Just after 2145 hours Squads 2, 7, and EMS were alerted for an accident with injuries on Three Notch Rd near Mount Zion Church Rd.
Rescue Engine 22 was already committed to a fill in at the Seventh District VFD for their Banquet.
Engine 23 responded immediately having just been cleared from a reported house fire in Charles County. Squad 2 responded shortly after.
Units arrived on the scene to find a passenger van off the roadway with a single occupant.
The drivers right foot had become heavily pinned in the passenger side footwell.
This created a difficult extrication for personnel attempting to free the patient without causing further injury.
Crew from Companies 2 and 7 worked for approximately 40 minutes to remove the doors, lift the dash, and free the pinned foot.
The ambulance and medic unit transported the patient to PG Trauma Priority 2.
Afterwards a brief hot-wash was conducted discussing the incident.
Units operated on the scene for approximately 1 hour before returning to quarters for another 30 minutes cleaning tools and returning equipment to service.


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Hello everyone, the usual mix of fiendish and impossible questions below, for a total of 150 points (I guess people might have a bit more free time than normal and so need a good long quiz). I will upload the answers here in the New Year. Good luck! Round 1: Link Round (10 points) A … Continue reading Christmas Quiz 2020 →
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Football teams and their cities ditloids: 10 questions
Name the city and the two football teams based there from the initials. For example, WHU, A (L) would be West Ham United, Arsenal (London). Where both teams in the question have the name of the city in their team name, the initial for the city has been removed. So, for example, U, W (S) would be United, Wednesday (Sheffield). No country is represented more than once, and all continents except Australia are represented.
1. RP, BJ (BA)
2. R, C (G)
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Sportsmen by sport and country: 10 questions
For each of the sportspeople below, name their sport and nationality (half a point for each). No sport is represented more than once, and all six continents are included
1. Pieter van den Hoogenband
2. Marko Arnautovic
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Sport: 10 questions
1. How many pegs are on the table in a game of bar billiards?
2. Which country won the first ever football World Cup?
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1. Which sport is played on a court 20 feet wide by 44 feet long, with a 5 feet high net in the middle?
2. Which Austrian skier is nicknamed The Hermanator?
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Snooker players: Fill in the blanks (28 questions)
Fill in the blanks in the story below using the surnames of professional snooker players, past and present. There is some pretty poor wordplay in a few cases.
I had just moved to the capital, and had arranged to see my aunt Joy later that day. I moved from (1) because I didn't like it at all; in fact, it was probably my least favourite place in all of East Yorkshire. London was so pricey though, and I had trouble making ends meet. My job is unusual, I (2)s to apiarists, but low paid, and I couldn't even afford to live out past Mile End. You know rents are high (3) is too expensive. In the end I had to go south of the river and ended up living in (4).
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The first letters of the answers to the first 9 sport questions spell out the name of a famous football player and manager. When the answer is a player, whether the first letter of the surname or first name are to be used in the acrostic is not stated.
1. What football team are known as the eternal rivals of Olympiakos?
2. Who is the only person to have scored a hat-trick in all four divisions of the English football league, the FA Cup, the League Cup and an international match (as of 2018)?
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Name the city in which the following professional football teams play. Where the name of the city appears in the team name, it has been removed.
1. Galatasaray, Fenerbahce, Besiktas
2. Red Star, Partizan
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Sport in music: 10 questions
1. Dreadlock Holiday, by 10CC, is about a man threatened with a mugging who tries to get out of it by professing a love for which sport?
2. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles is associated with which English football team?
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Fill in the blanks below with the names of test cricketers (mostly current, but some from previous eras). All 12 current test playing nations are represented.
I stayed in my bed until he could (1) it no longer. I felt woozy since taking a blow to the (2) in the previous day's game of cricket. Someone had thrown a (3) in my direction, and though I had tried to (4) I wasn't fast enough, and took a blow to the head.
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There is probably no better introduction to the remarkable Icelandic Horse than our daily trail rides. We'll match a horse to your level of experience, and we'll travel at a pace that suits you so that you can experience the horse's gentle temperament and smooth gaits. You won't believe how much action is possible underneath you while you feel the sensation, as Icelanders describe it, of "riding in an easy chair."
Our seasoned guide will lead you out along the quaint back roads of the Mad River Valley and, in season, across meadows and into the woods on the slopes of the Green Mountains. Along the way, we love to talk about the unique characteristics and history of Icelandic Horses and point out the natural features, wildlife, and spectacular scenery of the countryside. By the end of the ride, you're likely to have made a fast friend of the horse that has just taken you on a most memorable journey.
You can savor our trail rides in any season, from the fresh greenery of springtime through the lazy country days of summer and the breathtaking foliage and crisp air of autumn. In winter, the Icelandic Horse is at its best, growing a shaggy coat and reveling in the snow that makes the Mad River Valley a hub of every kind of outdoor winter activity.
We accommodate all levels of riding skill, including novices, on Day Rides. Children over 10 years old with riding experience are welcome. Groups usually number from four to eight.
Available every day, year-round, weather and trail conditions permitting.
All levels of riding experience, including novices.
Our Day Ride prices include ride with guide. The full-day ride includes a picnic lunch at the farm.
Day Rides are by advance reservation, but no deposit or advance payment is necessary. We welcome Visa, MasterCard, and, of course, cash on the day of the ride.
Check-in: It's important that you arrive at least 15 minutes before the scheduled start of your ride. There's paperwork, of course, and we'll fit you with a helmet, adjust your stirrups, and such.
For reservations, please contact us by phone, mail, or fax. We can confirm your reservation by phone, mail or email.


ICE won new scrubber retrofit design services contracts for a leading European shipowner.
The hybrid exhaust gas cleaning systems will be supplied by the European supplier.
ICE has invested in laser scanning equipment and its engineers have performed underway laser scanning onboard ships worldwide.
It has non-exclusive agreements for supply of design services with equipment suppliers among others.
ICE has won new contracts for scrubber retrofit design services for a series of container vessels for a leading European shipowner, writes Baibhav Mishra for Sea News.
ICE's scope of work includes basic design, detail design and development of production information. The hybrid exhaust gas cleaning systems will be supplied by a prominent European supplier.
Drawing on its extensive ship design experience, ICE has been active in the retrofit market both for Exhaust Gas Cleaning and Ballast Water Management systems. To support its design services, ICE has invested in laser scanning equipment and its engineers have performed underway laser scanning onboard ships in many parts of the world.
ICE has non-exclusive agreements for supply of design services with equipment suppliers as well as with reputable companies that undertake fabrication and installation of systems. The picture shows the vessel for which ICE in 2013 performed its first scrubber retrofit project, at the time a pioneering project.
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Measurements of jet characteristics from inclusive jet production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV are presented. The data sample was collected with the CMS detector at the LHC during 2010 and corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 36 pb(-1). The mean charged-hadron multiplicity, the differential and integral jet shape distributions, and two independent moments of the shape distributions are measured as functions of the jet transverse momentum for jets reconstructed with the anti-k(T) algorithm. The measured observables are corrected to the particle level and compared with predictions from various QCD Monte Carlo generators.


FreeForm range is a rounded, almost feline range which moves the bathroom beyond the brutal minimalism of recent years.
The basin is 600mm wide, and 500mm deep, making it ideal for most standard sized bathrooms. Can be used wall hung with a chrome bottle trap, or more elegantly combined with a full pedestal or even the semi pedestal.
The basin features one center mounted tap hole.


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24Hour Hackney
24Hour Hackney: A City Symphony was world premiered at a festival screening celebrating the end of a year-long digital film-making project at Open School East.
Inspired by a visit from the Echo Park Film Centre…
Open Cinema: Home
A screening festival celebrating digital filmmaking and Hackney, including world premiere of 24Hour Hackney: A City Symphony
Documentary Group
Emerging out of the Open Cinema project at Open School East, an enthusiastic self organised Documentary Film Group (…
organised youth
I'll be contributing to a discussion at the ICA, London about self-organisation and institutional education programmes...
The ICA's Educators' Events create a platform for conversations to challenge conventional modes of institutional learning.
They are intended to explore the…
If Community Was...
The second in Open Cinema's workshops was developed and lead by Ed Webb-Ingall. Ed's research looks to recover, reactivate and revive the history and practice of community video.
Ed gave a brief account, from 1968 to 1981 of the development of a medium and moving image style that…
A screening festival celebrating digital filmmaking and Hackney Including world premiere of 24 hour Hackney: A City Symphony
Saturday 21 November, 4-8pm…
Open Cinema a collective adventure in digital filmmaking and sharing; March–October 2015
Rip, Splice, Share
The third in Open Cinema's workshops was developed and lead by documentarian, Jose Velazquez. Jose trained at the BBC in new broadcast technologies, he has a…
Community film-making
The second in Open Cinema's workshops was developed and lead by Ed Webb-Ingall.
Ed's…
a collective adventure in digital filmmaking and sharing March–October 2015
Open Cinema is an 8-month long digital film project that offers free training, a range of free events, and the opportunity to collaborate on the…


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Marty Morrissey's autobiography promises showbiz and sports gossip galore
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If you were a sports or showbiz star in the 90s, 00s or later, you might need to be worried!
Sports pundit and RTE star Marty Morrissey is penning his first autobiography, he told Buzz.ie.
The sports commentator rose to fame on the GAA circuit but has since participated in RTE's Dancing With The Stars and appeared in the hilarious Marty and Bernard's Big Adventure with his DWTS co-star Bernard O'Shea.
Marty, 62, says he turned down multiple offers to write an autobiography in the past, but the timing finally feels right.
GAA sports commentator, Marty Morrissey. Pic: Colin Keegan, Collins
'I've taken on writing a book. It kind of is an autobiography, really. It started with anecdotes and stuff but it's hard to write it any other way,' he told the Irish Daily Star.
He added, 'I think during lockdown, I got a different perspective on life and also you're chasing your tail all the time.'
'I'm always busy, which I love, and I love the jobs that I do and I love the different things that RTÉ gets me to do whether it is Marty and Bernard or a radio show or a commentary. I'm lucky that they allowed me to diversify.'
Marty Morrissey. Pic: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin
So, what messing will Marty Morrissey's autobiography bring to light?
We'll have to wait and see when he brings us behind the scenes of the showbiz and sports world.
'It's a new chapter' Marty Morrissey pays tribute to his mum as he returns to work
'I've got to let you go now mum' Marty Morrissey says final farewell to 'hero' mum Peggy
Grieving Marty Morrissey carries mum Peggy's coffin into church ahead of wake
Marty Morrissey says losing his dad 'changed the dynamic' with his late mum
Marty Morrissey is taking time away from RTÉ after 'tragic loss' of his mum
EastEnders' Cheryl Fergison introduces long lost brother to the world


No, this addon doesn't change any data - it just deletes old entries. If it was causing some problem, the customer data would be missing completely, not changed.
No chance of it deleting new entries either then, eh? I hope this was just a one-time fluke. Any thoughts about what might have caused this to happen (besides my first thought of customer error)?
If you change the time periods in the admin settings to the smallest setting, it will delete new entries than one would normally probably not want deleted but they are only session entries. If you went into the database and manually cleared the complete table, it would just mean the sessions wouldn't be available. In the case of the customers, that would mean they would lose cart contents. But the code doesn't touch the tables that hold address data so it couldn't have done it.
A new version will be uploaded when it is ready. I don't allow public uploads to my contributions.
Well said Jack. its a shame that other contributors do not take this stance, as it prevents the add on becoming a pile of rubbish. I have tried so many add ons to find that they dont work. Keep up the good work.
i would like to know if this MOD, can delete old orders?
and if the answer is still NO, it might be a good idea to bring something like that out...!!
No, it won't do that. It could be coded to do so but its intention was to delete things that couldn't cause any loss of useable data. While you may not want old orders, most shop owners, in my experience, want to keep them. I'm not aware of an addon that will allow the deletion of old orders, though there may be one. If you know how to make edits in phpmyadmin you could easily delete the orders using the order ID. Just be sure to delete them from all of the order tables.
i think i could possibly say i am quite fix with phpmyadmin, but the syntax to be applyed in MySql would be a bit over the top of my head..
and i am not to sure which Tabels i will have to address..!!
i am trying this code at the moment to see what happens... or if it works..
It looks like it will work. Be sure to do a backup first though.
I'm looking at updating to 1.1 but I'm a bit confused on how to update the SQL, I have never done that.
The usual way is to use the phpmyadmin program that most hosts have installed. Once it is open and your database selected, there will be a tab named SQL. Click on that, copy the commands from the update file and save it. You should make a backup of your database first, of course. There are more detailed descriptions on how to use phpmyadmin on the web.
I'm getting following SQL error message, the first part took but not the last part?
Cheers work like a dream.
In that case, I am off to sleep.
Just spent some time converting an rc2a shop db to 2.3.1 format, loads of error like that.
Does this contribution not like ulitimate seo urls5 ?
99% of the changes in this contribution are in the admin, so SEO 5 won't be involved there, unless an installation mistake was made. On the shop side, the only change is to the product_into page so if it is failing there, you should remove the changes you made to that file, verify SEO 5 works and then make the change again, one at a time and checking it after each change.
What is the best way checking if SEO Pro works?
Turn it off in admin. If the problem still exists, it is due to something else.


The state government of Odisha has sent a proposal to the center asking it to consider development of riverine ports on the river Mahanadi in Jagatsinghpur district of the state.
According to a official release, the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) which is spearheading the exercise of expanding the inland waterways network in the country, has received Stage-I Feasibility Study Report on the 425 kms. stretch of river Mahanadi (National Waterway – 64) which it had commissioned separately. After examination of this report, IWAI has now awarded preparation of Stage-II Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the 98 kms. stretch on National Waterway -64 from Paradip to Cuttack.


The 2019 Billboard Music Awards nominations are in. The full list of nominees were announced on April 4 and artists like Ariana Grande, Cardi B, and more nabbed nods.
The 2019 Billboard Music Awards host Kelly Clarkson and Dan + Shay announced the nominees live on Today on April 4. Kelly and Dan + Shay announced 5 categories and the rest of the categories were revealed on the Billboard Music Awards social channels. The 2019 ceremony will air on NBC for the second year in a row. The BBMAs will be broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on May 1.
The 3-hour awards show will feature performances by the hottest musical acts, unexpected collaborations, and more. The nominees and winners are based on key fan interactions with music, including album and digital song sales, streaming, radio airplay, touring and social engagement, tracked by Billboard and its data partners, including Nielsen Music and Next Big Sound. See the list of nominees below.
Cardi B, leads the pack with 21 nods, followed by Drake and Post Malone, each with 17. XXXTentacion has been nominated for multiple awards posthumously. The rapper was tragically shot and killed in June 2018. He was just 20 years old when he was murdered.


"There's a sense of bewilderment of why creating goals is important."
Some orca proponents say recovering Chinook runs in the Snake and Columbia rivers through increased spill and removal of the four lower Snake River dams is a vital component to saving southern resident killer whales from extinction.
However, NOAA Fisheries scientists maintain that recovering salmon stocks throughout the killer whale's entire range, from Northern California to Canada, is important and that no single basin will save the whales.
The agency also says hatcheries produce more than enough Chinook--the pod's main prey--in the Columbia and Snake rivers to offset any losses caused by dams.
The focus on Columbia River Basin dams comes as the population of 75 killer whales that summer in Puget Sound attracted international attention when a mother whale gave birth to a calf, which died in less than an hour.
For more than two weeks, the mother was seen pushing her baby to the surface in what some observers have interpreted as a demonstration of her grief. During that time, biologists noticed a 3-year-old female in the pod was emaciated, and attempted to feed her, provide her with medicine and observe her condition continue.
Efforts to recover this population of killer whales have been underway for several years. Southern residents were initially listed as endangered in 2005, and NOAA Fisheries completed a recovery plan in 2008.
This year, in March, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed an executive order forming a task force to develop an action plan to recover the whales and ensure a sustained population into the future.
Both NOAA Fisheries and the governor's proclamation identify three primary causes of the orca's decline: prey availability, toxic contaminants, and disturbance from noise and vessel traffic.
NOAA spokesman Michael Milstein said none of the three problems are considered a leading cause of the orca's decline.
"We think they're all essentially important in different ways," Milstein said. In some cases, the problems compound one another. For example, he said, "When there's a lot of ship noise, whales can't use their echolocation to find fish," so in that case, the availability of prey is secondary.However, a July 31 news release from the Orca Salmon Alliance claims, "An extreme shortage of prey--primarily Chinook salmon--is the leading cause for their decline in recent years."
Joseph Bogaard, executive director of Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition, which is part of the Alliance, said food is a daily need, and if the whales had enough prey, impacts of vessel noise and toxins wouldn't be as severe.
"The fact that there aren't many fish means the vessel issue is worsened," Bogaard said. Toxins, too, are more of a problem for the whales because they don't have enough to eat, since whales store toxins in their blubber, and when they don't have enough food, they start burning up the blubber." If we were able to get those guys a lot more food, in the near term, then those other issues would not go away, but they're lessened," he said.
The Alliance news release said the whales should now be foraging on Fraser River salmon, and that research has shown a direct correlation between the size of the Fraser River salmon runs and the presence of southern residents in their core summer habitat, the San Juan Islands and surrounding waters and the mouth of the Fraser River near Vancouver, British Columbia.
The news release also says southern residents have, at best, five more years of reproductive potential, and that urgent actions are needed to improve Chinook salmon stocks throughout their range, from central California to British Columbia, and "especially the Columbia-Snake River system."
"The Columbia basin was once the most productive salmon basin on the planet. It produced upwards of 20 million fish returning as adults every year," Bogaard said. He said in the populous Salish Sea basin, it will take a complicated approach to restore salmon habitat. But in the Columbia and Snake rivers, he said, "The restoration potential is really high," he added. "Upstream, it doesn't need to be restored. It needs to be effectively reconnected to provide salmon access."
While the Alliance's news release does not mention removing dams or spilling more water, the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition is pushing for Inslee's task force to include both measures in its recommendations.
In an Aug. 7 statement, the Coalition said Washington state should work with Oregon and federal dam managers to increase spill to 125 percent of total dissolved gas at the lower Snake and lower Columbia river dams, beginning in 2019.
And, the statement said, Inslee should support removal of the four lower Snake River dams to provide better access to thousands of miles of prime salmon habitat.
The push for more spill and dam removal on the Snake River doesn't sit well with Terry Flores, executive director of Northwest RiverPartners. "If people are genuinely serious about helping orcas--which I hope we all are--using spill or dam removal is not helpful to the orcas," she said. "We are in complete agreement that this iconic species should not go extinct on our watch, or anyone's watch. And what that means is, you really need to focus and [home] in on those things that have some scientific basis, and can be accomplished quickly," she said.
Flores said that there's no scientific basis for claiming that additional spill or removing lower Snake River dams will improve Chinook runs. And, removing the dams would take far too long to make a difference. She said some groups with a long-held agenda to remove the Snake River dams appear to be using this emotional issue to advance their goals. "I find that disheartening because it simply doesn't help the orca situation, and if anything, it undermines it. It distracts from potential solutions that could be implemented in the short term," she said.
Bogaard said historically, the Snake River produced roughly half of the basin's spring Chinook. He said removing the lower Snake River dams would allow more adults and juveniles to pass the dams and survive, and help cool water temperatures. He acknowledged removing the dams would take years, but a decision now would put the whales on a path to recovery. "It's not a decision for the governor to make," he said, "but he's in a position to bring stakeholders together and say, 'This is what we need to do.'"
But scientists at NOAA Fisheries say that, while Snake River Chinook are part of the whale's diet, they are not the only or most important part. Milstein said scientists don't know what percentage of the orca's diet consists of Snake River Chinook. He said a recent study rating 31 Chinook stocks that southern resident orcas consume highlights the importance of all the stocks, because they rely on different runs at different times of the year.
Milstein said the Fraser River in British Columbia and rivers emptying into Puget Sound have long provided orcas with a major source of Chinook, especially because the whales have access to those areas much of the year. But, he added, "It's not about any one river, it's about the diversity of rivers and stocks over the course of any year. It's not intended to show that one stock is more important. It's about how much of a role each one plays in their food supply and survival."
More importantly, Milstein said, the Snake River is a bright spot in terms of production of Chinook salmon, when hatchery fish are included. Numbers of returning adults--both wild and hatchery--passing Lower Granite Dam hovered around 50,000 fish in the 1960s and early 1970s, and then suffered declines until about 2000, when hatchery fish began to fill in the losses. Average returns from 2005 through 2015 totaled more than 92,000 adults. Similarly, fall Chinook passing Lower Granite Dam have increased dramatically since the 1970s, and in recent years have numbered between 30,000 and 60,000 adults. The numbers represent escapement after harvest and losses to predators.
Milstein added there's no indication the orcas prefer wild Chinook over hatchery fish. "Essentially, the whales have access to as many or more fish from the Columbia River Basin as they would have otherwise," he said. "And hatchery fish have been documented in their diet. They prey on both," he said.
This isn't the first time groups have eyed the lower Snake River dams in relation to orca recovery. A 2016 NOAA Fisheries fact sheet outlines the issue, and Milstein said his agency's position hasn't changed since then.
"We think all of these stocks are important, and we're moving with a lot of different partners to recover them, through a lot of different means, whether it's managing hatchery production in a way that protects wild fish, managing harvest to the extent that we can make a difference, and dam passage, which is much improved," he said.


Kayla had a cardiologist visit the first week of September. Her oxygen saturation was high 80s/low 90s which is really great for her. I rarely see the 90s, so I was happy about that. I didn't get a chance to figure out what her other stats (height, weight, blood pressure) were because she was having some stranger anxiety, so I was busy trying to calm her down. She had only been to daycare a few days, but every time she saw someone that was going to touch her she would cry and cling to me. The doctor looked at her and said she looked great. I always try to avoid buying Kayla any blue clothes because the doctor is always mentioning how nice it is that she's wearing white or pink. Blue babies wearing blue clothes makes their condition look worse.
After he looked at her, we went to get the echo. She didn't like that very much. We tried giving her some sweeties (sugar water) on a pacifier, but she wasn't interested. They had to get someone else to help me try to hold her down. I sang her ABCs and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star which helped a little bit. Afterwards everything looked great. The doctor said everything was going like expected. We only have to see the cardiologist every six months now. Her next surgery will probably be when she is 3. He said most parents start noticing their kid start to slow down in activity and will start being "bluer," so the parents are usually the ones to say when they think their kid is ready for the surgery.
David and I had our first ever visit to the dermatologist. He's got a wart on his thumb and on the back of his hand. I have a tiny one on my wrist that's been there a couple years. I figured we'd go together to figure out what to do with it. Our options were freeze it off or use some prescription cream for 6 weeks. She said that since David's was close to the nail bed that it might scar. It would also be painful for him. I decided that since he loves going to the doctor so much, we'd just do the cream for him. I don't want to traumatize him. I got mine frozen. Three zaps and it blisters. I think you can buy the same stuff at Walmart. However, the cream is incredibly expensive...like almost $500 for some tiny packets. Wow.. Good thing we already reached our out of pocket maximum with our insurance, so everything was free!
I also had an appointment with the optometrist last weekend. Apparently, a whole year off from work makes my eyes better! This is the second time that my eye prescription has gotten better. I told him I thought they were worse because sometimes stuff far away is blurry but if I focus it gets clearer. He said that's a sign that my prescription is too strong and my eyes are refocusing to accommodate it. However, I have astigmatism in one of my eyes. I was a little worried I'd have to wear 2 different contacts, but he said the astigmatism wasn't bad enough. Yay! So I picked out some new glasses and will hopefully get them next week.
Chris and the kids got flu shots. I've never gotten one and rarely get the flu, so I don't plan on getting one. Since David got two last year, he got to do the mist this year. David is always super excited about going to the doctor. He tries to make excuses to go like saying he has an owie on his foot. Kayla hates going to the doctor. I hope some of David's excitement will spread to Kayla some day because she's going to have a lot more visits than him.
Chris and I also had dentist appointments this month that went well. That's it for doctor appointments this month! The kids will have their yearly exams next month. Kayla will have to get her second dose of the flu shot at that time.


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David Lyon may refer to:

Dave Lyon (footballer, born 1948) (1948–2019), English football forward
Dave Lyon (footballer, born 1951) (1951–1999), English football defender
Dave Lyon (track coach) (1938–2013), Canadian track and field coach
David Lyon (actor) (1941–2013), British actor
David Lyon (cricketer) (born 1943), English cricketer
David Lyon (designer) (born 1968), car designer
David Lyon (rugby) (born 1965), English rugby league and rugby union player
David Lyon (sociologist) (born 1948), professor of sociology at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
David Lyon (British politician) (1794–1872), West India merchant, Member of Parliament and landowner
David Gordon Lyon (1852–1922), American theologian
David Murray Lyon (1888–1956), British physician and medical author
David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961), brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother
David Murray-Lyon (1890–1975), officer in the Indian Army
David Lyon (Nigerian politician) (born 1970), disqualified governor-elect of Bayelsa State

See also
David Lyons (disambiguation)

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Category: Dear Diary
This Is Like Really Mundane
Handmade Pasta
Paddle Boat on Irondequoit Bay from Kathy's backyard
It was so hot today we decided to stay off the streets and take the path in the woods to our friend Kathy's place. She has workers there constructing a deck in her backyard and we've been checking up on the progress. It is not your ordinary deck. This one is off her unattached garage and it is just above ground level. Tick safe.
The garage wall that meets the deck has been reworked as well with hand stained board and batten. And beams and supports for a pergola are being carefully considered. This is a work of art and it it has been a joy to watch. The Harbor Town Belle was headed up to the Bay Bridge while we were there.
Peggi wore her back over in order to carry Kathy's pasta maker home. We're having handmade pasta with artichokes for dinner.
The Livin' Is Easy
Mutant strawberries at Aman's
We bought two quarts of local strawberries at Aman's and put one in each of our backpacks. Our Wegmans purchases were nestled below. These mutant strawberries were on display near the checkout, right next to the refrigerator magnets. The one reading, "Somedays I amaze myself and other days I put my keys in the refrigerator" caught our eye.
I hated to see England lose the the third place match today. I really, really wanted Ellen White to get another one but it was not in the cards. Sweden came out like gangbusters and scored two early goals. The rest of the match was Englands. Most of the items on our shopping list were for tomorrows match. We're having a few friends over to watch it live and then a pool party to celebrate!
Weed Whacking World
Honeysuckle bush on Hoffman Road
We passed a neighbor on our way out. He was completely lost in thought as hovered over his weed whacker. Peggi identified this flowering bush as a Honeysuckle and geotagged it with the iNaturalist app. We use that everyday now, cataloging the world in some small way.
We waited out a thunderstorm and then headed into the park. The temperature had dropped ten degrees but it was still just as humid. The park was almost empty. No dog walkers parked at the entrance. At the top of Zoo Road we spotted some teenage girls standing by a car. They saw us and quickly got into the car. One kid, a guy, was still standing near the car but he turned his back to us. A small time drug deal was going down.
Up at the lake the parking lot was empty. A couple of Asian kids were playing soccer. We heard people swimming but couldn't see them. We looked down one of those steep paths and lsaw the beach iis still underwater.
On the way back through the park we saw a familiar pickup truck, a dog walker with wacky pro gun bumper stickers on his bumper A little further up the road we saw a guy standing near his car, smoking a cigar. A big branch fell in the woods behind him and we all looked in that direction. He didn't acknowledge it but told us we were brave to be out walking without an umbrella.
Furry black guy at Rochester Contemporary 6×6 show
Still no strawberries. The clerk behind the counter a Aman's said they had two suppliers and both said they expected their strawberries to be ripe enough for market by the end of this week.
I finally won at horseshoes. First time this year. My neighbor keeps track of these things. We've played eight times, best out of three, and he had won them all until yesterday.
We may be overusing our iNaturalist app. We are stopping at every strange looking tree and ordinarily ones that we should already have in our database. Today we identified something we thought was an unusual oak as a Silver Maple, and two different Locust varieties.
We stopped in RoCO's 6×6 show and this furry guy caught my eye.
Nothing Bothers Me
Town Infrastructure with white spray paint in Hoffman Road
Watching Gerhard Richter run a huge squeegee over his wet painting in a YouTube clip, the interviewer asks Richter, "How do you know when a painting is done?" Richter answered, "When nothing bothers me. And I don't know what to do next."
This afternoon we walked a dvd of "Dazed and Confused" over to the library. We always find something there to bring home and when it's due we walk back with it and start the cycle all over. We had seen the Richard Linklater movie before. But it was more fun this time, maybe because we are so far out of high school. Talk about archetypes, this movie nailed them. And the soundtrack has aged really well.
We walked along the lake yesterday looking for the beach. It's there but underwater. We knew it was supposed to rain but we thought we could get a walk in. What we didn't count on was the Open House detour we took when we saw the sign in front of the Highlands on Lakeshore Boulevard. There are seven gorgeous homes up there, all but one looking out over the lake from that big hill. The house we looked at used to be owned by the owner of Edwards Restaurant downtown. We used to go there when Peggi's parents came into town. Coming back through the park we noticed they had cancelled the Arboretum Tour and then, boom. We were caught in thunderstorm.
Miserere: The Hard Business of Living
East Avenue home with white columns in Rochester, New York
We buy Canaltown's Rochester Choice blend and were getting low so I called Pete and had him put together a couple of big bags. We parked in the empty parking lot of the old Tops, our store of choice when we lived in the now hot North Winton neighborhood. We decided to take a walk before picking up the bags so we headed downtown on the north side of East Avenue. I had something to drop off at RoCo and we took a last look at the local landscape show while we were there. I was struck by how good looking this show is. Nine widely different artists and yet it hangs together.
We found a flyer there for a used book show at the library so we kept walking. Peggi found a small Rouault book from 1959, just one year after Rouault's death, from a time when art books customarily had color plates glued to the pulp pages and these are knockouts. Clowns, prostitutes and religious paintings. The book was a dollar. Two of the four Rouault prints my father had on our living room wall can be seen in this family photo. I am a fan.
We walked out of downtown on the south side of Eastman, picked up our coffee and took it across the street to Wegman's Italian restaurant where we split calamari, roasted beet salad with pistachio vinaigrette and octopus. With all the great Italian restaurants in this town Wegmans gave it a good shot.
Three orange signs along Sea Breeze Drive at dusk.
I asked our smart speaker to play some Peggy Lee and the first one out was "Is That All There Is?" probably her most popular song. Personal Effects used to do a version of that. But this setlist went deep and reminded me how much I love her. I was especially struck by how good "Where or When" sounded so I went to my library to mark it as a favorite. I only have so much time left to listen to music, as we all do. It already had five stars on it.
We tried to track down Peggi Lee when we were out visiting Peggi's sister in Belair. We even bought one of those star maps that had her house marked on it. We were on foot, a dangerous way to get around the Hollywood Hills and her house was just too much of hike.
I thought the song below was the most interesting from last week. Nothing like Where or When. That's my nephew's drone on the cover.
"Drone" by Margaret Explosion. Recorded live at the Little Theatre Café on 03.06.19. Peggi Fournier – sax, Ken Frank – bass, Phil Marshall – guitar, Paul Dodd – drums.
Good Storm
Fallen tree at corner with yellow caution tape.
I knew something was up when I saw our neighbor, Jared, coming back from the corner with his noise cancelling headphones in his hand. We were still reading the morning paper but we waved to Jared and he came up to the door. He told us his wife had gone out for coffee and had to drive under the power lines that were stretched to the max under a fallen oak.
Jared said Spectrum TV was down there and a "cute little reporter" had interviewed him, inquiring how residents were impacted the storm. He said he told the reporter he likes a good storm. By the time we got down there the power company had stung yellow tape across our street, sealing us in. They cut the power and tree surgeons were preparing to go to work. When the power came back on we found Jared's interview online. He told us "they cut out all the good parts."
Last night's snowfall on our deck railing
Wegman's was wacky before the snowfall. We walked up there along Sea Breeze Way and had spaced out enough on the way to have forgotten about the impending storm. We remembered when we saw cars backed up trying to get in the lot. Shoppers were almost giddy. A guy from Custom Brewcraft was pouring tall samples of their new IPA. Every cashier lane was open and our cashier was moving so fast she put a jar of Miracle Whip from the guy behind us into our bag. Of course we had paid for it so we had get in the Customer Service line to get our money back.
It snowed enough on our walk back that we decided to put our skies on and try the woods. There was just enough to cushion a fall but we both stayed upright. It snowed so much last night that by this afternoon we couldn't even see yesterday's ski tracks. There were seven deer standing in the creek. We stopped on the bridge to watch. Only 9ºF my fingers were too cold to take a picture.
Holiday lights along ledge in living room
When the holiday fanfare dies down and the neighbors leave for Florida the heart of the season is just beginning. The lakes in Durand have ice fishermen on them, high school kids are playing hockey in the coves and hundreds of ducks are flocking together beyond the ice formations along the shore of Lake Ontario. The slate grey skies make the male cardinal look like it is on fire. And the threat of 18 inches over the weekend has made us giddy.
Memory Curse
Beech-Nut Packing Company East Main Street, Rochester, New York
Warren Philips framed a print for us. He called to say it was ready for pick-up so drive over there this afternoon and found him sitting in the window of shop, eating lunch with the lights while listening to Christmas music. From the looks of what was left it was a healthy lunch, both fruits and vegetables. We got a total cost from him and then walked down East main from his shop near Goodman to ESL at Winton and Main to pick up some cash. The five mile loop took us though our old neighborhood and brought back all sorts of memories.
About half the houses on the North side of Main have been torn down and there's a lot of new buildings like Auto Zone. The giant Eckerd's that put in where Kadri's gas station was is now a Dollar Store. The Comic Book Store is gone. East High was letting out when we passed. Amazing how much energy those kids have. I found a Trump playing card on the ground near the school, the queen of diamonds with "Melania, Supermodel" on the back. We used to get a Friday Fish Fry at My Brother's Place, now Club Soda where the bikers and cops hang out. Economy Paper is still in business. We had a salesman from that place call on us at 4D. Eastern Printing is still cranking. We did many jobs there.
Fleckinger's Meat Market is a tax service place. That guy knew my grandfather. Salvatore's, the original location at Wisconsin Street, has the whole block now. The founder's father, Fred, owned the grocery store across the street. Bertha's is gone. It's a laundramat. We stopped in there to go to the bathroom. There is a Puerto Rican restaurant where Mooney's was and Effinger's German restaurant before that and Jamaican place across the street. Carroll's Irish Bar painted their place dark grey for some reason. Fam's disco is a teen center. The greenhouse is a coffee shop for recovering alcoholics. Mustard Street, where French's used to be, looks as bleak as ever. Nobody remembers any of this stuff.
Personal Effects "Silver Finger Nails" from "90 Day In The Planetarium" 1987
Three camouflaged deer on Hoffman Road in Rochester, New York
I know I've been out of sorts when I don't find any interesting photos on my camera. It is always with me and I usually start a blog post by looking back at what I have brought home. And then I sort of write to the photo sometimes. Just as often the text has nothing to do with the visuals and that makes its own statement. It is at least a starting point.
It has been a few days and this is all I found. The deer are nearly camouflaged and the photo reminds me of those old Highlights magazines. I remember them in our house but I mostly remember them at Dr. Cleary's, our family dentist. He had an office on the sixth floor of the Medical Arts building on Alexander Street and my mom would take all six of us, Amy wasn't born yet, to the dentist at the same time. We usually all needed his attention but there wasn't a babysitter if you didn't. We devoured the Highlights magazines and there was always a feature where you had to find a list of things hidden in a photo. I've gotten pretty good at it but I could never spot these three deer before they spotted me.
Turns out our car is totaled so we took to the internet to shop for a new one and a few days slipped by. And then there was that whole day we spent looking for the title of old car. If they still made the Element we would already have a new one but they don't make them anymore. Bob Martin thinks we oughta be looking at panel trucks.
Fran and Paul Dodd jumping off rock in Bloomington Long Hole quarry
Years after this photo was taken an Academy Award winning movie was shot in Bloomington Indiana and this quarry was featured in a scene. My father took this photo when he came out to visit and I love the body language. I look scared and my brother, Fran, looks like he's having the time of his life. Funny, too, that I took diving at IU as a PE requirement. The teacher was, Hobie Billingsley, the US Diving coach. The first thing he had us do was climb the ladders to the high platform, walk to the edge, turn our backs to the pool and fall backward in a stiff, plank-like position. If executed properly you do a full rotation and land first. If not, ouch. He was building trust.
I just called my brother for some advice. Our insurance company has passed our claim on to the "Total Loss Department" and we're waiting to hear what they plan to offer us for it. My brother knows cars. I have no idea what goes on under the hood. We love our car but it a 2003 Honda Element and they don't make anything like it anymore. We moved the contents of our city house to this place in the car. My drums slide in with room for Pete and Shelley. We carry firewood from down below in it. My brother recommended a bay sho and we hope to have them get our car back on the road with insurance pay out. My uncle was our insurance agent in the old days. I don't know if I can trust these guys.
Durand Eastman Beach in November
And I don't mean Brooklyn Academy of Music. The jolt was like the ones you got in the bumper cars at Willow Point Park when your friend slammed you in the rear. We were turning left into Jeff and Mary Kaye's driveway and we weren't quick enough for the driver behind us. He/she closed the gap and clipped the right rear corner of our car. Took the whole section of the car that holds the taillight right off. And he kept going into the night. When the Monroe County Sheriff showed up he said, "Welcome to 2018."
We tried to shake it off and got down to business. Jeff's stereo was acting up. His amp kept turning off. I plan to bring my old one there next time. He clicked on a Flash update and inadvertently installed something that gave him error messages but it wouldn't come up while we were out there. His Airport extreme, a device Apple no longer makes, was flashing yellow. I opened Airport utility and updated the firmware. Mary Kaye never got an Apple id when she bought her phone so she was signed in as Jeff and was getting all his work related email. Peggi set Mary Kaye up we with her own id. Jeff's Pages docs were all showing invisibles.Jeff didn't know what they were. They look like the old typesetter marks and "Show Invisibles" was turned on. I turned it off. Last on the list was getting Jeff's photos on his tv. You have to have the Photos app open before you can find them from your tv.
We drove home with one taillight and made it. Peggi installed the Allstate app, took photos of the damage and we expect a quote for repair tomorrow. They cover most of the cost for a car rental so we walked up to Enterprise and came home with a little white thing from Korea.
Yellow leaves around tree in snow
Don Hershey designed our house with with a very slim roofline. The one story structure has a low 2/12 pitch and as the roof is pitched down the four foot overhangs have a slight pitch upward. The facia board is very narrow and there were no gutters. A previous owner added a gutter around two sides of the garage and to get enough pitch for the water to roll they had to replace the facia with a wider piece of cedar. The gutter prevented ice from forming near the door but over time the the corners leaked. I patched them a few times but it didn't last and the corners were especially treacherous in the winter. I thought there had been an innovation of some sort and gutters were were now made without any seams so I asked around for a contractor to replace ours.
A guy came out to give us an estimate and he was very professional. He told us a crew would do the work and he scheduled the job. The forecast called for rain that day so they rescheduled. They called the morning of the new appointment and said they would have to cancel again because of the rain. I said it wasn't raining here but that didn't matter. We were given a new appointment, a month away, when we returned from Spain. It was raining that day but they showed up anyway.
There were two guys. The foreman told us the other guy was new and he didn't speak much English. I told him Peggi could speak Spanish if that helps. He bent over to pick up a tool and I noticed he was wearing flannel boxer shorts with cartoon characters on them. I went in the house and they started work. About five minutes later the main guy rang our bell and said he had to go to Urgent Care because he smashed his knuckles with his hammer. He had his blue stocking cap wrapped around his hand.
They came back out the next day but this time there were three of them. The new guy seemed sharper than the others but he kept his cell phone in his pocket playing music the whole time. They cracked the facia board ripping the old gutters off and used long screws to attach the new gutters. They came out the back of the facia board and are visible if you look up. I came out to check up on them and the lead guy showed me the pitch by holding a six inch level along the bottom of the gutter. My neighbor has a six foot level. This looked like a toy. When they left we found scraps of metal and nails in the driveway and I noticed a long sections of the new gutters wasn't even screwed in. They did me a favor. I'll do that with shorter screws.
Trump Calling
Shovel in the ground at Irondequoit Mall
We were in Target trying to get a look at the new iPhone XS when everyone's phones sounded an alert at once. Peggi found it kind of creepy. I was thinking how we were all connected in some new, magical way.
Outside a woman in a big black Suburban hit the curb behind us and then zipped around us to park. We were on foot and I was thinking how our yoga teacher got hit by a shopping cart which had been propelled by a car in the parking lot of Cosco. You have to walk defensively.
Target is the only thing left in Irondequoit Mall and walking across the vast empty parking lot is a surreal experience. The pavement is a cracked and littered with cigarette butts and tiny bits of of trash, mostly plastic. We are already here from the future doing a cursory, shallow archeological dig. I found this broken snow shovel and stuck it in ground at the end of the pavement.
We are only one Rochester walk away from Camino part two. I'm already thinking rocket fuel at Starbucks for that last loop from the house.
Compromise Or Fraud
Old lumber yard on Holt Road in Webster, New York
This old lumberyard on Holt Road in Webster looks like a movie set now. I took this shot from the side of the place as we walked the Hojak Trail. We started at North Ponds Park and walked to Drumm Road and back seeing only a handful of people the whole time. We felt like we were on the Camino again, an easy straightaway portion of the Camino, with a natural stone or mud surface and a clear trail, the old railroad line. We were almost to the lake when we turned around and will push it that far next time. I'd love to see where that guy drove through the barricade and into the water on Lake Road.
Our credit card has been compromised three times in the last year. Is that average? I don't feel like we're reckless but maybe we are. The repercussions are crazy. When we told the Visa representative that this was the third time our card was compromised she told us that our card was not "compromised" but someone had committed fraud with it. An interesting technicality. So that would be one compromise and two frauds in the last year.
We suspect the other fraud happened when we bought gas up near Niagara Falls. Someone skimmed our number when we inserted our card at the funky pumps. About five months ago a vendor where we used our card had their database attacked so we had to get a new card and that was a "compromise." On Friday night we bought gas at Herrema's down near Charlotte. Visa had told us to pay in person rather than use our card at the pump but the place was closed and the only way to pay for gas we desperately needed was to pay with a card at the pump. We pay most bills on line and contacting all our vendors is a pain in the ass.
Posted on August 20, 2018 November 19, 2018
Woman painting steeple at Christ Church in Irondequoit
The brakes on our 2003 Element went funky over the weekend. Not bad enough to reach the calipers but they just started falling apart. I called B&B Auto and they were able to take us in so we left before breakfast, dropped it off and walked back home. We stopped at I-Square for a latte and watched this woman scraping the wooden steeple on the church across from the House of Guitars.
We spotted a handmade sign across the street from the town hall for a "Record Album Sale" so we stopped to check it out. A guy with a black wig was loading a car in the driveway and he seemed bothered that we interested in the sale. He told us to wait a minute while he locked up the dogs and then he led us to a small room with thousands of records. "Everything is a buck" he said and that was the last we saw of him.
The records were in surprisingly good shape, some never played, and there were multiple copies of many. We had a short stack in no time, Nino Roto's soundtrack to the Godfather, KC and the Sunshine Band, Art Tatum, Stand by Sly and Family Stone and something I had never seen before, Our Memories of Elvis with a picture of Elvis's father and the Colonel on the front.
A woman was screaming at someone on the phone in another room. It seems her brother wanted her to pick him up and help him take back his empties. When she hung up she came in the small room to ask if we wanted some napkin rings. Peggi said no and then the woman asked if we canned. Peggi said yes, but that was as far as that conversation went. And then she started complaining about foreign people. "They want everything for nothing. Always trying to talk me down. I gotta get rid of this stuff. I'm just gonna give it all away." She asked Peggi if she could get rid of the words on her tv. She said, "I'm a little hard of hearing but I don't need the words at the bottom." She was watching QVC and screaming at one of the contestants.
She got on the phone again and told someone that the guy had met someone on Facebook and he was moving out. She said, "I hope it's a scam."
Italian Power Forever
Soccer ball chair out by the curb, Rochester, New York
We are only a week away from the start of the season for La Liga and this guy is dumping his match time chair!
I like it when late summer slows things down to a crawl. Boring is not the right word for it, I find myself in too much of a stupor to feel bored. We linger longer after the horseshoes fly. I've been on a losing streak, though, and I'm wondering if it might be the logy weather. But why wouldn't it affect my opponent? In a few weeks the cooler weather will clear my head and I'll be productive members of society again.
I volunteered to do the name tags for an upcoming high school reunion. I did them ten years ago and I still have the files. Someone in the class is sharing a Google spreadsheet of who's coming with me and I'm working my way through them. I see Matt Sanfilippo has not sent his check in. He signed my yearbook, "Italian Power Forever!"
Where Were We
View of Buffalo skyline from top floor of City Hall
It's too bad this view from 25th floor of Buffalo's City Hall building doesn't show you what the building itself looks like. With tips from the NYT Travel Section column we spent 36 Hours in Buffalo and were just starting the final 24. We had already been to Big Ditch Brewery for their award-winning IPA and we had dinner at the Mexican place recommended in the article. We had walked along the waterfront as the sun went down in Canalside Park. We were staying at the refurbished Lafayette Hotel downtown. The article had recommended two other places. The Lafayette was designed by America's first woman architect, Louise Blanchard Bethune, and was intended to be ready for the Pan American Expo but it wasn't finished in time. It was big and funky, something like the Overlook Hotel in the Shining. My uncle told us he used to have lunch there but in later years it became what he called a flophouse. We located these places from the the observation deck of City Hall and we met an Indian couple up there who were visiting their daughter in Buffalo. They told us they had been to the Hindu Temple in Rochester.
When our band played Buffalo in the late seventies and early eighties I never knew where we were. I could get to places like the Continental, McVans, the Garage and Nietzsche's but then we'd head off to a late night party in loft downtown or an apartment off Delaware or to some crazy late night food joint and I'd be totally lost. It would take us forever to get out of town.
This time stayed downtown and walked up to the Albright Knox. We zig aged and found Rowhouse Bakery, a dreamy coffee shop/bar/restaurant. We walked around the museum of course and then back downtown, stopping in Allentown for a local beer and dinner at Tempo, an Italian place with an Ellsworth Kelly print hanging over the fireplace. We ate out on the patio and split two appetizers and a beet salad. We were full before dinner so we stopped. We clocked ten miles before the day was done and now have a much better sense of the lay of the land.
We stayed up late watching the display in the fake fireplace and we started our day with a Cortado in Public Espresso + Coffee on the ground floor of our hotel. They had cool black and white art on the walls, paintings somewhere between Franz Kline and graffiti, and design magazines scattered about. Most of the customers seemed to be carrying on business via laptop or phone. We entered my Aunt and Uncles address in Niagara Falls into our phone and headed up there for the afternoon.


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Fourteen people converged on Pie 'N Burger in Pasadena last evening to celebrate Classic Eats #4. There were the CE Regulars: Mr. Hooks, Jeff and Donna, The Other Jeff, myself, and Matt Mason. Then more Metblogs writers came along, Lulu of the Lotus Eaters, Travis and Jodi. There were also significant others and there were the Germans. We even had one Metblog lurker who came out in public to join us.
We crowded the back "section" of P 'N B and had our fill of yummy classic burger food. Skip past the jump for more photos and fun.
It's not a big place, but there was plenty of room for us all between 5:30 and 6:00. Thank goodness we got there early as there was a crowd forming when we left at 7!
The burgers did not disappoint! Juicy and drippy and messy and delicious. Some had fries, some had potato salad. For drinks there were sodas, which are made on the spot from their soda fountain, not just hosed in from tanks out back. Others opted for a great old fashioned milk shake.
I actually ordered the patty melt and was very happy I did. It must be the first perfect patty melt I've had in ages. Not too much patty, just the right amount of melt. Excellent potato salad as well, no matter what you say, The Other Jeff!
Then it was time for pie. But while we were all still eating our burgers, I noticed that my two German friends who had joined us were finishing up pie already. Confused, I asked, "Hey Michael, did you already eat your burger and pie?! You've only been here like 10 minutes!" He looked at me and said "Vell, ze place iz calt Pie Und Burger, zo, ve start vis ze pie." Who could argue with that?
I couldn't decide what of pie to get until I turned to Jodi who was eating Banana Cream Merengue. SOLD.
After the pie and burgers were consumed, we stumbled out into the Pasadena evening, deciding it was too soon to call it over. So we moseyed over to Burger Continental to sit on the patio and yak for another two hours!
Thanks to all for another great Classic Eats. It's always a blast to hang with the regulars and to meet new people.
Where will we go next for Classic Eats? That, as always, will be up to you. Look for Classic Eats #5 Save The Date post soon.
Aw, looks like tons of fun…sorry I missed it!
Gawd did that look like fun, one of these days I won't have kid stuff and can join.
You're killin' me here. Blah.
If you decide to act on that hankerin' any time this week drop me a line, I'm SO there.
since i couldn't make it at the time you scheduled and feel partially responsible for the choice (i voted for P 'n B) i went around 7:45 and agree, it was delicious! LOVED the turkeyburger and boysenberry pie. bummed that they didn't have my beloved rhubarb…will undoubtedly be going back there more often.
Of all the days for me to be coming back from outta town, dangit.
BTW, I believe that is Matt Mason's cheeseburger and hand in the first pic. The sacrifices I made, wanting to sink my teeth into that picture-perfect baby and having to wait for Julia to set up the shot!
Wish I was there. It looks fabulous!!!
Thanks again for organizing this, Julia! It was loads of fun and nice to meet some of the other authors in person. We'll just say that's NOT me with my mouth stuffed above!
I did not make the first Stevie-Nicks-video-escapee joke about the belly dancer.
I want that to be clear.
I am looking forward to the next one. Might we look at Grand Central Market or The Pantry along with an LA Conservancy historic tour? I know, I know, GCM and the Pantry, we've all been there a million times…right? I still haven't been to Cole's down on Skid Row….
b.) @fohr: I recently had occasion to go to both Cole's and Philipe's for the first time. I can confidently say, once you get past the charm of dining on Skid Row, Cole's has little else to offer. Stick to Philipe's.


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Set visit to THE GROUNDSKEEPER Twilight Short Film
Six fans were selected to be Fan Corespondents on the set of the Twilight Stories short films. Here is a look at the making of each film through their eyes.
Being on set of the short film The Groundskeeper was like stepping into one of my wildest dreams. Coming from an acting background this was the opportunity of a lifetime. I met so many amazing and talented people, saw a beautiful set, and even got to join in on the fun. I'm so grateful to have been able to go on set as a fan correspondent. This is an experience that will live with me forever and then some.
The set was incredible. The location was huge and there were crew and equipment all over. It's insane to think that so much is needed for a 10 minute film. I got to watch the crew work for hours to bring everything together. This picture is a before and after of Alice's grave:
I remember passing a few members of the art department taping a bunch of cardboard boxes and putting them in a small kiddie pool. When I returned, they covered the boxes with dirt and made it look like there had never been a pool to begin with. It was insane. But also, everyone on set was like a well-oiled machine. Coming in with no prior knowledge to how they had been working, it seemed like they were always on the same page. Everyone on set had so much love and dedication for the movie, which is probably why everything was going so smoothly.
After about an hour of sitting on the sidelines watching Sara (Alice) and Kevin (the Groundskeeper) tape a scene, and enjoying literally every second of it, I ventured off to the bathroom. As I was washing my hands, the second AD came into the bathroom, looking for me. "Hey, would you like to-…" were the only words she could get out before I blurted out, "Yes. Whatever it is, yes." She then continued to tell me I was going to be an extra. I almost cried. They sent me to hair and makeup, making me look like an electric shock therapy patient. I got to lay in a bed act like I lost my mind.
This was the best experience of my life. I remember in 2008 when Twilight first came out I told myself I was going to be an extra in the Twilight movie saga one way or another, and I was. It's crazy to live out a dream you've been chasing for so long. I don't have enough words for how I felt. Maybe: accomplished, thrilled, overwhelmed, to name a few. This was an experience that I will keep with me forever.
The set of the Groundskeeper was absolutely breathtaking. The location I was at is known as Adler Manor in Yonkers, NY. The manor was built in 1912 by mining tycoon, William Boyce Thompson. Over the years it was used as a high school and junior college before falling into neglect. The manor is now used for weddings and movies. The manor is gorgeous with its Renaissance architectural feel . It's like stepping back in time.
And although it was beautiful, I was also a bit creeped out. Lights were flickering all night and I could have sworn we heard noises coming from the "supposedly haunted" third floor. While touring the manor, we were told about room 32, a room eerily placed room at the end of a long dark hallway. We were told the door slammed shut one night and locked itself. A film crew tried to unlocked it with no success. I'm not surprised though. With a building this old, there were bound to be some ghosts lurking around!
Finally, I would like to introduce you all to the lovely director of The Groundskeeper, Nicole Eckenroad:
I was lucky enough to have time to sit down and really talk to her about this project, directing, and women in the film industry in general. Nicole is such a driven individual. She really understands the struggle of female directors, and takes nothing for granted. And even though she is under a time crunch for direction, she does her best to make sure it is nothing short of perfect. She's humble, dedicated, and so inspiring. I can only hope to grow up to be as well rounded and talented as this young woman. And I need to thank her again for letting me be an extra!
Being on set of The Groundskeeper opened my eyes to so many new things, and reminded me why I am so lucky to be a part of a fandom that will never die. I am so excited to see the finished project. I know it's going to be extraordinary! From the amount of work that went into making it, it'll be nothing short of perfect. Thank you again to everyone I met on set. I'll keep this with me forever.
Have you watched THE GROUNDSKEEPER yet?


The Brazen Head in Dublin (Ireland) is one of the oldest 22 bars in Europe.
If old bars and traveling are two of your hobbies, than you will love the Lords of the Drinks U1600 Tour. We searched for the oldest 23 bars, pubs and inns in Europe. All of them were founded before the year 1600 (Under 1600). They may have switched names or owners in this time but they never stopped serving beers. This amazing journey takes you through 11 different countries. From Ireland to Belgium and from Czech Republic to Slovenia. To keep a permanent souvenir from this trip we created a stamp card. Just download and print the PDF below. So have a lot of fun collecting them all and we look forward to your reactions and reviews about these historical pubs and bars. Of course we're going to take the tour ourselves too and you'll soon see a report on each bar on this page. Cheers!
Oh absolutely…. Thanks for adding this one to the list! Cheers!


An old-fashioned family adventure movie, Boaz Yakin's Max follows the story of a former service dog and his adventures with a little oik called Justin. It didn't get good reviews but has been reasonably successful considering its relatively low budget. Fifteen years earlier, director Yakin worked with composer Trevor Rabin on Remember the Titans, a sports movie for which Rabin wrote a typically feel-good, easy-going score which is one of the best he's ever done. Even back then his style felt a bit like a throwback, though admittedly not thrown back all that far (specifically to the Media Ventures rather than Remote Control cheesy action sound of the mid-1990s) and, after a few years in which he hasn't written much new film music, it turns out that his style is still basically precisely the same as it was back then. The anthems, electric guitars, samples doubling orchestra (which sounded pretty awful in 1995 and sounds considerably worse in 2015), synthy drum loops – they're all here. There's a sweet little main theme, some very familiar Rabin action music, mostly in little bursts (there are 17 tracks on the 38-minute album so nothing has any time to be developed).
The score's main strength is its warmth, which feels very sincere and is hard to dislike; but the cheap-sounding symph-and-synths mixture which you could get away with back in 2000 because it seemed like everyone was doing it now sounds really rather archaic. There are some nice ideas in it, including some really decent tunes, but the arrangement lets it down so badly – it sounds like it's a low-budget tv movie score, or even the cheesy musical accompaniment someone's done for a family game show or something. Take the noble, lovely horn solo of "Fireworks Display" – it would be superb if it were just allowed to breathe but instead it's got these samples and synths all over it, a hideous electric piano just before it, and it just spoils it. It's a shame because it wouldn't have taken that much to turn these musical ideas into something that held together much better in 2015. If you're still listening to and enjoying Rabin's scores of 15-20 years ago then you'll certainly enjoy this one too but I'm not sure how big that demographic might be. It feels like the product of a very different time.


Human Rights Watch has released a report on the issue of violence against Dalits and Muslims in India, being carried out by so called 'cow protection' extremist Hindu groups. The organisation demands that the Government act to bring justice to the victims and curb this disturbing trend.
Indian authorities should promptly investigate and prosecute self-appointed "cow protectors" who have committed brutal attacks against Muslims and Dalits over rumors that they sold, bought, or killed cows for beef, Human Rights Watch said today. Instead of taking prompt legal action against the vigilantes, many linked to extremist Hindu groups affiliated with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the police, too often, have filed complaints against the assault victims, their relatives, and associates under laws banning cow slaughter.
Many Hindus consider the cow to be a holy animal, and slaughter is forbidden in most parts of Hindu-majority India. Since May 2015, a violent vigilante campaign against beef consumption has led to the killing of at least 10 Muslims, including a 12-year-old boy, in seven separate incidents of mob violence. In July 2016, in Gujarat, vigilantes stripped four Dalit men, tied them to a car, and beat them with sticks and belts over suspicions of cow slaughter. In a number of cases, the attackers have also robbed their victims of cash and cellphones, and damaged their property.
IDSN has also raised the issue of cow vigilante violence against Dalits and Muslims on several occasions including in this article on how the Indian Government were criticized for inaction in relation to the case in Gujarat, mentioned above.


Pat Smith at the Phase 2,3 & 4 Groundbreaking Ceremony at The Serve Denton Center.
You may already know Pat Smith for his involvement with all things Denton. He is a retired Air Force Colonel who has lived in Denton for 45 years, serves on the Board of Directors for Explorium Denton Children's Museum and is the former Executive Director for Serve Denton.
Though Serve Denton has been an idea since the 1970s, it wasn't really kicked off until 2011 when Pat Smith and Priscilla Sanders met for lunch.
"I have always been interested in building capacity, building stuff and this idea was something that really appealed to me," Pat said.
Once Pat and Priscilla got working, the ideas started to fall in place.
Pat believes in the Serve Denton mission because it's an idea that has been in Denton for the last 40 years.
Serve Denton is in the middle of a capital campaign to raise money for the Serve Denton Center expansion. In 2019, over 16,000 people are expected to be served at the Serve Denton Center.
When asked why others should get involved in the capital campaign, Pat says so you can leave a mark in Denton.
Pat Smith and Priscilla Sanders at The Wheeler House ribbon cutting in 2015.
Priscilla Sanders at The Serve Denton Center Open House in May 2018.
Priscilla Sanders is another founding board member of Serve Denton that played a key role in kicking off the idea of Serve Denton.
A Denton resident for 36 years, Priscilla has served on Serve Denton's Resource Development committee for the past seven years. She also plays a huge part in Celebration, Serve Denton's annual fundraising gala.
When asked why other should get involved in the capital campaign, Priscilla says because it's our responsibility to help others.
Priscilla Sanders and Pat Smith in the Serve Denton Center Waiting Room that was named after them in honor of their endless contributions.
The Serve Denton Capital Campaign will help bring more direct services to one location, including a medical clinic, advocacy center and food center.
The affordable health clinic will be operated by Health Services of North Texas on a sliding scale basis. The nonprofit will offer family medicine, women's services, senior care, pediatrics and have a pharmacy.
The child abuse resource center will be operated by Children's Advocacy Center for Denton County. The nonprofit coordinates the investigation of child abuse in a collaborative, child-friendly environment.
The food distribution center for low-income individuals and families will be operated by Denton County Food Center.
Serve Denton is seeking to raise $3.3 million of our total $8.7 million project through our capital campaign. The remaining $5.4 million will be funded through grants, capital investments from partner nonprofits and New Markets Tax Credits.
You can help build a legacy to create a place most communities only dream of having…the Serve Denton Center, a place to care for individuals and families.
To read more about the history of Serve Denton, click the button below! If you would like to join the Capital Campaign, email Executive Director Carlie Kuban at ckuban@servedenton.org.
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Italy: German woman dies in climbing accident on glacier
Posted: Jul 4, 2019 / 07:06 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 4, 2019 / 07:33 AM CDT
ROME (AP) — A 55-year-old German woman has died after falling into a crevasse on the Forni glacier in Italy's northern Lombardy region.
The alpine rescue services said that two other German climbers were seriously injured in Wednesday morning's accident.
The woman and the two men were part of a group of 21 climbers from Stuttgart, who were taking part in a rescue training session at around 3,100 meters (10,171 feet.) The three that fell in the crevasse were roped together.
Two helicopters were sent to the spot as soon as the weather allowed, after two members of the group raised the alarm.
Officials warn that alpine climbers should be aware of the risks posed by melting snow due to the high temperatures recorded recently.
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For Swami Vivekananda's 151st birthday, wanted to share these pics of the Statue of Sw Vivekananda at the Gateway of India in Colaba. And here is his speech at the World Parliament of Religion in Chicago in 1893.
Many decades ago I picked up a little booklet of this speech at a train station near Trivandrum. As I read that speech, I had goosebumps and a realization dawned on me – this is my dharma! The fire roars till this day. Dare you to read and understand it! Uttistati!
Here's another statue of Swami Vivekananda at the Hindu Temple in Chicago.
He's someone I admire a lot, and I think my brand of Hinduism is shaped by his teachings to a large extent.
Arun, I want to share the link to an article of mine that was published on the net a couple of days ago. I think you'll know what I'm trying to focus on when you read it. If you think it's useful, please share it with like-minded people.
Thank you Shyamala for sharing that link; I may have read an edited version of it on your blog perhaps. I agree, will forward.
No, it's not on my blog, it's something I've ref to in one of yours!


Student loan mess: What's at stake?
President Obama wants to keep rates near current lows of 3.4% for undergraduates seeking subsidized student loans. Those rates are scheduled to double July 1.
Congress and the White House agree that something should be done, but they don't agree on what. The Republican-controlled House passed a bill last week that would stop the rates from doubling now but allow them to rise later. Obama vowed to veto it. On Friday, Sen. Harry Reid said the Senate would vote next week to extend the current rate for two more years.
If this sounds familiar, it is. Last year, facing a July 1 deadline, Congress put off any tough decisions and kept rates the same. In a press event Friday, President Obama blamed Congress for another round of interest rate roulette.
"I'm glad the House is paying attention to it, but they didn't do it in the right way," said Obama.
Nonetheless, Obama's proposal is not dramatically different from the House bill. Under both plans, students would see interest rates rise significantly in coming years.
7 million undergraduate students taking out subsidized loans for the 2013-2014 school year will face bigger balances when they start paying off their loans after graduation.
The rate hike will only affect undergraduates who have subsidized loans, in which the federal government absorbs some of the interest rate. This makes up about a third of undergraduate loans, which are awarded based on economic need.
Far more undergraduates take out unsubsidized loans, whose rates have been at 6.8% since 2007. These interest rates will remain the same for most middle-class undergraduate and graduate students.
What would the Republican House plan do?
The House plan sets interest rates for all students at around 5%. That's a hike for undergraduates taking out subsidized loans but a break for undergrads and graduate students who have unsubsidized loans.
However, these rates would change once a year. The rates are based on the 10-year Treasury yields, now hovering around 2.1% but expected to rise in coming years. The House would add a 2.5% mark-up to cover the cost of running the plan.
The big change from current policy is that students can't lock in their interest rates until they graduate, but there is a cap that prevents rates from rising above 8.5%.
Upside: Loans are cheap now because rates are low. Downside: Rates could get close to that 8.5% cap in later years, as the Congressional Budget Office has predicted.
What would Obama's plan do?
Under Obama's plan, all students would benefit from taking out cheaper loans this year. Rates would be 3% for undergraduate students taking out subsidized loans, and 5% for all others.
Obama would also link the rates to 10-year Treasury yields, plus a mark-up to cover the cost (1% for subsidized loans and 3% for unsubsidized). The rates would change once a year. But unlike the House bill, the rates are locked in while students are in school, which is how it works now. But this plan doesn't set a cap on student loan interest rates.
Obama would keep payments low by encouraging students to enroll in a new repayment program, which limits monthly loan repayments to 10% of the borrower's annual income after taxes and basic living expenses. The debt is forgiven after 20 years or 10 years for those in public service or nonprofit jobs.
Upside: Loans are cheap now because rates are low. Downside: With no cap, interest rates could skyrocket in later years.
What would the Senate Democrats' plans do?
Next week, the Senate will vote to extend current low rates for another two years. However, House lawmakers have said they wouldn't consider another extension.
There are several other Senate proposals, the most prominent of which is by Sen. Jack Reed. This bill would lower rates for all students to as little as 2.1%, which would rise in subsequent years. The rate would be capped at 6.8% for subsidized loans and 8.25% for unsubsidized loans.
Reed's bill would base student loans on the 91-day Treasury bill rate, currently at .045%, plus the cost of running the program. While that cost now runs around 2 percentage points, Reed gives the Department of Education the power to set the mark-up.
Upside: Students are all but guaranteed cheap loans. Downside: Federal deficits would rise, but Reed's proposal would get rid of tax breaks for the oil industry to pay for it.
Stay tuned. Congress will be debating the various plans and, no doubt, throwing a lot of sticks and stones at one another along the way. It's not clear how it will play out in the end, but it doesn't look good for students.


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Led by the piercing, soulful vocals of singer and bassist Shingai Shoniwa, Noisettes are a trio of London garage-rock revivalists who channel Ike and Tina one moment and the MC5 the next. Shoniwa, guitarist Dan Smith and drummer Jamie Morrison began playing together in 2003 and recorded their debut EP, Three Moods of the Noisettes, soon after, releasing it on London's Side Salad Records in 2005. The strength of that EP aided them in landing a deal with Universal, who helped issue the band's "Scratch Your Name" single. They toured hard for the next two years, opening for the likes of TV on the Radio and Muse and gaining a large international fan base. In the spring of 2007, the group released its first LP, What's the Time Mr. Wolf?, to wide acclaim.


The Maryland State Fire Marshal's office is investigating a building fire at the old Henryton State Hospital complex near Sykesville, Thursday evening, April 27.
Firefighters arrived to find heavy fire through the roof of a large four-story building on the campus of the abandoned hospital. Firefighters from Carroll, Frederick, Howard, and Baltimore Counties were called to the scene to assist.
The Sykesville Fire Department has responded to a number of fires at the complex over the past several years, including a fire in December, 2007 that destroyed another old building at the facility.
The hospital has been shut down by the state and there is no electric or utilities to the facility. It continues to be a problem for firefighter safety when we are called to the scene. In recent years the facility has been a hot spot for malicious teenagers and ghost hunters.
As you can read from the 2007 article, little has changed at the hospital center; despite calls by the fire department and others to have the site razed or secured. The department continues to urgently call on state officials to address the situation in the name of safety for all.


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US report: Moscow plans to take over the Ukrainian capital
Mowasat begins the actual operation of the Dammam hospital expansion project in early December
Al-Mowasat Medical Services Company announced that it has received approval from the relevant authorities to manage the expansion building of Al-Mowasat Hospital in Dammam.
And the company said in a statement to "Saudi Tadawul" today Sunday that all requirements for actual operations have been completed, starting Wednesday, December 1, 2021.
The company expected that the operation of this expansion would help increase the revenues of the Mouwasat hospital in Dammam and that it would affect the company's operating results starting in the fourth quarter of questAny development in the company's financial results will be disclosed in the quarterly announcements.
Mouwasat Medical Services Company's quarterly profit decreased 11.4% to 142.6 million riyals in the third quarter of 2021, compared to 161.1 million riyals in the third quarter of 2020.
And compared to the performance in the previous quarter, the company maintained stable profits of 141.3 million riyals.
In the first nine months of 2021, profits amounted to 431 million riyals, compared to 384.8 million riyals in the corresponding period of 2020, with a growth of 12%.
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the room was so good in comparison with the price we paid but lobby and bar was so weak mostly no body was there during day time except breakfast time. there were no table or chair in balcony as well.
The location is quite far from the center of the city, but it has a Metro (Subway) station nearby. You can find almost every type of store and at least 3 restaurants at adjacent Jvania Square (former Gagarin Sq.) which is a plus. My room was quite large and the room height was bigger than standard. There is a balcony of almost every room, which is good for smokers. The bed was comfortable. They provide bathrobe in addition to the towels. The breakfast was excellent. The personnel was frendly and willing to help when needed.
Staff was great. Rooms were clean, internet was good.
We liked the size of the room...and bathroom was good.
Staff were excellent. Hotel was clean . Room was large. Parking. Laundry service was excellent.
Spacious rooms and a nice balcony. Wifi worked well.
Pokój dosyć duży i dobrze wyposażony. Minibarek (bez alkoholi) codziennie uzupełniany, co jest dużym plusem. Dobrze działający internet.
Offering a terrace and views of the city, Hotel Colombi is located 2.8 miles from Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre. Guests can enjoy the on-site à la carte restaurant and bar. Free private parking is offered and free WiFi is also available throughout the property.
Air-conditioned rooms come with a flat-screen TV, minibar, safety box and tea/coffee making facilities. A balcony with city view is also fitted in all rooms.
Hotel Colombi features a restaurant, à la carte restaurant and a bar. Room service is offered for your comfort.
You will find 24-hour front desk service and concierge at this hotel. Friendly staff at the tour desk will be happy to help you with your daily activities in the city. Guests can relax at the lounge after a busy day.
Rustaveli Theatre is 3 miles from Hotel Colombi, while Freedom Square is 3.5 miles away. The nearest airport is Tbilisi International Airport, 14.3 miles from Hotel Colombi. Airport shuttle can be arranged upon request at a surcharge.
Hotel Colombi has been welcoming Booking.com guests since 23 May 2016.
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This triple room has a balcony, soundproofing and dining area.
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The white towels looked clean, but they had some spots. The curtains should have been washed more often. The walls were a bit worn out. TV was too far (or too small). It had 120 channels, but most of them blank, or without voice, generally speaking useless for watching the World Cup 2018. Cleaning of rooms at 15:30-16:00 h (3:30-4:00 P.M.) is not convenient. They should look for a better time - e.g. around 11:00 or 12:00 h. I think that the ratio price/quality is quite high for this hotel.
wifi was bad plus when we checked out they were very slow and we waited for long time till we received our luggage.
One elevator for the whole hotel . Interior design of the room was very cold .