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Heartbreaking: 94-Year-Old Widow Receives Remains of POW Husband
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Clara Gantt
NBC Los Angeles
Ninety-four-year-old Clara Gantt's wait to be reunited with her husband ended before dawn Friday on a tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, Calif. But it was not the ending she had hoped for after six decades, NBC Los Angeles reports.
Her husband, Army Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Gantt, died as a prisoner of war in 1951 during the Korean War. For more than 60 years, he was presumed dead until his remains were identified at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and forensics labs in Honolulu, the report shows.
Over the decades, Clara Gantt held out hope that her husband would someday return home. But she sobbed as she stood over his flag-draped coffin, saying she was grateful to finally be in his presence again, the report shows.
"I am so happy that I was living to accept him," she told NBC. He will be buried in Inglewood, Calif., this month, the report shows.
Read more at NBC Los Angeles.


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This release brings over all the previous features except the Trivia Track but makes up for that loss with a new interview feature.
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TALENT programme launches leadership scheme for women in technical roles 21 October 2021
Current or aspiring technicians keen to develop their leadership skills are invited to apply for a new scheme launched as part of the Research-England funded TALENT programme.
The scheme is the UK's first leadership programme designed for people in technical roles who identify as women.
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Raw Soul –…
Raw Soul – In Another Life…
Raw Soul – In Another Life… – EP Review
"Can't deny that your boy can make a jam, strawberry jelly comin' straight from the man…" #truth!
But you already KNOW, don't ya? You tuned in to the SBS Podcast already and checked out a sample of what Raw Soul is all about through our first impressions & introduction to this dude from our old home back in BC, where he's based out of in Vancouver. We played his cut called "Fountain Of Youth" from his latest record In Another Life… & talked about the man…if you haven't listened yet, click right here.
What I didn't tell ya on our show, was that Raw Soul would be the first to admit to any flaws you might find on the In Another Life… EP, and credit where credit is due – that takes a certain courage to say to begin with. There's a large part of me too that wants to remind Raw Soul that unless he's got someone poking him with a sharp stick to get things done, he's got all the time in the world to perfect the art if he's so inclined. That being said, when you run up against quotes like "I called it that because maybe in another life I would have actually pursued music seriously. In this one, it's a passion/hobby" – this whole review thing I do becomes a whole other deal…I could recommend things like I'd normally do, but it seems like this dude is happy enough doing what he does already…& if it sounds like this, he should be.
"Lord Of The Flies" starts out the record in a different gear than many of the tunes you'll find on this whole record, in sound & in the attitude that drives it. In what's nearly a complete 180 degree turn or contradiction to that quote you just read up top, it's tracks like "Lord Of The Flies" that clue you into the fact that this all does mean more to Raw Soul than the mere safety he'd find in claiming something he clearly loves doing is simply a hobby. What's real is that this EP was somewhat cobbled together in the sense that he's gathered existing material to make it, as opposed to building it first from the ground floor of a concept – and when you do that, you can end up retroactively adding pieces to the puzzle of all kinds. Hence you get this first cut, "Lord Of The Flies," that still kinda confirms that Raw Soul isn't in this for the money or the fame or whatever…but you can also still hear the undeniable fire & hunger of this emcee at work too…with the presence, personality, and potential to do whatever he WANTS to do. As he'll tell ya direct in this first cut, it's not like this is his first rodeo…he's been rapping for a while now. In the world of Spotify & all that, we've got releases that date back to last year…and I'd imagine that based on what he's been spittin' that his material goes back further than that. So! Let's be generous. Let's say it goes back…hmm…five – no – TEN years! Hypothetically, of course…because I don't really know the facts. And we'll say he…again, for this scenario…let's just say he got a super late start and didn't even hit his first bars until he was twenty five. Twenty-five plus ten…lemme get my calculator out here…that's thirty five (sorry, I'm terrible at all math). Now let's assume that the man is gonna live to 100, just the way he's been keepin' it on the mic – 35/100 now resembles a third of a life, more or less – and I'm supposed to believe that's an age where if you had this kind of talent that Raw Soul has, that NOW is the time where you're like, meh, that's cool I'm got this awesome ability & all, but you know, I'd rather be…what? A banker? A truck driver? A stunt man? What are we doin' here Raw Soul? What is it that would have you hearing what I'm hearing and go – yup, this is a hobby & nothing more? What is it that you're hearing that would stop you from pursuing "music seriously," with all this encouraging stuff goin' on that ANYONE could hear in your music from the simple push of the play button?
My point is y'all…don't go closing any doors that should stay open…I know I wouldn't if I had this guy's talent, but maybe that's just me. I just don't know how anyone goes about reaching or conquering their goals if you don't end up makin' any to begin with, you feel me? I ain't gonna lie…this is all a concern to me, as a peer in the scene, as a listener, as a fan…you name it…but by that same token, just because you end up making something as a hobby or a passion doesn't mean you don't have your heart in it – in fact, most times ya do. Most of the rest of anything surrounding the music like you'll hear is probably much more likely an attempt to stay grounded or humble or whatever…but that ain't my job or role here. My job is to remind people like Raw Soul that the OTHER option is the 9-5 bruh; but if that's more appealing than your dreams are, then hey man, I'll back right off I promise…have at that cubicle & punch-in hoss.
To me, I listen to how "Lord Of The Flies" starts this record out flexing that combination of verbal finesse & wordsmith's craft…I hear how Raw Soul himself sounds invested in the moment and in getting the best outta himself onto these bars at the beginning – and I hear him succeed greatly in doing that…and then I still have to wonder about whether or not he is pulling punches, or if he's got more in the tank that he's maybe holding back because it's a hobby and not something he's pursuing "seriously?" I kinda have to hope Raw Soul knows something altogether different than I do – as far as I know, we get this one life & this one shot at it…and I'm sure as you can tell from this write-up here, I take EVERYTHING seriously…probably too much on the opposite end of that scale really. But what do I know? I'm just a guy with a high-school degree & nothing more, that's been off the grid & outta the 9-5 for more than a decade outta the two he's been 'working' for, who refuses to believe we can't make this life what we want it to be – for any of us – you included, Raw Soul. So when he says "I hope you feel it" at the very beginning on the way into "Lord Of The Flies," you can bet your ass that I DO – and if any of you out there have got this twisted somehow & aren't reading this first part of the review like full support, read it all over again. Raw Soul has fierce presence on the mic, strong conviction in his words at his most intense, and genuine personality that connects at his most humble – and you get a solid mix of all that & more right off the drop as he hits the bars of "Lord Of The Flies" & proves this should be his full-time gig.
Y'all regular readers know I don't waste my time pumping tires where it's not required – so take that to heart Raw Soul, I mean what I say. I get where he's coming from to a degree…you can kinda argue things from both sides when you listen to a track like "Fountain Of Youth" that we played on the SBS Podcast just a couple days back…on one hand, you'll find bars that work the rhythmic angle and play within the scheme by finding the matching words to fit, and you'll also find others that say exactly what he's looking to say. You can look at it from the side of the argument that he's staying on script for what real Hip-Hop is all about – you get that inherent mix for the vast majority of any crew or artist you'll hear out there – but sure, there's more room to focus there if he's looking to sharpen his game further, I'll concede that. Personally, I think he's got it all workin' just fine from the m-i-c, and the man finds exceptional beats & music to rap over…I'm cool with a spread-out mix of words that drifts between what's entertaining & what's real. To me, what's always going to matter perhaps more than anything else when it comes to Rap, Hip-Hop, Trap…hell, damn near any music I listen to really – is whether or not you CAN make us "feel it" – and Raw Soul is particularly gifted when it comes to that department. In my own humble estimation, he gets to make that choice over whether or not to acknowledge he's got an X-factor that most just don't have & embrace that…and of course, in my opinion, he should be. "Fountain Of Youth" is stellar to listen to…slick bars, jazzy beat, rhythmic flow, and for the most part, he's got something substantial to say…I mean, it's essentially all there. Hooks? YUP – he's got those too – the chorus of "Fountain Of Youth" is loaded with'em…strong ones that are guaranteed to stick with ya. I've been spinning In Another Life… for at least a couple weeks now, and as I mentioned, we jammed this joint on our show as well…I can vouch for this cut firsthand & know that it has true lasting power. Each time it's come on in rotation, "Fountain Of Youth" has always been welcomed with open arms & ears.
While I think Raw Soul's original assessment of this record having a flaw in it here & there wouldn't be heard at all by the everyday listener out there, I do get what he means. I find a few spots in the lyrics of "Floating" that I'd be willing to bet he probably would have liked to have added another syllable or two into along the way, but again, the inherent professionalism in this dude never really drops the ball when it comes to the quality overall. As in, the vast majority of anything really DOES prove that "your boy can make a jam" without question – personally, I dig that you'll hear Raw Soul drift through his thoughts like it's all a stream of consciousness coming through the mic…you get a good mix in this regard. Like, take the very beginning of "Floating" for example – you're not even thirty seconds in before you've already experienced the positivity at the start, the humor he'll toss in every so often, the sincerity he possesses, and the introspective somewhat self-deprecating style he tends to view his life through – how's that for range homies? Make no mistake though, as natural as it sounds & feels when we listen, it's still rehearsed & ready to roll, complete with all the bells & whistles like the clever sampling of Obama in the house to back him up on one of the most significant points Raw Soul will make along the way – his cuts are put together as tight as tight can be, even with as loose & organic as they can somehow seem. Raw Soul has also enlisted the talents of Dana Hernandez to drop the hooks into the chorus of "Floating" as well, which was a great call – she brings a truly unique vibe to her moment in the spotlight & diversifies the versatility you'll find in this lineup even more as a result, providing more depth to this set of six. No joke though y'all…there's an audible dose of single-worthy magic in the mix here between this pair of skillful artists on the mic with the bright spirit of the melody & crisp snap of the beat guiding them along.
Performance-wise, you'll find the most intense moments from Raw Soul come through with resounding confidence on "Land Of The Snakes" – it's my least favorite production-wise compared to the rest on this record, but it's definitely one of the stronger cuts on the EP when it comes to the collaborations you'll find & personalities on the mic. Won00 drops WILD bars onto this cut and follows up what's certainly one of Raw Soul's sharpest moments as well…they're both amped-up in their own ways, and they both bring a completely different sound of their own/dimension to the depth of this track. As far as hooks go? Please y'all – "real recognize real" as the man will tell ya – "Land Of The Snakes" has bulletproof hooks that deliver. While the punch on that main beat proves to be tough to harness in the mix and overpowers a bit of the rest that I wanna hear like the jazzy saxophone in the distance at times…at the end of the day, I am definitely not complaining when the rest of the results come out as incredible & inspired as they do. Whatever it is here, I'd be taking a good look at it if I was Raw Soul…because whether it's the collaboration with Won00 that brings it outta him or something else, you're getting a solid dose of some of his very best here…especially in those hooks yo! "Whenever I show up, I'm right on time" as Won00 will tell ya – and he gives you every reason to believe that, handling his business like a serious professional and bringing a spectacularly memorable dose of character to this song & to the record through the uniqueness he has. "Land Of The Snakes" has the advantage of a fantastic collaboration that completely works, but also the fact that it goes for a much more aggressive beat & stylistically slick vibe that stands out for all the right reasons. Awesome breakdown in this cut as well that has Won00 hittin' it a cappella by the end, right before they bring back the ultra-addictive hooks that make "Land Of The Snakes" one of the most memorable cuts you'll find on In Another Life… and a track you'll continue to come back to. I still feel like it could benefit from a slight remix to enhance the music and sink-in the beat & vocals into the atmosphere a bit more – but I really ain't complaining at all…sometimes things come out how they come out, and if this is what we get for now, I've got no problem whatsoever jamming this cut as loud & proud as my speakers will take it.
"Missing This" has got the man deep in the feels…Raw Soul is right up in his head here, thinking internally, and letting us in on a bunch of stuff that's on the inside that obviously needs to get out. Raw Soul's workin' with a really classic style of Hip-Hop & true-to-the-style flow here…and I'm honestly lovin' it – he's takin' me right back to the days of Biz Markie and what made that legend's music so pivotal. I'm not talking anything nearly as extreme as the exaggerated performance he put into his mega-hit "Just A Friend" – I'm talking about the genuine personality & sincerity that came through the way he approached the mic, and that addictive mix of swagger & natural vibes he was capable of – that's what you'll find you get from Raw Soul here on "Missing This." The warped sound of the piano melody is one of my favorite jams he's got in the music supporting him on this record…and even though the bulk of this particular cut is much more introspective & downtrodden than the majority of In Another Life…, you'll find it still has a creatively inspired core to it that's actually kinda uplifting as well. Call it the effect of the art of being real – Raw Soul lets you get to know him a bit more through his words on "Missing This" and gives us insight into a lot of what's important & what matters to him on this cut. Once you get to the mid-section of this track, chances are you'll find you identify & relate to what he's rappin' about – "Missing This" becomes all about missing that spark, the energy, the JUICE you need to be at your very best…falling so far to the point where you're wondering not just where it went, but if it'll ever come back. I know I've been there personally…I'm sure that many of you have been too…the highs & lows y'all – we all go through'em. But I just wanna point out the fact that, arguably even at his lowest here when it comes to his mindset & mood – looky look at what it is that Raw Soul reaches for to pull him outta all that will ya? Spoiler alert – it's MUSIC. Therapeutic, and cathartic yes – but it's also a strong indication that this is where someone really belongs, wouldn't ya say? Music is the natural state of Raw Soul – you might hear him question that FACT in the words of "Missing This" – but him being here to say all this on this cut to begin with, is all the proof you need of what I'm claiming to be equally true as well.
"Penny For Your Thoughts" brings it home and finishes the quick set of six with a cut that Raw Soul could rely on, with one of the advance singles released prior to the In Another Life… EP. Listen to the man break it down for ya in the middle of this cut yo! That's an inspired moment without question – the natural personality of Raw Soul is always guaranteed to connect, and it's spots like that that completely prove it. "Or maybe it's just, you know, some dude spittin' what he wants to spit…just air out some shit" – as he'll try to convince ya…he's kind of the master of the undersell when it comes right down to it. Which might very well play into his future, because when you're doing that & you've got skills like he does, you end up over-delivering on all our expectations, and continually surprising us with something new along the way. That being said, I think Raw Soul is actually exceptionally self-aware, knows right where he's at, knows what tiny things he can twist to evolve & improve…and deep down, knows he's onto something special that works for him, and connects to us as listeners. All the clues you need to confirm this, are right here in this final track…like when he'll tell ya direct that "I continue to scribble these thoughts in hopes of one day, maybe, leaving a mark…" – we SEE you Raw Soul – and we know that this is who you really ARE. In my opinion, he's also capable of exactly that – if he wants to make that his goal and set his mind to making his mark in music a permanent one, he's got all the skills to make that happen. "Sometimes I feel cursed with a powerless feeling" – and hey, sometimes we all do – but I can guarantee ya, Raw Soul isn't feeling that way when he's got the mic anywhere near him – I bet ya it doesn't even cross his mind when he's in the grip of the flow & doin' his thang…cause it's entirely natural to him, and where the man belongs. LISTEN to these opening bars on "Penny For Your Thoughts" and try to tell me otherwise – but just know that I ain't listening to ya; any set of functional ears would have respect for the way this dude crafts his thoughts and the sheer selection of words he puts into his bars. "The meal is as good as the sauce is – and I got sauce" – you see? He knows.
Look…I'm not making any claims that In Another Life… is a groundbreaking record, and neither is the main man on the m-i-c – but there's no denying that it's a stellar set of six cunningly crafted cuts that'll never let ya down. What I do hear, is every reason to continue, whether it's as a hobby, or full on professionally – the only person out there putting a cap on the limits of Raw Soul IS Raw Soul…the rest of us see green lights ahead and hear music designed to be turned up.
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- I watched Moyashimon. Is that an anime?
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The Tetris Company Teams with BioWorld Europe for Apparel and Accessories
 Posted July 11, 2017 6:00 AM , Official Press Release
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Fun, New T-Shirts, Hoodies, Bags and More Showcasing the Iconic Tetris® Brand to Launch Late 2017
July 11, 2017 – Tetris® fans across Europe and the Middle East will soon be able to show their love for the renowned brand – head to toe. The Tetris Company, LLC, today announced BIOWORLD Europe, as its new apparel and accessory licensee for Europe and the Middle East. As a leader in the design and distribution of licensed and private label merchandise for young adults, who works with many of the world's greatest entertainment brands, BIOWORLD Europe will create a line of Tetris branded clothing and gear, including t-shirts, hoodies, leggings, sleepwear, headwear, bags, belts and other items. The new products are expected to be available later this year.
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We aim to ensure the right mix of quality, fashion and fun to create a collection that works for the brand, the fan and the retailer giving us a unique position in the market.
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The Tetris® brand is one of the leading and most distinctive video game brands and franchises in the world. For over 30 years, the brand has been loved globally by people of all ages and all cultures. Billions of Tetris games are played online every year, and over 500 million Tetris mobile games have been downloaded to date. Working with Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sega, Sony/GSN Games and many other licensing partners, the Tetris franchise continues to be one of the most widely recognized video game brands of all time. Tetris Holding, LLC is the owner of Tetris rights worldwide, and The Tetris Company, LLC is its exclusive licensee. For the latest information about the Tetris brand and Tetris products, please visit www.tetris.com.
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Tag: sex trafficking
Can #MeToo help stop sex tourism?
Women in impoverished countries are exploited by Western men who publicly declare solidarity with women but behave differently in private.
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Over 100 men were arrested for trying to buy sex from girls in Ontario — here are their names
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Nicolás Gómez Dávila (1913-1994)
Colombian writer
With unspeakable slowness the name and work of Nicolás Gómez Dávila has begun to be known in the Western world. Not the only reason, but at least one of the reasons for this lentitude has to be attributed to the author himself. Born in 1913 in Bogotá, the Colombian sage died in the same city in 1994. He had spent his childhood and his teenage years studying in Europe (mostly in France), but after he returned at age 23 to his home country he hardly ever left it; in 1949 he took a trip to Europe with his wife; he had been married in 1936 and had three children. Privately affluent, one assumes he refused different honors and high positions. In 1958, President Alberto Lleras, who had followed the previous long-lasting military dictatorship, wanted to have Gómez Dávila as his chief advisor; he turned this down, just as, in 1974, he turned down the position of Ambassador to London, and not necessarily just for political reasons. In publishing he was equally reserved. His early work (1954, 1959) was privately printed and only in 1977 did he bring out the bulk of his Escolios a un Texto Implícito in two volumes, to be followed by three others in 1986 and in 1992. The circulation was small, and Gómez Dávila remained unknown outside Colombia. German translations, followed by Italian (and, in the works, French) began to appear in selective slim volumes in the 1990s and have continued to appear.
after discrediting virtues, our century succeeded in discrediting vices
being right is one more good reason for not succeeding
the bourgeoisie can be termed as any group of people who are discontented with what they have, but satisfied with what they are
the press does not want to inform the reader but to persuade him he\'s being informed


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The Power of Semantic Search
By admin|2021-08-04T16:21:31-04:00April 12th, 2021|Access Insights, Featured|Comments Off on The Power of Semantic Search
Semantic search refers to the ability of search engines to consider the intent and contextual meaning of search phrases when serving content to users on the web.
At one time, search engines could only analyze the exact phrasing of a search term when matching results with a search query. Now, search algorithms are more sophisticated and incorporate semantic search principles when ranking content.
We often talk of semantic search as if it's something new. It's not. When search engines first started, keywords were the main ranking factor. Usually, a page that repeated the target search term the most times would get top placement on search engine results pages. The old search system also made it difficult for users to find relevant information because search engines couldn't properly decipher the context and meaning of search queries. They could only analyze and produce exact match results.
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing technologies have changed the way a search engine retrieves information.
Semantic relationships are strengthened by professional annotators who hand-tune the results, and the algorithms that generate them. Web searchers tell the algorithms which connections are the best through what they click on.
Semantic search has made topics, not just individual keywords, very important. Search engines strive to serve the most valuable and relevant results to users, so content must be more comprehensive and informative than ever before.
By improving core natural language processing technologies for automatic information extraction and classification of texts, search engines built on these technologies can continue to improve.
Semantic technology and AI language continue to evolve and be used in a variety of applications.
Semantic search aims to get at the real intent of the query, rather than simply matching a page to a search string. It would be easy to assume that semantic search will be superior to the word matching, index-based approach.
Google has been using basic synonyms as part of the Knowledge Graph. This thesaurus-approach to zeroing in on the real meaning is based on taxonomy principles.
It has never been more important to have someone with the expertise and knowledge handling your content, developing your taxonomies and making your information findable. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ISO/ANSI/NISO compliant taxonomies to produce comprehensive results.
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One or two friends have reached out to me, my friend Ezra in particular. We've known each other since high school, and we go to the same college. We even had a few classes together when I was in the Elementary Education program.
Normally when I'm feeling so down, I avoid going out with friends, but earlier this week when Ezra asked me if I wanted to go to an art show with him, I accepted the invitation, and I'm so glad I did.
I started my morning by getting my weekly blood work, and then went to Clem's Classic Cameras at the flea market. The flea market is mostly junk and CBD products, but there is a very cool camera store there that sells both film and digital accessories. I bought the lens of my dreams, a huge zoom lens for my Canon AE-1, which used to belong to my grandpa. I like to take photos of people on the beach, but with my little kit lens, I feel too visible. With the zoom lens, people can't see me photographing them. Creepy? Maybe a little. But I mean no harm.
After I left the flea market, I went to Ezra's house to pick him up, and we headed to the art show, which was at the Ormond library. We met two of his friends there, who were very nice, but we didn't stay long because we were all hungry. We ended up at a grilled cheese restaurant on beachside, which was quite tasty.
Today was my first good day in quite a while. I'm so happy I got to hang out with some friends, meet new people, and see some art.
This post made me very happy! I've always wanted you to have a normal, peaceful life and this day sounds pretty darn good. Friends make a huge difference. So have some more good days. Love you!


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Jyssica returns to All Saints Catholic High School, Kirkby
"It definitely made a difference that I used to go to All Saints and was from Kirkby. If someone else came who wasn't a former student I don't think they would have connected as well".
Jyssica Murphy went to All Saints Catholic High School and is now a Health and Safety Advisor.
I was in middle sets at school. I misbehaved sometimes but for the most part I enjoyed school. Maths was a particular challenge for me as I doubted my confidence. My teacher was really good and he always pushed me and told me that I could do it but I struggled to believe him and looking back, I wish I'd applied myself more.
After leaving school I re-sat my Maths GCSE so I could that I could apply for a college course. I was disappointed that I didn't pass in school when I knew that I had the potential to do better. I wish I'd approached Maths differently as a bit more concentration would have saved me an extra twelve months' study and put me on my career path faster.
I didn't know what I wanted to do after college so I looked at apprenticeships and completed one in science. I shadowed the health and safety manager in the company where I was working and it sparked off my enjoyment for it so I self funded my qualifications. I worked at a consultancy for five years which was great with lots of variety working with companies across the UK and now I work at a housing association.
I volunteered to visit my old school because I wanted to give something back. Kirkby is a deprived area and when I was a student you didn't hear from people who had been to my school and gone on to have successful careers, role models who could inspire you. I think it is important to know that you don't have to follow in someone else's footsteps. There is so much out there to achieve and you can choose your own path.
It was really rewarding to go back to All Saints Catholic High School and felt good to be back where I started from. It was a different building when I went back which was really strange!
There were two workshops with big group of students. We did different exercises where they had to guess my job, how they thought I spent the day in work, what qualifications you would need to work in health and safety. The students were interested in what I had to say and asked lots of questions about a career that was new to them. They didn't have a common understanding of what a Health and Safety Advisor were interested to learn and discover a new career path.
I answered all the practical questions about my job but students were also interested to know I went to their school, that I was from the place where they live and what my experience had been like. It definitely made a difference that I used to go to All Saints and was from Kirkby. If someone else came who wasn't a former student I don't think they would have connected and listened as well. The workshops were really good and I can see how valuable they are for all the students.
What advice would I give to students? Do the best with what you're given and don't waste opportunities. I had to pay to get to and from college to resit my Maths. You don't realise how much of an inconvenience it is to take time out to do something that you could have passed first time. You've got very few commitments or pressures on you, like to get a job. Take advantage of it!


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Second Circuit reverses the denial of a motion to suppress a firearm found during a frisk, following a traffic stop, because the officers lacked objective reasons to believe the defendant was armed and dangerous. United States v. Weaver, __F.3d__, No. 18-1697-cr, 2020 WL 5523210 (2d Cir. Sept. 15, 2020).
In United States v. Weaver, No.18-1697, 2020 WL 5523210 (2d Cir. Sept. 15, 2020) , the Second Circuit holds that police officers didn't have reasonable suspicion that Weaver was armed and dangerous when, after ordering him out of the car, they made him place his hands on the car's trunk, with his legs spread apart. At best, they had reason to believe Weaver had something illicit. And the search began when Weaver was made to "spread-eagle" on the car trunk — before any officer actually put hands on him.
Judge Pooler wrote the majority opinion; Judge Calabresi concurs in a separate opinion; and Chief Judge Livingston dissents.
At about 5 p.m. in February 2016, when it was still "'daylight,'" police officers in Syracuse, New York, driving an unmarked car with tinted windows, stopped the car in which Weaver was a passenger, ostensibly for a traffic violation. See…
Categories: reasonable suspicion, traffic stop
Fourth Circuit: Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery Is Not A 924(c) Crime Of Violence
In United States v. Taylor, the Fourth Circuit became the first court of appeals to hold that attempted Hobbs Act robbery is not a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A)'s elements clause.
Taylor granted a successive 28 U.S.C. § 2255 motion and vacated the movant's § 924(c) conviction, which had been predicated on both conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery (not a crime of violence under Fourth Circuit precedent, nor under the Second Circuit's decision in United States v. Barrett, 937 F.3d 126 (2d Cir. 2019)); and (attempted Hobbs Act robbery.
Taylor reasons that one may attempt Hobbs Act robbery by (i) intending to commit a robbery through a threat of force, and (ii) taking a nonviolent substantial step toward that objective, such as planning the robbery or reconnoitering the target. "Where a defendant takes a nonviolent substantial step toward threatening to use physical force—conduct that …
Posted by Daniel Habib
Categories: 924(c), Hobbs Act, robbery
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
Did the Second Circuit Just Read Rule 33 Out of Existence?
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 33(a) authorizes a judge to "grant a new trial if the interest of justice so requires." This rule has traditionally been understood to "confer[] broad discretion upon a trial court to set aside a jury verdict and order a new trial to avert a perceived miscarriage of justice." United States v. Sanchez, 969 F.2d 1409, 1413 (2d Cir. 1992).
But in a ruling yesterday, a panel of the Second Circuit held "a district court may not grant a Rule 33 motion based on the weight of the evidence alone unless the evidence preponderates heavily against the verdict." United States v. Archer, ___ F.3d ___, 2020 WL 5924196, at *4 (2d Cir. Oct. 7, 2020). And in reviewing the evidence, the "district court must 'defer to the jury's resolution of conflicting evidence'" and consider the "trial evidence as a whole." Id. at *5.…
Posted by Matt Larsen
Categories: Rule 33
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Keep Fighting Those Mandatory Guideline Sentences
Do you have a client who was deemed a career offender pursuant to the residual clause of the mandatory (pre-Booker) Career Offender Guideline? If so, keep fighting that sentence! There are at least a couple ways:
1) If the client has a petition pending under 28 U.S.C. § 2255, make sure to argue the sentence is unconstitutional given Johnson v. United States, 576 U.S. 591 (2015). That argument is currently foreclosed by Nunez v. United States, 954 F.3d 465 (2d Cir. 2020), but there's a circuit split on the issue that just deepened: the First Circuit has joined the Seventh in holding Johnson effectively invalidated the residual clause of the mandatory Guideline. See Shea v. United States, ___ F.3d ___, 2020 WL 5755462 (1st Cir. Sept. 28, 2020). The Supreme Court refused to resolve this split when the Seventh Circuit was the sole outlier, but …
Categories: 3582(c)(1)(A), Johnson, mandatory guidelines
Second Circuit holds that district courts may grant compassionate release on expansive grounds and are not limited to the Sentencing Commission's criteria.
In United States v. Brooker (Zullo), No. 19-3218, 2020 WL 5739712 (2d Cir. Sept. 25, 2020), the Second Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Calabresi (joined by Judges Winter and Chin), held that the First Step Act of 2018 ("FSA") empowers district courts evaluating motions for compassionate release to consider any "extraordinary and compelling reasons" for granting release or a sentence reduction, not just those criteria set forth by the Sentencing Commission in guidelines that have been unmodified since the FSA's passage. The Circuit emphasized that the FSA was intended to expand and expedite compassionate release by allowing defendants to make motions directly to the district courts—thus ending the BOP's role as the "sole arbiter" of such claims—and by permitting those courts greater discretion in granting release. Accordingly, the Circuit held that the constraints imposed by previously-enacted Sentencing Guideline § 1B1.13 do not apply to compassionate release motions brought …
Posted by Eunice Lee
Categories: Covid-19, First Step Act of 2018, FSA
Second Circuit: On a motion under the First Step Act, a court isn't obligated to "recalculate" the Sentencing Guidelines range to account for new Guidelines provisions "or new judicial interpretations of existing Guidelines." Only Guideline-changes "that flow from the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010" have to be considered. But there's an acknowledged circuit split. United States v. Moore, __F.3d__, No. 19-1390-cr, 2020 WL 5523205 (2d Cir. Sept. 15, 2020).
In United States v. Moore, No. 19-1390-cr (available here), the Circuit (Nardini, joined by Chin and Sullivan), holds that, on a motion for a sentence reduction under Section 404 of the First Step Act, a court isn't required to "recalculate" the Guidelines range under the current law, unless (and only to the extent) the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 changed the Guidelines range.
Here, the district court found Moore eligible for relief under the First Step Act, as indeed he was: he was sentenced in 2009 for "possessing with intent to distribute more than 5 grams of crack cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B)." Op. at 4. The district court nevertheless declined to exercise it's discretionary authority, under the Act, to reduce the (188-month) sentence. The Circuit affirmed that decision. Op. at 2, 26-27.
Moore's argument was that the district court miscalculated the Guidelines …
Categories: career offender, First Step Act, guideline
Federal law barring false voter registrations applies to town election because New York's "unitary registration scheme" allows a falsely registered voter to vote in future federal elections. And the Travel Act's bar on "bribery" is not limited to acts involving public officials (as payees) and encompasses a New York law barring payments to voters.
In United States v. Smilowitz, 2d Cir. No. 19-361 (Sep. 8, 2020), a panel of the Court (Walker, Parker, and Carney) ruled that the defendant's conduct of falsely registering voters for a town election, and of offering payment to voters for their votes in that election, fell within the reach of the federal election law, 52 U.S.C. § 10307, and qualified as "bribery" under the Travel Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1952(b). Here are the essential facts.
Smilowitz owned part of a real-estate development in Bloomingburg, New York, population 420. It had a mayor and two trustees.
In 2013 those officials voted against a measure that would have benefitted Smilowitz and several other real-estate developers. Hoping to overturn that decision, Smilowitz and his confederates tried to influence the 2014 election and replace the local officials with candidates amenable to them.
The conspirators did several things giving rise to this prosecution. …
Posted by Yuanchung Lee
Categories: bribery
United States v. Caraher, No. 18-511 (2d Cir. August 25, 2020)(Hall, joined by Lynch and Menashi), involved the government's takeover and operation of the child pornography website "Playpen" for two weeks so that it could track visitors to the site, identify their identities and locations, and search their computers. The FBI obtained a warrant allowing them to search "activating computers" of "any user or administrator who logs into the Playpen website by entering a username and password." Caraher was such a visitor and agents located him and searched his computer. The district court held that the warrant violated Fed. Rule Crim P. 41(b) and 28 U.S.C. 636(a) but applied the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule.
The Court followed its prior decision in United States v. Eldred, 933 F.3d 110, 111 (2d Cir. 2019), addressing the same warrant and holding that, even if the search and the …
Categories: child pornography, good faith
The court also rejected …
In United States v. Anastasio, the Circuit (Carney, joined by Jacobs and Pooler), reversed two convictions for aiding and abetting VICAR murder, 18 U.S.C. § 1959(a)(1), for insufficient evidence. Specifically, the Circuit held that Anastasio undertook no affirmative act that facilitated the murders; he had merely been in the company of the murderers, without offering any assistance, before and after (but not during) the shootings.
Anastasio was a member of the 10th Street Gang in Buffalo. Members of a rival gang shot and injured the brother of a 10th Street member, Delgado. Later that day, 10th Streeters, including Anastasio, beat someone they believed belonged to the rival gang. Still later that day, 10th Streeters, again including Anastasio, met at an apartment to discuss further retaliation. Delgado told those present of his plan to shoot at members of the rival gang and instructed everyone present to find guns. Several did …
Categories: aiding and abetting, Batson, RICO
Circuit Vacates LWOP Sentence Based On Inadequate Consideration Of Juvenile Offender's Age
In United States v. Delgado, the Circuit (Pooler, joined by Jacobs and Carney) vacated a life sentence imposed on a 17-year-old convicted of two murders, on the ground that the district court had failed to give the requisite consideration to the defendant's age, as required by Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), and Montgomery v. Louisiana, 136 S. Ct. 718 (2016).
Delgado was a gang member in Buffalo. A rival gang shot and injured Delgado's brother. In retaliation, Delgado attacked members of the rival gang, but wound up shooting and killing two bystanders instead. He was 17 at the time. After a jury trial, Delgado was convicted of multiple offenses arising from his long-term gang membership, including RICO conspiracy (predicated in part on the murders), drug conspiracy, and § 924(c). The district court (Arcara, WDNY) sentenced him to life.
The Circuit vacated the life sentence. The …
Categories: 3553(a), 924(c), Batson, bruton, RICO
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Royal Women at Bath Fashion Museum
Bath Fashion Museum
Booking notes:
Royal Women at Bath Fashion Museum: Alexandra, Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret: public life, personal style
3 February 2018 – 28 April 2019
A new exhibition exploring the fashions worn by successive generations of women in the Royal Family will open at the Fashion Museum Bath on 3 February 2018 and run until 28 April 2019.
Royal Women will be a 'family tree' exhibition looking at the clothes worn by Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret.
Wives and daughters, sisters and mothers; none of them were regnant yet they all played a key role in the British monarchy. The exhibition will examine their sartorial lives, looking at each woman's unique style, the role they played within the monarchy and how that was reflected in their choice of dress.
The exhibition will feature exquisite items of dress from the Fashion Museum collection, as well as a major loan from the Royal Collection, generously lent by Her Majesty The Queen.
The exhibition curator, Elly Summers, said: "The Fashion Museum is one of the world's great museum collections of historical fashionable dress and we are immensely fortunate that amongst its treasures it includes dress belonging to members of the Royal Family; we are equally fortunate in the loan of key pieces from the Royal Collection."
Each of the royal women featured in the exhibition had their own unique style:
Her Majesty Queen Alexandra
1 December 1844 – 20 November 1925
Queen Alexandra was a fashion icon, whose look was quite different from that of her mother-in-law, Queen Victoria. She set a trend for chokers and high necklines and was well known for her elegant, tailored daywear.
Her Majesty Queen Mary
26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953
An imposing, statuesque figure, Mary was the embodiment of royalty. Her role was to be a steadying influence, reassuring the British public during difficult times, including the First World War, and her dress style reflected this. Mary's style stayed constant through dramatic changes in fashions during the first half of the 20th century. Impeccably dressed, for eveningwear she wore heavily beaded gowns and for day she wore tailored suits and large toque hats.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002
Elizabeth and King George VI were seen as the saviours of the monarchy and had to weather many crises, including the Second World War and the abdication of Edward VIII. Elizabeth related well to the public, and brought sparkle to the image of royal women in the post-war world, when it was much needed. Elizabeth loved fashion and took a keen interest in designs, fabrics and colours. Norman Hartnell designed much of what she wore – which included dramatic eveningwear and soft pastel coloured daywear that flattered her diminutive height.
Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
21 August 1930 – 9 February 2002
Princess Margaret was glamorous and beautiful and was often photographed wherever she went. Unlike the reigning monarch, Margaret had more freedom to explore fashion, something she took great pleasure in. Many of her earlier outfits were designed by Hartnell, and she became a great patron of Christian Dior after she was introduced to his New Look collection in 1947.
Highlights of the exhibition include:
Tartan silk dress belonging to Alexandra, Princess of Wales (about 1870)
Made by Madame Elise, this stunning tartan dress was probably worn by Alexandra to a function at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the official residence of the monarch in Scotland.
This exquisite dress has a great story, for it was part of the dispersed royal wardrobe. Following Alexandra's death in 1925, many of her dresses were dispersed and even today the whereabouts of many remain a mystery. This colourful dress, now a treasured part of the Fashion Museum collection, was discovered in the 1930s in a high end 'vintage' shop called Baroque in Margaret Street in London, and from there made its way into the Fashion Museum collection.
Purple silk chiffon dress belonging to Alexandra, Princess of Wales (1910)
Made by Madame Doeuillet, of very fine, heavily embroidered silk chiffon, this dress was most likely unworn, perhaps having been discarded for mourning clothes on Edward VII's death.
Dress and cape of gold lamé and turquoise cut velvet belonging to Queen Mary (1947)
Made by Hartnell and worn by Queen Mary to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten RN at Wesminster Abbey in 1947. This historic commission for Hartnell included not only designing the wedding dress for the Princess, but also the dresses for her eight bridesmaids and members of her family.
Grey silk satin ball gown worn by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (1954)
On long-term loan from the Royal Collection, the dress was made by Hartnell and worn to a dinner for educational charity the English Speaking Union in New York on 3 November 1954. Hartnell gowns were hugely labour intensive – at this time he employed 400 staff, from cutters and seamstresses to embroiderers.
Christian Dior 'Rose Pompon' strapless cream silk chiffon day dress worn by Princess Margaret (1952)
The Princess wore this dress from Dior's 'Rose Pompon' collection to Royal Ascot.
Christian Dior strapless black lace evening dress worn by Princess Margaret (1953)
Worn to a performance of Guys and Dolls at the London Coliseum on 23 July 1953, which Princess Margaret attended along with her sister The Queen and Prince Philip.
www.fashionmuseum.co.uk/royalwomen
Fashion Museum, Bennett Street, Bath, BA1 2QH 01225 477173


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Spokane Neighborhoods: Old Chinatown -- Trent Alley -- Thumbnail History
By Jim Kershner
From the 1880s through the 1940s, a bustling Chinatown -- or to be more accurate, an international district -- thrived in downtown Spokane. Three blocks of urban courtyards and alleys were jammed with Chinese and Japanese food markets, laundries, pool halls, hotels, and restaurants. Variously called Trent Alley, Japanese Alley, or simply Chinatown, it began in the 1880s mostly as a stopping point for Chinese and Japanese workers imported to work in railroad camps and mines. In those first decades, the district was a teeming slum, rife with opium dens, gambling dens, and prostitute's "cribs." The city's majority white residents considered Chinatown to be both an exotic attraction and a den of iniquity that required periodic raids. By about 1900, Trent Alley began to become more respectable as more families, especially Japanese families, began to move in. For the next two decades it was filled with numerous Japanese hotels, boarding houses, fish markets, restaurants, barber shops, and billiards halls. The neighborhood was hit hard by the Great Depression, but saw a brief revival during World War II due to an influx of Japanese American families escaping the evacuation zones in Western Washington and Oregon. After the war, the Asian American population began to disperse to other areas of the city and Trent Alley lost most of its Asian character. Most of the old buildings and courtyards were razed as part of the urban renewal projects for Expo '74, Spokane's World's Fair. Today, the old Chinatown has disappeared, paved over for vast parking lots for Spokane's performing arts and convention centers.
Chinese New Year, 1889
A tour through Spokane's Chinatown in the late 1880s was a wild and foreign experience to most white residents of the fast-growing city. A reporter for The Morning Review newspaper took just such a tour during the Chinese New Year celebration in January 1889.
"Thousands of crackers were fired, bombs exploded and Chinese rockets were sent heavenward," wrote the reporter. "Hundreds of people, attracted by the noise, blocked the streets" (The Morning Review, "The Fusillade of Fun").
He reported that guests, "no matter what race," were invited into the rooms of Chinatown residents and "made welcome with viands and liquors." Roast pig or chicken were the favorite foods; Chinese whiskey, or "Sam Shu" the favored liquors.
"Before the food is eaten it is set out before a picture or image of Joss (an idol)," wrote the correspondent. "Punk or Joss sticks (incense sticks) are lighted and set near. As the pale blue smoke ascends to heaven, each guest breathes a prayer and sends it up in the smoke to the spirits of departed friends and relatives to partake of the feast" (The Morning Review, "The Fusillade of Fun").
In a merchant's store on Front Street, a Chinese band "sawed and hammered away with all their might" on three fiddles, a tom-tom, and a cymbal.
Opium, Fan-Tan, and Prostitution
Chinatown – roughly bordered by Howard Street on the west, Bernard Street on the east, Front Street (later called Trent Avenue, now called Spokane Falls Boulevard) on the north and Main Avenue on the south -- wasn't nearly so lively most days. However, at night the district was teeming with activity, much of it illegal. In 1888, Spokane police staged a midnight "tour" -- that is, raid -- on a string of "joints" on Front Street.
"While one officer entered a wash house by the front door, his associate came in by the rear," wrote a Morning Review reporter. "Thus the pig-tailed artists of the washtub were taken completely by surprise" (The Morning Review, "Police Sweep Down"). A dozen opium smokers were captured while "hitting the pipe," said the reporter.
"Last night's scene would amaze the good people of the city who repose unconscious of the dens of vice that flourish like noxious weeds in the dark noisome alleys and the tangled ravines of the slums," said the paper. "... It is not exaggeration to say that the city swarms with white men who visit these hellish resorts, enslaving body and mind and tumbling to the bottomless abyss of degradation" (The Morning Review, "Police Sweep Down").
The area was indeed rough and lawless. Police routinely raided the fan-tan joints (fan-tan being a Chinese gambling game), but even the police were aware that most of the gambling and opium dens continued to thrive underground.
"The Chinese gamblers have arranged this so that it is nearly impregnable to assaults from officers of the law," said the Spokesman-Review in 1905. "To reach the establishment, one must go up from an entrance on the street. As soon as the front door is opened, a bell is rung upstairs. A lookout sizes up the incoming party, and if they do not pass muster, he can shut a door which is halfway up the stairs" (The Spokesman-Review, "Gambling Rife").
Major R.D. Gwydir, Spokane's former federal "Chinese inspector," led a Spokesman-Review reporter on a tour of Chinatown in 1902. They entered squalid apartments where crowds were gathered around "rattling games of fan-tan." In another dark apartment, men "puffed solidly on long pipes." In some quarters, they saw only shadowy figures scurrying away down narrow passageways.
Prostitution also flourished in the early days, largely with Japanese prostitutes who arrived with -- or were coerced into the trade by -- the gambling men. One shady character kept enticing women over from Japan with a promise to marry. Once they arrived, he went back on his promises and forced them into prostitution.
In 1891, there were only about 60 Japanese residents in Spokane, but the Japanese consulate for the area reported with alarm that 17 of them were prostitutes and 30 were either pimps or gamblers.
More Japanese Than Chinese
However, the nature of the community began to change around 1900 to 1910, as many Japanese men brought over wives and relatives and began to raise families in the district. Vice continued to flourish in Chinatown, but the attitude of the residents began to change. In 1909, the law-abiding residents, probably a majority by this time, actually went up and "applauded" the police after one fan-tan raid. The police chief noted that many of the residents were tired of people in the community losing their wages to fan-tan operators year after year.
The newspapers and the white community tended to focus on the sordid and sensational in Chinatown. Yet by 1900, the area had many thriving legitimate businesses and a social fabric that was becoming more Japanese than Chinese. The alley just west of Trent Alley, between Stevens and Washington streets, came to be known as Japanese Alley (actually, the shorter, cruder version of the name). Trent Alley, an L-shaped courtyard in the block bounded by Main and Front avenues and Bernard and Washington streets, also had a decided Japanese character. The entire area was often lumped together under the name Japanese Alley, although many continued to call it Chinatown.
The Noodle Houses of Spokane
By 1912, a tour of Front Street would take a visitor past a number of Japanese restaurants. At least 16 Japanese restaurants were operating in Spokane. Some of these restaurants were "hash houses," meaning cheap workingmen's restaurants catering mostly to a white clientele. Some were called "chop suey" or "noodle" houses, serving cheap Asian American food to white customers. At least two, right in the heart of Japanese Alley, served Japanese and Chinese food for a mostly Asian clientele.
One thing all of the restaurants had in common: low prices. In 1915 the Japanese Restaurant Keepers Association announced it was raising the price of meals from 10 cents to 15 cents.
The restaurant owner and family usually lived right in the back of the restaurant, or in one of the adjacent hotels and boarding houses. It was customary (and economically necessary) for the proprietors of almost all the shops and businesses to live in or near their shops.
Miya Numatu Koyama, born in 1912, remembers living in a "little house" behind her family's restaurant at Main and Bernard. Surrounding the restaurant was a Japanese tailor, Japanese pool hall, and Japanese barbershop. "It was pretty much a Japanese community in that block," said Koyama (Koyama).
Chinese and Japanese Laundries
The district's hand laundries were originally a Chinese endeavor, but the business was soon taken over by Japanese immigrants. Historian Deborah Ann Gallacci Wilbert noted that the white community was convinced that "Asians excelled in personal service and attention to detail," which meant that the laundries had a large and eager market. Japanese hand laundries were also cheap, thanks to abundant labor, mostly supplied by immigrant families. In 1912, six Japanese laundries were operating in Spokane, mostly in Chinatown.
Tai Gee, a Spokane Chinese pioneer and the unofficial "mayor" of Chinatown, publicly fretted in 1915 that the laundry business was being taken away from his "countrymen" (possibly meaning both Chinese and Japanese) because of a new ordinance forbidding them to work at night, which "takes away their profits" (Chronicle).
He need not have worried. Asian hand laundries continued to thrive for decades.
Hotels and Fish Markets
The Japanese hotel business was especially important in Chinatown, not just for the transient business -- two of the major railroad depots were right across Front Street --but for the many Japanese couples and families who lived full-time in furnished rooms. In this era of de facto racial segregation in the Northwest, these Japanese hotels were also well known for welcoming black travelers. Most of the fancier downtown hotels did not.
The Trent Alley district also had its share of Oriental food markets, including the OK Fish Market and the Golden Fish Market, both on Bernard. These supplied Asian food items to Chinatown residents and also to the Chinese and Japanese railroad labor camps throughout the Inland Northwest.
Pool Halls and Barber Shops
The barbershops served a mixed clientele. They competed for white customers with the Italian immigrants who also ran many downtown barbershops. Yet they also catered to Japanese workingmen who lived in the hotels. Several barbershops had public baths in back rooms to serve the many single men who had no bath facilities in their hotel rooms. One shop boasted six tubs.
Barbershops were often connected with billiards halls, which were a nationwide craze in the first decades of the twentieth century. Billiards seemed to be especially popular in Trent Alley and Japanese Alley, which had at least four pool halls. One explanation for their popularity may have been that billiards halls often doubled as gambling halls, with various card games to be found in the back rooms. In this respect, Japanese pool halls were no different than the many white-run pool halls, which, along with cigar shops, were often fronts for gambling. When Prohibition arrived, pool halls and cigar shops also became fronts for liquor sales.
Gambling continued as a Chinatown industry through 1920s and 1930s, although fan-tan games were gradually replaced with the more modern games of slot machines and lotteries.
Decline of Spokane's Chinatown
Chinatown began its slow decline in the 1920s when Japanese immigration was curtailed and then banned. Many Japanese immigrants went back to Japan, after losing hope that their families would ever be able to join them. With no new influx of immigrants, Trent Alley began to lose its Asian identity. Mii Tai, who grew up in Trent Alley in the 1930s, recalled that there was an Italian restaurant right in the heart of the alley.
The Great Depression hit Trent Alley particularly hard. In 1931, an importer of shark's fins and bird's nests had to close up shop and leave Spokane because of a collapsed market. Tai Gee, still called the "mayor of Chinatown," was arrested for narcotics possession ("they say Tai Gee had hop," he was quoted as lamenting), and went back to China in 1930.
In 1933, there was little rejoicing during the Chinese New Year. The new "mayor," Bong Que, said times were hard, there was no work and nobody had any money. There would be no fireworks that year.
After Pearl Harbor
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, and on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the expulsion of 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast to 10 inland prison camps. Trent Alley had an influx of new residents largely because Spokane was the closest city of refuge for Japanese American families from Seattle, Portland, and other areas inside the West Coast evacuation zone. Spokane was just outside the line, meaning that Spokane's Japanese American residents were never forced into relocation camps. Spokane's Japanese American population at least tripled, and many lived in the Japanese hotels and boarding houses around Trent Alley. Many went back to Western Washington and Oregon after the war, but a significant number stayed.
Yet the Asian American community had largely dispersed into the city's more affluent neighborhoods and suburbs. After the war, the term "Chinatown" was rarely used. Trent Alley had taken on the character of a generic, run-down Skid Row.
From Chinatown to Parking Lot
Because of its blighted nature, Trent Alley was razed in the early 1970s as part of the massive urban renewal project for Expo '74, Spokane's World's Fair. These shadowy courtyards and alleys are now paved over for parking lots serving the Spokane Convention Center and INB Performing Arts Center (formerly the Spokane Opera House).
Visitors, shoving bills into the payment slots, have no way of knowing they are standing on a historic spot: A place where joss sticks scented the air and Chinese rockets streaked into the sky.
Sources: "Police Swoop Down Upon Opium Joints," The Morning Review, August 1, 1888; "John Chinaman's Day," Ibid., January 30, 1889; "A Fusillade of Fun," January. 31. 1889; "New Faces in Town," The Spokesman-Review, Jan. 1, 1902; "Gambling Rife Among Chinese," Ibid., March 27, 1905; "Fan-Tan Killed In Local Joints," Ibid., May 26, 1909; Spokane Chronicle, April 23, 1915; "Cops 'Too Much Jerkee," The Spokesman-Review, February 2, 1930; "Times Cut Scale of Shark's Fins," Ibid.,, November 27, 1931; "Chinese Curb Festivities," The Spokesman-Review, January 26, 1933; Deborah Ann Gallacci Wilbert, "A History of the Formation of the Japanese-American Community in Spokane, 1890-1941," Master's Thesis, Washington State University History Department, 1982, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture (MAC) archives; Rose Sliger Krause, "Beyond the Evacuation Zone: Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement in Spokane," Master's Thesis, Eastern Washington University History Department, 2006, MAC archives; Miya Numatu Koyama, transcribed interview with Rose Sliger Krause, MAC archives; Jim Kershner, "City Has a Lusty Youth," The Spokesman-Review, August 14, 2000; Jim Kershner, "When Dragons Roamed Trent," Ibid., August 14, 2005.
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/* -*- Mode: C; tab-width: 4; c-basic-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- */
/*
 *     Copyright 2012 Couchbase, Inc.
 *
 *   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 *   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 *   You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 *   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 *   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 *   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 *   limitations under the License.
 */

#include "config.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <libcouchbase/couchbase.h>
#include <event2/event.h>

static void error_callback(lcb_t instance,
                           lcb_error_t error,
                           const char *errinfo)
{
    fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: %s %s\n", lcb_strerror(instance, error), errinfo);
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

static void configuration_callback(lcb_t instance, lcb_configuration_t config)
{
    if (config == LCB_CONFIGURATION_NEW) {
        lcb_error_t err;
        /* Since we've got our configuration, let's go ahead and store a value */
        lcb_store_cmd_t cmd;
        const lcb_store_cmd_t *cmds[1];
        cmds[0] = &cmd;
        memset(&cmd, 0, sizeof(cmd));
        cmd.v.v0.key = "foo";
        cmd.v.v0.nkey = 3;
        cmd.v.v0.bytes = "bar";
        cmd.v.v0.nbytes = 3;
        cmd.v.v0.operation = LCB_SET;
        err = lcb_store(instance, NULL, 1, cmds);
        if (err != LCB_SUCCESS) {
            fprintf(stderr, "Failed to set up store request: %s\n",
                    lcb_strerror(instance, err));
            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
        }
    }
}

static void get_callback(lcb_t instance,
                         const void *cookie,
                         lcb_error_t error,
                         const lcb_get_resp_t *resp)
{
    (void)cookie;
    (void)resp;

    if (error != LCB_SUCCESS) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to get key: %s\n",
                lcb_strerror(instance, error));
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    fprintf(stdout, "I stored and retrieved the key \"foo\". Terminate program\n");
    event_base_loopbreak((void *)lcb_get_cookie(instance));
}

static void store_callback(lcb_t instance,
                           const void *cookie,
                           lcb_storage_t operation,
                           lcb_error_t error,
                           const lcb_store_resp_t *resp)
{
    lcb_get_cmd_t cmd;
    const lcb_get_cmd_t *cmds[1];

    cmds[0] = &cmd;
    (void)cookie;
    (void)operation;
    (void)resp;

    if (error != LCB_SUCCESS) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to store key: %s\n",
                lcb_strerror(instance, error));
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    /* Time to read it back */
    memset(&cmd, 0, sizeof(cmd));
    cmd.v.v0.key = "foo";
    cmd.v.v0.nkey = 3;
    if ((error = lcb_get(instance, NULL, 1, cmds)) != LCB_SUCCESS) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to setup get request: %s\n",
                lcb_strerror(instance, error));
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
}

static lcb_io_opt_t create_libevent_io_ops(struct event_base *evbase)
{
    struct lcb_create_io_ops_st ciops;
    lcb_io_opt_t ioops;
    lcb_error_t error;

    memset(&ciops, 0, sizeof(ciops));
    ciops.v.v0.type = LCB_IO_OPS_LIBEVENT;
    ciops.v.v0.cookie = evbase;

    error = lcb_create_io_ops(&ioops, &ciops);
    if (error != LCB_SUCCESS) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to create an IOOPS structure for libevent: %s\n",
                lcb_strerror(NULL, error));
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    return ioops;
}

static lcb_t create_libcouchbase_handle(lcb_io_opt_t ioops)
{
    lcb_t instance;
    lcb_error_t error;
    struct lcb_create_st copts;

    memset(&copts, 0, sizeof(copts));
    /*
     * The only field I want to set in the first version of the
     * connect option is the hostname (to connect to the default
     * bucket and use the default IO option (Note: if getenv
     * returns NULL or an empty string we'll connect to
     * localhost:8091)
     */
    copts.v.v0.host = getenv("LCB_EVENT_SERVER");
    copts.v.v0.io = ioops;

    if ((error = lcb_create(&instance, &copts)) != LCB_SUCCESS) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to create a libcouchbase instance: %s\n",
                lcb_strerror(NULL, error));
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    /* Set up the callbacks */
    lcb_set_error_callback(instance, error_callback);
    lcb_set_configuration_callback(instance, configuration_callback);
    lcb_set_get_callback(instance, get_callback);
    lcb_set_store_callback(instance, store_callback);

    if ((error = lcb_connect(instance)) != LCB_SUCCESS) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Failed to connect libcouchbase instance: %s\n",
                lcb_strerror(NULL, error));
        lcb_destroy(instance);
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    return instance;
}

/*
 * This example shows how we can hook ourself into an external event loop.
 * You may find more information in the blogpost: http://goo.gl/fCTrX
 */
int main(void)
{
    struct event_base *evbase = event_base_new();
    lcb_io_opt_t ioops = create_libevent_io_ops(evbase);
    lcb_t instance = create_libcouchbase_handle(ioops);

    /*
     * Store the event base as the user cookie in our instance so that
     * we may terminate the program when we're done
     */
    lcb_set_cookie(instance, evbase);

    /*
     * Run the event loop.
     */
    event_base_loop(evbase, 0);

    /* Cleanup */
    event_base_free(evbase);
    lcb_destroy(instance);
    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}


Balance Your Hormones Day 3!
For now during the 30 days of No gluten, sugar, alcohol it is important to eat 4-5 times a day to keep your blood sugar balanced and your hormones. After the 30 days, I will see how it feels to take it down to three meals a day. I want to keep everything steady especially in the afternoon. My meals are higher in protein and healthy fats so I think the transition to 3 meals will be fine. Just not right now. The point is pay attention to how you are feeling. Everyone is different.
The difficult time for me is when I go to make dinner and I am not having a glass of wine. The afternoon snack helps and I try and lay down on the floor for 20 minutes in the afternoon. Balance is the key.
Here is my recipe for Nut Fudge. It is so easy to make. Nut Fudge is a wonderful go to snack. It is very dense and lots of calories so please consider portion size.
It is not too late to join in … Gluten, sugar and alcohol free for 30 days! So much easier with friends! Dr. Northrup says we will feel changes quickly. Balanced hormones are key to fabulous health!
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I had a delicious lunch today at Kitch Organic in Red Bank, NJ!
Each month I have been launching a 7 day jump start program leading into the 28 day Fit and Fabulous Program. This month I decided to do it differently. December is always a busy month for people. I encourage you to look at the 7 Day Program during the Holiday season. Start when you are ready!
This is what it looks like… a delicious balanced no sugar shake for breakfast and lunch. Mid morning or mid afternoon will be time for a balanced protein bar with coconut oil for a handy snack. In the evening, make a simple dinner of Protein, Vegetables and maybe a little fruit. It is so important to take your supplements everyday twice a day!
I want this to be your last program! This is about maintaining a sustainable lifestyle. I promise you this works. Make a commitment to yourself! Of course, I will be here to coach you along the way.
The Kit has 2 meals, a snack and the best supplements on the planet to get you started.
These Athletes use the same supplements that I use myself and are included in my Fit and Fabulous Optimal Health Program.
I am not saying that you will run faster or jump higher BUT maybe just maybe you will begin to feel and become Fit and Fabulous with THE PROGRAM!