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A lightning splitter is an architectural design referring to wood-framed homes with sharply angled multi-story gable roof. The sharply angled gable was believed in local Rhode Island folklore to split or deflect bolts of lightning. Architectural evidence suggests that new constructions and modification of existing homes to the style were predominantly in the mid-19th century. By 1980, the number of surviving lightning splitter homes was believed to be about half a dozen.

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Lightning splitters are named from the folklore or superstitious belief that the sharp angle of the gable will deflect or split lightning. The unique style arose in and around Providence, Rhode Island with the greatest prominence in constructions or modifications occurring in the mid-19th century.

Surviving examples
 The Bicknell–Armington Lightning Splitter House is the only example that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Constructed around 1827 and heavily modified around 1850, this house is named for the first two owners of the property.
 The Daniel Pearce (c1755 - 1800) House at 53 Transit Street in Providence is another historic example. Constructed about 1781 and modified to the lightning splitter style circa 1860, the home exhibits a narrower and sharper angle than the Bicknell-Armington House.

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Harajuku is a popular Tokyo neighbourhood. So much so that many might conclude that it is a guaranteed tourist trap, luring us into the packed, pop-idol lifestyle that permeates the area. More than often than not, a visitor here can end up being swept along Takeshita Street by the hordes of shee-ple and be so overwhelmed by the lights, noise and atmosphere that there is no fun in the experience. But if you are someone who enjoys seeing though the hodgepodge of flashy signs and general hubbub, there are a number of little-known shops and cafes only slightly removed from the usual hum of tourists where one can find a pleasant experience and maybe even a moment of peace.
If you're anything like me in the morning, you'll probably require at least one caffeinated beverage before your day has truly begun. Not one to shy away from the bizarre, l found mine opposite Yoyogi Station. With slight trepidation I approached a cute coffee booth that purported to specialize in "Butter Coffee". Having never heard of such a thing, I nervously ordered the house special. From my ignorant initial observation, the beverage in my cup appeared to be plain milky coffee. I was shocked upon my first sip by the subtle undertones that the butter incorporated into that smooth coffee taste that we all know and love. It was unexpectedly delicious! Even though everything happening inside was clearly visible from the street, I still have no idea how they managed to incorporate butter into the coffee without leaving a trace of oil or scent.
Coffee in hand, l headed south towards Harajuku via the 'scenic route' of little side streets, which were slightly more maze-like than I had anticipated, although I eventually found my way through.
I don't think it's possible to go to Harajuku and not indulge in some form of sweet treat. In keeping with that tradition, I found a couple of places to satisfy my sweet tooth. Fortunately, both are a little removed from the usual hustle and bustle of Harajuku, enabling me to walk off some of their calories, too.
The first was only a short walk from Harajuku, just to the south of Yoyogi Park and NHK. It's a hidden gem, aptly named the "World's Second Best Freshly Baked Melon-pan Ice cream shop" (1-15-9 Jinnan, Shibuya-ku). I should point out that Melon-pan is so-named for its shape, not its flavour. It's a sweet round bun that looks a bit like a melon, but tastes like a cross between a scone and a waffle. The beautifully warm, soft interior and crunchy crust Melon-pan I got here, packed with a generous portion of ice cream was a welcome treat in the unexpected sunshine this winter.
Despite being a small hole in the wall, the shop had a variety of ice cream flavours to accompany their excellent bread. This is one time when I am happy to "settle" for "Second Best" and am certain to make multiple return trips in order to give all their flavours a try.
After devouring every last crumb of my Melon-pan, I headed east towards Meiji-dori and Omote-Sando and then north towards Sendagaya dodging the plethora of main-stream clothing stores that litter the area. At last I emerged from the Harajuku crowds to reach the second shop to entertain my appetite: Kippy's COCO-Cream (2-6-3 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku), a dairy-free ice cream parlour that makes its ice cream from coconut water, honey and a host of other organically-sourced ingredients. The variety of coconut flavours they've managed to create is simply staggering and, combined with the assortment of available toppings, easily assuaged my remaining cravings for a sweet.
As I meandered north, continuing to walk off my sweets, I stopped by Hatonomori Hachiman Shrine in Sendagaya to be greeted by the soft rustling of wind through a small bamboo garden and a gentle trickling of water in the Temizusha. After a quick prayer that I don't develop diabetes from eating so much ice cream, I settled into BiRd & rUby, a cozy coffee shop overlooking the shrine entrance.
The seating area couldn't have been any larger than 3 metres square and during my coffee drinking and sunshine absorbing not a single person entered to disturb the shop's silent atmosphere, giving me the perfect chance to bask in the pleasantness of my day…and to finish a book I had been reading.
These are great stories, well written and very inviting. Perhaps someday a travel experience book for the coffee table?
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Attorney: Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson's career is over
The Mayor of Ferguson tells CNN that Darren Wilson is still with the police department on administrative leave and has not worked out any resignation.
#Ferguson Mayor: #DarrenWilson still with police dept. @CNN http://t.co/PFt9byqf0H
— OutFrontCNN (@OutFrontCNN) November 27, 2014
OutFront, attorney for Officer Darren Wilson, Neil Bruntrager.
Filed under: Ferguson • Michael Brown • News
Michael Brown's parents blast Officer Wilson
In an interview with CNN, Michael Brown's parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., shared their discontent for Officer Darren Wilson's version of events, saying their son would never have taunted the officer, nor reached for his weapon.
Brown's father didn't mince words when he spoke about Wilson: "He's a murderer."
"He understood his actions. He understood exactly what he was doing. You know, he didn't have a second thought, a pushback thought, or nothing. He was intending to kill someone. That's how I look at it," Brown said. "He was going to kill someone at that point."
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Grand jury documents reveal possible missteps in Ferguson investigation
After the jury decided not to indict Darren Wilson, hundreds of pages of testimony and evidence were released to the public.
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OutFront, Doctor Cyril Wecht, a forensic pathologist and CNN legal analyst Mark O'Mara.
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At first glance, you may mistake the Q Marshal for a conventional watch, a feature that seems now to be the aim of many smartwatch makers. The watch comes in a variety of bands including leather, stainless steel, and silicon.
I tried it on for myself at IFA in Berlin, and it felt comfortable. The face and band were a little bit too big for my wrist, but the circular display was attractive. Unlike some other smart watches, the Q Marshal features an always-on display, which Fossil says gives the Q Marshal a battery life of about 24 hours, depending on use.
The Q Marshal is powered by Android Wear, but the watch is also compatible with iOS as long as users have the Android Wear app downloaded on their iPhone. Its features are ones we've come to expect from all smart watches and include activity tracking, music control, and notification alerts.
In terms of design, the Q Marshal's heavy, circular build is reminiscent of Samsung's Gear S3, which I also had a chance to try on. Unlike the Q Marshal, the Gear S3 did not have that awkward little zone in the bottom of the circular watch face meant to house the watch's sensors. Both watches also have a built-in speaker that allows users to answer calls straight on their watch, though of course, the phone still needs to be close by for this feature to work.
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Stars of David: David Mamet
by Marnie Winston-Macauley
Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet stands up for Israel.
The year 2008 was a very strange one for the Liberal literati of New York and Hollywood. It was the year they believed playwright, screenwriter, director, essayist, novelist and poet, David Mamet, "outed" himself as a Conservative. For many of his peers, Mamet, might as well have declared himself a serial killer.
The "outing" came in the form of Village Voice op-ed entitled, "Why I am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal." It was followed by his 2011 book, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, a tale of his bitter disenchantment with liberalism, his blog since 2005 on Huff Post, and his frequent, outspoken interviews.
In abanding the State of Israel, the West reverts to pagan sacrifice.
After his Conservative "Manifesto," all hell broke loose among Mamet watchers.
Hey, Mamet isn't some "culture-lite" writer or right-wing aging actor trumpeting for an AK47 in every drawer. This is a Pulitzer Prize-winning guy, whose works include Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), Speed-the-Plow (1988), The Verdict (1982) and Wag the Dog (1997). He has been a force of such magnitude that his dialogue; rapid-fire, edgy, cracking, naturalistic, intruding style bears his name: "Mamet-speak."
Predictably, The Wall Street Journal mostly sent roses, the New York Times and The Economist mostly sent thorns (their reviewer called Mamet's Secret Knowledge "baroque lucubrations," a "tedious and simplistic rant"), while unpredictably, The American Conservative went nay. The most famous of zig-zaggers, the late Christopher Hitchens, threw those thorns calling it "one-dimensional," "sloppy," "shallow" "propagandistic," and "more boring than irritating." (The book is still a hot seller on Amazon).
While he's been embraced by many on the Right, remember where Mamet lives; in the largely liberal world of the New York/Hollywood "artiste." Distilling the rhetoric, Mamet has not merely been accused of being a turncoat, but, among other things, nihilist, cultish, self-serving – and nuts. Here are just a few titles of rebuttal articles: "David Mamet's Fatal Conceit," "Writer David Mamet: Man overboard," and "David Mamet Gets Lanced-a-Lot."
The Israel Factor
Interestingly, it was Israel and Judaism that ultimately "turned" him with the help of his rabbis, Conservative economists, and commentators. For example, in a January article in Newsweek, "Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm," he looks at attempts at gun control through the point of view that "any governmental determination of an individual's abilities must be based on a bureaucratic assessment of the lowest possible denominator," then compares the logic to the foolish inhabitants of Chelm. "We modern Solons delight in passing gun laws that, in their entirety, amount to 'making crime illegal.' What possible purpose in declaring schools 'gun-free zones'? Who bringing a gun, with evil intent, into a school would be deterred by the sign?"
The roots for his beliefs are deep and follow a trajectory. However, regardless of your politics or his other views, it is specifically his position on Jews and Israel that we focus upon.
Mamet was born in 1947 in Chicago to Jewish parents. His father, Bernie Mamet, was an attorney who specialized in labor law. His mother, Lenore June (née Silver), was a teacher. His parents divorced when he was 11, and it was more sour milk than honey for David and his sister, also a playwright, who shuttled from home to home. Yet from this background he honed his Mamet-speak. (We Jews have been known to be passionately "naturalistic" – and interrupt on occasion.)
Like many of that generation, he grew up around Yiddish-speaking immigrants whose goal was assimilation. He credits his current wife, actress Rebecca Pidgeon, along with his second trip to Israel in 2002 as a guest of the Jerusalem Film Festival, for "unearthing" his roots. The city was under siege by suicide-bomber attacks, and Mamet was deeply moved by the thousands who attended the festival despite the Intifada and terrorism.
Even before what others called his so-called Conservative "epiphany," and with characteristic openness, Mamet broadcasted his ardently, unapologetic pro-Israel stance in the Huff Post, and in his 2006 collection of essays, The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-Hatred, and the Jews, in which he wrote: "I believe we have to be frank: The world hates the Jews. The world has always and will continue to do so."
In Huff Post, he wrote: "Israel is a sovereign nation, founded by United Nations Charter in 1948. Since then, she has been both chronically and acutely under attack… Israel wants peace, the Arabs want Israel gone." He goes on to say the Western media sees Israel as "somehow the aggressor, and the Israelis as somehow inhuman, and delighting in blood." The Jews, he claims, are not the victims of rotten PR, but rather victims of anti-Semitism.
Any reference to whether we brought this on ourselves is, to Mamet, an outrage, similar to asking a rape victim, "How short a skirt were you wearing?" He vehemently adds: "How did 'The Jews' cause Hitler to kidnap Europe?"
And now? "Israel we are told, has somehow so inflamed the Arabs, that [Israel/the Jews] will bring the world to the brink of destruction… Israel's Jews are no more the cause of Arab Fundamentalist rage than they were the cause of European Fascism. We, as always, are the miner's canary, singled out as, and the first victims of national or global unrest."
In The Wall Street Journal (December 13, 2011), Mamet wrote: "In abandonment of the state of Israel, the West reverts to pagan sacrifice... As Realpolitik, the Liberal West's anti-Semitism can be understood as like Chamberlain's offering of Czechoslovakia to Hitler, a sop thrown to terrorism."
Mamet assigns Western media coverage of the Middle East conflict to mob psychology and "Love of the Victim." Hey, as entertainment, it sells. He writes: "There is something of the sadomasochistic in the Left's love of the Palestinians, whom audiences are conditioned to see in the role of Woman in Jeopardy."
Israel is paying the price. Despite facts, or sense, the Palestinian road show is skewed drama, allowing the audience to sit back and enjoy. For to exercise reason would require them to actually do something.
His is also a vociferous wake-up call to Jews everywhere. In The Wicked Son, Mamet confronts what he sees as a perilous predilection among some Jews, who have internalized this self-loathing, to exclude themselves from the fray, and analyzes the consequence when they abandon their heritage to garner acceptance in Israel-bashing liberal society. "It is the sin of the spies, a 'coward generation' with a 'lack of belief in God.' People have a drive to worship something, and will fill the void left by rejecting God by worshipping sports, celebrities, 'wealth, fame, status, sex, physical fitness, good works, human perfectibility."
Keep it Simple, Stupid
Not unlike his naturalistic dialogue, Mamet's message is simple:
The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
The Liberal West would like the citizens of Israel to take the only course which would bring about the end of the disturbing 'cycle of violence'... abandoning their homes and their country... Is this desire anti-Semitism? You bet your life it is. (Secret Knowledge)
So why clutter simple convictions and bold-face evidence?
A May 2006 study of Saudi Arabia's revised schoolbook curriculum discovered the following statements:
Eighth grade: "As cited in Ibn Abbas: The apes are Jews."
Textbooks for 9th graders: "The annihilation of the Jewish people is imperative."
In May, 2010, The Global Muslim Brotherhood reported with glee, that the Hamas Deputy Minister, Abdullah Jarbu called Jews "foreign bacteria" that should be "annihilated."
Mamet is saying: Is this not anti-Semitism? Is annihilation not the agenda? Does one need to straddle? Analyze? Pontificate? Debate? When the pogrom comes, he predicts, even lapsed Jews will search frantically for doorways with mezuzahs.
Far less often is he quoted as also saying: "Some of the allegations against Israel are substantial… Sometimes it's in the right and sometimes it's not. Well, of what country is that not true?"
The man who many critics have anointed a worthy successor to Henry Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Eugene O'Neill, has created a fray and enters laughing, much like, well, a wildly talented, 65-year-old Bart Simpson. Hey, he's been "frayed" before. "I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old!" he says.
But Mamet, who directs films and wrote the screenplay for the 1987 smash, The Untouchables, knows in some circles he's become "untouchable" in Hollywood. Says Mamet: "All of a sudden, kaboom, half the country won't speak to me anymore." He doesn't give a damn. He's content to be with family and a few old good pals such as Jonathan Katz and William H. Macy. As for the public? "No one's gonna catch cooties by seeing a play from an opposing point of view," he retorts.
David Alan Mamet is a Star of David – for his courage, his stand-up roar, his artistic and political risk, and for his bottom lines:
"There has always been a different standard for the Jews… We're human beings only when it suits the world to treat us as human beings. There's a pretty good book on the subject – the Torah."– David Alan Mamet
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Quirky, no-nonsense, funny, Marnie – writer, editor, author, lecturer, clinician, and administrator – is a straight-shooter, who has a distinctive voice and takes on the world in her columns, features, and books. Marnie, who did her graduate work at Columbia University writes relationship features and advice columns.Her advice column was syndicated through Tribune Media Services, and it currently appears in Singular magazine as Singular Solutions and the San Diego Jewish Journal. Marnie has written over 20 books/calendars, including the series "A Little Joy, A Little Oy." Her books include "Yiddishe Mamas: The Truth About the Jewish Mother" and "A Little Joy, A Little Oy" (winner best calendar content, pub. AndrewsMcMeel). She is also a "calendar queen" having written over 20. She has been nominated for both an Emmy and Writers Guild award. Thefullwiki.org has listed Marnie Macauley on their list of top Jewish_American writers, dead or living. (She's still deciding which.) She was also chosen as a Distinguished Woman in Nevada in March of 2014.
Marnie invites you to join her on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Her website: www.marniemacauley.com and you can reach her at asksadie@aol.com.
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(10) Anonymous, October 14, 2014 10:15 AM
David Mamet, you are a great man!
A true human being in a world of non-thinking robots.
(9) brura, September 17, 2014 11:55 PM
I am glad that David Mamet, extraordinary and talented person that he is, comes out on this subject even after such a cost to his own public life. However, how much more would it have cost him to keep silent? I am glad that he is willing to ignore that risk and proceed. Well done. Thank you.
(8) Ofra, February 3, 2013 3:43 AM
Thank G-d you no longer brain dead liberal!
To live in your world in Hollywood and among liberals it does take courage to stand for Israel. Thank you and G-d bless you!
(7) PHIL PELTZ, January 24, 2013 3:33 PM
Classic Marnie
Excellent research resulting in a fascinating piece. Any moronic comment to the contrary notwithstanding.
(6) Nettie, January 22, 2013 8:26 PM
Truthful and Honest
That is the earmark of Marnie's writing. She is very astute in her logical analyses of a person or a situation and she can skillfully guide you to her conclusion. Her writing style is interesting and provocative at the same time a joy to read.
marnie, the author, January 24, 2013 2:51 AM
Thanks so for your comment. You "got" it! After plowing through literally hundreds of pages of research ... I found that some his detractors have a bit of merit ... yet ... many appear far more interested in flagellating us with a barrage of verbiage, so abstruse, so obscure, they "pretzelize" the basics. Apart from annoyance ... I was drawn to Mamet's simplicity on this issue, and attempted to convey it. Shalom with love, Marnie
(5) Anonymous, January 22, 2013 8:01 PM
Remember Marshall McLuhan: The medium is the message.
David Mamet has never been doctrinaire. He makes his living as an intentionally pungent, over-the-top provacateur, a tireless deflater of whatever false platitudes he sees as prevailing wisdom. His modus operandi, at least as I have seen it from American Buffalo to Race, is to rub playgoers' noses in their own hypocrisies. For me, this leopard has not changed his spots very much at all, he's just moving through a different jungle.
EXCELLENT INSIGHT
Agreed. In researching this article, his is a trajectory rather than an epiphany. Fortunately, he turned his words on this critical hypocrisy re: views toward Jews and Israel. Thanks for writing, Shalom with love, Marnie
ofra, February 3, 2013 3:57 AM
I do not know much about Mr, Mamet, and I hope you wrong about him and he is a real conservative,and not just for headlins in the news!
marnie, the author, February 7, 2013 10:55 PM
He's for Real:)
After tons of research, I truly believe he believes what he writes. Indeed, taking this position has been "risky" among his peers, and may have had, if anything, a negative effect financially and socially. Hope this helps. Shalom with love, Marnie
(4) Jordan, January 22, 2013 6:40 PM
Someone agreeing with me doesn't make them right...
While I respect Mamet as a writer, his analysis is indeed sloppy and his arguments can be both silly in the extreme and lack any mooring in facts. Consider that even your quote of Mamet contains factual inaccuracies (Israel was not "founded by the United Nations Charter"). Just because I agree with someone, even a brilliant prose writer, doesn't mean that they are correct or should be taken overly seriously.
(3) Marnie, January 22, 2013 5:22 PM
Marnie, well-written and fascinating piece
as usual. Thank you. Very, very inspiring man. To change after so many years is extremely difficult and rare. Thank you Marnie.
Anonymous, January 23, 2013 2:03 AM
another Marnie? :)
Thrilled to pieces! LOL Thanks for writing and the kind words! Shalom with love, Marnie M (LOL)
(2) Barry is, January 22, 2013 2:07 AM
Kuddos to Mamet's courageous voice
My wife has a an autographed copy of one of his plays somewhere given by her university alma mater as an award in her theatrical contributions.. that is the only reason I know of Mamet, and I share Mamet's birth year. I am so glad that the author of the playbook my wife cherishes is also a man that I can respect. Guess I should read his plays as well. :)
(1) Stephen Berr, January 22, 2013 12:44 AM
David hit the nail on the head
I have finally found someone who expressed my concerns perfectly. though I think of myself as a liberal, I am sometimes concerned about liberal cant, and while I am concerned about the path that Israel takes some times, I am concerned about Israels future. Mamet putting it all under the umbrella of a never ending near universal anti-semitism is perfect. The only thing wrong is that is makes me want to repack the suitcase that every Jew secret keeps packed. What happened in 1939 Germany is again close to happening again, but where is not yet apparent. It could be anywhere, including the U.S.
THANKS FOR THE COMMENT AND THOUGHT
In my research, I came across several pieces, one in particular, I believe in The NY Times ... that, when the rhetoric was distilled, essential made the point ... "Hey, this is post-War thinking! We Jews aren't where we were," etc. Personally, I disagreed. While paranoia shouldn't run amok, nevertheless ... to believe for a moment that we're no longer facing anti_Semitism on a global level ... esp. now when our Homeland is faced with such turmoil, would be much like saying: "It can't happen here" when we should be saying: "It WON'T happen here!" Shalom with love, Marnie
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Whole Foods: The Preview
The doors open officially on Thursday (Oct. 18) at 9 am, but on Monday night there was a preview party to whet the neighborhood's appetite for its newest tenant, the "South Capitol Hill" (#SoCHill) Whole Foods at the corner of New Jersey Avenue and H Street, SE.
This has been a looooooooong time in coming--just a smidge over 10 years, to be exact. While I could write all sorts of words about all of the store's offerings--the coffee and juice bar, the wine bar, the local foods, the large prepared foods section, the fish and cheese mongering, and much more--I think soon enough everyone will be able to see it for themselves, and so I'll just be content with slapping these photos up for about 60 hours of pining.
Except to mention the quinoa. There's quinoa. Lots of quinoa.
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CJBabyDaddy says: (10/15/18 11:38 PM)
Whole Foods, Schmole Foods. What's the latest on the movie theater?
Lambau88 says: (10/16/18 7:37 AM)
Looks great. Cheese mongering? Such a thing exists???
Any idea on regular hours?
smitty2k1 says: (10/16/18 8:38 AM)
Do I remember reading that there is going to be a sandwich shop opening inside of whole foods or in that same building? Need something to replace the Taylor Gourmet hole in my heart.
MarkB says: (10/16/18 8:50 AM)
Any news on when the Chase branch down the street will be opening
malatesta says: (10/16/18 8:52 AM)
There's a fast casual type situation inside, but they literally ahve two sandwiches wings and fries and that's it. I think I saw pics on JD's Twitter?
JD says: (10/16/18 10:39 AM)
Yeah, there's not a sandwich shop. It's the Philly Wing Bar, but it's from a Top Chef contestant so it's trying a bit too hard.
malatesta says: (10/16/18 10:42 AM)
I mean, it is a whole foods, so trying too hard is like the whole deal, right?
Edna says: (10/16/18 12:08 PM)
$5.99 / lb. for quinoa? Ouch. And I'm not one of those Whole-Foods-is-soooo-expensive people, but that seems really pricey.
Ampersand says: (10/16/18 1:28 PM)
JD I'm duly impressed by your ability to predict the location of the eventual WF that long ago!
JD says: (10/16/18 1:35 PM)
That's why you guys pay me the big bucks, right? :)
Westnorth says: (10/16/18 3:08 PM)
Yawwwwwn. Wake me when it's time for happy hour. (Oh wait, I missed that!)
Hastings says: (10/16/18 7:21 PM)
I noticed two bright orange signs on the WF front doors regarding a hearing on December 1 for a license to serve alcohol. Does that mean the store will not be serving beer or wine at the in-store bar when it opens? So much for our office's plans to hold a happy hour there next week!
DCCyclist365 says: (10/17/18 9:46 AM)
The Whole Foods on H St has $5 beer and wine on tap all day, every day. Do you know if this location will offer the same?
JD says: (10/17/18 9:58 AM)
I imagine they have a provisional license in advance of the hearing. They were serving alcohol at the preview.
Don't know the prices. We'll find out soon!
Barre3 announces its opening on Monday, Oct. 22: link
griffey82 says: (10/18/18 12:42 AM)
someone above asked about the movie theater. Rumor has it they lost the tenant bc it took DC Water so long to tuen over the parcel. Now they're looking to ahrink it from 16 screens to 7 screens ans get a new operator in.
jdc says: (10/18/18 9:12 AM)
Not to rain on THE DAY of ALL DAYS with other news, but demolition has begun at old GSA warehouse.
There are indeed premade sandwiches. And everything else. It's quite something. Pics: link
JES says: (10/18/18 9:54 AM)
Holy crap, that dry aged beef locker..... *drool*
JES says: (10/18/18 1:22 PM)
Just went for lunch. Chef Kwame is there all day serving up Philly Wing Fry orders. Also, I've never seen a grocery store that crowded before, lol. link
walt says: (10/18/18 3:50 PM)
Shrinking the movie theater from 16 to 7 screens would be ideal! 16 Screens is too much.
Oh yeah, and uhh... given the absolute mess that the NJ & I intersection was today, we now officially need a traffic light there.
malatesta says: (10/18/18 7:45 PM)
You guys, Whole Foods is good now.
202_cyclist says: (10/19/18 11:32 AM)
This was lost among all of the excitement surrounding the Whole Foods opening (The Store That Shall Be Named) but I saw someone from the BID leading a tour of approximately thirty people in suits around 2:30 PM on Monday. Perhaps Jeff Bezos wants Amazon II to be close to the new Whole Foods.
202_cyclist says: (10/19/18 12:37 PM)
The Hill Rag has some very exciting news for the neighborhood-- a two-story bakery is coming to Half Street.
JD says: (10/19/18 12:40 PM)
Not news. I mentioned the bakery along with the announcement of the Commons: link
GarfieldPark says: (10/19/18 1:00 PM)
In addition to a traffic light at NJ/I, they should think about a crosswalk on NJ Ave by the Whole Foods area. They used to have one there, I'm wondering why they took it away?
Packinblackandred says: (10/19/18 1:26 PM)
@GarfieldPark I think they only put it up there for when the Whole Foods construction blocked off the east sidewalk. I do think it should stay though.
What also needs to happen is that the fences blocking the Garfield Park underpass need to go away.
And the more I look at the completed western end of the tunnel project, the more I think that there was an opportunity lost to request that the tunnel be extended to New Jersey Avenue, to allow for a more free flow of foot traffic to and from Garfield Park and H Street. (and that little closed off section of Virginia Avenue, should it ever reopen)
B in DC says: (10/19/18 2:34 PM)
JD, several folks requested that in the EIS process but were told that it was outside the scope of the project and would not be considered. I agree that would have been a great outcome.


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How Toyota kept making cars when the chips were down
A global semiconductor shortage has hobbled the auto industry in 2021—but Toyota was able to tame it. Competitors are watching and learning.
Eamon Barrett
One of the most hopeful signs of recovery from the pandemic slowdown was the global surge in consumer appetite for new cars. But that momentum was brought to a screeching halt by a crippling semiconductor shortage—one that left auto manufacturers slowing or even stopping production as they scrambled to secure enough chips to build vehicles.
The unexpected spike in demand wasn't the only factor in the shortage: A series of unpredictable disasters also tangled the semiconductor supply chain. A freak cold snap in Texas in February shut down factories at top chipmakers. Drought in Taiwan around the same time threatened to dry up the island's semiconductor supplies (since chipmaking requires pools of water to wash away industrial chemicals). Then, in March, a fire tore through a factory at Japan's Renesas—a key chip supplier for the industry.
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Aftershocks rippled through assembly lines and car lots worldwide. As early as January, Ford and General Motors warned of shortages. Since then, they have halted assembly lines where they have failed to secure chipsets to power their cars' onboard computers; GM cut production by 278,000 units through May, and Ford had to reduce global production 50% in the second quarter. European automakers buckled too. Volkswagen, Daimler, BMW, and Renault each slashed their manufacturing totals. Thousands of workers were idled or furloughed, while would-be car buyers suddenly faced weeks-long waiting lists. All told, consultancy AlixPartners says the chip shortage will cost automakers globally about 4% of total sales this year—some $110 billion in forgone revenue.
But not all carmakers have suffered equally. While rival OEMs (or original equipment manufacturers, as automakers are known) stumbled, Toyota kept production largely on target until May. The company has said factory closures owing to chip shortages would cause a shortfall of 20,000 vehicles in Japan—less than 1% of Japanese production in fiscal 2021. Toyota's North American production, meanwhile, hummed along at 90% of capacity for the year through June. That prolonged productivity propelled the company to a rare victory: In the second quarter, it was the No. 1 automaker by sales in North America, marking the first time since 1998 that GM hasn't held the top spot.
With the global semiconductor shortage now expected by some to stretch into 2022 or beyond, competitors are taking notice. "Other automakers are looking to Toyota and seeing that obviously something has made them less vulnerable," says Michael Weber, a partner at consultancy Bain & Co. "Now other OEMs are trying to learn from what Toyota has done."
Toyota's handy navigation throughout the shortage is more than just good luck: It's good management. Over the past decade, Toyota has overhauled the way it oversees its supply chain—implementing hard lessons it learned a decade ago after the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami devastated swaths of Japan's industrial heartland. Those gradual reforms prepared the company to ride out the current chip crisis, executives say. And just as the success of Toyota's "just in time" (JIT) manufacturing model led automakers the world over to imitate the company in the 1980s, the company's new advances may spawn another wave of imitation.
Unlike many of its rivals, Toyota essentially stockpiles chips. That's a deviation from JIT, which dictates that supplies reach the production line only when they are needed. (Stockpiles occupy valuable space on the factory floor, as well as on the company's books.) In practice, Toyota's suppliers do the actual stockpiling. Like all automakers, the company relies on a multitude of components that contain semiconductors, such as smart displays or audio systems. Toyota requires suppliers of those components to maintain up to a six months' buffer supply of chips dedicated to Toyota orders—just in case.
According to Tu Le, founder and CEO of auto industry consultancy Sino Auto Insights, most automakers don't engage in Toyota's level of micromanagement. But the current shortages show why such Type A approaches are invaluable—especially given that for most chipmakers, the auto industry isn't the highest-priority client. "If a chip shortage lasts more than three months, it's not really a chip shortage," Le says. "It's poor supply-chain management."
Few sectors have supply chains as complex as the auto industry's. OEMs design and assemble the vehicles they sell in their brands' showrooms, but every OEM relies on a network of hundreds if not thousands of suppliers to provide component parts. And Toyota's effort to tame that sprawling network stretches far beyond the semiconductor world.
The company learned the value of forging stronger relations with lower-tier suppliers after the Fukushima tsunami struck in 2011. In the aftermath, Toyota struggled as individual parts manufacturers dropped offline. The company readied engineers to help repair suppliers' damaged plants, but Toyota managers quickly realized they didn't even know how to find all their contractors and subcontractors. "They didn't know the sub-supplier's name, they didn't know their telephone number, they certainly didn't know their address," says Jeffrey Liker, author of The Toyota Way, a definitive treatise on Toyota's production system. In the first hectic weeks after the quake, Toyota managers encamped in a war room, putting out endless phone calls to gather information about their far-flung network of component makers. Details were scrawled on Post-it notes and slapped on the walls.
If a chip shortage lasts more than three months, it's not really a chip shortage. It's poor supply-chain management.
Tu Le, founder and CEO of auto industry consultancy Sino Auto Insights
Eventually, those stopgap measures evolved into a comprehensive management system that Toyota dubbed Rescue—the Reinforce Supply Chain Under Emergency system. Rescue is a centralized database containing thousands of nodes that map out Toyota's suppliers, and its suppliers' suppliers. When a crisis occurs, supply-chain managers fire up Rescue to pinpoint which producers and parts are at risk of disruption and quickly make alternative plans. During an earnings call last year, Toyota's then chief of supply chain and procurement, Masayoshi Shirayanagi, said Rescue has shortened the time it takes Toyota to locate the source of problems from two weeks to just 12 hours.
Rescue is also a vital part of Toyota's Business Continuity Plan (BCP), which specifically calls on suppliers to stockpile chips. Another element of that plan is "parallel sourcing"—using multiple suppliers to source the same part for different marques. If one should falter, Toyota shifts orders to an alternative, to keep production going. That network of alternative suppliers helped it weather factory closures during the early stages of the pandemic in 2020—and could come in handy in crises to come.
The chip shortage has instilled a greater sense of urgency in the rest of the industry about protecting its supply chains. Ford CEO Jim Farley suggested on an earnings call in April that his company would strike direct relationships with chipmakers, to "eliminate vulnerabilities"; in June, GM CFO Paul Jacobson said GM might do the same.
READY TO ROLL: A RAV4 Hybrid SUV on the assembly line at a Toyota plant in Georgetown, Ky. Toyota was able to tame supply chain problems that idled many of its rivals' production plants.
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In Europe, a consortium of companies led by BMW and software giant SAP are going further: They're building a Europe–wide supply-chain database akin to Rescue called Catena-X. The Catena-X consortium was founded this March; in contrast to Rescue, which only Toyota has access to, it aims to build a database of suppliers that any member automaker can use. Volkswagen, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz are all founding partners.
The project must navigate thorny issues of data ownership and privacy protection, but its stewards insist a shared platform is the best solution to recurring shortages. "It took a long time for us as an industry to really recognize that the existing structures with little supply-chain oversight no longer work, and I think we learned that the hard way," says Oliver Ganser, chairman of Catena-X and head of data driven value chain at BMW.
Ganser says a system like Catena-X can also play a role in the quest for sustainability. As governments and investors increasingly hold companies accountable for carbon emissions across their supply chains, an ultra-detailed, optimized database could help manufacturers stamp out pollution problems. Climate change itself makes a compelling case for adopting better management tools: This year's Texas cold snap and Taiwan drought, for example, reflect the volatility of weather on a warming planet.
In the meantime, the ripple effects of COVID-19 continue to keep automakers in crisis mode. In July, Toyota had to suspend operations at three production plants in Thailand after an outbreak of the virus shut down a key component supplier there. "There's a deep belief in the automotive industry that there will be more shocks to the supply chain in the future," Bain's Weber says.
The silicon in your SUV
Automotive semiconductors make up a $35 billion market; these three chipmakers are particularly big players.
INFineon (Germany)
2020 revenue: $10 billion*
It was an unwelcome shock when Infineon's Texas factory was knocked offline by a snowstorm in February. Infineon commands about 13% of the automotive chip market and earns 43% of its revenue from that sector. The company was already straining to meet demand: Like many chipmakers, it outsources a lot of production to Taiwan chipmaking giant TSMC—limiting its ability to adjust production schedules.
Renesas (Japan)
2020 revenue: $6.5 billion
In March, a fire stopped production at one of Renesas's Japanese plants, sending $156 million worth of production up in smoke. Renesas, a key supplier for Toyota, was unable to restore 100% of the factory's operations until the end of June. In 2011, the same plant was disabled for three months following the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami.
NXP (Netherlands)
NXP is having a strong 2021 despite two of its Texas plants having shut down temporarily in the February storm. The company earns 50% of revenue from the automotive market, where chip-hungry clients are placing long-term orders that can't be canceled.
*For fiscal year ended 9/30/20
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Jamie Foxx: Oscar winner, soon game show host for FOX's "Beat Shazam"
Posted by Sean L. McCarthy | Jan 11, 2017 | News, TV | 0 |
You've seen Academy Award winning actors and actresses in TV ad campaigns, perform stand-up comedy, guest host sketch shows and award shows. But until now, you've never seen someone go from Oscar to game show host.
Jamie Foxx will host Beat Shazam this summer on FOX.
Foxx, who broke through on FOX a quarter-century ago as a cast member on In Living Color before starring in his own sitcom and later winning the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Ray Charles in the biopic Ray, will be front and center in the new interactive game show set for primetime and based upon the popular app, Shazam.
FOX announced the moves today during its annual winter session with the TV Critics Association.
"Jamie is a quadruple-threat and creative genius," said executive producer Mark Burnett said in a statement. "He is an incredible actor, comedian, singer and dancer. Also, his musical knowledge is so great that he could probably… Beat Shazam."
"Shazam is one of the most beloved apps in the marketplace, and can identify millions of songs in a matter of seconds – whether you're using it to discover a new band or to identify a newly released hit from your favorite artist," noted Don't Forget the Lyrics creator Jeff Apploff. "It reaches more than 160 million music lovers worldwide, and combined with Jamie Foxx's amazing talent and worldwide star power, we simply can't imagine a greater team to create the next big music game show."
Beat Shazam will have teams of two contestants face off against each other and the clock in a name-that-tune game, and winning teams then face off against the Shazam app itself. Apploff, Burnett, Foxx, Rich Riley and Lauren Zalaznick executive produce, with production from MGM TV and Shazam Entertainment Limited.
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Commentaire : Trading rare Doors material; Echanges des The Doors qui est rare.
I also have other material which is not listed; J'ai plus de matériel qui n'est pas montré.
Long Beach Sports Arena - Long Beach, CA Enregistrement "audience" (2ième source) 1st Generation Clips of "Universal Mind" & "The End"; Clips des "Universal Mind" & "The End"


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I knew it was going to be a great day out when I got to Halesworth Station: for a start, the sun was shining, and I like that. I'm not one of those brooding types who goes in for the pathetic fallacy of saying, "Ooh, I love cold, rainy weather", as if this somehow confirms the dank seriousness of their own inner life. No, give me May sunshine, and a trip to a small Suffolk terminus with a museum in the old ticket office, and I'm as happy as a sandy beach boy. And what a museum! Complete with Iron Age artefacts, and a lady at a desk who looked at me suspiciously when I asked her where the public toilets were, presumably because she herself hadn't had a bodily function since the coronation.
I detoured into the centre of town to perform my offices, then retraced my revolutions — I was on the fold-away bike — and headed for Holton, a mile distant. I've known the seaward part of this area since childhood, but I'd never been to Halesworth before. I think of east Suffolk as a landscape of repose and ingress: the lion shall drink Adnams, then lie down in an osier bed and sleep for a decade. It's not overly oppressive like the breckland of Norfolk, or the fens of Lincolnshire, but gently rolling like the lightly rumpled duvet of a snoozing Ceres. Church spires and the sails of windmills loom above the fields, so that over miles you can orient yourself by the twin — and immemorial — poles of English rural life: God and bread.
The particularly fine windmill at Holton beckoned me into the village, and shortly thereafter I was cycling up the track towards St Peter's Church — flint-knapped, round-towered, 11th century at a guess — where, in the vicarage, my purchasers were waiting for me. Yes, it was that time of the year again when I spent a day with the successful bidder in The Independent's Christmas charity auction. This year the Reverend Liz Cannon had bought me, ably assisted by her husband, David, a retired systems analyst, who — among other talents — has internet auctions down to a fine art.
Liz — as did David — grew up in Norwich, and it was to there — after spells in Lowestoft, Ipswich and London — that she returned after her first husband died, in order to raise her son and daughter. She was raised a Methodist, worked in education, and always had a strong faith. However, Anglicanism, like her vocation, seemed to have rather crept up on her: a slow-burning conviction of the universality of God's love, and the need for her to convey it. She was ordained as an Anglican priest at Norwich cathedral almost 12 years ago.
And after a curacy in Norfolk, during which she and David met and married, they moved to a parish at Cross Roads near Keighley in West Yorkshire. The parish abutted the Brontë's Howarth, but it was more the experience of working in a hilly, and ethnically mixed community, that struck the couple. That, and the way the position crept up on Liz: "Initially I found the moors very claustrophobic, and the town looked very dour. The Archdeacon said I should take as long as I wanted to think about it, and when we came back again it all seemed completely different." They stayed for six years. "I remember being at the big anti-war demonstration in Bradford, and feeling quite intimidated by all the chanting, but then thinking to myself: we're all on the same side here, we're part of a community."
Eventually, however, Liz and David returned to East Anglia, and I could understand why as we left the vicarage and strolled down paths, past apple orchards, to the old Southwold railway line, which we followed into Halesworth. Over the Millennium Green ("It was quickly established," David told me, "to stop Tesco grabbing it for a superstore") came the sound of St Mary's Church bells, a carillon being rung — I was told — in my honour.
Well, things don't get much better than that — but they did: I got to meet the bell ringers, and then, after lunch at the Angel, the three of us strolled back to Holton. Talk had been eclectic: from the Archbishop of Canterbury (Liz's employer), to Bernard Matthews (a big local employer, until his turkey-processing plant went down with bird flu). And we'd also discussed my pet notion that the places we end up staying in choose us, rather than vice versa.
As we looked round St Peter's, David said to me, "You know, I've been thinking about your idea that places choose people, and I think there's a lot to it. When I was a boy my parents often drove down this way to get to Southwold, and when Liz and I were first together we did the same thing. I never paid much attention to the area, but perhaps it was choosing us after all."
That's east Suffolk for you, a broad landscape of ingress and repose, not unlike the Anglican Communion.
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SW Virginia Notes: Florence's expected effects shuffle football slate
Kevin Mays • Sep 11, 2018 at 9:30 PM
Football in Southwest Virginia is one of the multitude of things affected by the anticipated arrival of Hurricane Florence along the East Coast later this week.
While it is rightly not on the top of anyone's list of worries when it comes to the impending hurricane, football in the region still has to be addressed with a bunch of nasty weather expected to hit as far inland as the Virginia-Tennessee border.
In anticipation of lots of rain and wind and just plain ugly weather, several of this week's games in Southwest Virginia have been moved up a day and will be played Thursday night instead of Friday night.
Among the now-Thursday games are: Wise Central at Virginia High, 7 p.m.; Twin Springs at Patrick Henry, 7 p.m.; Holston at Castlewood, 7 p.m.; Christiansburg at Abingdon, 7 p.m.; John Battle at Lebanon, 7 p.m.; Richlands vs. Blacksburg at Christiansburg, 6 p.m.; Northwood at Twin Valley, 7 p.m.; and Galax at Rural Retreat, 7 p.m.
As of Tuesday afternoon, games still scheduled to be played Friday night include: Union at Ridgeview, 7 p.m.; Daniel Boone at Gate City, 7 p.m.; Eastside at Lee High, 7 p.m.; and Thomas Walker at Rye Cove, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE GAMES AFFECTED, TOO
As of late Tuesday, the Concord at Virginia-Wise football game is still set for a 1 p.m. kickoff Saturday at Carl Smith Stadium. But another small college game in Southwest Virginia was canceled outright. Emory & Henry and Methodist canceled their Saturday meeting that was to be the home opener for E&H.
The game was canceled to accommodate Methodist. The Fayetteville, N.C., school closed Tuesday until further notice to allow students to go home in anticipation of the hurricane.
King also postponed Friday and Saturday home volleyball matches with Barton, of Wilson, N.C., and Mount Olive, located just northeast of Wilmington, N.C.
KEY GAMES
Two high school games to keep an eye on this week will both still be played Friday, weather permitting.
Union at Ridgeview
It's still early in the season and others, particularly Abingdon, may very well have something to say about it. But many anticipate this to be the Mountain 7 District football championship game.
Last season, Ridgeview made some noise when freshman running back Trenton Adkins emerged on the scene. Union won the contest 34-19, but Ridgeview won six straight after that before losing in the opening round of the Region 2D playoffs.
This season, Ridgeview is surprising no one and Union is still strong. Both teams enter the game with 3-0 records. There will be a crowd on the ridge; come early if you want a seat.
Thomas Walker at Rye Cove
At the beginning of the season, this was just another game on the calendar. But in an interesting Cumberland District race this season, this game is key for both the Pioneers and homestanding Eagles.
Thomas Walker is looking to contend for the district title with Cumberland powers Eastside and J.I. Burton, but Rye Cove could provide a stumbling block. The Eagles under new coach Cheyenne Osborne, who is making his second trip at the helm of the program, are riding high after winning their second game in as many years last week against Hancock County.
The Eagles believe they can win and that is a big part of the puzzle in building a successful program. It's one step at a time for Rye Cove, but a win over Thomas Walker would be a giant leap.
TOP SIX PICKS
Here's a look at the top Southwest Virginia high school football teams in our region with their rankings, record heading into this week's games and how they fared last week.
1. Union (3-0) beat Letcher County Central, Ky. 34-7
2. Ridgeview (3-0) beat Wise Central 54-0
3. Chilhowie (3-0) beat Twin Springs 51-0
4. Abingdon (2-1) lost to Pulaski County 42-14
5. Richlands (1-1) did not play
6. Patrick Henry (3-0) beat Eastside 53-46
Houston Thacker, J.I. Burton
The robust personality that is J.I. Burton senior Houston Thacker is the Southwest Virginia player of the week.
Thacker threw for a career-best four touchdowns in the Raiders' 38-13 win over Lee High last Friday night.
NEW BURTON BASEBALL SKIPPER
Jacob Caudill has been named the new baseball coach at J.I. Burton.
Caudill, a 2008 graduate of Burton, replaces Jim Adams, who managed the Raiders program for the past eight seasons. Adams — who has been with the Burton football program for 40 years, including the past 21 as head coach — resigned the baseball post earlier this year in order to focus on football and improving his health.


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Joe Piscopo: I'm not raising money to be N.J. governor -- yet
Updated Jan 5, 2017 ; Posted Jan 5, 2017
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By Claude Brodesser-Akner | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
"Saturday Night Live" alumnus and possible 2017 Republican governor candidate Joe Piscopo stands on the convention floor by the New Jersey delegation at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Piscopo is a self-described lifelong Democrat who is now an independent. Wednesday July 27, 2016. Philadelphia, PA, USA (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
TRENTON -- Joe Piscopo's not running for governor -- at least, not yet.
"I'm not raising money, and I haven't officially declared," said Piscopo in an telephone interview with NJ Advance Media on Thursday afternoon.
The former "Saturday Night Live" star, who was raised in North Caldwell and now lives in Lebanon Township in Hunterdon County, said he is "just doing due diligence" and exploring a run for governor, speaking to Republican leaders in the state about what would be involved.
He said he was misquoted by New York Post columnist Cindy Adams, who reported on Thursday that he was raising money to run for governor of New Jersey this year.
He also insisted he hadn't taken a shot at President-elect Donald Trump in the New York Post story, which quoted him as saying "Unlike Donald, I'll put my business interests aside."
Piscopo tweeted a correction on Thursday.
Piscopo, who hosts a daily talk radio show on New York's WNYM 970 AM, said that "I only know what I read in the paper, that Trump is separating his business interests."
Trump last month announced that he was shutting down his charitable organization. The Donald J. Trump Foundation after reports surfaced that it was being used as a possible channel for those seeking influence.
However, the president-elect has yet to explain how he will cut his ties with the business he's built, and this week, a prominent group of Republicans -- including former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman -- sent an open letter to Trump calling on him to resolve his conflicts of interest.
Joe Piscopo at Trump rally: 'I am not drinking the Kool-Aid'
The Jersey comedian made a surprise appearance at a Florida event for the presidential candidate
Recently appointed counselor to the president-elect Kellyanne Conway told CNN on Monday that Trump would address this on Jan. 11, but the date might shift, depending upon the advice of his lawyers.
Piscopo was also quoted in the New York Post as describing himself "an Independent. A lifelong Democrat who'll go in as a Republican because the Democrats are all taken."
Mark Serrano, spokesman for Piscopo clarified Thursday that "if he runs, he's inclined to run for the Republican nomination."
The Post also reported that Piscopo said that "politicians are helping me" and that "Chris Christie, who's great, I know for years."
On Thursday, Piscopo said he has not been advised by the governor.
Piscopo was in Trenton last month to receive an award from an Italian-American civic organization, but said that he had neither asked for nor received any advice from Gov. Chris Christie when he popped in to the governor's office unannounced.
"We had a couple laughs, we hugged," said Piscopo. "It was very jovial, fun. It was just a few seconds, just paying my respects to the man, 'cause I was in his house."
He said that he'll decide in the coming weeks if he will declare his candidacy, but said his family is urging him to jump in.
"The family's on board," he said, "if I went."
Claude Brodesser-Akner may be reached at cbrodesser@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @ClaudeBrodesser. Find NJ.com Politics on Facebook.


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Rev. Harry E. Winter, O.M.I.
Father Harry E. Winter is a Catholic Priest who has taken a strong interest in Lynnside and Sweet Springs. He worked closely with Lynn Spellman in the 1980s and was the key figure in getting the Lynnside Historic District named to the National Registration List of Historic Places.
After an absence of many years, Father Harry returned to Lynnside and Monroe County in August 2014. His description of that return, posted at the web site of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, United States Province, is here.
Harry Winter was born on December 18, 1937, in Norwich, NY. He took perpetual vows in the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, in Roviano, Italy, September 8, 1961, and joined the priesthood, in Rome, Italy, December 16, 1964. The Oblate of Mary Immaculate was founded in 1821 by St. Eugene de Mazenod, see here.
His academic training includes a Licentiate in Theology, from the Gregorian University, Rome, Italy (June, 1965) and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (December, 1976).
His teaching and academic background includes serving as an Instructor of Theology at Oblate College (Seminary) in Washington, DC (1965-67), Professor of Philosophy and Theology, at Oblate College (Cluster of Independent Theological Schools), Washington, DC (1970-75), and President of Oblate College, Washington, DC (1994-97).
From 1979-94 he was Pastor at churches in Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina and served on ecumenical commissions in each diocese. It was during his service in Union, West Virginia, that he became interested in Lynnside and the role of Letitia Preston Floyd as an important early Virginia convert to Catholicism.
From 1998-2006 he was Pastor at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Buffalo, NY.
He is currently (2014) Director of the Oblate Residence, 104 N. Mississippi River Boulevard, St. Paul, MN, 55104. His website is www.harrywinter.org.
His article about Letitia Preston Floyd, his description of the Lynnside cemeteries, and his History of St. John's Chapel, are linked at the top of the table of contents of this web site here.


HOUSTON (AP) — A Harvard University economist found that although police nationwide are more likely to use nonfatal force against blacks and Hispanics, that racial bias didn't translate to the use of deadly force by officers in Houston, one of the country's largest and most racially diverse cities.
Roland Fryer published a draft study this month that found that police were more than twice as likely to manhandle, beat or use some other kind of nonfatal force against blacks and Hispanics than against people of other races. Those findings were based on a federal survey detailing interactions between people and police and 10 years of data from the New York Police Department's controversial stop and frisk program.
But it was the Fryer's assertion that Houston police data showed "no racial differences in officer-involved shootings" in the nation's fourth largest city that raised eyebrows. The study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that Houston officers were 23.8 percent less likely to shoot at blacks and 8.5 percent less likely to shoot at Hispanics than they were to shoot at whites.
For his study, Fryer collected data about police-involved shootings from 10 law enforcement agencies — Houston, Dallas, Austin, Los Angeles County and six cities or counties in Florida. Although he drew some conclusions from all 10 data sets, Fryer relied mainly on Houston's because it was the most complete. The police department gave him unprecedented access to incident reports and other data regarding officer-involved shootings and arrests for crimes such as aggravated assault in which officers could have used lethal force, but didn't.
Of the 507 officer-involved shootings in Houston from 2000 through 2015, 52 percent involved black civilians, 33 percent involved Hispanics and 14 percent involved whites or people of other races.
Blacks make up about 24 percent of Houston's population — Hispanics make up about 44 percent and whites 26 percent — but Fryer said it wouldn't be fair to draw conclusions based solely on a comparison of a racial group's percentage of the total population and the percentage of members of that race being shot by police. So his study took into account several contextual factors, including the race of the officer and the person shot and the circumstances under which an officer encountered the person, among others.
"This doesn't speak to the questions being asked in the paper. The contextual factors of each encounter are important, which is why we focused on getting as granular data as possible," he said.
Fryer, who last year became the first African American to win a prestigious award given to the top U.S. economist under the age of 40, also cautioned that his findings shouldn't be seen as evidence of broader national trends.
"What I hope this paper leads to is a desire for more and better data that we can use to continue to ask questions and understand the role of race in police-civilian interactions," Fryer said in an email.
But the study has its detractors, some who have been critical of its methodology and its assertive conclusions about a lack of racial differences in officer-involved shootings.
"There is never going to be the perfect study because there is no objective evidence of what happens during each encounter," Justin Feldman, a Harvard doctorate student studying data on injuries and fatalities in order to monitor police violence and who criticized the study in a blog post, said in an interview. He added that there have been many other studies that have found racial bias in police shootings.
Some Houston community activists have also criticized the study for not including input from residents about their interactions with police and for relying only on police data, pointing out that the department has deemed nearly every officer-involved shooting over the past 11 years as justified. They also pointed out that the number of blacks shot by police is disproportionate to their population size.
Responding to criticism the study has received from Feldman and others, Fryer said he has been busy "working with cities across the country on making police data more accessible in order to expand our analysis in the future."
There is no national database on police-involved shootings, which has led to a piecemeal approach to examining the issue by academics and news organizations.
Justin Nix, a University of Louisville criminal justice professor who researches police use of force, called Fryer's work important but said it only represents a small sample size. He also cautioned against only focusing on a minority group's population percentage to make conclusions.
Martha Montalvo, Houston's acting police chief, said Fryer's study is an example of her agency's efforts to be transparent.
"I'm not naive enough to stand here and say we're perfect ... that we don't come with bias," she said. "We set those biases aside because there are policies in place and because of training."


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Roi-des-Belges ("Rey de los Belgas") o faetón tulipán era un tipo de carrocería utilizado en vehículos de motor de lujo a principios del siglo XX. Era un faetón doble con una carrocería abultada cuyo aspecto "sugería la forma de un tulipán". Las protuberancias traseras de la carrocería acomodaban dos asientos de esquina a los que se accedía desde la parte trasera por una puerta central con un pequeño asiento abatible.

El estilo Roi-des-Belges comenzó con un Panhard et Levassor de 40 hp de 1901 con una carrocería Rothschild, encargado por Leopoldo II de Bélgica, Roi des Belges. El estilo fue sugerido por la famosa bailarina Cléo de Mérode, quien se suponía que era la amante de Leopoldo.

El estilo y el nombre "Roi-des-Belges" se utilizaron en muchas marcas de la época, incluidas Mototri Contal, Packard, Rolls-Royce o Spyker, y Renault, así como por  distintos carroceros.

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 Carrocería Roi-des-Belges, 1907, sin restaurar. Nota forma de acceso al asiento trasero

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#1: WHAT IS YOUR NUMBER ONE DEAL-BREAKER FOR A POTENTIAL GIRLFRIEND?
Paul Wall says: I think bad breath is...just hard to get past. Someone with just horrible breath, yeah. I'm not talking about just onion breath. I'm talking about you been brushing your teeth and using the mouthwash and it still smells like you've been tongue-kissing the toes of a gorilla—that's horrible. I know it's bad sometimes when we wake up in the morning and I might not have the most pleasant breath out there, but man, ladies have to have good breath.
#2: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ALL-TIME SNEAKER?
Paul Wall says: Jordan, any Jordan!
#4: WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD A WEEK-LONG HOLIDAY?
Paul Wall says: Watching baseball somewhere with the family, having fun. I love to watch baseball in Fenway Park. They have an awesome energy there.
Paul Wall says:I don't know man...uh...oh, codeine! But that's not even in my fridge, I keep that in the pantry.
#6: WHAT WAS THE WORST WAY YOU'VE BROKEN UP WITH SOMEONE?
Paul Wall says: Twitter! [Laughs.] Nah, just kidding. I've never really broken up with somebody before. I've been broken up with. One time a girl just left me a note on my car...that's it man. Now if the tables were turned I don't know. I'm married now, but if I were to break up with someone it would be on Twitter.
#7: WHAT WAS THE MOST EMBARRASSING FASHION MOMENT FOR YOU?
Paul Wall says: I used to have this jersey, it was a Kenyon Martin jersey, with a little grease stain on it, I didn't think anyone else could see it. I looked down to my jersey and I was like, "OK, I'm good." Next thing I know I'm seeing all these pictures of myself with a big ol' grease stain. Now I'm a big boy, and its one thing to be a big boy, but to be a fat boy with a big nasty mustard stain on your shirt, that was just embarrassing.
WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH WANTING AN OBAMA TATTOO ON YOUR NECK?
Paul Wall says: I had been talking about it for a while. A lot of my homeboys have tattoos of gangsters on their necks, like John Gotti or Al Capone. So I said I was gonna get Obama, but my girl told me if I did, she wasn't gonna give me none. Once she said that I was like, "Let me chill." I'm not ready to make a trade out like that. We'll see if he gets us out of this recession first.