My foyer, the first area that everyone sees when entering my house, is often cluttered with shoes, umbrellas, and hanging jackets. Since I do not have an adjoining closet, how do I keep my narrow foyer clutter free?
Hi Julia. I hear you, keeping foyers clutter free is quite a challenge, especially if you have limited space. I'm lucky in that my family enters and exits through the laundry room so all of their thrown off shoes, jackets and backpacks clutter up my laundry room and the front entry of the house is only used by guests.
If you don't have such an option, let's decide what you can do with it.
First, let's take on the umbrellas. There are great decorative umbrella stands that you can find to match your décor so that it looks like the umbrellas are supposed to be there. Hall trees can be great for hanging jackets and storing shoes if your foyer is wide enough to house one. If not, you might consider putting a decorative box or basket in the foyer for kicked off shoes accompanied by a wall mounted coat rack.
These simple measures will keep it from looking like clutter and believe me, other people do understand that a house full of people going in and out of the house creates chaos on your home décor. These solutions might not be ideal, but at least it will give the impression that you try to contain it.


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2) Get a letter. Yes, a "note from the doctor" still carries clout. Have your general practitioner, today if possible, sign a letter stating that he backs your request for a vitamin C I.V. drip, 10 grams per 12 hours, should you (or your designated loved one) require hospitalization. Have copies made and keep them handy. Update the letter annually. You now have your G.P.'s permission. Good start, but not enough.
3) Get some more letters. Obtain a similar letter form every specialist that you have used, are using, or may use in the foreseeable future. This sounds cumbersome, but is no more unmanageable than most people's grocery lists. Keep it in perspective: this is just as important as wearing a medical alert bracelet or keeping a fresh battery in Grandpa's pacemaker.
4) Make some calls. Telephone a representative or two from every hospital within one hundred miles of your home. Find out which wants your business the most. When you find a "live one" on the phone, write down their name and title, and follow up with a letter.
5) Write for your rights. In your letter, ask for the hospital's permission to have a vitamin C IV drip, infusion, push or injection, as well as oral vitamin C, should you or your designated family member(s) come in to that hospital. YOU MUST GET THIS IN WRITING. Now, do NOT say, "I want that in writing," because people do not like that. But if you WRITE to them, they will naturally write back to you. Bingo.
You might be wondering, What if they write back, "No, we won't." Hold onto that letter. You can make a real stink with it should you need to play hardball in court, and I do NOT mean a handball court.
a) They simply will not write back. OK, so ask yourself this: What if your credit card company didn't respond to your letters? So would you entrust your life to a hospital that refuses to even answer their mail? Make a point to go someplace else. If you live in a rural community or smaller city, you might be thinking that you do not have a choice of hospitals. Maybe not for the first 24 hours in an unexpected circumstance. But people can be moved. That's what modern transportation is for. Famous hospitals get people from all over. How many people do you know that live within walking distance of Sloan-Kettering, Roswell, the Brigham, or the Mayo Clinic?
b) What is most likely is that the hospital's representative will send you a garbage answer, with a response so noncommittal as to be unusable. This may mean that you wrote the wrong person, or wrote the wrong letter. Try this: have your doctor issue the letter you write. The doctor's letterhead and signature; your composition. Go ahead; you can give a professional a rough draft of what you want said. I had lawyer ask me to do exactly that when I sought (and succeeded in getting) a vitamin C IV into my hospitalized father. I wrote it and faxed it to the attorney; his staff rewrote it on his stationery and he signed it. It saves time.
Helpful hint: Be sure your (doctor's) letter clearly REQUESTS A REPLY.
7. Know the power structure. Find out who is in charge. I have heard doctors say that they'd be happy to start a megavitamin C IV but the hospital will not let them. Then, when asked, I have heard the hospital say that they allow vitamin C IVs but the doctors won't do them. To avoid an endless Catch-22 situation, you have to know the ropes and where everybody stands.
Which of the administrators has the clout? Talk to their secretaries (they are the people who really run things anyway) and you will find out. It could be that the most influential person for you may be the hospital's patient rights advocate or V. P. for customer service. It may be the hospital chaplain. It might even be the hospital's public relations director. Who knows? You sure don't, so remove the veil of anonymity and find out.
The patient, if conscious, has all the power because it is his/her body. If a patient insists loud and long enough, s/he can get almost anything. Since patients tend to be sick, and therefore easily slip into becoming non-combatants, a family member has to get in there and pitch for them. A highly experienced nurse told me that she would never leave a family member in a hospital without a 24-hour-a-day guard in the form of a friend or family member or other advocate. That is sound advice from a lady who's seen it.
Next to the patient, the most powerful family member is the spouse. After that, it would be children. You do not have to have power of attorney to have power, but it helps. If the patient is unable to speak, act, or think, it may be essential. Do not wait until the patient is incapacitated to plan this. Your family needs to come together (difficult though this may be) and present a preplanned, unified front to the medical and administrative people. You may think I am overstating the case, but I have seen patients die simply because NO ONE TOOK THE REINS AND GOT THE VITAMIN C IN THE VEINS. I have seen vitamin C IVs halted simply because the patient was moved to (or from) intensive care. Think that one over. I have seen vitamin C prescriptions over-ridden by a nurse or a pharmacist. You would not think that possible, would you. Well, it is. There is no nice way to phrase this. Stay on top of the situation or you will have a premature burial on your hands.
8. Know your recourse. If you are rich, get your lawyer on the phone. Better yet, bring your lawyer into the hospital. If you are like the rest of us, you may simply have to bluff if you threaten to call your attorney. The purpose here is to save the life of your loved one, not to make a buck from a malpractice suit. Personally, I think malpractice suits are often a sign of the most abject failure on the part of the family, as well as the medical profession. In the same way that accident insurance does not prevent accidents but only pays the costs, so do malpractice settlements fail to resuscitate a dead family member. "Death control" is somewhat like birth control in that you have to act before the event takes place. But if we push the analogy, we realize a grim truth: there is no such thing as a "morning after" pill for rigor mortis, nor can you abort a funeral.
Their argument: We do not have Vitamin C for intravenous infusion in our pharmacy.
Their argument: We have never done this before.
Your response: Then this is a wonderful opportunity to learn. I've never lost a (insert family member's position here) before.
Their argument: The patient is too ill.
Your response: That's why we want the vitamin C IV.
Their argument: We might get into trouble if we do this.
Your response: You will be in legal trouble for sure if you don't.
Their argument: There is no scientific evidence that this is safe, effective, appropriate for this case, blah, blah, blah . . .
Their argument: But we do not have time to read all those papers.
Your response: That's OK. I already have, and it's my body (or my father's, or my mother's). Run the vitamin C IV. Start with 10 grams every 12 hours and do not stop it without my written authorization.
Their argument: This hospital operates under our authority, these are our rules, and this is the way it is done.
Your response: This is my mother. If you deny her the treatment the family requests, you will be sued, and we will win. Do you really want to go to the wall on this one?
Confrontational? Admittedly, yes. But I have seen too many people die too soon. Dr. Frederick Robert Klenner was right when he said, "Some physicians would stand by and see their patient die rather than use ascorbic acid (vitamin C) because in their finite minds it exists only as a vitamin."
Don't let it happen to your family.
From the book DOCTOR YOURSELF, pages 194-197. Copyright 2003 and prior years by Andrew W. Saul. Revised and copyright 2010.


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The recent political emphasis on "global warming" has reminded me of a series of "experiments" I carried out one summer when I was in my formative years between boy-emeritus and teen-ager. I was visiting my grandparents who lived in a bucolic village in central Ohio where I had to devise things to do on my own to keep busy. Since we were living in an age of energy, machinery, and measurement, I had become very interested in dials and gauges and what they measured. I especially liked to watch speedometers climbing above 70 miles per hour, but any gauge that measured anything always caught my attention. I was not old enough to drive and experience a speedometer sweeping across its dial, so I substituted cheap glass thermometers that were common in every household. I located four or five in our house, some in use and others just stored in drawers.
Of course, thermometers do not move unless the temperature they measure is changing, and the daily change was much too slow for what I wanted. So I applied heat by holding matches near the thermometer bulbs, and when the colored column rose past 1000 and 1200, I had my reward. I would then use cold water and even ice cubes to get the column back down into the forties or thirties. Some of the glass bulbs at the base of the thermometers did not like these experiments, and protested by breaking when I applied too much heat or cold too quickly. So I refined my method by using a magnifying glass to concentrate the sun's heat. That way I had better control for what I wanted.
This summer escapade came back to me recently when I received a copy of a monograph: Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? by Anthony Watts, who has been a professional meteorologist for more than 25 years. Watt's self-imposed task was not to measure temperature, but rather to test the equipment that officially measures surface temperatures. His mission was to find out the "reliability of data used to document temperature trends" in the United States. This data is recorded by a network of 1,221 climate-monitoring stations overseen by the National Weather Service (NWS), which is a bureau of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Until Watts did his study, no climatologist either in these bureaus or in other institutions had ever done any review of the reliability of temperature measurements coming from these stations. Watts recruited a team of 650 volunteers who visually inspected and photographed more than 860 (about 70 percent) of these temperature stations. Watts notes, "We were shocked by what we found."
They found stations "located next to exhaust fans of air conditioning units, surrounded by asphalt parking lots and roads, or blistering-hot rooftops, and near sidewalks and buildings that absorb and radiate heat." Watts summary thus far (his team is still working on it) is that 89 percent of the stations "fail to meet the NWS's own siting requirements that stations must be at least 10 meters or more away from an artificial heating radiating or reflecting heat source."
Scientific bias is properly defined as: A systematic tendency to err. In economic measurement, we find it in price indexes, which slightly "inflate" measured prices over time due to product quality improvements that cannot be compensated for or measured. In the measurement of air temperature, the bias has been significant and all in the same direction—that is, it has increased all the actual temperature values over time by a significant degree from what they actually were. Nor is there an offsetting cooling bias. Indeed, the estimated amount of bias in the measuring devices—the temperature error—is greater than the anomaly of temperature—the "global warming"—that the thermometers purport to measure.
Of course, these thermometers were not designed to measure small temperature changes over long periods of time. They would never be acceptable for measuring accurately the insignificant less-than-one-degree change that may have occurred over the last 100 years. Given their probable error, it is very possible that the long-run "warming" these temperature stations have measured is, in fact, a cooling of about one-half of a degree!
Fortunately, true science does not need to rely on these antiquated weather stations any longer. Since 1979 satellite stations orbiting the earth have provided a much more reliable—unbiased—temperature data-set for scientific use. Over that thirty-year period, the satellite stations have recorded virtually NO long-run change, and, in the most recent ten years, a slight cooling.
Maybe the fascination with measuring devices I had as a boy is a general condition that all males experience one way or another. And all that we are witnessing in this day and age with this "global warming" thing is a bunch of grown-up boys heating up thermometers so they can see columns of colored alcohol rise dramatically, and can then imagine the catastrophe that would occur if the gauges measured reality.


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Brit grandma, 90, becomes first patient in world to receive Covid-19 jab
Margaret Keenan, from Coventry, said she felt "privileged" as she received the jab following its clinical approval as the NHS launched its biggest ever vaccine campaign on Tuesday
Margaret Keenan, 90, became the first patient in the world to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 jab
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A 90-year-old British grandmother has become the first patient in the world to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.
Margaret Keenan received the jab following its clinical approval as the NHS launched its biggest ever vaccine campaign today.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he felt "emotional" as he saw the image of Mrs Keenan being vaccinated.
Like many around the country, the gran has been self-isolating for most of this year and is planning on having a very small family "bubble" Christmas to keep safe.
She will receive a booster jab in 21 days to ensure she has the best chance of being protected against the virus.
Mrs Keenan, who is from Coventry and will be 91 next week, said: "I feel so privileged to be the first person vaccinated against Covid-19, it's the best early birthday present I could wish for because it means I can finally look forward to spending time with my family and friends in the New Year after being on my own for most of the year."
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UK takes 'huge step forward' in coronavirus fight as 'V-Day' vaccine rolled out today
Mrs Keenan, known to family and friends as Maggie, received the jab at 6.31am from nurse May Parsons at her local hospital in Coventry.
Originally from Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, she has lived in Coventry for more than 60 years.
The retired jewellery shop assistant, who was given the jab by nurse May Parsons at her local hospital, added: "I can't thank May and the NHS staff enough who have looked after me tremendously, and my advice to anyone offered the vaccine is to take it - if I can have it at 90 then you can have it too."
It comes as Boris Johnson today branded the coronavirus vaccine a "shot in the arm for the entire nation" and told people who are scared, "don't be".
The Prime Minister hailed the achievements of scientists as he watched the first jabs going into arms at London's Guy's Hospital - one of 70 NHS hubs.
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Mr Johnson also slammed anti-vaxxers as "totally wrong" and insisted the Pfizer jab - which the UK is the first country in the world to approve for mass rollout - is safe.
He said: "I would say to all those who are scared, don't be".
The Prime Minister added: "There is nothing to be nervous about".
He went on: "It will gradually make a huge, huge difference, but I stress 'gradually' because we are not there yet, we have not defeated this virus yet. We can't afford to relax now."
Jabs will be administered at dozens of hospital hubs across the country from today - dubbed "V-Day" by Health Secretary Matt Hancock.
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Mr Hancock said the start of the roll out of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine meant there was "finally" a "way through" the coronavirus crisis.
He told Sky News: "I'm feeling quite emotional actually watching those pictures.
"It has been such a tough year for so many people and finally we have our way through it - our light at the end of the tunnel as so many people are saying.
"And just watching Margaret there - it seems so simple having a jab in your arm, but that will protect Margaret and it will protect the people around her.
"And if we manage to do that in what is going to be one of the biggest programmes in NHS history, if we manage to do that for everybody who is vulnerable to this disease then we can move on."
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Campaigning grandad one of first to get vaccine says having jab is his 'duty'
First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon said she "got a lump in her throat" watching a video of the first Covid-19 vaccination being administered.
She tweeted: "Feels like such a milestone moment after a tough year for everyone. The first vaccines in Scotland will be administered today too."
NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens praised all those involved in delivering the new vaccine programme.
"Less than a year after the first case of this new disease was diagnosed, the NHS has now delivered the first clinically approved Covid-19 vaccination - that is a remarkable achievement," Sir Simon said.
"A heartfelt thank you goes to everyone who has made this a reality - the scientists and doctors who worked tirelessly, and the volunteers who selflessly took part in the trials.
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'Several million' vaccine doses due in UK by New Year as restrictions could ease in Spring
"They have achieved in months what normally takes years.
"My colleagues across the health service are rightly proud of this historic moment as we lead in deploying the PfizerBioNTech vaccine.
"I also want to thank Margaret, our first patient to receive the vaccine on the NHS.
"Today is just the first step in the largest vaccination programme this country has ever seen.
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"It will take some months to complete the work as more vaccine supplies become available and until then we must not drop our guard.
"But if we all stay vigilant in the weeks and months ahead, we will be able to look back at this as a decisive turning point in the battle against the virus."
NHS nurse May Parsons said it was a "huge honour" to be the first in the country to deliver the vaccine to a patient.
Speaking at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, she said: "It's a huge honour to be the first person in the country to deliver a Covid-19 jab to a patient, I'm just glad that I'm able to play a part in this historic day.
"The last few months have been tough for all of us working in the NHS, but now it feels like there is light at the end of the tunnel."
Mrs Parsons, originally from the Philippines, has worked in the NHS for the last 24 years and been at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire since 2003.
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Covid cases jump in four new hotspots as 60% of England sees infections rates fall
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis tweeted: "Fantastic to see Enniskillen woman, Margaret, receive the first vaccine this morning!
"The rollout starts today in Northern Ireland and across the rest of the country - supplied by the U.K. Government & administered by our brilliant NHS. VDay"
The phased vaccination programme will see patients aged 80 and above who are already attending hospital as an outpatient, and those who are being discharged home after a hospital stay, among the first to receive the life-saving jab.
Care home providers are also being asked by the Department of Health and Social Care to begin booking staff in to vaccination clinics.
GPs are also expected to be able to begin vaccinating care home residents.
Any appointments not used for these groups will be used for healthcare workers who are at highest risk of serious illness from Covid-19.
Health chiefs have set out how they will deliver the mammoth task ahead, using hospital hubs, vaccination centres and other community locations as well as GP practices and pharmacies.
The life-saving vaccine is typically delivered by a simple injection in the shoulder but there is a complex logistical challenge to deliver from the manufacturers to patients.
It needs to be stored at -70C before being thawed out and can only be moved four times within that cold chain ahead of use.
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Study finds that depression after bypass surgery raises risk of future heart problems
Study Also Shows That Being A Woman Increases The Risk
Recovery after coronary artery bypass surgery depends as much on the patient's state of mind as it does on the condition of the patient's heart, according to researchers at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The study, which looked at both men and women, is the first of its kind to evaluate the impact of depression on women following bypass surgery.
Results will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society in Savannah, GA, on March 2, by principal investigator Dr. Ingrid Connerney.
The study included 309 patients (207 men and 102 women) who had bypass surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. The researchers looked at whether depression prior to leaving the hospital played a role in how well they would do within a year following surgery. They found that depressed patients were at least three times more likely to experience a cardiac problem within the next 12 months than those who were not depressed. Such problems included chest pain, heart failure requiring hospitalization, a heart attack, or the need for another cardiac procedure.
The researchers also found that the women in the study had a three times greater risk of future cardiac events than the men. Women who were depressed had the highest risk. Almost half of the depressed women (47 percent) had a serious cardiac problem within a year after surgery, while 18 percent of the women who were not depressed had further problems. The study found that 21 percent of the depressed men had future heart problems, compared to only six percent of non-depressed men.
For the study, Dr. Connerney performed a detailed psychiatric interview with each patient prior to discharge from the hospital. The patients were assessed in a follow up 12 months later.
"We looked at many factors, including the patient's age, gender, marital status, smoking behavior, and depression," explains Dr. Connerney, "but it turned out that only depression, heart condition, and gender mattered, and they were of equal importance."
"The increased risk faced by women could not be explained by differences in demographics, severity of disease, or other factors," she adds.
"Based on our findings, we believe that physicians and patients need to be aware of the increased risks faced by patients suffering depression," says Dr. Connerney. "The next logical step is to investigate whether treatment of depression lessens the risk of future cardiac events."
Coronary artery bypass surgery is performed to help the heart pump blood around blocked arteries and to alleviate severe chest pain. About 20 percent of heart bypass patients suffer from depression in the hospital.
In addition to Dr. Connerney, Peter Shapiro, M.D., and Richard Sloan, Ph.D., of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Joseph McLaughlin, M.D., of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, also collaborated on the study.
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Evelyn Mahlaba, General Regional Manager looking after the Africa region at South African Tourism, added that Africa's Travel Indaba is an important business to business marketing platform that facilitates business growth for travel trade partners across the continent. Last year's group of buyers achieved admirable business successes that we hope to build on in 2018 for the benefit of not only South Africa's tourism industry but also for the continent as a whole.
"We have managed to put together excellent educational for our sales staff with Sun International as well as all-inclusive travel packages that did so well that we sold them all. South African Airways gave us their ITX Fares for packaging and we managed to do an incentive trip for Standard Bank of 104 people to Durban – thanks to Indaba," says Rob McConaghy, Managing Director at Ulendo Travel Group in Malawi.
Love for Africa, Southern Africa Travel Specialist, operating out of Zimbabwe stated that business picked up because of their participation in last year's INDABA. "Our business for 2018 is looking phenomenal and our bookings are up. We've signed deals with a few more properties in South Africa and have had quite a few of our current clients add South Africa onto their itineraries," says Erica O'Donnel, Executive Director at Love for Africa.
According to the Business Development Manager, George Ogola, The Continental Travel Group in Kenya was able to confirm a significant amount of bookings in 2017, across hotels, transfers, and excursions, which generated substantial profit for the company.
Steffi Presske, Senior Travel Consultant/Director at Gondwana Tours and Safaris in Botswana expressed an interest to participate in Africa's Travel Indaba again this year because it is the most important trade show for the company. The company was able to make many new contacts last year and deepen existing partnerships. They have grown immensely since 2017; almost doubling turn over and employing 2 more sales agents.
Buyers from the following countries attended and participated at INDABA last year, Angola, Botswana, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.


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The 1970s may have been the nadir for U.S. cities, the time when the Bronx was burning, urban factories were closing and suburban sprawl was rampant. Yet, though few noticed, green shoots of revival were snaking through the cracks in the asphalt. Artists were moving into the abandoned, and hence inexpensive, loft space. Entrepreneurs were opening funky urban bars and clubs.
The historic preservation movement, once derided as "little old ladies in tennis shoes," became a force in urban planning. This change in attitude laid the groundwork for brick-and-mortar preservation projects in many Connecticut cities, none more daring or comprehensive than Ninth Square in New Haven.
Conceived in the 1980s and completed in the mid-1990s, the project restored or carefully replaced late-19th and early 20th commercial buildings in a four-block area in the southwest corner of the New Haven Green, producing 335 apartments and almost 50,000 square feet of retail space.
Alas, Ninth Square needed considerable public money to build. Three years ago the developers, a partnership of McCormack Baron Salazar and The Related Companies, announced they were running out of cash and asked for a bailout. Ever since, the developers and the lenders — the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, the city and Yale University — have been negotiating a financial restructuring or recapitalization of the project.
When the refinancing is completed, the developers plan to sell their interest in the project. So Ninth Square is at a crossroad, a time of change. All involved say they expect the project to be successfully refinanced, and to thrive. After two decades and some major obstacles it has become "the most spectacular mixed-income project in New England," said New Haven economic development administrator Matt Nemerson.
U.S. cities have seen two waves of urban renewal since the end of World War II, and New Haven was in the forefront of both. The first, in the 1950s and '60s under Mayor Richard C. Lee, was a massive project covering a third of the city and involving the demolition ("clearance") of thousands of housing units and relocation of thousands of residents and businesses. New Haven got more federal urban renewal money per capita than any city in the country, and more in total dollars — more than $180 million — than all but a few of the country's largest cities.
Though the undertaking got considerable national attention, history has judged it a mixed success. Parts of it, such as the preservation of much of Wooster Square, the creation of the Long Wharf commercial area and removal of the city's worst slum housing were applauded.
Indeed, many came to consider the term an oxymoron. But one area that was spared from the angel of urban renewal was Ninth Square. Historic blocks The 17th century settlers of the New Haven Colony laid out the area then adjoining the harbor into nine roughly half-mile squares, eight around the central square, the New Haven Green. The southwest quadrant became a hub of commercial activity in the 19th and early 20th centuries, home to hundreds of businesses large and small.
It was spared the wrecking ball in the first urban renewal project because officials saw value in its array of commerce. It was given the name Ninth Square in the 1970s – the squares hadn't been numbered to this point – as a kind of marketing slogan to invite redevelopment, because by then it had become, in the current parlance, sketchy.
Flight from the city had taken its toll, the buildings were worn, many storefronts and most of the upper floors of the three and four-story buildings were empty. But attitudes were changing. This was the city's last cluster of 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings, and some now saw the value in that.
Property owners, developers and preservationists pulled a plan together to redevelop — rather than demolish — several properties in the area into apartments with ground-floor retail. "It was considered revolutionary — people weren't moving into cities," said Will Ginsberg, who served as the city's development administrator from 1984 to 1988 and now heads The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Inc.
Going back to the drawing board, the city got in touch with St. Louis-based McCormack, Baron & Associates (now McCormack, Baron, Salazar), a well-regarded residential developer with a reputation for delivering projects others could not. McCormack, Baron refined the plan with the city to restore, or in a few cases sensitively replace, a cluster of buildings in the center of Ninth Square around Orange and Grove streets.
True to reputation, the developer assembled a dizzyingly complex package of city, state and federal grants, loans (from three different types of bonds), tax abatements and equity from the sale of historic and affordable housing tax credits, all totaling $86.6.million (a middling amount for such projects, dwarfed by the state's announced $529 million investment in Hartford's Adriaen's Landing a decade later).
Challenges remained. Delay For one, the project was delayed for years; it was six years between the time the plan was prepared and the first apartments opened. Some properties were acquired by the inevitably slow and often controversial process of eminent domain. The deep recession of 1989-90 slowed the work. Delay meant the neighborhood got worse before it got better.
Yale law student Christopher Miller, in a 2011 research paper on Ninth Square, reported that the city moved 25 businesses out, some five years before the project opened, leaving vacant buildings behind. Some old-line businesses tried to hang on, he wrote, but as customers avoided the increasingly derelict district and no one came to develop it, "they gave up waiting." (Of those businesses, only century-old Acme Office Furniture Co. remains).
While businesses moved or closed for a variety of reasons, some might have stayed, had the project gone more quickly. When the project was opened, what it needed were businesses. Of the 335 apartments in the new project, called "The Residences at Ninth Square," 57 percent are — per requirements of the financing — designated as "affordable," intended for residents who earn no more than 60 percent of area median income (some tenants are eligible for Section 8 rental assistance). The remaining are rented at market rates.
Though some predicted this mix wouldn't work, it has. The apartments have been fully leased since they opened. The ground floor retail space took a lot longer; some of it stayed vacant for years. This may be because the developers' experience was with residential construction. An experienced retail developer probably would have had a marketing plan and moved heaven and earth not to open with empty spaces. But it was, and to a degree still is, "hard to find people who do mixed-use," said city planner Karen Gilvarg.
One thing that helped kickstart the retail was an imaginative idea begun in 2010 called Project Storefronts, in which "pop-up" businesses or activities such as shared work spaces were put into vacant storefronts. The idea was to put feet on the street, see if the business caught on, or see if the location worked for another business. It has filled some storefronts, in Ninth Square and some other locations.
Thanks to imagination and patience, 94 percent of the retail space in Ninth Square is leased, according to June figures from the Town Green Special Services District, which promotes the downtown area.
There are good stories. Neville Wisdom, the popular Jamaican-born clothing designer, had a shop in the city's Westville neighborhood, but closed it and moved to Ninth Square more than four years ago. He's done well enough there to expand and open a second shop in Westville. Barcade, which features the compelling concept of vintage video games and craft beers, has a reputation for opening in places — the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, Jersey City — just before they are discovered. The New York group just opened its sixth site in Ninth Square (and reportedly is packing them in).
The residents are a veritable Noah's Ark of the workforce, everything from Yale research scientists to railroad workers to Knights of Columbus employees to senior citizens, said the ebullient Romulo E. Samaniego, the Residences' property manager. With the State Street train station and Elm City Market nearby, residents can live without a car, or not use one very often. The neighborhood "has everything I need," said Cris Ortwein, who lives in Ninth Square and works for the Town Green District. Samaniego did say that a handful of residents, including seniors transitioning to assisted living facilities, could use on-site social services.
Mayor Toni Harp said she wants to keep the same mix of affordable and market rate apartments as the project is refinanced.
The urban fabric on Orange Street is part illusion; some of the buildings were merged behind their historic facades to meet modern building codes and provide communal facilities. But this makes it work and isn't apparent from the street. The mini-neighborhood with its three- and four-story buildings — with one 11-story building overlooking the street at the end – plus shops, offices, bicyclists and parking-space diners – has the feel, several people said, of Williamsburg or SoHo. "You can tell it's a good development when people can't tell it's a development," said Nemerson.
With the possible exception of an early business owner or two, it's hard to find anyone in New Haven who doesn't think Ninth Square is a grand slam for the Elm City. DeStefano, reflecting on the project, said it shouldn't be thought of as a one-off, silver-bullet solution, but as part of a continuum. It was preceded by the redevelopment of Upper Chapel Street by developer Joel Schiavone and succeeded by a host of newer projects, including major investments by Yale in the neighborhoods around the campus.


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Think you've tasted every pumpkin spice product this fall? Think again.
Pumpkin spice pizza is kind of a big deal at a local Italian restaurant in New Jersey.
Nunzios Kitchen in Sayreville brought back pumpkin spice pizza in September for the fourth year in a row. The seasonal favorite is being served up through November.
Brothers Marco and Michael Colandera created the pumpkin-flavored pie to add to their list of other unique pizza offerings.
It begins with a handmade dough and pumpkin puree base. The pie is then topped with lightly fried zucchini, rich ricotta cheese and crispy walnuts. Baked in a 40-year-old stone oven, it's finished off with a sprinkle of powdered sugar for a sweet finish.
The family-owned restaurant has gained a reputation for cooking up unique pizza flavors each season using locally sourced fresh ingredients. So far, the brothers have created 102 pizza flavor variations, Marco said.


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What are they building on Eagles Island?
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Does Blake Shelton have a place in Southeastern North Carolina?
How many firefighters are employed by the Southport Fire Department?
What books besides 'The Color Purple' are on Brunswick's high school reading list?
Does New Hanover County have the most park acreage per capita in N.C.?
How does DOT plan to handle traffic when the bridges over the Brunswick River are replaced?
Who handles yard waste disposal in New Hanover County?
Are they doing work on the intersection of N.C. 133 and Forest Lane in Pender County?
Will the concrete divider that marks the path of the Cross-City Trail where it crosses George Anderson Drive be painted a visible color?
What was the motel that stood where the fire station now is on Market Street?
What's the status of the East Carolina Bank site at Market Street and Marsh Oaks Drive?
Who was the man known as 'Dropstitch'?
Can DOT stop rude drivers from jumping into the line of traffic for N.C. 133 on Eagles Island?
The Brunswick County portion of Eagle Island. Staff Photo BY PAUL STEPHEN / STAR NEWS
Q. We live across from Eagles Island in Brunswick County. We see earth moving equipment working on the island daily. What are they doing/building?
A. What you are seeing is the Construction and Operations Projects branch of the U.S Army Corps of Engineers working on the Eagles Island Confined Disposal Facility (CDF). The CDF is a 1,473 acre tract of land owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers where the majority of dredged materials are stored from the harbor.
Eagle Island has 3 cell sites ranging from 220-260 acres which are designed to hold the dredged material. According to Bob Keistler, the Project Manager, as time has progressed, the cells have become filled to maximum capacity and it is necessary for the dikes, that hold the material at bay, to be raised in order to accommodate future loads.
Currently, the Corps of Engineers is working to raise the height of the Cell 2 dikes with contracts in process of being finalized to begin work on Cell 3 next year and Cell 1 the year after.
Mr. Keistler expects the project to last over the next 24-36 months, so be prepared to see them working for quite a while longer.
What is Eagles Island?
Is it legal to hunt or shoot on the spoil islands in the Cape Fear River?
StarNews: "Across the Cape Fear from Wilmington sit more than 30 wrecks — and valuable land"
Karen Hibiske
One Response to " What are they building on Eagles Island?"
On January 19, 2017 at 9:46 am Kevin wrote:
The question for the Eagle Island construction was answered back in 2012 saying the work with continue for 24 to 36 months we're waypast that show what kind of construction are they still doing?


Topic: Anyone have success bringing in Stats.NBA.com data to Google Sheets?
Re: Anyone have success bringing in Stats.NBA.com data to Google Sheets?
allows you to download the tables on a page as a csv.
Topic: Poll: Who is Most Valuable in 2018-19?
Re: Who is the MVP for 2018-19?
Is this supposed to be who I think will win or who I think should win?
Here are CSVs with play by play and players on the court going back a few years. As for analysis, I'm not sure how you could work with this data with out some knowledge of coding.
I knew my projections were off (way to long at the tails), but I didn't expect to be this bad. Kings and cavs are killing me.
Can you give a link to which API/page you are talking about? They have migrated some endpoints and made breaking changes to others.
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Photos: California reels from 'endless' storm onslaught, 14 dead
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More than 230,000 homes and businesses were without power as of early Tuesday
Montecito: Relentless storms were ravaging California again Tuesday, the latest bout of extreme weather that has left 14 people dead and prompted evacuation of a star-studded town home to Britain's Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle. Fierce storms caused flash flooding, closed key highways, toppled trees and swept away drivers and passengers - reportedly including a five-year-old-boy who remains missing in central California - and authorities were bracing for more rain and snow to batter America's most populous state. Image Credit: AFP
More than 230,000 California homes and businesses were without power as of early Tuesday, according to tracking site Poweroutage.us. A fresh storm is set to pound the state with as much as seven inches (18 centimeters) of new rain in northern California by Wednesday and "several more feet of snow" in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the National Weather Service said in a Tuesday forecast. Image Credit: Bloomberg
The NWS described an "endless onslaught of atmospheric river events" that is the most powerful storm system since 2005. The town of Montecito, a favorite of American entertainment royalty such as Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Aniston, was expected to get up to eight inches of rain in 24 hours - threatening dangerous mudslides on hills already sodden by weeks of downpours. Image Credit: AP
Emergency authorities in the town 90 minutes from Los Angeles said anyone in the area should get out. "LEAVE NOW! This is a rapidly evolving situation. Please pay close attention to emergency alerts," a fire department website said. An AFP reporter saw police roadblocks set up to prevent people from getting into the town, where several roads were flooded. Image Credit: AP
The town, whose multi-million dollar properties are perched in breathtaking California countryside, is particularly vulnerable to mudslides because it sits at the foot of a mountain range that was ravaged by fire five years ago. Hundreds of square miles (kilometers) of land were scorched in 2017 and 2018, denuding the hillsides of the vegetation that normally keeps soil in place. Devastating January 2018 mudslides in Montecito killed 23 people. Image Credit: AP
"Over the last 30 days, Montecito has received 12-20+ inches of rain across the community, exceeding our yearly average of 17 inches," Montecito Fire said on Twitter. "This cumulative, saturating rain puts the community at greater risk of flooding and debris flow." It was not clear how many of the town's residents, who also include Ellen DeGeneres, Gwyneth Paltrow, Katy Perry and Rob Lowe, had heeded the call to flee. Image Credit: Washington Post
The Montecito evacuation order came as California was being lashed by the latest in a parade of storms that have already killed 14 people - a toll which Governor Gavin Newsom's office said is already "more lives than wildfires in the past two years combined." In San Luis Obispo County authorities called off a search for a five-year-old boy as rushing waters were too dangerous for divers, Fox News reported, quoting a county official. Image Credit: Washington Post
The child, who fled with his mother from their car as it was inundated by flood waters, has not been declared dead. The mother was rescued. In Ventura County northwest of Los Angeles, the fire department said it rescued 18 people Monday from an island in the flooded Ventura River. Swathes of the Golden State were under flood warnings as it struggled to cope with yet more rain on top of near-record downpours in recent weeks - with even more forecast over the coming days. Image Credit: AFP
"Two major episodes of heavy rain and heavy mountain snow are expected to impact California in quick succession during the next couple of days in association with two of the more energetic and moisture-laden parade of cyclones that are aiming directly" for the state, the NWS said. Image Credit: AFP
Last week Newsom declared a state of emergency and on Monday the White House greenlighted the use of federal funds for emergency operations in California. "We expect to see the worst of it still ahead of us," Newsom told reporters. Image Credit: AFP
While heavy rain is not unusual for California during winter, these downpours are testing the state. They come as much of the western US is more than two decades into a punishing drought that has seen major increases in the frequency and intensity of wildfires. Scientists say human-caused climate change, brought about by the unchecked burning of fossil fuels, has supercharged these wild swings in weather. Image Credit: AP
Storms last week around San Francisco caused flooding, on the heels of a ferocious New Year's Eve downpour which left the ground sodden and waterlogged. But even the recent heavy rains are not enough to comprehensively reverse the drought. Scientists say several years of above-average rainfall are needed to get reservoirs back to healthy levels. Image Credit: AP
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At this post, Ruth Bowen Hersey shared a poem by Pablo Neruda lamenting why he has never made a broom. As most of us can connect, we, too, have rarely made anything that is needed around the house. We are proud when we can figure out how to build Ikea furniture, or how to clean out the vacuum, but rarely really "make" anything. It connected me to an old memory of more fun at a grandparents' farm. Those grandparents did everything, made butter and biscuits, kept sheep, sheared and used the wool, canned all the vegetables and fruits, and kept chickens and geese, sold the eggs, raised more. That's a short list!
so many times it made a track.
thrown in the barn, for someday?
coasted on by my dad.
a wagon for belly-flop riding.
like sledding in the summer.
A great description of kid fun and caring, handy forebears!
Head on over to Wild Rose Reader, Linda. I have some good news for you!
I agree that it's good to have a barn for stuff. Our in-law townhouse is attached to the back of my daughter's antique house--built circa 1790. A door in our home opens into the barn. We keep lots of "stuff" in there.
Thanks everyone for agreeing about recycling & keeping stuff, especially in barns. A shed in the city helps & I don't even have one of those!
Your memories serve you well, Linda. This one brings back some of mine that I had long forgotten. I like that the grandpa recycled.
Thanks, Carol, happy that it perked a memory for you, too.
I am fascinated with people who can patch things together to create something sturdy and useful. This is such a unique memory. I'm glad you were able to capture it so well to share with us!
It is amazing to me, too, Kiesha. Thank you.
I am with you on the ride. This is fabulous!
Thanks, Margaret. It is true. I loved that wagon & that hill!
Your title made me laugh out loud. We have a garage for stuff and a carport for cars! I love all the connections to times ago. I like to try my hand at fixing things, and can mend clothes, but I've never tried mixing parts to make something new.
Thanks, Cheriee. My husband could & saved so many things, piled in our garage, too. I always wished we at least had a shed. It depends on what one did as a kid I think. I don't mind figuring out things, but never have really built anything like this 'new' wagon.
Thanks, Amy. The times spent with all my grandparents were very special & still mean so much to me.


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Behind Muslim Dating App Muzmatch's 12 Language Rollout
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Former investment banker Shahzad Younas and tech entrepreneur Ryan Brodie have raised USD 1.75m in seed investment for a business idea that has quickly caught on among young Muslims in 190 countries.
The service: a Muslim dating app that now has over 500,000 users in the English speaking world.
Shahzad Younas
"Muslims don't really date – we marry," Younas told Slator in an email interview. "Mainstream apps don't serve this huge population, particularly in a search, which can often be quite challenging, with religion, tradition, culture and family expectations all playing a role."
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Hence, the business proposition rests on creating a modern app for the new generation of Muslims around the world in a way that respects Islamic sensibilities, according to Younas.
The app, called Muzmatch, has backing from Silicon Valley-based Y Combinator and Hambro Perks, according to a report from BDaily News.
London-based Muzmatch is now ready to take the business global. On June 14, 2018, in time for the celebration of Eid al Fitr or the end of the Ramadan, the company is launching the service internationally in 12 languages.
"We estimate around 300 million Muslims around the world are single and are of an age looking to marry based on ratios seen in Census and other survey data," Younas said of the app's addressable market. "Our goal is to be the biggest Muslim marriage app globally. It is quite a big ambition, but serving the app to them in a localized manner will help us get there."
For the launch, Younas said they focused on the main popular languages of large, majority Muslim populations around the world, in conjunction with those non-Muslim countries with a notable Muslim population. The 12 languages are French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Turkish, Bengali, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Indonesian and Malay.
Extracting Strings
Younas revealed that localizing the app was no walk in the park. "Firstly, we had some technical work to undertake – namely extracting out every text/string from both our server-side code as well as the individual app codes – both on iOS and Android. Once done we aggregated this into a spreadsheet, and then began the task of seeking translators for each language," he said.
"Given our already large global reach, we reached out to our user base and over 1,500 volunteered to assist us with this task. Thankfully we had multiple translators available for each language required. What is great is that these are our users – hence, they understand a lot of the app terminology and context," he added.
Finally, he said they packaged the languages up in a file that can be included by its apps and server configuration, with the ability to also detect the language of the user's phone. That way, they can then return to the user the app in their phone's locale.
"The technical work both on the app and server side were all done by our team of engineers" – Shahzad Younas
"The technical work both on the app and server side were all done by our team of engineers," Younas said proudly. "We try and do as much as we can in-house! No mean feat when you have over 500,000 members".
Paid Volunteers
Younas said they had over 12,000 words that required translation immediately. Two translators were selected per language – each translated half and then proofread the other person's work.
There was also no technology deployed to the translation process and the team relied only on Google Sheets. However, feedback on the process has been great.
"Our community loves helping to improve Muzmatch as ultimately it is for the benefit of all users worldwide, and only helps more people to find their life partner through us," he said. "We paid our volunteers for their work."
Younas disclosed that they did consider many subscription-based or hosted solutions for app localization, but they didn't like these options.
"We prefer to be in control of our assets and also for app speed, not rely on it making external calls to download language files" – Shahzad Younas
"We prefer to be in control of our assets and also for app speed, not rely on it making external calls to download language files," he said.
When asked to comment on the use of machine translation, Younas said it has a role to play: "For sure it helps when "debugging" translations, but in terms of understanding context, etc., human oversight is needed."
Muzmatch's international rollout has just begun and, for now, the initial focus is on the technology and support aspects of the rollout.
"No doubt once this is working well, we will look to add any specific regional languages to the app," Younas concluded.
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Q: caffe training loss does not converge I'm getting the problem of non-converged training loss. (batchsize: 16, average loss:10).
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Plan for Capel Sound solar farm A PROPOSED solar farm in Capel Sound will be part of Mornington Peninsula Shire's efforts to "address climate change and move towards a clean energy future". The shire is seeking expressions of interest from parties wishing to lease the 10 hectare site in Truemans Road for a five megawatt solar farm. The site is in a public park recreation zone. The mayor Cr Bryan Payne said the shire was committed to demonstrating its efforts in climate change "mitigation and adaptation". "It's early days for this project but we're optimistic it could be a great initiative for the peninsula and will add significant community value to our efforts to lead the way in tackling the climate change challenge." Cr Simon Brooks said the community would benefit from a low carbon emissions future. "We are moving towards increased renewable energy capability and smarter, more energy-efficient solutions for meeting the peninsula's energy needs," he said. A selection process and expressions of interest campaign will demonstrate community and commercial benefits and transparency in decision making, Cr Frank Martin said. Cr Antonella Celi said electricity generated from the farm would flow into the nearby substation to offset the shire's electricity use. Meanwhile, council will undertake an environmental impact assessment to ensure suitability of the site and considerations for the preparation and design of the 5MW solar farm. EOI submissions opened last Saturday (28 July) and close Monday 8 October.
Backbone of the nation: Trudy Lennon-Bowers' op shop is backing farmers' drought fight. Picture: Yanni
"In regional and remote locations for many years our teams of volunteers and members have been there at the grass roots to lift
community spirit, holding events to give people vital social connections, a shoulder to lean on and relief when it is needed most."
Donors can support the appeal at redcross.org.au/drought, by calling 1800 733 276 or by donating at a Commonwealth Bank branch.
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It's no secret that the Big East is a former shell of what it once was. Aggressive expansion created a league that fractured to a point of no return have left the league with little in terms of marketable games. Georgetown, Xavier and Villanova are the marquee matchups in a league that once boasted Syracuse, Louisville and Connecticut. The schools without FBS football programs are all that's left.
Fox Sports, who owned the broadcast rights for Big East basketball games, has shed them by selling them to CBS, who will broadcast a limited slate of games.
This is due to the fact that a network, with a massive audience in comparison to cable, cannot afford to broadcast anything but games they expect to draw high enough ratings to compete. Therefore, they are going to limit the broadcasts to the biggest expected games.
The presidents and chancellors of the 14 remaining Big East members and TCU have authorized Commissioner John Marinatto to "aggressively pursue discussions" with certain schools interested in joining the league.
Bologna President Claudio Sabatini had told The Associated Press on Friday he had reached a tentative deal with agent Rob Pelinka for a 10-game contract worth more than $3 million.
This deal would be a no-brainer for both Bologna and Bryant, as Bryant's 10 game stint would be a mere blip in his life, while the shortness of the contract would ensure heavy fan interest for those games, allowing Bologna to recoup their money quickly, not to mention the fact that Bologna would be able to sell Kobe Bryant jerseys from now on.
Had a lot of fun with my NBA homes at @CP3's basketball game in Winston Salem State…be on the lookout for a game in OKC in mid October!" Durant wrote after participating in New Orleans point guard Chris Paul's event.
Finally, Texas landed 2012 PF Connor Lammert this weekend, a 6'9″ player from San Antonio. Conner is a good passer as a big man and will add depth inside the paint for the Longhorns.


This 15th August is the India's 69th Independence Day. India celebrates Independence Day by unfurling the tricolor and paying tributes to its freedom fighters, commemorating the nation's independence from the British Empire on 15 August 1947.
People of all religions, cultures and traditions rejoice Independence Day every year. On 15th August 1947, Jawaharlal Nehru, who had become the first Prime Minister of India that day, raised the Indian national flag above the Lahore Gate of the Red Fort in Delhi.
On each subsequent Independence Day, the Prime Minister of India hoists the National Flag and addresses the nation in the early morning at the Red fort where millions of people participate in the Independence Day ceremony. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hoist the tricolor for the second time this year as the Prime Minister.
All the freedom fighters who struggled for the freedom of the country are remembered on this day. The freedom fighter faced a lot of problems and fought till the end of their life to seek freedom from the Britishers. Previously, people were connected only through the telephones. However, these days, the most popular means of communication is the Social networking site and other means. Most people greet the person by sending the messages through Whatsapp, BBM or Facebook.
You can update the famous patriotic quotes as your status on WhatsApp or Social networking site. You can also update Images with famous Quotes or Wallpapers as your profile pictures or wall post on the Social networking site. One can find several quotes and images by famous patriotic leaders all over the internet.
People look for innovative ways to wish their friends and dear ones on the Independence Day. Famous sayings can be used to greet on the 69th Independence Day. The Independence Day can be celebrated in a diverse way with famous Quotes from our leaders who fought for freedom.
Several websites are present online that offers short poems along with the explanation that depict the Independence Day Celebration. One can easily download the images and share it with your friends and relatives on the Whatsapp. A true meaning of being independent can be understood by the illustrations and graphics by the artists who have demonstrated the story of independence. One can easily get these images and graphics. The feeling of patriotism that awakens inside oneself with these quotes cannot be overlooked.