, I hope anyone who has found their soul mate and is madly in love together has a wonderful day celebrating each other and your mutual good fortune.
I hope those who are in love but are afraid to show it find some courage to do something about it, even if it's just to send an anonymous card to the person of your dreams. Who knows, some magic just might bloom. Stranger things have happened.
I hope anyone who is single and loving it has a fantastic day pretty much just like any other day of the week or year; live it up and be awesome!
I hope anyone who is single and wishes they weren't knows it's alright to buy yourself flowers and chocolate, and treat yourself to another viewing of Pride and Prejudice.
I hope anyone who is in love with love revels in the red heart balloons, and the sappy memes, and all the sweet, gooey glory that is Valentine's Day.
To those who despise everything about February 14th, whether it's because you disagree with the corporate commercialization of love and romance, or because you can't stand all the mushy sentimentality, or any other reason, I don't know why you're reading this – go order pizza and binge watch your favorite guilty pleasure TV show, or go rock-climbing, or something.
And finally to anyone who doesn't like any of the above completely arbitrary and subjective classifications and friendly well-wishes that go with them – Happy Valentine's Day anyway!


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Аккулински район (; до 4 август 2018 г. – Лебяжински район) е съставна част на Павлодарска област, Казахстан, с обща площ 8016 км2 и население 12 071 души (по приблизителна оценка към 1 януари 2020 г.).

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The rent prices in real estate in New York, in the New York region have risen considerably in the last couple of months. There has been a strong rise in the rent prices this city.
The price per sq.feet in New York has risen strongly during the last 6 months. In October, the average price per sq.feet was . In the following month the price per sq.feet rose considerably to $4.99. The price for the following two months in (December, January) had a considerable rise of 774 %. The price per sq.feet has had a considerable rise of 531 % in the last two months compared to the average price for the previous four months. This was obtained by comparing the first four months of the period going from a price per sq.feet of $10.9 to $57.9 during February, and March.
When referring to the price in New York (cities), this has risen considerably in the last 6 months. The average price during our first sample month during October, is . During November the price went through a considerable rise reaching $4,015. During the following two months (December, January) the average price had a considerable rise of 189 % with regard to the previous two months. Based on an analysis of the first four prices and the last two months the average price has had a strong increase of 133 % during the last two months.
The graph displaying the average rent price for bedrooms illustrates that those properties with 1 bedroom are the most affordable ones. At a price of $3,695 they are 13 % more affordable than the average price for New York . The properties with the highest average price have 4 bedrooms, Their price is 89 % more expensive than the average. After that we have properties with 3 bedrooms priced at $5,529.
With regard to the average price per sq.feet, those properties with 4 bedrooms are the most expensive ones at a cost of $76.46 / sq.feet, with an average $71.06 / sq.feet price in New York. The properties with the most expensive average prices have 2 bedrooms. They are 20 % more expensive than the average followed by properties with 3 bedrooms with a price at $82.57 / sq.feet.
The graph displaying the average rent prices displays the property type "House" as the most affordable one. At an cost of $3,695 it is 25 % more affordable than the average price in New York. "Condo" is seen as the second most affordable property type. The most expensive property type is "Commercial" followed by "Townhouse". At a price of $3,989 it is 220 % more expensive than the average price.
According to the average cost per sq.feet, the most affordable property is "Condo" at an average price of $4.05 / sq.feet followed by "House" priced at $6.01 / sq.feet. "Townhouse" is the most expensive type of property with a $162.35 / sq.feet value followed by "Apartment" with an average price of $73.79 / sq.feet.


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Home Music Reviews Album Reviews Dinosaur Jr – Green Mind and Where You Been – album review
Dinosaur Jr – Green Mind and Where You Been – album review
Ian Canty
Dinosaur Jr – Green Mind and Where You Been
Both 2Vinyl/2CD/DL
Released 27th September 2019
Reissues of the first two Dinosaur Jr albums recorded for major label Sire/Blanco Y Negro (Without A Sound and Hand It Over are also being made available at the same time)… Ian Canty sees what J Mascis did in his first steps away from the Indie sector…
Taking Dinosaur Jr to one side for a moment, I like J Mascis a lot. Seems to me like a cool cat in his interviews, a genuine type. Whereas a lot of "Rock Stars" can't wait to tell you how phenomenally interesting and outrageous their lives are (usually in a rather needy way I have to say), he comes across honest, downplaying things in his own typical style. His interview for Snub TV around the time of the Freak Scene single was a good example of a man firmly rooted in reality.
Moving along to matters musical, his songs seem brutally frank, sometimes at his own expense and with a sensitivity that is a neat juxtaposition to the often thunderous music. Which brings us to that quite beautiful but brutal guitar sound, a shotgun wedding between Husker Du and Thin Lizzy made in heaven. Personally there are times in the Dinosaur Jr oeuvre when a bit of judicious editing may have been an asset, but I suppose that may have robbed the band of what they were all about.
By the time that they signed for the majors they had undergone a severe upheaval in that Lou Barlow had finally quit the band. It had been in the offing for a while, but even so it was a blow. Lou went onto his frequently fascinating Sebadoh, so in the long run it was a win-win situation. Mascis drafted in Don Fleming and Jay Speigel from Gumball for their parting shot to the independents, the single version of The Wagon issued by Sub Pop.
By the time they signed to Sire through the Geoff Travis-helmed Blanco Y Negro imprint, Dinosaur Jr were just down to J and Murph. Even then J played the vast majority of the instruments on their first album for the label, with Murph just drumming on The Wagon, Water and Thumb. If J had taken total control of Dinosaur then, this situation did not adversely effect their sound. In fact to my ears they never sounded better.
1991's Green Mind has always been a favourite of mine. Though fairly highly rated, there's always been a feeling that this album is overshadowed by Dino's early Indie output and the follow up Where You Been. Listening back on these new editions I've found I still prefer Green Mind. Nothing against Where You Been, it's a really good record, but didn't connect with me in the way its forerunner did. I suppose it was tracks like How'd You Pin That On Me with lyrics like "I'll leave the house when I'm less scared" that seduced the 20-something, shy and slightly reclusive me.
On the face of it, nothing much had changed from their indie days. Maybe a little more in the way of production touches and slightly broader sonic landscape than on Bug say, but not much else. Having the record start with The Wagon single was a masterstroke, a blast of classic fast Dinosaur Jr which gives the LP an immediate momentum it doesn't really let up until the very end.
I've always favoured Blowing It and I Live For That Look, concise and crunchy statements of intent, with words that hint at betrayal and frustration under the surface, though never overtly stated. There's some great buried riffing on Water and the mellotron-powered Thumb stands out too. Overall this is still a truly satisfying album of Dinosaur Jr at their very peak.
This disc is rounded off by eight bonus tracks, mostly b-sides to singles, though Whatever's Cool With Me headed up its own EP. Unfortunately it doesn't include the Don Fleming song Better Than Gone which featured on the reverse of the lean and lovely Sub Pop version of The Wagon, which may upset completists. What we do have here is a lot of fun, with Dinosaur Jr reaching back to their full throttle hardcore punk roots on Pebbles + Weeds and The Little Baby, but also bare and acoustic on the comic look back to Green Mind Quicksand (Wagon Reprise).
The previously unreleased Live From Hollywood set which begins disc two of this set is ok, a decent setlist taking in tracks from You're Living All Over Me and Bug plus Green Mind. They bash out Freak Scene with vigour and Sludgefeast has some thrills and spills. But I much preferred the four "Live B-Sides" concluded this second disc. These tracks came with various 12″ inch versions of Whatever's Cool With Me EP and they have a bit more punch and seem more focussed too. The normally taciturn Mascis does actually talk (a few words only) and it would take a hard heart not to warm to the playful lope of Keep The Globe.
Where You Been followed Green Mind two years later and was their most successful platter in terms of chart action, hitting the UK Top 10 and also spawning a hit single in Start Choppin'. Being released in the middle of the grunge boom they played a big part in inspiring may have helped sales, but it was an undeniably strong set of songs and performances too. Also they were now back to a band format, with Murph reinstated to full drum duties and Mike Johnson (ex-Snakepit) joining on bass.
Opening track Out There, one of the LP's other singles, was a classic rocker with a trippy breakdown, but What Else Is New is nicely fuzzy and restrained, utilising strings and kettle drums well. Spacey near-ballad Not The Same is a delicate delight and is followed by the more country rock stylings of Get Me (which oddly enough reached the number 44 slot on the UK charts as a single, exactly the same mark as Out There). Goin' Home has a lovely warm organ sound and I Ain't Sayin' brings the album to a fittingly bombastic climax.
As with Green Mind, we have b-sides and bonuses added to this first disc. Gram Parson's Hot Burrito #2 gets the loud Dino treatment and the stripped-down sadness of Ghost (Acoustic) is touching. After a downbeat start Forget It kicks into some great riffing and to keep one on one's toes they get Del The Funky Homosapien to rap on Missing Link. A rum end to a mostly pleasing effort.
The bonus disc's crowning glory is the first six tracks which are from BBC sessions. Four tracks come from the John Peel show and two more from The Evening Session and they're all beauts. J employs a seldom-used baritone to good effect on Noon At Dawn, its more laidback treatment really suiting the song and being a nice step away to what had become "the Dinosaur Jr sound". Get Me thrives in this sparse form and Thumb also works excellently as an acoustic piece. The disc ends with a live selection from St Paul's. This has fairly good sound, but the performances seem a little flat at times to me, especially towards the end.
Though there is a tendency to think that Dinosaur Jr were at their best as the classic Murph/Barlow/Mascis line up, these two records and the performance contained herein prove that they were far from washed up on the majors. These are nice reissues that round up most of contemporaneous recordings and provide some neat insights during less guarded moments among the bonus selections. These sets come with good sleeve notes having new observations from J Mascis and a full examination of each album by Keith Cameron. Though around the time of these two LPs many worshipped the bands Dinosaur Jr inspired through grunge at their expense, J and friends still remained at the peak of their powers and far cooler than the herd.
Dinosaur Jr's Websites is here and their Facebook page is here
All words by Ian Canty – see his author profile here
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Joel Derby October 1, 2019 at 07:03
Noon at Dawn is sung by bassist Mike Johnson, not J Mascis.
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It's been a long year for Game of Thrones fans: season seven wrapped in August 2017, and season eight isn't slated to begin until April 2019. As such, many are chomping at the bit to know exactly what happens in Westeros and beyond the wall. Well, good news GoT fans: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau — known as Jaime "The Kingslayer" Lannister on the show — is talking, and boy does he have a lot to say. In fact, in a new interview with HuffPost, the actor confirmed his character is indeed heading north.
Of course, when season seven ended, it appeared the Kingslayer may be headed toward the wall. After finally standing up to his sister, Cersei, Jaime rode off in an unknown direction, but his latest interview confirmed what fans have been speculating.
When asked about Jaime's intentions, Coster-Waldau stated that he and Cersei are playing two "very different games…Cersei's playing the game of thrones and Jaime's playing the honest game of survival, and trying to accommodate both his sister and his brother."Does this mean a character shift is in the cards for Jaime? Maybe. At the end of season seven, Cersei revealed that she had no intention to help Jon Snow or Daenerys in the war against the undead — which is what prompted Jaime to leave — so it seems like he may join #TeamDragons and (of course) his beloved Brienne.
As for Brienne, when asked about his relationship with the Starks' bodyguard/warrior/all-around badass, Coster-Waldau remained tight-lipped: "I don't, well, I know how it ends but… I can't comment on that."
Game of Thrones will return in the spring of 2019.